Journal articles

Willhite, L.N., Arevalo Jr, R., Piccoli, P., Lassiter, J.C., Rand, D., Jackson, M.G., Day, J.M., Nicklas, R.W., Locmelis, M., Ireland, T.J. and Puchtel, I.S., 2024. Oxygen fugacity of global ocean island basalts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(1), p.e2023GC011249. doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011249 

Adesina, K., Lin, T.C., Huang, Y.W., Locmelis, M. and Han, D., 2024. A Review of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Cold Atmospheric Plasma for Surface Sterilization and Decontamination. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. doi.org/10.1109/TRPMS.2024.3349571 

Sullivan, B., Locmelis, M., Tunnell, B.N., Seeger, C., Moroni, M., Dare, S., Mathur, R. and Schott, T., 2023. Genesis of the 1.45 Ga Kratz Spring Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposit Complex in Southeast Missouri, USA: Constraints from Oxide Mineral Chemistry. Economic Geology. doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.5003 

Xue, T., Peng, D., Liu, K.H., Obrist-Farner, J., Locmelis, M., Gao, S.S. and Liu, L., 2023. Ongoing fragmentation of the subducting Cocos slab, Central America. Geology. doi.org/10.1130/G51403.1 

Altankhuyag, G., Boldbaatar, E., Tunnell, B.N., Sereenen, J., Locmelis, M., Li, X. and Imai, A., 2023. Geology, mineralization and magma evolution of the Zuun Mod Mo-Cu deposit in Southwest Mongolia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 257, p.105857. doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105857 

Schoneveld, L., Barnes, S., Puchtel, I.S., Tessalina, S. and Locmelis, M., 2022. Distributions of Platinum Group Elements and Re-Os Isotope Systematics in Chromite from the Coobina Chromitite Deposit in Western Australia: Implications for Chromite as a Sulfide Mineralization Indicator. The Canadian Mineralogist, 60(6), pp.1045-1069. doi.org/10.3749/canmin.2200006  

Tunnell, B. N., Locmelis, M., Seeger, C., Moroni, M., Dare, S., Mathur, R., Sullivan, B.* (2022): The Shepherd Mountain Iron Ore Deposit in Southeast Missouri, USA – An Extension of the Pilot Knob Magmatic-Hydrothermal Ore System: Evidence from Iron Oxide Chemistry. Ore Geology Reviews, 141, pp. 104633. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104633 

Puchtel, I. S., Nicklas, R. W., Slagle, J., Horan, M., Walker, R. J., Nisbet, E. G., Locmelis, M. (2022): Early global mantle chemical and isotope heterogeneity revealed by the komatiite-basalt record: The Western Australia connection. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 320, pp. 238-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.11.030

Obrist-Farner, J., Brenner, M., Stone, J. R., Wojewódka-Przybył, M., Bauersachs, T., Eckert, A., Locmelis, M., Curtis, J. H., Zimmerman, S. R. H., Correa-Metrio, A., Schwark, L., Duarte, E., Schwalb., A., Niewerth, E., Echeverría-Galindo, P. G., Pérez, L. (2022): New estimates for the magnitude of the sea-level jump preceding the 8.2-ka event. Geology, 50(1), pp. 86-90. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49296.1 

Locmelis, M., Moroni, M., Denyszyn, S. W., Webb, L. E., Fiorentini, M. L., Sessa, G., Caruso, S., Mathur, R., and Nanzad, B., 2021. On the formation of magmatic sulfide systems in the lower crust by long-lived mass transfer through the lithosphere: Insights from the Valmaggia pipe, Ivrea Verbano Zone, Italy. Terra Nova. v. 33, no. 2, pp. 137-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12499 

Tunnell, B.N., Locmelis, M., Seeger, C., Mathur, R., Dunkl, I., Sullivan, B. and Lori, L., 2021. The Pilot Knob Iron Ore Deposits in Southeast Missouri: A High-To-Low Temperature Magmatic-Hydrothermal Continuum. Ore Geology Reviews, 131, p.103973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103973 

Tunnell, B. N. , Conder, J. A., Anderson, K. B., Locmelis, M., 2021. A cycle-jumping method for multicyclic Hubbert modeling of resource production. p.e12296. Natural Resource Modelling. v. 34, no.1, e12296. https://doi.org/10.1111/nrm.12296 

Obrist‐Farner, J., Eckert, A., Locmelis, M., Crowley, J. L., Mota‐Vidaure, B., Lodolo, E., Rosenfeld, J. and Duarte, E., 2020. The role of the Polochic Fault as part of the North American and Caribbean Plate boundary: Insights from the infill of the Lake Izabal Basin. Basin Research, 32(6), 1347-1364. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12431 

Locmelis, M., Arevalo, R.D., Puchtel, I.S., Fiorentini, M.L. and Nisbet, E.G., 2019. Transition metals in komatiitic olivine: Proxies for mantle composition, redox conditions, and sulfide mineralization potential. American Mineralogist, 104(8), pp.1143-1155. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2019-6914 

Holwell, D.A., Fiorentini, M., McDonald, I., Lu, Y., Giuliani, A., Smith, D.J., Keith, M. and Locmelis, M., 2019. A metasomatized lithospheric mantle control on the metallogenic signature of post-subduction magmatism. Nature communications, 10(1), pp.1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11065-4 

Boldbaatar, E., Nanzad, B., Sereenen, J., Locmelis, M., Osanai, Y., Batsaikhan, N., Dashtseren, K. and Zorigtbaatar, A., 2019. Geochronology and geochemistry of the intrusive suite associated with Khatsavch porphyry Cu-Au (Mo) mineralization, South Mongolia. Ore Geology Reviews, 102978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.102978 

Locmelis, M., Fiorentini, M.L., Barnes, S.J., Hanski, E.J. and Kobussen, A.F. (2018). Ruthenium in chromite as indicator for magmatic sulfide liquid equilibration in mafic-ultramafic systems: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 97, p. 152-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.05.002 

Fiorentini, M.L., LaFlamme, C., Denyszyn, S., Mole, D., Maas, R., Locmelis, M., Caruso, S. and Bui, T.H. (2018). Post-collisional alkaline magmatism as gateway for metal and sulfur enrichment of the continental lower crust: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 223, p. 175-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.11.009 

Funderburg, R., Arevalo Jr., R., Locmelis, M., Adachi, T. (2017). Improved Precision and Accuracy of Quantification of Rare Earth Element Abundances via Medium-Resolution LA-ICP-MS: Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, v. 21, no. 11, p. 2344-2351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-017-1745-5 

Baumgartner, R. J., Fiorentini, M. L., Baratoux, D., Ferrière, L., Locmelis, M., Tomkins, A., Sener, A. K. (2017). The variability of ruthenium in chromite from chassignite and olivine-phyric shergottite meteorites: New insights into the behavior of PGE and sulfur in Martian magmatic systems: Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 52, no. 2, p. 333-350. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.12795 

Locmelis, M., Fiorentini, M. L., Rushmer, T., Arevalo Jr., R., Adam, J., Denyszyn, S. W. (2016). Sulfur and metal fertilization of the lower continental crust: Lithos, v. 244, p. 74-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2015.11.028 

Gonzalez-Jimenez, J. M., Locmelis, M., Belousova, E., Griffin, W. L., Gervilla, F., Kerestedjian, T. N., O'Reilly, S. Y., Pearson, N. J., Sergeeva, I. (2015). Genesis and tectonic implications of podiform chromitites in the metamorphosed Ultramafic Massif of Dobromirtsi (Bulgaria): Gondwana Research, v. 27, no. 2, p. 555-574.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.09.020 

Adam, J., Locmelis, M., Afonso, J. C., Rushmer, T., Fiorentini, M. L. (2014). The capacity of hydrous fluids to transport and fractionate incompatible elements and metals within the Earth's mantle: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-cubed), v. 15, no. 6, p. 2241-2253. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GC005199 

Zaccarini, F., Garuti, G., Fiorentini, M. L., Locmelis, M., Kollegger, P., Thalhammer, O. A. R. (2014). Mineralogical residence of platinum group elements (PGE) and rhenium in the magmatic Ni-Fe-Cu sulfide deposits of the Ivrea Verbano Zone (Italy): An electron microprobe study. Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry (Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen), v. 191, no. 2, p. 169-187. https://doi.org/10.1127/0077-7757/2014/0255 

Locmelis, M., Fiorentini, M. L., Barnes, S. J., Pearson, N. J. (2013). Ruthenium variation in chromite from komatiites and komatiitic basalts - a potential mineralogical indicator for nickel-sulfide mineralization: Economic Geology, v. 108, no. 2, p. 355-364. https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.108.2.355 

Oberthür, T., Melcher, F., Bucholz, P., Locmelis, M., (2013). The oxidized ores of the Main Sulfide Zone, Great Dyke, Zimbabwe. Turning resources into minable reserves – mineralogy is the key: The Journal of The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, v. 113, p. 191-201. ISSN 2411-9717 

Locmelis, M., Pearson, N. J., Barnes, S. J., Fiorentini, M. L. (2011). Ruthenium in komatiitic chromite: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, no. 13, p. 3645-3661.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.041 

Barnes, S. J., Godel, B., Locmelis M., Fiorentini, M. L., Ryan, C. (2011). Extremely Ni-rich Fe-Ni sulphide assemblages in komatiitic dunite at Betheno, Western Australia: results from synchrotron X-ray fluorescence mapping: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 58, no. 7, p. 691-709 -201. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2011.586048 

Dadd, K. A., Locmelis, M., Higgins, K., Hashimoto, R. Daniell, J. (2011). Cenozoic volcanism of the Capel-Faust Basins, Lord Howe Rise, SW Pacific Ocean: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, v. 58, no.7-8, p. 922-932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.10.048 

Locmelis, M., Melcher, F., Oberthür, T. (2010). Platinum-group element distribution in the oxidized Main Sulfide Zone, Great Dyke, Zimbabwe: Mineralium Deposita, v. 45, 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-009-0258-y 

Locmelis, M., Barnes, S. J., Pearson, N. J., Fiorentini, M. L., (2009). Anomalous sulfur-poor Platinum-group element mineralization in komatiitic cumulates, Mount Clifford, Western Australia: Economic Geology, v. 104, no. 6, p. 841-855. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.104.6.841