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2025
L. R. Katz, Kontak, D. J., and Dubé, B., “Alteration Lithogeochemistry of an Archean Porphyry-Type Au(-Cu) Setting: The World-Class Côté Gold Deposit, Canada”, Minerals, vol. 15, 2025.
M. Harlaux, Blein, O., Ballouard, C., Kontak, D. J., Thiéblemont, D., Dabosville, A., and Gourcerol, B., “Geochemical footprints of peraluminous rare-metal granites and pegmatites in the northern French Massif Central and implications for exploration targeting”, Ore Geology Reviews, vol. 176, p. 106409, 2025.
W. - S. Lee, Kontak, D. J., Sack, P. J., Crowley, J. L., and Creaser, R. A., “Geology, Petrology and Geochronology of the Late Cretaceous Klaza Epithermal Deposit: A Window into the Petrogenesis of an Emerging Porphyry Belt in the Dawson Range, Yukon, Canada”, Minerals, vol. 15, 2025.
2024
A. Crépon, Mathieu, L., Kontak, D. J., Marsh, J., and Hamilton, M. A., “An Archean Porphyry-Type Deposit: Cu-Au Mineralization Associated with the Chibougamau Tonalite–Diorite Pluton, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada”, Minerals, vol. 14, 2024.
M. J. Kerr, Hanley, J. J., Kontak, D. J., Ramlochund, P., and Zajacz, Z., “Auriferous Fluid Evolution and the Role of Carbonaceous Matter in a Saddle-Reef Gold Deposit: Dufferin Deposit, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada”, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 25, p. e2024GC011861, 2024.
A. Pochon, Kontak, D. J., Iacono-Marziano, G., Gloaguen, E., Tuduri, J., Chatelin, T., Précigout, J., Rodríguez, H. Campos, Mollé, V., Gourcerol, B., and Monnier, L., “Fluid inclusions in magmatic ilmenite record degassing in basic magmas”, Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 5, p. 626, 2024.
J. Mathieu, Turner, E. C., Kontak, D. J., and Fayek, M., “Redbed diagenesis links district-scale mineralising fluids to Cu source rock in the Polaris Zn-Pb(-Cu) district, Arctic Canada”, Ore Geology Reviews, p. 105916, 2024.
J. D. Pfister, Kontak, D. J., Groat, L. A., and Fayek, M., “Stable isotopes (O, H) and quartz geochemistry provide insight to melt source and subsolidus fluid: Rock interaction in the Cretaceous Little Nahanni LCT Pegmatites (NWT, Canada)”, Chemical Geology, p. 122292, 2024.
M. Pichavant, Erdmann, S., Kontak, D. J., Michaud, J. A. S., and Villaros, A., “Trace element partitioning in strongly peraluminous rare-metal silicic magmas – Implications for fractionation processes and for the origin of the Macusani Volcanics (SE Peru)”, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 365, pp. 229-252, 2024.
2023
E. A. Wehrle, Samson, I. M., Montreuil, J. - F., and Kontak, D. J., “Au-Bi-Te(-Cu) Mineralization in the Wawa Gold Corridor (Ontario, Canada): Implications for the Role of Bi-Rich Polymetallic Melts in Orogenic Au Systems”, Minerals, vol. 13, 2023.
M. Harlaux, Kontak, D. J., Clark, A. H., Kouzmanov, K., Holm-Denoma, C. S., Gialli, S., Laurent, O., Spikings, R., Chauvet, A., Dini, A., Kalinaj, M., and Fontboté, L., “Depositing >1.5 Mt of Tin Within <1 m.y. of Initial Granitic Intrusion in the San Rafael Tin (-Copper) Deposit, Southeastern Peru”, Economic Geology, vol. 118, pp. 1371-1396, 2023.
B. Choquette, Kontak, D. J., Côté-Lavoie, É., and Fayek, M., “A Fluid Chemical Study of the World-Class, Intrusion-Related Archean Windfall Gold Deposit, Quebec, Canada”, Economic Geology, 2023.
B. Choquette and Kontak, D. J., “Geologic and Geochemical Features of the World-Class Archean Windfall Intrusion-Related Au Deposit, Abitibi Subprovince, Canada”, Economic Geology, 2023.
E. C. Turner, Dabros, Q., Broughton, D. W., and Kontak, D. J., “Textural and geochemical evidence for two-stage mineralisation at the Kamoa-Kakula Cu deposits, Central African Copperbelt”, Mineralium Deposita, 2023.
J. D. Pfister, Kontak, D. J., and Groat, L. A., “Textural and Mineralogical Evolution of the Little Nahanni Pegmatite Group (NWT, Canada) with Implications for Metasomatism, Rare-Metal Mineralization, and Pegmatite–Wall Rock Interaction”, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 61, pp. 467-505, 2023.
J. D. Pfister, Kontak, D. J., and Marsh, J. H., “Unraveling 800 Ma of pegmatite formation in the western Grenville Front tectonic Zone near Sudbury, Canada”, Precambrian Research, vol. 395, p. 107128, 2023.
2022
L. Bickerton, Kontak, D. J., J. Murphy, B., Kellett, D. A., Samson, I. M., Marsh, J. H., Dunning, G., and Stern, R., “The age and origin of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) as constrained by zircon U–Pb geochronology, geochemistry, and O–Hf isotopes”, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, pp. 418-454, 2022.
C. He, Li, J., Kontak, D. J., Jin, X., Wu, Y., Hu, H., Zu, B., Yu, X., Zhao, S., Du, S., Zhu, Y., and Tao, H., “An Early Cretaceous gold mineralization event in the Triassic West Qinling orogen revealed from U-Pb titanite dating of the Ma’anqiao gold deposit”, Science China Earth Sciences, 2022.
X. Meng, Simon, A. C., Kleinsasser, J. M., Mole, D. R., Kontak, D. J., Jugo, P. J., Mao, J., and Richards, J. P., “Formation of oxidized sulfur-rich magmas in Neoarchaean subduction zones”, Nature Geoscience, 2022.
J. Mathieu, Turner, E. C., Kontak, D. J., and Fayek, M., “Geochemical Evidence for a Topographically Driven Regional Mineralizing Fluid in the Polaris Zn District, Arctic Canada”, Economic Geology, vol. 117, pp. 1451-1480, 2022.
2021
X. Meng, Richards, J. P., Kontak, D. J., Simon, A. C., Kleinsasser, J. M., Marsh, J. H., Stern, R. A., and Jugo, P. J., “Variable Modes of Formation for Tonalite–Trondhjemite–Granodiorite–Diorite (TTG)-related Porphyry-type Cu ± Au Deposits in the Neoarchean Southern Abitibi Subprovince (Canada): Evidence from Petrochronology and Oxybarometry”, Journal of Petrology, vol. 62, 2021.
2018
B. Gourcerol, Kontak, D. J., Thurston, P. C., and Petrus, J. A., “Application of LA-ICP-MS sulfide analysis and methodology for deciphering elemental paragenesis and associations in addition to multi-stage processes in metamorphic gold settings”, The Canadian MineralogistThe Canadian Mineralogist, 2018.
R. S. Poulin, Kontak, D. J., McDonald, A., and M. McClenaghan, B., “Assessing Scheelite As an Ore-deposit Discriminator Using Its Trace-element and REE Chemistry”, 2018.
J. Mathieu, Turner, E. C., Kontak, D. J., Fayek, M., and Mathur, R., “Atypical Cu mineralisation in the Cornwallis carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada”, Ore Geology ReviewsOre Geology Reviews, vol. 99, pp. 86-115, 2018.
J. A. McDivitt, Kontak, D. J., Lafrance, B., and Robichaud, L., “Contrasting fluid chemistries, alteration characteristics, and metamorphic timing relationships recorded in hybridized orebodies of the Missanabie-Renabie gold district, Archean Wawa Subprovince, Ontario, Canada”, Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic GeologistsEconomic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, vol. 113, pp. 397-420, 2018.
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