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Simon M. Jowitt is affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Geophysics, Mechanical Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence among their main areas of study.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Extraction and Separation Processes, and Metal Extraction and Bioleaching. Additional areas of specialization include earthquake and tectonic studies, Mining and Resource Management, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Simon M. Jowitt has published in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication sources include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Applied Earth Science Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Economic Geology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among their recent papers are:

  • Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production (2020), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • Reviewing the material and metal security of low-carbon energy transitions (2020), published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Barriers to and uncertainties in understanding and quantifying global critical mineral and element supply (2021), published in iScience
  • Convolutional neural network and transfer learning based mineral prospectivity modeling for geochemical exploration of Au mineralization within the Guandian-Zhangbaling area, Anhui Province, China (2020), published in Applied Geochemistry
  • The New Century for Nickel Resources, Reserves, and Mining: Reassessing the Sustainability of the Devil's Metal (2022), published in Economic Geology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Gavin M. Mudd
  • Brian McNulty
  • Yue Li
  • Yufeng Deng
  • Feng Yuan

Best Publications

  • A Detailed Assessment of Global Rare Earth Element Resources: Opportunities and Challenges

    Zhehan Weng;Simon Martin Jowitt;Gavin Mark Mudd;Nawshad Haque

  • Recycling of the rare earth elements

    Simon M. Jowitt;Timothy T. Werner;Zhehan Weng;Gavin M. Mudd

  • A Detailed Assessment of Global Nickel Resource Trends and Endowments

    Gavin Mark Mudd;Simon Martin Jowitt

  • Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production

    Simon M. Jowitt;Gavin M. Mudd;John F. H. Thompson

  • The world's by-product and critical metal resources part III: A global assessment of indium

    T.T. Werner;Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt

  • Quantifying the recoverable resources of by-product metals: The case of cobalt

    Gavin Mark Mudd;Zhehan Weng;Simon Martin Jowitt;ID Turnbull

  • The world's lead-zinc mineral resources: Scarcity, data, issues and opportunities

    Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt;Simon M. Jowitt;Timothy T. Werner

  • The exposure of global base metal resources to water criticality, scarcity and climate change

    Stephen A. Northey;Stephen A. Northey;Gavin M. Mudd;Timothy T. Werner;Simon M. Jowitt

  • Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Metallogeny

    Richard Ernst;Simon Martin Jowitt

  • Growing Global Copper Resources, Reserves and Production: Discovery Is Not the Only Control on Supply

    Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt

  • A new plumbing system framework for mantle plume-related continental Large Igneous Provinces and their mafic-ultramafic intrusions

    Richard E. Ernst;Richard E. Ernst;Dustin A. Liikane;Dustin A. Liikane;Simon M. Jowitt;K. L. Buchan

  • Assessing rare earth element mineral deposit types and links to environmental impacts

    Zhehan Weng;Simon Martin Jowitt;Gavin Mark Mudd;N Haque

  • Global platinum group element resources, reserves and mining - A critical assessment

    Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt;Timothy T. Werner

  • Indium: key issues in assessing mineral resources and long-term supply from recycling

    T T Werner;Gavin Mark Mudd;Simon Martin Jowitt

  • Assessing the energy requirements and global warming potential of the production of rare earth elements

    Zhehan Weng;Nawshad Haque;Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt

  • The world's by-product and critical metal resources part I: Uncertainties, current reporting practices, implications and grounds for optimism

    Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt;Timothy T. Werner

  • West Africa: The World’s Premier Paleoproterozoic Gold Province

    Richard Jeffrey Goldfarb;Richard Jeffrey Goldfarb;Anne Sylvie André-Mayer;Simon M. Jowitt;Simon M. Jowitt;Gavin M. Mudd

  • Convolutional neural network and transfer learning based mineral prospectivity modeling for geochemical exploration of Au mineralization within the Guandian–Zhangbaling area, Anhui Province, China

    He Li;Xiaohui Li;Feng Yuan;Simon M. Jowitt

  • Geochemistry of the 130 to 80 Ma Canadian High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP) Event and Implications for Ni-Cu-PGE Prospectivity

    Simon Martin Jowitt;Marie-Claude Williamson;Richard Ernst

  • Three-dimensional mineral prospectivity modeling for targeting of concealed mineralization within the Zhonggu iron orefield, Ningwu Basin, China

    Xiaohui Li;Xiaohui Li;Feng Yuan;Mingming Zhang;Cai Jia

  • Quantifying the release of base metals from source rocks for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: Effects of protolith composition and alteration mineralogy

    Simon M. Jowitt;Simon M. Jowitt;Gawen R.T. Jenkin;Laurence A. Coogan;Jon Naden

  • Source, evolution and emplacement of Permian Tarim Basalts: Evidence from U–Pb dating, Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotope systematics and whole rock geochemistry of basalts from the Keping area, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, northwest China

    Dayu Zhang;Taofa Zhou;Feng Yuan;Feng Yuan;Simon M. Jowitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavin Mark Mudd
Gavin Mark Mudd RMIT University
Taofa Zhou
Taofa Zhou Hefei University of Technology
Richard E. Ernst
Richard E. Ernst Carleton University
Reid R. Keays
Reid R. Keays Monash University
Alison Ord
Alison Ord University of Western Australia
Siobhan A. Wilson
Siobhan A. Wilson University of Alberta
Nawshad Haque
Nawshad Haque Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gordon Southam
Gordon Southam University of Queensland
Kenneth L. Buchan
Kenneth L. Buchan Geological Survey of Canada

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