KGE/EMI Environmental Mineralogy

Lecturer: Petr Sulovský
Lecture: 2 hours/week
Credits: 3
Summer semester
Form of course completion: colloquium

The course provides the students with knowledge of the position of minerals in the environment, their formation and transformations in supergenesis and technogenesis, their impact on activities of man and microorganisms. Stress is put on positive aspects of exploitation of minerals in industry, agriculture and households, the utilisation of their sorption and ion-exchange properties for the preservation of the environment, but also on the negative aspects of mining and processing of minerals. The role of mineralogy in processing and liquidation of wastes (with special emphasis on radioactive waste and its natural analogues) and in preservation of cultural heritage.