Gabriele Baldassarre

Ph.D. candidate in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale , 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)

Docente esterno e/o collaboratore didattico
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)

gabriele_baldassarre@polito.it

Profile

PhD

Research topic

Recovery of Critical Raw Materials from tailings and mining waste

Tutors

Research presentation

Poster

Research interests

Environmental Quality

Geoengineering

Resource Efficiency

Biography

Gabriele Baldassarre is a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, affiliated with the Raw Materials Engineering Group. His research focuses on the recovery of Critical Raw Materials and valuable minerals from mining waste.

With a M.Sc. in Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Gabriele conducted a thesis on the preliminary study of mineral processing for a newly discovered zinc-lead ore deposit in Italy.

In his professional journey, Gabriele served as a Grant Researcher at PoliTO, contributing to lab-scale mineral processing testing and the analytical characterization of ores. He also gained experience as an Environmental Engineer, specializing in waste rock management for infrastructure construction.

Gabriele's expertise includes mining waste and tailings reprocessing, sampling strategies, and mineralogical and chemical characterization using advanced techniques such as X-ray Powder Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence. He is experienced in designing lab-scale mineral processing tests, covering crushing, comminution, and physical separation.

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_3 - Civil engineering, architecture, offshore construction, lightweight construction, geotechnics

PE8_11 - Environmental engineering, e.g. sustainable design, waste and water treatment, recycling, regeneration or recovery of compounds, carbon capture & storage

PE10_10 - Mineralogy, petrology, igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology

PE8_9 - Production technology, process engineering

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Goal 13: Climate action

Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Teaching

Teachings

Master of Science

Raw and waste material engineering. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
Raw and waste material engineering. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso

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Publications

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Baldassarre, Gabriele; Marini, Paola (2024)
Mine Waste as a possible source of Strategic and Critical Raw Materials: Advancing the Knowledge for some Case Studies in Italy. In: Australian Mine Waste Symposium, Brisbane (AU), 6-7 February 2024, pp. 33-33
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Baldassarre, Gabriele; Fiorucci, Adriano; Marini, Paola (2024)
Recovery of Critical Raw Materials from Abandoned Mine Wastes: Some Potential Case Studies in Northwest Italy. In: RawMat23 - 2nd International Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy, Athens (GR), 28-30 August 2023, pp. 1-6. ISSN 2673-4605
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Baldassarre, Gabriele; Marini, Paola (2023)
Screening tests on potential recovery of strategic and critical raw materials from mining waste facilities in Italy. In: Congresso congiunto SIMP, SGI, SOGEI, AIV "The Geoscience paradigm: resources, risk and future perspectives", Potenza (IT), 19-21 September 2023, pp. 388-388
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Baldassarre, Gabriele; Baietto, Oliviero; Marini, Paola (2020)
Comminution Effects on Mineral-Grade Distribution: The Case of an MVT Lead-Zinc Ore Deposit. In: MINERALS, vol. 10. ISSN 2075-163X
Contributo su Rivista
Baldassarre, Gabriele; Baietto, Oliviero (2020)
Comminution effects on mineral grade distribution. In: EGU General Assembly 2020, Vienna, 4-8 Maggio 2020
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)