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Refereed Publications since 2003 (* indicates trainee under Hanley’s supervision):
2025
M. Zentilli, J. J. Hanley, and J. Cruz (2025) Discovery of a reduced granite-related Mo-Bi-Te-Au system (RIRGS) in the Chilean Andes metallogenic province at the Trapananda Prospect, Patagonia, Chile. Ore Geology Reviews. Submitted. Manuscript ORGEO-D-25-00714.
*K. Neyedley, P. Mercier-Langevin, R. Stern, M. Fayek, and J. J. Hanley (2025) Ore mineralogy, sulfide geochemistry and S isotopes of magmatic-hydrothermal Au mineralization associated with the Mooshla Intrusive Complex, Doyon-Bousquet-LaRonde mining camp, Abitibi greenstone belt, Québec. Economic Geology. Submitted. Manuscript SEG-S-25-00279.
*K. Neyedley, J. J. Hanley, J. Crowley, P. Mercer-Langevin, M. Fayek, A. Tsay, and Z. Zajacz (2025) Constraints on the evolution of the Mooshla Intrusive Complex, Doyon-Bousquet-LaRonde mining district, Abitibi greenstone belt, Quebec, Canada, II: melt inclusions. Journal of Petrology. Submitted. Manuscript JPET-Jun-25-0127.
J.J. Hanley, and M. Guillong (2025). Gold- and palladium-rich sulfide melt inclusions in xenocrysts from a midcrustal magma chamber, Mt. Milligan porphyry deposit, B.C., Canada. Ore Geology Reviews. Submitted.
*D. Lefort, J.J. Hanley, D. Ames, and C. Davis. (2025). Mineralogy and distribution of arsenic and platinum-group elements (PGE) in shear-hosted magmatic sulfide ores, Garson Mine, Sudbury, Canada. Ore Geology Reviews. Submitted.
*K. Neyedley, J. J. Hanley, P. Mercier-Langevin, J. Crowley, and Z. Zajacz (2025) Constraints on the evolution of the Mooshla Intrusive Complex, Doyon-Bousquet-LaRonde mining district, Abitibi greenstone belt, Quebec, Canada, I: zircon geochronology and thermobarometry. Journal of Petrology. Accepted, in revision. Manuscript JPET-May-25-0090.
2024
*M. Kerr, J.J. Hanley, D. Kontak, *P. Ramlochund, and Z. Zajacz (2024). Auriferous fluids and the role of carbonaceous matter in a saddle-reef deposit associated with carbonaceous slates: Dufferin deposit, Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 25 (12) e2024GC011861
*S. Speight, C. MacFarlane, J.J. Hanley (2024) Geodynamic evolution of felsic magmatism in the Yellowknife greenstone belt, N.W.T., Canada: evidence for Archean magmatism in a volatile-saturated environment. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 62 (3) p. 595-628.
M. Zentilli, J.J. Hanley, M. Graves, and J. Clavero (2024). Capitana mine, Tignamar District: a unique tin-bismuth concentration in the Chilean Central Andes, 250 km west of the Bolivian Tin Belt. Journal of South American Earth Sciences https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104747
2023
J. Brenan, B. Macaig, and J.J. Hanley (2023). Geochemical variation in biotite from the Devonian South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia: Constraints on emplacement pressure, temperature, magma redox state and the development of a magmatic vapor phase (MVP). American Mineralogist, v. 108, 2004-2023.
P. Hollings, J.J. Hanley, M. Smyk, L. Heaman, B. Cousens, and Z. Zajacz (2023). The 1.1 Ga St. Ignace Island Volcanic complex, Northern Ontario, Canada: Evidence for magma mixing and crustal melting in the generation of Midcontinent Rift-related felsic magmas and implications for regional metallogeny. Journal of Petrology v. 64(6) https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egad032
*B. Boucher, S. Robb, J.J. Hanley, and J. Mungall (2023). Platinum-group elements in the New Afton alkalic Cu-Au porphyry deposit, Canadian Cordillera, I: Relationships between PGE, accessory metals and sulfur isotopes in pyrite. Frontiers in Geoscience. v.11 https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.819129
S. Robb, *B. Boucher, J. Mungall, J.J. Hanley (2023). Platinum-group elements in the New Afton alkalic Cu-Au porphyry deposit, Canadian Cordillera, II: PGE distribution and models for the hydrothermal coprecipitation of Co-Ni-Pd-Pt in pyrite. Frontiers in Geoscience. v.11 https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.819109
K. Landry, E. Adlakha, A. Roy-Garand, *A. Terekhova, J.J. Hanley, H. Falck, and E. Martel (2022). Uranium Mineralization in the MacInnis Lake Area, Nonacho Basin, Northwest Territories: Potential Linkages to Metasomatic Iron Alkali-Calcic Systems. Mineralsv.12(12), 1609.
2022
A. Roy-Garand, E. Adlakha, J.J. Hanley, V. Elongo, P. Lecumberri-Sanchez, H. Falck and *Boucher B. (2022). Timing and sources of skarn mineralization in the Canadian Tungsten Belt: revisiting the paragenesis, crystal chemistry and geochronology of apatite. Mineralium Deposita. 57(8): 1391-1413.
2021
J.J. Hanley, *M.J. Kerr, *D. LeFort, *M. Warren, *M. Mackenzie, and *C. Sedge (2021). Enrichment of platinum-group elements (PGE) in alkalic porphyry Cu-Au deposits in the Canadian Cordillera: New insights from mineralogical and fluid inclusion studies. In: Sharman L, Lang J, and Chapman, J. Porphyry Deposits of the Northwestern Cordillera of North America: A 25-Year Update. Canadian Institution of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, v. 57: 88-109.
J.J. Hanley, *A. Terekhova, *P. Drake, K. Cottreau-Robins, R. Lewis, B. Suttie, and *B. Boucher (2021). Geochemical provenance of copper in pre-contact artifacts on the Maritime Peninsula, Eastern Canada. In: Holyoke K and Hrynick M. (eds.) The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact. Canadian Museum of History Mercury Book Series (University of Ottawa Press) v. 474: 550-600.
*K. Neyedley, J.J. Hanley, Z. Zajacz, and M. Fayek (2021). Accessory mineral thermobarometry, trace element chemistry, and stable O isotope systematics, Mooshla Intrusive Complex (MIC), Doyon-Bousquet-LaRonde mining camp, Abitibi greenstone belt, Quebec, Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 8755.
*K. Neyedley, J.J. Hanley, P. Mercier-Langevin, and Fayek M. (2021). Ore mineralogy, pyrite chemistry and S isotopes of magmatic-hydrothermal Au mineralization associated with the Mooshla Intrusive Complex (MIC), Abitibi greenstone belt, Quebec, Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 8755.
J. Sanz-Robinson, T. Brisco, O. Warr, G. Jabeen, G. Lacrampe-Couloume, J.J. Hanley, and B. Sherwood-Lollar (2021). Advances in techniques for carbon isotope signatures of CH4 and hydrocarbons in trapped paleofluids. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 35(20): 1-12.
*M. Kerr M, J.J. Hanley, and D. Kontak D. (2021). Application of bulk fluid volatile chemistry to exploration for metasedimentary rock-hosted orogenic gold deposits: An example from the Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. v. 226: 106764.
M. Zentilli, M.C. Graves, R. Mathur, J.J. Hanley, L. Heaman, and R. Boric. (2021). Locating the missing half of the giant Chuquicamata porphyry Cu deposit, Chile. Society of Economic Geologists Special Publication 24: 69-87.
2020
J.J. Hanley, *K. Neyedley, and *F. Tweedale (2020). A review of silicate and sulfide melt inclusions in felsic and mafic plutonic rocks: examples and practical aspects of study. In: Steele-MacInnis M, Lecumberri-Sanchez P. (eds) Fluid and Melt Inclusions: Applications to Geologic Processes. Mineralogical Association of Canada Topics in Mineral Sciences v. 49: 123-162.
Z. Zhang, Y. Fedortchouk, J.J. Hanley, and *M. Kerr. (2020). Diamond resorption and immiscibility of C-O-H fluid in kimberlites: Evidence from experiments in the H2O-CO2-SiO2-MgO-CaO system at 1-3 GPa. Lithos. v. 380-381: 105858.
*E. Slater, J.J. Hanley, T. Mulja, M. Zentilli, and *C. Trottier (2020). Epithermal mineralization in the Busang Southeast Zone, Indonesia: New Insight into the Au Prospect at the Centre of the Bre-X Fraud. Minerals. v. 10(8): 698-714.
2019
M. Zentilli, C. Omelon, J.J. Hanley, and *D. LeFort (2019). Paleohydrothermal predecessor to perennial spring activity in thick permafrost in the Canadian high Arctic,and its relation to deep salt structures: Expedition Fiord, Alex Heiberg Island, Nunavut. Geofluids. v. 2019: 1-33.
V. Owen, J.J. Hanley, and J. Petrus (2019). Phosphatic alteration of lead-rich glazes during two centuries of burial: Bartlam, Bonnin & Morris, and Chelsea porcelain. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. v. 11: 6551-6567.
2018
E. Owen, V. Owen, J.J. Hanley, and N. Kennedy (2018). Development of an integrated body-glaze layer on an 18th Century lead-glazed true porcelain teapot from Philadelphia: insights from kiln-firing experiments on compositional analogues. Historical Archaeology. v. 102: 617-626.
*M. Kerr, J.J. Hanley, D. Kontak, G. Morrison, J. Petrus, and M. Fayek. (2018). Evidence of upgrading of gold tenor in an orogenic quartz-carbonate vein system by late magmatic-hydrothermal fluids at the Madrid Deposit, Hope Bay Greenstone Belt, Nunavut, Canada. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 241: 180-218.
*N. Hurtig, J.J. Hanley, and A. Gysi (2018). The role of hydrocarbons in ore formation at the Pillara Mississippi Valley-Type Zn-Pb deposit, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Ore Geology Reviews. v. 102: 875-893.
V. Owen, M. Stimson, *M. Kerr, and J.J. Hanley (2018). Geochemistry of pink corundum-bearing feldspathic gneiss, Frenchvale Quarry, Cape Breton Island: metamorphism of albitized, Fe-poor clastic rocks. Mineralogical Magazine. v. 83: 249-260.
*E. E. Adlakha, J.J. Hanley, H. Falck, and B. Boucher (2018) The origin of mineralizing hydrothermal fluids recorded in apatite chemistry at the Cantung tungsten skarn deposit, NWT, Canada. European Journal of Mineralogy, v. 30: 1095-1113.
*K. Neyedley, J.J Hanley, H.Falck, R.J. Bodnar, L. Fedele, M. Fayek, and R. Sharpe (2018) Sulfide melt inclusions associated with magmatic Ni-Cu-platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization in the Caribou Lake Gabbro, Blatchford Lake Intrusive Suite, Northwest Territories, Canada. Ore Geology Reviews, v. 107: 513-531.
J.J. Hanley and K.T. Koga (2018) Chapter 2. Halogens in Terrestrial and Cosmic Geochemical Systems: Abundances, Geochemical Behaviors and Analytical Methods. In: Harlov D, Aranovich LY (eds). The role of halogens in terrestrial and extraterrestrial geochemical processes: Surface, crust, and mantle. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 101 p.
2017
*K. Neyedley, J.J. Hanley, M. Fayek, and D. Kontak (2017) Textural, fluid inclusion and stable O isotope constraints on vein formation and gold precipitation, 007 deposit, Bissett, Manitoba, Canada. Economic Geology, vol. 112. p. 629-660.
V. Owen and J.J. Hanley (2017) Bartlam Porcelain Recreated. American Ceramics Circle Journal vol. 19, p. 69-97.
2016
J. Dostal., T.R. van Hengstum, J.G. Shellnutt, and J.J. Hanley (2016) Evolution of Late Paleozoic rhyolites of the Harvey Group, southwestern New Brunswick (Canada) hosting uranium mineralization. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 171:59.
Y, Kettanah, M. Zentilli, J.J. Hanley, and F. Tweedale (2016) Geological setting and fluid inclusion characteristics of a lead-copper-barium occurrence hosted in a Neoproterozoic mafic sill at Kiatak, Northumberland Island, Northwestern Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews, vol. 79, p. 268-287.
2015
J.J. Hanley, *M.A. MacMillan, *M.J. Kerr, *K.M. Watts, *M.R. Warren, D.E. Ames (2015) Recent advances in fluid and melt inclusion and applied mineralogical research in the Sudbury mining camp: improving ore genesis models and exploration success. In: Ames, D.E. (ed). Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4 – Canadian Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Elements-Chromium ore systems: Fertility, pathfinders, new and revised models. Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 7856, p. 209-226.
Z. Zhang, Y. Fedortchouk, and J.J. Hanley (2015) Evolution of diamond resorption in a silicic aqueous fluid at 1-3 GPa: application to kimberlite magma and mantle metasomatism. Lithos, vol 227, p. 79-193.
*M. Warren, J.J. Hanley, D.E. Ames, and S. Jackson (2015) The use of biotite chemistry as a pathfinder for magmatic sulfide mineralization, Sudbury, Canada. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, vol. 153, p. 11-29.
*M.J. Kerr, J.J. Hanley, G. Morrison, J. Everest, C. Bray (2015) Gas chromatographic analysis of bulk fluid inclusion hydrocarbons as an exploration tool, Sudbury, Canada. Economic Geology. vol. 110, p. 531-556.
2014
*K.Neyedley, J.J. Hanley, H. Falck, M. Fayek, R. Sharpe (2014) Mineralogy, geochemistry, stable isotopes, and preliminary fluid inclusion analysis of the Caribou Lake mafic-ultramafic intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada. NWT Geoscience Open File Report 2014-09, 20 p.
*K. M. Watts, J.J. Hanley, D.E. Ames, D.J. Kontak and J. Petrus (2014) Chemical databases for apatite and melt inclusions from a study of the 1850 Ma Sudbury Igneous Complex (Ontario, Canada). Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 7710, 8 p. + figures/tables.
P. Jutras, M.J. LeForte and J.J. Hanley (2014) Record of climatic fluctuations and high pH weathering conditions in a thick Ordovician palaeosol developed in rhyolite of the Dunn Point Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Canada. Geological Magazine, vol. 152, p. 143-165
2012
A. Karim, J. J. Hanley, G. Pe-Piper, D.J.W. Piper (2012) Paleohydrogeological and thermal events recorded by fluid inclusions, stable isotopes and geochemistry of diagenetic minerals in Lower Cretaceous sandstones, offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. AAPG Bulletin, 96: 1147-1169.
P. Jutras, J.J. Hanley, R.S. Quillan, and M.J. LeFort (2012) Intra-basaltic soil formation, sedimentary reworking and eodiagenetic K-enrichment in the Middle to Upper Ordovician Dunn Point Formation of eastern Canada: a rare window into early Paleozoic surface and near-surface conditions. Geological Magazine 149: 798-818.
T. Pettke, F. Oberli, A. Audétat, M. Guillong, A. Simon, J.J. Hanley, and L.M. Klemm (2012) Recent developments in element concentration and isotope ratio analysis of individual fluid inclusions by laser ablation single and multiple collector ICP–MS. Ore Geology Reviews, 44: 10-38.
S. Gilbert, L. Danyushevsky, P. Robinson, C. Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser, N. Pearson, M. Norman, J.J. Hanley, and D. Savard (2012) The development of a nickel sulphide reference material for the analysis of platinum-group elements and gold by LA-ICP-MS and an assessment of consistency between a range of existing reference materials. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 37: 51-64
2011
J.J. Hanley, *E.R. Gladney and M. Guillong (2011) The presence of non-aqueous volatiles during the crystallization of sulfide-bearing mafic pegmatites in the North Roby Zone, Lac Des Iles Complex, Ontario. Economic Geology 106: 33-54.
*T.R. Gray, J.J. Hanley, J. Dostal, and M.Guillong (2011) Magmatic enrichment of uranium, thorium and rare earth elements in late Paleozoic rhyolites of southern New Brunswick, Canada: evidence from silicate melt inclusions. Economic Geology 106: 127-143.
*A.Teague, J.J. Hanley and T. Seward (2011) Trace element distribution between coexisting phenocrysts, salt melts, and aqueous fumarole condensates associated with natrocarbonatite lavas at Oldoinyo Lengai volcano, Tanzania In (Beccaluva,L., Bianchini,G., and Wilson, M. eds) Volcanism and evolution of the African lithosphere, Geological Society of America Special Paper 478: 159-172.
J.J. Hanley, D.E. Ames, J. Barnes, Z.D. Sharp (2011) Interaction of magmatic fluids and silicate residues with saline groundwater in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada: new evidence from bulk rock geochemistry, fluid inclusions and stable isotopes. Chemical Geology 281:1-25.
*D. Lefort, J.J. Hanley and M. Guillong (2011) Late-stage hydrothermal veins at the Mt. Milligan Cu-Au deposit, Quesnel Terrane, British Columbia: evidence for epithermal-style processes adjacent to an alkalic porphyry Cu-Au deposit. Economic Geology 106: 781-808.
A. Karim, G. Pe-Piper, D.J.W. Piper, J. J. Hanley (2011) Thermal and hydrocarbon-charge history and the relationship between diagenesis and reservoir connectivity: Venture field, offshore Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 48: 1293-1306.
2010
A. Karim, G. Pe-Piper, D.J.W. Piper, J. J. Hanley (2010) Thermal and hydrocarbon-charge history and the relationship between diagenesis and reservoir connectivity: Venture field, offshore Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 6557, 30 p.
2009
J.J. Hanley and C. J. Bray (2009) The trace metal content of amphibole as a proximity indicator for Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada. Economic Geology, 104: 113-12
B. Xianwu, H. Ruizhong, J.J. Hanley, J.E. Mungall, P. Jiantang, S. Linbo, W. Kaixing, S. Yan, L. Hongli, H. Xiaoyan (2009) Crystallisation conditions (T, P, fO2) from mineral chemistry of Cu- and Au-mineralised alkaline intrusions in the Red River–Jinshajiang alkaline igneous belt, western Yunnan Province, China. Mineralogy and Petrology 96: 43-58
*Z.Zajacz, J.J. Hanley, C.A. Heinrich, W. E. Halter, M. Guillong (2009) Diffusive reequilibration of quartz-hosted silicate melt and fluid inclusions: Are all metal concentrations unmodified? Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73: 3013-3027
2008
J.J. Hanley, J.E. Mungall, T. Pettke, E.T.C. Spooner, and C.J. Bray (2008). Fluid and melt inclusions of magmatic origin in the Ultramafic and Lower Banded Series, Stillwater Complex, Montana, U.S.A. Journal of Petrology, 49, 6, 1133-1160
2007
J.J. Hanley (2007) The role of arsenic-rich melts and mineral phases in the development of high grade Pt-Pd mineralization within komatiite-associated magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide horizons at Dundonald Beach South, Abitibi subprovince, Ontario, Canada. Economic Geology, 102:303-315
2006
J. J. Hanley, D.E. Ames, J Barnes, Z. Sharp, and T. Pettke (2006) Stable isotope evidence for multiple sources of Cl in ore fluids at the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada. The Gangue, 90: 1, and 6-9.
J.E. Mungall, J.J. Hanley, N.T. Arndt, and A. Debecdelievre (2006) Evidence from meimechites and other low-degree mantle melts for redox controls on mantle-crust fractionation of platinum-group elements. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 103: 12695-12700
2005
J.J. Hanley (2005) The aqueous geochemistry of the platinum-group elements (PGE) in surficial, low-T hydrothermal and high-T magmatic-hydrothermal environments. In (J.E. Mungall, ed.) Exploration for Platinum-Group Element Deposits. Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course Volume 35: 35-56
J.J. Hanley, J.E. Mungall, T.Pettke, and E.T.C. Spooner (2005). Ore metal redistribution by hydrocarbon-brine and hydrocarbon-halide melt phases, North Range footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada. Mineralium Deposita, 40: 237-256
J.J. Hanley, T. Pettke, J.E. Mungall, and E.T.C. Spooner (2005). Investigations of the behavior and distribution of platinum and gold in silicate melt – brine mixtures at 1.5 kbar, 600 to 800°C using synthetic fluid inclusions methods: a laser ablation ICPMS pilot study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69: 2593-2611
2004
J.J. Hanley, J.E. Mungall, C.J. Bray and M.P. Gorton (2004). The origin of bulk rock and water-soluble Cl and Br enrichments in footwall Cu-Ni-PGE ore-hosting Sudbury Breccia in the Fraser Copper Zone, Strathcona Embayment, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Mineralogist 42: 1777-1798
J.E. Mungall, D.E. Ames, J.J. Hanley. (2004) Crustal redistribution in large bolide impacts: geochemical evidence from the Sudbury Structure. Nature. 6990: 546-548
J.E. Mungall and J.J. Hanley (2004). Origin of Outliers of the Huronian Supergroup within the Sudbury Structure. Journal of Geology. 112: 59-70
2003
J.J. Hanley and J.E. Mungall (2003). Chlorine enrichment and hydrous alteration of the Sudbury Breccia hosting footwall Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization at the Fraser Mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Mineralogist, 41: 857-881