Current Research Projects:

- Kinetics of oxidation of arsenic-bearing minerals and the generation of arsenic in groundwaters.

- Kinetics of sulfide mineral oxidation in seawater:  implications for seafloor weathering and ocean floor mining.

- Kinetics and solubility of tungsten minerals in natural waters.

- Modeling of fluid inclusion chemistry changes after trapping.

Recent Publications:

McKibben, M.A., Tallant, B.A., and del Angel, J.K. (2007) Kinetics of inorganic arsenopyrite oxidation in acidic aqueous solutions; in press, Applied Geochemistry.

Tallant, B.A. and McKibben, M.A. (2005) Arsenic Mineral Kinetics: Arsenopyrite Oxidation; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 69, Issue 10, Supplement 1, p. A820.

McKibben, M A (2004) Gold; in Encyclopedia of Geology, Edited by Dick Selley, Robin Cocks and Ian Plimer, Academic Press.

McKibben, M A (2004) Hydrothermal Ores; in Encyclopedia of Geology, Edited by Dick Selley, Robin Cocks and Ian Plimer, Academic Press.

Berke, M A, McKibben, M A, Arthur, R C, Ota, K, Iwatsuki, T (2003) Nature of Uranium mineralization in sedimentary formations at Tono uranium deposit, Japan: significance for modeling uranium transport and mobility; IUGG, Sapporo, Japan.

R. Arthur, T. Iwatsuki, Y. Murakami, R. Metcalfe, E. Sasao, M. Berke, M. McKibben and K. Ota (2003) The Tono Natural Analogue Project: Geochemical constraints on uranium mobility within the Tono uranium deposit, Japan; Goldschmidt Conference.

R. Metcalfe, H. Takase, E. Sasao, K. Ota, T. Iwatsuki,  R.C. Arthur, M. Stenhouse, W. Zhou, A.B. Mackenzie and  M. A. McKibben (2003) The Tono Natural Analogue Project (TAP): An overview; Goldschmidt Conference.

Berke, M A, McKibben, M A, Arthur, R C, Ota, K, Iwatsuki, T (2002) Mineralogical controls on uranium immobilization at Tono Uranium Deposit, Japan
Eos Trans. AGU, 83 (47).

McKibben, M. A., and Eldridge, C. S. (2001) Preliminary scientific results of the Creede Caldera Continental Scientific Drilling Program; SHRIMP ion microprobe sulfur isotopic study of pyrite in corehole CCM-2; evidence for multiple episodes of extreme biogenic sulfate reduction (Bethke, Philip M., Ed.); Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 94-0260-H.

McKibben, M. A., Shanks, W. C., III, and Ridley, W. I. (1998) Applications of Microanalytical Techniques to Understanding Mineralizing Processes; Soc. of Economic Geologists Reviews in Economic Geology, Vol. 7, 263 pp.

• Read the table of contents

McKibben, M. A., and Riciputi, L. R., (1998) Sulfur Isotopes by Ion Microprobe; in McKibben, M. A., and Shanks, W. C., III, Applications of Microanalytical Techniques to Understanding Mineralizing Processes; Soc. of Economic Geologists Reviews in Economic Geology, Vol. 7, p. 121-139.

McKibben, M. A., Eldridge, C. S., and Reyes, A. G., (1996) Sulfur isotopic systematics of the June 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruptions: a SHRIMP ion microprobe study; in Fire and Mud - Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines (C. G. Newhall and R. S. Punongbayan, editors), PHIVOLCS and Univ. of Washington Press, pp. 825-843.

• You can read the abstract of the above paper and see some photomicrographs of ion probe data from Mount Pinatubo eruption products.
• The entire Mount Pinatubo "Fire and Mud" volume is now online here.

McKibben, M. A., and Hardie, L. A., (1997) Ore-forming brines in active continental rifts; in Barnes, H. L. (editor), Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits, 3rd Edition, Wiley-Interscience, N.Y., Ch. 17, p. 875-933.

McKibben, M. A., (1995) Ore Deposits, IUGG Quadrennial Review, Solid Earth Sciences, Reviews of Geophysics, 1995, V33, p. S:53-62.

• The above paper is a review of four years of Ore Deposits research in the U.S., for the U.S. National Report.

McKibben, M. A., and Eldridge, C. S., (1995) Microscopic sulfur isotopic variations in ore minerals from the Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri: a SHRIMP study; Economic Geology, v. 90, p. 228-245.

• You can read the abstract of the above paper and see some photomocrographs (first set, second set).

Kerrick, D. M., McKibben, M. A., Seward, T. M., and Caldeira, K., (1995) Convective hydrothermal CO2 emissions from high heat flow rifts; Chemical Geology, Vol. 121, p. 285-293.

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