Dr Robert Chapman

Senior Lecturer: Geochemistry / Mineral exploration

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 33190
Email address: aedrjc@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.19a SCR

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Publications

Chapman RJ; Mortensen JK; Crawford EC; Lebarge WP (2010) Microchemical Studies of Placer and Lode Gold in the Klondike District, Yukon, Canada: 2. Constraints on the Nature and Location of Regional Lode Sources, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 105, pp.1393-1410. doi: 10.2113/econgeo.105.8.1393
Chapman RJ; Warner R; Moles N; Cahill M (2010) The Mournes: A source of early Bronze Age tin and gold, Archaeology Ireland, winter 2010, pp.18-21.
Chapman RJ; Mortensen JK; Crawford EC; Lebarge W (2010) Microchemical Studies of Placer and Lode Gold in the Klondike District, Yukon, Canada: 1. Evidence for a Small, Gold-Rich, Orogenic Hydrothermal System in the Bonanza and Eldorado Creek Area, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 105, pp.1369-1392. doi: 10.2113/econgeo.105.8.1369
Chapman RJ; Bond DPG; LeBarge WL (2009) Particle size distribution of gold within the Sulphur and Dominion Creek drainages, Klondike District, Yukon, and implications for gold winning and the formation of distal placers containing fine gold, Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009, pp.135-142.
Chapman RJ; Leake RC; Bond DPG; Stedra V; Fairgrieve B (2009) Chemical and Mineralogical Signatures of Gold Formed in Oxidizing Chloride Hydrothermal Systems and their Significance within Populations of Placer Gold Grains Collected during Reconnaissance, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 104, pp.563-585.
Chapman RJ; Warner R; Moles N; Cahill M (2009) The gold source found at last?, Archaeology Ireland, Summer 2009, pp.22-25.
Bond DPG; Chapman RJ (2006) Evaluation of the origins of gold hosted by the conglomerates of the Indian River Formation, Yukon, using a combined sedimentological and mineralogical approach, Yukon Exploration and Geology, 2006, pp.93-104.
Chapman RJ; Mortensen JK (2006) Application of microchemical characterization of placer gold grains to exploration for epithermal gold mineralization in regions of poor exposure, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, 91, pp.1-26. doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.12.004
Chapman RJ; Leake RC; Warner RA; Cahill MC; Moles NR; Shell CA; Taylor JJ (2006) Microchemical characterisation of natural gold and artefact gold as a tool for provenancing prehistoric gold artefacts: A case study in Ireland, APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY, 21, pp.904-918. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.01.007
Chapman RJ; Crawford EC; LeBarge WL; Mortensen JK (2006) Developing a new method to identify previously unrecognized geochemical and morphological complexity in placer gold deposits in western Yukon., Yukon Exploration and Geology 2006, pp.139-148.
Chapman RJ; Shaw MH; Leake RC; Jackson B (2005) Gold mineralisation in the central Ochil Hills, Perthshire, UK, Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science, 114, pp.B53-B64.
Chapman RJ; Leake RC (2005) Evidence for the historical exploitation of possible bedrock gold in the upper Mennock Water, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, 41, pp.135-140.
Mortensen JK; Chapman RJ; LeBarge W; Crawford E (2005) Compositional studies of placer and lode gold from Western Yukon: implications for lode sources, Yukon Exploration and Geology 2005, Yukon Geological Survey.
Mortensen JK; Chapman RJ; LeBarge W; Jackson L (2004) Application of placer and lode gold geochemistry to gold exploration in the western Yukon, In: Edmond DS; Lewis LL; Bradshaw GD (Ed) Yukon Exploration and Geology 2004, Yukon Geological Society, pp.205-212.
Chapman RJ; Leake R; Styles M (2002) Microchemical Characterisation of Gold as an Exploration Tool, Gold Bulletin, 35, pp.53-65.
Chapman RJ (2001) Gold Panning: a popular and unusual activity for students, Teaching Earth Sciences, 26, pp.20-29.
Chapman RJ; Leake RC; Moles NR (2000) The use of microchemical analysis of alluvial gold grains in mineral exploration: experiences in Britain and Ireland, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, 71, pp.241-268. doi: 10.1016/S0375-6742(00)00157-6
Chapman RJ; Leake RC; Floyd JD (2000) Regional variation in gold mineralization in the vicinity of the Glengaber Burn, Scottish Borders, SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, 36, pp.165-176.
Chapman RJ (2000) Going for gold, Chemistry in Britain, 36, pp.48-51.
Chapman RJ; Leake RC; Moles NR; Earls G; Cooper C; Harrington K; Berzins R (2000) The application of microchemical analysis of alluvial gold grains to the understanding of complex local and regional gold mineralization: A case study in the Irish and Scottish caledonides, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND THE BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, 95, pp.1753-1773. doi: 10.2113/95.8.1753
Chapman RJ; Leake R; Cameron D; Styles M (1998) The source of alluvial gold in the Leadhills area of Scotland deduced from internal chemical characteristics and opaque inclusions, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 63, pp.7-36.
Leake RC; Chapman RJ; Bland DJ; Condliffe E; Styles MT (1997) Microchemical characterization of alluvial gold from Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Section B: Applied Earth Science, 106, pp.85-98.
Chapman RJ; Mortensen JK; LeBarge WL (Not yet published) Styles of lode gold mineralization contributing to the placers of the Indian River and Black Hills Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada, as deduced from microchemical characterization of placer gold grains, Mineralium Deposita, .
Chapman RJ; LeBarge WL; Naumov V; Bryokhov V (Not yet published) New results on the stratigraphy and placer gold potential of Indian River, Dawson, central Yukon, Yukon Exploration and Geology 2008, pp.147-159.