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1 Institute of Mineralogy TU Bergakademie Freiberg Special stamp by German Mail on the occasion of the 250 th anniversary of our alma mater fribergensis. Designed slightly more conservative than we see ourselves, the stamp is still a friendly ambassador Annual Report 2015

2 2 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 And this is there for you to discover: Institute, university and city... 3 Silver lining at the horizon? Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht new rector; 1. Latinamerican symposium on GeoParks... 3 Living on planet Earth, A glance into history... 4 Institute, working groups and laboratories... 6 Astronomy; Biohydrometallurgical Centre (BHMZ)... 6 New Guest professor... 7 WG General and Applied Mineralogy... 8 WG Geochemistry and Geoecology... 9 WG Mineral Resources and Petrology News from the laboratories WG Geoscientific Collections Development of the collections Engagement for terra mineralia and for the Mineralogical Collection Germany in the Krügerhaus Research in the collections PR work/special exhibit; Obituary for Dr. Ulrich Burchard Our Team (permanent staff and reinforcement) Post festum and outlook to Annex Publications in journals and books 2015 (refereed) Other publications Exhibits of our collections; Patents and -registrations Research projects and contracts in Qualification works 2015 (PhD, M.Sc., B.Sc., interns) Event organisation 2015, Oral presentations Anything else 2015 (Excursions, guest scientists, Zuwachs, etc.) This Annual Report is as usual, and combined with a warm Glückauf! and a Thank you to all friends of our institute, those that accompany and support us. Impressum. The individual working groups are responsible for all content. Contact: Director of the Institute of Mineralogy, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heide. Institute of Mineralogy, Brennhausgasse 14, D Freiberg; Tel: , Fax: ; gerhard.heide@mineral.tu-freiberg.de Sources: Diverse press releases by the press office of TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Thank You!) and for the historical data: Wagenbreth O, Pohl N, Kaden H, Volkmer R (2008) Die Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg und ihre Geschichte. 2. ed. 345 p. Photos, if not indicated otherwise, by JMT, and so are the non-wg-specific texts.

3 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Institute of Mineralogy 2015 Institute, University and City Silver lining at the horizon? This rainbow (Picture below) hovered over our institute building, the Werner-Bau, on November 06. The building is visible enwrapped as if Christo had been there. Those, who regularly visit our institute will be delighted seeing some optically and technically (elevator) very neat new features, but also be surprised about the still rather high fine particle load in the air. We still believe in Father Christmas and in completely disturbance-free conditions until Christmas Eve. Then, all laboratories will swing back to full throttle and the very long phase of improvisation will become history. At the same time, new changes emerge see the outlook on page 21. By the way, the year 2015 was the International Year of Light. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht is the new Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg. A new rectorate steers our university since October, headed by Prof. Dr. jur. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht (Picture below). He is being supported by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kawalla as Vice-Rector for Research, Prof. Dr. Silvia Rogler as Vice-Rector for Education and Prof. Dr. Broder Merkel as Vice-Rector for Structure, Strategy and External Relations. Prof. Barbknecht intends to move our university forward with selfconscious modesty. We look forward to the collaboration and hope to master the many challenges to the benefit of our university and our institute. Urban legends such as the loss of the university s autonomy and a forced integration into TU Dresden, analogous to Tharandt, certainly are to be rejected for what they are (such a fat duck as we present would be hard to swallow anayway). Yet, it remains a permanent challenge to steer our little ship safe and sound through all depths and storms. But tact, ambition and performance, as well as enthusiasm for our cause will likely guide us successfully into the future the next 250 years. Latinamerican Symposium on GeoParks. The UNESCO-borne and supported idea of Geo- Parks is well established in Germany. For many years it contributes successfully to geotourism, to better protection and conservation of geoscientifically valuable areas and to environmental education of the general public. Almost for the same period of time, German colleagues help coordinating the DAAD-supported network of Latinamerican alumni, GOAL. This network regularly organises Lifelong Learning workshops and professional excursions interchanging the locations between Latinamerica and Germany. Germany hosted the 2014 event with Jörg Matschullat and Klaus Peter Stanek (Geology) as organisers. The focus lay on the still underdeveloped (in Latinamerica) topic GeoParks. The turnout was more than positive and matured thereafter almost by itself. From July 14 to 17, the 1 st Latinamerican Symposium on GeoParks took place in Arequipa, Peru under the title Education in Geosciences contributes to sustainable development.

4 Herausgeber 4 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Living on planet Earth. It certainly is a rare event that an entire faculty pulls together as one and jointly produces a book (picture below left). Fortunate boundary conditions, related to our 250 th anniversary, made it materially possible. A sophisticated book design complements its content and further supports the impression of unity and pulling together. The title expression of living not just with planet Earth, but on planet Earth clearly transports the insight that is is us humans, who are being carried by system Earth. An English-language version is underway and will apear some time next year. ) ;i.- #'r-. AU F DER ERDE LEBEN Fakuttät für Geowissenschaften, Geotechnik und Bergbau Carsten Drebenstedt Understanding, using and conserving the Earth forms part 1 of the book with more general information on the workings of our planetary system. The second part positions our Faculty of Geoscience, Geoengineering and Mining in our Resource University. Here, the highly dynamic history of our faculty, our position in the science community, our ambition as well as future prospects for our alumni are described jointly with profiles of the individual institutes and our magnificent workshop under the auspices of Erik Börner. Current examples from research projects and activities form part 3 of the book with examples from every group. This delivers a great introduction into our work and shows the manyfold interaction with both colleagues from other faculties and from collaboration with institutions outside of Freiberg. Above: Federal President Joachim Gauck during his speech at the festive event commemoratin 250 years of Bergakademie Freiberg in the Nikolai church a moving experience A glance into history. It goes without saying that this year will in retrospect, primarily be seen by the university as the 250 th anniversary of our alma mater fribergensis. A plethora of events, special exhibits, guest lectures, etc. will take place into 2016 to further commemorate the event (e.g. title page). Beyond this, to almost traditionally look back in decadal increments remains interesting and may provoke some thoughts. In today s Saxony, the year 1105 saw the settlement of the higher mid-elevation areas by German farmers. They

5 Inst. of Mineralogy Report reached the uppermost parts of the Erzgebirge around the year A fortress, today Schloss Freudenstein was built in 1175 by Margrave Otto. Ten years later, the Marien church (Freiberg Cathedral) is under construction, and Christiansdorf, the gamete of Freiberg finds its last mentioning in old certificates that report at the same time the Freiberg silver riches. Already in 1225, Freiberg is the largest city (with five churches) and the centre of economic activity of the Meissen region. The Freiberg city council is declared to be responsible for mining law issues in is the year of the separation of Saxony into an eastern part with Leipzig and Dresden under the reign of Duke Albrecht (albertinian Saxony) and a western part under Elector Ernst (ernestinian Saxony). Each specific ruler is responsible for the organisation of mining administration. In the same year, the until-today active spa Warmbad near Wolkenstein finds its first mentioning. Hans Röhling is appointed in 1545 to be the first Mining Authority head and Simon Bogner nominated the first Bergvogt the beginning of a mining administration in albertinian Saxony. Ten years later, the Augsburg treaty corroborates the protestant dominance of electoral Saxony. In 1585 high ovens (= blast furnaces) were introduced by Barthel Köhler in the Freiberg smelting industry. The ceasefire agreement of Kötschenbroda ends the 30-year war in Saxony in 1645 already. The country is empoverished and the mines around Freiberg largely destroyed. Hundred years later (1745) the 2 nd Silesian War ends in the battle of Kesselsdorf near Dresden, and Saxony looses its political dominance to Prussia. 1765: the Bergakademie (Mining Academy) Freiberg is being founded, initially with very few students, most of which from Saxony. As of 1771, more and more foreign students feel attracted or are being sent their number partly increases above 50% of all students. Abraham Gottlob Werner, namesake of our Institute of Mineralogy, is nominated professor in 1775 (picture at right). With him, the future university develops to become an internationally renownded educational center of excellence. In the same year, the Clausthaler montanistische Lehrstätte, later Bergakademie Clausthal, was founded in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony. The Vienna Congress takes place in 1815: Saxony looses 56 % of its state territory and 42 % of its population to Prussia. In 1835, the Bergakademie Escuela de Minas is founded after the Freiberg role model in Madrid, Spain. Only as of 1845 do our students receive leaving certificates. The year 1855 sees the highest number of employees in the Freiberg mines ever people. As of 1875, Freiberg is connected to the northern Bohemian lignite fields through the trainline Nossen Freiberg Teplitz, which today runs only until Holzhau. In the same year, the Mining Academy Escola de Minas Ouro Preto is founded in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The right to bestow a doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) is given to our Bergakademie first in 1905 and for the time only in conjunction with the Technical University Dresden. The first rectorate of the mineralogist Prof. Dr. phil. Friedrich Kolbeck ends As of 1936, the Freiberg mines are being re-opened and take up production. More than inmates of the concentration camp Flossenbürg in Bavaria are being forced to labour next to other forced workers in the former Freiberg porcellaine factory. The rectorate of mineral deposit specialist Prof. Dr.-Ing. Friedrich Schumacher ends that year, and the Bergakademie is being subordinated to the Reichswissenschaftsministerium in Berlin (the Science Ministry of the Third Reich) sees a major flux of war refuguees into Freiberg. The people come from Eastern Prussia, Poland and Silesia, and from Dresden. Freiberg surrenders without resistance to the Soviet Army. Teaching at the Bergakademie halts temporarily. Because of his active NSDAP membership, Prof. Dr. phil. Helmut von Philipsborn, responsible for Mineralogy and Lötprobierkunde (an early element detection technique), has to leave the Bergakademie. Our long-term institute director and internationally renownded mineralogist and geochemist Prof.

6 6 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Dr. Hans Jürgen Rösler retires in Ten years later, petrologist Prof. Dr. Carl Dietrich Werner follows him into retirement. Institute and Working Groups Astronomy. The year 2015 stood under a bright and under a dark star. Bright sunlight illuminated the daytime of the 250 th anniversary of our university. During the main celebration event in Nikolai church on November 21, the namesake of our house, Abraham Gottlob Werner, was illuminated with honour and humour he being the person, who brought Freiberg onto the worldmap of science in his days, who founded with geognosy the precursor of modern geoscience and who was a brave producer of daring hypothesis. He entered the stage life, virtually personified by an actor dressed in the festivity attire of a chief mining engineer of the 18 th Century. When at the end of the event, everyone stood up to sing the Steigerlied, the miners s song and Freibergs inofficial hymn, Werner appeared incarnate amongst us (the actor of course) and started the singing. The subsequent miners parade will also remain unforgetful. As before in the church with the Middlesaxon Philharmonic, an extraordinary choreography and the harmonious play of sixteen miners marching bands were quite capable to gave us the shivers once in a while for joy. Dark on the other hand were the many inhibitions of our work because of the very many renovation works in our institute still not completely finished shortly before Christmas. Such open-heart surgery is everything but ideal and our university should insist to receive funds to construct a multi-use building in order to improve working conditions for any group under similar boundary conditions. There are limits to improvisation capacity. We nevertheless managed to walk ahead in 2015; our report will inform you about related details. Biohydrometallurgical Centre (BHMZ). You may call it ambitious when thirteen groups of TU Bergakademie Freiberg try jointly to develop technologies that push frontiers and may become highly relevant for the future of metal mining and winning. The project, generously supported by the Dr.-Erich-Krüger-Foundation, helps us to dare tackle this risk. The next few lines report about the momentary state-of-art in the three sub-projects in our institute: TP 1 (M. Bauer/Prof. T. Seifert). The pre-processed material from the large bulk sample (Wilhelm Stehender Nord, Reiche Zeche) has been characterized mineralogically-petrologically by Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA). Our focus in Freiberg lies momentarily on trace element geochemistry of the sphalerites from various tunnels and depths by EPMA and LA-ICP-MS (spatial and genetical results on indium mineralisation), jointly with detailed fluid inclusion investigations on quartz and cogenetic sphalerite (Fluid chemistry of the indium mineralisation). In addition, we study indium-rich mineral parageneses from the Hämmerlein, Pöhla district deposit with similar methodologies. TP 4 (J. Heinrich/Prof. G. Heide). Chemical and biological leaching experiments were performed with ore from the Wilhelm Stehender Nord. To inoculate the solutions for the biological leaching steps, bacteria from Reiche Zeche were sampled and cultivated. In parallel, the chemical leaching steps were perfomed to compare the surface changes (etching patterns) of either one of these approaches. In addition, the synthesis of artificial, indium-doted sphalerite was done by toroid press and gas phase transport in collaboration with the first Krüger- Research Group, the Freiberg High Pressure Research Centre and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. TP 5 (Christine Pilz, Stephanie Uhlig, Dr. Alexander Plessow, Prof. Jörg Matschullat). In June this year, we finally received the long-awaited material from the large bulk sampling in Reiche Zeche. Next to some smaller batches we could now process the so-called main batch with an aliquot weight of 45 kg. The hot summer weeks saw our doctoral students sweat it out in the labs, grind the material to analytical size (<63 µm), homogenise it and fill it into appropriate HDPE-bottles (picture right). Following extensive analytical work, this material will be available

7 Inst. of Mineralogy Report as In-House reference material TUBAF- KB. These analytical works include an international round-robin test with participants from high-end geo-laboratories in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Norway and the United States of America. The very first BHMZ SummerSchool teaching unit took place at our institute from July 13 to 21. All three groups were involved and had planned a sequence of subsequently interlinked content. The Geochemical-Analytical Labs and its team members designed the first three days. An introduction to geochemistry took the lead, followed by analytical problems and possible pathways to solutions. All three days offered a colourful mix of theoretical and practical training phases. The picture below left shows doctoral students from various BHMZ groups working in our laboratories. While being confronted with mainly uncharted territory, they were highly engaged and motivated and certainly went home with a much better understanding of the challenges and the power of geochemistry at large and in the analysis of very complex geo-materials in particular. To start out with, the working group for Mineral Resources and Petrology offered a one-day introduction to mineral deposit formation and their characteristics. During a slightly overweighed practical training unit, the participants obtained basic knowledge on rock and mineral determination, which had to be trained in situ the next day. That day was spent with an excursion to the Eastern Erzgebirge (visit of the public mine Zinnwald and the Altenberg mining museum). The picture at right gives an impression from the guided tour in Reiche Zeche during the first section of our SummerSchool teaching unit. During the last two days of the SummerSchool, the doctoral students received a short introduction to the field of mineralogy. Using optical microscopy, typical minerals from the Freiberg mining district were determined. An underground excursion into Reiche Zeche (picture above right) demonstrated the experimental facilities for BHMZ, followed by a short-course on X-ray diffractometry. The SummerSchool ended happily with a big barbeque party in our institute garden offering many tasty self-made salads and grilled specialities.

8 8 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 WG General and Applied Mineralogy Award winner: Dr. Reinhard Kleeberg (picture left) receiving the Pioneer certificate from President Crawford Elliott of the Clay Minerals Society. Orginally proposed by Joe White, the Pioneer in Clay Science Program is intended to recognize and honor clay scientists, who have made pioneering contributions to our understanding of clay structures and properties. The program also would provide younger scientists the opportunity to know these early workers on a personal basis and to learn some of the inside stories on some of the concepts and developments that we often take for granted. The program is now a regular component of the annual meeting. The local organizing committee, together with the program committee selects the Early Pioneer and arranges to have the designate participate in the technical program with a lecture. Guest professorship for Jan-Michael Lange. Jan-Michael Lange is the section head for petrography at the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen (SNSD) in Dresden. He guides the laboratories for rock preparation, polarisation microscopy and X-ray fluorescence analytics. His research interests focus on paleogeography and stratigraphy of the Ries impact crater (Bavaria), and particularly its distal ejecta. Additional research activities relate to the analysis of uplift and river history of Central Europe. In recent years, Jan-Michael also works in interdisciplinary contexts between petrology, archeology and sepulcral culture, respectively. As a custos, he is responsible for the 80,000 rock sample-encompassing petrographic SNSD collections. He is chief editor to various geoscientific journals, e.g. Geologica Saxonica and SDGG as well as member of the DGGV executive board and one of the GMIT editors. Following his education as a geology worker (was a high-level education for practicioners in GDR) Jan-Michael Lange studied geology at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University in Greifswald, where he defended his diploma in A 2-year activity as resource-deposit geologist followed in the Niederlausitz lignite-mining district. In 1990, he received a PhD position at Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg. In those years, he became a member of the German Science Foundation (DFG)-supported graduate school Formation and Development of the Solar System at the Institute of Planetology of Münster University. In 1993 Jan-Michael Lange moved on to Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, where he was involved in the DFGproject Multidisciplinary comparative investigations of meteorite populations from polar and subtropical drought areas with thermogravimetric and mass spectrometric characterisation of meteorites. A year later, he defended his PhD about Lusatian moldavites and their retrieval environment. Still in 1994, Jan-Michael became scientific assistant at Leipzig University, where he was paramount to build up and guide the new study line of Geology Paleontology until For many years, Jan-Michael Lange supports the Geoscientific Collections of TU Bergakademie Freiberg by collaboration in various bodies. Since 2006, he is member of their council and since 2011 member of the selection committee of the Foundation Mineralogical Collection Germany. This fruitful collaboration peaked these days in a jointly acquired DFGframework project for the development and digitalisation of three sub-collections. Building on many years of teaching experience at other universities, Jan-Michael Lange is involved since 2004 more regularly since 2008 in teaching at the Institutes of Mineralogy and of Geology at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He offers the module Extraterrestrial materials at the Institute of Mineralogy with two lectures and an excursion since Until today,

9 Inst. of Mineralogy Report the student response is very positive not just from those, who need to take it, but also from volunteer participants. In parallel, Jan-Michael Lange continually supports the sedimentological training at the Institute of Geology with participant numbers of almost 60 students; making it necessary to be repeated at least twice. Jan Michael also takes care of various Bachelor and Master theses in our faculty. As of October 01, Jan-Michael Lange has been nominated guest professor to honour his long-term engagement and to further deepen the relationship We in this institute are happy about the welcome reinforcement! WG Geochemistry and Geoecology Life s a gas. Well, our work has rather little to do with the rock group T. Rex, which will be little more than a faint memory for most readers. Yet, life as we know it would be impossible without the current composition of our atmosphere (= troposphere). Here, it is of particular interest, how the large element cycles of carbon and nitrogen behave in detail and what the influential processes are (it is amazing how many knowledge gaps there are ). To contribute to such understanding, we perform increasingly intensive research that focus on soil respiration since We target all types of soils and quantify fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in dependence of soil management, soil chemistry and physics as well as other boundary conditions (the picture at left shows our manual system SEMACH-FG in action). Early in 2016, a review paper will appear in Chemie der Erde Geochemistry. There we compiled and comment on the global understanding (and shortcomings) of this question. In order to be able to help overcome the strong bias towards Europe, as well as to China and the United States of America, we are happy to work as of this December in the Amazon basin, too jointly with a fine team of Brazilian colleagues from EMBRAPA and the Federal University of Amazonia in Manaus. This project, entitled EcoRespira-Amazon, was made possible through support from CAPES, DAAD and GIZ. Without ambitious students like Thomas Drauschke (picture below left), who could present his results on soil respiration from soils under forest and short rotation forestry in St. Petersburg, we would not stand where we are now. Since September 2015 and until March 2016, three strong ladies from Brazil (Laura Medeiros Braga), Canada (Erin Ritchie) and Slovenia (Špela Preradović Hlede) use their internship with us to run winter respiration experiments at the permanent LfULG monitoring site Hilbersdorf. All three are equipped with stipends and intend to learn the methodology as well as to sniff some of the German air during their stay (picture below right unfortunately without Špela).

10 10 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Mary Hegeler s daughter. The mother of Mary Hegeler was the daughter of Julius Weißbach, one of the illuminating Freiberg spirits of the 19 th Century. To honour and to commemorate Mary Hegeler, a Post-Doc stipend at TU Bergakademie Freiberg has been named after her. This stipend benefits Dr. Stephanie Hänsel, who intends concluding her post-doctoral thesis (Habilitationsschrift) in Stephanie s topics are extreme weather conditions, large-scale weather patterns and climate conditions. She performed very well in these fields following her Master thesis (Diplomarbeit) in Geoecology, and developed methods that are being used by various climate researchers and geoscientists. Such success also helped to recently win a DAAD conference stipend for the 15 th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) in Sofia, Bulgaria (September 7 11). There she, jointly with Dr. Andreas Hoy from our group, who received a similar stipend, are invited to give an entire series of talks. On the occasion of the 250 th anniversary of our alma mater fribergensis Stephanie could meet with Mr. Blouke Carus, grandson of Mary Hegeler on November 20. Carus had come from the United States just for the anniversary event. The international Year of Soils. When you get right down to the bare facts and weigh all the odds, I myself would say that soil is more valuable than oil or gold J. Bilyeu. The deep truth beyond this bonmot of a French soil scientist is barely compatible with the current situation of worldwide soil protection and management. Thus it is smart for a resource university to not only think of energetic and mineral resources, but also of the primary ones: Water-Soil-Air, without which and their decent quality our life would be at least drastically inhibited. The situation in Europa is not as bad as many voices like to make believe, however. The GEMAS atlas (Chemistry of Europe s agricultural soils) by EuroGeoSurveys and edited by Clemens Reimann and colleagues in late 2014 clearly corroborates that argument. Yet something had been forgotten back then: the element nitrogen (N). Soils without (enough) nitrogen cannot support plants and life becomes difficult even for those billions of minute soil organisms. Thanks to our new infrastructure, we were invited to analyse the complete GEMAS sample set for total carbon, nitrogen and sulphur. This was made possible also through support from our chancellor, who enabled buying the latest and most powerful elemental analyser on the market, the EL Cube. The publisher (Schweizerbart) will issue an updated and enhanced atlas some time next year. We are not only thankful for the trust of the GEMAS team in our group, but also to M.Sc. Débora dos Santos Carvalho, cand. gök. Melanie Vierling and our engaged lab-technician Elvira Rüdiger they all contributed with diligent work to this excellent result. WG Mineral Resources and Petrology Three new joint research projects were launched this year in our group, all funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research BMBF. They are part of the focal area r4 Innovative Technologies for Resource Effiziency Research to provide strategic resources within the BMBF framework program Forschung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (FONA3). DESMEX Deep electromagnetic sounding for mineral exploration : this project aims in collaboration with several research instututions and industry partners in Germany at the development of an electromagnetic exploration system using the Semi-airborne concept (Picture next page). Sb-(Au-Ag)-veins of the Bergaer Sattel in eastern Thuringia serve as test area. Our task is the investigation of mineralogy, geochronology, genesis and fluid sources of these mineralisations. Investigator: PhD student Lisa Richter, start: ; Project leader: Thomas Seifert.

11 Inst. of Mineralogy Report WISTAMERZ Prognosis about strategic high technology metals using the Erzgebirge as an example. The aim of this joint project with science and industry collaboration is a new metallogenetic map of the Erzgebirge. Particularly elements such as germanium (Ge), indium (In) and antimony (Sb) are in the focus of this project. Our group has to fulfil the task of developing a geochemical-mineralogical and geochronological database. Investigator: PhD student Tobias Petermann, start: ; Project leader: Thomas Seifert. ResErVar Resource potential of Variscide hydrothermal deposits. Aims of this joint project are complex models for the geological development and distribution of deposits in the Variscides. These models shall enable a more realistic assessment of the potential of metals such as gallium (Ga), germanium or indium deposits and to find new areas for prospecting and exploration. The working area is, among other deposits, focussing on the Sn-W-Zn-Cu-In (tin-bismuth-zinc-copper-indium) skarn deposit of the Pöhla-Hämmerlein district in the Erzgebirge. The picture at left shows an underground slit sampling procedure in the Hämmerlein mine. The main focus is on the geology and mineralogy of the late Variscan mineralisations, as well as on ore-forming processes of the Sn and In-bearing minerals. Methodologically the project tasks cover a bandwidth from underground mapping and sampling to highly spatially resolved mineral chemical analyses and datings of ore minerals. Investigator: Tilman Jeske, start: ; Project leaders: Thomas Seifert, Jens Gutzmer. News from the Laboratories Analytical Geochemistry laboratories (Dr. Alexander Pleßow). The reconstruction in the Werner-Bau that lasted all through the year affected our laboratories stronger than any impact in all years before. Two working accidents of lab technicians at the construction site are to be lamented; one of which led to a minor impact only, while the other one will hopefully not lead to lasting impairment. The unavoidable (under the given boundary conditions) standstills in most of our labs sum up to quite some weeks. At times, all technicians could all day long do nothing but trying their best to clean our equipment over and over again. The practical student lab training could commence this winter term with some delays only and some of the experiments cannot be done this time. Even if by now, late November, two of the labs still do not have heating, and all users need to dress warmly, there are some good news: Still this year, two brand-new digestories (clean benches) are to be installed to replace two older and highly corroded ones. This significant improvement will allow us to obtain a lot lower blind values very soon. This is badly needed for our pressure digesters with the two microwave-assisted systems and classic yet highly up-to-date heating bench system. The latter is brand-new equipment, too, with the enormous advantage that we can select the reaction time and significantly extend the Magnetron-limited duration of the microwaves to be-

12 12 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 yond an hour. We are confident to overcome current limitations with the digestion of refractory samples. The downside is that the number of samples to be processed is limited and considerably lower as compared to the microwave systems. Thanks to a special financial support by the Dean of our Faculty, our total reflection-x-ray fluorescence spectrometer (TXRF) will be enhanced with a new and more powerful detector. This TXRF machine, which will be moved to another lab once the construction has ended, is characterised by an excellent determination power even with very low sample masses. Fluid inclusions laboratory (Prof. Thomas Seifert). The Chair of Mineral Resources and Petrology aims at investigating the genesis and development of hydrothermal and magmatichydrothermal ore-forming systems respectively. Investigations of fluid inclusions will play a crucial role. To make that possible, the old fluid inclusions lab in the first floor of Brennhausgasse 5 will be completely renovated. New applications-friendly lab furniture, a new lightmicroscope Olympus BX 50, a modern heatingcooling table Linkam TSG 600, a digital IR-camera Qimaging Retiga 2000R, and an analogue IR-camera Dage LSG-70 with IR-lenses ease the work as of now (picture right). The system allows freezing and heating of fluid inclusions in minerals from -180 to +600 C. The two IR-cameras are paramount here, capable of making light to a wavelength of 2200 nm visible. This system thus allows measuring both transparent and many different opaque minerals (e.g. sphalerite, antimonite, wolframite, pyrite or haematite). The new equipment could be bought through the second Krüger-research school of the Dr. Erich-Krüger-Foundation. The group around Matthias Bauer and Thomas Seifert uses the investigation of fluid inclusions in quartz and sphalerite to gain a better understanding on the genesis and fluid origin of ore veins in the Freiberg mineralisation zone. Lisa Richter works in the DESMEX project on fluid inclusions in antimonite and quartz from the Sb-(Au-Ag)- mineralisations of the Bergaer Sattel, eastern Thuringia. Again here, a key aspect lies in a better understanding of formation processes and fluid spources for the mineralisations. 100 µm 20 µm Left: Two-phase fluid inclusion in pyrite (fot: Jim Reynolds, taken with the analogue IR-camera Dage LSG-70. Right: Two-phase fluid inclusions in antimonite, taken with the digital IR-camera Qimaging Retiga 2000R

13 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Geometallurgy-Laboratory (Prof. Bernhard Schulz). This lab (also referred to as MLAlab, for REM-enhanced Mineral Liberation Analysis), saw only work, no changes in Both REM machines backed a very broad program of research tasks. Studies on REE ores and their dressing product, on Kupferschiefer and on PGM slags stood in methodological focus. An increasing number of analyses were dedicated to research within the Biohydrometallurgical Centre (BHMZ) of TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Many determinations on materials from fluid trials in Cretaceous limestones were done in collaboration with the University of Stavanger, Norway. Element distribution maps from garnet blasts in mica shists and from amphibole blasts in blue schists and eklogites were paramount for the more petrological questions. More and more vulkanites of all types and proveniences are being analysed, too. The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) supports many Bachelor and Master theses. Mrs. Dominique Brising (BSc) supports the lab as a student research assistant. This also helps many researcher guests in our labs, who wish to study their own materials. This included Dr. Yasser Abd El-Rahman (Humboldt fellow Kairo University), MSc Friederike Minz (Technical University Luleå, Sweden), Prof. Dr. Udo Zimmermann, Dr. Naomi Matthews, MSc Mona Minde, MSc Wenxia Wang (all Stavanger University, Norway), Mag. Philipp Lederer (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria), Prof. Hilmar von Eynatten (Göttingen University). The building and reconstruction measures led to two anticipated shutdowns in January and September Thanks to a mobile emergency energy module in the backyard of our institute, these phases could be successfully covered. The installation of new windows forced a seven-day break in May Isotope laboratory (Prof. Marion Tichomirowa). This year, all labs were challenged by the construction activities in the Werner-Bau. Since absolute cleanliness is key to successful work in the isotopic lab, these construction and renovation activities posed a particular challenge. We had to reduce lab-work to the absolute minimum and highly precise U-Pb-dating was basically impossible. This made it the more enjoyable for Marion Tichomirowa that her guest professorship at ETH Zürich lastet until February 28. There, she could successful continue her work on single zircone dating with the U-Pb-method. Early in the year, we had to part from our long-term co-worker and technician Regina Blüthig, and at the end of the year, Klaus Bombach left after decades of engagement for his well-deserved retirement. His position could be advertised and we are still busy selecting an appropriate candidate to fill the niche. Repairs are a constant in a lab, and we were kept pretty busy with that constantly this year. One of the mass spectrometers showed serious instabilities and it took a lot of time for Klaus Bombach and Marion Tichomirowa to fix that problem. Since both mass spectrometers are members of an older generation (built in 1990 and 1994), costs for spare parts and repairs in the higher four-digit range accumulated. In November, we had to replace the secondary electron multiplier (SEM) by a new one, since its predecessor simply did not do it any longer (picture right: SEV for the zircone dating technique; costs: ca ). A ray of bright sun came into the lab, when the defective air conditioning for the ultraclean air supply could be repaired successfully early this year. Jennifer Schlicke, lab technician, performed a sequence of Sr-isotopic determinations in This included analyses from archeologial digs at the Petri square in Berlin, with mate-

14 14 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 rial from the 11 th to 13 th Century seen as the founding time of our capital. The investigations intend to figure out, from which areas those first settlers may have migrated in. In parallel, some standards were tested with the Rb-Sr-method. The collaboration with the Saxon State Agency for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) continued this year; samples were gained and prepared for zircone dating. Angelika Braun performed the sample preparation steps and the zircone separations. X-ray diffractometry lab (Dr. Reinhard Kleeberg). With our move into new and newly furnished rooms, significantly better working conditions are available. Completely new electrical energy supply eliminates the disturbances in our electronics, the cooling water supply could be stabilized with a more powerful pump, and the stability of the diffractometers enhanced by placing the instruments on very stable plates. The more favourable cut of the rooms allows for more space to move, which facilitates the practical student training units. Finally the sinks in the labs supply warm water. The lab development in a nutshell: u moving four diffractometers into the rooms 35/36 in February, re-launch after 14 days of new installment and fine-tuning, Control by state technical survey; u refurbish XRD3000TT to 280 mm radius with automatic sample changer in March; u Delivery of MediPix detector for the diffractometer Empyrean, successful stability tests; u Improvement of background behaviour of the Empyrean by self-made pre-diaphragm; u Installation and start-up, and first methodological works with the spray-drying machine for sample preparation for quantitative powder diffractometry; u Since June 2015, sample preparation work to pepare the 8 th Reynolds Cup in January Research. The analytical works in the r3-projects (amongst others) could be delivered almost perfectly on time despite the partial inhibition due to construction work. Shockwave laboratory (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heide, Dr. Kevin Keller, Thomas Schlothauer). The time-limited permit by the Saxon Mining Authority for the lab endet in July after ca. 200 detonations with explosive masses of about 100 to 2000 g per test. Attested shortcomings could be moved out of the way this year. At the end of 2015, a test blast, using the maximum amount of explosives, will open the path to the final license for its usage. We can very likely take up our research work as of January Since February, the shockwave lab Freiberg under the guidance of Prof. Heide and Prof. Kroke is part of the new DFG research group 2125 Structures, properties and reactions of carbonates at high pressures and temperatures (CarboPaT) with a financial support of 2 x 3 years. The group consists of leading German high-pressure researchers and deals with pressures and temperatures above ca. 50 GPa, similar to a depth of ca km in the Earth mantle. No opportunity existed to generate such pressures within carbonatic samples at the time of submitting the proposal to the German Science Foundation (DFG) without risking the complete destruction of, e.g. the calcites because of degassing (upper limit currently at ca. 40 GPa). Since pressures above 100 GPa and temperatures above 1500 C are needed for shock wave synthesis of new carbonate structures, a method needed to be developed to increase the current possibilities by a factor of 3. This challenge could be mastered with methods developed in Freiberg (impedance-corrected container, avoidance of Mach effects) and with the support of Russian scientists V. V. Milyawskij and V. V. Yakushev the Halide-based methode for fluid rich phases. Results were presented at the international conference Interaction of Intense Energy Fluxes with Matter, IIEFM (picture next page) and published. This allows the Freiberg Shockwave lab, jointly with static methods such as the diamond anvil press, to contribute to researching this interesting field, since we could extend the pressure range to p > 100 GPa. Related works will now be the focal activity of the lab and safeguard its function beyond the support of the Dr. Erich-Krüger-Foundation.

15 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Right: Prof. W. E. Fortov, director of the Joint Institute of High Temperature RAS, Moscow (Cooperation partner of the Institute of Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg) and President of the Russian Academy of Science with Thomas Schlothauer at the IIEFM conference (Elbrus region, Karbardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia, February 2015) A cooperation agreement was signed with the University of Chemnitz in the area of industry-near research. This includes further work on explosive plating of various materials. Shocked Cu-powder-diamond mix samples were investigated for the company Mikrodiamant, based on the latest research results of our lab on the behaviour of such material mixes during the shockwave synthetic process. More projects and industry-near research. u Project continuation in the framework SIGNO university support (August 2014 to April 2015) with the development of a prototype of a sintered body made of rs-aln, the determination of relevant material properties and the validation of its potential as a heat sink in high performance electronics industry (Dr. Kevin Keller). u Joint research project/cooperation with Leuchtstoffwerk Breitungen. Method development to apply shock wavesynthesis for the production of fluorescent materials (Dr. Kevin Keller). u Cooperation with companies: CoorsTek Advanced Materials ANceram, Bindlach, Reishauer AG, Wallisellen (CH), Microdiamant AG, Lengwil (CH), Vollstadt-Diamant GmbH, Seddiner See, Aphrodiamante, Seddiner See, MAXAM Gnaschwitz GmbH, Gnaschwitz, Leuchmittelwerk Breitungen GmbH, Breitungen, IBZ Salzchemie GmbH & Co. KG, Halsbrücke, Nordmetall GmbH, Neukirchen, Dynamit Nobel Defence, Burbach Further cooperation partners: FH Zwickau, Prof. M. Kolbe; TU Chemnitz; Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Fachbereich Explosivstoffe, Dr. H. Krebs; Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst Sachsen; Fraunhofer-Institut für Chemische Technologie ICT, Dr. H. Krause; TH Deggendorf, Prof. C. Wunsche; National Institute for Materials Science, Dr. T. Taniguchi; Joint Institute of High Temperature, Moscow, Russian Academy of Science; Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung IKZ, Dr. J. Wollweber. WG Geoscientific Collections Development of the collections. Many addition to our collections could be registered this year. The honorary citizen of our university, Siegfried Flach from Damme in Lower Saxony, donated his extensive collection. This collection encorporates more than 6000 mineral specimen, ore samples and gangue material from Erzgebirge deposits. It is one of the most broad, complete and valuable private collections. Its focus lies on the districts of Freiberg, Marienberg, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Schlema-Alberoda and Schneeberg. The collector was particularly keen collecting precise information on the location of the finds and the gangue formations and thus built a documentation of Saxon ore mining in its last phase of bloom. He researched meticulously in the scientific archives of our university library in Freiberg and maintained valuable contacts with the Wismut GmbH archive and with former mine geologists and miners. His knowledge is reflected in various publications, e.g. the EMSER HEFT about Schneeberg, the book about 800 years of silver mining in Freiberg, and a mining monography about Schlema-Alberoda, edited by the LfUG. All of this made his collection attractive to science both at TU Bergakademie and at the Helmholtz Institute for Resource Technologies in Freiberg.

16 16 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Left: No fear of uranium minerals Siegfried Flach with a Pechblende specimen from the Erzgebirge. fot: Matthias Reinhardt (Archiv Bode, Mineralienwelt) Siegfried Flach was born on March 24, 1927 in Chemnitz, where he went to school. He successfully finished his apprenticeship in administration in Training as sailplane pilot followed and then he was drafted by the German airforce. He was taken prisoner of war in May 1945 by British troops and was interned in Ostfriesland. In 1946 he became part of a bombblasting unit in Damme near Oldenburg. That place became his new home. Here he did his second apprenticeship as mason and worked for many years on construction sites. He married his spouse Edith in 1950; two sons and a daughter emerged from this partnership. In 1967, Siegfried Flach moved on as construction engineer, working for the city administration of Damme. He retired in March Next to his collection, which will mostly enrich our Mineralogical and Mineral Deposit collections, another 72 specimens could be acquired for the Mineralogical Collection mainly through exchange. This includes minerals that enhance and complete our Systematic Collection as well as several show specimens that will increase the attractivity of our collections. Two new specimens could be bought with support from the Günter-Heinisch-Foundation. Both were turned over to the Director and the CEO of the Geoscientific Collections during the St. Barbara celebrations of the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der TU Bergakademie Freiberg e.v. on November 28. The first object is a gold nugget (Picture right) from the deposit Nerundinskoje on the Nerunda River in the Sewero-Baikalski county in the Autonomous Republic Burjatia in Russis (dimensions: 152 g, 59 x 41 x 19 mm; fot: Andreas Massanek). So far, a gilded gypsum model of a gold nugget from Russia was on display in our collection, dedicated to Freiberg via Prof. Breithaupt in 1850 by the St. Petersburg mining-instituts, on the occasion of the Abraham-Gottlob-Werner celebration. The second specimen is an interesting partial pseudomorphosis, where the rare mineral plumbogummite [PbAl 3 (PO 4 ) 2 (OH) 5 H 2 O] is grown onto pyromorphite (Pb 5 [Cl (PO 4 ) 3 ]) and has partly substituted that mineral (picture right: 20 x 17 cm; fot: Andreas Massanek). This is a new find from the Pb-Zn-deposit Laohu near Gongcheng in the province Guangxi in China. The pyromorphite crystals reach up to 5 cm length and are thus unusually large. The attractive colour combination from light blue and green makes the specimen very aesthetic and a valuable enrichment of our exhibit. Exhange, donations or our own collection activity let the deposit collection grow by another 228 ore samples and the Petrological Collection grew by 92 rock specimen. Two shark egg capsule copies enrich the Paleontological-Stratigraphical Collection.

17 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Engagement for terra mineralia and for the Mineralogical Collection Germany in Krügerhaus. The success of the permanent exhibits in Freudenstein Castle and in Krügerhaus was safeguarded again in 2015 by co-workers of the Geoscientific Collections. All showcases in the mirror room of the America Hall were cleaned inside out and so were the specimens on closing day in January. Almost 700 hours for terra mineralia and more than 800 hours were invested for The Mineralogical Collections Germany by our staff throughout the year. That is necessary to keep the level of the exhibits and to develop it further. Because of this extreme load, the Dr.-Erich-Krüger-Foundation offered half a scientist position, which will hopefully be advertised soon. Nineteen loan agreements came to an end in 2015 for the exhibit Mineralogical Collection Germany ; a serious challenge for the custos, who needed to find appropriate replacements in parallel. Many talks at collectors assemblies, personal talks and participation at fairs attract new benefactors and lenders or convince old lenders to new donations. Thus, the Foundation Mineralogical Collections Germany grows continuously: 15 individuals donated specimens; three of them repeatedly. By now, we are proud to name 73 benefactors and 87 lenders (amongst them ten museums). The donated objects alone exceed a material value of 2 million Euros. We exchanged specimens in ten showcases, thus repeated visitors will be able to discover something new with every visit. A phantastic galenite specimen from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (picture right: 25x20 cm, fot: Andreas Massanek) and supplied to the exhibits by Dr. Erika Krüger deserves special mentioning. This specimen of galenite crystals with a habitus typical for Neudorf in its combination of cube, octaeder and rhombic dodecahedron could be bought at the World s largest mineral fair in Tucson, USA. Dr. Erika Krüger made it possible this year that the Geoscientific Collections could participate at this important event. Dr. Krüger travelled jointly with the CEO of the collections, Andreas Massanek, to Arizona and opened the fair, jointly with the Head of the fair Peter Megaw, the mayor of Tucson, Jonathan Rothschild, and the president of the show, Paul Harter (picture below; fot: R. Bode, Salzhemmendorf).

18 18 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Thus it became possible after exactly 20 years to partake at this fair and we explicitly wish to thank Dr. Erika Krüger. Andreas Massanek designed an exhibit with specimens from Germany, representing the Mineralogical Collections Germany in the area reserved for museums. That exhibit attracted a lot of attention, resulting in numerous interviews for Andreas Massanek and Dr. Erika Krüger and in many invitations to special evening events. Parallel to the show, minerals of the Freiberg mineral district and the Geoscientific Collections were represented in the forum through talks given by the custos. It was very interesting and pleasing to note that the Freiberg collections and related activities are rather well known in the United States. That we in in Freiberg are responsible for the world s largest mineralogical exhibit complex, is being acknowledged. It will be one of our main tasks to move these facts into the awareness of both our university and our ministry; a more prominent positioning in marketing of the university and of terra mineralia in particular is needed. The work for and with the Pohl-Ströher-Mineral Foundation triggered an intensified collaboration with Swiss institutions. The Swiss Museum of Natural History in Berne was the focal partner. Dr. Beda Hofmann, custos of the Berne Geoscientific Collections, declared his agreement to engage in the Foundation Council. Another highlight was the organisation and accompaniment of the Swiss Day in Freiberg. Using the National Holiday of Switzerland, September 11, the Swiss-German Economy Association e.v. invited, jointly with representatives of the Free State of Saxony under the auspices of the Saxon Ministry of Finance, to terra mineralia in Freudenstein Castle. The many guests were impressed by the collections of Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher and the related exhibits in Freiberg. Research in the collections. The three DFG projects (HE 3015/5-1, HE 3015/6-1, VO 902/2-1) moved forward fine. Their core activity is the construction of a web-based system to analyse, digitize and visualise a) the collection materials of the historical mineralogical characteristics by Abraham Gottlob Werner, b) the material of the Fossil Fuel Geological Collection and c) the material of the Thin Section Collection at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. The necessary tools had to be developed and the materials gathered and registered. So far, 652 minerals, 249 colour porcellaine plates and crystal models from the Characteristics Collection, 640 objects from the Fossil Fuel Collection and about thin sections including their record cards could be processed. In a last step, the data will be transferred into the scientific data bank Aquila and tested up and down. As of then, the entire collection materials shall be transferred to that data bank and made available to interested scientists online. All works are done jointly with the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen in Dresden and Frankfurt. Materials from the Geoscientific Collections were intensively used this year by scientists from TU Bergakademie and from other institutions in Germany and abroad. The Paleontological and the Stratigraphical Collections were included in various research projects. Dr. Sven Sachs, Düsseldorf, specialist for Mesozoic reptiles and Prof. M. Schudack, Berlin, specialist for young Paleozoic carbonaceous alga stayed with us as guest scientists. Other demands on the main collections: 1) pyropissite for Mrs. Hahmann, section Coal/Oil/Gas, TU Bergakademie Freiberg; 2) Upper Cretaceous sponges (Harz Mountains) for Dr. Wisshack, Senckenberg Wilhelmshaven; 3) fossil carbonaceous alga for Prof. Schudack, FU Berlin; 4) Trace fossils for Dr. Niebuhr, Senckenberg Dresden; 5) Tubicaulis solenites for the Museum of Natural History, Chemnitz. Ilja Kogan performed manyfold investigations jointly with scientists from other institutions on collections material: 1) Saurichthys madagascariensis morphological investigation, new species description (submitted to Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology) with Dr. Carlo Romano, Zürich University; 2) Palaeoniscum freieslebeni CT-scans and description of the endocranium (with Thodoris Argyriou, Zürich University); 3) Saurichthys striolatus morphological investigation, new species description (with Prof. Andrea Tintori, Milan University); 4) Saurichthys tenuirostris new species description (with Dr. Ralf Werneburg Museum of Natural History Schleusingen).

19 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Dr. Birgit Gaitzsch used the historically low water level of the Elbe River jointly with colleagues from the Senckenberg Collections of Natural History to work on outcrops that are otherwise basically unaccessible (pictures below). Left: Fieldwork with colleagues of the Senckenberg Collections Dresden at the Elbe River in Dresden- Briesnitz. The extremely low water level allowed access to upper cretaceous sediments this summer. Right: The strenuous work at 35 C in the shade was compensated with finding various specimen of Inoceramus labiatus More field work by Dr. Birgit Gaitzsch with the Dresden artist Gudrun Brückel: The University Collections Art + Technology of Technische University Dresden prepared an exhibit for the winter term 2015/16 on Sandstone and the Elbe-Labe region as space for nature, culture and encounter with artistic works by Gudrun Brückel, Jana Morgenstern and Claudia Scheffler as well as Bachelor works from students of architecture and art from Germany and the Czech Republic. Birgit Gaitzsch presented the sandstone material as resist profile. A total of 40 requests for scientific work reached the Geoscientific Collection in Werner-Bau this year; mostly for mineral and mineral deposit materials, and some petrographic samples. Most requests came from our university itself: 12 from the Institute of Mineralogy (TU plus Helmholtz-Institute), 5 from the Institute of Technical Chemistry, 4 from the Institute of Experimental Physics, 2 from the Institute of Geology, another 2 from the Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre, 3 from terra mineralia and 1 from the Institute of Ore Dressing Machinery. External requests came among others from the Technical University Dresden and the LfUG in Freiberg. PR work/special exhibits. The launch of a new volume of the Edition Krügerstiftung deserves mentioning: author Prof. Dr. Gregor Markl, Tübingen University signed the first copies of the first volume on mineral deposits and locations in the Black Forest. A new volume of the Edition Krügerstiftung was presented in Hamburg: Mining and minerals of the Harz Mountains. TU Bergakademie Freiberg is the only university to partake as such trade fair successfully and uses the opportunity to advertise the city and the study options to the many young people though us. More details can be found in the back part of this report. Obituary for Dr. Ulrich Burchard. One of the most prominent lenders to our exhibit Mineralogical Collections Germany, the mineralogist Dr. Ulrich Burchard from Freising near Munich, died early this year with only 71 years (picture right). 743 wooden crystal models from his private collection can be admired since the opening of Krüger House. His inheritors signaled that those models might remain in Freiberg. Dr. Burchard became known for his many publications on historical mineralogical instruments (e.g. microscopes, goniometer, Lötrohrprobierkunde).

20 20 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Our Team, including Collections (C) Permanent Staff (n = 40) Christine Anders Klaus Bombach Angelika Braun Doreen Fischer Ulrike Fischer, ehem. Krause Oliver Frei Birgit Gaitzsch (C) Jens Götze Jens Gutzmer Sabine Haser Gerhard Heide Margitta Hengst Kurt Herklotz Tobias Höfig Katja Horota Christin Kehrer (C) Ulf Kempe Heidrun Kodym Reinhard Kleeberg Werner Klemm (em.) Andreas Massanek (C) Jörg Matschullat Sabine Karbautzki, ehem. Mühlberg Jörg Ostendorf Joachim Pilot (em.) Alexander Pleßow Karin Rank (C) Elvira Rüdiger Jennifer Schlicke, ehem. Glanz Bernhard Schulz Thomas Seifert Marion Tichomirowa Katrin Treptow (C) Thurit Tschöpe Steffi Ungar (C) Kristin Unger Karin Volkmann Roswitha Wald (C) Ina Wichmann Frank Zimmermann and the reinforcement (Post-Docs, guest scientists, PhD s, Apprentices, Interns) Yasser Abd El-Rahman Juan Alcalde Matthias Bauer Falk Böttcher Dominique Brising Anja Dabrowski Thomas Dittrich Susanne Eberspächer (C) Anne Engler Sophie von Fromm (I) Kristin Galonska Shijia Gao Artem Gusev Stephanie Hänsel Frank Haubrich Beata Heide (C) Judith Heinrich Thomas Höfig Michael Hohf Tom Járóka Tilman Jeske Kevin Keller Ilya Kogan (C) Linda Krahé Frank Kreienkamp Jan-Michael Lange Daniel Leistner Carolina Lopez René Luhmer Claudia Malz (A) Laura Medeiros Braga (I) Sabine Meissner, ehem. Tesch Przemyslaw Michalak (Slavo) Deusdedit Monteiro-Menesez Gustavo Miranda Jörg Neßler Wilhelm Nikonow Cornelius Oertel Jorge Luis de Oliveira Pinto Filho Jörg Ostendorf Maike Penz Tobias Petermann Christine Irene Pilz Špela Preradović Hlede (I) Yamna Ramdani Christoph Reuther Lisa Richter Erin Ritchie (I) Thomas Schlothauer Silke Sekora Anna Serova Lidia Stokratskaya Anke Tietz Stephanie Uhlig Raphael de Vicq Ferreira da Costa Xiaoli Wang Kamal Zurba (n = 57) Outlook onto 2016 u 2016 will be the International UN Year of Global Understanding. Certainly an excellent opportunity for all of us to communicate our engagement for the understanding of global processes even stronger. u The existence of our Laboratory for Stable Isotopes will come to a standstill early in Decades of tedious and most successful build-up work placed our lab under the guidance of Prof. Joachim Pilot onto the world map. Until the 1990s, colleagues from the western parts of Germany and beyond visited and sought discussion particularly on sulphur isotope methods. Under Prof. Marion Tichomirowa, the lab remained an address and one of the few in Germany. Yet the pressure of fixed costs and the loss of personnel made it increasingly difficult to maintain the standard and to keep up the infrastructure. With an experienced alumnus from our institute, Dr. Frank Haubrich, the lab was successfully kept afloat for another few years. Frank now found a full position somewhere else. We wish to thank everyone, who so diligently and successful ran the lab. We miss this infrastructure already, pity the by consequence more narrow hands-on education of our students, and generally that our still relatively broad positioning is cut back yet another bit. u Likely in mid to late January 2016, Katja Horota, Jörg Matschullat and Alexander Pleßow can move back into the Werner-Bau from their exile in Lessing street then we shall be reunited and complete again. At the same time, there are central plans to move at least parts of our analytical laboratories (isotopic and analytical geochemistry) out of Werner-Bau and into a new attachment to Winkler-Bau. But let us relax this will take at least another three to five years (more likely five... ).

21 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Annex Publications in journals and books 2015 (refereed; n = 39) Atanasova P, Krause J, Möckel R, Osbahr I, Gutzmer J (2015) Electron probe microanalysis of REE in eudialyte group minerals: Challenges and solutions. Microscopy Microanalysis 21, 5: 1-18; doi: /S Bachmann K, Schulz B, Bailie R, Gutzmer J (2015) Monazite geochronology and geothermobarometry in polymetamorphic host rocks of volcanic-hosted massive sulphide mineralizations in the Mesoproterozoic Areachap Terrane, South Africa. J African Earth Sci 111: ; doi: /j.jafrearsci Brett B, Schrader D, Räuchle K, Heide G, Bertau M (2015) Recovery of valuable metals from power plant ashes. Part I: Characterization of lignite ashes for recovery of strategic metals. Chemie- Ingenieur-Technik 87, 10: Brett B, Schrader D, Räuchle K, Heide G, Bertau M (2015) Recovery of valuable metals from power plant ashes. Part II: Thermal and chemical treatment of lignite ashes for recovery of strategic metals [Wertstoffgewinnung aus Kraftwerksaschen: Teil II: Thermische und chemische Behandlung von Braunkohlenkraftwerksaschen zur Gewinnung strategischer Metalle]. Chemie-Ingenieur- Technik 87, 11: Бродская РЛ, Гётце Й, Котова ЕЛ, Хайде Г (2015) Анализ строения индивидуов и агрегатов жилъного кварца и оценка качества кварцевого сыръя (на примере месторождений Кыштымского района, Урал). Записки РМО 2015, 1: Brodskaya RL, Götze J, Heide G, Kotova EL (2015) Evolution of individuals and aggregates of the vein quartz in deposits of Kyshty region (the Urals). Zapiski RMO 2015, 1: Chelgani SC, Rudolph M, Kratzsch R, Sandmann D, Gutzmer J (2015) A review of graphite beneficiation techniques. Mineral Processing Extractive Metallurgy Rev 12/2015; In press. DOI: / Chelgani SC, Rudolph M, Leistner T, Gutzmer J, Peuker UA (2015) A review of rare earth minerals flotation: Monazite and xenotime. Internat J Mining Sci Technol 25, 6: ; doi: /j.ijmst Doebelin N, Kleeberg R (2015) Profex: a graphical user interface for the Rietveld refinement program BGMN. J Appl Cryst 48: Frenzel M, Tolosana-Delgano R, Gutzmer J (2015) Assessing the supply potential of high-tech metals A general method. Resources Policy 12/2015; 46, 2: doi: /j.resourpol Götze J, Pan Y, Stevens-Kalceff M, Kempe U, Müller A (2015) Origin and significance of the yellow cathodoluminescence (CL) of quartz. Am Mineralogist 100: Götze J, Gaft M, Möckel R (2015) Uranium and uranyl luminescence in agate/chalcedony. Mineral Mag 79: Hänsel S, Schucknecht A, Matschullat J (2015) The modified Rainfall Anomaly Index (mrai) An alternative to the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) in evaluating future extreme precipitation characteristics? Theor Appl Climatol doi: /s y Hänsel S, Heidenreich M, Franke J, Böttcher F, Küchler W, Mellentin U, Bernhofer C, Matschullat J (2015) Niederschlagsveränderungen in Sachsen von Starkniederschlags- und Trockenheitstrends. Ber DWD 246: 205 p. ISBN Hoy A, Katel O, Thapa P, Dendup N, Matschullat J (2015) Climatic changes and their impact on the socio-economic development of the Bhutan Himalayas. Reg Environ Change doi: /s Jähnigen S, Brendler E, Böhme U, Heide G, Kroke E (2014) Silicophosphates containing SiO 6 octahedra-anhydrous synthesis under ambient conditions. New J Chem 38, 2: Keller K, Brendler E, Schmerler S, Röder C, Heide G, Kortus J, Kroke E (2015) Spectroscopic characterization of rocksalt-type aluminum nitride. J Phys Chem C 119, 22: Kempe U, Möckel R, Graupner T, Kynicky J, Dombon E (2015) The genesis of Zr-Nb-REE mineralisation at Khalzan Buregte (Western Mongolia) reconsidered. Ore Geol Rev 64: Kempe U, Seltmann R, Graupner T, Rodionov N, Sergeev SA, Matukov DI, Kremenetsky AA (2015) Concordant U-Pb SHRIMP ages of U-rich zircon in granitoids from the Muruntau gold district (Uzbekistan): Timing of intrusion, alteration ages, or meaningless numbers. Ore Geol Rev 65:

22 22 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Köhler A, Schlothauer T, Schimpf C, Klemm V, Schwarz M, Heide G, Rafaja D, Kroke E (2015) The role of oxygen in shockwave-synthesized γ-si 3 N 4 material. J European Ceramic Soc 35, 12: Kostudis S, Bachmann K, Kutschke S, Pollmann K, Gutzmer J (2015) Leaching of copper from Kupferschiefer by glutamic acid and heterotrophic bacteria. Minerals Engin 75: Matschullat J, Deschamps E (2015) What is a successful environmental geochemical study? Appl Geochem doi: /j.apgeochem Matschullat J, Armbrecht LH, Bachor H, Bremhorst K, Christian M, Kanjanabootra S, Lennox P, Lowe D, Matthews A, Medwell P, Mulvaney P, Nelson P, Nicholls I, Read R, Rizos C, Spiccia L, Zhang Y (2015) An interhemispheric perspective on environment and energy. Internat J Performability Engin 11, 6: Mavris C, Furrer G, Dahms D, Anderson S, Blum A, Götze J, Wells A, Egli M (2015) Mineral weathering decoding potential effects of climate change on vegetation change in high alpine areas: A case study in the Wind River Range (Wyoming, USA). Geoderma : Minz FE, Bolin NJ, Lamberg P, Bachmann K, Gutzmer J, Wanhainen C (2015) Distribution of Sb minerals in the Cu and Zn flotation of Rockliden massive sulphide ore in north-central Sweden. Minerals Engin 82: Montinaro A, Strauss H, Mason PRD, Roerdink D, Münker C, Schwarz-Schampera U, Arndt NT, Farquhar J, Beukes NJ, Gutzmer J, Peters M (2015) Paleoarchean sulfur cycling: Multiple sulfur isotope constraints from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa. Precambrian Res 267: ; doi: /j.precamres Oertel C, Matschullat J, Andreae H, Drauschke T, Schröder C, Winter C (2015) Soil respiration at forest sites in Saxony (Central Europe). Environ Earth Sci 74, 3: ; doi /s x Osbahr I, Krause J, Bachmann K, Gutzmer J (2015) Efficient and accurate identification of platinumgroup minerals by a combination of mineral liberation and electron probe microanalysis with a new approach to the offline overlap correction of platinum-group element concentrations. Microscopy Microanal 21, 5: Ostendorf J, Henjes-Kunst F, Mondillo N, Boni M, Schneider J, Gutzmer J (2015) Formation of Mississippi Valley type deposits linked to hydrocarbon generation in extensional tectonic settings: Evidence from the Jabali Zn-Pb-(Ag) deposit (Yemen). Geol 43: ; doi: /G Pavlova GG, Palessky SV, Borisenko AS, Vladimirov AG, Seifert T, Phan LA (2015) Indium in cassiterite and ores of tin deposits. Ore Geol Rev 66: Richter S, Götze J, Niemeyer H, Möckel R (2015) Mineralogical investigation of agates from Cordón de Lila, Chile. J Andean Geol 42, 3: Reuther C, Möckel R, Götze J, Hengst M, Heide G (2015) Synthesis and optical characterization of REE-neso-borate single crystals. Chem Erde Geochem 75, 3: Sandmann D, Gutzmer J (2015) Nature and distribution of PGE mineralisation in gabbroic rocks of the Lusatian Block, Saxony, Germany, Z Deutsch Ges Geowiss 166, 1. doi: / /2014/0083 Schwarz MR, Antlauf M, Schmerler S, Keller K, Schlothauer T, Kortus J, Heide G, Kroke E (2014) Formation and properties of rocksalt-type AlN and implications for high pressure phase relations in the system Si-Al-O-N. High Pressure Res 34, 1: Tolosana-Delgado R, Mueller U, Van den Boogaart G, Ward C, Gutzmer J (2015) Improving processing by adaption to conditional geostatistical simulation of block compositions, Journal of the Southern African Instit Mining and Metallurgy 115, 1: 13-26; doi: / /2015/v115n1a2 Ufer K, Kleeberg R, Monecke T (2015) Quantification of stacking disordered Si Al layer silicates by the Rietveld method: application to exploration for high-sulphidation epithermal gold deposits. Powder Diffraction 30, S1: Vicq Ferreira da Costa R de, Matschullat J, Garcia Praça Leite M, Nalini J HA, Pinheiro Chagas Mendonça F (2015) Geochemical mapping of and related reference values for stream sediments of the Iron Quadrangle, Brazil. Environ Earth Sci 74, 5: ; doi /s Von Eynatten H, Tolosana-Delgado R, Karius V, Bachmann K, Caracciolo L (2015) Sediment generation in humid Mediterranean setting: Grain-size and source-rock control on sediment geochemistry and mineralogy (Sila Massif, Calabria). Sedimentary Geol, doi: /j.sedgeo

23 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Wang M, Wang W, Gutzmer J, Liu K, Li C, Michałak PP, Xia Q, Guo X (2015) Re Os geochronology on sulfides from the Tudun Cu Ni sulfide deposit, Eastern Tianshan, and its geological significance. Internat J Earth Sci 104, 8: ; doi: /s y Wolff R, Dunkl I, Kempe U, von Eynatten H (2015) The age of the latest thermal overprint of tin and polymetallic deposits in the Erzgebirge, Germany: Constraints from fluorite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology. Econ Geol 110: Zurba K, Matschullat J (2015) Short Rotation Forestry (SRF) versus rapeseed plantations: Insights from soil respiration and combustion heat per area. Energy Procedia 76: ; doi /j.egypro Other publications 2015 (not necessarily refereed) n = 99 Bachmann K, Frenzel M, Gutzmer J (2015) Advanced identification and discrimination of Indiumbearing minerals by automated mineralogy. 13 th Biennial SGA Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Ext abstract, p Bauer M, Seifert T (2015) An indium-enriched polymetallic vein from Freiberg, Germany a perfect site for experimental in-situ bioleaching of strategic metals in complex ores? 13 th Biennial SGA Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Ext abstract, p Bauer M, Seifert T, Schlüter R, Mischo H (2015) In-situ bioleaching in a historical mining district an experimental approach for the potential of strategic element extraction. GeoBerlin 2015-Dynamic Earth from Alfred Wegener to today and beyond, 4-7 October 2015, Berlin: GFZ Abstracts. p. 81; doi: Bernhofer Ch, Hänsel S, Schaller A, Pluntke T (2015) Charakterisierung von meteorologischer Trockenheit. Schriftenr Sächsisch Landesamt Umwelt, Landwirtschaft Geologie, 7/2015, Dresden, 208 S. ( Birtel S, Kern M, Höfig TW, Krause J, Gutzmer J (2015) Geometallurgical assessment: Beneficiation of rare earth minerals as a possible by-product from the Vergenoeg fluorite mine, South Africa. 13 th Biennial SGA Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Ext abstract, p Brehm J, Pleßow A (2015) Altlasten und Hüttenindustrie ohne nennenswerten Einfluss auf Bienenhonig. Amts- Mitteilungsbl Gemeinde Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf 43 (15.07.): Buchwitz M, Eberspächer S (2015) Histological indications for a mechanical support function of dorsal osteoderm systems in Triassic Archosauriforms. Abstract Vortrag zur 3 rd Internat Symp Paleohistology, July 2-5, 2015, Bonn, Germany ( Diers S, Höfig TW, Haser S, Bobadilla-Fazzini RA, Gutzmer J (2015) The mineralogical evolution of bioleached copper ore traced by SEM-MLA. 25 th Goldschmidt Annual Conference, August, 2015, Prague, Programme and Abstract Proceedings 5743: p. 736 Dittrich T, Seifert T, Schulz B (2015) Mineralogy, geochemistry and electron microprobe U-Th-Pb monazite dating of the Londonderry LCT pegmatite group, Eastern Goldfields Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton/Western Australia. PEG th Internat Symp Granitic Pegmatites. Książ, Lower Silesia, Polen Dittrich T, Seifert T (2015) Mineralization potential and trace element whole rock signatures of Archean greenstone belt-hosted LCTpegmatite deposits, Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2015, 748 Eberspächer S, Lange J-M, Zaun J, Kehrer C, Heide G (2015) The historical collection of rock thin sections at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg and evaluation of digitization methods. In: Wolfschmidt G (ed) Enhancing university heritage-based research. Proc XV Universeum Network Meeting, Hamburg, June 2014 tredition: 33 Ehrlich A, Matschullat J, Heide G, Hengst M, Niderschlag E, Meissner H, Richter G, Tabachnik K, Pratesi G, Galli R, Tsurkan MV, Motylenko M, Bazhenov VV, Walter J, Molodtsov SL, Makarova A, Vyalikh D, Wysokowski M, Jesionowski T, Ehrlich H (2015) Discovery of Ca-containing santabarbaraite-like biomineral in fossil bivalvia from Miocene. Programme and Abstract Book BIOMIN XIII: 13 th Internat Symp Biomineral, Granada, Spain: September 16 19, 2015 Frenzel M, Bachmann K, Krause J, Carvalho JRS, Relvas JMRS, Pacheco N, Gutzmer J (2015) Mineralogical deportment of indium in the Neves-Corvo deposit implications for recovery and extraction, SEG 2015 Conference, World-Class Ore Deposits, Hobart, Australia conference paper Frenzel M, Hirsch T, Gutzmer J (2015) Concentration of Ga, Ge, In and Fe in sphalerite as a function of deposit type A meta-analysis. 13 th Biennial SGA Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Ext abstract p

24 24 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Fritzke B, Götze J, Lange J-M (2015) Cathodoluminescence of moldavites. Konf Modellierung Impaktprozesse, September 2015 Gaitzsch B, Abel P (2015) Karbonat-Mikrofaziestypen des Breternitz-Members (Gleitsch-Formation, Oberdevon) von Saalfeld (Schwarzburg-Antiklinorium, Thüringisches Schiefergebirge). Tagungsunterlagen Subkommission Devon, Sitzung in Saalfeld Gaitzsch B, Heide G (2015) Die Paläontologische und Stratigraphische Sammlung. In: Zaun J (Hrsg) Bergakademische Schätze. Die Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag, TU Bergakademie Freiberg S Gaitzsch B, Heide G (2015) Die Brennstoffgeologische Sammlung. In: Zaun J (Hrsg) Bergakademische Schätze. Die Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag, TU Bergakademie Freiberg S Hänsel S, Zurba K (2015) Precipitation characteristics and trends in the Palestinian territories during the period Freiberg Online Geoscience (FOG) 05/2015; 39: ( Hänsel S, Zurba K (2015) Rainfall characteristics and trends for the Palestinian territories, European Conf Applications Meteorol (ECAM), Sofia, Bulgaria Hänsel S, Schucknecht A, Böttcher F, Bernhofer C, Matschullat J (2015) Niederschlagsveränderungen in Sachsen von 1901 bis 2100: Starkniederschlags- und Trockenheitstrends. Deutscher Wetterdienst (Hrsg) Berichte des DWD; 246 p.; Offenbach am Main Hänsel S, Miketta W, Hoy A, Matschullat J (2015) European long-lasting dry and wet phases and atmospheric circulation Variability and trends. EMS-2015 abstract, Session CL 4, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept 7 11 Hänsel S (2015) Reviews on books and media: Quevauviller P (ed), Hydrometeorological Hazards: Interfacing Science and Policy. Environ Earth Sci 74(8): doi: /s Haubrich F (2015) Isotopenanalytik des gelösten Sulfats im Hinblick auf die Quellen. Ergebnisbericht im Projekt Ursachen der Nitratbelastung in der Boden- und Grundwasserzone im Jahna- Einzugsgebiet 28 S. für Geomontan GmbH Freiberg Heide B, Paskoff S, Massanek A, Heide G (2015) 249 Colour plates made of Meissen porcelain: A part of the mineral collections of Abraham Gottlob Werner. Poster 14. Arbeitstreffen Mineralogischer Museen und Sammlungen der DMG in Würzburg, 17./18. März Heide B, Paskoff S, Massanek A, Heide G (2015) Die Minerale der Äußeren-Kennzeichen-Sammlung von A. G. Werner. Poster 14. Arbeitstreffen Mineralogischer Museen und Sammlungen der DMG in Würzburg, 17./18. März Heide B, Massanek A, Heide G (2015) Die Kristallmodellsammlung von Abraham Gottlob Werner ( ) in Freiberg. Poster 14. Arbeitstreffen Mineralogischer Museen und Sammlungen der DMG in Würzburg, 17./18. März Heide G (2015) Die Geowissenschaftlichen Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. In: Zaun J (Hrsg) Bergakademische Schätze. Die Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag, S Heide G, Heide B, Galonska K, Paskoff S, Massanek A (2015) Kristallmodelle aus den Mineralogischen Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Poster Tag des offenen Denkmals, Freiberg, Heinig T, Bachmann K, Tolosana-Delgado R, van den Boogaart G, Gutzmer J (2015) Monitoring gravitational and particle shape settling effects on MLA sample preparation. IAMG, Freiberg - conference paper Herrmann M, Pfänder J, Schulz B, Garbe-Schönberg D (2015) Chronology of Magmatic and Hydrothermal Processes Related to Plagiogranite Formation in the Oman Ophiolite: Insights from High- Resolution 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Geochronology and Trace Element Geochemistry. Goldschmidt Abstracts p Heuer F, Repstock A, Schulz B, Breitkreuz C, Fischer F (2015) Crystallization condition and magma evolution for the early Permian Planitz vitrophyre, Chemnitz-Basin, Eastern Germany. Goldschmidt Abstracs 2015, p Hoy A, Hänsel S (2015) Reviews on books and media: Chen D, Walther A, Moberg A, Jones P, Jacobeit J, Lister D, European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation Records. Environ Earth Sci 74(8): 6597, doi: /s

25 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Járóka T, Seifert T (2015) Characterization of the hydrothermal Sn-polymetallic Felsitzone mineralization of Großschirma, Freiberg Mining District, Saxony, Germany. 13 th SGA Biennial Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Ext Abstract, p Járóka T, Seifert T (2015) New investigations of paleozoic Ni-Cu-Co-PGE-enriched gabbroic rocks in the Upper Lusatia, Germany and Czech Republic: preliminary results. GeoBerlin 2015-Dynamic Earth from Alfred Wegener to today and beyond, 4 7 October 2015, Berlin: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. Abstracts. p Kleeberg R (2015) The application of the Rietveld method in X-ray diffraction analysis of clays. Abstract for invited plenary talk The Pioneer of Clay Science Lecture, Euroclay Edinburgh 2015 July 7, Book of abstracts p. 99 Klemm W, Paul M, Jenk U, Meyer J, Greif A, Hartmann J (2015) Die Langzeitentwicklung der Belastung von Flutungswässern in Gruben des Sächsischen Erzgebirges Ergebnisse und Schlussfolgerungen. Proc Int Bergbausymp WISSYM 2015: Kogan I, Werneburg R, Licht M, Sell J (2015) Gut durchdacht? Schädeldächer und Gehirne kleinwüchsiger Saurichthyiden aus dem Röt. 42. Treffen Arbeitskreis Wirbeltierpaläontologie in der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (Poster) Kogan I, Pacholak S, Licht M, Schneider J W, Brücker C, Brandt S (2015) The invisible fish: hydrodynamic constraints for predator-prey interaction in fossil fish Saurichthys compared to recent actinopterygians. Biology Open; doi: /bio Kogan I, Licht M (2015) Erratum to: A Belonostomus tenuirostris (Actinopterygii: Aspidorhynchidae) from the Late Jurassic of Kelheim (southern Germany) preserved with its last meal. Paläontol Z 89: 671 Kuchařová A, Šachlová Š, Götze J, Pertold Z, Přikryl R (2015) Microscopic characterization of crystalline and amorphous varieties of SiO 2 exhibiting different ASR potential. Annual Conference of the Internat Cement Microscopy Assoc (ICMA), May 3 7, 2015, Seattle, Washington (USA) Lange J.-M, Gaitzsch B, Breitkreuz C (2015) Der frühe Elbstrom Architektur und Rekonstruktion des Senftenberger Laufes. Fallstudie Ottendorf-Okrilla. Jahresber Mitt Oberrheinisch Geol Verein 97: Lüders V, Klemd R, Oberthür T, Richter L (2015) Different carbon reservoirs of auriferous fluids in African Archean and Proterozoic gold deposits? Constraints from stable carbon isotopic compositions of quartz-hosted CO 2 -rich fluid inclusions. European Current Res Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI XXIII), Leeds UK, June, 2015, Ext Abstracts, p Massanek A (2015) Konstituierung der Heinisch-Stiftung. Acamonta 22: 135 Massanek A, Heide G (2015) Die Mineralogische Sammlung. In: Zaun J (Hrsg) Bergakademische Schätze. Die Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag, p Massanek A, Heide G (2015) Mineralogische Stiftungssammlungen an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Zaun J (Hrsg) Bergakademische Schätze. Die Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag, p Massanek A, Sandmann D, Neumeier G (2015) The Freiberg mining district, Saxony, Germany. The Mineralogical Record 46, 3: Massanek A (2015) The Mineralogical Collection of the Freiberg Mining Academy. The Mineralogical Record 46, 3: Massanek A (2015) The Terra Mineralia exhibit at Schloss Freudenstein, Freiberg. The Mineralogical Record 46, 3: Matschullat J (2015) Mittel- und langfristige Energie- und Rohstoff-Herausforderungen die nächsten 50 Jahre. In Acamonta 22: Matschullat J (2015) Erdsystemwissenschaften eine Herausforderung. In Acamonta 22: Matschullat J (2015) The Program Member s voice. Akita University Leading program News 06: 10; ( ) Matschullat (2015) Sitting on an almost infinite energy source Japan s geothermal and renewables potential and reality. Environ Earth Sci 74, 2: ; doi: /s Matschullat J (2015) Global resource science literacy: a leading program. Environ Earth Sci 73: ; doi: /s Matschullat J, Deschamps E (2015) What makes a SUCCESSFUL applied scientific project? Lessons learned from Minas Gerais, Brazil. 7 th German-Brazilian Symp for Sustainable Development, October 04-10, 2015, Heidelberg; Invited abstract Session 14 (Sustainable cooperation projects); p. 299

26 26 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Matschullat J, Fiedler B (2015) Die himmlische Stickstoffmaschine. In: Ertl G, Soentgen J (Hrsg) Stickstoff ein Element schreibt Weltgeschichte. Serie Stoffgeschichten 9: 67-75; Oekom Verlag, München; ISBN Matschullat J, Hänsel S, Oertel C (2015) Bodengeochemie Bodenentgasung und regionaler Klimawandel. In: Drebenstedt C (Hrsg) Auf der Erde leben ISBN Matschullat J, Höfle S, Müller A (2015) Pedogeochemical mapping in north-eastern Brazil: a matter of scale. 7 th German-Brazilian Symp for Sustainable Development, October 4 10, 2015, Heidelberg; Invited abstract Session 10 (Agriculture and Forestry); p. 232 Matschullat J, Schucknecht A, Erasmi S (2015) Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation reaction to regional climate change in north-eastern Brazil. 7 th German-Brazilian Symp for Sustainable Development, October 04-10, 2015, Heidelberg; Invited abstract Session 02 (Climate Change); p. 82 Matschullat J, Vogt R, Wessels M (2015) Stickstoff ist grün Eutrophierung auch. In: Ertl G, Soentgen J (Hrsg) Stickstoff ein Element schreibt Weltgeschichte. Serie Stoffgeschichten 9: 55-66; Oekom Verlag, München; ISBN Matschullat J, Han B, Ishiyama D, Koitsiwe K, Minami Y, Tuando Padrones J, Pham NC, Pham Q, Saing SO, Setiawan I (2015) Coastal marine debris on the Sea of Japan coast at Akita. Forum Geoökologie 26, 1: Matschullat J, Fiedler B, Schucknecht A, Lenk S, Hänsel S (2015) Ansatz einer Blitz- und Gewitterklimatologie für Sachsen. In: Groß U (Hrsg.; 2015) Jubiläumsband "Glanzlichter der Forschung an der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. TU Bergakademie Freiberg Mavris C, Furrer G, Dahms D, Anderson S, Blum A, Götze J, Wells A, Egli M (2015) Mineral weathering experiments to explore the effects of vegetation shifts in high mountain region (Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA). EGU conference, Vienna, Meißner S, Dunger V, Hänsel S, Matschullat J (2015) Quantifying groundwater recharge under projected climatic changes in an urban area. EMS-2015 abstract, Session CL 11, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept p Merker RG, Schulz B, Leißner TH, Morgenroth H (2015) Application of MLA to the beneficiation of Y- bearing REE ores. Abstracts Jahrestagung 2015 Aufbereitung und Recycling p. 17 Mielke K, Hengst M, Götze J (2015) Synthesis and characterization of monophase, polycrystalline erbium calcium oxoborate (ErCa 4 O(BO 3 ) 3 ) for single-crystal growth by Czochralski. 23 rd Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society, March 2015 in Göttingen, Germany, p. 186 Minárová J, Müller M, Hänsel S, Matschullat J, Clappier A (2015) Heavy precipitation in mid-elevation mountain systems in Central Europe: a case study of the Kruzny Hory/Erzgebirge (Czech Republic, Germany) EMS-2015 abstract, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept 7 11 Minikh M G, Minikh A V, Sennikov A G, Golubev V K, Kogan I (2015) Novye dannye o predstavitelyakh fauny pozvonochnykh v vyatskom yaruse verkhnej permi basseina Verkhnej Volgi [New data on representatives of the vertebrate fauna in the Upper Permian Vyatkian stage of the Upper Volga basin]. Nedra Povolzh ya i Prikaspiya Saratov 82: Möckel R, Hengst M, Götze J, Heide G (2013) REECa 4 O(BO 3 ) 3 (REECOB): New material for hightemperature piezoelectric applications. Minerals as Advanced Materials II: Moura A, Götze J, Kearns S (2015) Contribution to the genesis of the Covide layered pegmatite (Portugal). European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI XXIII) Leeds, UK, Neßler J, Seifert T, Gutzmer J, Müller A, Bachmann T, Henker J, Stute S, Kühn K, Hartsch J, Helbig M, Sennewald R, Herklotz G (2015) Die historische Sn-W-Li-Lagerstätte Zinnwald: neue Aspekte zum Rohstoffpotential des Osterzgebirges. In: Groß U (Hrsg) Glanzlichter der Forschung an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg 250 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung, Freiberg, 2015, p Neßler J, Seifert T, Gutzmer J (2015) New Sn-W potential at the Zinnwald/Cínovec deposit, eastern Erzgebirge, Germany. 13 th SGA Biennial Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Extended Abstract, p Ostendorf J, Henjes-Kunst F, Seifert T, Gutzmer J (2015) Rb-Sr dating of sphalerite from poly-metallic sulfide veins of the Freiberg ore district, Erzgebirge (Germany). Goldschmidt Abstracts 2362 Rank K, Kehrer C, Heide G (2015) Die Lagerstätten-Sammlung. Zaun J (Hrsg) Bergakademische Schätze. Die Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag, p Rank K, Kehrer C, Heide G (2015) Die Petrologische Sammlung. Zaun J (Hrsg) Bergakademische Schätze. Die Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag, p Richter L, Hagemann SG, Seifert T, Dittrich T, Banks D (2015) Constraints on the magmatichydrothermal fluid evolution in LCT pegmatites from Mt. Tinstone, Wodgina pegmatite district,

27 Inst. of Mineralogy Report North Pilbara craton, Western Australia. 13 th SGA Biennial Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Ext Abstract, p Richter L, Lüders V, Hagemann SG, Seifert T, Dittrich T (2015) Stable carbon isotopic composition of fluid inclusions from the Archean Bikita LCT pegmatite field. GeoBerlin 2015-Dynamic Earth from Alfred Wegener to today and beyond, 4-7 October 2015, Berlin: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Abstracts. p doi: /GFZ.LIS Richter L, Hagemann SG, Seifert T, Dittrich T, Banks D (2015) Fluid inclusion study on LCT pegmatites from Bikita, Zimbabwe craton - constraints on a magmatic-hydrothermal model. European Current Research On Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI XXIII), Leeds UK, June, 2015, Ext abstracts p Romano C, Kogan I (2015) Gardinerpiscis nom. nov., novoye zameshyayushee nazvanie dlya preokkupirovannogo rodovogo nazvanija Gardineria Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981 (Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2015, 6: , doi: /S X Romano C, Kogan I (2015) Gardinerpiscis nom. nov., a replacement name for the preoccupied genus name Gardineria Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981 (Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes). Paleontological Journal 49, 6: , doi: /S Sabri R, Merkel B, Tichomirowa M (2015) Has the water supply network of Sebestia been connected to that of Nablus? Freiberg Online Geosci 41: Sabri R, Merkel B, Tichomirowa M (2015) Urbanization effect on groundwater quality (Paleohydrogeological study). EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, p. 17 Schlothauer T, Schwarz MR, Ovidiu M, Brendler E, Moeckel R, Kroke E, Heide G (2013) "Shock wave" synthesis of oxygen-bearing spinel-type silicon nitride γ-si 3 (O,N) 4 in the pressure range from 30 to 72 GPa with high purity. Minerals as Advanced Materials II: Schlothauer T, Schimpf C, Brendler E, Keller K, Kroke Е, Heide G (2015) Halide based shock-wave treatment of fluid-rich natural phases. J Physics Conf Ser 653, 1: Schlothauer T, Keller K, Brendler E, Heide G, Kroke E (2015) Shock-wave treatment of kaolinite under extreme conditions. 23 rd Ann Conf German Crystall Soc, March 16 19, 2015, Göttingen, Germany, Z Kristallogr Supplement 35: 138 Schlothauer T, Keller K, Brendler E, Hengst M, Heide G, Kroke E (2015) Shock-wave treatment of kaolinite in the pressure range from 30 to 180 GPa. Joint AIRAPT-25 & EHPRG-53 Meeting-Book of Abstracts, Madrid, p. 299 Schlothauer T, Schimpf C, Brendler E, Keller K, Heide G, Kroke E (2015) Halide based shock-wave treatment of fluid-bearing natural phases. Interaction of Intense Energy Fluxes with Matter, Moscow & Chernogolovka & Nalchik, p Schulz B, Merker RG, Gutzmer J (2015) Automatisierte Liberationsanalyse (MLA) bei der Aufbereitung von Seltenerdelement-Erzen. In: Gross U (Hrsg) Glanzlichter der Forschung, Jubiläumspublikation 250 Jahre Bergakademie Freiberg/Sachsen, p Schulz B (2015) Resolving the complex structure in Mediterranean microplates: The evolution of the Austroalpine Basement in the Eastern Alps. GeoBerlin 2015-Dynamic Earth from Alfred Wegener to today and beyond, 4-7 October 2015, Berlin: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences abstracts p doi: /GFZ.LIS Schulz B, Haser S (2015) The ilmenite-pseudorutile-leucoxene alteration sequence in placer sediments in the view of automated SEM mineral liberation analysis. - GeoBerlin 2015-Dynamic Earth from Alfred Wegener to today and beyond, 4-7 October 2015, Berlin: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences abstracts, p doi.org/ /gfz.lis Seifert T (2015) Paragenesis, geochemistry and age of late-variscan Sn, In and Ag mineralization in the Marienberg District and its relationship to mafic and acidic magmatic events, Erzgebirge, Germany. 13 th SGA Biennial Meeting, August 2015, Nancy, Frankreich. Ext Abstract, p Seifert T (2015) Comparison between the Marienberg-Pobershau, Seiffen-Hora Sv. Kateriny and Ehrenfriedersdorf-Geyer Sn-polymetallic districts and their potential for tin resources. GeoBerlin Dynamic Earth from Alfred Wegener to today and beyond, 4-7 October 2015, Berlin: GFZ German Res Centre Geosci abstracts p ; doi: Seifert, T, Chaplygin, IV, Yudovskaya, MA, Chaplygin, O (2015) Mantle-derived In mineralization in the Erzgebirge and Kuril Island Arc. Goldschmidt conference 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, abstracts volume p Seifert T, Dittrich, T, Schulz, B (2015) Lagerstätten-Exploration von Hochtechnologie-Metallen in Australien und Simbabwe. In: Drebenstedt C (Hrsg) Auf der Erde leben, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, Geotechnik und Bergbau p

28 28 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Sotnikov A, Smirnova E, Schmidt H, Weihnacht M, Götze J, Sakharov S (2015) Langasite family crystals as promising materials for microacoustic devices at cryogenic temperatures. Internat Frequency Control Symp Tietz A (2015) A geoscientific heritage in Görlitz as reference of research-practice and sciencestructure of the late 18 th century. Scientific Reports Resource Issues 2015/1: 8 15 Werneburg R, Kogan I, Sell J (2015): Saurichthys (Pisces: Actinopterygii) aus dem Buntsandstein des Germanischen Beckens. Semana 29: 3-35 Zurba K, Matschullat J (2015) SRF vs. rapeseed: Insights from soil respiration and combustion heat per area. Geophys Res Abstracts EGU in ERE3.7/SSS11.7 Zurba K, Matschullat J (2015) Willow and poplar short rotation forestry (SRF) production system: Identification and prioritization of key parameters. 10 th Freiberg St. Petersburger Kolloquium junger Wissenschaftler. Scientific Reports on Resource Issues 1: ; Efficiency and Sustainability in the Mineral Industry Innovations in Geology, Mining, Processing, Economics, Safety, and Environmental Management; ISSN: X. Medienzentrum TU Bergakademie Freiberg Exhibits of our collections Special exhibit The Mineralogical Collection of Germany in the Krügerhaus in Freiberg, Saxony/Germany. Tucson Mineral and Gem Show, Convention Center Tucson, USA ab ab Collaboration permanent exhibit Historicum, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Collaboration permanent exhibit Industriemuseum Chemnitz Special exhibit Minerals from Russia, Mineralientage Bad Ems Collaboration Special exhibit Georg Spalatin Steuermann der Reformation, Residenzschloss Altenburg Collaboration exhibit Copper and copper minerals, Mineralienbörse Freiberg Collaboration exhibit Montanregion Erzgebirge Auf dem Weg zum UNESCO- Welterbe with Wirtschaftsförderung Annaberg in Bonn Collaboration exhibit Von großen Träumen und funkelnden Schätzen. Auf den Spuren einer leidenschaftlichen Sammlerin, Städtische Museen von Annaberg- Buchholz, Manufaktur der Träume Design special exhibits Edelsteine, 250 Jahre Mineralogie an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Highlights aus der Sammlung Siegfried Flach, Mineralientage München Left: Joint booth of the Geoscientific Collections and terra mineralia at the Munich fair (fot: Andreas Massanek, Freiberg) Collaboration special exhibit Der Bergbau und das weiße Gold, terra mineralia, Freiberg Design special exhibits Edelsteine, 250 Jahre Mineralogie an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Mineralogische Rundreise durch Deutschland and Turmalin Edelstein des Jahres, Mineralienmesse Hamburg Patents and patent registration (2015) n = 1 Oertel C, Börner E, Kempe H, Matschullat J (2015) Chamber system for the analysis of gas fluxes from ecosystems. DE A (Patent)

29 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Research projects and contracts in 2015 WG General and Applied Mineralogy 1. Züchtung piezoelektrischer Einkristalle der Verbindungsgruppe Ca 4 SEEO(BO 3 ) 3 (SEE = Seltenerdelemente Gd, La, Sm, Y) für mikroakustische Bauteile im Hochtemperaturbereich mit Leibniz-Institut für Werkstoffforschung Dresden (DFG GO 677/10-1; Laufzeit 4 Jahre) Jens Götze 2. Freiberger Hochdruckforschungszentrum, TP1 (Dr.-Erich-Krüger-Stiftung, Laufzeit bis August 2015) Gerhard Heide 3. Herstellung eines kompakten Sinterkörper aus Aluminiumnitrid mit Kochsalzstruktur (rs-aln) zur Bestimmung materialspezifischer Eigenschaften. SIGNO-Hochschulen Verwertungsförderung (BMWi, Laufzeit 2014 bis April 2015) Gerhard Heide, KK 4. Rohstoffe für Umwelttechnologien: Mineralogisch-geologische Untersuchung von Platin- und Nickel-reichen Mineralisationen im Ural und Entwicklung von alternativen, umweltschonenden Gewinnungstechnologien (BMBF, Laufzeit ) Gerhard Heide 5. SMSB Gewinnung Strategischer Metalle und Mineralien aus sächsischen Bergbauhalden (BMBF/BMFT, Laufzeit bis September 2015) Gerhard Heide 6. Kraftwerksasche Chemisch-biotechnologische Gewinnung von Werkstoffen aus Kraftwerksasche thermische Behandlung (BMBF/BMFT, Laufzeit bis Oktober 2015) Gerhard Heide 7. Errichtung einer Koordinierungsstelle für die Vorbereitungsaufgaben der Gründung eines deutsch-chilenischen Zentrums für bergbaubezogene Lehre und Forschung im Nordchile ( Domeyko-Zentrum ), (BMBF, Laufzeit bis April 2015) Gerhard Heide 8. Freiberger Biohydrometallurgisches Zentrum für strategische Elemente, TP4 Laugungskinetik synthetischer und natürlicher Blei-Zink-Erze und Erzminerale (Dr.-Erich-Krüger-Stiftung, Laufzeit bis Dezember 2017) Gerhard Heide 9. Laugung und Verwitterung chilenischer Kupferschlacke unter verschiedenen lagerungs- und klimatischen Bedingungen (DAAD, Laufzeit bis 2016) Gerhard Heide 10. CLIENT SecMinStratEl: Secondary Mining Gewinnung strategischer Elemente aus Bergbaualtablagerungen (z. B. Tailings) ausgewählter chilenischer Standorte, verknüpft mit einer anschließenden umweltschonender Verwahrung der Restmaterialien, TP1 (BMBF/BMFT, Laufzeit bis ) Gerhard Heide 11. Der versteinerte Wald von Chemnitz- mineralogische und geochemische Untersuchungen zur autohydrothermalen Genese von Granat (SAB, Laufzeit ) Gerhard Heide 12. FuE-Vorhaben "Entwicklung eines energieeffizienten Verfahrens zur Entfernung von endokrin wirkenden Chemikalien aus kommunalen und industriellen Abwasserfraktionen" (SAB, Laufzeit 2015) Gerhard Heide 13. INACAP-Weiterbildungskurs Minenschließung und Rekultivierungsmaßnahmen (MIBRAG Consulting International GmbH, Laufzeit 2015) Gerhard Heide WG Geochemistry and Geoecology 14. SMSB Gewinnung strategischer Metalle und Mineralien aus sächsischen Bergbauhalden (BMBF, Laufzeit bis September 2015) Jörg Matschullat, Dr. Alexander Pleßow 15. Freiberger Biohydrometallurgisches Zentrum für strategische Elemente (BHMZ), TP5 Geochemische Spurenanalytik komplexer Proben (Dr.-Erich-Krüger-Stiftung, Laufzeit bis Dezember 2017) Jörg Matschullat, Dr. Alexander Pleßow mit Christine Pilz und Stephanie Uhlig 16. VeLuDeClim Vegetation, Land-use, Desertification and Climate Change in northeastern Brazil. DAAD-gestütztes Projekt bis 2015 mit Prof. Dr. Reinaldo Petta (UFRN), Prof. Dr. Marx Barbosa (UFCG) und Dr. Stefan Erasmi (Univ. Göttingen) Jörg Matschullat 17. GREGASO, Phase II: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Soils. Experimentalprojekt bis 2015, aktuell mit Unterstützung der Sächsischen Staatsregierung (SMUL) Jörg Matschullat mit Cornelius Oertel und Kamal Zurba 18. Geochronologische Altersbestimmungen an sauren Magmatiten/ Vulkaniten des Erzgebirges und der Lausitz. Vertrag mit dem Sächsischen Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie Marion Tichomirowa 19. S-Isotopenanalytik für die Jahna-Aue bei Ostrau Frank Haubrich mit Jörg Matschullat und GEOMontan als Partner (bis September 2015)

30 30 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Start for EcoRespira-Amazon (NoPa II). This project (until 2017) will for the very first timemeasure soil respiration in southern Amazonia along transects from pristine rain forest to devastated and recovered areas (Financing through CAPES, DAAD and GIZ; Partner EMBRAPA and diverse Brazilian university colleagues) Jörg Matschullat 21. Flächenhafte Analyse ausgewählter Trockenindizes und Erarbeitung eines Konzepts für eine verbesserte Erfassung und Charakterisierung von Trockenheit im Klimafolgenbereich für den Freistaat Sachsen (TroKon). Laufzeit Oktober 2015 bis April Dr. Stephanie Hänsel mit Jörg Matschullat und Partner LfULG WG Mineral Resources and Petrology 22. DESMEX Deep electromagnetic sounding for mineral exploration. r4-verbundprojekt, BMBF, Supervisor: T Seifert, PhD Student: Lisa Richter 23. WISTAMERZ Prognose wirtschaftsstrategischer Hochtechnologiemetalle am Beispiel des Erzgebirges. r4-verbundprojekt, BMBF, Supervisor: T Seifert, J Gutzmer, PhD Student: Tobias Petermann 24. ResErVar - Ressourcenpotential hydrothermaler Lagerstätten der Varisziden. r4- Verbundprojekt, BMBF, Supervisor: T Seifert, J Gutzmer, PhD Student: Tilman Jeske 25. Chronometry of REE-bearing minerals by the La-Ba decay system mineral examples for potential dating candidates. Cooperation with ETH Zurich. Supervisor: A Renno, M Tichimirova, PhD Student: Oliver Frei 26. Detailed characterisation of Cu-Co-Ni-As mineralisation at the Lisheen Zn-Pb deposit, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Supervisor: J Gutzmer, M Frenzel, Master Thesis Markus Röhner. 27. Geochemical and sedimentological investigations of sediments and ferromanganese nodules from the equatorial east Pacific, partner: BGR. Supervisor: J Gutzmer, T Kuhn (BGR), Master Thesis: Miriam Hoppe 28. Geology and metallogeny of indium and germanium deposits in the Erzgebirge and areas for comparison worldwide Teilprojekt im 2. Krüger-Forschungskolleg BHMZ, dem Freiberger Biohydrometallurgischen Zentrum für strategische Elemente. Projektleiter: T Seifert; PhD Student: Matthias E. Bauer 29. Geologie und Tektonik im Werra-Kaligebiet Ein Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Lagerstättennutzung. Kooperation mit der K+S AG, Projektleiter: T Seifert, K Stanek, J Barnasch (K+S AG Kassel), PhD Student: Anne Engler 30. Geologisch-mineralogische Charakteristik und Genese von Turmalin-Brekzien und assoziierten Cu-Mo-Vererzungen im Lagerstättendistrikt Rio Blanco-Los Bronches/Chile. Cooperation with CODELCO, Chile, Supervisor: T Seifert, L Ratschbacher, PhD Student: Michael Hohf 31. Gold- and Sb-metal deportment in the Maurliden deposit, Boliden, Sweden. Cooperation with New Boliden Mineral AB, Supervisor: J Gutzmer, S Birtel, Master Thesis Dominique Brising. 32. Erarbeitung eines geologischen Lagerstättenmodells der Scholle von Calvörde unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der lithofaziellen Ausbildung des Kaliflözes Ronnenberg. Kooperation mit der K+S AG. Projektleiter: T Seifert, S Zeibig (K+S AG Kassel), J Feldberg (KALI GmbH, Zielitz), W Reichenbach, PhD Student: Anja Dabrowski 33. Erkundung der Li-Rb-Sn-W-Greisenlagerstätte Zinnwald, Erzgebirge. Kooperation mit Solar- World GmbH Freiberg, Projektleitung: J Gutzmer, T Seifert; PhD Student: Jörg Neßler 34. Mineralogical and economic geology evaluation of Fe-S-Precipitates from the location of La Calcara, Panarea, Aeolian Arc (Italy), partner: scientific diving, TUBAF. Supervisor: J Gutzmer, Master Thesis: Linda Krahe 35. Mineralogical assessment of treated low-grade chalcopyrite ore, Chile Cooperation with Bio- Sigma S.A., Projektleiter: J Gutzmer, T Höfig, RA Bobadilla-Fazzini; Master Thesis: Steffen Diers 36. Mineralogical characterization of REE-bearing ion-adsorption laterites, NW Madagascar Cooperation with G.U.B. Ingenieur AG. Supervisors: T Höfig, M Haschke, Bachelor Thesis: Richard Berse 37. Mineralogisch, geochemische und petrogenetische Untersuchungen an mafischen Ganggesteinen der Oberlausitz im Hinblick auf ihre Ni-Cu-Co- PGE-(Au) Mineralisationen und ihre Bedeutung als einheimische Rohstoffquelle. Stipendium der Johannes Hübner Stiftung Gießen, Projektleiter: T Seifert, PhD Student: Tom Járóka.

31 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Petrogenetic and Geochemical Comparison of the Ni-Cu-PGE-Au Mineralisation of the Platreef with the Merensky Reef and the Bastard Reef, Bushveld Igneous Complex, RSA. Cooperation with Ivanhoe Mines and Cimera. Supervisor: J. Gutzmer, J. Kinnaird (Cimera), D. Grobler (Ivanhoe Mines), Master Thesis Nikola Vekić 39. Petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical characterization of high-grade hematite ores, Mt. Wall, Western Australia Cooperation with Rio Tinto Exploration (Projektleiter: J Gutzmer, T Höfig, H Dalstra; Master Thesis: Patrick Krolop) 40. Quantitative assessment of U-bearing sediment successions in comparison to advanced borehole logging tools, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Cooperation with UIT Dresden and Heathgate Resources, Projektleiter: J Gutzmer, S Birtel, M Haschke; Master Thesis Max Verdugo Ihl) 41. Skarn mineralization of the Hämmerlein seam of the Pöhla-Tellerhäuser deposit (Erzgebirge, Germany). Cooperation with Saxore Bergbau. Supervisor: T Seifert, M Bauer, I Osbahr, M Roscher, Master Thesis: Nancy Richter, Julian Kästner 42. Sn mineralization in skarn minerals in The Crowns Mine, Botallack Head Cornwall, England. Cooperation with University of Tübingen. Supervisor: J Gutzmer, G Markl, Master Thesis: Henning Scheibert 43. Sulfide Vein Mineralization and the Genetic Relation of the Shallow Eastern Stockwork Zone to the Massive Sulfide Mineralization in the Sakatti Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, Finland. Cooperation wíth Anglo American Sakatti Mining Oy. Supervisor: J Gutzmer, I Osbahr, J Siikaluoma (AA Sakatti Mining Oy), Master Thesis: Fabian Fröhlich 44. Th-U-Pb-Altersmuster metamorpher Monazite in den variskischen Hochdruck- Einheiten der Saxothuringischen Zone (Sachsen, NE-Bayern) - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Sachbeihilfe Normalverfahren, SCHU 676/20-1, Schulz B (TUBAF) und Krause J (HIF) 45. The Kyrkan Zn-Pb-Ag mineralization, Garpenberg, Sweden: Structure, mineralogy, geochemistry and comparison with the Dammsjön Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, partner: New Boliden AB. Supervisor: J Gutzmer, S Birtel, Master Thesis: Maximilian Kröckert Qualification works 2015 PhD (n = 1) Dirk Sandmann (2015) Method development in automated mineralogy. PhD Thesis (Gutzmer J, Schulz B) Master theses (n = 19) Ronny Badeke (2015) Untersuchung physikalischer Eigenschaften des atlantisch-marinen Grenzschichtaerosols. Master Thesis, Geoökologie TU Freiberg, 90 p. plus annex (supervisors: Jörg Matschullat, Prof. Dr. Alfred Wiedensohler, IfT Leipzig) Nicole Biedermann (2015) High-pressure phase transitions and single-crystal elasticity of strontianite (Betreuer: Gerhard Heide, Dr. Hans-Josef Reichmann, Dr. Sergio Speziale, Potsdam) Stefanie Böhme (2015) Comparación de diferentes metodos de preparación para el análisis de los filosilicatos a través de la difracción de rayos x en muestras en residuos de lixiviación de caliches. Trabajo Integrativo Final para optar al grado de Magíster en Mineralogía Aplicada a la Geometalurgia. Concepción, Chile Anja Bräuer (2015) Das Sanierungsgebiet Tagebaubereich Zwenkau / Cospuden. Analyse zur Planverwirklichung und Ableitung künftiger Handlungsschwerpunkte. 105 p. plus annex (supervisors: Jörg Matschullat, Prof. Dr. Andreas Berkner, Regionaler Planungsverband Westsachsen, Leipzig) Björn Fritzke (2015) Geochemische und Kathodolumineszenz-Charakteristika von Tektiten des zentraleuropäischen Streufeldes: Ein Beitrag zur Klassifizierung von Moldaviten aus Böhmen, Mähren und der Lausitz (supervisors Jens Götze with Dr. Lange, SNSD) Gäbelein M (2015) Indium deportment in selected samples from Neves-Corvo VMS deposit. Master Thesis (supervisors: Frenzel M, Gutzmer J, Seifert, T) Guhl A (2015) Characterisation of industrial ashes by automated scanning electron microscopy. Master Thesis, Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 130 p. (supervisor: Schulz B) Klaus Hantzsch (2015) Achatvorkommen in Gangporphyren und Pechsteinen sowie dem Kontakt des Leisniger Porphyrs zum Rochlitz-Ignimbrit in der Region Leisnig (supervisors Jens Götze with Prof. Breitkreuz, TUBAF, Inst f Geol)

32 32 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Daniel Hirt (2015) Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of minerals of the nepheline group from the Kiya Shaltyr intrusive complex (Siberia, Russian Federation) supervisors Jens Götze with Dr. Axel Renno, HIF Dresden Katharina Kupper (2015) Ostracode-based investigation of groundwater inflows into Lake of Constance possible effects on ecology and valve isotopy. 77 p. plus annex (supervisors Jörg Matschullat with Dr. Martin Wessels, Inst. f. Seenforschung Langenargen and Prof. Dr. Antje Schwalb, TU Braunschweig) Stefan Lenk (2015) Zum Blitzgeschehen in Sachsen : Analyse unter Berücksichtigung von Einzelereignissen und Großwetterlagen. Master Thesis, Geoökologie TU Freiberg, 100 p. (supervisors: Jörg Matschullat, Dr. Frank Zimmermann) Anne Müller (2015) Pedogeochemie des Seridó, NO-Brasilien. 74 p. plus annex (supervisors: Jörg Matschullat mit Alexander Plessow) Müller C (2015) Petrographic characterization of REE-Nb-Zr mineralization at the Dubbo trachyte, NSW Australia. Master Thesis, Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 116 p. (supervisors: Schulz B, Gutzmer J) Shan Sdiq Nageb (2015) What are the most important direct and indirect parameters driving land-use and climate change in the Northeast of Brazil? Master Thesis, IMRE TU Freiberg, 48 p. (supervisors: Jörg Matschullat) Julia Richter (2015) Zabeltitzer Diamanten; Vorkommen, Bildung, Unterscheidung und historische Verwendung (supervisors Jens Götze mit Dr. Ulf Kempe) Franziska Schenk (2015) Technological features of alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) and aluminium production in Siberian smelters and refinery companies. Evaluation of the opportunities of extraction of rare metals from by-products and industrial waste (supervisors Jens Götze mit Dr. Renno, HIF Dresden) Stergiou M (2015) Mineral Liberation Analysis (REM-MLA) and economic evaluation of Platinum Group Metal ore processed by enhanced magnetic separation. - Master Thesis, Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 112 p. (supervisors: Schulz B, Seifert T) Tessmer M (2015) Petrographie, Mineralchemie und Th-U-Pb-Datierung von Monazit im Zinnwald- Granit. Master Thesis, Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 64 p. (supervisors: Schulz B, Seifert T) Erik Vranic (2015) Anwendung von zeitaufgelöster Laserlumineszenz zur Charakterisierung ausgewählter natürlicher Zirkone und Berylle (Betreuer: Gerhard Heide, Ulf Kempe) Bachelor theses (n = 21 Björn Bethge (2015) Sequentielle Extraktion an einem Tailing von El Toqui, Chile (Betreuer: Gerhard Heide, MP) Jan Brehm (2015) Spurenelemente in Honig und Honigbienen am Hüttenstandort Muldenhütten. 43 S. plus Anhang (supervisors: Dr. Alexander Plessow, Jörg Matschullat) Dietzel CAF (2015) Mineralogisch-petrographische Charakterisierung von gabbroiden Ganggesteinen aus dem Gebiet Beiersdorf-Ebersbach-Neusalza-Spremberg, Oberlausitz, Sachsen. (supervisors: Seifert T, Schulz B, Jaroka T) Essen E (2015) Petrographie von Granuliten im Rauschenthal bei Waldheim im sächsischen Granulit- Massiv. Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 40 S. (supervisors: Schulz B, Frei O) Rebekka Häckh (2015) Sequentielle Extraktion an einem Tailing von El Toqui, Chile (Betreuer: Gerhard Heide, MP) Matthias Hagen (2015) Mineralogische Charakterisierung an ausgewählten, historischen, synthetischen Kristallen (Betreuer: Gerhard Heide, Andreas Massanek) Kießling C (2015) Petrographie des Eklogit-Vorkommens von Mildenau im Westerzgebirge. Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 47 S. (supervisors: Schulz B, Frei O) Katharina Koch (2015) Bodenatmung (CO 2 ) eines Agrarstandortes im Winter (Striegistal, Sachsen). 72 S. plus Anhang (supervisors: Jörg Matschullat und Dr. Frank Zimmermann) Johannes Wolfgang Leppin (2015) Nettoökosystemaustausch (CO 2 ) im Winter. 60 S. plus Anhang (supervisors: JMT und Dr. Frank Zimmermann) Liebner M (2015) Mineralogische, paragenetische und geochemische Untersuchungen an Nb-Ta- Oxiden der Greisenlagerstätte Zinnwald, Erzgebirge, Deutschland. (supervisors: Seifert T, Neßler J, Krause J). Marks A (2015) Geologische Untersuchung de Werra-Salinars der Grube Hattorf im Werra-Kalirevier. (supervisors: Seifert T, Engler A)

33 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Isabelle Marwinski (2015) THG-Emissionen von Feuchtgebieten und kleinen Binnengewässern. 86 S. + Anhang (supervisor: Jörg Matschullat) Julia Michel (2015) Impaktrelevanz ausgesuchter Trockenheitsindizes. 47 p. plus annex (supervisors Stephanie Hänsel and Jörg Matschullat) Miehlbradt M (2015) Mineralchemische Charakterisierung der Sulfide des Weissliegenden der Polkowice-Sieroszowice Mine, Polen. 78 S. (supervisors: Höfig T, Gutzmer J). Theresa Neubert (2015) THG-Emissionen von Feuchtgebieten und kleinen Binnengewässern. 86 S. plus Anhang (supervisor: Jörg Matschullat) Schmaucks A (2015) Petrographie der Basalte des Werra-Kalireviers. Bachelorarbeit (supervisors: Schulz B, Engler A) Lea Sarah Schmitdner (2015) Spurenelementcharakteristik von Quarzen aus dem südlichen Ural, Russland Stolte K (2015) Petrographie der Cordierit-Granat-Gneise von Mohsdorf im sächsischen Granulit- Massiv. Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 52 S. (supervisors: Schulz B, Frei O) Walther S (2015) Petrographischer Vergleich von Granat-Glimmerschiefern bei Auerswalde und Mohsdorf im sächsischen Granulit-Massiv. Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 52 S. (supervisors: Schulz B, Kroner U) Alexandra Weißmantel (2015) Mineralogische Untersuchung von Nickelschlacken aus der Schmelze von Nickelhydrosilikaten (Ufalei, Ural, Russland) Betreuer: Gerhard Heide, Reinhard Kleeberg Marcus Wolf (2015) Mineralogisch-petrographische Untersuchungen zur Herkunft von Bausandsteinen an der Ruine des Heilig-Kreuz-Klosters Meißen aus dem 13. Jahrhundert Internships (n = 7) Sophie von Fromm 100 Jahre Lufttemperaturen Fichtelberg Extreme und deren Verhalten. Volontariat in der AG (von August 2015) Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann, Stephanie Hänsel Erin Ritchie (Sep. Dez. 2015) Winter soil GHG emissions. Alberta Saxony exchange stipend, work with Laura and Spela Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann Laura Medeiros Braga (Okt Feb. 2016) Winter soil GHG emissions. Science without borders stipend, work with Erin and Spela Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann Špela Preradović Hlede (Okt Feb. 2016) Winter soil GHG emissions. ERASMUS stipend, work with Erin and Laura Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann Ali Karrity ( ), undergraduate student in biology and biochemistry at Birzeit University, Palestine. Ali learned how to measure CO 2 soil emissions in the field field, to prepare solid samples for chemical analysis (e.g., ICP-MS), and attended a Phreeqc-PHAST: 3D reactive groundwater modeling block course at our university. His visit was supported by DAAD project: IPID4all: Young GEOMATENUM International through Graduierten- und Forschungsakademie (GraFA) Jörg Matschullat, Kamal Zurba Rebekka Distler und Lucca Poike "Schwefelspeziation mittels wellenlängendispersiver Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse (WD-RFA). Praktikum im Rahmen einer Besonderen Lernleistung (BeLL) vom 10. bis unter Aufsicht von Stephanie Uhlig. Im Kooperation mit Frau Jahn, Johannes-Kepler- Gymnasium Chemnitz Event organisation th Symposium Freiberg Innovations: Mid and long-term energy and resource challenges the next 50 years. Jörg Matschullat with Peter Kausch, Martin Bertau and Helmut Mischo; Freiberg International Alumni-Symposium Resourcen for the future Future of resource economy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Jörg Matschullat Schweizer Deutscher Wirtschaftsclub e.v., Schweizer Tag 2015 mit offiziellem Empfang anlässlich des Schweizerischen Nationalfeiertages in Freiberg (WG Mineralogy) Oral presentations Jörg Matschullat: Apokalypse Klimawandel oder ist alles (noch beherrschbar)?, invited by NABU Freiberg Jörg Matschullat: Moderation und Vortrag zu nachhaltiger Ressourcennutzung in Kolumbien, invited by Colombian ambassador Juan Mayr, Berlin

34 34 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Jörg Matschullat: Arsenic contamination and remediation in the Iron Quadrangle, Brazil, invited by Geosciences Faculty, Warsaw University (EU-Projekt) Jörg Matschullat: Was bedeutet Nachhaltigkeit im Montanwesen?, invited by Verein der Freunde und Förderer der TU Bergakademie Freiberg Stephanie Uhlig: Quantitative differentiation of sulfur in different oxidation states (-II and +VI) by WD-XRF. Colloquium Analytische Atomspektroskopie CANAS, Leipzig Christine Pilz: Quantitative analysis of fluorine in mine tailings validation of a XRFmethod. Colloquium Analytische Atomspektroskopie CANAS, Leipzig Andreas Massanek: Minerals of the Freiberg ore district. Vortrag anlässlich der TMGS, Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona/USA Andreas Massanek: Mineralienmarkt in China. Vortrag bei dem Verein Freiberger Mineralienfreunde e.v., Freiberg Neßler J, Seifert T, Gutzmer J, Müller A, Bachmann T, Henker J, Kühn K: The Zinnwald Lithium-Project Lithium Resource and Tin Potential, Präsentation zum German Day auf der PDAC 2015, Toronto, Kanada Reinhard Kleeberg: Panalytical European XRD days, Dresden, Comparison of approaches for modelling disorder of clay structures in Rietveld phase analysis Jörg Matschullat: Sustainable mining an oxymoron?, invited by SEG Student Chapter, Akita University Stephanie Hänsel (2015) Abbildung von Niederschlagsextremen bei Nutzung von WET- TREG/WEREX Daten. Workshop zum FuE-Vorhaben "Analyse und Bewertung des WEREX-V-Ensembles hinsichtlich der Abbildung von Extremen in Sachsen", TU Dresden Reinhard Kleeberg: mehrere Vorträge/Übungen auf DTTG-Workshop Clays and Clay Minerals am KIT Karlsruhe Anna Dziwetzki: Die Qual der Wahl. Sonderausstellungen in der terra mineralia. 14. Arbeitstreffen Mineralogischer Museen und Sammlungen der DMG in Würzburg Andreas Massanek: Die Changsha Mineral and Gem Show and Conference ein Ausblick auf die M&M8 im Jahr Arbeitstreffen Mineralogischer Museen und Sammlungen der DMG in Würzburg Andreas Massanek: Stufenbergbau eine Chance auch in Sachsen? Vortrag auf der 52. Wintertagung der VFMG, Heidelberg Anke Tietz: "Citizen science proper und Citizen science light in den Geowissenschaften: Beispiele aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert". 25. Jahrestagung der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft der Oberlausitz e.v. Bürger schaffen Wissen, Görlitz Jörg Matschullat: Will we meet the challenges of the 50-year resource gap and if so, how?, 5 th Symposium Freiberg Innovations Resource and energy challenges bridging the 50-year gap between medium and long-term scenarios Jörg Matschullat: BLITSN Ansatz einer Blitz- (Gewitter-) Klimatologie für Sachsen, invited by VDE Sachsen im Elektrobildungszentrum Dresden Jörg Matschullat: Klimawandel in Sachsen gestern, heute, morgen. Invited by Oberrheinischer Geologischer Verein zur Jahrestagung in Freiberg Jens Götze: Lumineszenz von Mineralen Zwischen Wissenschaft und Ästhetik. Vortrag zum Studium Generale, Freiberg Stephanie Hänsel (2015) Untersuchung zur Erfassung und Charakterisierung von meteorologischer Trockenheit. AG Klimafolgen des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft, Dresden Jens Götze (2015) Ressources of new materials as tool for the development of new technologies The interaction of raw materials and technological progress. Internationales Rohstroff-Forum, St. Petersburg Andreas Massanek: Die Edelsteinsammlung von Abraham Gottlob Werner. Vortrag vor der Österreichischen Gemmologischen Gesellschaft, Freiberg Reinhard Kleeberg: Eingeladener Vortrag Uni Insbruck Möglichkeiten der Profilmodellierung von stapelfehl-geordneten Schichtstrukturen in der Rietveld-Analyse Andreas Massanek: Mineralien aus dem Reich der Mitte die Mineralienszene in China. Vortrag beim Verein Mineralien- und Fossilienfreunde Hof-Oberkotzau e.v., Oberkotzau Bauer M, Seifert T: Geology, mineralogy and geochemistry of indium-bearing polymetallic sulfide veins in the Freiberg ore district. Vortrag beim Freiberger Forschungsforum/ BHT

35 Inst. of Mineralogy Report / Anke Tietz: A geoscientific heritage in Görlitz as testimony of research-practice and science-structure of the late 18 th century. 11. Freiberger St. Petersburger Kolloquium Andreas Massanek: Die Mineralogischen Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Vortrag in der Freimaurerloge Zum Morgenstern, Hof Engler A: Structure of the Lower Werra Anhydrite (z1ana) within the Werra potash deposit, Präsentation zur IMS2015, Krakow, Polen Christin Kehrer: Die Lagerstätten-Sammlung der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Vortrag im Rahmen des Studium Generale Richter L: Fluid inclusion study on LCT pegmatites from Bikita, Zimbabwe craton constraints on the hydrothermal formation of pollucite, Präsentation ECROFI, Leeds, UK Reinhard Kleeberg: Edinburgh Joint Euroclay and CMS meeting Invited plenary talk The Pioneer of Clay Science Lecture, The application of the Rietveld method in X-ray diffraction analysis of clays Jörg Matschullat: Large-scale geochemical soil mapping: opportunities and surprises. Invited by DFG zur 35. Jahrestagung der Brasilianischen Gesellschaft für Bodenkunde in Natal, Brasilien Jörg Matschullat: Study and Research at German Universities what does it take, how do you benefit? Invited by DFG anlässlich der 35. Jahrestagung der Brasilianischen Gesellschaft für Bodenkunde in Natal, Brasilien Ilja Kogan, Romano C, Koot M B, Schneider J W (2015) Turnover in aquatic ecosystems at the Permian/Triassic boundary: actinopterygians on top. XVIII International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Kazan, Russia. Abstracts Volume: Stephanie Hänsel (2015) Fachstatement zu Erfahrungen im Umgang mit der Klimaprojektion WEREX (resp. WETTREG) hinsichtlich des Klimas und Wasserhaushaltes. Workshop Informations- und Erfahrungsaustausch zu Anforderungen an regionale Klimadaten aus Nutzersicht, Sächsisches Staatsministeriums für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft, Dresden th EMS Annual Meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria, with Stephanie Hänsel: Consistency between observed and projected seasonal trends in dry periods and heavy precipitation events in Central Eastern Germany (Poster) Hänsel S, Miketta W, Matschullat J: European long lasting dry and wet phases and atmospheric circulation Variability and trends (Talk) Hänsel S, Zurba K: Rainfall Characteristics and Trends for the Palestinian Territories, (Poster) Meißner S, Dunger V, Hänsel S, Matschullat J: Quantifying groundwater recharge under projected climatic changes in an urban area (Poster) Minářová J, Müller M, Hänsel S, Matschullat J, Clappier A: Heavy precipitation in midelevation mountain systems in Central Europe: case study of the Krušné hory/erzgebirge (Czech Republic, Germany) (Poster) Ilja Kogan, Romano C, Koot M B, Schneider J W, Fischer J (2015) Aquatic vertebrate communities after the end-permian mass extinction: actinopterygians on top. 86. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Schiffweiler-Reden / Saarland, ZfB-Scriptum 4: Ostendorf J: Rb-Sr Dating of Sphalerite from Poly-Metallic Sulfide Veins of the Freiberg Ore District, Erzgebirge (Germany). Goldschmidt 2015, Prag Engler A: Geological & structural model of the Werra potash district (Germany). Sedimentary Basins Jena 2015 Research Modelling Exploration, Jena Jörg Matschullat: Caatinga and Cerrrado vegetation reaction to regional climate change in north-eastern Brazil (mit Anne Schuknecht und Stefan Erasmi). Vortrag zum 7 th German- Brazilian Symposium for sustainable development in Heidelberg Jörg Matschullat: Pedogeochemical mapping in north-eastern Brazil: a matter of scale (mit Silke Höfle und Anne Müller) Vortrag zum 7 th German-Brazilian Symposium for sustainable development in Heidelberg Frank Zimmermann: Vortrag vor Schülern zur 500 Jahrfeier des Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasiums So dünn und doch so mächtig was machen wir in der Atmosphären- und Klimaforschung?

36 36 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Jörg Matschullat: What makes a successful applied scientific project? Lessons learned from Minas Geraus, Brazil. Vortrag zum 7 th German-Brazilian Symposium for sustainable development in Heidelberg Jörg Matschullat: Übersehen wir etwas? Zur notwendigen Entwicklung des Umweltmonitorings mit Hinblick auf den Klimawandel. Invited by BfUL zur Verabschiedung des Leiters Ulrich Langer in Nossen Andreas Massanek: Edle Steine in Sachsen. Vortrag im Forum Minerale. Mineralientage München Jörg Matschullat: Boden- und Ökosystematmung. Sind wir auf einem Auge blind? Invited by Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, TU Darmstadt Jörg Matschullat: Experimente um Boden und Atmosphäre. Green Day für 2 Schulklassen. Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium Freiberg Ulrike Fischer: Der lange Weg zur Bestimmung von Germanium und Indium in sulfidischen Erzen. Anwendertreffen ICP-MS der Firma Perkin Elmer Stephanie Hänsel (2015) Flächenhafte Erfassung von Trockenheit in Sachen und Querverbindungen zu den Klimafolgenbereichen Land- Forst- und Wasserwirtschaft, AG Klimafolgen des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft, Dresden Andreas Massanek: Mineralogische Rundreise durch das Krügerhaus in Freiberg. Vortrag Mineralienmesse Hamburg Any other issues 2015 All year Reinhard Kleeberg: Stellv. Vorsitzender/Schriftführer der Deutschen Ton- und Tonmineralgruppe e.v.; Chair of the Source Clay Committee of The Clay Minerals Society Jens Götze: SPRINGER Advisory Board Mineralogy (Program Advisor) seit April 2015 Jörg Matschullat: Member of the DFG collegiate 316 Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Crystallography for the period (November). Jörg Matschullat: nominated speaker of the Climate Network Saxony (KliNeS), a Think Tank of the State Government (04.12.). Gerhard Heide nominated guest professor at our partner university in St. Petersburg During the year Moderation von Vortrag und Diskussion Jörg Matschullat: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Helmut Schwarz, im Rahmen des Krüger Kollegs zur Bedeutung von AvH heute Jörg Matschullat Moderation eines Workshops zur Nachhaltigen Entwicklung in Kolumbien. Invited by Colombian Embassy in Berlin, Exc. Juan Mayr Jörg Matschullat mit Christoph Breitkreuz: Besuch der Geowissenschaften an der Universität Warschau zu weiteren Planung von Kooperationsprojekten Oertel C, Zurba K: TerraTec 2015 Exhibition: Sustainable Solutions for the Environment, Leipzig, Germany Right: Impression of our Terratec booth in Leipzig Teilnahme von Prof. J. Gutzmer, Prof. Th. Seifert, Dr. T. Höfig und Dipl.-Geol. J. Neßler an der PDAC 2015, Toronto, Kanada Jörg Matschullat at Akita University: Evaluation of the Leading Program of the Resource Faculty Jörg Matschullat in Brasília: NoPa-Workshop mit GIZ, CAPES und DAAD Jörg Matschullat and Dr. Andreas Hoy: Deutsche IPCC-Tagung in Potsdam Teilnahme von Prof. Dr. Th. Seifert und Dipl.-Geol. Th. Dittrich am 7 th International Symposium on Granitic Pegmatites in Ksiaz, Polen Jörg Matschullat mit Dr. Ulrich Frank: UNEP Treffen in Rom zur Vorbereitung von GEO-6

37 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Prof. Dr. Th. Seifert: Eurogranites 2015 Variscan Plutons of the Bohemian Massif, Field trip following the 26 th IUGG General Assembly in Prague Prof. David Dolejš and Prof. Th. Seifert: Leitung der internationalen Exkursion Sn-W and base-metal deposits of the Erzgebirge classical ore district of European significance, current challenges and emerging non-traditional resources. Pre-conference excursion Goldschmidt2015, Prague, Czech Republic, Prof. Dr. Thomas Seifert, Dr. Tobias Höfig, die PhD Studenten Thomas Dittrich, Jörg Ostendorf und Masterstudent Steffen Diers: 25. Goldschmidt-Konferenz in Prag, Tschechien. Die Tagung umfasste etwa 3000 Teilnehmer in den verschiedensten Forschungsbereichen der Geochemie Prof. Dr. Jens Gutzmer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Seifert, sowie die PhD Studenten Matthias Bauer, Tom Jaroka und Lisa Richter: SGA Tagung in Nancy, Frankreich mit etwa 750 Teilnehmern und dem Thema: Mineral resources in a sustainable world Prof. Th. Seifert: international excursion Rare metal granites and W deposits of the French Massif Central Post-conference excursion SGA conference in Nancy, France (Leaders: Prof. M. Cuney and Prof. Ch. Marignac) Jörg Matschullat: Workshop zum Regional Klimawandel, invited by Staatskanzlei in Dresden Jörg Matschullat: Auswahlsitzung DAAD Promotionsstipendien in Bonn Jörg Matschullat: Auswahlkommission Klimaschutzstipendien der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn Lerncamp des Goethe-Gymnasiums Auerbach im Waldpark Grünheide, Vogtland. Thema: Alles Kupfer: Vom Mineral bis zum Draht! (Vorträge, chemische Experimente sowie Gesteins- und Erzbestimmungskurs; Tobias Höfig) Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schulz, Prof. Dr. Jens Gutzmer, PhD Student Tom Jaroka sowie Bachelorstudent Marcus Liebner: GEOBerlin an der FU Berlin; gemeinsame Jahrestagung von Deutscher Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (DGG), Geologischer Vereinigung (GV), Deutscher Gesellschaft für Paläontologie (DGP) und Deutscher Mineralogischen Gesellschaft mit 650 Teilnehmern. Zentrales Thema: die Plattentektonik im Blick auf den 100. Jahrestag der Publikation Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane von Alfred Wegener Prof. Th. Seifert: 8. Deutsch-Russischen Rohstoff-Konferenz in Sankt Petersburg. Unter dem Titel Vertrauen und Zuverlässigkeit setzte das Deutsch-Russische Rohstoff-Forum ein Zeichen für die wirtschaftliche und wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit in einer politisch schwierigen Situation. Insgesamt nahmen etwa 1000 Delegierte beider Länder an der Konferenz teil. Die deutsche Delegation bestand aus mehr als 250 Teilnehmern, darunter rund 100 Studenten und junge Wissenschaftler aus ganz Deutschland Jörg Matschullat: Auswahlkommmission DAAD Promotionsstipendien. Bonn Jörg Matschullat: Promotionsverteidigung Peter Völgyesi, Universität in Budapest December Chile-House Freiberg. Dr. Erika Krüger bought a property, Brennhausgasse 3, in Freiberg in order to to build a guesthouse for Chilean scientists and students. The sales contract was signed in late December. The derelict building shall be demolished and a new house built with six apartment units. Dr. Krüger aims at handing the building over to the university in the spring of Visits by guest students and scientists Post-Doc Prof. Dr. Deusdedit Monteiro Meneses, UFRN Natal, Brazil ( ). The mathematician and theoretical physicist has been trained in methods of climate analysis and works with us on Brazilian climate data (WG-GCG) Prof. Dr. Shafiq Alam, Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Univ of Sasketchewan, Kanada, und Preisträger TMS Technology Awards 2014 seeks information on the Biohydrometallurgical Centre and gives a talk on Application of biomaterials for sustainable hydrometallurgical processing (July 2015) Prof. Dr. Judith Hoelzemann, UFRN Natal, Brazil ( ). The atmospheric physicist (MPI Hamburg) leads a growing group in Natal and informed us about their current activities on atmospheric transportes and the peculiarities of regional wild fires

38 38 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 PhD Anna Serova, Magnitogorsk University, Russia (September 2014 March 2015) with Russian State stipend (via DAAD). The environmental manager worked with us on geochemical data from Ural river and tributaries near the industry kombinate of her hometown (WG-GCG). Jorge Luis de Oliveira Pinto Filho (RN). Jorge deals with social and scientific indicators of landscape change through the oil and gas business in northeastern Brazil. His tay was financed by our CAPES/DAAD project VeLuDeClim Jana Minarova (February July 2015) works on elucidating conditions of the formation of extreme weather and its development in the Erzgebirge region. Jana is based at the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. M.Sc. Isamara de Mendonça Silva (UFRN) December 2014 January 2015 Wenxia Wang (MSc Petroleum Engineering) from Stavanger University (Norway), February and September 2015 Courses / Excursions / Special exhibits RK: Lehre extern: International Master in Applied Clay Science (IMACS), ERASMUS, an Universität Poitiers: 1 Tag Kurs Quantitative phase analysis BHMZ-excursion Aurubis and Rammelsberg for the annual internal meeting. The third day made a stop at Röhrigschacht Wettelrode near Sangerhausen. A highly informative underground teaching trail explained about the historical development of Kupferschiefer mining Steelworks Riesa (Feralpi) Jörg Matschullat with Anna Serova Jens Götze: course Applied Mineralogy at Mining Institute St. Petersburg, Russia Geological-petrographical field training Ostalpen (picture right; fot. Bernhard Schulz). Cristalline basement of Ötztal and Defereg Alps for BSc Geology- Mineralogy with 15 participants. Leader: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schulz Excursion of the Mineralogical Institute staff to Annaberg-Buchholz (Manufacture of Dreams) and to Frohnau Hammer (guided) see pictures last page Prof. David Dolejš and Prof. Th. Seifert (guidance): International excursion Sn-W and base-metal deposits of the Erzgebirge classical ore district of European significance, current challenges and emerging non-traditional resources. Pre-conference excursion Goldschmidt2015, Prague Right: Excursion participants at the Molchner Stollen in Pobershau, Marienberg district; fot: Thomas Seifert

39 Inst. of Mineralogy Report Kamal Zurba: International summer school on greenhouse gases in Edinburgh, UK Picture above: Aerial shot taken in the summer school of Edinburgh, using a small unmanned aircraft with a built-in camera (drone). We lay on the ground to create GHG!! with our bodies. fot. Khristopher Kabbabe, The University of Manchester, Aerospace Systems Research Group Underground training in salt mine Zielitz. Module Lagerstättenlehre fester mineralischer Nichterz-Rohstoffe (guidance: Dabrowski A, Engler A) Left: Industry site of K+S KALI GmbH in Zielitz as seen from the mine heap Kalimandscharo; Right: Group picture atop of the mine heap of Flöz Ronnenberg Zurba K: International Summer school: Soil-borne greenhouse gases: From field data to publication in Vienna, Austria

40 40 Inst. of Mineralogy Report 2015 Our Zuwachs (Offspring) We congratulate! Daniel Schrader and Sabrina Horn are happy about Michael Schrader, born on at 19:30 hours (picture below left). Kevin and Anne Keller brought a cute little Juno into the world, born (picture below right). Below: Our guest doctoral student Peter Völgyesi and his wife Ildikó Kádár are happy about the birth of Domonkos Völgyesi on October 20, 2015 All the very best for 2016! Pictures below (fltr): Institute staff, traditional lacing technique, and the water-energy driven ore hammers, all Frohnauer Hammer; angle sculpture in the Manufacture of dreams, Annaberg-Buchholz