Professor Reid R. Keays

Qualifications Ph.D. McMaster Univ Research Interests Metallogenic fertility and Re-Os geochronology of ore systems Controls on the formation of Palladium-rich sulfide mineralization in the River Valley intrusion, Sudbury area, Ontario Platinum group element geochemistry of flood basalts and sub-volcanic intrusions Contact Reid p: +61 3 9905 4072 f: +61 3 9905 4903 e: Reid Keays

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Research Projects

Mafic complexes: Discriminating Nickel fertile from barren systems

Professor R. Keays (Chief Investigator)
Funding for 2006: $132,624 (AngloAmerican Exploration Pty Ltd)

A set of tools will be developed to permit discrimination of rocks associated with Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide mineralization from similar rocks, which have no association with mineralization.  Of particular interest will be discrimination of continental flood basalts (CFB) that host mineralization (the Siberian Trap of the Noril’sk region, Russia) from those such as the Deccan CFB that do not.