OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economic Geology is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Geochemical and Isotopic Signature of Pyrite as a Proxy for Fluid Source and Evolution in the Candelaria-Punta del Cobre Iron Oxide Copper-Gold District, Chile	54
Exploration Implications of Multiple Formation Environments of Advanced Argillic Minerals	51
MESOZOIC Mo MINERALIZATION IN NORTHEASTERN CHINA DID NOT REQUIRE REGIONAL-SCALE PRE-ENRICHMENT	46
CALCITE U-Pb DATING UNRAVELS THE AGE AND HYDROTHERMAL HISTORY OF THE GIANT SHUIYINDONG CARLIN-TYPE GOLD DEPOSIT IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE, SOUTH CHINA	44
Apatite Texture, Composition, and O-Sr-Nd Isotope Signatures Record Magmatic and Hydrothermal Fluid Characteristics at the Black Mountain Porphyry Deposit, Philippines	43
Concentration Mechanisms of Rare Earth Element-Nb-Zr-Be Mineralization in the Baerzhe Deposit, Northeast China: Insights from Textural and Chemical Features of Amphibole and Rare Metal Minerals	43
Complementary Textural, Trace Element, and Isotopic Analyses of Sulfides Constrain Ore-Forming Processes for the Slate-Hosted Yuhengtang Au Deposit, South China	40
PRECISE AGES FOR LODE GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE XIAOQINLING GOLD FIELD, SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE NORTH CHINA CRATON: NEW CONSTRAINTS FROM IN SITU U-Pb DATING OF HYDROTHERMAL MONAZITE AND RUTILE	39
The Yichun Ta-Sn-Li Deposit, South China: Evidence for Extreme Chemical Fractionation in F-Li-P-Rich Magma	38
U-Pb Dating on Hydrothermal Rutile and Monazite from the Badu Gold Deposit Supports an Early Cretaceous Age for Carlin-Type Gold Mineralization in the Youjiang Basin, Southwestern China	37
Exhumation and Preservation of Paleozoic Porphyry Cu Deposits: Insights from the Yandong Deposit, Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt	36
A Continuum from Iron Oxide Copper-Gold to Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposits: Evidence from Fe and O Stable Isotopes and Trace Element Chemistry of Magnetite	36
Alteration Mineralogy of the Zhengguang Epithermal Au-Zn Deposit, Northeast China: Interpretation of Shortwave Infrared Analyses During Mineral Exploration and Assessment	35
Carbonate Replacement as the Principal Ore Formation Process in the Proterozoic McArthur River (HYC) Sediment-Hosted Zn-Pb Deposit, Australia	35
The New Century for Nickel Resources, Reserves, and Mining: Reassessing the Sustainability of the Devil’s Metal	34
Incipient Wolframite Deposition at Panasqueira (Portugal): W-Rich Rutile and Tourmaline Compositions as Proxies for the Early Fluid Composition	34
Release of Uranium from Uraninite in Granites Through Alteration: Implications for the Source of Granite-Related Uranium Ores	33
RECOGNITION OF A 600-KM-LONG LATE TRIASSIC RARE METAL (Li-Rb-Be-Nb-Ta) PEGMATITE BELT IN THE WESTERN KUNLUN OROGENIC BELT, WESTERN CHINA	33
Geology and Genesis of the Tuwu Porphyry Cu Deposit, Xinjiang, Northwest China	33
Generation of the Giant Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit by Repeated Recharge of Mafic Magmas at Pulang in Eastern Tibet	33
The Geochemistry of Magnetite and Apatite from the El Laco Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposit, Chile: Implications for Ore Genesis	32
Au-Ag-Te–RICH MELT INCLUSIONS IN HYDROTHERMAL GOLD-QUARTZ VEINS, XIAOQINLING LODE GOLD DISTRICT, CENTRAL CHINA	32
A Downgoing Indian Lithosphere Control on Along-Strike Variability of Porphyry Mineralization in the Gangdese Belt of Southern Tibet	32
Constraints on the Genesis of Cobalt Deposits: Part I. Theoretical Considerations	32
Age and Origin of the Dongping Au-Te Deposit in the North China Craton Revisited: Evidence from Paragenesis, Geochemistry, and In Situ U-Pb Geochronology of Garnet	30

New Insights into the Origin of the World-Class Jinding Sediment-Hosted Zn-Pb Deposit, Southwestern China: Evidence from LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Individual Fluid Inclusions	29
Magmatic-Hydrothermal Mineralization Processes at the Yidong Tin Deposit, South China: Insights from In Situ Chemical and Boron Isotope Changes of Tourmaline	29
Pyrite Textures and Trace Element Compositions from the Granodiorite-Hosted Gold Deposit at Jonnagiri, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India: Implications for Gold Mineralization Processes	29
Temporal Separation of W and Sn Mineralization by Temperature-Controlled Incongruent Melting of a Single Protolith: Evidence from the Wangxianling Area, Nanling Region, South China	29
Constraints on the Genesis of Cobalt Deposits: Part II. Applications to Natural Systems	28
Paleozoic Magmatism and Mineralization Potential of the Sanchakou Copper Deposit, Eastern Tianshan, Northwest China: Insights from Geochronology, Mineral Chemistry, and Isotopes	28
Skarn Zonation of the Giant Jiama Cu-Mo-Au Deposit in Southern Tibet, SW China	28
Petrography and Geochemistry of the Carboniferous Ortokarnash Manganese Deposit in the Western Kunlun Mountains, Xinjiang Province, China: Implications for the Depositional Environment and the Origin	27
Texture and Trace Element Composition of Rutile in Orogenic Gold Deposits	27
Alkaline-Silicate REE-HFSE Systems	27
The Giant Chalukou Porphyry Mo Deposit, Northeast China: The Product of a Short-Lived, High Flux Mineralizing Event	25
Petrogenesis of Scheelite-Bearing Albitite as an Indicator for the Formation of a World-Class Scheelite Skarn Deposit: A Case Study of the Zhuxi Tungsten Deposit	25
A Plea for More Skepticism Toward Fluid Inclusions: Part II. Homogenization via Halite Dissolution in Brine Inclusions from Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems Is Commonly the Result of Postentrapment Modif	25
The Geochronology of Tasmanian Tin Deposits Using LA-ICP-MS U-Pb Cassiterite Dating	21
EVOLUTION OF INVISIBLE Au IN ARSENIAN PYRITE IN CARLIN-TYPE Au DEPOSITS	21
Mineralization of the Bayan Obo Rare Earth Element Deposit by Recrystallization and Decarbonation	20
Temporal and Petrogenetic Links Between Mesoproterozoic Alkaline and Carbonatite Magmas at Mountain Pass, California	20
UNRAVELING MINERALIZATION AND MULTISTAGE HYDROTHERMAL OVERPRINTING HISTORIES BY INTEGRATED IN SITU U-Pb AND Sm-Nd ISOTOPES IN A PALEOPROTEROZOIC BRECCIA-HOSTED IOCG DEPOSIT, SW CHINA	20
TRACE ELEMENTS IN QUARTZ: INSIGHTS INTO SOURCE AND FLUID EVOLUTION IN MAGMATIC-HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS	20
Niobium, Critical Metal, and Progeny of the Mantle	20
Paragenesis of an Orogenic Gold Deposit: New Insights on Mineralizing Processes at the Grass Valley District, California	20
Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Freiberg Epithermal Ag-Pb-Zn District, Germany	20
A Plea for More Skepticism Toward Fluid Inclusions: Part I. Postentrapment Changes in Fluid Density and Fluid Salinity Are Very Common	20
Crustal-Scale Geology and Fault Geometry Along the Gold-Endowed Matheson Transect of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt	19
Triple Oxygen (δ18O, Δ17O), Hydrogen (δ2H), and Iron (δ56Fe) Stable Isotope Signatures Indicate a Silicate Magma Source and Magmatic-Hydrothermal Genesis for Magnetite Orebodies at El Laco, Chile	19
The Origin and Discrimination of High-Ti Magnetite in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems: Insight from Machine Learning Analysis	19
An Archean Porphyry-Type Gold Deposit: The Côté Gold Au(-Cu) Deposit, Swayze Greenstone Belt, Superior Province, Ontario, Canada	18
Fluid Evolution at the Batu Hijau Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, Indonesia: Hypogene Sulfide Precipitation from a Single-Phase Aqueous Magmatic Fluid During Chlorite–White-Mica Alteration	17
The Onto Cu-Au Discovery, Eastern Sumbawa, Indonesia: A Large, Middle Pleistocene Lithocap-Hosted High-Sulfidation Covellite-Pyrite Porphyry Deposit	17
Metasomatic High Field Strength Element, Tin, and Base Metal Enrichment Processes in Lithium Pegmatites from Southeast Ireland	17
Evaluating the Potential of Rhyolitic Glass as a Lithium Source for Brine Deposits	16
A TRIASSIC OROGENIC GOLD MINERALIZATION EVENT IN THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC METAMORPHIC ROCKS: EVIDENCE FROM TWO TYPES OF RUTILE IN THE BAIYUN GOLD DEPOSIT, LIAODONG PENINSULA, NORTH CHINA CRATON	16
RECOGNIZING PORPHYRY COPPER POTENTIAL FROM TILL ZIRCON COMPOSITION: A CASE STUDY FROM THE HIGHLAND VALLEY PORPHYRY DISTRICT, SOUTH-CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA	16
Are Vapor-Like Fluids Viable Ore Fluids for Cu-Au-Mo Porphyry Ore Formation?	16
Nova-Bollinger Ni-Cu Sulfide Ore Deposits, Fraser Zone, Western Australia: Petrogenesis of the Host Intrusions	16
The Teena Zn-Pb Deposit (McArthur Basin, Australia). Part I: Syndiagenetic Base Metal Sulfide Mineralization Related to Dynamic Subbasin Evolution	15
MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES, FLUID INCLUSIONS, PYRITE TRACE ELEMENTS, AND S-O ISOTOPES OF GOLD ORES FROM THE CENOZOIC DAPING DEPOSIT, SW CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GENESIS OF COMPLEX OROGENIC LODE GOLD SYSTE	15
The Teena Zn-Pb Deposit (McArthur Basin, Australia). Part II: Carbonate Replacement Sulfide Mineralization During Burial Diagenesis—Implications for Mineral Exploration	15
Contrasting Geochemistry of Apatite from Peridotites and Sulfide Ores of the Jinchuan Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposit, NW China	15
A Role for Crustal Assimilation in the Formation of Copper-Rich Reservoirs at the Base of Continental Arcs	14
Structural Evolution of the Central Kiruna Area, Northern Norrbotten, Sweden: Implications on the Geologic Setting Generating Iron Oxide-Apatite and Epigenetic Iron and Copper Sulfides	14
ZIRCON TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY AS AN INDICATOR OF MAGMA FERTILITY IN IRON OXIDE COPPER-GOLD PROVINCES	14
A New Model for the Genesis of Carboniferous Mn Ores, Longtou Deposit, South China Block	14
Quantitative Mineral Mapping of Drill Core Surfaces I: A Method for µXRF Mineral Calculation and Mapping of Hydrothermally Altered, Fine-Grained Sedimentary Rocks from a Carlin-Type Gold Deposi	13
Vertical Zoning in Hydrothermal U-Ag-Bi-Co-Ni-As Systems: A Case Study from the Annaberg-Buchholz District, Erzgebirge (Germany)	13
PRECISE AGE CONSTRAINTS FOR THE WOXI Au-Sb-W DEPOSIT, SOUTH CHINA	13
Quantitative Mineral Mapping of Drill Core Surfaces II: Long-Wave Infrared Mineral Characterization UsingμXRF and Machine Learning	13
A New Approach to Characterizing Deposit Type Using Mineral Inclusion Assemblages in Gold Particles	13
CONTROLS ON THE METAL ENDOWMENT OF PORPHYRY Mo DEPOSITS: INSIGHTS FROM THE LUMING PORPHYRY Mo DEPOSIT, NORTHEASTERN CHINA	13
Compositions and Ni-Cu-PGE Tenors of Nova-Bollinger Ores with Implications for the Origin of Pt Anomalies in PGE-Poor Massive Sulfides	13

Evolution of Multistage Hydrothermal Fluids in the Luoboling Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit, Zijinshan Ore Field, Fujian Province, China: Insights from LA-ICP-MS Analyses of Fluid Inclusions	13
Depositional and Environmental Constraints on the Late Neoarchean Dagushan Deposit (Anshan-Benxi Area, North China Craton): An Algoma-Type Banded Iron Formation	12
Structural Controls on Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Mineralization and Related Alteration in a Paleoproterozoic Supracrustal Belt: Insights from the Nautanen Deformation Zone and Surroundings, Northern Swed	12
Spatio-Temporal Shifts in Magmatism and Mineralization in Northern Colorado Beginning in the Late Eocene	12
Temperature-Controlled Ore Evolution in Orogenic Gold Systems Related to Synchronous Granitic Magmatism: An Example from the Iron Quadrangle Province, Brazil	12
Geology and Genesis of the Unkurtash Intrusion-Related Gold Deposit, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan	12
Sulfide Ore Formation of the Kalatongke Ni-Cu Deposit as Illustrated by Sulfide Textures	12
Re-Os PYRITE GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE YELLOWHEAD-TYPE MINERALIZATION, PEND OREILLE MINE, KOOTENAY ARC, METALINE DISTRICT, WASHINGTON	12
Mineralogical and Geochemical Evidence of Dissolution-Reprecipitation Controlled Hydrothermal Rare Earth Element Mineralization in the Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex, Gujarat, Western India	11
GEOCHRONOLOGY OF Sn MINERALIZATION IN MYANMAR: METALLOGENIC IMPLICATIONS	11
Geology, Structural Analysis, and Paragenesis of the Arrow Uranium Deposit, Western Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada: Implications for the Development of the Patterson Lake Corridor	11
GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS IN THE NORTHERN APENNINES, ITALY: MODERN ANALOGUES OF CARLIN-STYLE GOLD DEPOSITS	11
Lithologic and Geochemical Constraints on the Genesis of a Newly Discovered Orebody in the Jinchuan Intrusion, NW China	11
Hydrothermal Alteration Within the Brothers Submarine Arc Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand	11
Tin Enrichment in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Environments Associated with Cassiterite Mineralization at Ardlethan, Eastern Australia: Insights from Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd Isotope Compositions in Tourmaline	11
Mesozoic Hydrothermal Overprint on Carboniferous Bauxite in China	11
Carmacks Copper Cu-Au-Ag Deposit: Mineralization and Postore Migmatization of a Stikine Arc Porphyry Copper System in Yukon, Canada	11
The Mina Justa Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) Deposit, Peru: Constraints on Metal and Ore Fluid Sources	10
Rapid Formation of Porphyry and Skarn Copper-Gold Mineralization in a Postsubduction Environment: Re-Os and U-Pb Geochronology of the Ok Tedi Mine, Papua New Guinea	10
Distribution of Te, As, Bi, Sb, and Se in Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt and Komatiites and in Picrites and Basalts from Large Igneous Provinces: Implications for the Formation of Magmatic Ni-Cu-Platinum Grou	10
Geochronology, Petrogenesis and Oxidation State of the Northparkes Igneous Suite, New South Wales, Australia: Implications for Magma Fertility	10
FAULT-INDUCED GOLD SATURATION OF A SINGLE AURIFEROUS FLUID IS A KEY PROCESS FOR OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSIT FORMATION	10
Aqueous Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Tungsten with Emphasis on Mine Wastes	10
Trace Elements in Chromite as Indicators of the Origin of the Giant Podiform Chromite Deposit at Kempirsai, Kazakhstan	10
Fluids and Melts at the Magmatic-Hydrothermal Transition, Recorded by Unidirectional Solidification Textures at Saginaw Hill, Arizona, USA	10
Structural Controls on Alteration Stages at the Chuquicamata Copper-Molybdenum Deposit, Northern Chile	10
Timing and Mechanism of Ore Precipitation in Porphyry Cu Systems: Insight from LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Fluid Inclusions and In Situ Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Hydrothermal Quartz at Zhunuo Porphyry Cu D	10
Deformation, Magmatism, and Sulfide Mineralization in the Archean Golden Mile Fault Zone, Kalgoorlie Gold Camp, Western Australia	10