Current Projects

Archaeological studies:
- Archaelogical material form escavations of the Malhador shelter, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Computer programs development:
- A generic algorithm to allocate chemical formulae os minerals.

Ferrites synthesis, strctural and magnetic properties, cation distribuition, chatalytic action:
- Iron oxide-spinels doped with nickel and copper.
- Iron oxide-spinels doped with magnesium, aluminium and titanium.

Iron oxide mineralogy of tropical soils:
- Mineralogy size, morphology and porosity of aggregates and their relationship with soil susceptibility to water erosion form Espinhaço Mountains, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.
- Mineralogy of a magnetic soil forming on dolomitic itabirite from Quadrílatero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.
- Characterization and stability of magnetite mafic rocks.
- Influence of agriculture practices on come iron oxide properties.

Mineral genesys and wathering:
- Mineralogy of soils forming on limestones os Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Iron sulfites and hydrolysis mechanisms in acid mine drainage.
- Iron-rich spinel phases from the sand fraction of three Chilean soils developing on volcanic rocks.
- Chemical and mineralogical analyses of a weathering mantle developing on peridotite of mining area for nicekl in Cerro Matoso, Colombia.