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Carlos Augusto Leal Gomes

Carlos Augusto Leal Gomes

Summary

Carlos Leal Gomes is a retired Associate Professor with Habilitation of the Department of Earth Sciences, where he taught from the 1980s. He received his PhD in Sciences (Geology) from the University of Minho (1994) and his Habilitation in 2004.

He has studied granitic pegmatites and aplites — their internal structure, mineralogy and paragenesis — and their associated mineralisations, such as lithium, tantalum and niobium, gold and gemstones, in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking countries such as Angola and Mozambique. His work includes Portugal's lithium resources, tourmalines and columbite-group minerals in pegmatites, the Santo António gold deposit (Penedono) and the sulphide mineralisation of the Cerdeirinha mine (Caminha).

He took part in the New Generation Storage project of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (2023–2025) and has presented the geology of gemstones and lithium to students and the public.

Compiled from: CIÊNCIAVITAE, ORCID

Research interests

  • Granitic pegmatites
  • Mineralogy and paragenesis
  • Lithium resources
  • Gemmology
  • Mineral deposits

Education

  • 2004
    Habilitation in Sciences (Geology)
    University of Minho
  • 1994
    PhD in Sciences (Geology)
    University of Minho

Recent publications

  1. Geochemistry of granitic aplite-pegmatite dykes and sills and their minerals from the Gravanho-Gouveia area in Central Portugal. Geochemistry, 2019. doi:10.1016/j.geoch.2019.01.001
  2. Two generations of zoned crystals of Columbite-group minerals from granitic aplite-pegmatite in the Gouveia area, central Portugal. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2015. doi:10.1127/ejm/2015/0027-2473
  3. The granite-hosted Variscan gold deposit from Santo António mine in the Iberian Massif (Penedono, NW Portugal): constraints from mineral chemistry, fluid inclusions, sulfur and noble gases isotopes. Journal of Iberian Geology, 2019. doi:10.1007/s41513-019-00103-1
  4. Tourmalines in the Namacotche Li-Cs-Ta granitic pegmatite group, Mozambique: crystal chemistry and origin. Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe: Revista de xeoloxía galega e do hercínico peninsular, 2022. doi:10.17979/cadlaxe.2022.44.0.9291
  5. Analiza strukturalna i zróżnicowanie pegmatytów w starożytnym twierdzeniu, Giraúl IV, dystrykt pegmatytów Namibe, Angola. Inżynieria Mineralna, 2024. doi:10.29227/im-2024-01-05
  6. Kontrastujące style metamorficznych i metasomatycznych złóż kamieni szlachetnych w Cabo Delgado w północnym Mozambiku. Inżynieria Mineralna, 2024. doi:10.29227/im-2024-01-02

Publications since 2015 (ORCID and OpenAlex), ordered by the impact of the journal or series (two-year mean citedness in OpenAlex).

Full list of publications on ORCID

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