Publications - Christoph A. Heinrich

Monographs and edited works — C. A. Heinrich

Liebscher A and Heinrich CA (2007) Fluid – fluid interactions in the Earth’s lithosphere. MSA Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 65, 430 p.

Blundell D, Arndt N, Cobbold PR, and Heinrich CA (2005a) Geodynamics and ore deposit evolution in Europe: Thematic Issue of Ore Geology Reviews 27(1-4), 5-349.

von Quadt, A., Driesner T, and Heinrich CA (2004, Geodynamics and ore deposit evolution of the Alpine-Carpathian-Balkan-Dinaride orogenic system: Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (Thematic Issue), v. 84, p. 1-212.

Heinrich CA and Neubauer F (2002) Cu-Au-Pb-Zn-Agmetallogeny of the Alpine-Balkan-Carpathian- Dinaride geodynamic province. Thematic Issue of Mineralium Deposita 37(6-7), 533-677.

Vielreicher R, Groves DI, Heinrich CA and Walshe JL (1996) The conjunction of factors and processes that contribute to the formation of economic ore deposits: Guest editors to Special Issue of Ore Geology Reviews, "The Wisdom of Solomon" v. 10.

Jaireth S, Etminan H, and Heinrich CA (1990) Chemical modelling of lead - zinc transport and deposition in Mississippi Valley Type deposits of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources Record 1990/38, 44s.

Heinrich CA, Henley RW, and Seward TM (1989) Hydrothermal Systems. Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, 60s.

Heinrich CA (1987) The CSIRO-SGTE-THERMODATA package for thermodynamic computations at BMR. Bureau of Mineral Resources Record 1987/42, 44pp.

Heinrich CA (1983) Die regionale Hochdruckmetamorphose der Adula-Decke, Zentralalpen, Schweiz. Dissertation ETH Zürich 7282, 220s., 1 map (PhD thesis).

Heinrich CA (1978) Strukturen und Metamorphose der Cima Lunga Serie; I Cima di Gagnone - Val Motto. Unpubl. Diploma (MSc) thesis, ETH Zürich 41p., 2 maps (MSc Thesis)

Refereed Papers — C. A. Heinrich

Coumou D, Matthäi SK, Driesner T, Geiger S, and Heinrich CA (2007) A parallel FE-FV scheme to solve fluid flow in complex geologic media. Computers & Geosciences, in review.

Klemm L, Pettke T, and Heinrich CA (2007) Hydrothermal evolution of the El Teniente deposit (Chile): porphyry-Cu-Mo ore deposition from low-salinity magmatic fluids. Economic Geology in press.

Klemm L, Pettke T, and Heinrich CA (2007) Fluid and source magma evolution of the Questa porphyry Mo deposit, New Mexico, USA. Mineralium Deposita in press.

Liebscher A and Heinrich CA (2007) Fluid – fluid interactions in the Earth’s lithosphere. MSA Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 65, 1-13

Heinrich CA (2007) Fluid – fluid interactions in hydrothermal ore formation. MSA Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 65, 363-387

Heinrich, CA (2006) How fast does gold trickle out of volcanoes? Science 314, 263-264.

Wallier S, Rey R, Kouzmanov K, et al. (2006) Magmatic fluids in the breccia-hosted epithermal Au-Ag deposit of Rosia Montana (Romania. Economic Geology 101, 923-954.

Heinrich CA (2006) From fluid inclusion microanalysis to large-scale hydrothermal mass transfer in the Earth's interior. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 101(3), 110-117.

Coumou D, Driesner T, Geiger S, Heinrich CA, and Matthäi SK (2006a) The dynamics of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems: Splitting plumes and fluctuating vent temperatures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 245(1-2), 218-231.

Driesner T, and Heinrich CA (2006) The System H₂O-NaCl. I. Correlation formulae for phase relations in temperature-pressure-composition space from 0 to 1000°C, 0 to 5000 bar, and 0 to 1 XNaCl: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, in press.

Kouzmanov K., von Quadt A., Peytcheva I., et al. (2005) Rosia Poieni porphyry Cu-Au and Rosia Montana epithermal Au-Ag deposits, Apuseni Mountains, Romania: Timing of magmatism and related mineralisation. Proc. of IGCP 486, Workshop "Au-Ag-telluride-selenide deposits", Kiten, Bulgaria, 20 pages.

Geiger S, Driesner T, Heinrich CA, and Matthäi SK (2006a) Multiphase thermohaline convection in the earth's crust: I. A new finite element - Finite volume solution technique combined with a new equation of state for NaCl- H₂O. Transport in Porous Media 63(3), 399-434.

Geiger S, Driesner T, Heinrich CA., and Matthäi SK (2006b) Multiphase thermohaline convection in the earth's crust: II. Benchmarking and application of a finite element - Finite volume solution technique with a NaCl- H₂O equation of state. Transport in Porous Media 63(3), 435-461.

Geiger S, Driesner T, Heinrich CA, and Matthäi SK (2005) On the dynamics of NaCl-H₂O fluid convection in the Earth's crust: Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 110, B07101

Williams-Jones AE, Heinrich CA (2005) Vapor transport of metals and the formation of magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits. Economic Geology (100^th Anniversary Special Paper), 1287-1312.

Blundell D, Arndt N, Cobbold PR, and Heinrich C (2005a) Geodynamics and ore deposit evolution in Europe: Introduction. Ore Geology Reviews 27(1-4), 5-11.

Blundell D, Arndt N, Cobbold PR., and Heinrich CA (2005b) Processes of tectonism, magmatism and mineralization: Lessons from Europe. Ore Geology Reviews 27(1-4), 333-349.

von Quadt A, Moritz R, Peytcheva I, and Heinrich CA (2005) Geochronology and geodynamics of Late Cretaceous magmatism and Cu-Au mineralization in the Panagyurishte region of the Apuseni-Banat-Timok-Srednogorie belt, Bulgaria. Ore Geology Reviews 27(1-4), 95-126.

von Quadt A, Peytcheva I, Fanger L, and Heinrich CA (2005) The Elatsite porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Bulgaria: Lat. 42 degrees 45 ' N, Long. 24 degrees 02 ' E. Ore Geology Reviews 27(1-4), 128-129.

Simon AC, Frank MR, Pettke T, et al. (2005) Gold partitioning in melt-vapor-brine systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69(13), 3321-3335.

Marchev P, Kaiser-Rohrmeier M, Heinrich CA, et al. (2005) Hydrothermal ore deposits related to post-orogenic extensional magmatism and core complex formation: The Rhodope Massif of Bulgaria and Greece. Ore Geology Reviews 27(1-4), 53-89.

Heinrich CA, Halter WE, Pettke T (2005) The formation of economic porphyry copper (-gold) deposits: constraints from microanalysis of fluid and melt inclusions. In Mineral Deposits and Earth Evolution, ed. I. McDonald et al., Geol. Soc. (London) Spec. Publ. 248, 247-263.

Landtwing MR, Pettke T, Halter WE, Heinrich CA, Redmond, PB, Einaudi, MT., Kunze, K. (2005) Copper deposition during quartz dissolution by magmatic-hydrothermal fluids: The Bingham porphyry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 235, 229-243.

Halter WE, Heinrich CA, Pettke T (2005) Magma evolution and the formation of porphyry Cu-Au ore fluids: evidence from silicate and sulfide melt inclusions. Mineralium Deposita 39, 845-863. 2004&2005 Best Paper Award

Schaltegger U, Pettke T, Audétat A, Reusser E, Heinrich CA (2005) Magmatic-to-hydrothermal crystallization in the W-Sn mineralized Mole Granite (NSW, Australia) - Part I: Crystallization of zircon and REE-phosphates over three million years - a geochemical and U-Pb geochronological study: Chemical Geology 220, p. 215-235.

Pettke T, Audétat A., Schaltegger U, Heinrich CA (2005) Magmatic-to-hydrothermal crystallization in the W-Sn mineralized Mole Granite (NSW, Australia) - Part II: Evolving zircon and thorite trace element chemistry: Chemical Geology 220, p. 191-213.

Heinrich CA (2005) The physical and chemical evolution of low-salinity magmatic fluids at the porphyry to epithermal transition: a thermodynamic study. Mineralium Deposita 39, 864-889.

Kaiser-Rohrmeier M, Handler R, von Quadt A, Heinrich CA (2004) Hydrothermal Pb-Zn ore formation in the Central Rhodopian Dome, south Bulgaria: Review and new time constraints from Ar-Ar geochronology. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 84, 37-58

Kostova B, Pettke T, Driesner T, Petrov P, Heinrich CA (2004) LA-ICPMS study of fluid inclusions in quartz from the Yuzhna Petrovitsa deposit, Madan ore field, Bulgaria. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 84, 25-36.

Simon AC, Pettke T, Candela PA, Piccoli PM, Heinrich CA (2004) Magnetite solubility and iron transport in magmatic-hydrothermal environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (23), 4905-4914

Mernagh TP, Heinrich CA, Mikucki, EJ (2004) Temperature gradients recorded by fluid inclusions and hydrothermal alteration at the Mount Charlotte gold deposit, Kalgoorlie, Australia. Canadian Mineralogist 42, 1383-1403

Heinrich CA, Driesner T, Stefánsson A, and Seward TM (2004) Magmatic vapor contraction and the transport of gold from the porphyry environment to epithermal ore deposits. Geology 32 (9), 761-764

Halter WE, Pettke T, Heinrich CA (2004) Laser-ablation ICP-MS analysis of silicate and sulfide melt inclusions in an andesitic complex I: analytical approach and data evaluation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 147, 385-396

Halter WE, Heinrich CA Pettke T (2004) Laser-ablation ICP-MS analysis of silicate and sulfide melt inclusions in an andesitic complex II: evidence for magma mixing and magma chamber evolution. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 147, 397-412

Matthai SK, Heinrich CA, Driesner T (2004) Is the Mount Isa copper deposit the product of forced brine convection in the footwall of a major reverse fault? Geology, 32, 357-360

Halter WE, Bain N, Becker K, Heinrich CA, Landtwing MR, Von Quadt A, Clark AH, Sasso AM (2004) From andesitic volcanism to the formation of a porphyry Cu-Au mineralizing magma chamber: The Farallón Negro Volcanic Complex, northwestern Argentina. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 136, 1-30

Redmond PB, Einaudi MT, Inan EE, Landtwing MR, and Heinrich CA (2004) Copper deposition by fluid cooling in intrusion-centeres systems: New insights from the Bingham porphyry ore deposit, Utah. Geology, 32, 217-220.

Pettke T, Halter WE, Webster JD, Aigner-Torres M, Heinrich CA (2004) Accurate quantification of melt inclusion chemistry by LA-ICPMS: a comparison with EMP and SIMS and advantages and possible limitations of these methods: Lithos 78, 333-361.

Heinrich, CA, Pettke, T, Halter, WE, Aigner-Torres, M, Audétat, A, Günther, D, Hattendorf, B, Bleiner, D, Guillong, M, and Horn, I (2003) Quantitative multi-element analysis of minerals, fluid and melt inclusions by laser-ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometry. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 67, 3473-3497

Simon AC, Pettke T, Candela PA, Piccoli PM, Heinrich CA. (2003) Experimental determination of gold solubility in rhyolite melt and magnetite: constraints on magmatic gold budgets. American Mineralogist 88, 1644-1651.

Von Quadt A, Peytcheva I, Kamenov B, Fanger L, Heinrich CA and Frank M (2002) The Elatsite porphyry copper deposit in the Panagyurishte ore district, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria: U-Pb zircon geochronology and isotope-geochemical investigations of magmatism and ore genesis. In: Blundell DJ, Neubauer F & von Quadt A (eds). The Timing and Location of Major Ore Deposits in an Evolving Orogen. Geological Society, London, Spec. Publ. 206, 119-135.

Landtwing MR, Dillenbeck ED, Heinrich CA, Leake MH (2002) Evolution of the breccia-hosted porphyry-Cu-Mo-Au deposit at Agua Rica, Argentina: Progressive unroofing of a magmatic-hydrothermal system. Economic Geology 97, 1273-1292.

Heinrich CA and Neubauer F (2002) Cu-Au-Pb-Zn-Agmetallogeny of the Alpine-Balkan-Carpathian- Dinaride geodynamic province. Mineralium Deposita 37(6-7), 533-540.

Halter, WE, Pettke, T and Heinrich, CA (2002) The origin of metal ratios in porphyry-type ore deposits. Science 296, 1844-1846.

Halter, WE, Pettke, T and Heinrich, CA and Rothen-Rutishauser, B (2002) Major to trace element analysis of melt inclusions by laser ablation ICP-MS: methods of quantification. Chemical Geology 183, 63-86.

Garofalo P, Matthäi SK, and Heinrich CA (2002) Three-dimensional geometry, ore distribution and time-integrated mass transfer through the quartz-tourmaline-gold network of the Sigma deposit (Abitibi belt, Canada). Geofluids 2, 217-232.

Ulrich T, Heinrich CA (2001) Geology and alteration geochemistry of the porphyry Cu-Au deposit at Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina. Economic Geology, 96, 1719-1742.

Ulrich T, Günther D, Heinrich CA (2001) The evolution of a porphyry Cu-Au deposit, based on LA-ICPMS analysis of fluid inclusions: Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina. Economic Geology 96, 1743-1774.

Audétat A, Günther D, and Heinrich CA (2000) Causes for large-scale metal zonation around mineralized plutons: Fluid inclusion LA-ICP-MS evidence from the Mole Granite, Australia. Economic Geology 95, 1563-1581.

Pettke T, Heinrich CA, Ciocan AC, and Günther D (2000) Quadrupole mass spectrometry and optical emission spectroscopy: detection capabilities and representative sampling of short transient signals from laser-ablation. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 15, 1149-1155.

Heinrich CA, Andrew AS, and Knill MD (2000) Regional metamorphism and ore formation: Evidence from stable isotopes and other fluid tracers. Chapter 5 in: ‘Metamorphogenic and metamorphosed ore deposits. B Marshall, FM Vokes, and PG Spry (eds). Reviews in Economic Geology, 11, 97-118.

Garofalo, P, Audédat A, Günther D, Heinrich CA, and Ridley JR (2000): Estimation and testing of standard molar thermodynamic properties of tourmaline endmembers using data from natural samples. American Mineralogist, 85, 78-88 (1999).

Günther D, and Heinrich CA (1999a) Enhanced sensitivity in laser-abaltion ICP mass spectrometry using helium-argon mixtures as aerosol carriers. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 14, 1363-1368.

Günther D, and Heinrich CA (1999b) Comparison of the ablation behaviour of 266 nm Nd : YAG and 193 nm ArF excimer lasers for LA-ICP-MS analysis. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 14, 1369-1374.

Heinrich CA, Günther D, Audétat A, Ulrich T, and Frischknecht R (1999) Metal fractionation between magmatic brine and vapor, determined by microanalysis of fluid inclusions. Geology, 27, 755-758 (1999).

Ulrich T, Günther D, Heinrich CA: Gold concentrations of magmatic brines and the metal budget of porphyry copper deposits. Nature, 399, 676-679 (1999).

Perkins C, Heinrich CA, Wyborn LAI (1999) Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology of copper mineralization and regional alteration, Mount Isa, Australia. Economical Geology 94(1), 23-36.

Günther D, Audétat A, Frischknecht R, and Heinrich CA (1998) Quantitative analysis of major, minor and trace elements in fluid inclusions using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 13, 236-270.

Audétat A, Günther D, and Heinrich CA (1998) Formation of a magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposit: Insights with LA-ICP-MS analysis of fluid inclusions. Science, 279, 2091-2094.

Waring CL, Heinrich CA, Wall VJ (1998) Proterozoic Metamorphic Copper Deposits. AGSO J. Austral. Geol. Geophys., Jubilee Volume, 17, 239-246.

Günther D, Frischknecht R, Müschenborn HJ, and Heinrich CA (1997) Direct liquid ablation: a new calibration strategy for laser ablation - ICP-MS microanalysis of solids and liquids. Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 359, 390-393.

Günther D, Frischknecht R, Heinrich CA, and Kahlert HJ (1997) Capabilities of an ArF 193 nm Excimer Laser for LAM-ICP-MS on geological samples. J. Analyt. Atomic Spectrosc, 12, 939-944.

Heinrich, CA, Walshe, JL and Harrold BP (1996) Chemical mass transfer modelling of ore-forming hydrothermal systems: Current practise and problems. Ore Geology Reviews "The Wisdom of Solomon", 10, 319-338.

Heinrich CA (1995) Geochemical evolution and hydrothermal mineral deposition in Sn (– W - base metal) and other granite-related ore systems: Some conclusions from Australian examples. In Thompson, JFH (ed.) Magmas. Fluids and Ore Deposits. Geol. Assoc. Canada Short Course Series, 23, 203-220.

Matthäi SK, Henley RW, and Heinrich CA (1995) Gold precipitation by fluid mixing in bedding-parallel fractures near carbonaceous slates at the Cosmopolitan Howley gold deposit, Northern Australia. Econ. Geol. 90, 2123-2142.

Wall VJ, Munroe SM, Cameron GH, Heinrich CA, Cox SF, and Walshe JL (1995) Porgera: Plumbing and processes of gold mineralization. In Giant Ore Deposits II (A. H. Clark, ed.) Queens University, Kingston Ontario, 649-668.

Ryan C.G., Heinrich C.A,. va\n Achterberg E., Ballhaus C. and Mernagh T.P. 1995: Microanalysis of ore-forming fluids using the sacanning proton microprobe. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 104, 182-190.

Heinrich CA, Bain JHC, Mernagh TP, Wyborn LAI, Andrew AS and Waring CL (1995) Fluid and mass transfer during metabasalt alteration and copper mineralization at Mount Isa, Australia: Econ. Geol., 90, 705-730.

Mernagh TP, Heinrich CA, Leckie JF, Carville DP, Gilbert DJ, Valenta RK and Wyborn LAI (1994) Chemistry of low-temperature hydrothermal gold, platinum, and palladium (- uranium) mineralization at Coronation Hill, Northern Territory, Australia: Econ. Geol., 89,1053-1073.

Wyborn LAI, Heinrich CA, and Jaques AL (1994) Australian Proterozoic mineral systems: essential ingredients and mappable criteria. Australas. Inst. Mining Metallurgy Proc., 294,109-116.

Heinrich CA, Bain JHC, Fardy JJ, and Waring CL (1994) Bromine/chlorine geochemistry of hydrothermal brines associated with Proterozoic metasediment-hosted copper mineralization at Mount Isa, northern Australia. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta , 57, 2991-3000.

Ryan CG, Heinrich CA, and Mernagh TP (1993) PIXE microanalysis of fluid inclusions and its application to study ore metal segregation between magmatic brine and vapor. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B, 463-471.

Idnurm M and Heinrich CA (1993) A palaeomagnetic study of hydrothermal activity and uranium mineralization at Mount Painter, South Australia. Austral. J. Earth Sci., v. 40. 87-101.

Heinrich CA, Ryan CG, Mernagh TP, and Eadington PJ (1992) Segregation of ore metals between magmatic brine and vapor: a fluid inclusion study using PIXE microanalysis. Econ. Geol., 87, 1566-1583.

Bain JHC, Heinrich CA, and Henderson GAM (1992) Stratigraphy, structure, and metasomatism of the Haslingden Group, east Moondarra area, Mount Isa: a deformed and mineralized Proterozoic multistage rift - sag sequence. In A. J. Stewart and D. H. Blake (eds.) Detailed studies of the Mount Isa Inlier. Austral. Geol. Survey Bulletin 243, p. 125-136.

Heinrich CA and Ryan CG (1992) Mineral paragenesis and regional zonation of granite-related Sn-As-Cu-Pb-Zn deposits: a chemical model for the Mole Granite district (Australia) based on PIXE fluid inclusion analyses. In Y. K. Kharaka and A. S. Maest, (eds.) Fluid—Rock Interaction, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1583-1587.

Solomon M and Heinrich CA (1992) Are high heat producing granites essential to the origin of giant lead - zinc deposits at Mount Isa and McArthur River, Australia? Mining and Exploration Geology 1, 85-91.

Heinrich CA, Andrew AS, Wilkins RWT, and Patterson DJ (1991) 'Reply' to a critical discussion of 'A fluid inclusion and stable isotope study of synmetamorphic copper ore formation at Mount Isa, Australia' by K. Hannan. Econ. Geol. 86, 206-207.

Ryan CG, Cousens DR, Heinrich CA, Griffin WL, Sie SH, and Mernagh TP (1991) Quantitative PIXE Microanalysis of fluid inclusions based on a layered yield model. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 54, 292-297.

Heinrich CA (1991) Thermodynamic modelling of hydrothermal mass transfer in magmatic and regional-metamorphic ore-forming systems. III Summer School di Geologia e Petrologia dei basamenti cristallini: 'Fluid-rock interaction in the crystalline basements', September 1989, Università di Siena, 93-105.

Heinrich CA and Seward TM (1990) A spectrophotometric study of aqueous iron (II) chloride complexing at 25 to 200oC. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 54, 2207-2221.

Heinrich CA (1990) The chemistry of tin (-tungsten) ore deposition. Econ. Geol. 85, 529-550.

Andrew AS, Heinrich CA, Wilkins RWT, and Patterson DJ (1989) Sulfur isotope systematics of copper ore formation at Mount Isa, Australia. Econ. Geol. 84, 1614-1626.

Heinrich CA, Andrew AS, Wilkins RWT, and Patterson DJ (1989) A fluid inclusion and stable isotope study of synmetamorphic copper ore formation at Mount Isa, Australia. Econ. Geol. 84, 529-550.

Heinrich CA and Cousens DR (1989) Semiquantitative electron microprobe analysis of fluid inclusion salts from the Mount Isa copper deposit (Queensland, Australia). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53, 21-28.

Heinrich CA and Eadington PJ (1986) Thermodynamic predictions of the hydrothermal chemistry of arsenic, and their significance for the paragenetic sequence of cassiterite - arsenopyrite - base metal sulfide deposits. Econ. Geol. 81, 511-529.

Heinrich CA (1986) Eclogite facies regional metamorphism of hydrous mafic rocks in the Central Alpine Adula Nappe. J. Petrol. 27, 123-154.

Heinrich CA (1982) Kyanite eclogite to amphibolite evolution of hydrous mafic and pelitic rocks, Adula Nappe, Central Alps. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 81, 30-38.