Ian Plimer
Professor
Phone: +61 8 830 37040
Fax: +61 8 83034347
Email: ian.plimer@adelaide.edu.au
Room: G42, Mawson
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Personal
Academic Qualifications
B.Sc.(Hons) University of New South Wales
Ph.D. Macquarie University
Awards and Honours
Member, Advisory Council for the NSW Minister for Primary Industries
Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Fellow, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Fellow, Australian Institute of Geoscientists
Honorary Fellow, The Geological Society
Member, The Geological Society of Australia
Member, The Royal Society of South Australia
Member, The Royal Society of NSW
Member, The Royal Society of Victoria
Life Member, Society for Geology Appplied to Ore Deposits
Daley Prize (for communication of science) 1994
Goldfields Prize for best paper in Institution of Mining and Metallurgy 1994
Eureka Prize (for promotion of science) 1995
Australian Humanist of the Year 1995
Leopold von Buch Plakette 1998
Eureka Prize (for best science book) 2002
Centenary Medal 2003
The Clarke Medal 2004
Rio Tinto Award for Mining Excellence 2005
Sir Willis Connelly Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 2006
Patron, Mineralogical Society of Victoria
Patron, GeoCentre Museum (Broken Hill)
Patron, Lifeline (Broken Hill)
Publications
Refereed Papers
Spry, P. M., Plimer, I. R. and Teale, G. S. 2007: Did the giant Broken
Hill (Australia) Zn-Pb-Ag deposit melt? Ore Geology Reviews 23: 449-466
Plimer, I. R. 2006: Manganoan garnet rocks associated with the Broken Hill
Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology 88: 443-478.
Ashley, P. M., Lawie, D., Cook, N. D. J., Lottermoser, B.G. and Plimer, I.
R., 1995; Geology of the Olary Block. Dept. Mines and Energy South Australia,
Report 95/6, 51pp.
Bierlein, F. P., Ashley, P. M. and Plimer, I. R., 1995: Sulphide mineralisation
in the Olary Block, South Australia. Evidence for syn-tectonic to late-stage mineralisation.
Mineralium Deposita 30, 424-438.
Bierlein, F. P., Foster, D. A. and Plimer, I. R., 1996: Tectonothermal implications
of laser 40Ar/39Ar ages of sulphide-bearing veins and their host rocks in the
Willyama Supergroup, South Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology 58, 1-22.
Bierlein, F. P., Haack, U., Förster, B. and Plimer, I. R., 1996: Lead
isotope study on hydrothermal sulfide mineralisation in the Willyama Supergroup,
Olary Block, South Australia. Aust. Jour. Earth Sci.43, 177-187.
Lu, J., Plimer, I. R., Forster, D. A. and Lottermoser, B. G., 1996: Multiple
post-orogenic reactivation in the Olary Block, South Australia: Evidence from
40Ar/39Ar dating of pegmatite muscovite. Internat. Geol. Rev. 38, 655-685.
Haack, U. and Plimer, I. R., 1998: Zum Stoffbestand der Kupferschieferschlacked
im Raume Mansfeld-Hettstedt-Eisleben. Mitt. Geol. Saschen-Anhalt 4, 153-162.
Kucha, H., Plimer, I. R. and Stumpfl, E. F., 1998: Geochemistry and mineralogy
of gold and PGE's in mesothermal and epithermal deposits and their bearing on
metal recovery. Fizykochem. Problem. Metal. 32, 7-30.
Reeves, S. J., Plimer, I. R. and Foster, D., 1999: Exploitation of gold in
historic sewage sludge stockpile, Werribee, Australia: resource evaluation, chemical
extraction and subsequent utilisation of sludge. Jour. Geochem. Explor. 65, 141-153.
Snoek, W., Plimer, I. R., and Reeves, S., 1999: Application of Pb isotope geochemistry
to the study of the corrosion products of archaeological artefacts to constrain
provenance. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 66, 421-425.
Kucha, H. and Plimer, I. R., 1999: Gold in organic matter, Maldon, Victoria,
Australia. Economic Geology 74, 1173-1180.
Hibbs, D. E., Jury, C. M., Leverett, P., Plimer, I. R. and Williams, P. A.,
2000: An explanation for the origin of hemihedrism in wulfenite: single crystal
structures of I41/a and I4. Min. Mag. 64, 1027-1032.
Jury, C. M., Leverett, P., Williams, P. A., Plimer, I. R. and Hibbs, D. E.,
2001: The status of 'chillagite'. Aust. J. Mineral. 7 (1), 39.
Collier, J. B. and Plimer, I. R., 2002: Supergene clinobisvanite pseudomorphs
after supergene dreyerite from Lively's Mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. Neues
Jahrbuch für Mineralogie 2002, 401-410.
Plimer, I. R., Besley, R.E. and Brugger, J., 2002: Kasolite from the British
Empire Mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. Aust. Mineral. 8, 2, 75-79
Conor, C. H. H., Ashley, P. M., Bierlein, F. P., Cook, N. D. J., Crooks, A.
F., Lawie, D. C., Plimer, I. R., Preiss, W. V., Robertson, R. S. and Skirrow,
R. G., 2004: Geology of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, South Australia.
PIRSA Report 2004/8, 75pp.
Conor, C.H.H., Preiss, W. V., Plimer, I. R., Ashley, P.M., Stevens, B. P. J.
and Page, R., 2005. Discussion on detachment faulting and bimodal magmatism in
the Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup, south-central Australia: keys to recognition
of a multiply deformed Precambrian metamorphic core complex. Jour. Geol. Soc.
London 165, 409-416.
Long, Ngaire, Brugger, Joël, McPhail, "Bear" and Plimer, Ian,
2005: An active amagmatic hydrothermal system: the Paralana hot springs, Northern
Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Chemical Geology 222, 1-2, 35-64.
Plimer, I. R., 2006: Manganoan garnet rocks associated with the Broken Hill
Pb-Zn-Ag orebody, Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology 88, 443-478.
Refereed Conference Papers
Plimer, I. R., Lu, J., Foster, D. and Kleeman, J. D., 1995: Ar-Ar dating of multiphase
mineralisation associated with the Mole Granite. In Mineral Deposits: From their
origin to their environmental impacts (Eds J. Pasava, B. K?íbek and
Zák, Balkema, 497-500.
Kleeman, J. D., Plimer, I. R., Lu, J., Foster, D. A. and Davidson, R., 1997:
Timing of thermal and mineralisation events associated with the Mole Granite,
New South Wales. In Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the New England Orogen (Eds
P. M. Ashley and P. G. Flood). Geol. Soc. Aust. Special publication 19, 254-265.
Besley, R. E. and Plimer, I. R., 1999: The Ivanhoe Embayment of the Murray
Basin. In The Murray Basin (Ed R. Stewart). Aust. Inst. Geoscientists Bull. 26,
10-14.
Gallacher, A. and Plimer, I. R., 2000: The origin of fault zone minerals at
Broken Hill. Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. NSW 133, 14-15.
Plimer, I. R., 2000: Excursion guide. M and M4 excursion to Broken Hill. Museum
of Victoria, 27pp.
Kucha, H. and Plimer, I. R., 2001: Au silicates from mesothermal gold deposits.
In: Mineral deposits at the beginning of the 21st Century (Ed. A. Pietstryznski),
775-778.
Plimer, I. R., 2001: Science contre créationnisme en Australie. In:
Intrusions spiritualistes et impostures intellectuelles en sciences (Eds. J. Dubessy
and G. Lecointre). Éditions Syllepse, 271-278.
Plimer, I. R., Blampain, P., Collier, J and Patchett, A., 2003: CML 7 (The
South Mine), Broken Hill, Australia. In Peljo, M., editor, The Broken Hill Exploration
initiative: Abstracts for the September 2003 Conference. Geoscience Australia
Records 2003/13, 132-135.
Plimer, I. R., 2006: Goldschmidt Conference Excursion guide to Broken Hill.
Goldschmidt Symposium, 129 pp.
Blampain, P. and Plimer, I. R., 2006: The Western Mineralisation - Rasp Mine.
In Korsch, R. J. and Barnes, R. G., compilers, 2006. The Broken Hill Exploration
initiative: Abstratcts for the September 2006 Conference. Geoscience Australia
Records 2006/21, 8-13.
Plimer, I. R., 2006: Hydrothermal alteration at Broken Hill. In Korsch, R.
J. and Barnes, R. G., compilers, 2006. The Broken Hill Exploration initiative:
Abstracts for the September 2006 Conference. Geoscience Australia Records 2006/21,
138-144.
Spry, P. G., Plimer, I. R. and Teale, G. S., 2006: Partial melting of the Broken
Hill lead-zinc-silver deposit: Fact or fiction? In Korsch, R. J. and Barnes, R.
G., compilers, 2006. The Broken Hill Exploration initiative: Abstracts for the
September 2006 Conference. Geoscience Australia Records 2006/21, 161-165.
Books
Plimer, I. R., 1994: Telling lies for God (Random House, ISBN 0 09 183852 X),
303pp.
Plimer, I. R., 1997. A journey through stone (Reed, ISBN 0 7301 0499 0), 176pp.
Plimer, I. R., 1997: Mineral collecting localities of the Broken Hill, Tibooburra
and White Cliffs areas (Peacock, ISBN 0 909209 73 1), 144pp.
Plimer, I. R., 2000: Milos - geologic history (Koan, ISBN 960-7586-43-3), 261
pp.
Plimer, I. R., 2001: A short history of planet Earth (ABC Books, ISBN 0 7333
1004 4), 250pp.
Sharwood, J., Khun, M., Gregory, E., Holland, J., Jones, C., Kennedy, J-L,
Plimer, I., Styles, S., Taylor, N., Vlakos, P., Werry, J. and Willis, J., 2004:
Science Edge. Thomson Nelson.
Selley, R. C., Cocks, L. R. M. and Plimer, I. R., 2005: Encyclopedia of Geology.
Elsevier Press, Vol. 1 (594pp), Vol. 2 (545pp), Vol. 3 (659 pp), Vol. 4 (692 pp)
and Vol. 5 (807 pp).
Unrefereed Journal Articles
Plimer, I. R., 2003: The past is the key to the present. IPA Review 55, 9-13.
Chapters in Books
MacNamara, G., Chalmers, R. O., Birch, W.D. and Plimer, I. R., 1999: The Identities
and Their Minerals. In: The Minerals of Broken Hill (Ed W. D. Birch). p.34-57.
Museum of Victoria/Broken Hill City Council.
Plimer, I. R., 1999: The Making of the Minerals. In: The Minerals of Broken
Hill (Ed. W. D. Birch). 70-87.Museum of Victoria/Broken Hill City Council.
Plimer, I. R., 2003: As old as the hills, p. 124-144, in Chesworth, A., Hill,
S., Lipovsky, K., Snyder, E. and Chapworth, W. Darwin Day Collection One, The
single best idea ever, Tangled Bank Press, 466ppp.
Research
Research Interests
Characterisation of the stratigraphy, structure and alteration associated with
the Broken Hill orebody.
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Earth Systems (Science)
- Introduction to Mining (Engineering)
- Geology for Engineers (Science, Engineering)
- Honours supervision (Science)
Consulting Activities
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