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Isabel Barton is an Assistant Professor in the University of Arizona Department of Mining and Geological Engineering. Her background includes graduate degrees in mining engineering and economic geology, and she works with academic and industry metallurgists, geologists, mine engineers, mineralogists, and geotechnical engineers, as well as with archaeologists and geochemists. Her main focus area is geometallurgy.

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Courses
  • IME
    Introduction to Mining Engineering

  • MPE
    Mineralogy and Petrology for Engineers

  • MEIIP
    Mine Engineering Inputs to Integrated Planning

  • IED
    Introduction to Engineering Design

  • M
    Mineralogy

  • G
    Geometallurgy

  • NRHC
    Nonrenewable Resources and Human Civilizations

  • MIIP
    Metallurgical Inputs to Integrated Planning

  • MPE
    Mineral Properties Engineering

  • NRWC
    Nonrenewable Resources and World Civilizations

  • IIMI
    Introduction to the International Mining Industry

  • GIIP
    Geological Inputs to Integrated Planning

  • AMG
    Applied Mineralogy/Geometallurgy

  • IE
    Introduction to Engineering

Grants
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    Mine Hyperspectral Research Consortium Membership

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2023

    $50.0K
    Active
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    Addressing Demographic Disparities in Student Choice of Engineering Disciplines (ADDS-CoED)

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $454.3K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Mine Hyperspectral Research Consortium Membership

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $20.0K
    Active
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    CAREER: Integrating Geology and Metallurgy for Efficient, Sustainable Production of Critical Elements for the Green Economy

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $349.1K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    SME Freeport-McMoRan Career Development Grant

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $200.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Using Analytics to Improve Geologic Modeling and Mine Planning

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $150.0K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Detecting Corrosion of Ground Support with Non-Invasive Techniques

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $32.8K
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    Contributions to an Enhanced Geological Model for the Formation of Colorado Plateau U(-V) Deposits

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $40.0K
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    Examining the History of Leaching Copper Ores with Thiourea

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $8.6K
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    Mapping Material Distribution at Leaching Sites using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $40.1K
News
  • College of Science Lecture Series returns in person to delve into the mineral world

    2022

  • UA Geoscientists Take a Crack at Paradox Basin's Mysteries

    2017

Publications (44)
Recent
  • Vanadium Electronic Configuration Determination From L2, 3 Transition in V-oxide Compounds and Roscoelite

    2023

  • span style= font-size:11pt; Vanadium electronic configuration determination from L sub 2,3 /sub transition in V-oxide compounds and roscoelite /span

    2023

  • Vanadium in phyllosilicate ores: occurrence, crystal chemistry, and leaching behavior

    2023

  • Cements Around the Ancient World: Holding it Together Since the Dawn of Lime

    2022

  • APPENDIX A: HYDROGEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF FORMATION WATERS RESPONSIBLE FOR SANDSTONE BLEACHING AND ORE MINERALIZATION IN THE PARADOX BASIN, COLORADO PLATEAU, USA

    2022

  • Chemical, crystallographic, and electromagnetic variability in natural chalcopyrite and implications for leaching

    2022

  • The chemical, crystallographic, and electromagnetic variability of natural chalcopyrite and its effects on leaching

    2022

  • Heap leach pad mapping with drone-based hyperspectral remote sensing at the Safford copper mine, Arizona

    2022

  • Hydrogeochemical evolution of formation waters responsible for sandstone bleaching and ore mineralization in the Paradox Basin, Colorado Plateau, USA

    2022

  • Mining, alchemy, and the changing concept of minerals from antiquity to early modernity

    2022

  • The process mineralogy of leaching sandstone-hosted uranium and vanadium ores

    2022

  • Chalcopyrite leaching in novel lixiviants

    2021

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing for detecting geotechnical problems at Ray mine

    2021

  • Where have all the mining engineering students gone?

    2021

  • Hyperspectral imaging and analysis of hydrothermal alteration mineralogy in Cuprite, Nevada

    2021

  • Extending geometallurgy to the mine scale with hyperspectral imaging: a pilot study using drone and ground-based scanning

    2021

  • Integrated rock mass characterization using LiDAR, radar, and hyperspectral

    2020

  • Monte Carlo simulations of electron-sample interactions at phase boundaries and implications for automated mineralogy

    2020

  • Rhenium in molybdenite: A database approach to identifying geochemical controls on the distribution of a critical element

    2020

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing characterization of mine materials for process control

    2019

  • The effects of temperature and pressure on the stability of mineral colloids

    2019

  • Kinetics of chalcopyrite leaching in novel and exotic lixiviants

    2019

  • Paradox Basin Fluids and Colorado Plateau Copper, Uranium, and Vanadium Deposits Field Trip

    2018

  • Paleofluid flow in the Paradox Basin: introduction

    2018

  • Incorporation of Co in dolomite structure: coupled EPMA and single crystal structural studies on cobaltoan dolomite from the Tenke-Fungurume district, Democratic Republic of Congo

    2018

  • Mineralogical and metallurgical study of supergene ores of the Mike CuAu (Zn) deposit, Carlin trend, Nevada

    2018

  • The study of copper leaching from conichalcite and chalcopyrite using alternative lixiviants

    2018

  • Characteristics of Cu and UV deposits in the Paradox Basin (Colorado Plateau) and associated alteration

    2018

  • Incorporation of Co in the Dolomite Structure: Coupled Epma and Single Crystal Structural Studies of Co-rich Dolomite from the Tenke-fungurume District, Democratic Republic of …

    2018

  • MINERALOGICAL AND METALLURGICAL STUDY OF THE MIKE Cu-Au(-Zn) DEPOSIT, CARLIN TREND, NEVADA

    2018

  • Mineralogical and Metallurgical Study of Supergene Ores of the Mike Cu-Au(-Zn) Deposit, Carlin Trend, Nevada

    2018

  • Grain-scale and deposit-scale heterogeneity of Re distribution in molybdenite at the Bagdad porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, Arizona

    2017

  • Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica in early modern scholarship

    2016

  • Munakataite, Pb2Cu2(Se4+O3)(SO4)(OH)4, and Other Selenium Minerals from Tsumeb, Namibia

    2016

  • Crystal structure of a new compound, CuZnCl (OH) 3, isostructural with botallackite

    2016

  • Georgius Agricola's Contributions to Hydrology

    2015

  • Georgius Agricola’s contributions to hydrology

    2015

  • The mineralogy, geochemistry, and metallurgy of cobalt in the rhombohedral carbonates

    2014

  • Te-rich raspeite, Pb(W0.56Te0.44)O4, from Tombstone, Arizona, USA: the first natural example of Te6+ substitution for W6+

    2014

  • HISTORY OF GEOLOGY STUDENT AWARD: GEORGIUS AGRICOLA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO HYDROGEOLOGY

    2013

  • SCALE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF VARIATION IN SILICA-DOLOMITE ALTERATION IN THE TENKE-FUNGURUME (TFM) CU-CO DISTRICT OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN COPPERBELT

    2013

  • Geology of the Tenke-Fungurume sediment-hosted strata-bound copper-cobalt district, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo

    2012

  • Alteration and ore distribution in the Proterozoic Mines Series, Tenke-Fungurume Cu-Co district, Democratic Republic of Congo

    2012

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