Best Paper Award

The Mineralium Deposita Best Paper Award is granted for the best paper published in the Journal in the two years preceding the SGA Biennial Meetings. This award is decided jointly by the editors, with input from the editorial board. The award consists of a certificate, 1500 Euro and travel expenses for the first author to get the award

2023

Mansur ET, Barnes S-J, Duran CJ. (2021). An overview of chalcophile element contents of pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite from magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits. Mineralium Deposita 56: 179-204

2022

Mueller, AG, Hagemann, SG, McNaughton NJ, (2020) Neoarchean orogenic, magmatic and hydrothermal events in the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area, Western Australia: constraints on gold mineralization in the Boulder Lefroy-Golden Mile fault system. Mineralium Deposita, Volume 55, pages 633-663.

The citation and acceptance statements for this award can be seen here.

2019

Rottier B, Kouzmanov K, Casanova V, Bouvier A-S, Baumgartner LP, Wälle M, Fontboté L (2018) Mineralized breccia clasts: a window into hidden porphyry-type mineralization underlying the epithermal polymetallic deposit of Cerro de Pasco (Peru). Mineralium Deposita, Volume 53, pages 919-946.

2017

Hartwig E. Frimmel, Hennigh Q (2015): First whiffs of atmospheric oxygen triggered onset of crustal gold cycle, Mineralium Deposita Volume 50, pages 5–23.

2015

Wolfgang D. Maier, Barnes SJ, Groves DI (2013): The Bushveld Complex, South Africa: formation of platinum–palladium, chrome- and vanadium-rich layers via hydrodynamic sorting of a mobilized cumulate slurry in a large, relatively slowly cooling, subsiding magma chamber, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 48, pages 1–56.

2013

Cornel de Ronde, Massoth G, Butterfield D, Christenson B, Ishibashi J, Ditchburn R, Hammimgton M, Brathwaite R, Lupton J, Kamenetsky V, Graham I, Zellmer G, Dziak R, Embley R, Dekov V, Munnik F, Lahr J, Evans L, Takai K (2011): Submarine hydrothermal activity and gold-rich mineralization at Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 46, pages 541–584.

2011

Hiroyasu Murukami, Seo JH, Heinrich CA (2010): The relation between Cu/Au ratio and formation depth of porphyry-style Cu-Au±Mo deposits, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 45, pages 11–21.

2009

Reich M, Palacios C, Parada MA, Fehn U, Cameron EM, Leybourne MI, Zuniga A (2008): Atacamite formation by deep saline waters in copper deposits from the Atacama Desert, Chile: evidence from fluid inclusions, groundwater geochemistry, TEM, and 36Cl data. Mineralium Deposita, Volume 43, Pages 663–675.

2007

Ross R. McGowan, Stephen Roberts, Adrian J. Boyce AJ, (2006): Origin of the Nchanga copper-cobalt deposits of the Zambian Copperbelt, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 40,  Pages 617–638.

2005

Werner E. Halter, Christoph A. Heinrich, Thomas Pettke (2005): Magma evolution and the formation of porphyry Cu-Au ore fluids: evidence from silicate and sulfide melt inclusions, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 39, Pages 845–863.

2003

Jorge M. Relvas, Colombo C. Tassinari, José Munha, Fernando J. Barriga (2001): Multiple sources for ore-forming fluids in the Neves Corvo VHMS Deposit of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Portugal): strontium, neodymium and lead isotope evidence, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 36, Pages 416–427.

2001

F. Melcher, W. Grum, T. V. Thalhammer, O. A. R. Thalhammer (1999): The giant chromite deposits at Kempirsai, Urals: constraints from trace element (PGE, REE) and isotope data, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 34, Pages 250–272.

1999

H. J. Stein, K. Sundblad, R. J. Markey, J. W. Morgan, G. Motuza (1998): Re-Os ages for Archean molybdenite and pyrite, Kuittila-Kivisuo, Finland and Proterozoic molybdenite, Kabeliai, Lithuania: testing the chronometer in a metamorphic and metasomatic setting, Mineralium Deposita, Volume 33, Pages 329–345.