Dr. Marina Yudovskaya
University of the Witwatersrand
marina.yudovskaya@wits.ac.za

Dr. Marina Yudovskaya is a Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences with the position supported by CIMERA. She was awarded a PhD degree from the Moscow State University on the Maleev massive sulfide deposits in Rudny Altai (Kazakhstan) in 1995. Since then Marina carried out research projects on ore mineralization in different environments including VMS deposits of Altai and Kazakhstan, black-shale hosted gold deposits of the Bodaibo region, mineralization of the active fumaroles of modern volcanoes in Kuriles and Kamchatka. The main area of interest includes diverse platinum metal occurrences through the world from those of the Bushveld province to Kempirsai in Kazakhstan and Norilsk region in Russia. These studies were carried out in collaboration with exploration divisions of the major companies such as Anglo-Platinum/Anglo-American, Ivanplats, Norilsk Nickel, Impala, African Rainbow Minerals, PTM and many juniors. She supervised PhD, MSc and Honors studies at Wits and her native institute IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow where she held a position of a leading researcher.

 

Marina is a fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa, a fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists, and a member of the Editorial Committee of the Geology of Ore Deposits – a leading Russian journal in the field of economic geology.

 

Peer-reviewed publications since 2020

  1. HuW.-J., ZhouM.-F., YudovskayaM. A., VikentyevI. V., MalpasJ., P.-F. Zhang. Trace Elements in Chromite as Indicators of the Origin of the Giant Podiform Chromite Deposit at Kempirsai, Kazakhstan. Economic Geology, 117 (7), 1629–1655. https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4955
  2. Gritsenko Y.D., Kondrikova A.P., Gilbricht S., Schoneveld L., Barnes S.J., Godel B.M., Sluzhenikin S.F., Petrenko D.B., Seifert T., Yudovskaya M.A. 2022. Quantitative assessment of the relative roles of sulfide liquid collection, magmatic degassing and fluid-mediated concentration of PGE in low-sulfide ores of the Norilsk intrusions. Ore Geology Reviews 148, 105042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.105042.
  3. Yudovskaya M.A., Kinnaird J.A., Costin G., McCreesh M., Shilovskikh V., Kovalchuk E., Kuzmin D. 2022. Formation of Spinel-Orthopyroxene Symplectites by Reactive Melt Flow: Examples from the Northern Bushveld Complex and Implications for Mineralization in Layered Intrusions. Economic Geology. 117 (8), 1935–1960. https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4938
  4. Ketrov A.A., Yudovskaya M.A., Shelukhina Y.S., Velivetskaya T.A., Palamarchuk R.S. 2022. Sources and Evolution of Sulfur Isotopic Composition of Sulfides of the Kharaelakh and Pyasino–Vologochan Intrusions, Norilsk Ore Region. Geology of Ore Deposits 64, 350–376 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701522050038
  5. Maier W.D., Yudovskaya & Jugo P. 2021. Introduction to the special issue on the Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu deposit, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex. Mineralium Deposita 56, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-020-01027-y
  6. YudovskayaA., Costin G., Sluzhenikin S.F., Kinnaird J.A., Ueckermann H., Abramova V.D., Grobler D.F. 2021. Hybrid norite and the fate of argillaceous to anhydritic shales assimilated by Bushveld melts. Mineralium Deposita 56, 73-90. DOI:10.1007/s00126-020-00978-6
  7. Barnes S.J., Ryan C., Moorhead G., Latypov R., Maier W.D., Yudovskaya, Godel B., Schoneveld L., Le Vaillant, Pearce M.B. 2021. Spatial association between platinum minerals and magmatic sulfides imaged with the Maia mapper and implications for the origin of the chromite-sulfide-PGE association. Canadian Mineralogist 59, 1775-1799. DOI: 10.3749/canmin.2000100
  8. Solovova I.P., YudovskayaA., Kinnaird J.A., Wilson A.H., Zinovieva N.G. 2021. A siliceous komatiitic source of Bushveld magmas revealed by primary melt inclusions in olivine. Lithos, 388-389, 106094 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106094
  9. Moore A., Yudovskaya, Proyer A., Blenkinsop T. 2020. Evidence for olivine deformation in kimberlites and other mantle‑derived magmas during crustal emplacement. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 175, 15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-1653-8
  10. Barnes S. J., Malitch K. N., and Yudovskaya M. A. 2020. Introduction to a Special Issue on the Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-Platinum Group Element Deposits. Economic Geology 115, 1157-1172 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4750
  11. Brovchenko V. D., Sluzhenikin S. F., Kovalchuk E. V., Kovrigina S. V., Abramova V. D., and Yudovskaya A. 2020. Platinum Group Element Enrichment of Natural Quenched Sulfide Solid Solutions, the Norilsk 1 Deposit, Russia. Economic Geology 115, 1343–1361.doi:10.5382/econgeo.4741
  12. Sluzhenikin S.F., YudovskayaA., Barnes S.J., Abramova V.D., Le Vaillant M., Petrenko D.B., Grigor’eva A.V., and Brovchenko V.D. 2020. Low-sulfide platinum group element ores of the Norilsk-Talnakh camp: Economic Geology 115, 1267–1303. doi:10.5382/econgeo.4749
  13. Schoneveld L., Barnes S.J., Godel B., Le Vaillant M., YudovskayaA., Kamenetsky V., and Sluzhenikin S.F. 2020. Oxide-sulfide-melt-bubble interactions in spinel-rich taxitic rocks of the Norilsk-Talnakh intrusions, polar Siberia: Economic Geology 115, 1305–1320 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4748.