Teacher
Ana Gonçalves

Resume

PhD geologist with 10 years of experience in Tungsten & Tin & Lithium, greisen and hydrothermal mineralizations. Specialist in geological mapping, structural geology, mineralogical and petrographic description & analysis, bulk geochemistry, magnetic properties and stream sediments surveys. Participated in European Projects regarding Tungsten & Tin mineralizations from N and Central Portugal. Author and co-author of several scientific peer review papers concerning petrogenesis, mineralogy, petrophysical, structural geology and mineralizations. Confident public speaker, with several national & international presentations and ability to disseminate communication to various audiences. Worked as exploration geologist in lithium projects located in Northern Portugal. Currently, works as Invited Assistant Professor at Faculty of Sciences (University of Porto) and Lusófona University. || SKILLS - Geological Mapping - GIS (ArcGIS Pro and QGIS) - Logging and Sampling - Sampling preparation - Mineralogical and Petrographic description & analysis - Statistical processing of Geological, Structural and Geochemical data - Database Management - Report Writing - Stream Sediments Surveys - QAQC analysis || EQUIPMENT - Polarizing microscope - Raman spectrometer - Susceptometer - X-ray powder diffraction - X-ray fluorescence - Frantz Isodynamic Magnetic Separator - Wilfley table - SEM-EDS - EPMA

Graus

• Mestrado
  Geology (Master degree)
• Licenciatura
  Geology (bachelor)
• Doutoramento
  PhD in Geosciences

Publicações

Preprint

• 2024-06-11, Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility: the key to understand the ascending and emplacement mechanisms of granitic plutons

Journal article

• 2024-12-05, Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility as the key to understand the ascending and emplacement mechanisms of granitic plutons: a review, Journal of Iberian Geology
• 2024-05-30, Zircon U–Pb Dating and Lu–Hf Isotopic Composition of Some Granite Intrusions in Northern and Central Portugal: Constraints on the Emplacement Age and Nature of the Source Rocks, Minerals
• 2024-03-15, Deciphering Iberian Variscan Orogen Magmatism Using the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility from Granites, Minerals
• 2022-07-28, Role of Variscan granites in the genesis of Freixo de Numão W(Sn) district (Northern Portugal), Journal of Iberian Geology
• 2022-05-27, Magnetic fabrics and emplacement mechanisms of Valpaços and Freixo de Numão Variscan granites (Northern Portugal), International Journal of Earth Sciences
• 2020-10, The Esmolfe-Matança granite (Penalva do Castelo, central Portugal): A keystone to understand the ascent and emplacement of magmas under low tectonic stress, Journal of Structural Geology
• 2020-06-20, Geochemical Signature and Magnetic Fabric of Capinha Massif (Fundão, Central Portugal): Genesis, Emplacement and Relation with W–Sn Mineralizations, Minerals
• 2019-07, Emplacement mechanism of Caria-Vila da Ponte Pluton (Northern Portugal): Building and internal magmatic record, Journal of Structural Geology
• 2019, Micas 40Ar/39Ar dating of hydrothermal events related with the post-orogenic W (±Sn), (Cu, Mo) mineralization from Borralha, Northern Portugal, LIFE WITH ORE DEPOSITS ON EARTH, PROCEEDINGS OF THE SGA BIENNIAL MEETING, VOLS 1-4
• 2017, The santa helena breccia pipe (Borralha – north portugal). a new type of w ore deposit in the iberian tin-tungsten metallogenic province,Brecha de santa helena (Borralha – n portugal). um novo tipo de jazigo de w na província metalogénica estano-tungstífera ibérica, Comunicacoes Geologicas
• 2017, The Santa Helena Breccia Pipe (Borralha North Portugal). A new type of W ore deposit in the Iberian Tin-Tungsten Metallogenic Province, Comunicações Geológicas
• 2016-05-30, Propriedades magnéticas de granitos com alterações hidrotermais no Norte de Portugal, área de Godinhaços., Geocore - Revista do Núcleo de Geologia do Porto

Book chapter

• 2021, Anisotropia da Suscetibilidade Magnética em granitos variscos portugueses: 20 anos de investigação, Uma visão holística da Terra e do Espaço nas suas vertentes naturais e humanas. Homenagem à Professora Celeste Romualdo Gomes., CITEUC. © CITEUC, 2020

Conference paper

• Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Of Variscan Granite Intrusions From Northern And Central Portugal: Examples Of Freixo De Numão And Capinha, XIII Congreso Nacional y XIII Ibérico de Geoquímica
• Geochemistry Of The Rare Earth Elements In Granites From Northern And Central Portugal And Castilla-León (Spain) Regions , XIII Congreso Nacional y XIII Ibérico de Geoquímica
• Geochemical Signatures Of Variscan Granites From The Penedos-Borralha Area (Northern Portugal), XIII Congreso Nacional y XIII Ibérico de Geoquímica
• 2023-07-25, Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility: the key to understanding the ascending and emplacement mechanisms of granitic plutons, XIII MAGIBER, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências
• 2021-07-05, Differentiated granites and critical metal mineralizations in Freixo de Numão W(Sn) district, Northern Portugal. , Goldschmidt2021 | On-line conference
• 2019-09-24, Granitóides tardi-orogénicos Variscos do Norte e Centro de Portugal: suscetibilidade magnética, série magnetite/ilmenite e potencial metalogénico , XII Congresso Ibérico de Geoquímica 2019
• 2019-08-28, Micas 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of hydrothermal events related with the post-orogenic W (±Sn), (Cu, Mo) mineralization from Borralha, Northern Portugal, SGA 2019- Glasgow
• 2019-05-05, Estudo do fabric magnético e a definição da estruturação e modo de instalação do Plutão Esmolfe - Matança (Fornos de Algodres, Norte de Portugal): resultados preliminares, MAGIBER 2019
• 2018-07-10, Estudos de ASM no maciço pós-tectónico de Caria- Vila da Ponte (Centro de Portugal): resultados preliminares, X Congresso Nacional de Geologia
• 2018-04-06, Santa Helena breccia pipe a new type of W deposit in Iberian W-Sn Metallogenic province (Borralha, N Portugal), EGU General Assembly 2018
• 2018-03-27, The Gonçalo deposit: Geochemistry of the Li-rich aplite-pegmatite sills and its host granite., XIV Congresso de Geoquímica dos Países de Língua Portuguesa/XIX Semana da Geoquímica,
• 2018-03-26, Geochemical Characterization of Santa Helena Breccia (Borralha W Deposit, Northern Portugal), XIV Congresso de Geoquímica dos Países de Língua Portuguesa e XIX Semana de Geoquímica
• 2017-09-26, Rare Earth Elements mobility during hydrothermal alteration: Evidence from Santa Helena breccia, Borralha area (North Portugal). , XII Congreso Nacional Y Xi Congreso Ibérico De Geoquímica
• 2017-08-14, Rare-metal mineralization associated with a Variscan breccia pipe (Borralha, N Portugal), Goldschmidt 2017
• 2017, Identification of hydrothermal alteration zones in granitic areas using magnetic susceptibity, an example in NW Portugal
• 2016-12, The Santa Helena Breccia Pipe (Borralha N Portugal): a new mineralization type in Iberian Tin and Tungsten Province., Workshop on Earth Sciences
• 2016-11, Santa Helena Breccia Pipe (Borralha): a new type of tungsten ore deposit in Northern Portugal., Workshop on Recent Advances in W-Sn and Rare Metal deposit metallogenesis
• 2015-11-21, Magnetic properties of granites with hydrothermal alterations in Godinhaços area, Congresso Jovens Investigadores

Conference abstract

• 2025-11, Integrating Petrogenesis, Geophysics, and Geochemistry: a holistic approach to Granite-Related Mineral Systems. , Jornadas do ICT - Évora
• 2025-04, Tectonic Evolution of Portuguese Variscan Granites: Insights from Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) Data., 3ma12: The 12th edition of the International Symposium on Magmatism, Metamorphism, and Associated Mineralization
• 2025, Strain partitioning in transpression; a major feature in the evolution of the Ibero-Moroccan Variscides, GEOTOLOSA 2025 - 20ème ICCP - International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian
• 2023-07-17, Zircon U-Pb dating and Lu-Hf isotopes of granite intrusions from North and Central Portugal: emplacement age and source of magma, XI Congresso Nacional de Geologia
• 2023-02-02, Combined analysis of U-Pb and Lu-Hf in zircons from Freixo de Numão and Capinha granite intrusions (North and Central Portugal). , Jornadas do ICT, Universidade do Minho
• 2022-04-03, Petrofabric patterns of two contrasting plutons: example of Penedos and Borralha granites (Montalegre, Northern Portugal), EGU 2022
• 2022-03-28, Portuguese Variscan granites with metallogenic potential: what are their geological, petrophysical and geochemical signatures? , SGA 2022
• 2021-03-04, Reduced- or ilmenite-type granites versus oxidized- or magnetite-type granites: occurrence in Iberian Variscan Belt, EGU 2021
• 2020-03-10, Magnetic fabrics in Portuguese Variscan granites: structural markers of the Variscan orogeny, EGU2020 | On-line conference

Conference poster

• 2021-02-11, Deformation patterns in late- to post- and post-Variscan granites (Northern Portugal): structural and tectonic implications, Jornadas do ICT 2021
• 2020-05-04, Deformation and magnetic fabric of the Capinha granite (Fundão, Central Portugal): ascent and emplacement mechanisms during the late-Variscan crustal thinning, EGU2020 | On-line conference
• 2020-02-13, Microstructural and petrophysical properties of Caria-Vila da Ponte and Esmolfe-Matança late- to post-Variscan granites: implications for ascent and emplacement mechanisms, Jornadas anuais do Instituto de Ciências da Terra
• 2019-05-24, Evolução do fabric do Plutão de Esmolfe-Matança (Penalva do Castelo, N Portugal): resultados preliminares, Jornadas anuais do Instituto de Ciências da Terra
• 2018-11-24, Magnetic and mineral fabrics in Caria - Vila da Ponte Pluton (Northern Portugal): paramagnetic anisotropy implications., VIII Congresso Jovens Investigadores em Geociências, LEG 2018
• 2018-04-24, Santa Helena breccia (Borralha W district, Northern Portugal): its potential as a new tungsten deposit , Jornadas anuais do Instituto de Ciências da Terra
• 2018-04-24, Microstructural and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility studies in Caria-Vila da Ponte Massif (Sernancelhe area, Central Portugal): preliminary results, Jornadas Anuais do Instituto de Ciências da Terra
• 2017-11-24, Statistical analysis of the geochemical data of the Santa Helena Breccia, V Congresso de Jovens Investigadores em Geociências
• 2017-05-21, The Santa Helena Breccia Pipe (Borralha). An example of occurrence of disseminated W mineralization., Jornadas anuais do Instituto de Ciências da Terra

Other output

• 2019-04-15, Alinhamentos variscos e granitóides tardi-orogénicos do NO da Península Ibérica. Estudo das implicações para mineralizações de W (Sn)., Apresentação do estado do programa de trabalhos do Programa Doutoral em Geociências realizado na FCUP para alunos de licenciatura, mestrado e doutoramento.
• 2018-07-07, A importância da Geologia no concelho de Alijó, Cultural annotation published in the digital communication platform Alijó-On