Combining ultratrace speciation and isotopic analyses of minerals and fluids; metal migration and sequestration in ore deposit and environmental research

我的研究的统一愿景是开发新的地球化学过程模型，并利用分析技术的进步：（i）通过原位化学色谱和超痕量预浓缩将检测限推到更低的水平，以及（ii）提高我们在超痕量浓度下测量新型同位素系统的能力，特别关注结合形态和同位素测定。这一长期愿景将促进我们对地圈（原生矿石存款和次生分散过程）以及地圈和生物圈之间界面上的关键金属流动性和衰减的理解。这项研究的新奇和预期意义在于大大提高了检测限，并与多同位素方法相结合。该研究将特别关注在地质和环境研究中未广泛使用的同位素系统，以及在地质和天体粒子物理研究中的基础和应用问题的应用。我计划支持和培训1 PDF为2年，3名博士生，4名硕士生和5名理科学生在地球化学和低水平背景测定在天体粒子物理在这个建议。我们对矿物存款系统中的金属来源和次级环境中的迁移的理解将取得真实的进展，这将是第一次通过系统地结合物种形成（根据地球材料中金属与矿物的结合以及金属如何在溶液中络合）和个别物种的同位素测量来实现。 许多来自金属自然积累（矿床）的元素迁移过程知之甚少;较低的检测限，特别是同位素和氧化还原敏感物种的检测限将使我的研究小组能够更好地解卷积不同的元素来源，从而更好地了解所涉及的过程。还需要改进原位分析技术，特别是在同位素测定方面，这受到无法进行色谱分离的阻碍，如传统上用于同位素测定的那样，以将感兴趣的分析物与干扰同位素分离。QFIR的基础设施，包括用我最近获得的CFI赠款购买的新设备，对我的研究愿景和议程至关重要。因为我在地质科学和亚瑟B的职位。麦克唐纳加拿大天体粒子物理研究所（MI），我的研究长期愿景和短期目标必须解决两个社区的需求。因此，我共同领导的女王同位素研究设施的研究小组与MI内的工具和专业知识相结合，为地质学和天体粒子物理学提供了一个独特的机会，可以为这些学科的进步提供信息。我的背景和我的研究小组非常适合这项跨学科的工作。

The unifying vision of my research is to develop new geochemical process models and use advances in analytical techniques to: (i) push detection limits to much lower levels, through in situ chemical chromatography and ultra-trace preconcentration, and (ii) enhance our ability to measure novel isotopic systems at ultra-trace concentrations, with a particular focus on combined speciation and isotope determination. This long-term vision will advance our understanding of critical metal mobility and attenuation in the geosphere (primary ore deposit and secondary dispersion processes) and across the interface between the geosphere and the biosphere. The novelty and expected significance of this research is in the combination of greatly improved detection limits and integration with a multi-isotope approach. The research will focus in particular on isotope systems not widely used in geological and environmental research, and in application to fundamental and applied problems across geological and astroparticle physics research. I plan to support and train 1 PDF for 2 years, 3 PhD students, 4 MSc students and 5 BSc students in geochemistry and low-level background determinations in astroparticle physics in this proposal. Real advances in our understanding of metal sources in mineral deposit systems and migration in the secondary environment will be achieved by, for the first time, a systematic combination of speciation (in terms of the minerals metals bind to in Earth materials and how metals are complexed in solution) and isotopic measurements of individual species. Many of the processes of elemental migration from natural accumulations of metals (ore deposits) are poorly understood; lower detection limits, particularly of isotopes and redox sensitive species will enable my research group to better deconvolute different elemental sources and therefore to understand better the processes involved. There is also a need to improve in situ analytical techniques, in particular in terms of isotopic determinations, which are hampered by the inability to perform chromatographic separations, as is traditionally done for isotopic determinations, to isolate the analyte of interest from interfering isotopes. The infrastructure at QFIR, including new equipment purchased with my recently awarded CFI grant, is critical to my research vision and agenda. Because of my position in both Geological Sciences and the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute (MI), my research long-term vision and shorter-term goals must address the needs of both communities. Thus, the combination of the research group in the Queen's Facility for Isotope Research, which I co-direct, with the tools and expertise within MI, represents a unique opportunity for geology and astroparticle physics to inform advances across these disciplines. My background and my research group are ideally suited for this cross-disciplinary work.