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Precious Materias Group - MAPRE
Academic Unit: Faculty of Engineering
OECD
Discipline
Engineering and technology
Subdiscipline
Materials engineering
Strategic Focus
We are an interdisciplinary team of high-level professionals, with the ability to address complex production systems, adding value to the different stages of extractive processes, with high standards of quality, traceability and with the aim of generating value through innovation in products and processes, by contributing to the productive sector, with associative spirit, as well as high social and environmental commitment. We have as a reference the permanent design of adaptive solutions to the needs, scales and dimensions of the process, industry and community. We articulate the different local or national actors, in favor of the development of projects that provide solutions to the territories, from the engineering, social, environmental approaches and from the focus on the human being regarding health and the well-being factor.
Research Areas and Topics
- Benefits of Materials.
- Precious Materials Characterization.
- Social and Envinronmental Management.
- Mining Waste Management.
- Precious Metal Reciclying.
- Clean Technologies for Minerals treatment.
- Added Value of Gold and Precious Metals and Waste Management.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Group Coordinator
Jairo A. Ruiz Córdoba
Master’s degree in Metallurgy – Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Metallurgical Engineer – Universidad de Antioquia.
Scientific Cooperation
Collaborative Relationships
- Government of Antioquia – Secretary of Mines.
- Corantioquia.
- New Stetic.
- Caribe Jewelry.
Mayoralties:
- Anori.
- Amalfi.
- Caracoli.
- Maceo.
- El Bagre.
- Nechi.
- San Carlos.
- Frontino.
- Puerto Triunfo.
- Puerto Nare.
- San Luis.
- San Roque.
- Santo Domingo.
Notable Projects
- Accompaniment to municipalities in the Department of Antioquia for the implementation of the strategy "Pact for Municipalities Without Mercury" as a mechanism to intervene in the problems associated with the use of mercury in public health, the environment and mining activities.
- Combine technical, economic and financial efforts for the evaluation of mercury dispersion in soils of three (3) water bodies in the jurisdiction of Corantioquia and other matrices.
- Support to the municipality of Andes in its Zero Mercury in Andes strategy, as a mechanism to intervene in the problems associated and related to the impacts on public health and the environment.
- Special gold alloys: exotic coloured gold gems and diffusional control in the Mokume-Gane technique.
Main Research Results
- Clean technologies for the benefit of minerals.
- Development of special alloys and colored gold.
- Development of Mokume-Gane in special alloys.
- Accompaniment and training of artisanal and traditional miners.
Research Portafolio
- Analysis and valuation of extractive processes.
- Innovation in processes and products.
- Characterization of precious minerals.
- Clean production technologies.
- Industrial waste management.
- Value added to minerals.
- Training and technological updating.
- Environmental Management.
- Social Management.
- High-level consulting.
- Laboratory services and testing.
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