Much of my research is applied in that I work closely with a variety of exploration and mining companies to study known deposits in order to use this understanding to discover new deposits.
New research includes direct radiometric dating of ore deposits.
Economic Geology, v. 92, p. 509-526. The geology and geochemistry of the Partizan Zn-Pb skarn deposit, Dal'negorsk, Primorye, Russian Far East. This means that mapping of surface, mine, and drill core exposures provides the basis for fundamental investigations of important questions in ore genesis. There are opportunities for research on a variety of porphyry and skarn deposits in the Pacific Northwest as well as in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.