Leanne SchmittWissenschaftsbereich Georessourcen und Verfahrenstechnik

• Currently doing a PhD thesis in collaboration with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and University of Innsbruck. Subject: Geochemistry and mineralogy of volcano-sedimentary iron systems – from sedimentation to metamorphism.
• Supervision: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirnbauer (THGA), Dr. Thomas Angerer (University of Innsbruck), Prof. Dr. Sabine Klein (RUB)
• Since 2016: Research Fellow at the Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola.
• 2014 – 2017: International Master's Program in Economic Geology with focus on geochemistry of ore deposits, at the University of Oulu, Finland. Master of Science degree with Master thesis titled "The Dolerite-hosted Zoroastrian Gold Deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Lithogeochemistry, Mineral Zonation Patterns and Sources of Sulfur".
• 2014: Internship at the CSIRO, Perth, Australia on "Super High-Grade Gold Veins and the Stability of Zirconium Silicates under Alkaline Conditions of the Wattle Dam Gold Deposit, Western Australia".
• 2010 – 2013: Studies in Geosciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University with focus on mineralogy and geochemistry. Bachelor of Science degree with Bachelor thesis titled "Hydrothermal Alteration related to Mineralization in a Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum Deposit, Bonanza Mining District, Colorado, USA".

My research interests are focused on geochemical processes related to the genesis of ore deposits. Especially, I am interested in ore deposits related to hydrothermal processes and associated alteration. Mapping mineral zonation patterns related to these hydrothermal alteration processes on not only a local but a regional scale is very important and can provide good exploration tools.

Tasks:

• Exercises in (1) “Introduction and identification of minerals”, (2) “Introduction and identification of rocks” and (3) “Introduction to applications of natural rocks”.
• Coordination and maintenance of the geological, mineralogical and petrographic exhibition.
• Coordination of the transmitted and reflected light microscope as well as the Keyence 3D microscope.

• Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG)
• Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)
• European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)
• Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA)

• Bath, A.B., Walshe J.L., Cloutier, J., Rotherham, J., Hutchison, R., Hollebeck, E., Verrall, M., Schmitt, L., 2020. Alteration patterns linked to high-grade gold mineralization at the Wattle Dam deposit, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews, v. 125, p. 1-16 ; <a href="

Conference Abstracts:

• Bath, A.B., Walshe, J.L., Ireland, T., Cobeñas, G., Sykora, S., Cernuschi F., Woodall, K., MacRae, C., Williams, M., Schmitt, L., 2021. Apatite chemistry indicates that oxidized auriferous fluids along the world-class Boulder Lefroy – Golden Mile fault system were significantly different to fluids from global porphyry systems, Australien Earth Science Convention
• Schmitt, L., Kirnbauer, T., Angerer, T., Klein, S., 2019, Diversity of Devonian Lahn-Dill-type iron ores from the Rhenish Massif, Germany: evidence from petrography and geochemistry. 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, Glasgow, UK.
• Schmitt, L., Angerer, T., Kirnbauer, T., Klein, S., 2019, Genetic processes and source components in submarine iron ores: Insights from the Lahn-Dill-type iron ores, Rhenish Massif, Germany. GeoMünster 2019, Münster, Germany.
• Schmitt, L., Kirnbauer, T., Angerer, T., Klein, S., 2019. Ore types and textures of the Lahn-Dill-type iron ore: Examples from the Rhenish Massif and the Harz Mountains. 4th GOOD Meeting, Bremen, Germany.
• Schmitt, L., Kirnbauer, T., Krahn, L., Buhl, D., Immenhauser, A., Melchers, C., 2018. Origin of Ba-Sr mineralization within the Muensterland Basin and the northern margin of the Rhenish Massif – preliminary results of a strontium isotope study. 3rd GOOD Meeting, Erlangen, Germany.
• Schmitt, L., Bath, A.B., Walshe, J.L., Godefroy, M., 2017. Gold, Alteration and Sources of Sulfur: Insight from the world-class Bardoc Shear Zone. 27th Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, France.