Pedro Jugo

Research

Origin of Pt, Pd, Au mineralization (orthomagmatic deposists)

Geochemistry of highly siderophile elements (Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Au) in magmatic systems

Geochemistry of metalloids (Se, As, Sb, Te, Bi) and implications for the occurrence of precious metal minerals (PMM) 

Genesis of orthomagmatic and hydrothermal ore deposits

Behavior of sulfur in magmatic systems

Teaching

GEOL 1006 Introductory Geology I

GEOL 1021 Introduction to Earth Sciences I

GEOL 2127 Optical Mineralogy

GEOL 3206 Igneous Petrology

GEOL 4206 Advanced Igneous Petrology

GEOL 5007 and GEOL 6007 Graduate Seminar in Earth Sciences

GEOL 5206 Topics in Igneous Petrology

Publications

• Introduction to the special issue on the Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu deposit, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (Maier et al., 2021)

• Assessing the extent of local crust assimilation within the Flatreef, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, using sulfur isotopes and trace element geochemistry (Keir-Sage et al., 2021)

• Strontium isotope stratigraphy through the Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu mineralization at Turfspruit, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex: evidence of correlation with the Merensky Unit of the eastern and western limbs (Mayer et al., 2021)

• Chromite chemistry of a massive chromitite seam in the northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: correlation with the UG-2 in the eastern and western limbs and evidence of variable assimilation of footwall rocks (Langa et al., 2021)

• Magmatic origin of Co-rich, PGE-bearing pyrite: An experimental study on the geochemical behavior of highly siderophile elements (HSE) and metalloids in an mss-iss-pyrite system at 650 °C (Cafagna and Jugo, 2016)

• Trace element distribution in sulphide assemblages of the Levack-Morrison ore system, Sudbury, Ontario: Looking for chemical fingerprints of mineralization processes (Adibpour et al., 2015)

• High gold concentrations in sulphide-bearing magma under oxidizing conditions (Botcharnikov et al., 2011)

• Sulfur K-edge XANES analysis of natural and synthetic basaltic glasses: Implications for S speciation and S content as function of oxygen fugacity (Jugo et al., 2010)

• Imaging Element-Distribution Patterns in Minerals by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) (Ulrich et al., 2009)

• Sulfur content at sulfide saturation in oxidized magmas (Jugo, 2009)

• The origin of S⁴⁺ detected in silicate glasses by XANES (Wilke et al., 2008)

• An experimental study of the sulfur content in basaltic melts saturated with immiscible sulfide or sulfate liquids at 1300 °C and 1.0 GPa (Jugo et al., 2005a)

• Experimental data on the speciation of sulfur as a function of oxygen fugacity in basaltic melts (Jugo et al., 2005b)

• Magmatic sulfides and Au:Cu ratios in porphyry deposits: an experimental study of copper and gold partitioning at 850 °C, 100 MPa in a haplogranitic melt-pyrrhotite-intermediate solid solution-gold metal assemblage, at gas saturation (Jugo et al., 1999)