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Kathy Ehrig is affiliated with BHP in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a research focus spanning several subfields including Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics, notably Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Kathy Ehrig include:

  • OPENING THE MAGMATIC-HYDROTHERMAL WINDOW: HIGH-PRECISION U-Pb GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE MESOPROTEROZOIC OLYMPIC DAM Cu-U-Au-Ag DEPOSIT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 2020, Economic Geology
  • Halogens in hydrothermal sphalerite record origin of ore-forming fluids, 2020, Geology
  • Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Trace Elements in Pyrite: Prediction, Bias and Artefacts in Defining Mineral Signatures, 2020, Minerals
  • Staged formation of the supergiant Olympic Dam uranium deposit, Australia, 2021, Geology
  • Pentavalent Uranium Incorporated in the Structure of Proterozoic Hematite, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

Kathy Ehrig frequently publishes in venues such as Minerals, The Cambridge Structural Database, American Mineralogist, Lithos, and Mineralogical Magazine.

Frequent coauthors include Nigel J. Cook, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Ashley D. Slattery, Sarah Gilbert, and Benjamin P. Wade.

Best Publications

  • Geology and mineralogical zonation of the Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia

    Kathy Ehrig;Jocelyn McPhie;Vadim Kamenetsky

  • Trace Element Analysis of Minerals in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Ores by Laser Ablation Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry: Approaches and Opportunities

    Nigel Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Luke George;Zhi-Yong Zhu

  • Matrix effects in Pb/U measurements during LA-ICP-MS analysis of the mineral apatite

    Jay Thompson;Sebastien Meffre;Roland Maas;Vadim Kamenetsky

  • The fluorine link between a supergiant ore deposit and a silicic large igneous province

    Jocelyn McPhie;Vadim Kamenetsky;Sharon Allen;Kathy Ehrig

  • Selective leaching of penalty elements from copper concentrates: A review

    Daniel J. Lane;Nigel J. Cook;Stephen R. Grano;Kathy Ehrig

  • Origin of the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia: Was a sedimentary basin involved?

    Jocelyn McPhie;Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Isabelle Chambefort;Kathy Ehrig

  • Neoproterozoic (ca. 820–830 Ma) mafic dykes at Olympic Dam, South Australia: links with the Gairdner Large Igneous Province

    Qiuyue Huang;Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Jocelyn McPhie;Kathy Ehrig

  • Apatite at Olympic Dam, South Australia: A petrogenetic tool

    Sasha Krneta;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Kathy Ehrig

  • Uraninite from the Olympic Dam IOCG-U-Ag deposit: Linking textural and compositional variation to temporal evolution

    Edeltraud Macmillan;Edeltraud Macmillan;Nigel J. Cook;Kathy Ehrig;Cristiana L. Ciobanu

  • Multi-stage enrichment processes for large gold-bearing ore deposits

    Sebastien Meffre;Ross R. Large;Jeffrey A. Steadman;Daniel D. Gregory

  • Rare Earth Element Behaviour in Apatite from the Olympic Dam Cu–U–Au–Ag Deposit, South Australia

    Sasha Krneta;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Kathy Ehrig

  • Textures and U-W-Sn-Mo signatures in hematite from the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia: Defining the archetype for IOCG deposits

    Max R. Verdugo-Ihl;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Kathy J. Ehrig

  • Geometallurgical Modeling at Olympic Dam Mine, South Australia

    Jeff B. Boisvert;Mario E. Rossi;Kathy Ehrig;Clayton V. Deutsch

  • EARLY, DEEP MAGNETITE-FLUORAPATITE MINERALIZATION AT THE OLYMPIC DAM Cu-U-Au-Ag DEPOSIT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    Olga B. Apukhtina;Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Kathy Ehrig;Maya B. Kamenetsky

  • A multi-technique evaluation of hydrothermal hematite U Pb isotope systematics: Implications for ore deposit geochronology

    Liam Courtney-Davies;Simon R. Tapster;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook

  • Feldspar evolution in the Roxby Downs Granite, host to Fe-oxide Cu-Au-(U) mineralisation at Olympic Dam, South Australia

    Alkis Kontonikas-Charos;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Kathy Ehrig

  • Monticellite in group-I kimberlites: Implications for evolution of parental melts and post-emplacement CO2 degassing

    Adam Abersteiner;Vadim S. Kamenetsky;D. Graham Pearson;Maya Kamenetsky

  • OPENING THE MAGMATIC-HYDROTHERMAL WINDOW: HIGH-PRECISION U-Pb GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE MESOPROTEROZOIC OLYMPIC DAM Cu-U-Au-Ag DEPOSIT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    Liam Courtney-Davies;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Simon R. Tapster;Nigel J. Cook

  • Silicate-sulfide liquid immiscibility in modern arc basalt (Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka): Part II. Composition, liquidus assemblage and fractionation of the silicate melt

    Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Michael Zelenski;Andrey Gurenko;Maxim Portnyagin

  • Ore minerals down to the nanoscale: Cu-(Fe)-sulphides from the iron oxide copper gold deposit at Olympic Dam, South Australia☆

    Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Kathy Ehrig

  • Multiple mantle sources of continental magmatism: Insights from "high-Ti" picrites of Karoo and other large igneous provinces

    Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Roland Maas;Maya B. Kamenetsky;Gregory M. Yaxley

  • Uranium and Sm isotope studies of the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu–Au–U–Ag deposit, South Australia

    Maria Kirchenbaur;Maria Kirchenbaur;Roland Maas;Kathy Ehrig;Vadim S. Kamenetsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel J. Cook
Nigel J. Cook University of Adelaide
Cristiana L. Ciobanu
Cristiana L. Ciobanu University of Adelaide
Vadim S. Kamenetsky
Vadim S. Kamenetsky Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Maya B. Kamenetsky
Maya B. Kamenetsky University of Tasmania
Jocelyn McPhie
Jocelyn McPhie University of Tasmania
Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert University of Adelaide
Sebastien Meffre
Sebastien Meffre University of Tasmania
Roland Maas
Roland Maas University of Melbourne
Allen K. Kennedy
Allen K. Kennedy Curtin University
Matt R. Kilburn
Matt R. Kilburn University of Western Australia

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