Research interests:
- Raman microspectroscopy and EDS-XRF microspectroscopy in mineralogy
- mineralogical and geochemical research of hypergenous processes of ore deposites
- spectroscopic analysis of pigments in cultural heritage
Methods:
- Raman microspectroscopy
- EDS-XRF microspectroscopy
Education:
since 2000: Geological Institute SAS, Earth science institute SAS, Banská Bystrica
1996–1999: PhD. degree, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, PhD. thesis: Ochreous precipitates – products of weathering processes on Fe and Sb-Au-As deposits in the Malé Karpaty Mts.
1991–1996: MSc. degree, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
Training:
May 19.–22., 2014: Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging in the Earth Sciences, Earth science institute SAC, Banská Bystrica, prof. Nasdala (Faculty of Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, University of Vienna)
November 5.-16., 2012: Raman spectroscopy in geosciences, prof. Lazor (Earth science Faculty, Uppsala University, Sweden)
September 6.-19., 1998: Deposit and Geoenvironmental Models for Resource Exploitation and Environmental Security, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Mátraháza, Hungary
Publications:
Majzlan J., Zittlau A. H., Grevel K. D., Schliesser, J.,Woodfield B. F., Dachs E., Števko M., Chovan M., Plášil J., Sejkora J., Milovská S., 2016: Thermodynamic properties and phase eqiulibria of the secondary copper minerals libethenite, olivenite, pseudomalachite, kröhnkite, cyanochroite, and devilline. The Canadian Mineralogist 53, pp. 1-24, DOI: 10.3749/canmin.1400066, In press.
Uher P., Milovská S., Milovský R., Kodera P., Bačík P., Bilohuščin V., 2015: Kerimasite, {Ca-3}[Zr-2](SiFe23+)O-12 garnet from the Vysoka-Zlatno skarn, Stiavnica stratovolcano, Slovakia. Mineralogical Magazine 79, no. 3, p. 715-733
Kharabish S., Andáš P., Luptáková J., Milovská S., 2014: Raman spectra of oriented and non-oriented Cu hydroxy-phosphate minerals: Libethenite, cornetite, pseudomalachite, reichenbachite and ludjibaite. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 130, p. 152-163.
Apopei A. I., Damian G., Buzgar N., Milovská S., Buzatu A., 2014: New occurrences of hessite, petzite and stützite at Coranda-Hondol open pit (Certej gold-silver deposit, Romania). Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 71-78.
Majzlan J., Lalinská B., Chovan M., Jurkovič L., Milovská S., Göttlicher J. 2007: The formation, structure, and ageing of As-rich hydrous ferric oxide at the abandoned Sb deposit Pezinok (Slovakia), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (17), pp. 4206-4220
Trtíková S., 2002: Environmental impact of exploitation of pyrite and stibnite in the Malé Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia. In: Deposit and Geoenvironmental Models for Resource Exploitation and Environmental Security. – Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 461-470.
Trtíková S., Madejová J., Kušnierová M., Chovan M., 1999: Precipitation and chemical composition of iron ochres in the pyrite and stibnite deposits in the Malé Karpaty Mts. Slovak Geological Magazine 5, 3, 179-186.