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Department Head Dr. M. Stephen Enders (PhD, University of Arizona) has worked in the mining and mineral exploration business for 41 years after earning a BS in geological engineering from Mines in 1976 and a MS in geological engineering from University of Arizona in 1981. He ultimately went on to become the president of Phelps Dodge Exploration Corporation after earning a PhD in Geoscience at the University of Arizona in 2000. Dr. Enders left Phelps Dodge to join Newmont Mining Company as their senior vice president of worldwide exploration in 2003, retiring from that position in 2009. He went on to be chairman of the board and the chief operating officer of Eurasian Minerals Inc., and a co-founder and director of Cupric Canyon Capital LLC. Currently, Dr. Enders is a professor and the department head for the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at Mines. He is an honorary lecturer and past president of the Society of Economic Geologists, and received the Distinguished Achievement Medal from Mines in 2009, the Ben F. Dickerson Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration in 2014 and the Ralph W. Marsden Award from the Society of Economic Geologists in 2016. [email protected] • mines.edu/faculty/project/m-stephen-enders Dr. Alexander Gysi (PhD, University of Iceland) conducts research and experiments to understand the geochemistry of REE in crustal fluids and ore-forming processes. Dr. Gysi’s has a strong interdisciplinary background covering aqueous geochemistry, mineralogy and petrology and has worked internationally with several industrial partners over his academic career. He has collaborated with the industry for the exploration of the world-class REE-Zr-Nb deposit in Strange Lake, Canada and his current work is focused on the formation of critical metal deposits. His research at Mines is currently funded by government grants (e.g. National Science Foundation), and aims at linking fundamental and applied research to advance the field of economic geology of critical metal resources. Dr. Gysi’s research interests include: Lithogeochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits, Thermodynamics of fluid-mineral equilibria, Experiments and numerical modeling of hydrothermal fluid-rock interaction, Geochemistry of rare earth elements and other critical metals, Evolution of pegmatites and alkaline/peralkaline magmatic-hydrothermal systems, and CO2 sequestration in geological rock formations. [email protected] • geochem.mines.edu/project/alexander-gysi Dr. Yvette Kuiper (PhD, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 2004) She has authored 43 peer reviewed publications, field guides and published government reports and maps. She has taught 22 unique classes at four different universities over her academic career. Dr. Kuiper serves as a peer reviewer for 14 different academic journals and four different national research funding sources. Dr. Kuiper’s research is supported by the National Science Foundation, geological surveys and the mining industry. Dr. Kuiper’s research focuses in general on structural analysis and geochronology of metamorphosed regions, tectonic evolution of mountain belts, the structural setting of ore deposits, and comparison of field structural data with numerical models that predict the formation and development of structures. Dr. Kuiper’s research on evolution of mountain belts with an emphasis on shear zones and fold belts, is currently carried out in the southeastern New England Appalachians and Morocco, the southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Ontario and Quebec, and the Idaho Springs – Ralston Shear Zone in Colorado. Recent areas include the Rackla Gold Belt, Yukon, Canada; the Foxe Fold Belt, Nunavut, Canada; the Monashee Complex, British Columbia, Canada; the Hudson Valley fold-thrust belt, NY; and the Superior Boundary Zone, Manitoba, Canada. [email protected] • geology.mines.edu/project/yvette-kuiper ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS Dr. Zhaoshan Chang (PhD, Economic Geology, Peking University, China; PhD, Economic Geology, Washington State University) has worked at Peking University as an Assistant Professor (1997-2000), at Washington State University as a postdoctoral Research Associate (2004), at CODES, University of Tasmania, Australia, as a Research Fellow and then Senior Research Fellow (2004-2011), and at James Cook University (JCU), Australia as a Senior Lecturer then Associate Professor (2011-2018). He was also the Director of EGRU (Economic Geology Research Centre) at JCU from 2012 to 2018. Dr. Chang currently sits at CSM as the Charles Fogarty Endowed Chair in Economic Geology. He has studied a wide spectrum of mineral systems, including porphyry-, skarn-, epithermal-, IOCG- deposits, W-Sn, and sediment-hosted gold deposits in 14 countries. He works closely with the mineral industry on exploration-oriented research projects, looking for far field signals, discriminators and zoning patterns in mineralogy, textures, spectral features, whole rock and mineral geochemistry, and isotopic signatures that can be directly used in exploration with relatively low cost and quick turnaround. He also works on ore-forming processes and ore controlling factors, magma fertility, and regional metallogenesis. His research mainly involves field investigation and drill core logging, petrography, SWIR spectral techniques, whole rock and mineral chemistry, textural imaging using various techniques (LA-ICP-MS, PIXE, CL, BSE, microprobe), geochronology, fluid inclusion thermometry and composition, various isotope systems (O-H-S-C; Cu-Zn-Fe; Sr, Hf), and LA-ICP-MS techniques (dating and trace element analysis) [email protected] • www.mines.edu/faculty/project/zhaoshan-chang
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Department Head Dr. M. Stephen Enders (PhD, University of Arizona) has worked in the mining and mineral exploration business for 41 years after earning a BS in geological engineering from Mines in 1976 and a MS in geological engineering from University of Arizona in 1981. He ultimately went on to become the president of Phelps Dodge Exploration Corporation after earning a PhD in Geoscience at the University of Arizona in 2000. Dr. Enders left Phelps Dodge to join Newmont Mining Company as their senior vice president of worldwide exploration in 2003, retiring from that position in 2009. He went on to be chairman of the board and the chief operating o� cer of Eurasian Minerals Inc., and a co-founder and director of Cupric Canyon Capital LLC.
Currently, Dr. Enders is a professor and the department head for the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at Mines. He is an honorary lecturer and past president of the Society of Economic Geologists, and received the Distinguished Achievement Medal from Mines in 2009, the Ben F. Dickerson Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration in 2014 and the Ralph W. Marsden Award from the Society of Economic Geologists in 2016.
[email protected] • mines.edu/faculty/project/m-stephen-enders
Dr. Alexander Gysi (PhD, University of Iceland) conducts research and experiments to understand the geochemistry of REE in crustal fl uids and ore-forming processes. Dr. Gysi’s has a strong interdisciplinary background covering aqueous geochemistry, mineralogy and petrology and has worked internationally with several industrial partners over his academic career. He has collaborated with the industry for the exploration of the world-class REE-Zr-Nb deposit in Strange Lake, Canada and his current work is focused on the formation of critical metal deposits. His research at Mines is currently funded by government grants (e.g. National Science Foundation), and aims at linking fundamental and applied research to advance the fi eld of economic geology of critical metal resources.
Dr. Gysi’s research interests include: Lithogeochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits, Thermodynamics of fl uid-mineral equilibria, Experiments and numerical modeling of hydrothermal fl uid-rock interaction, Geochemistry of rare earth elements and other critical metals, Evolution of pegmatites and alkaline/peralkaline magmatic-hydrothermal systems, and CO2 sequestration in geological rock formations.
[email protected] • geochem.mines.edu/project/alexander-gysi
Dr. Yvette Kuiper (PhD, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 2004) She has authored 43 peer reviewed publications, fi eld guides and published government reports and maps. She has taught 22 unique classes at four di� erent universities over her academic career. Dr. Kuiper serves as a peer reviewer for 14 di� erent academic journals and four di� erent national research funding sources. Dr. Kuiper’s research is supported by the National Science Foundation, geological surveys and the mining industry. Dr. Kuiper’s research focuses in general on structural analysis and geochronology of metamorphosed regions, tectonic evolution of mountain belts, the structural setting of ore deposits, and comparison of fi eld structural data with numerical models that predict the formation and development of structures.
Dr. Kuiper’s research on evolution of mountain belts with an emphasis on shear zones and fold belts, is currently carried out in the southeastern New England Appalachians and Morocco, the southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Ontario and Quebec, and the Idaho Springs – Ralston Shear Zone in Colorado. Recent areas include the Rackla Gold Belt, Yukon, Canada; the Foxe Fold Belt, Nunavut, Canada; the Monashee Complex, British Columbia, Canada; the Hudson Valley fold-thrust belt, NY; and the Superior Boundary Zone, Manitoba, Canada.
[email protected] • geology.mines.edu/project/yvette-kuiper
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Zhaoshan Chang (PhD, Economic Geology, Peking University, China; PhD, Economic Geology, Washington State University) has worked at Peking University as an Assistant Professor (1997-2000), at Washington State University as a postdoctoral Research Associate (2004), at CODES, University of Tasmania, Australia, as a Research Fellow and then Senior Research Fellow (2004-2011), and at James Cook University (JCU), Australia as a Senior Lecturer then Associate Professor (2011-2018). He was also the Director of EGRU (Economic Geology Research Centre) at JCU from 2012 to 2018. Dr. Chang currently sits at CSM as the Charles Fogarty Endowed Chair in Economic Geology. He has studied a wide spectrum of mineral systems, including porphyry-, skarn-, epithermal-, IOCG- deposits,
W-Sn, and sediment-hosted gold deposits in 14 countries. He works closely with the mineral industry on exploration-oriented research projects, looking for far fi eld signals, discriminators and zoning patterns in mineralogy, textures, spectral features, whole rock and mineral geochemistry, and isotopic signatures that can be directly used in exploration with relatively low cost and quick turnaround. He also works on ore-forming processes and ore controlling factors, magma fertility, and regional metallogenesis. His research mainly involves fi eld investigation and drill core logging, petrography, SWIR spectral techniques, whole rock and mineral chemistry, textural imaging using various techniques (LA-ICP-MS, PIXE, CL, BSE, microprobe), geochronology, fl uid inclusion thermometry and composition, various isotope systems (O-H-S-C; Cu-Zn-Fe; Sr, Hf), and LA-ICP-MS techniques (dating and trace element analysis)
[email protected] • www.mines.edu/faculty/project/zhaoshan-chang
Dr. Katharina Pfa� (PhD, University Tuebingen, Germany) is a mineralogist by training who runs the SEM lab in the Department for Geology and Geological Engineering at Mines. Her lab is entirely industry funded and, as a result, her work is focused primarily on industry projects. This unique situation allows Dr. Pfa� to instruct through assignments that closely relate to what industry issues are relevant at the present time. Her students and advisees often participate on projects that she pursues with industry partners.
Dr. Pfa� ’s research interests include: mineral chemistry and mineralogy; geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits; economic geology of hydrothermal ore deposits; thermodynamic modeling of element solubilities,
transportation and precipitation mechanisms and fl uid/rock interaction; igneous petrology in peralkaline systems, magmatic layering; rare earth element systematics in igneous and hydrothermal systems; and radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry.
kpfa� @mines.edu • mines.edu/faculty/project/katharina-pfa�
Dr. Thomas Monecke (PhD, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) is an economic geologist specializing in the formation of base and precious metal deposits in modern and ancient volcanic arcs. He has more than 20 years of experience in geological research and mineral exploration and has authored or co-authored approximately 80 journal papers, book chapters, government publications and fi eld guides during that period. Dr. Monecke’s doctoral thesis focuses on the anatomy of a volcanic-hosted massive sulfi de deposit in northern Australia. Dr. Monecke has conducted post-doctoral research on modern and ancient gold-rich volcanic-hydrothermal systems at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany, the University of Ottawa and the Geological Survey of Canada. He runs a large research group and supervises graduate student
working on a diverse range of hydrothermal ore deposits around the world.
Dr. Monecke’s research interests include: metallogeny of modern and ancient volcanic arcs; economic geology of hydrothermal ore deposits; fl uid-fl uid, fl uid-mineral and fl uid-rock interactions as tools to reconstruct fl uid characteristics; physical volcanology; archean geology and metallogenesis; and hydrothermal geochemistry.
[email protected] • mines.edu/faculty/project/thomas-monecke
Dr. Richard Palin (PhD, University of Oxford) is principally a metamorphic petrologist, but frequently integrates geochemistry, isotope geochronology and structural geology into his research. He has performed a number of fi eld- and laboratory-based investigations on rocks from the Himalayan–Karakoram–Tibetan orogen, resulting in quantitative models that have constrained the timing and nature of its growth and deformation.
Dr. Palin’s research interests include: The mechanisms and physico-chemical e� ects of fl uid–rock and melt–rock interactions in di� erent metamorphic environments and geodynamic settings; the development and testing of new activity–composition (a–x) relations and computational techniques for use in petrological
phase equilibrium modeling; early-Earth evolution and secular changes in metamorphism and tectonic styles since the Archean; and metamorphic geology of the Himalayan–Karakoram–Tibetan orogen.
[email protected] • inside.mines.edu/~rmpalin
Dr. Piret Plink-Björklund (PhD, Göteborg University) has worked on projects ranging from loose modern sediments to Precambrian sedimentary rocks with considerable metamorphic overprint. She has frequently advised students with sedimentary-hosted copper PhD projects. Her research is of a fundamental nature and she has had projects that have benefi ted petroleum, mineral and dimension stone businesses. Her belief that understanding the stratigraphic record, combined with other fundamental pillars of geology, creates a more robust program for understanding rocks at the outcrop and basin scale.
Dr. Plink- Björklund’s research interests include: outcrop studies in Precambrian to Quaternary successions; the record of climate, sea-level and tectonic changes in the sediments and sedimentary rocks; and the linkage of depositional systems from source to sink.
[email protected] • mines.edu/faculty/project/piret-plink-bjorklund
Dr. Richard Wendlandt (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is a hard rock geochemist who previously held a position at Exxon Production Research Company as a petrophysicist. He was primarily tasked with investigating the e� ects of clay minerals on rock properties and well log response. Dr. Wendlandt is currently working on developing a new exploration research center at Mines. The Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models (CASERM) aims to focus research on better integration of diverse geoscience data, collected at varying scales and resolutions, to visualize earth resources. There is heavy NSF and industry support to conduct research within CASERM with the intent of contributing to science that can be applied directly within the minerals industry.
Dr. Wendlandt’s research interests include: environmental and applied mineralogy; experimental geochemistry; reservoir characterization/petrophysics with an emphasis on the e� ects of clay minerals on rock and fl uid properties; integration of experimental and numerical simulations of fl uid-rock interactions; genesis of magmas and e� ects of volatile components on magmatic processes; igneous occurrences and their relation to continental rift structure, evolution and tectonics.
[email protected] • mines.edu/faculty/project/richard-f-wendlandt
