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Professor Iain McDonald
Professor
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- McdonaldI1@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 74295
- Main Building, Room 1.13, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
- Media commentator
Overview
Interests
- Analytical geochemistry
- Gold and platinum-group element geochemistry
- Mineral deposits
- Impact craters and impact ejecta
Publication
2024
- McDonald, I. 2024. Reimagining Niggli Numbers for modern data applications in petrology and exploration geochemistry. Chemical Geology 650, article number: 121915. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121915)
2023
- Martin, A. J., MacLeod, C. J., McFall, K. A., McDonald, I., Jamieson, J. W. and Cox, S. 2023. Ultramafic-hosted Ni-Cu-Co-(As) mineralization from an ancient oceanic transform fault zone in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: an analogue for ultramafic sea floor massive sulfide mineralization?. Economic Geology 118(5), pp. 1125-1147. (10.5382/econgeo.4996)
- Hyde, W. R. et al. 2023. Impact melt rocks from the Late Paleocene Hiawatha impact structure, northwest Greenland. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, pp. 789-814. (10.1111/maps.13987)
- Milne, E. J. M. et al. 2023. Caledonian hot zone magmatism in the 'Newer Granites': insight from the Cluanie and Clunes plutons, Northern Scottish Highlands.. Journal of the Geological Society 180(2) (10.1144/jgs2022-076)
- Martin, A. J. et al. 2023. Trace metal and sulfur cycling in a hydrothermally active arc volcano: deep-sea drilling of the Brothers volcano, Kermadec arc, New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita 58(2), pp. 402-425. (10.1007/s00126-022-01135-x)
2022
- Guice, G. L. et al. 2022. Origin of ultramafic-mafic bodies on the Isles of Lewis and Harris (Scotland, UK): Constraints on the Archean-Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Precambrian Research 369, article number: 106523. (10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106523)
- Holwell, D. A., Fiorentini, M. L., Knott, T. R., McDonald, I., Blanks, D. E., McCuaig, T. C. and Gorczyk, W. 2022. Mobilisation of deep crustal sulfide melts as a first order control on upper lithospheric metallogeny. Nature Communications 13(1), article number: 573. (10.1038/s41467-022-28275-y)
2021
- Lindsay, J. J. et al. 2021. Platinum-group element geochemistry of the Paraná flood basalts – modelling metallogenesis in rifting continental plume environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 311, pp. 74-101. (10.1016/j.gca.2021.07.035)
2020
- Martin, A. J., McDonald, I., McFall, K. A., MacLeod, C. J. and Prichard, H. M. 2020. Low-temperature silica-rich gold mineralization in mafic VMS systems: evidence from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Mineralium Deposita, pp. 805-822. (10.1007/s00126-020-01007-2)
- Tegner, C., Marzoli, A., McDonald, I., Youbi, N. and Lindström, S. 2020. Platinum-group elements link the end-Triassic mass extinction and the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Scientific Reports 10, article number: 3482. (10.1038/s41598-020-60483-8)
- Martin, A. J. et al. 2020. Effects of magmatic volatile influx in mafic VMS hydrothermal systems: evidence from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Chemical Geology 531, article number: 119325. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119325)
- Guice, G. L., McDonald, I., Hughes, H. S. R., MacDonald, J. M. and Faithfull, J. W. 2020. The origin(s) and geodynamic significance of Archaean ultramafic-mafic bodies in the mainland Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Journal of the Geological Society 177(4), article number: 700. (10.1144/jgs2020-013)
2019
- McFall, K., Roberts, S., McDonald, I., Boyce, A. J., Naden, J. and Teagle, D. 2019. Rhenium enrichment in the Muratdere Cu-Mo (Au-Re) porphyry deposit, Turkey: evidence from stable isotope analyses (δ34S, δ18O, δD) and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry analysis of sulfides. Economic Geology 114(7), pp. 1443-1466. (10.5382/econgeo.4638)
- Tegner, C. et al. 2019. Mantle dynamics of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP): Constraints from platinum group, gold and lithophile elements in flood basalts of Morocco. Journal of Petrology, pp. -. (10.1093/petrology/egz041)
- Holwell, D. A. et al. 2019. A metasomatized lithospheric mantle control on the metallogenic signature of post-subduction magmatism. Nature Communications 10(1), article number: 3511. (10.1038/s41467-019-11065-4)
- McFall, K., McDonald, I., Tanner, D. and Harmer, R. (. 2019. The mineralogy and mineral associations of platinum-group elements and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb, Bushveld Complex. Ore Geology Reviews 106, pp. 403-422. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.02.008)
- Tanner, D., McDonald, I., Harmer, R. J., Muir, D. D. and Hughes, H. S. 2019. A record of assimilation preserved by exotic minerals in the lowermost platinum-group element deposit of the Bushveld Complex: The Volspruit Sulphide Zone. Lithos 324-32, pp. 584-608. (10.1016/j.lithos.2018.10.032)
2018
- Kjær, K. H. et al. 2018. A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. Science Advances 4(11), article number: eaar8173. (10.1126/sciadv.aar8173)
- McFall, K. A., Naden, J., Roberts, S., Baker, T., Spratt, J. and McDonald, I. 2018. Platinum-group minerals in the Skouries Cu-Au (Pd, Pt, Te) porphyry deposit. Ore Geology Reviews 99 (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.06.014)
- Guice, G. et al. 2018. Re-evaluating ambiguous age relationships in Archean cratons: implications for the origin of ultramafic-mafic complexes in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex. Precambrian Research 311, pp. 136-156. (10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.020)
- Martin, A. J., McDonald, I., MacLeod, C. J., Prichard, H. M. and McFall, K. 2018. Extreme enrichment of selenium in the Apliki Cyprus-type VMS deposit, Troodos, Cyprus. Mineralogical Magazine 82(SI3), pp. 697-724. (10.1180/mgm.2018.81)
- Karykowski, B. T., Maier, W. D., Groshev, N. Y., Barnes, S., Pripachkin, P. V., McDonald, I. and Savard, D. 2018. Critical controls on the formation of contact-style PGE-Ni-Cu mineralization: evidence from the Paleoproterozoic Monchegorsk Complex, Kola region, Russia. Economic Geology 113(4), pp. 911-935. (10.5382/econgeo.2018.4576)
- Szilas, K., Van Hinsberg, V., McDonald, I., Næraa, T., Rollinson, H., Adetunji, J. and Bird, D. 2018. Highly refractory Archaean peridotite cumulates: petrology and geochemistry of the Seqi Ultramafic Complex, SW Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers 9(3), pp. 689-714. (10.1016/j.gsf.2017.05.003)
- Chi Fru, E. et al. 2018. Sedimentary mechanisms of a modern banded iron formation on Milos Island, Greece. Solid Earth 8 (10.5194/se-2017-113)
- Huthmann, F., Yudovskaya, M., Kinnaird, J., McCreesh, M. and McDonald, I. 2018. Geochemistry and PGE of the lower mineralized zone of the Waterberg Project, South Africa. Ore Geology Reviews 92, pp. 161-185. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.10.023)
2017
- Holwell, D. A., Adeyemi, Z., Ward, L. A., Smith, D. J., Graham, S. D., McDonald, I. and Smith, J. W. 2017. Low temperature alteration of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfides as a source for hydrothermal Ni and PGE ores: A quantitative approach using automated mineralogy. Ore Geology Reviews 91, pp. 718-740. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.08.025)
- McDonald, I., Hughes, H. R., Butler, I. B., Harris, J. W. and Muir, D. 2017. Homogenisation of sulphide inclusions within diamonds: A new approach to diamond inclusion geochemistry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 216, pp. 335-357. (10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.039)
- Korbar, T., McDonald, I., Fućek, V. P., Fuček, L. and Posilović, H. 2017. Reply to Comment on “Post-impact event bed (tsunamite) at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary deposited on a distal carbonate platform interior”. Terra Nova 29(5), pp. 332-334. (10.1111/ter.12281)
- Andersen, J. C. ?., Rollinson, G. K., McDonald, I., Tegner, C. and Lesher, C. E. 2017. Platinum-group mineralization at the margin of the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland. Mineralium Deposita 52(6), pp. 929-942. (10.1007/s00126-016-0707-3)
- Hughes, H. S., McDonald, I., Loocke, M., Butler, I. B., Upton, B. G. and Faithfull, J. W. 2017. Paradoxical co-existing base metal sulphides in the mantle: The multi-event record preserved in Loch Roag peridotite xenoliths, North Atlantic Craton. Lithos 276, pp. 103-121. (10.1016/j.lithos.2016.09.035)
- Korbar, T., McDonald, I., Premec Fucek, V., Fucek, L. and Posilovic, H. 2017. Post-impact event bed (tsunamite) at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary deposited on a distal carbonate platform interior. Terra Nova 29(2), pp. 135-143. (10.1111/ter.12257)
- Graham, S. D. et al. 2017. Magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE-Au sulfide mineralisation in alkaline igneous systems: an example from the Sron Garbh intrusion, Tyndrum, Scotland. Ore Geology Reviews 80, pp. 961-984. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.08.031)
- McDonald, I., Harmer, R. E., Holwell, D. A., Hughes, H. S. R. and Boyce, A. J. 2017. Cu-Ni-PGE mineralisation at the Aurora Project and potential for a new PGE province in the Northern Bushveld Main Zone. Ore Geology Reviews 80, pp. 1135-1159. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.09.016)
2016
- Golkaram, S., Rashidnejad–Omran, N., Azizi, H., Asahara, Y., Buchs, D., McDonald, I. and Santos, J. F. 2016. Petrogenesis and geodynamic evolution of the Kajan Neogene subvolcanic rocks, Nain, Central Iran. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry 76(4), pp. 567-578. (10.1016/j.chemer.2016.08.007)
- Hastie, A. R., Fitton, J. G., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Schwindrofska, A. and Hoernle, K. 2016. The composition of mantle plumes and the deep Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 444, pp. 13-25. (10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.023)
- Kerr, A., Lavis, O., Kakar, M. I. and McDonald, I. 2016. Petrogenesis and tectonomagmatic significance of Eocene mafic intrusions from the Neotethyan suture zone in the Muslim Bagh-Khanozai region, Pakistan. Journal of the Geological Society 173, pp. 518-530. (10.1144/jgs2015-062)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Boyce, A. J., Holwell, D. A. and Kerr, A. C. 2016. Sulphide sinking in magma conduits: evidence from maficultramafic plugs on Rum and the wider North Atlantic Igneous Province. Journal of Petrology 57(2), pp. 383-416. (10.1093/petrology/egw010)
- Smith, J. W., Holwell, D. A., McDonald, I. and Boyce, A. J. 2016. The application of S isotopes and S/Se ratios in determining ore-forming processes of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits:A cautionary case study from the northern bushveld complex. Ore Geology Reviews 73(1), pp. 148-174. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.10.022)
- Kille, P. et al. 2016. Venus trapped, Mars transits: Cu and Fe redox chemistry, cellular topography, and in situ ligand binding in terrestrial isopod hepatopancreas. Open Biology Journal 6(3), pp. -., article number: 150270. (10.1098/rsob.150270)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Faithfull, J. W., Upton, B. G. and Loocke, M. 2016. Cobalt and precious metals in sulphides of peridotite xenoliths and inferences concerning their distribution according to geodynamic environment: a case study from the Scottish lithospheric mantle. Lithos 240-24, pp. 202-227. (10.1016/j.lithos.2015.11.007)
2015
- Silva, J. M., Prichard, H., Filho, C. E. F., Fisher, P. C. and McDonald, I. 2015. Platinum-group minerals in the Limoeiro Ni–Cu–(PGE) sulfide deposit, Brazil: the effect of magmatic and upper amphibolite to granulite metamorphic processes on PGM formation. Mineralium Deposita 50, pp. 1007-1029. (10.1007/s00126-015-0585-0)
- Holwell, D. A., Keays, R. R., McDonald, I. and Williams, M. R. 2015. Extreme enrichment of Se, Te, PGE and Au in Cu-sulfide microdroplets: evidence from LA-ICP-MS analysis of sulfides in the Skaergaard Intrusion, east Greenland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 170, article number: 53. (10.1007/s00410-015-1203-y)
- Korbar, T. et al. 2015. Potential Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary tsunami deposit in the intra-Tethyan Adriatic carbonate platform section of Hvar (Croatia). Geological Society of America Bulletin 127(11), pp. 1666-1680. (10.1130/B31084.1)
- Ghaffari, M. et al. 2015. Interaction between felsic and mafic magmas in the Salmas intrusive complex, Northwestern Iran: Constraints from petrography and geochemistry. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 111, pp. 440-458. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.06.019)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I. and Kerr, A. C. 2015. Platinum group element signatures in the North Atlantic Igneous Province: Implications for mantle controls on metal budgets during continental breakup. Lithos 233, pp. 89-110. (10.1016/j.lithos.2015.05.005)
- Ciborowski, J., Kerr, A., Ernst, R., McDonald, I., Minife, M., Harlan, S. and Millar, I. 2015. The Early Proterozoic Matachewan Large Igneous Province: geochemistry, petrogenesis, and implications for Earth evolution. Journal of Petrology 56(8), pp. 1459-1494. (10.1093/petrology/egv038)
- Hughes, H., McDonald, I., Faithfull, J. W., Brian, G. and Downes, H. 2015. Trace-element abundances in the shallow lithospheric mantle of the North Atlantic Craton margin: implications for melting and metasomatism beneath Northern Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine 79(4), pp. 877-907. (10.1180/minmag.2015.079.4.03)
- Raschke, U., Schmitt, R. T., McDonald, I., Reimold, W. U., Mader, D. and Koeberl, C. 2015. Geochemical studies of impact breccias and country rocks from the El'gygytgyn impact structure, Russia. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50(6), pp. 1071-1088. (10.1111/maps.12455)
- Porta, G. D., Webb, G. E. and McDonald, I. 2015. REE patterns of microbial carbonate and cements from Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) siliceous sponge mounds (Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco). Chemical Geology 400, pp. 65-86. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.02.010)
- Butler, S., Bailey, T., Lear, C. H., Curry, G., Cherns, L. and McDonald, I. 2015. The Mg/Ca–temperature relationship in brachiopod shells: Calibrating a potential palaeoseasonality proxy. Chemical Geology 397, pp. 106-117. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.01.009)
- Brough, C., Prichard, H. M., Neary, C., Fisher, P. C. and McDonald, I. 2015. Geochemical variations within podiform chromitite deposits in the Shetland ophiolite: implications for petrogenesis and PGE concentration. Economic Geology 110(1), pp. 187-208. (10.2113/econgeo.110.1.187)
- Hughes, H. S. R., Boyce, A. J., McDonald, I., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Holwell, D. A., McDonald, A. and Oldroyd, A. 2015. Contrasting mechanisms for crustal sulphur contamination of mafic magma: evidence from dyke and sill complexes from the British Palaeogene Igneous Province. Journal of the Geological Society 172, pp. 443-458. (10.1144/jgs2014-112)
2014
- Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Ernst, R. E., Hughes, H. S. R. and Minifie, M. J. 2014. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Paleoproterozoic du Chef dyke swarm, Québec, Canada. Precambrian Research 250, pp. 151-166. (10.1016/j.precamres.2014.05.008)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Goodenough, K. M., Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., Davies, J. H. and Selby, D. 2014. Enriched lithospheric mantle keel below the Scottish margin of the North Atlantic Craton: Evidence from the Palaeoproterozoic Scourie Dyke Swarm and mantle xenoliths. Precambrian Research 250, pp. 97-126. (10.1016/j.precamres.2014.05.026)
- Huber, M. S., Črne, A. E., McDonald, I., Hecht, L., Melezhik, V. A. and Koeberl, C. 2014. Impact spherules from Karelia, Russia: possible ejecta from the 2.02 Ga Vredefort impact event. Geology 42(5), pp. 375-378. (10.1130/G35231.1)
- Kunicki-Goldfinger, J. J., Freestone, I. C., McDonald, I., Hobot, J. A., Gilderdale-Scott, H. and Ayers, T. 2014. Technology, production and chronology of red window glass in the medieval period - rediscovery of a lost technology. Journal of Archaeological Science 41, pp. 89-105. (10.1016/j.jas.2013.07.029)
2013
- Prichard, H. M., Fisher, P. C., McDonald, I., Knight, R., Sharp, D. and Williams, J. 2013. The distribution of PGE and the role of arsenic as a collector of PGE in the Spotted Quoll nickel ore deposit in the Forrestania Greenstone Belt, Western Australia. Economic Geology 108(8), pp. 1903-1921. (10.2113/econgeo.108.8.1903)
- Reimold, W. U., McDonald, I., Schmitt, R., Hansen, B., Jacob, J. and Koeberl, C. 2013. Geochemical studies of the SUBO 18 (Enkingen) drill core and other impact breccias from the Ries crater, Germany. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48(9), pp. 1531-1571. (10.1111/maps.12175)
- Prichard, H., Knight, R., Fisher, P. C., McDonald, I., Zhou, M. and Wang, C. 2013. Distribution of platinum-group elements in magmatic and altered ores in the Jinchuan intrusion, China: An example of selenium remobilization by post magmatic fluids. Mineralium Deposita 48(6), pp. 767-786. (10.1007/s00126-013-0454-7)
- Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Ernst, R. E. and Minifie, M. J. 2013. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Blue Draw Metagabbro. Lithos 174, pp. 271-290. (10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.035)
- Goderis, S. et al. 2013. Ni-rich spinels and platinum group element nuggets condensed from a Late Archaean impact vapour cloud. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 376, pp. 87-98. (10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.027)
- Garde, A. A., Pattison, J., Kokfelt, T., McDonald, I. and Secher, K. 2013. Impact-triggered, conduit-type Ni-Cu mineralisation, Norite Belt, Maniitsoq Structure, West Greenland. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48(Supp 1), pp. A139-A139. (10.1111/maps.12165)
- Matthews, I. P., Gregory, C. J., Aljayyoussi, G., Morris, C. J., McDonald, I., Hoogendoorn, B. and Gumbleton, M. 2013. Maximal extent of translocation of single-walled carbon nanotubes from lung airways of the rat. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 35(3), pp. 461-464. (10.1016/j.etap.2013.02.002)
- Garde, A. A., McDonald, I., Dyck, B. and Keulen, N. 2013. Reply on "searching for giant, ancient impact structures on Earth: the Mesoarchaean Maniitsoq structure, West Greenland" by Garde et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 337-338 (2012) 197-210]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 369-70, pp. 336-343. (10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.002)
- Garde, A. A., Pattison, J., Kokfelt, T. F., McDonald, I. and Secher, K. 2013. The norite belt in the Mesoarchaean Maniitsoq structure, southern West Greenland: conduit-type Ni-Cu mineralisation in impact-triggered, mantle-derived intrusions?. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin(28), pp. 45-48.
- Izmer, A., Goderis, S., Simonson, B. M., McDonald, I., Hassler, S. W., Claeys, P. and Vanhaecke, F. 2013. Application of laser ablation-ICP-mass spectrometry for 2-dimensional mapping of element distributions in a Late Archean impact spherule layer. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 28(7), pp. 1031-1038. (10.1039/C3JA50045D)
- Knight, R. D., Prichard, H. M., McDonald, I. and Wang, C. Y. 2013. Variation in PGM within two orebodies in the Jinchuan intrusion, Gansu province, NW China. Presented at: 12th Biennial SGA Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013 Presented at Jonsson, E. ed.Mineral Deposit Research for a High-Tech World Proceedings of the 12th Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, Vol. 1-4. pp. 1032-1035.
2012
- Garde, A. A., McDonald, I., Dyck, B. and Keulen, N. 2012. Searching for giant, ancient impact structures on earth: the Mesoarchaean Maniitsoq structure, West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 337-38, pp. 197-210. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.026)
- Koeberl, C., Claeys, P., Hecht, L. and McDonald, I. 2012. Geochemistry of impactites. Elements 8(1), pp. 37-42. (10.2113/gselements.8.1.37)
- Maier, W. D., Peltonen, P., McDonald, I., Barnes, S. J., Barnes, S., Hatton, C. and Viljoen, F. 2012. The concentration of platinum-group elements and gold in southern African and Karelian kimberlite-hosted mantle xenoliths: Implications for the noble metal content of the Earth's mantle. Chemical Geology 302-3, pp. 119-135. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.06.014)
- Knight, R., Prichard, H., McDonald, I. and Filho, C. 2012. Platinum-group mineralogy of the Fazenda Mirabela intrusion, Brazil: the role of high temperature liquids and sulphur loss. Applied Earth Science 120(4), pp. 211-224. (10.1179/1743275812Y.0000000016)
2011
- Stanley, B. A. et al. 2011. Thioredoxin reductase-2 is essential for keeping low levels of H(2)O(2) emission from isolated heart mitochondria. Journal of Biological Chemistry 286(38), pp. 33669-33677. (10.1074/jbc.M111.284612)
- McDonald, I. and Garde, A. A. 2011. Geochemistry of post-kinematic mafic intrusions at Maniitsoq, West Greenland: contaminated mantle melts or impact melts? [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 46(S1), pp. A153. (10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01221.x)
- Holwell, D. A., McDonald, I. and Butler, I. B. 2011. Precious metal enrichment in the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: evidence from homogenized magmatic sulfide melt inclusions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 161(6), pp. 1011-1026. (10.1007/s00410-010-0577-0)
- Stanley, B. A. et al. 2011. Thioredoxin Reductase-2 Is Essential for Keeping Low Levels of H2O2 Emission from Isolated Heart Mitochondria. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 286(38), pp. 33669-33677. (10.1074/jbc.M111.284612)
- McDonald, I. and Holwell, D. 2011. Geology of the Northern Bushveld Complex and the Setting and Genesis of the Platreef Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit. In: Li, C. and Ripley, E. M. eds. Magmatic Ni-Cu and PGE Deposits: Geology, Geochemistry and Genesis. Reviews in Economic Geology Vol. 17. Society of Economic Geologists, pp. 297-327.
- Yudovskaya, M., Kinnaird, J., Naldrett, A. J., Mokhov, A. V., McDonald, I. and Reinke, C. 2011. Facies Variation in PGE Mineralization in the Central Platreef of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Canadian Mineralogis 49(6), pp. 1349-1384. (10.3749/canmin.49.6.1349)
2010
- Jourdan, F., Andreoli, M. A. G., McDonald, I. and Maier, W. D. 2010. 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the fossil LL6-chondrite from the Morokweng crater, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(5), pp. 1734-1747. (10.1016/j.gca.2009.11.032)
- Hastie, A., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Mitchell, S. F., Pearce, J. A., Wolstencroft, M. and Millar, I. L. 2010. Do Cenozoic analogues support a plate tectonic origin for Earth's earliest continental crust?. Geology 38(6), pp. 495-498. (10.1130/G30778.1)
- Hastie, A. R. et al. 2010. Geochronology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of rhyodacite lavas in eastern Jamaica: a new adakite subgroup analogous to early Archaean continental crust?. Chemical Geology 276(3-4), pp. 344-359. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.002)
- Kerr, A. C., Khan, M. and McDonald, I. 2010. Eruption of basaltic magma at Tor Zawar, Balochistan, Pakistan on 27 January 2010: geochemical and petrological constraints on petrogenesis. Mineralogical Magazine 74(6), pp. 1027-1036. (10.1180/minmag.2010.074.6.1027)
- Suárez, S., Prichard, H. M., Velasco, F., Fisher, P. C. and McDonald, I. 2010. Alteration of platinum-group minerals and dispersion of platinum-group elements during progressive weathering of the Aguablanca Ni-Cu deposit, SW Spain. Mineralium Deposita 45(4), pp. 331-350. (10.1007/s00126-009-0275-x)
- Holwell, D. A. and McDonald, I. 2010. A review of the behaviour of Platinum Group Elements within natural magmatic sulfide ore systems. Platinum Metals Review 54(1), pp. 26-36. (10.1595/147106709X480913)
2009
- Dare, S. A., Pearce, J. A., McDonald, I. and Styles, M. T. 2009. Tectonic discrimination of peridotites using fO2–Cr# and Ga–Ti–FeIII systematics in chrome–spinel. Chemical Geology 261(3-4), pp. 199-216. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.08.002)
- McDonald, I., Holwell, D. A. and Wesley, B. 2009. Assessing the potential involvement of an early magma staging chamber in the generation of the Platreef Ni–Cu–PGE deposit in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex: a pilot study of the Lower Zone Complex at Zwartfontein. Applied Earth Science (Transactions Institute of Mining & Metallurgy B) 118(1), pp. 5-20. (10.1179/174327509X434902)
- Simonson, B. M., McDonald, I., Shukolyukov, A., Koeberl, C., Reimold, W. U. and Lugmair, G. W. 2009. Geochemistry of 2.63–2.49 Ga impact spherule layers and implications for stratigraphic correlations and impact processes. Precambrian Research 175(1-4), pp. 51-76. (10.1016/j.precamres.2009.08.004)
- Ahmandian, J., Haschke, M., McDonald, I., Regelous, M., RezaGhorbani, M., Hashem-Emami, M. and Murata, M. 2009. High magmatic flux during Alpine-Himalyan collision: constraints from the Kal-e-Kafi complex, central Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121(5-6), pp. 467-480. (10.1130/B26279.1)
- McDonald, I., Bartosova, K. and Koeberl, C. 2009. Search for a meteoritic component in impact breccia from the Eyreville core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Considerations from platinum-group element contents. In: Gohn, G. S. et al. eds. The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes., Vol. 458. Geological Society of America Special Publications Vol. 458. Geological Society of America, pp. 469-479., (10.1130/2009.2458(21))
- Machado, R., Lana, C., Stevens, G., Filho, C. R. S., Reimold, W. U. and McDonald, I. 2009. Generation, mobilization and crystallization of impact-induced alkali-rich melts in granitic target rocks: evidence from the Araguainha impact structure, central Brazil. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(23), pp. 7183-7201. (10.1016/j.gca.2009.08.029)
2008
- McDonald, I. 2008. Platinum-group element and sulphide mineralogy in ultramafic complexes at Western Adriamena, Madagascar. Applied Earth Science (Transactions Institute of Mining & Metallurgy B) 117(1), pp. 1-10. (10.1179/174327508X309678)
- Hutchinson, D. and McDonald, I. 2008. Laser ablation ICP-MS study of platinum-group elements in sulphides from the Platreef at Turfspruit, Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Mineralium Deposita 43(6), pp. 695-711. (10.1007/s00126-008-0190-6)
2007
- Holwell, D. A. and McDonald, I. 2007. Distribution of platinum-group elements in the Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex: a combined PGM and LA-ICP-MS study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 154(2), pp. 171-190. (10.1007/s00410-007-0185-9)
- Moreno, T., Oldroyd, A., McDonald, I. and Gibbons, W. 2007. Preferential fractionation of trace metals-metalloids into PM10 resuspended from contaminated gold mine tailings at Rodalquilar, Spain. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 179(1-4), pp. 93-105. (10.1007/s11270-006-9216-9)
2006
- Maier, W. D. et al. 2006. Discovery of a 25-cm asteroid clast in the giant Morokweng impact crater, South Africa. Nature 441(7090), pp. 203-206. (10.1038/nature04751)
2005
- Moreno, T., Higueras, P., Jones, T. P., McDonald, I. and Gibbons, W. 2005. Size fractionation in mercury-bearing airborne particles (HgPM10) at Almadén, Spain: Implications for inhalation hazards around old mines. Atmospheric Environment 39(34), pp. 6409-6419. (10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.07.024)
2002
- McDonald, I. 2002. Clearwater East impact structure: A re-interpretation of the projectile type using new platinum-group element data from meteorites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37(3), pp. 459-464.
- McDonald, I., Gunn, A. G. and Prichard, H. M. (. 2002. 21st century Pt - Pd deposits: current and future potential [Special Issue]. Transactions Institute of Mining & Metallurgy B
2001
- McDonald, I., Andreoli, M. A. G., Hart, R. J. and Tredoux, M. 2001. Platinum-group elements in the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa: evidence for the impact of a large ordinary chondrite projectile at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65(2), pp. 299-309. (10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00527-5)
1999
- Prichard, H. M., McDonald, I., Williams, C. T. and Wall, F. (. 1999. Ore-forming processes associated with mafic and ultramafic rocks. Presented at: 5th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) and the 10th Quadrennial Symposium of the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), London, UK, 22-25 August 1999 Presented at Stanley, C. J. et al. eds.Mineral deposits: processes to processing, Proceedings of the 5th biennial SGA meeting, London, England, 22-25 August 1999. Rotterdam: Balkema pp. 697-798.
- De Marco, P., Moradas-Ferreira, P., Higgins, T., McDonald, I., Kenna, E. M. and Murrell, J. C. 1999. Molecular analysis of a novel methanesulfonic acid monooxygenase from the methylotroph Methylosulfonomonas methylovora. Journal of Bacteriology 181(7), pp. 2244-2251.
Articles
- McDonald, I. 2024. Reimagining Niggli Numbers for modern data applications in petrology and exploration geochemistry. Chemical Geology 650, article number: 121915. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121915)
- Martin, A. J., MacLeod, C. J., McFall, K. A., McDonald, I., Jamieson, J. W. and Cox, S. 2023. Ultramafic-hosted Ni-Cu-Co-(As) mineralization from an ancient oceanic transform fault zone in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: an analogue for ultramafic sea floor massive sulfide mineralization?. Economic Geology 118(5), pp. 1125-1147. (10.5382/econgeo.4996)
- Hyde, W. R. et al. 2023. Impact melt rocks from the Late Paleocene Hiawatha impact structure, northwest Greenland. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, pp. 789-814. (10.1111/maps.13987)
- Milne, E. J. M. et al. 2023. Caledonian hot zone magmatism in the 'Newer Granites': insight from the Cluanie and Clunes plutons, Northern Scottish Highlands.. Journal of the Geological Society 180(2) (10.1144/jgs2022-076)
- Martin, A. J. et al. 2023. Trace metal and sulfur cycling in a hydrothermally active arc volcano: deep-sea drilling of the Brothers volcano, Kermadec arc, New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita 58(2), pp. 402-425. (10.1007/s00126-022-01135-x)
- Guice, G. L. et al. 2022. Origin of ultramafic-mafic bodies on the Isles of Lewis and Harris (Scotland, UK): Constraints on the Archean-Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Precambrian Research 369, article number: 106523. (10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106523)
- Holwell, D. A., Fiorentini, M. L., Knott, T. R., McDonald, I., Blanks, D. E., McCuaig, T. C. and Gorczyk, W. 2022. Mobilisation of deep crustal sulfide melts as a first order control on upper lithospheric metallogeny. Nature Communications 13(1), article number: 573. (10.1038/s41467-022-28275-y)
- Lindsay, J. J. et al. 2021. Platinum-group element geochemistry of the Paraná flood basalts – modelling metallogenesis in rifting continental plume environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 311, pp. 74-101. (10.1016/j.gca.2021.07.035)
- Martin, A. J., McDonald, I., McFall, K. A., MacLeod, C. J. and Prichard, H. M. 2020. Low-temperature silica-rich gold mineralization in mafic VMS systems: evidence from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Mineralium Deposita, pp. 805-822. (10.1007/s00126-020-01007-2)
- Tegner, C., Marzoli, A., McDonald, I., Youbi, N. and Lindström, S. 2020. Platinum-group elements link the end-Triassic mass extinction and the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Scientific Reports 10, article number: 3482. (10.1038/s41598-020-60483-8)
- Martin, A. J. et al. 2020. Effects of magmatic volatile influx in mafic VMS hydrothermal systems: evidence from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Chemical Geology 531, article number: 119325. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119325)
- Guice, G. L., McDonald, I., Hughes, H. S. R., MacDonald, J. M. and Faithfull, J. W. 2020. The origin(s) and geodynamic significance of Archaean ultramafic-mafic bodies in the mainland Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Journal of the Geological Society 177(4), article number: 700. (10.1144/jgs2020-013)
- McFall, K., Roberts, S., McDonald, I., Boyce, A. J., Naden, J. and Teagle, D. 2019. Rhenium enrichment in the Muratdere Cu-Mo (Au-Re) porphyry deposit, Turkey: evidence from stable isotope analyses (δ34S, δ18O, δD) and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry analysis of sulfides. Economic Geology 114(7), pp. 1443-1466. (10.5382/econgeo.4638)
- Tegner, C. et al. 2019. Mantle dynamics of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP): Constraints from platinum group, gold and lithophile elements in flood basalts of Morocco. Journal of Petrology, pp. -. (10.1093/petrology/egz041)
- Holwell, D. A. et al. 2019. A metasomatized lithospheric mantle control on the metallogenic signature of post-subduction magmatism. Nature Communications 10(1), article number: 3511. (10.1038/s41467-019-11065-4)
- McFall, K., McDonald, I., Tanner, D. and Harmer, R. (. 2019. The mineralogy and mineral associations of platinum-group elements and precious metals in the Aurora Cu-Ni-Au-PGE deposit, Northern Limb, Bushveld Complex. Ore Geology Reviews 106, pp. 403-422. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.02.008)
- Tanner, D., McDonald, I., Harmer, R. J., Muir, D. D. and Hughes, H. S. 2019. A record of assimilation preserved by exotic minerals in the lowermost platinum-group element deposit of the Bushveld Complex: The Volspruit Sulphide Zone. Lithos 324-32, pp. 584-608. (10.1016/j.lithos.2018.10.032)
- Kjær, K. H. et al. 2018. A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. Science Advances 4(11), article number: eaar8173. (10.1126/sciadv.aar8173)
- McFall, K. A., Naden, J., Roberts, S., Baker, T., Spratt, J. and McDonald, I. 2018. Platinum-group minerals in the Skouries Cu-Au (Pd, Pt, Te) porphyry deposit. Ore Geology Reviews 99 (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.06.014)
- Guice, G. et al. 2018. Re-evaluating ambiguous age relationships in Archean cratons: implications for the origin of ultramafic-mafic complexes in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex. Precambrian Research 311, pp. 136-156. (10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.020)
- Martin, A. J., McDonald, I., MacLeod, C. J., Prichard, H. M. and McFall, K. 2018. Extreme enrichment of selenium in the Apliki Cyprus-type VMS deposit, Troodos, Cyprus. Mineralogical Magazine 82(SI3), pp. 697-724. (10.1180/mgm.2018.81)
- Karykowski, B. T., Maier, W. D., Groshev, N. Y., Barnes, S., Pripachkin, P. V., McDonald, I. and Savard, D. 2018. Critical controls on the formation of contact-style PGE-Ni-Cu mineralization: evidence from the Paleoproterozoic Monchegorsk Complex, Kola region, Russia. Economic Geology 113(4), pp. 911-935. (10.5382/econgeo.2018.4576)
- Szilas, K., Van Hinsberg, V., McDonald, I., Næraa, T., Rollinson, H., Adetunji, J. and Bird, D. 2018. Highly refractory Archaean peridotite cumulates: petrology and geochemistry of the Seqi Ultramafic Complex, SW Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers 9(3), pp. 689-714. (10.1016/j.gsf.2017.05.003)
- Chi Fru, E. et al. 2018. Sedimentary mechanisms of a modern banded iron formation on Milos Island, Greece. Solid Earth 8 (10.5194/se-2017-113)
- Huthmann, F., Yudovskaya, M., Kinnaird, J., McCreesh, M. and McDonald, I. 2018. Geochemistry and PGE of the lower mineralized zone of the Waterberg Project, South Africa. Ore Geology Reviews 92, pp. 161-185. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.10.023)
- Holwell, D. A., Adeyemi, Z., Ward, L. A., Smith, D. J., Graham, S. D., McDonald, I. and Smith, J. W. 2017. Low temperature alteration of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfides as a source for hydrothermal Ni and PGE ores: A quantitative approach using automated mineralogy. Ore Geology Reviews 91, pp. 718-740. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.08.025)
- McDonald, I., Hughes, H. R., Butler, I. B., Harris, J. W. and Muir, D. 2017. Homogenisation of sulphide inclusions within diamonds: A new approach to diamond inclusion geochemistry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 216, pp. 335-357. (10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.039)
- Korbar, T., McDonald, I., Fućek, V. P., Fuček, L. and Posilović, H. 2017. Reply to Comment on “Post-impact event bed (tsunamite) at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary deposited on a distal carbonate platform interior”. Terra Nova 29(5), pp. 332-334. (10.1111/ter.12281)
- Andersen, J. C. ?., Rollinson, G. K., McDonald, I., Tegner, C. and Lesher, C. E. 2017. Platinum-group mineralization at the margin of the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland. Mineralium Deposita 52(6), pp. 929-942. (10.1007/s00126-016-0707-3)
- Hughes, H. S., McDonald, I., Loocke, M., Butler, I. B., Upton, B. G. and Faithfull, J. W. 2017. Paradoxical co-existing base metal sulphides in the mantle: The multi-event record preserved in Loch Roag peridotite xenoliths, North Atlantic Craton. Lithos 276, pp. 103-121. (10.1016/j.lithos.2016.09.035)
- Korbar, T., McDonald, I., Premec Fucek, V., Fucek, L. and Posilovic, H. 2017. Post-impact event bed (tsunamite) at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary deposited on a distal carbonate platform interior. Terra Nova 29(2), pp. 135-143. (10.1111/ter.12257)
- Graham, S. D. et al. 2017. Magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE-Au sulfide mineralisation in alkaline igneous systems: an example from the Sron Garbh intrusion, Tyndrum, Scotland. Ore Geology Reviews 80, pp. 961-984. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.08.031)
- McDonald, I., Harmer, R. E., Holwell, D. A., Hughes, H. S. R. and Boyce, A. J. 2017. Cu-Ni-PGE mineralisation at the Aurora Project and potential for a new PGE province in the Northern Bushveld Main Zone. Ore Geology Reviews 80, pp. 1135-1159. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.09.016)
- Golkaram, S., Rashidnejad–Omran, N., Azizi, H., Asahara, Y., Buchs, D., McDonald, I. and Santos, J. F. 2016. Petrogenesis and geodynamic evolution of the Kajan Neogene subvolcanic rocks, Nain, Central Iran. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry 76(4), pp. 567-578. (10.1016/j.chemer.2016.08.007)
- Hastie, A. R., Fitton, J. G., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Schwindrofska, A. and Hoernle, K. 2016. The composition of mantle plumes and the deep Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 444, pp. 13-25. (10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.023)
- Kerr, A., Lavis, O., Kakar, M. I. and McDonald, I. 2016. Petrogenesis and tectonomagmatic significance of Eocene mafic intrusions from the Neotethyan suture zone in the Muslim Bagh-Khanozai region, Pakistan. Journal of the Geological Society 173, pp. 518-530. (10.1144/jgs2015-062)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Boyce, A. J., Holwell, D. A. and Kerr, A. C. 2016. Sulphide sinking in magma conduits: evidence from maficultramafic plugs on Rum and the wider North Atlantic Igneous Province. Journal of Petrology 57(2), pp. 383-416. (10.1093/petrology/egw010)
- Smith, J. W., Holwell, D. A., McDonald, I. and Boyce, A. J. 2016. The application of S isotopes and S/Se ratios in determining ore-forming processes of magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits:A cautionary case study from the northern bushveld complex. Ore Geology Reviews 73(1), pp. 148-174. (10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.10.022)
- Kille, P. et al. 2016. Venus trapped, Mars transits: Cu and Fe redox chemistry, cellular topography, and in situ ligand binding in terrestrial isopod hepatopancreas. Open Biology Journal 6(3), pp. -., article number: 150270. (10.1098/rsob.150270)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Faithfull, J. W., Upton, B. G. and Loocke, M. 2016. Cobalt and precious metals in sulphides of peridotite xenoliths and inferences concerning their distribution according to geodynamic environment: a case study from the Scottish lithospheric mantle. Lithos 240-24, pp. 202-227. (10.1016/j.lithos.2015.11.007)
- Silva, J. M., Prichard, H., Filho, C. E. F., Fisher, P. C. and McDonald, I. 2015. Platinum-group minerals in the Limoeiro Ni–Cu–(PGE) sulfide deposit, Brazil: the effect of magmatic and upper amphibolite to granulite metamorphic processes on PGM formation. Mineralium Deposita 50, pp. 1007-1029. (10.1007/s00126-015-0585-0)
- Holwell, D. A., Keays, R. R., McDonald, I. and Williams, M. R. 2015. Extreme enrichment of Se, Te, PGE and Au in Cu-sulfide microdroplets: evidence from LA-ICP-MS analysis of sulfides in the Skaergaard Intrusion, east Greenland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 170, article number: 53. (10.1007/s00410-015-1203-y)
- Korbar, T. et al. 2015. Potential Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary tsunami deposit in the intra-Tethyan Adriatic carbonate platform section of Hvar (Croatia). Geological Society of America Bulletin 127(11), pp. 1666-1680. (10.1130/B31084.1)
- Ghaffari, M. et al. 2015. Interaction between felsic and mafic magmas in the Salmas intrusive complex, Northwestern Iran: Constraints from petrography and geochemistry. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 111, pp. 440-458. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.06.019)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I. and Kerr, A. C. 2015. Platinum group element signatures in the North Atlantic Igneous Province: Implications for mantle controls on metal budgets during continental breakup. Lithos 233, pp. 89-110. (10.1016/j.lithos.2015.05.005)
- Ciborowski, J., Kerr, A., Ernst, R., McDonald, I., Minife, M., Harlan, S. and Millar, I. 2015. The Early Proterozoic Matachewan Large Igneous Province: geochemistry, petrogenesis, and implications for Earth evolution. Journal of Petrology 56(8), pp. 1459-1494. (10.1093/petrology/egv038)
- Hughes, H., McDonald, I., Faithfull, J. W., Brian, G. and Downes, H. 2015. Trace-element abundances in the shallow lithospheric mantle of the North Atlantic Craton margin: implications for melting and metasomatism beneath Northern Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine 79(4), pp. 877-907. (10.1180/minmag.2015.079.4.03)
- Raschke, U., Schmitt, R. T., McDonald, I., Reimold, W. U., Mader, D. and Koeberl, C. 2015. Geochemical studies of impact breccias and country rocks from the El'gygytgyn impact structure, Russia. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50(6), pp. 1071-1088. (10.1111/maps.12455)
- Porta, G. D., Webb, G. E. and McDonald, I. 2015. REE patterns of microbial carbonate and cements from Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) siliceous sponge mounds (Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco). Chemical Geology 400, pp. 65-86. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.02.010)
- Butler, S., Bailey, T., Lear, C. H., Curry, G., Cherns, L. and McDonald, I. 2015. The Mg/Ca–temperature relationship in brachiopod shells: Calibrating a potential palaeoseasonality proxy. Chemical Geology 397, pp. 106-117. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.01.009)
- Brough, C., Prichard, H. M., Neary, C., Fisher, P. C. and McDonald, I. 2015. Geochemical variations within podiform chromitite deposits in the Shetland ophiolite: implications for petrogenesis and PGE concentration. Economic Geology 110(1), pp. 187-208. (10.2113/econgeo.110.1.187)
- Hughes, H. S. R., Boyce, A. J., McDonald, I., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Holwell, D. A., McDonald, A. and Oldroyd, A. 2015. Contrasting mechanisms for crustal sulphur contamination of mafic magma: evidence from dyke and sill complexes from the British Palaeogene Igneous Province. Journal of the Geological Society 172, pp. 443-458. (10.1144/jgs2014-112)
- Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Ernst, R. E., Hughes, H. S. R. and Minifie, M. J. 2014. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Paleoproterozoic du Chef dyke swarm, Québec, Canada. Precambrian Research 250, pp. 151-166. (10.1016/j.precamres.2014.05.008)
- Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Goodenough, K. M., Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., Davies, J. H. and Selby, D. 2014. Enriched lithospheric mantle keel below the Scottish margin of the North Atlantic Craton: Evidence from the Palaeoproterozoic Scourie Dyke Swarm and mantle xenoliths. Precambrian Research 250, pp. 97-126. (10.1016/j.precamres.2014.05.026)
- Huber, M. S., Črne, A. E., McDonald, I., Hecht, L., Melezhik, V. A. and Koeberl, C. 2014. Impact spherules from Karelia, Russia: possible ejecta from the 2.02 Ga Vredefort impact event. Geology 42(5), pp. 375-378. (10.1130/G35231.1)
- Kunicki-Goldfinger, J. J., Freestone, I. C., McDonald, I., Hobot, J. A., Gilderdale-Scott, H. and Ayers, T. 2014. Technology, production and chronology of red window glass in the medieval period - rediscovery of a lost technology. Journal of Archaeological Science 41, pp. 89-105. (10.1016/j.jas.2013.07.029)
- Prichard, H. M., Fisher, P. C., McDonald, I., Knight, R., Sharp, D. and Williams, J. 2013. The distribution of PGE and the role of arsenic as a collector of PGE in the Spotted Quoll nickel ore deposit in the Forrestania Greenstone Belt, Western Australia. Economic Geology 108(8), pp. 1903-1921. (10.2113/econgeo.108.8.1903)
- Reimold, W. U., McDonald, I., Schmitt, R., Hansen, B., Jacob, J. and Koeberl, C. 2013. Geochemical studies of the SUBO 18 (Enkingen) drill core and other impact breccias from the Ries crater, Germany. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48(9), pp. 1531-1571. (10.1111/maps.12175)
- Prichard, H., Knight, R., Fisher, P. C., McDonald, I., Zhou, M. and Wang, C. 2013. Distribution of platinum-group elements in magmatic and altered ores in the Jinchuan intrusion, China: An example of selenium remobilization by post magmatic fluids. Mineralium Deposita 48(6), pp. 767-786. (10.1007/s00126-013-0454-7)
- Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Ernst, R. E. and Minifie, M. J. 2013. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Blue Draw Metagabbro. Lithos 174, pp. 271-290. (10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.035)
- Goderis, S. et al. 2013. Ni-rich spinels and platinum group element nuggets condensed from a Late Archaean impact vapour cloud. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 376, pp. 87-98. (10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.027)
- Garde, A. A., Pattison, J., Kokfelt, T., McDonald, I. and Secher, K. 2013. Impact-triggered, conduit-type Ni-Cu mineralisation, Norite Belt, Maniitsoq Structure, West Greenland. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48(Supp 1), pp. A139-A139. (10.1111/maps.12165)
- Matthews, I. P., Gregory, C. J., Aljayyoussi, G., Morris, C. J., McDonald, I., Hoogendoorn, B. and Gumbleton, M. 2013. Maximal extent of translocation of single-walled carbon nanotubes from lung airways of the rat. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 35(3), pp. 461-464. (10.1016/j.etap.2013.02.002)
- Garde, A. A., McDonald, I., Dyck, B. and Keulen, N. 2013. Reply on "searching for giant, ancient impact structures on Earth: the Mesoarchaean Maniitsoq structure, West Greenland" by Garde et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 337-338 (2012) 197-210]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 369-70, pp. 336-343. (10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.002)
- Garde, A. A., Pattison, J., Kokfelt, T. F., McDonald, I. and Secher, K. 2013. The norite belt in the Mesoarchaean Maniitsoq structure, southern West Greenland: conduit-type Ni-Cu mineralisation in impact-triggered, mantle-derived intrusions?. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin(28), pp. 45-48.
- Izmer, A., Goderis, S., Simonson, B. M., McDonald, I., Hassler, S. W., Claeys, P. and Vanhaecke, F. 2013. Application of laser ablation-ICP-mass spectrometry for 2-dimensional mapping of element distributions in a Late Archean impact spherule layer. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 28(7), pp. 1031-1038. (10.1039/C3JA50045D)
- Garde, A. A., McDonald, I., Dyck, B. and Keulen, N. 2012. Searching for giant, ancient impact structures on earth: the Mesoarchaean Maniitsoq structure, West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 337-38, pp. 197-210. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.026)
- Koeberl, C., Claeys, P., Hecht, L. and McDonald, I. 2012. Geochemistry of impactites. Elements 8(1), pp. 37-42. (10.2113/gselements.8.1.37)
- Maier, W. D., Peltonen, P., McDonald, I., Barnes, S. J., Barnes, S., Hatton, C. and Viljoen, F. 2012. The concentration of platinum-group elements and gold in southern African and Karelian kimberlite-hosted mantle xenoliths: Implications for the noble metal content of the Earth's mantle. Chemical Geology 302-3, pp. 119-135. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.06.014)
- Knight, R., Prichard, H., McDonald, I. and Filho, C. 2012. Platinum-group mineralogy of the Fazenda Mirabela intrusion, Brazil: the role of high temperature liquids and sulphur loss. Applied Earth Science 120(4), pp. 211-224. (10.1179/1743275812Y.0000000016)
- Stanley, B. A. et al. 2011. Thioredoxin reductase-2 is essential for keeping low levels of H(2)O(2) emission from isolated heart mitochondria. Journal of Biological Chemistry 286(38), pp. 33669-33677. (10.1074/jbc.M111.284612)
- McDonald, I. and Garde, A. A. 2011. Geochemistry of post-kinematic mafic intrusions at Maniitsoq, West Greenland: contaminated mantle melts or impact melts? [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 46(S1), pp. A153. (10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01221.x)
- Holwell, D. A., McDonald, I. and Butler, I. B. 2011. Precious metal enrichment in the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: evidence from homogenized magmatic sulfide melt inclusions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 161(6), pp. 1011-1026. (10.1007/s00410-010-0577-0)
- Stanley, B. A. et al. 2011. Thioredoxin Reductase-2 Is Essential for Keeping Low Levels of H2O2 Emission from Isolated Heart Mitochondria. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 286(38), pp. 33669-33677. (10.1074/jbc.M111.284612)
- Yudovskaya, M., Kinnaird, J., Naldrett, A. J., Mokhov, A. V., McDonald, I. and Reinke, C. 2011. Facies Variation in PGE Mineralization in the Central Platreef of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Canadian Mineralogis 49(6), pp. 1349-1384. (10.3749/canmin.49.6.1349)
- Jourdan, F., Andreoli, M. A. G., McDonald, I. and Maier, W. D. 2010. 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the fossil LL6-chondrite from the Morokweng crater, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(5), pp. 1734-1747. (10.1016/j.gca.2009.11.032)
- Hastie, A., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Mitchell, S. F., Pearce, J. A., Wolstencroft, M. and Millar, I. L. 2010. Do Cenozoic analogues support a plate tectonic origin for Earth's earliest continental crust?. Geology 38(6), pp. 495-498. (10.1130/G30778.1)
- Hastie, A. R. et al. 2010. Geochronology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of rhyodacite lavas in eastern Jamaica: a new adakite subgroup analogous to early Archaean continental crust?. Chemical Geology 276(3-4), pp. 344-359. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.002)
- Kerr, A. C., Khan, M. and McDonald, I. 2010. Eruption of basaltic magma at Tor Zawar, Balochistan, Pakistan on 27 January 2010: geochemical and petrological constraints on petrogenesis. Mineralogical Magazine 74(6), pp. 1027-1036. (10.1180/minmag.2010.074.6.1027)
- Suárez, S., Prichard, H. M., Velasco, F., Fisher, P. C. and McDonald, I. 2010. Alteration of platinum-group minerals and dispersion of platinum-group elements during progressive weathering of the Aguablanca Ni-Cu deposit, SW Spain. Mineralium Deposita 45(4), pp. 331-350. (10.1007/s00126-009-0275-x)
- Holwell, D. A. and McDonald, I. 2010. A review of the behaviour of Platinum Group Elements within natural magmatic sulfide ore systems. Platinum Metals Review 54(1), pp. 26-36. (10.1595/147106709X480913)
- Dare, S. A., Pearce, J. A., McDonald, I. and Styles, M. T. 2009. Tectonic discrimination of peridotites using fO2–Cr# and Ga–Ti–FeIII systematics in chrome–spinel. Chemical Geology 261(3-4), pp. 199-216. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.08.002)
- McDonald, I., Holwell, D. A. and Wesley, B. 2009. Assessing the potential involvement of an early magma staging chamber in the generation of the Platreef Ni–Cu–PGE deposit in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex: a pilot study of the Lower Zone Complex at Zwartfontein. Applied Earth Science (Transactions Institute of Mining & Metallurgy B) 118(1), pp. 5-20. (10.1179/174327509X434902)
- Simonson, B. M., McDonald, I., Shukolyukov, A., Koeberl, C., Reimold, W. U. and Lugmair, G. W. 2009. Geochemistry of 2.63–2.49 Ga impact spherule layers and implications for stratigraphic correlations and impact processes. Precambrian Research 175(1-4), pp. 51-76. (10.1016/j.precamres.2009.08.004)
- Ahmandian, J., Haschke, M., McDonald, I., Regelous, M., RezaGhorbani, M., Hashem-Emami, M. and Murata, M. 2009. High magmatic flux during Alpine-Himalyan collision: constraints from the Kal-e-Kafi complex, central Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121(5-6), pp. 467-480. (10.1130/B26279.1)
- Machado, R., Lana, C., Stevens, G., Filho, C. R. S., Reimold, W. U. and McDonald, I. 2009. Generation, mobilization and crystallization of impact-induced alkali-rich melts in granitic target rocks: evidence from the Araguainha impact structure, central Brazil. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(23), pp. 7183-7201. (10.1016/j.gca.2009.08.029)
- McDonald, I. 2008. Platinum-group element and sulphide mineralogy in ultramafic complexes at Western Adriamena, Madagascar. Applied Earth Science (Transactions Institute of Mining & Metallurgy B) 117(1), pp. 1-10. (10.1179/174327508X309678)
- Hutchinson, D. and McDonald, I. 2008. Laser ablation ICP-MS study of platinum-group elements in sulphides from the Platreef at Turfspruit, Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Mineralium Deposita 43(6), pp. 695-711. (10.1007/s00126-008-0190-6)
- Holwell, D. A. and McDonald, I. 2007. Distribution of platinum-group elements in the Platreef at Overysel, northern Bushveld Complex: a combined PGM and LA-ICP-MS study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 154(2), pp. 171-190. (10.1007/s00410-007-0185-9)
- Moreno, T., Oldroyd, A., McDonald, I. and Gibbons, W. 2007. Preferential fractionation of trace metals-metalloids into PM10 resuspended from contaminated gold mine tailings at Rodalquilar, Spain. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 179(1-4), pp. 93-105. (10.1007/s11270-006-9216-9)
- Maier, W. D. et al. 2006. Discovery of a 25-cm asteroid clast in the giant Morokweng impact crater, South Africa. Nature 441(7090), pp. 203-206. (10.1038/nature04751)
- Moreno, T., Higueras, P., Jones, T. P., McDonald, I. and Gibbons, W. 2005. Size fractionation in mercury-bearing airborne particles (HgPM10) at Almadén, Spain: Implications for inhalation hazards around old mines. Atmospheric Environment 39(34), pp. 6409-6419. (10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.07.024)
- McDonald, I. 2002. Clearwater East impact structure: A re-interpretation of the projectile type using new platinum-group element data from meteorites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37(3), pp. 459-464.
- McDonald, I., Gunn, A. G. and Prichard, H. M. (. 2002. 21st century Pt - Pd deposits: current and future potential [Special Issue]. Transactions Institute of Mining & Metallurgy B
- McDonald, I., Andreoli, M. A. G., Hart, R. J. and Tredoux, M. 2001. Platinum-group elements in the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa: evidence for the impact of a large ordinary chondrite projectile at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65(2), pp. 299-309. (10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00527-5)
- De Marco, P., Moradas-Ferreira, P., Higgins, T., McDonald, I., Kenna, E. M. and Murrell, J. C. 1999. Molecular analysis of a novel methanesulfonic acid monooxygenase from the methylotroph Methylosulfonomonas methylovora. Journal of Bacteriology 181(7), pp. 2244-2251.
Book sections
- McDonald, I. and Holwell, D. 2011. Geology of the Northern Bushveld Complex and the Setting and Genesis of the Platreef Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit. In: Li, C. and Ripley, E. M. eds. Magmatic Ni-Cu and PGE Deposits: Geology, Geochemistry and Genesis. Reviews in Economic Geology Vol. 17. Society of Economic Geologists, pp. 297-327.
- McDonald, I., Bartosova, K. and Koeberl, C. 2009. Search for a meteoritic component in impact breccia from the Eyreville core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Considerations from platinum-group element contents. In: Gohn, G. S. et al. eds. The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes., Vol. 458. Geological Society of America Special Publications Vol. 458. Geological Society of America, pp. 469-479., (10.1130/2009.2458(21))
Conferences
- Knight, R. D., Prichard, H. M., McDonald, I. and Wang, C. Y. 2013. Variation in PGM within two orebodies in the Jinchuan intrusion, Gansu province, NW China. Presented at: 12th Biennial SGA Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013 Presented at Jonsson, E. ed.Mineral Deposit Research for a High-Tech World Proceedings of the 12th Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, Vol. 1-4. pp. 1032-1035.
- Prichard, H. M., McDonald, I., Williams, C. T. and Wall, F. (. 1999. Ore-forming processes associated with mafic and ultramafic rocks. Presented at: 5th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) and the 10th Quadrennial Symposium of the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD), London, UK, 22-25 August 1999 Presented at Stanley, C. J. et al. eds.Mineral deposits: processes to processing, Proceedings of the 5th biennial SGA meeting, London, England, 22-25 August 1999. Rotterdam: Balkema pp. 697-798.
Research
Current research interests
- Development of ICP-MS and LA-ICP-MS techniques
- PGE mineralization in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa
- PGE in mantle xenoliths and kimberlites
- PGE in meteorites, impact melts and impact ejecta deposits
Recent grants
- 2015-2019 "Te and Se Security of Supply", NERC Highlight Topic grant NE/M011615/1. £446,848
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2015-2019 "The Platreef magma event at Turfspruit", Ivanhoe Mines funded research project 508122. £68,409.
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2017-2021 "FAMOS (From Arc Magma to Ore System)", NERC Highlight Topic grant, NE/P017321/1. £187,538
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2016-2017 "Isotope record of the Great Oxidation Event", NERC Isotope facility grant IP-1667-1116,
- 2020-2024 "Northern Limb 4 Dimension (NL4D) – Anglo American funded research project 516560, £364,164
Biography
A native of Glasgow, Iain McDonald took his undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow. In addition to the obvious subject specific skills, the BSc Chemistry & Geology course in the late 1980's provided invaluable "hands-on" training in the kinds of applied analytical chemistry, instrument development and inspired bodging that has long since disappeared from most undergraduate courses. In 1990, Iain moved to South Africa to begin a PhD on PGE geochemistry with Maarten de Wit at the University of Cape Town. Unfortunately the laboratory where most of the work was to be carried out was 700 miles away in Johannesburg so Iain moved north to the City of Gold. He found a lab and a long term home among the various geologists, nuclear and solid state physicists, chemists and engineers in the Schonland Research Centre for Nuclear Sciences (now iThemba Labs) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Over the course of his PhD, Iain developed improved fire-assay methods for PGE analysis, was involved in the characterisation of a new low-level PGE standard reference material and showed in a series of experiments that the presence of carbon, and particularly carbon monoxide, in melts could lead to volatilisation of all the PGE
In 1993, Iain returned to the UK to a postdoc at Manchester University working with David Vaughan and Grenville Turner. The project formed part of a larger EU funded project to evaluate new types of Pt and Pd mineralisation in Madagascar and Albania. After three years in Manchester, Iain took up a lectureship in Geochemistry at the University of Greenwich in 1996. Over the next five years he set up a laboratory for routine PGE analysis and began a sustained programme of research into PGE geochemistry at impact craters collaborating with colleagues in Austria, Denmark, South Africa and America. These studies involved searching for extraterrestrial PGE in impact melt sheets and breccias at Morokweng (South Africa), Ries (Germany), Chesapeake Bay (America) and Zhamanshin (Russia) and for traces of the Late Heavy Bombardment recorded in metasediments at Isua in Greenland.
Since moving to Cardiff in 2001, Iain played a major role in the design and commissioning of the Elemental Analysis Laboratory in 2002 and subsequent upgrades in 2009 and 2017. This includes the only PGE lab in the UK to focus on impact crater research - and expanded his research to cover meteorites as well as craters. Major highlights of this research has been the discovery of a boulder sized fragment of the asteroid that formed the 144 million year old Morokweng impact crater in South Africa (published in Nature in May 2006) and the discovery of a very young crater under the Hiawatha glacier in northern Greenland (publushed in Science Advances in 2018).
The other major area of research that Iain has led since moving to Cardiff is a re-evaluation of the PGE mineralization in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa. This limb hosts the enigmatic Platreef Ni-Cu-PGE deposit and its relationships with the rest of the Bushveld Complex are not clear. This research has revolutionised ideas about the Platreef, its relationship with the Merensky Reef, and the manner in which magmas were intruded into the northern limb. This has led to completely new genetic models for this style of deposit and research grants funded by industry and NERC.
Portfolio
- Theme Leader for Geoscience
- Elemental Analysis Facility Manager
Academia
- BSc Chemistry & Geology (Glasgow) 1989
- PhD (Cape Town) "Analysis of PGE and transport of PGE in a carbonaceous volatile phase" 1993
- PDRA Manchester University 1993-1995
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Greenwich University, 1996-2001
- Cardiff University 2001-present
Affiliations
- The Geochemical Society
- The Meteoritical Society
- Past Chairman - Mineral Deposits Studies Group of the Geological Society of London
Editorial roles
Since 2001, Iain has organised or co-organised two conferences. First, an International Workshop on "21st Century Pt-Pd Deposits" at Southampton University in conjunction with H.M. Prichard and A.G. Gunn. A fully peer-reviewed and edited volume of papers from this appeared in volume 111 (1) of Applied Earth Science (Trans Inst. Min. Metall. Section B) in 2002.
The second was the 3 day Geological Society Fermor Flagship Meeting on "World Class Mineral Deposits & Earth Evolution" at Cardiff University in 2003. Peer-reviewed papers from this were published in a special volume of Mineralium Deposita (volume 40 (6) edited by Adrian Boyce and Iain McDonald) and in a special publication of the Geological Society (Number 248, Mineral Deposits and Earth Evolution; edited by McDonald, Boyce, Butler, Herrington and Polya) in 2005.
Also in 2005, Iain co-edited volume 114 (4) of Applied Earth Science (Trans Inst. Min. Metall. Section B), a special issue on minerlization in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, with Judith Kinnaird from the University of the Witwatersrand.
From 2001-2017 he served on the editorial board of Applied Earth Science (Trans Inst. Min. Metall. Section B), including serving as Executive Editor from 2005-2009.
