Research updates

Characterization of industrial waste geomaterials

Mineralogical, petrographic, chemical and physical characterization of the recovered sediments and quarry by-products

Toxicological evaluations

Toxicological characterization of the waste sediments quarry by-products before transformation into new materials and toxicological safety assessment of the new products

Geopolymers for construction applications

Development of industrial waste-based geopolymers for construction applications

From quarry by-products to a foliar fertilizer

Development of a controlled-release zinc fertilizer using a sustainable process that operates at ambient conditions

Tobermorite synthesis for respirable crystalline silica recovery

End-of-Waste strategy that transforms hazardous quartzite quarry dust into functional tobermorite

Risk assessment of unregulated fibrous minerals

Research focused on the characterization of unregulated fibrous materials and analysis of trace contaminant minerals

Nutrient release from basaltic dust by-product

Mineralogical controls on nutrient release and trace-metal mobility from basaltic dust by-product