Michael Lesher

Background

About Michael Lesher

I use this site only to keep track of people I know who move around. I DO NOT link with people I do not know, people at LU, or students. Below are some things I have worked on. Most of my papers are listed on Google Scholar. Contact me at mlesher@laurentian.ca for PDFs. Magmatic Ni-Cu-(PGE) deposits (Kambalda, Perseverance, and other areas in Western Australia; Raglan and Expo Ungava in Nunavik; Thompson and Namew Lake in Manitoba; Sudbury, Alexo, Eagle's Nest, and other deposits in Ontario; Jinchuan and other deposits in China) Magmatic Cr deposits ("Ring of Fire" and Shebandowan in Ontario) Lithogeochemistry and alteration of felsic metavolcanic rocks associated with hydrothermal Cu-Zn VMS deposits (worldwide) Hydrothermal Au deposits (Carlin, Nevada; Canadian Malartic, Québec; several deposits in the southern Appalachians) Precambrian banded iron formations (Labrador and Québec) My specialties are lithogeochemistry, petrology of mafic-ultramafic magmas, high-temperature geochemistry, physical volcanology of komatiites, and Precambrian geology,