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EDUCATION

D.Sc. - Metallogeny, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, SP, Brazil (2000)
M.Sc - Economic Geology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, RJ, Brazil (1991)
BSc - Geology, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, UFRRJ, RJ, Brazil (1981)

RESEARCH INTEREST

Mineral Resourses: ore genesis and environmental impacts

RESEARCH PROJECTS

ü Isotopic studies of granite-greenstone terrains: crustal evolution and gold metallogeny

ü Outros Projetos

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

      MELLO, E.F.; XAVIER, R.P.; TASSINARI, C.C.G.; HAGEMANN, S.; McGOLDRICK, P.J. and TAYLOR, B.E. (2000) - The lode-gold mineralizations of the paleoproterozoic Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt, NE Bahia State, Brazil: Isotopic constraints on the fluid reservoirs. Proceedings 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, abstract.
      MELLO, E.F.; XAVIER, R.P.; McNAUGHTON, N.J.; FLETCHER, I.; HAGEMANN, S.G.; LACERDA, C.M.M. and OLIVEIRA, E. P. (2000) - Age constraints of felsic intrusions, metamorphism, deformation and gold mineralization in the Paleoproterozoic Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt, NE Bahia State, Brazil. Proceedings 31st International Geological Congress , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, abstract.
      OLIVEIRA, E.P.; MELLO, E.F. and McNAUGHTON, N.J. (2000) - SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of early Precambrian quartzite and its basement (Caldeirão Belt), NE São Francisco Craton, Bahia, Brazil. Submitted and accepted to Journal of South American Sciences.
      MELLO, E.F.; Lacerda, C.M.M.; Oliveira, E.P.; McNaughton, N.J. (1999) - SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology on xenotime and zircon from the Ambrosio dome, Rio Itapicuru grenstone belt, Brazil: A major syntectonic granodiorite intrusion. Proceedings II South American Symposium on Isotope Geology. Cordoba, Argentina, pp. 331- 334.