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EMerald Master’s
in Georesources engineering
Programme overview
EMerald is a two-year Master’s programme (120 ECTS) organised by four European Universities – University of Liège (ULiège), University of Lorraine (UL), Luleå University of Technology (LTU) and Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF). The programme is designed to focus on the following major aspects of Resources Engineering, Characterisation, Processing, Modelling and Management.
The programme is organised into four semesters (30 ECTS per semester). The first semester is in Liège, the second semester in Nancy, for the third semester students are offered a specialisation option in the field of primary raw materials in Luleå or in secondary raw materials in Freiberg and the fourth semester is in one of the four partner Universities.
The EMerald Master Programme has been designed to find the right balance between knowledge of metal/mineral resources (geology, landfills, urban mines, reserve characterisation and modelling) and process engineering techniques (comminution, sorting, preconcentration, extractive metallurgy and waste disposal).
Course catalogue
You can find a description of each course by clicking on the number of credits on the right.
| PARTNER | FIELD | COURSE | ECTS | |
| S1 | ULiège (BE) | Characterisation | Mineral Resources | 5 |
| Process Mineralogy | 5 | |||
| Processing | Mineral Processing I | 5 | ||
| Solid Waste and by-products processing | 5 | |||
| Modelling | Numerical Analysis | 5 | ||
| Geostatistics | 5 | |||
| Management | Exploitation of mineral deposit | 5 | ||
| Seminars on economical and societal issues in mining and recycling | 5 | |||
| * students pick 30 ECTS according to their background | ||||
| Credits | 30 | |||
| S2 | UL (FR) | Characterisation | Advanced characterisation of mineral / water interface | 5 |
| Exploitation of mineral raw materials and Environmental impact of mining | 2 | |||
| Processing | Case study of ore processing | 5 | ||
| Advanced Mineral Processing | 8 | |||
| Modelling | Resources modelling and evaluation | 5 | ||
| Management | Management of Resources | 5 | ||
| Credits | 30 | |||
| Georesources Business School & Circular Economy Workshop (3 weeks) | ||||
| S3 | LTU (SE) | Characterisation | Mining Geology | 7,5 |
| Processing | Mineral Processing II | 7,5 | ||
| Modelling | Simulation of mineral processing | 7,5 | ||
| Geometallurgy | 7,5 | |||
| Credits | 30 | |||
| S3 | TUBAF (DE) | Characterisation | Mineral Liberation Analysis of mineral resources ** | 3 |
| Processing | Project - Process design mineral processing/ recycling | 5 | ||
| Selective separation of strategic elements ** | 5 | |||
| Training in Particle Technology | 4 | |||
| Practice of secondary raw materials | 4 | |||
| Recycling - Secondary Raw Materials | 6 | |||
| Modelling | Simulation of sustainable metallurgical process ** | 6 | ||
| Management | Resources management | 6 | ||
| ** students choose between these courses but must reach a min. of 30 ECTS | ||||
| Credits | 30 | |||
| S4 | ULiège | Master Thesis Research Works and Internship | ||
| UL | ||||
| LTU | ||||
| TUBAF | ||||
| Credits | 30 | |||
| Total Credits | 120 |
Semester 1 : University of Liège (30ECTS)
- Mineral Resources (5 ECTS)
- Process Mineralogy (5 ECTS)
- Mineral Processing I (5 ECTS)
- Solid Waste and by-products processing (5 ECTS)
- Numerical Analysis (5 ECTS)
- Geostatistics (5 ECTS)
- Exploitation of Mineral Deposit (5 ECTS)
- Seminars on Economical and Societal issues in Mining and Recycling (5 ECTS)
(students must pick 30 ECTS according to their background or more precsily with courses that they have not attended in their previous Degree)
Semester 2 : University of Lorraine (30ECTS)
- Advanced characterisation of mineral / water interface (5 ECTS)
- Exploitation of mineral raw materials and Environmental impact of mining (2 ECTS)
- Case study of ore processing (5 ECTS)
- Advanced Mineral Processing (8 ECTS)
- Management of Resources (5 ECTS)
- Resources mondelling and evaluation (5 ECTS)
Semester 3 : Lulea University of Technology (30ECTS) or TU Bergakademie Freiberg (30ECTS)
Lulea University of Technology
- Mining Geology (7.5 ECTS)
- Mineral Processing II (7.5 ECTS)
- Simulation of Mineral Processing (7.5 ECTS)
- Geometallurgy (7.5 ECTS)
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
- Mineral Liberation Analysis of mineral resources ** (3 ECTS)
- Project – Process design mineral processing/ recycling (5 ECTS)
- Selective separation of strategic elements **(5 ECTS)
- Training in Particle Technology (4 ECTS)
- Practice of secondary raw materials (4 ECTS)
- Simulation of sustainable metallurgical process ** (6 ECTS)
- Resources management (6 ECTS)
- Recycling – Secondary Raw Materials (6 ECTS)
** students must select 1 or 2 elective course to reach 30 ECTS
Semester 4 : in one of the four partner-universities (30 ECTS)
“EMerald” is not a Diploma in itself. It’s the name of the master course.
The following degrees will be provided by the different consortium universities, depending on the tracks chosen by the student:
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