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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

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Professorial Fellow

Reid Keays

Research | Publications

Recent Publications

  • Song, X-Y, Keays, RR, Xiao, L, Qi, H-W, Ihlenfeld, 2009, Platinum-group element geochemistry of the continental flood basalts in the central Emeishan Large Igneous Province, SW China. Chem Geol 262: 246-261
  • Song, X-Y, Keays, RR, Zhou, M-F, Qi, L, Ihlenfeld, C and Xiao, J-F, 2009, Siderophile and chalcophile elemental constraints on the origin of the Jinchuan Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulfide deposit, NW China. Geochim  Cosmochim Acta 73: 404-424
  • Gregory, M. J., Keays, R. R., and Wilde, A. R., 2008, Magmatic history of the Eastern Creek volcanics, Mt Isa, Australia: Insights from trace-element and platinum-group-element geochemistry.  Aust Jour Earth Sci 55: 1153-1173
  • McInnes, B.I.A., Keays, R. R., Lambert, D. D., Hellstrom, J. and Allwood, J. S. (2008) Re-Os geochronology and isotope systematics of the Tanami, Tennant Creek and Olympic Dam Cu-Au deposits.  Aust Jour Earth Sci 55: 967-981
  • Gregory, M.J., Schaefer, B. F., Keays, R.R., and Wilde, A.R., 2008, Rhenium-osmium systematics of the Mount Isa copper ore body and the Eastern Creek Volcanics, Queensland, Australia: implications for ore genesis Mineral Deposita 43: 553-573
  • Keays, R.R. and Lightfoot, P.C., 2007, Siderophile and chalcophile metal variations in Tertiary picrites and basalts from West Greenland with implications for the sulphide saturation history of continental flood basalt magmas. Mineral. Deposita 42: 319-336.
  • Song, X.-Y, Zhou, M.-F., Keays, R. R., Cao, Z. M., and Qi, L. 2006, Geochemistry of the Emeishan flood basalts at Yangliuping, Sichuan, SW China: Implications for sulfide segregation: Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 152: 53-74
  • Wang, C. Y., Zhou, M.-F., and Keays, R. R., 2006, Geochemical constraints on the origin of the Permian Baimazhai mafic ultramafic intrusion, SW China. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 152: 309-321
  • Momme, P. , Tegner, C., Brooks, C. K., and Keays, R. R., 2006, Two melting regimes during Paleogene flood basalt generation in East Greenland: combined REE and PGE modeling. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 151, p. 88-100.
  • Zhou, M-F., Robinson, P. T., Lesher, C. M., Keays, R. R., Zhang, C.-J. and Malpas, J., 2005, Geochemistry, Petrogenesis and Metallogenesis of the Panzhihua Gabbroic Layered Intrusion and Associated Fe-Ti-V Oxide Deposits, Sichuan Province, SW China. Jour. Petrol. 46: 2253-2280
  • Lightfoot, P. C., and Keays, R. R., 2005, Siderophile and chalcophile metal variations in flood basalts from the Siberian Trap, Noril’sk Region: Implications for the origin of the Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ores: Econ. Geol. 100: 439-462
  • Sproule, R. A., Lesher, C. M., Houlé, M.G., Keays, R. R., Ayer, J. A. and Thurston, P. C., 2005, Chalcophile Element Geochemistry  and Metallogenesis of Komatiitic Rocks in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada: Econ Geol. 100: 1169-1190
  • Keays, R. R. and Lightfoot, P. C., 2004, Formation of Ni-Cu-Platinum Group Element sulphide mineralisation in the Sudbury impact melt sheet: Mineral. Petrol. 82: 217-258
  • Momme, P., Oskarsson, N. & Keays, R. R., 2003, Platinum-group elements in the Icelandic rift system: melting processes and mantle sources beneath Iceland: Chem. Geol. 196: 209-234.
  • Lesher, C. M. and Keays, R. R., 2002, Komatiite-associated Ni-Cu-(PGE) deposits: Geology, mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis, in “The geology, geochemistry, mineralogy and beneficiation of the platinum-group elements” edited by L. Cabri, Can. Inst. Min. Metall. Petroleum, Spec. Vol. 54, p. 579-618.