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Nigel J. Cook is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular expertise in geophysics, artificial intelligence applied within geosciences, materials chemistry, geochemistry and petrology, and mechanical engineering.

The key topics covered by their work include geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, metal extraction and bioleaching, geochemistry and elemental analysis, radioactive element chemistry and processing, and high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Their publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Indium distribution in sphalerite from sulfide-oxide-silicate skarn assemblages: a case study of the Dulong Zn-Sn-In deposit, Southwest China (2020, Mineralium Deposita)
  • Evolution of a hydrothermal ore-forming system recorded by sulfide mineral chemistry: a case study from the Plaka Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit, Lavrion, Greece (2021, Mineralium Deposita)
  • Complementary Textural, Trace Element, and Isotopic Analyses of Sulfides Constrain Ore-Forming Processes for the Slate-Hosted Yuhengtang Au Deposit, South China (2021, Economic Geology)
  • Au-Ag-Te-RICH MELT INCLUSIONS IN HYDROTHERMAL GOLD-QUARTZ VEINS, XIAOQINLING LODE GOLD DISTRICT, CENTRAL CHINA (2021, Economic Geology)
  • 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)

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include:

  • Cristiana L. Ciobanu
  • Kathy Ehrig
  • Ashley D. Slattery
  • Benjamin P. Wade
  • Sarah Gilbert

The venues where Nigel J. Cook has frequently published are:

  • American Mineralogist
  • Minerals
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Mineralium Deposita
  • Ore Geology Reviews

Best Publications

  • Trace and minor elements in sphalerite: A LA-ICPMS study

    Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Allan Pring;Allan Pring;Allan Pring;William Skinner

  • Concentrations of invisible gold in the common sulfides

    Nigel J. Cook;Stephen L. Chryssoulis

  • Trace and minor elements in sphalerite from base metal deposits in South China: A LA-ICPMS study

    Lin Ye;Nigel J. Cook;Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Liu Yuping

  • Textural control on gold distribution in As-free pyrite from the Dongping, Huangtuliang and Hougou gold deposits, North China Craton (Hebei Province, China)

    Nigel John Cook;Cristiana Liana Ciobanu;Cristiana Liana Ciobanu;Jingwen Mao

  • Metallogenesis of the Tibetan collisional orogen: A review and introduction to the special issue

    Zengqian Hou;Nigel J. Cook

  • Sulfosalt systematics: a review. Report of the sulfosalt sub-committee of the IMA Commission on Ore Mineralogy

    Yves Moëlo;Emil Makovicky;Nadejda N. Mozgova;John L. Jambor

  • Mesozoic metallogeny in East China and corresponding geodynamic settings — An introduction to the special issue

    Jingwen Mao;Franco Pirajno;Nigel Cook

  • Arsenopyrite-Pyrite Association in an Orogenic Gold Ore: Tracing Mineralization History from Textures and Trace Elements

    Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Dennis Meria;Dylan Silcock

  • Trace and minor elements in galena: A reconnaissance LA-ICP-MS study

    Luke George;Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Benjamin P. Wade

  • Partitioning of trace elements in co-crystallized sphalerite-galena-chalcopyrite hydrothermal ores

    Luke L. George;Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu

  • Skarn textures and a case study: the Ocna de Fier-Dognecea orefield, Banat, Romania

    Cristiana Liana Ciobanu;Nigel John Cook

  • Gold-telluride nanoparticles revealed in arsenic-free pyrite

    Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Satoshi Utsunomiya;Masashi Kogagwa

  • Trace elements in hydrothermal chalcopyrite

    Luke L. George;Nigel J. Cook;Bryony B. P. Crowe;Cristiana L. Ciobanu

  • Minor and trace elements in bornite and associated Cu–(Fe)-sulfides: A LA-ICP-MS studyBornite mineral chemistry

    Nigel J. Cook;Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Leonid V. Danyushevsky;Sarah Gilbert

  • 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

  • Regional setting and geochronology of the Late Cretaceous Banatitic Magmatic and Metallogenetic Belt

    Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Holly Stein

  • Bismuth tellurides and sulphosalts from the Larga hydrothermal system, Metaliferi Mts., Romania: Paragenesis and genetic significance

    N. J. Cook;C. L. Ciobanu

  • Mineralogy of the sulphide deposits at Sulitjelma, northern Norway

    Nigel J. Cook

  • Understanding gold-(silver)-telluride-(selenide) mineral deposits

    Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Paul G. Spry;Panagiotis Voudouris

  • Gold scavenged by bismuth melts: An example from Alpine shear-remobilizates in the Highiş Massif, Romania

    C. L. Ciobanu;C. L. Ciobanu;N. J. Cook;F. Damian;G. Damian

  • MINERALS OF THE SYSTEM Bi–Te–Se–S RELATED TO THE TETRADYMITE ARCHETYPE: REVIEW OF CLASSIFICATION AND COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION

    Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Thomas Wagner;Christopher J. Stanley

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristiana L. Ciobanu
Cristiana L. Ciobanu University of Adelaide
Kathy Ehrig
Kathy Ehrig BHP (Australia)
Allan Pring
Allan Pring Flinders University
Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert University of Adelaide
Joël Brugger
Joël Brugger Monash University
Vadim S. Kamenetsky
Vadim S. Kamenetsky Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Allen K. Kennedy
Allen K. Kennedy Curtin University
Jocelyn McPhie
Jocelyn McPhie University of Tasmania
Jingwen Mao
Jingwen Mao China University of Geosciences
Matt R. Kilburn
Matt R. Kilburn University of Western Australia

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