Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper

Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-7544-1191
Scopus Author ID: 6604069814
Researcher ID: I-3875-2015
Knowledge area: Cristal.lografia i Mineralogia

Research group:

  • Institut d'Arqueologia
  • Recursos Minerals per a la Transició Energètica (MinResET)

Teaching Innovation Groups: IP Mineralogia i Recursos Minerals

Contact Information
Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology
Martí Franqués, s-n
934021344
joan.carles.melgarejo.draper(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Ciències Geològiques . Universitat de Barcelona . 06/1982 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Ciencias Geológicas . Universidad de Barcelona . 09/1987 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Mineralizaciones de elementos raros (Nb, Ta, Cs, Li, Be, Y, Sc, Ree)
Pegmatites granítiques
Carbonatites
Kimberlites
Dipòsits no convencionals d'elements del grup del platí

Projects

Metalogenia de kimberlitas y carbonatitas en Angola: Aplicaciones en exploración minera . 2010 - 2012 . Ref.CGL2009-13758 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper
Mineralogy of mineral deposits at the Tsolido area, Botswana . 2011 - 2021 . Ref.306740 . Tsodilo Resources Limited . PI: Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper
Mineral resources of the Precambrain of Western Sahara . 2012 - 2012 . Ref.306797 . Hanno Resources Pty Ltd . PI: Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper
Recursos Minerals: Jaciments, Aplicacions, Sostenibilitat . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR707 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper
Assessorament i Investigació aplicada en el camp de la Mineralogia i els Recursos Minerals . 2018 - 2018 . Ref.301041 . Diversos . PI: Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper

Journal Publications

Melgarejo, J.C.; Costanzo, A.; Bambi, A.C.J.M.; Gonçalves, A.O.; Neto, A.B. (2012). Subsolidus processes as a key factor on the distribution of Nb species in plutonic carbonatites: The Tchivira case, Angola. Lithos, 152, pp. 187 - 201 . . ISSN: 0024-4937
Campeny, M.; Kamenetsky, V.S.; Melgarejo, J.C.; Mangas, J.; Manuel, J.; Alfonso, P.; Kamenetsky, M.B.; Bambi, A.; Gonçalves, A.O. (2015). Carbonatitic lavas in Catanda (Kwanza Sul, Angola): Mineralogical and geochemical constraints on the parental melt. Lithos(232), pp. 1 - 11 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2015.06.016 . ISSN: 0024-4937
Permuy Vidal, Conrado; Guido, Diego M.; Jovic, Sebastian M.; Bodnar, Robert J.; Moncada, Daniel; Carles Melgarejo, Joan; Hames, Willis (2016). The Marianas-San Marcos vein system: characteristics of a shallow low sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposit in the Cerro Negro district, Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina. Mineralium Deposita, 51(6), pp. 725 - 748 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-015-0633-9 . ISSN: 0026-4598
Castillo-Oliver, Montgarri; Gali, Salvador; Carles Melgarejo, Joan; Griffin, William L.; Belousova, Elena; Pearson, Norman J.; Watangua, Manuel; O'Reilly, Suzanne Y. (2016). Trace-element geochemistry and U-Pb dating of perovskite in kimberlites of the Lunda Norte province (NE Angola): Petrogenetic and tectonic implications. Chemical Geology, 426, pp. 118 - 134 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.12.014 . ISSN: 0009-2541
Giuliani, Andrea; Campeny, Marc; Kamenetsky, Vadim S.; Afonso, Juan Carlos; Maas, Roland; Melgarejo, Joan Carles; Kohn, Barry P.; Matchan, Erin L.; Mangas, Jose; Goncalves, Antonio O.; Manuel, Jose (2017). Southwestern Africa on the burner: Pleistocene carbonatite volcanism linked to deep mantle upwelling in Angola. Geology, 45(11), pp. 971 - 974 . https://doi.org/10.1130/G39344.1 . ISSN: 0091-7613
Castillo-Oliver, Montgarri; Caries Melgarejo, Joan; Gali, Salvador; Pervov, Vladimir; Goncalves, Antonio Olimpio; Griffin, William L.; Pearson, Norman J.; O'Reilly, Suzanne Y. (2017). Use and misuse of Mg- and Mn-rich ilmenite in diamond exploration: A petrographic and trace element approach. Lithos, 292, pp. 348 - 363 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.09.021 . ISSN: 0024-4937
Torres, B.; Melgarejo, J.C.;Torró, L.; Camprubí, A.; Castillo-Oliver, M.; Artiaga, D.; Campeny, M.; Tauler, E.; Jiménez-Franco, A.; Alfonso, P.; R. Arce-Burgoa, O. (2019). The Poopó Polymetallic Epithermal Deposit, Bolivia: Mineralogy, Genetic Constraints, and Distribution of Critical Elements. Minerals, 9(8), p. 472 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2075-163X
Torró, L., Proenza, J.A.; Melgarejo, J.C.; Alfonso, P.; Farré de Pablo, J.; Colomer, J.M.; García-Casco, A.; Gubern, A.; Gallardo, E.; Cazañas, X.; Chávez, C.; del Carpio, R.; León, P.; Nelson, C.; Lewis, J.F. (2016). Mineralogy, geochemistry and sulfur isotope characterization of the Cerro de Maimón (Dominican Republic), San Fernando and Antonio (Cuba): Lower Cretaceous VMS deposits associated to the subduction initiation of the Proto-Caribbean lithosphere within a fore-arc. Ore Geology Reviews, 72(1), pp. 794 - 817 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0169-1368
Nabatian, Gh.; Li, X.H.; Honarmand, M.; Melgarejo, J.C. (2017). Geology, mineralogy and evolution of skarn type iron deposits in the Zanjan district, NW Iran: Constraints from U-Pb dating, Hf and O isotope analysis of zircons and stable isotope geochemistry. Ore Geology Reviews, 84, pp. 42 - 66 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.10.029 . ISSN: 0169-1368
Xu, J.; Melgarejo, J.C.; Castillo-Oliver, M (2018). Ilmenite as a recorder of kimberlite history from mantle to surface: examples from Indian kimberlites. Mineralogy and Petrology . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-018-0616-5 . ISSN: 0930-0708

Others Publications

Cacho, A.; Melgarejo, J.C.; Torró, L.; Arqués, L.; Martínez, A.; Torres, B.; Artiaga, D.; Tauler, E.; Condori, R.; Guevara, N.; Arce, O.; Alfonso, P. (2015). Huanuni, Bonanza and La Suerte mines: mineralogy, geochemistry and structure . In André-Mayer AS, Cathelineau M, Muchez Ph, Pirard E, Sindern S (eds) Mineral resources in a sustainable world. Proceedings of the 13 Biennial SGA Meeting . Number. 2 . (pp. 691 - 694) . Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) .
Campeny, M.; Proenza, J.A.; Melgarejo, J.C.; Torró, L.; Gonçalves, A.O. (2011). Petrology and geochemistry of the mafic-ultramafic Hamutenha intrusion (Kunene complex, SW Angola): metallogenic implications . In Let's Talk Ore Deposits. Proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial SGA . (pp. 781 - 783) .
Pastor, M.; Pastro, A.; Torró, L.; Martínez, A.; Artiaga, D.; Torres, B.; Tauler, E.; Melgarejo, J.C.; Paillo, F.; Arce, O.; Alfonso, P. (2015). The San José-Itos mines, Oruro, Bolivia: Structure and Ag-Sn Mineralization . In André-Mayer AS, Cathelineau M, Muchez Ph, Pirard E, Sindern S (eds) Mineral resources in a sustainable world. Proceedings of the 13 Biennial SGA Meeting . Number. 1 . (pp. 327 - 330) . Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) .
Shaw, R.P.; Leal-Mejía, H.; Melgarejo i Draper, J.C. (2019). Phanerozoic metallogeny in the Colombian Andes: A tectono-magmatic analysis in space and time . In Frontiers in Earth Sciences . (pp. 411 - 549) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 18634621 . http://www.ehu.eus/sem/macla_pdf/macla22/Macla22_109.pdf
Leal-Mejía, H.; Shaw, R.P.; Melgarejo i Draper, J.C. (2019). Spatial-temporal migration of granitoid magmatism and the phanerozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the Colombian Andes . In Frontiers in Earth Sciences . (pp. 253 - 410) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 18634621 . http://www.ehu.eus/sem/macla_pdf/macla22/Macla22_109.pdf