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Daniel J. Kontak

Daniel J. Kontak

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Earth Science

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36
Citations
5017
World Ranking
7222
National Ranking
375

Overview

Daniel J. Kontak is affiliated with Laurentian University in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines, mainly within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Kontak's work often intersects specialized subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Mechanics of Materials, and Biomedical Engineering.

The breadth of Kontak's research topics includes geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and elemental analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and metal extraction and bioleaching.

Frequent collaborators in Kontak's research include Mostafa Fayek, Jeffrey Marsh, Xuyang Meng, Jackie Kleinsasser, and Pedro J. Jugo.

Daniel J. Kontak's studies are regularly published in venues such as Economic Geology, Minerals, Ore Geology Reviews, Mineralium Deposita, and Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America. Kontak has a significant presence in the journal Economic Geology, with seven publications.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kontak are:

  • Gold Remobilization: Insights from Gold Deposits in the Archean Swayze Greenstone Belt, Abitibi Subprovince, Canada (2020, Economic Geology)
  • Oxidized sulfur-rich arc magmas formed porphyry Cu deposits by 1.88 Ga (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Transport and coarsening of gold nanoparticles in an orogenic deposit by dissolution-reprecipitation and Ostwald ripening (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • The age and origin of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) as constrained by zircon U-Pb geochronology, geochemistry, and O-Hf isotopes (2022, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences)
  • An Archean Porphyry-Type Gold Deposit: The Côté Gold Au(-Cu) Deposit, Swayze Greenstone Belt, Superior Province, Ontario, Canada (2020, Economic Geology)

Kontak's research encompasses detailed geological and geochemical methodologies aimed at understanding mineral deposits, tectonic environments, and material processes in Earth sciences. Their work incorporates advanced analytical techniques relevant to both academic geosciences and applied mineral exploration.

Best Publications

  • Geologic and geochronologic constraints on the metallogenic evolution of the Andes of southeastern Peru

    Alan H. Clark;Edward Farrar;Daniel J. Kontak;Robert J. Langridge

  • The Miocene-Pliocene Macusani Volcanics, SE Peru

    Michel Pichavant;Daniel J. Kontak;Louis Briqueu;Jacinto Valencia Herrera

  • The Miocene-Pliocene Macusani Volcanics, SE Peru: I. Mineralogy and magmatic evolution of a two-mica aluminosilicate-bearing ignimbrite suite

    Michel Pichavant;Daniel J. Kontak;Jacinto Valencia Herrera;Alan H. Clark

  • Cretaceous ongonites (topaz-bearing albite-rich microleucogranites) from Ongon Khairkhan, Central Mongolia: Products of extreme magmatic fractionation and pervasive metasomatic fluid: Rock interaction

    Jaroslav Dostal;Daniel J. Kontak;Ochir Gerel;J. Gregory Shellnutt

  • Latest Triassic onset of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) volcanism in the Fundy Basin (Nova Scotia): New stratigraphic constraints

    S. Cirilli;A. Marzoli;L. Tanner;H. Bertrand;H. Bertrand

  • 40Ar/39Ar ages of CAMP in North America: Implications for the Triassic–Jurassic boundary and the 40K decay constant bias

    Fred Jourdan;Fred Jourdan;Fred Jourdan;A. Marzoli;H. Bertrand;S. Cirilli

  • Trace element geochemistry of scheelite and rutile from metaturbidite-hosted quartz vein gold deposits, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: genetic implications

    Jaroslav Dostal;Daniel J. Kontak;A. K. Chatterjee

  • Minas Fault Zone: Late Paleozoic history of an intra-continental orogenic transform fault in the Canadian Appalachians

    J. Brendan Murphy;John W.F. Waldron;Daniel J. Kontak;Georgia Pe-Piper

  • Integrated model for Meguma Group lode gold deposits, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Daniel J. Kontak;Paul K. Smith;Robert Kerrich;Paul F. Williams

  • Gold Remobilization: Insights from Gold Deposits in the Archean Swayze Greenstone Belt, Abitibi Subprovince, Canada

    Evan C.G. Hastie;Daniel J. Kontak;Bruno Lafrance

  • Application of ASTER data for exploration of porphyry copper deposits: A case study of Daraloo–Sarmeshk area, southern part of the Kerman copper belt, Iran

    Masoumeh Alimohammadi;Masoumeh Alimohammadi;Saeed Alirezaei;Daniel J. Kontak

  • Granitic Pegmatites: Scientific Wonders and Economic Bonanzas

    David London;Daniel J. Kontak

  • Occurrence and Origin of Andalusite in Peraluminous Felsic Igneous Rocks

    DB Clarke;M. Dorais;B. Barbarin;D. Barker

  • Rhenium-Osmium Geochronology of Arsenopyrite in Meguma Group Gold Deposits, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: Evidence for Multiple Gold-Mineralizing Events

    Ryan M. Morelli;Robert A. Creaser;David Selby;Daniel J. Kontak

  • Assessing Scheelite As an Ore-deposit Discriminator Using Its Trace-element and REE ChemistryGeochemistry of Scheelite from Diverse Ore-deposits

    Rémy S. Poulin;Daniel J. Kontak;Andrew McDonald;M. Beth McCLenaghan

  • The rift-associated Permo-Triassic magmatism of the Eastern Cordillera: a precursor to the Andean orogeny

    D. J. Kontak;A. H. Clark;E. Farrar;D. F. Strong

  • Sr, Nd, Pb and Os Isotope Systematics of CAMP Tholeiites from Eastern North America (ENA): Evidence of a Subduction-enriched Mantle Source

    Renaud E. merle;Andrea Marzoli;Laurie Reisberg;Hervé Bertrand

  • An isotopic (C, O, Sr) study of vein gold deposits in the Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia; implication for source reservoirs

    Daniel J. Kontak;Robert Kerrich

  • The Early Jurassic Bokan Mountain peralkaline granitic complex (southeastern Alaska): Geochemistry, petrogenesis and rare-metal mineralization

    Jaroslav Dostal;Daniel J. Kontak;Susan M. Karl

  • NATURE AND ORIGIN OF AN LCT-SUITE PEGMATITE WITH LATE-STAGE SODIUM ENRICHMENT, BRAZIL LAKE, YARMOUTH COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA. I. GEOLOGICAL SETTING AND PETROLOGY

    Daniel J. Kontak

  • Genesis of the Giant, Bonanza San Rafael Lode Tin Deposit, Peru: Origin and Significance of Pervasive Alteration

    Daniel J. Kontak;Alan H. Clark

  • Syn-Acadian emplacement model for the South Mountain batholith, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia: Magnetic fabric and structural analyses

    Keith Benn;Richard J. Horne;Daniel J. Kontak;Geoffrey S. Pignotta

  • The role of greisenization in cassiterite precipitation at the East Kemptville tin deposit, Nova Scotia

    Werner E. Halter;Anthony E. Williams-Jones;Daniel J. Kontak

  • On the Relationship Between Cathodoluminescence and the Chemical Composition of Scheelite from Geologically Diverse Ore-deposit Environments

    Rémy S. Poulin;Andrew M. McDonald;Daniel J. Kontak;M. Beth McClenaghan

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan H. Clark
Alan H. Clark Queen's University
Robert A. Creaser
Robert A. Creaser University of Alberta
Edward Farrar
Edward Farrar Queen's University
Mostafa Fayek
Mostafa Fayek University of Manitoba
Iain M. Samson
Iain M. Samson University of Windsor
Fred Jourdan
Fred Jourdan Curtin University
Anthony E. Williams-Jones
Anthony E. Williams-Jones McGill University
Robert Kerrich
Robert Kerrich University of Saskatchewan
J. Dostal
J. Dostal Saint Mary's University
Richard A. Stern
Richard A. Stern University of Alberta

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