Can RAO, male, was born in Guizhou province, 1978. Professor of mineralogy at School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University (ZJU).

Education and Career:

2006-2009  School of Earth Sciences and engineering, Nanjing university. Ph.D.

2009-2011  Postdoctoral fellowship at Nanjing university.

2013.13-2018.12   Associate professor of mineralogy at School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University (ZJU).

2015.1-2016.1   Visiting scholar at Université de Liège

2018.12-     Professor of mineralogy at School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University (ZJU).

Communication Address:

School of Earth Sciences, ZJU, Hangzhou 310027, China

Tel: (00)86-15715749598

Fax: (00)86-571-87952453

E-mail: canrao@zju.edu.cn

Awards:

2017  Silver-Hammer Medal by the Chinese Society of Geology

New minerals: 

Strontiohurlbutite:  SrBe2(PO4)2   IMA No.2012-032,  Catalog No. M11803

Minjiangite:  Ba[Be2P2O8]   IMA No. 2013-021,  Catalog No. M11842

Mengxianminite:  (Ca,Na)2Sn2(Mg,Fe)3Al8[(BO3)(BeO4)O6]2   IMA No. 2015-70,  Catalog No. M13293

Zinconigerite-2N1S:  ZnSn2Al12O22(OH)2   IMA. 2018-037,  Catalog No. M13810

Chukochenite:  LiAl5O8   IMA. 2018-132a,  Catalog No. M13818

Zinconigerite-6N6: Zn₃Sn₂Al₁₆O₃₀(OH)₂   IMA. 2018-122a,Catalog No. M13811

Departmental Service:

Responsible for EMPA and Raman labs.

Publications

1). Rao Can, Wang Rucheng, Yang Yueqing, Hatert, Frédéric, Xia Qunke, Yue Xuege, Wang Wumengyu. (2017): Insights into post-magmatic metasomatism and Li circulation in granitic systems from phosphate minerals of the Nanping No. 31 pegmatite (SE China). Ore Geology Reviews, 91, 864-876.

2). Rao Can, Hatert Frédéric, Dal Bo Fabrice, Wang Rucheng, Gu Xiangping, Baijot Maxime. (2017): Mengxianminite (Ca₂Sn₂Mg₃Al₈[(BO₃)(BeO₄)O₆]₂) a new borate mineral from Xianghualing skarn, Hunan Province, China, with a highly unusual chemical combination (B + Be + Sn). American Mineralogist 102, 2136-2141.

3). Rao Can, Hatert Frédéric, Wang Ru cheng, Gu Xiang Ping, Dal Bo Fabrice, Dong Chuan Wan. (2015): Minjiangite, BaBe₂(PO₄)₂, a new mineral from Nanping No. 31 pegmatite, Fujian Province, southeastern China. Mineralogical Magazine, 79(5), 1195–1202.

4). Rao Can, Wang Ru cheng, Hatert Frédéric, Gu Xiang Ping, Ottolini Luisa, Hu Huan, Dong Chuan Wan, Dal Bo Fabrice, Baijot Maxime. (2014): Strontiohurlbutite, SrBe₂P₂O₈, a new mineral from Nanping No. 31 pegmatite, Fujian Province, Southeastern China, American Mineralogist, 99, 494-499.

5). Rao Can, Wang Rucheng, Hatert Frederic, Baijot Maxime. (2014): Hydrothermal transformations of triphylite from the Nanping No. 31 pegmatite dyke, southeastern China, European Journal Mineralogy, 26, 179-188.

6). Rao Can, Wang Ru Cheng, Zhang Ai Cheng, HU Huan. (2012): The corundum + tourmaline nodules related to hydrothermal alteration of spodumene in the Nanping No. 31 pegmatite dyke, Fujian Province, southeastern China. Canadian Mineralogist. 50, 1623-1635.

7). Rao Can, Wang Ru Cheng, Hu Huan. (2011): Paragenetic assemblages of beryllium silicates and phosphates from the Nanping No. 31 pegmatite dyke, Fujian Province, southeastern China, Canadian Mineralogist. 49,1175-1187.

8). Rao Can, Wang Ru Cheng, Hu Huan, Zhang Wen Lan. (2009): Complex internal texture in oxide minerals from the Nanping No. 31 dyke of granitic pegmatite, Fujian Province, southeastern China. Canadian Mineralogist. 47,1195-1212.

9). Yin Rong, Wang Ru Cheng, Zhang Ai Cheng, Hu Huan, Zhu Jin Chu, Rao Can, Zhang Hui. (2013): Extreme fractionation from zircon to hafnon in the Koktokay No. 1 granitic pegmatite, Altai, northwestern China. American Mineralogist, 98, 1714–1724.

10). Rong Yin, Ru Cheng Wang, Ai Cheng Zhang, Huan HU, Jin Chu Zhu, Can Rao, Hui Zhang. (2015): chemical evolution and late-stage re-equilibration of Zr-Hf-U-bearing columbite group minerals in the Koktokay No.1 granitic pegmatite, Altai, northwestern China. Canadian Mineralogist.53,461-478.