Dr. Kreshimir N. Malitch, a Chief Researcher in the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Uralian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, is a recognized expert in globally distributed zoned- and ophiolite-type ultramafic complexes, world-class Archean paleoplacers of the Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa) and Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits associated with the ‘Noril'sk-type’ intrusions. Kreshimir's recent multi-disciplinary studies placed new constraints on the origin of mantle-derived ultramafic rocks and provided isotope-geochemical fingerprints to be used in exploration for Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ores. Principle research interests include origin of ultramafic-mafic massifs and associated ore deposits, geochemistry and mineralogy of highly siderophile elements, isotope composition of the Earth's mantle.

Dr. Malitch received a Ph.D. in geology and mineralogy (1990) from Mining Institute, Leningrad, USSR. Kreshimir is a recipient of the Lise Meitner research award to outstanding foreign scholars from the Austrian Science Fund (1999-2001) and holds the title of an Honorary Research Fellow of Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia, http://www.ccfs.mq.edu.au). Dr. Malitch has been invited as a Guest Professor to University of Leoben, Austria (2002-2004) and University of Oulu, Finland (2009-2010). Publication record comprises over 360 publications, including four monographs, and 60 unpublished reports (five of which are substantial); h-index – 18 (Web of Science), 19 (Scopus), 25 (Google Scholar).

Education:

1980-1985: Leningrad Mining Institute (USSR). M. Sc. in Geology, June 19, 1985. Thesis: Detailed Prospecting and Evaluation of the Cu-Ni Ore Body "2nd Severnaya" at the Talnakh District, Russia.

1986-1990: Leningrad Mining Institute. Ph. D. in Geology and Mineralogy, June 4, 1990. Thesis: The Mineralogic-Geochemical Criteria for Platinum Potential of Ultramafic Rocks from the Kondyor Massif (Russian Far East).

Professional Employment:

Awards:

• Recepient of Lise-Meitner Research Award to Outstanding Foreign Scholars, Austrian Science Fund (October 1999 – September 2001)

• Austrian Academy of Sciences, grant for visiting scientists (November 2001 – February 2002)

• European Science Fund, GEODE grant for visiting scientists (March 2002 – April 2002)

• Guest Professorship, Department of Geology, University of Leoben (October 2002 – July 2004)

• Visiting Professorship, Department of Geology, University of Oulu (October – November 2009, 2010)

Principal Research Interests:

·        Geology and origin of ultramafic and ultramafic-mafic complexes

·        Geochemistry and mineralogy of platinum-group elements (PGE)

·        Origin of Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits

·        Isotope composition of the Earth's mantle

Memberships:

• Mineralogical Society of Russia, since 1986
• Mineralogical Association of Canada, since 1998
• Society of Geologists Applied to Mineral Deposits, since 1998
• Society of Economic Geologists, since 2002
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003-2004
• Geochemical Society, 2004-2019
• European Geoscience Union, 2006-2014

Invited Seminars and Selected Keynote Lectures:

• Metallogeny of the unique Guli clinopyroxenite-dunite Massif (Nothern Siberia, Russia). XVII General Meeting of International Mineralogical Association, Toronto, Canada, 12.08.1998.

• Zoned- and ophiolite-type ultramafic complexes: constraints from PGM chemistry and osmium isotopes. Max-Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany, 08.01.2004.

• Contrasting osmium isotopic composition of oceanic and continental mantle deduced from Ru-Os sulfides and Os-Ir-Ru alloys. Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 24.12.2004.

• Geological composition, geochemistry and ore mineralization of the Talnakh intrusion (drill core OUG-2 as an example). Geological Enterprise ‘Noril’skgeology’, Noril’sk, Russia, 18.08.2006.

• Os-rich alloys and Ru-Os sulphides from ultramafic complexes and placer deposits: constraints from osmium isotopes. 33^rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 11.08.2008.

• Geochronology and Hf-Nd-Sr-Os-S isotope systematics of the Noril’sk-type intrusions: New insights for prolonged evolution and source heterogeneity. 13^th Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium «Giant Ore Deposits Down-Under», Adelaide, Australia, 09.04.2010.

• Geochronology and Hf-Nd-Sr-Os-S-Cu isotope systematics of the Noril’sk-type intrusions and associated PGE-Cu-Ni sulphide deposits, University of Oulu, Finland, 5.11.2010.

• Nomenclature, osmium isotopes and origin of Ru-Os sulphides, Os-Ir-Ru and Pt-Fe alloys derived from ultramafic massifs and placer deposits. XVIII All-Russian Scientific Conference “Uralian mineralogical School-2012“ devoted to noble metal (Au, Ag, Pt, Ir, Os, Pd, Rh, Ru) deposits, Ural State Mining University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 11.09.2012.

• Mineral chemistry and osmium isotope systematics of PGE mineralization of the Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa). IV All-Russian Youth Scientific Conference "Minerals: structure, features and methods of investigation“, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 17.10.2012.

• PGE-Cu-Ni sulphide-bearing ultramafic-mafic intrusions of the Noril'sk Province: insights into ore genesis and exploration. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 02.08.2013.

• Witwatersrand platinum-group minerals as a key to unravelling mantle processes of the young Earth. 12th International Platinum Symposium, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 14.08.2014.

• Mineral chemistry and nomenclature of Pt-Fe minerals from chromitites of the Kondyor, Nizhny Tagil and Svetly Bor clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs (Russia). VIII Russian Youth Scientific Conference "Minerals: structure, features and methods of investigation", Ekaterinburg, Russia, 19.10.2016. 

• Lutetium-hafnium isotope systematics of zoned-type clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs from the Far East and Middle Urals (Russia), XVII Readings of the memory of Academiciam A.N. Zavaritsky, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 03.10.2017. 

• Isotope-geochemical systematics of ultramafic-mafic intrusions and PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide ores from the Noril'sk  Province (Russia), Ural scientific forum, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry UB RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 18.10.2017.

• Age and isotope-geochemical  features of ore-bearing ultramafic-mafic intrusions of  Polar Siberia, VIII Russian Conference "Geochron-2018", Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 07.06.2018.

• Platinum-group minerals of the Witwatersrand Basin as a unique source of information about mantle processes in the early history of the Earth. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, 03.03.2022.

• Isotope-geochemical characteristics of ultramafic-mafic intrusions and PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide ores of  Polar Siberia: genetic and applied aspects, Scientific Readings in honor of the 50th anniversary of the geological path of Sergey Fyodorovich Sluzhenikin in the Noril'sk Ore District, Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 28.11.2022.

• Chemical and Re-Os, Pt-Os, S-isotopic composition of PGE mineralization from the Guli massif, Maimecha-Kotuy Province: new data, VIII All-Russia Conference "Ultramafic-mafic complexes: geology, structure and ore potential", Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, 01.09.2023.

Other Expert Activities:

• Expert evaluation of research projects submitted to the National Research Foundation (South Africa) and Russian Science Foundation.

• Editorial Board Member of "News of the Ural State Mining University" and "Lithosphere (Russia)". 

• Journal Reviewer for international scientific journals Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Geochimica et Cosmocimicha Acta, Canadian Mineralogist, Mineralogy and Petrology, Economic Geology, Mineralium Deposita, Ore Geology Reviews, Gondwana Research, Lithos, Minerals.

• Journal Reviewer for Russian scientific journals Geokhimiya, Doklady Earth Sciences, Lithosphere (Russia) and Mineralogiya.

• Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue of Economic Geology "Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits"..

• Guest Editor, Special Issue of Minerals "New Insights into Composition of the Earth's Mantle Deduced from Osmium Isotope Data in Os-rich Alloys, Sulfide, and  Chromite". 

• Guest Editor, Special Issue of Minerals "Highly Siderophile Elements and Their Isotopes in the Earth's Mantle". 

• Managing Editor of the Abstracts Volume of the 12th International Platinum Symposium (12th International Platinum Symposium Abstracts. Edited by Anikina, E.V. et al., Yekaterinburg: Institute of Geology and Geochemistry UB RAS, 2014. 340 p.).

• Managing Editor of the field trip guidebooks of the 12th International Platinum Symposium (Ultramafic-mafic intrusions, volcanic rocks and PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide deposits of the Noril’sk Province, Polar Siberia. Field trip guidebook. 12th International Platinum Symposium (Simonov O.N., ed.). Yekaterinburg: IGG UB RAS, 2014. 80 p.; The Nizhny Tagil and Volkovsky massifs of the Uralian Platinum Belt, and related deposits. Field trip guidebook. 12th International Platinum Symposium. Yekaterinburg: IGG UB RAS, 2014. 48 p.).

• Convener of the thematic Session 3 "PGE-Cu-Ni sulphide-bearing ultramafic-mafic intrusions of the Noril'sk Province: insights into ore genesis and exploration", 12th International Platinum Symposium, August 12, 2014.

• Associate Editor of the volume “Mineral Exploration and Sustainable Development” (Eliopoulos, D.G. et al. eds.), Millpress Rotterdam, Netherlands (2003).

International and National Cooperations:

Australian Research Council National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents (ARC National Key Centre GEMOC),  http://www.gemoc.mq.edu.au, and ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (ARC CCFS), http://www.ccfs.mq.edu.au, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia); University of Maryland, U.S.A.; Curtin University, Australia; University of Pretoria, South Africa; BRGM, Orleans, France; Mining University of Leoben, Austria; Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy Freiberg, Germany; University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K.; University of Durham, U.K.; University of Oulu, Finland; ‘NATI’ Research JSC, St.-Petersburg, Russia; Mining Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; Russian Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean, St. Petersburg, Russia; Joint-Stock Company "Mechanobr-Analyt", St.-Petersburg, Russia; All-Russia Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), St.-Petersburg, Russia; Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Ore Deposits (IGEM), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Moscow State University, Russia; Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics (ITiG), Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, Russia; Geological Institute, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia; Geological Institute, Kola Science Centre (GI KSC), Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russia.

Active research projects:

Publication record comprises over 360 publications, including four monographs, and 60 unpublished reports (five of which are substantial); h-index – 18 (Web of Science), 19 (Scopus) and 25 (Google Scholar). Information about main publications may be viewed at: http://www.igg.uran.ru/?q=node/95

Selected publications in English

 (A) Articles in international scientific journals with referee practice:

Malitch, K.N., Melcher, F. & Muhlhans, H. (2001): Palladium and gold mineralization in podiform chromitite at Kraubath, Austria. Mineralogy and Petrology 73, 247-277.

Malitch, K.N., Auge, T., Badanina, I.Yu., Goncharov, M.M., Junk, S.A. & Pernicka, E. (2002): Os-rich nuggets from Au-PGE placers of the Maimecha-Kotui Province, Russia: a multi-disciplinary study. Mineralogy and Petrology 76 (1-2), 121-148.

Malitch, K.N. & Thalhammer, O.A.R. (2002): Pt-Fe nuggets derived from clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs, Russia: a structural, compositional and osmium-isotope study. Canadian Mineralogist 40 (2), 395-418.

Malitch, K.N., Junk, S.A., Thalhammer, O.A.R., Melcher, F., Knauf, V.V., Pernicka, E. & Stumpfl, E.F. (2003): Laurite and ruarsite from podiform chromitites at Kraubath and Hochgrossen, Austria: new insights from osmium isotopes. Canadian Mineralogist 41 (2), 331-352.

Malitch, K.N., Thalhammer, O.A.R., Knauf, V.V. & Melcher, F. (2003): Diversity of platinum-group mineral assemblages in banded and podiform chromitite from the Kraubath ultramafic massif, Austria: evidence for an ophiolitic transition zone? Mineralium Deposita 38 (3), 282-297.

Malitch, K.N. (2004): Osmium isotope constraints on contrasting sources and prolonged melting in the Proterozoic upper mantle: evidence from ophiolitic Ru-Os sulfides and Ru-Os-Ir alloys. Chemical Geology 208 (1-4), 157-173.

Malitch, K.N. & Merkle, R.K.W. (2004): Ru-Os-Ir-Pt and Pt-Fe alloys from the Evander Goldfield (Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa): detrital origin inferred from compositional and osmium isotope data. Canadian Mineralogist 42 (2), 631-650.

Malitch, K.N. (2006): Os isotope systematics of Os-rich alloys and sulfides from continental and oceanic mantle: new data. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 (18S), A386.

Malich, K.N., Petrov, O.N., Badanina, I.Yu. & Presnyakov, S.L. (2007): Zircons from ultramafic-mafic intrusions at Noril'sk area (Russia): A compositional and U-Pb study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (15S), A616.

Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Badanina, I.Yu., Petrov O.V. & Pearson, N.J. (2008): Contrasting magma sources in ultramafic-mafic intrusions of the Noril’sk area (Russia): Hf isotope evidence from zircon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72 (12S), A589.

Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Badanina, I.Yu, Pearson, N.J., Presnyakov, S.L. & Tuganova, E.V. (2010): Magmatic evolution of the ultramafic-mafic Kharaelakh intrusion (Siberian Craton, Russia): insights from trace-element, U-Pb and Hf-isotope data on zircon. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 159 (6), 753-768 [Contribution 620 from the GEMOC Key Centre].

Malitch K.N. & Latypov R.M. (2011): Re-Os and S-isotope constraints on timing and source heterogeneity of PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide ores: a case study at the Talnakh ore junction (Russia). Canadian Mineralogist 49 (6), 1653-1677.

Merkle, R.K.W., Malitch, K.N., Grasser, P.P.H. & Badanina, I.Yu. (2012): Native osmium from the Guli Massif, Northern Siberia (Russia). Mineralogy and Petrology 104 (1-2), 115-127.

Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L. & Badanina, I.Yu. (2013): Hafnium-neodymium constraints on source heterogeneity of the economic ultramafic-mafic Noril’sk-1 intrusion (Russia). Lithos 164-167, 36-46 [Contribution 215 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 853 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

Badanina, I.Yu., Malitch, K.N., Lord, R.A. & Meisel, T.C. (2013): Origin of primary PGM assemblage in сhromitite from a mantle tectonite at Harold's Grave (Shetland Ophiolite Complex, Scotland). Mineralogy and Petrology 107 (6), 963-970.

Malitch, K.N., Latypov, R.M., Badanina, I.Yu. & Sluzhenikin, S.F. (2014): Insights into ore genesis of Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits of the Noril'sk Province Russia: Evidence from copper and sulfur isotopes. Lithos 204, 172-187.

Tessalina, S.G., Malitch, K.N., Auge, T., Puchkov, V.N., Belousova, A. & McInnes, B.I.A. (2015): Origin of the Nizhny Tagil clinopyroxenite-dunite massif, Uralian Platinum Belt, Russia: Insights from PGE and Os isotope systematics. Journal of Petrology 56 (12), 2297-2318 [DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egv077, available online January 14, 2016].   

Badanina, I.Yu., Malitch, K.N., Lord, R.A., Belousova, E.A. & Meisel, T.C. (2016): Closed-system behaviour of the Re-Os isotope system recorded in primary and secondary platinum-group mineral assemblages: Evidence from a mantle chromitite at Harold's Grave (Shetland Ophiolite Complex, Scotland). Ore Geolgy Reviews 75, 174-185 [DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.14.014; contribution 679 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1042 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Badanina, I.Yu., Knauf, V.V., O’Reilly, S.Y. & Pearson, N.J. (2017): Laurite and zircon from the Finero chromitites (Italy): new insights into evolution of the subcontinental mantle. Ore Geology Reviews 90, 210-225 [DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.06.027; contribution 936 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1144 in the GEMOC Key Centre]. 

Barnes, S.J., Malitch, K.N. & Yudovskaya, M.A. (2020): Introduction to a Special Issue on the Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-platinum group element deposits. Economic Geology 115 (6), 1157-1172 [https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4750].

Krivolutskaya, N., Belyatsky, B., Gongalsky, B., Dolgal, A., Lapkovsky, A., Malitch K.N., Taskaev, V. & Svirskaya, N. (2020): Petrographical and mineralogical characteristics of magmatic rocks in the northwesten Siberian traps province, Kulyumber river valley. Part 1: Rocks of the Khalil and Kaya sites. Minerals 10 (5), 409 [DOI: 103390/min10050409].

Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Martin, L., Badanina, I.Yu. & Sluzhenikin, S.F. (2020): Oxygen-hafnium-neodymium isotope constraints on the origin of the Talnakh ultramafic-mafic intrusion (Norilsk Province, Russia). Economic Geology 115 (6), 1195-2012 [https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4743; contribution 1383 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1331 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

Malitch, K.N., Puchtel, I.S., Belousova, E.A. & Badanina, I.Y. (2020): Contrasting platinum-group mineral assemblages of the Kondyor massif: Implications for the sources of HSE in zoned-type ultramafic massifs. Lithos 376-377, 105800 [doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105800; contribution 1523 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1400 in the GEMOC Key Centre]. 

Malitch, K.N., Badanina, I.Y., Belousova, E.A., Murzin, V.V. & Velivetskaya, T.A. (2021): Origin of Ru-Os sulfides from the Verkh-Neivinsk ophiolite massif (Middle Urals, Russia): Compositional and S-Os isotope evidence. Minerals 11 (3), 329 [https://doi.org/10.3390/min11030329; contribution 1614 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1436 in the GEMOC Key Centre]. 

Malitch, K.N., Puchtel, I.S., Belousova, E.A. & Badanina, I.Yu. (2022): A combined Re-Os and Pt-Os isotope and HSE abundance study of Ru-Os-Ir alloys from the Kunar and Unga placer deposits, the Taimyr Peninsula, Polar Siberia. Minerals 12 (11), 1463 [https://doi.org/10.3390/min12111463; contribution 1749 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1518 in the GEMOC Key Centre]. 

Chayka, I.F., Kamenetsky, V.S., Malitch, K.N., Vasil’ev, Yu.R., Zelenski, M.E., Abersteiner, A.B. & Kuzmin, I.A. (2023): Behavior of critical metals in cumulates of alkaline ultramafic magmas in the Siberian large igneous province: insights from melt inclusions study. Ore Geology Reviews 160, 105577 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2023.105577].

Malitch, K.N., Puchtel, I.S., Badanina, I.Yu., Soloshenko, N.G., Okuneva, T.G., Ignatiev, A.V. & Velivetskaya, T.A. (2023): New insights into the origin of platinum-group element mineralization from clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs: evidence from radiogenic- and stable-isotope data. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 61, 1393–1396 [DOI: 10.3749/AB00031]. 

(B) Reviewed contributions to books:

Malitch, K.N. (1998): Peculiarities of platinum-group elements distribution in ultramafites of clinopyroxenite-dunite massives as an indicator of their origin. International Platinum (Eds. Laverov, N.P. & Distler, V.V.), Athens - St. Petersburg: Theophrastus Publications, 129-140.

Cawthorn, R.G., Barnes, S.J., Ballhaus, C. & Malitch, K.N. (2005): Platinum-group element, chromium and vanadium deposits in mafic and ultramafic rocks. Economic Geology 100^th Anniversary Volume, 215-249. 

Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Badanina, I.Yu., Latypov, R.S. & Sluzhenikin, S.F. (2018): Chapter 7 –  New insights on the origin of ultramafic-mafic intrusions and associated Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits of the Noril’sk and Taimyr provinces, Russia:  evidence from radiogenic- and stable-isotope data. Processes and Ore Deposits of Ultramafic-Mafic Magmas Through Space and Time (Eds. Mondal, S. & Griffin, W.L.), 1st Edition, Elsevier Inc., 197-238 [Contribution 958 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1148 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

(С) Articles in USSR/Russian scientific journals with referee practice and simultaneous translation into English:  

Avdontsev, S.N. & Malich, K.N. (1987): Physicochemical conditions of iron-titanium oxide formation in rocks of the Kondyor alkalic ultramafic pluton. Transactions (Doklady) of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 296 (5), 225-227 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 296 (6), 1466-1468).

Rudashevskiy, N.S. & Malich, K.N. (1988): Iron-oxide-silicate melt inclusions in dunite from the Kondyor alkalic-ultramafic Massif. Transactions (Doklady) of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 298 (1), 122-126 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 298 (6), 1198-1203).

Avdontsev, S.N. & Malich, K.N. (1989): Geodinamic model of formation of massifs of the Kondyor Complex. Soviet Geology and Geophysics 30 (7), 23-27 (translated from Geologiya i Geophyzika 30(7), 27-32).

Malich, K.N. (1990): Peculiarites of distribution of platinum-group elements in the rocks of ultramafic massifs of the Aldan Shield. Geochemistry International 27 (10), 113-116 (translated from Geokhimiya 27 (3), 425-429).

Malich, K.N. (1990): Origin of clinopyroxenites and melanocratic gabbroids in concentrically-zoned ultramafic plutons. Transactions (Doklady) of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 314 (5), 160-164 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 314 (5), 1222-1226).

Tuganova, E.V. & Malich, K.N. (1990): Platinum potential of Noril`sk-type intrusions. Transactions (Doklady) of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 313 (4), 267-271 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 313 (1), 178-183).

Malitch, K.N. (1991): Petrographic association of platinum-bearing ultamafics in concentrically zoned plutons of the Siberian Craton. Transactions (Doklady) of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 318 (4), 198-204 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 318 (6), 1452-1457).

Balmasova, Ye.A., Smol’skaya, L.S., Lopatina, L.A., Lopatin, G.G., Lazarenkov, V.G. & Malich, K.N. (1992): Native osmium and iridosmine in the Guli Massif. Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 325 (5), 154-157 (translated from Doklady Rossiyskoi Akademii Nauk (1992) 323 (4), 748-751).

Lazarenkov, V.G. & Malich, K.N. (1992): Geochemistry of the ultrabasites of the Kondyor platiniferous Massif. Geochemistry International 29 (5), 44-56 (translated from Geokhimiya (1991) 28 (10), 1406-1418).

Lazarenkov, V.G. & Malich, K.N. (1992): Platinum-group element distribution in meimechites of the Maimecha-Kotui Province. Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Earth Science Sections 323 (2), 185-188 (translated from Doklady Rossiyskoi Akademii Nauk (1992) 322 (6), 1141-1144).

Malich, K.N. & Rudashevskiy, N.S. (1992): Bedrock platinum-metal mineralization in chromitite of the Guli Massif. Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 327(8), 165-169 (translated from Doklady Rossiyskoi Akademii Nauk (1992) 325 (5), 1026-1029).

Lazarenkov, V.G., Malich, K.N. & Lopatin, G.G. (1994): Geochemistry of the ultramafites of the Guli platiniferous intrusion, Maimecha-Kotui Province. Geochemistry International 31 (6), 1-9 (translated from Geokhimiya (1993) 30 (11), 1523-1531).

Malitch, K.N. (1996): Assessment of the platinum potential of clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs.Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 347A (3), 400-404 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 347 (5), 653-657).

Malich, K.N. (1996): Geochemistry of the platiniferous ultrabasites of the Feklistov Massif. Geochemistry International 33 (12), 20-36 (translated from Geokhimiya (1995) 33 (12), 1729-1744).

Malitch, K.N. (1996): Platinoid placer of the Ingaringda River, Northern part of Eastern Siberia.Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 349 (5), 723-727 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 348 (5), 652-656).

Malitch, K.N., Badanina, I.Yu., Goncharov, M.M., Lopatin, G. G., Naumenko, N.G. & Tuganova, E.V. (1996): The Maimecha-Kotui Region: a new platinum province in Russia. Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 348 (4), 574-577 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 348 (2), 232-235).

Malitch, K.N. (1997): Distribution of platinum-group elements in ultramafic rocks of the Feklistov Massif, Shantarskie Islands. Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 355 (5), 766-768 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 355 (1), 94-96).

Malich, K.N. & Lopatin, G.G. (1997): New data on the metallogeny of the unique Guli clinopyroxenite-dunite Massif (Northern Siberia, Russia). Geology of Ore Deposits 39 (3), 209-218 (translated fromGeologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii 39 (3), 247-257).

Malich, K.N. & Auge, T. (1998): The composition of inclusions in osmium minerals as an indicator of the formation conditions of the Guli ultrabasic Massif. Doklady Earth Sciences   361A (6), 888-890 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 361 (6), 812-814).

Malich, K.N. & Badanina, I.Yu. (1998): Natural polycomponent solid solutions of the system Ru-Os-Ir-Pt-Fe and their genetic and applied significance. Doklady Earth Sciences 363 (8), 1089-1092 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 363 (1), 93-96).

Malitch, K.N. & Kostoyanov, A.I. (1999): Model Re-Os isotopic age of the PGE mineralization at the Gulinsk Massif (at the northern Siberian Platform, Russia). Geology of Ore Deposits 41 (2), 126-135 (translated from Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii 41 (2), 143-153).

Malitch, K.N., Kostoyanov, A.I. & Merkle, R.K.W. (2000): Mineral composition and osmium isotopes of PGE-mineralization from the Eastern Witwatersrand, South Africa. Geology of Ore Deposits 42 (3), 253-266 (translated from Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii 42 (3), 281-295).

Malitch, K.N., Efimov, A.A., Ronkin Yu.L. (2009): Archean U-Pb isotope age of zircon from dunite of the Nizhny Tagil massif (Platinum belt of Urals). Doklady Earth Sciences 427 (5), 851-855 (translated fromDoklady Akademii Nauk 427 (1), 101-105).

Sobolev, A.V., Sobolev, S.V., Kuzmin, D.V., Malitch, K.N. & Petrunin, A.G. (2009): Siberian meimechites: origin and relation to flood basalts and kimberlites. Russian Geology and Geophysics 50(12), 999-1033 (translated from Geologiya i Geophysika 50 (12), 1293-1334).

Malitch, K.N., Badanina, I.Yu. & Kostoyanov, A.I. (2011): Initial Os-isotopic composition of Os-Ir-Ru alloys from ultramafic massifs of the Polar Siberia. Doklady Earth Sciences 440 (1), 1343-1348 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 440 (3), 397-402).

Malitch, K.N., Efimov, A.A. & Badanina, I.Yu. (2011): Contrasting platinum-group mineral assemblages from chromitites of the Nizhny Tagil and Guli massifs (Russia): implications for composition, sources and age. Doklady Earth Sciences 441 (1), 1514-1518 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 441 (1), 83-87).

Malitch, K.N., Kadik, A.A., Badanina, I.Yu. & Zharkova, E.V. (2011): Redox conditions of formation of osmium-rich minerals from the Guli massif, Russia. Geochemistry International 49 (7), 726-730 (translated from Geokhimiya 49 (7), 767-771).

Malitch, K.N. & Kogarko, L.N. (2011): Chemical composition of platinum-group minerals from the Bor-Uryakh massif (Maimecha-Kotui Province, Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 440 (2), 1455-1459 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 440 (6), 806-810).

Efimov, A.A. & Malitch, K.N. (2012): Magnetite-orthopyroxene symplectites in gabbros of the Urals: A structural track of olivine oxidation. Geology of Ore Deposits 54 (7), 531-539 (translated from Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva (2010) 139 (5), 18-28).

Efimov, A.A., Ronkin, Yu.L., Malich, K.N. & Lepikhina, G.A. (2012): New Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr (ID-TIMS) isotope data for apatite-phlogopite clinopyroxenites from the dunite “core” of the Konder Massif, Aldan Shield. Doklady Earth Sciences 445 (2), 956-961 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 445 (5), 564-569).

Malitch, K.N., Badanina, I.Yu., Belousova, E.A. & Tuganova, E.V. (2012): Results of U-Pb dating of zircon and baddeleyite from the Noril'sk-1 ultramafic-mafic intrusion (Russia). Russian Geology and Geophysics 53 (2), 123-130 (translated from Geologiya i Geophyzika 53 (2), 163-172) [Contribution 144 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 720 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

Malitch, K.N., Efimov, A.A. & Badanina, I.Yu. (2012): The age of Kondyor massif dunites (Aldan Province, Russia): First U-Pb isotopic data. Doklady Earth Sciences 446 (1), 1054-1058 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 446 (3), 308-312).

Badanina, I.Yu., Belousova, E.A. & Malitch, K.N. (2013): Hafnium isotope composition of zircons from dunites of the Nizhny Tagil and Guli massifs (Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 448 (1), 38-42 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 448 (1), 59-63) [Contribution 172 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 821 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

Malitch, K.N., Sorokhtina, N.V., Badanina, I.Yu. & Kononkova, N.N. (2013): Parent sources of noble metal placers of the Guli Massif (Polar Siberia): New mineralogical data. Doklady Earth Sciences 451 (1), 743-745 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 451 (1), 87-90).

Mitrofanov, F.P., Bayanova, T.B., Korchagin, A.U., Groshev, N.Yu., Malitch, K.N., Zhirov, D.V. & Mitrofanov, A.F. (2013): East Scandinavian and Noril’sk plume mafic large igneous provinces of Pt-Pd ores: geological and metallogenic comparison. Geology of Ore Deposits 55 (5), 305-319 (translated from Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii 55 (5), 357-373).  

Badanina, I.Yu., Malitch, K.N. & Romanov A.P. (2014): Isotopic-geochemical characteristics of the ore-bearing ultramafic-mafic intrusions of Western Taimyr, Russia. Doklady Earth Sciences 458 (1), 1165-1167 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 458 (3), 327-329). 

Badanina, I.Yu., Zharkova, E.V., Kadik, A.A., Malitch, K.N. & Murzin, V.V. (2015): Results of experimental determination of the intrinsic oxygen fugacity of Ru-Os-Ir alloys from the Verkh-Neivinsky dunite-harzburgite massif, Middle Urals, Russia. Geochemistry International 53 (7), 658-663 (translated from Geokhimiya 53 (7), 661-666).

Malitch, K.N. & Badanina, I.Yu. (2015): Iron-platinum alloys from chromitites of the Nizhny Tagil and Kondyor clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs (Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 462 (2), 634-637 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 462 (6), 692-695).

Malitch, K.N., Khiller, V.V., Badanina, I.Yu. & Belousova, E.A. (2015): Results of dating of thorianite and baddeleyite from carbonatite of the Guli massif. Doklady Earth Sciences 464 (2), 1029-1032 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 464 (4), 464-467) [Contribution 652 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1023 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

Malitch, K.N., Anikina, E.V., Badanina, I.Yu., Belousova, E.A., Pushkarev, E.V. & Khiller, V.V. (2016): Chemical composition and osmium isotope systematics of primary and secondary platinum-group mineral assemblages from high-Mg chromitite of the Nurali lherzolite massif, South Urals, Russia. Geology of Ore Deposits 58 (1), 1-19 (translated from Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii 58 (1), 3-22) [Contribution 655 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1026 in the GEMOC Key Centre].

Badanina, I.Yu. & Malitch, K.N. (2017): Natural polycomponent solid solutions of the Ru-Os-Ir-Pt-Fe system from the Eastern Witwatersrand (South Africa). Doklady Earth Sciences 476 (2), 1177-1180 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 476 (5), 543-546).

Malitch, K.N. & Khiller, V.V. (2017): Results of chemical dating of monazite from the Talnakh economic intrusion. Doklady Earth Sciences 474 (1), 565-568 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 474 (2), 210-213).

Malitch, K.N., Badanina, I.Yu., Puchkov, V.N., Belousova, E.A. & Stepashko, А.А. (2017): Results of U-Pb dating of zircons from wehrlite of the platinum-bearing Feklistov massif (Shantar Archipelago, Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 475 (1), 762-765 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 475 (3), 295-298). 

Malitch, K.N., Stepanov, S.Yu., Badanina, I.Yu. & Khiller, V.V. (2017): Bedrock platinum-group element mineralization of zonal clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs of the Middle Urals. Doklady Earth Sciences 476 (2), 1147-1151 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 476 (4), 440-444).

Stepanov, S.Yu., Malitch, K.N., Kozlov, A.V., Badanina, I.Yu. & Antonov, A.V. (2017): Platinum-group element mineralization of the Svetly Bor and Veresovy Bor clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs in the Middle Urals, Russia. Geology of Ore Deposits 59 (3), 244-255 (translated from Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii 59 (3), 238-250).

Anikina, E.V., Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Badanina, I.Yu., Soloshenko, N.G., Rusin, I.A. & Alekseev, A.V. (2018): U-Pb age and Hf-Nd-Sr isotopic systematics of vein rocks of the Volkovsky Massif, Middle Urals, Russia. Geochemistry International 56 (3), 199-210 (translated from Geokhimiya 56 (3), 209-221). 

Malitch, K.N., Badanina, I.Yu., Belousova, E.A. & Murzin, V.V. (2018): Chemical composition and osmium isotope systematics of Ru-Os sulfides from the Verkh-Neivinsky dunite-harzburgite massif (Middle Urals, Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 483 (1), 1437-1441 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 483 (2)) [contribution 1218 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1262 in the GEMOC Key Centre]. 

Malitch, K.N., Kogarko, L.N., Badanina, I.Yu. & Belousova, E.A. (2018): Hafnium-neodymium isotope systematics of carbonatites from the Guli Massif (Maimecha-Kotui Province, Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 480 (1), 652-655 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 480 (3), 322-326) [contribution 1015 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for CCFS and 1184 in the GEMOC Key Centre]. 

Sluzhenikin, S.F., Malitch, K.N. & Grigor’eva, A.V. (2018): Differentiated mafic–ultramafic intrusions of the Kruglogorsky type in the Noril’sk Area: petrology and ore potential. Petrology 26 (3), 280-313 (translated from Petrologiya 26 (3), 282-316).

Badanina, I.Yu., Belousova, E.A. & Malitch, K.N. (2019): Hafnium isotope composition of zircon from the Kondyor clinopyroxenite-dunite massif (Khabarovsk Territory, Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 486 (2), 679-682 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 486 (5), 588-592) [contribution 1016 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and 1185 in the GEMOC Key Centre]. 

Murzin, V.V., Badanina, I.Yu., Malitch, K.N., Ignatiev, A.V. & Velivetskaya, T.A. (2019): Sulfur isotope composition of Ru-Os sulfides from the Verkh-Neivinsky dunite-harzburgite massif (Middle Urals, Russia). Doklady Earth Sciences 488 (1), 1097-1099 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk 488 (2), 185-188).

Malitch, K.N., Lokhov, D.K., Proskurnin, V.F., Puchkov, V.N., Badanina, I.Yu. & Chervyakovskaya, M.А. (2020): Uranium-lead and Lu-Hf isotope systematics of zircon and Sm-Nd isotopes in rocks of the Dyumptaley ore-bearing intrusion (Taimyr, Russia): New evidence for the role of the depleted mantle in its genesis. Doklady Earth Sciences 492 (1), 346-350 (translated from Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Nauki o Zemle 492 (1), 71-75). 

Sluzhenikin, S.F., Malitch, K.N., Turovtsev, D.M., Grigorieva, A.V. & Badanina, I.Yu. (2020): Differentiated mafic–ultramafic intrusions of the Zubovsky type in the Norilsk Area: petrochemistry, geochemistry and ore potential. Petrology 28 (5), 458-489 (translated from Petrologiya 28 (5), 511-544).

Malitch, K.N. (2021): Forecasting criteria for sulphide PGE-copper-nickel deposits of the Noril’sk province. Lithosphere (Russian Federation), 21 (5), 660-682 (in English) [https://doi.org/10.24930/1681-9004-2021-21-5-660-682].

Malitch, K.N., Kogarko, L.N., Badanina, I.Yu., Velivetskaya, T.A. & Ignatiev, A.V. (2022): Sulfur isotope composition of Ru-Os sulfides from the Guli massif, Maimecha-Kotui province, Russia: first results. Doklady Earth Sciences 507 (2), 1012-1018 (translated from Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Nauki o Zemle 507 (2), 194-201). 

Malitch, K.N., Soloshenko, N.G., Votyakov, S.L., Badanina, I.Yu., Okuneva, T.G. & Sidoruk, A.R. (2023): Copper isotope composition of Pt-Fe minerals from the Nizhny Tagil massif, Middle Urals: first results. Doklady Earth Sciences 509 (2), 196-202 [DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X22602152] (translated from Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Nauki o Zemle 509 (2), 190-197). 

Murzin, V.V., Malitch, К.N., Badanina, I.Yu., Varlamov, D.A. & Chashchukhin, I.S. (2023): Mineral assemblages from chromitites of the Alapaevsk dunite-harzburgite massif (Middle Urals). Lithosphere (Russia), 23(5), 740-765 (In Russian) [https://doi. org/10.24930/1681-9004-2023-23-5-740-765].

Sluzhenikin, S. F., Malitch, K.N., Yudovskaya M.A., Turovtsev, D.M., Antsiferova, T.N., Mikhalev, S.K., Badanina, I.Yu. & Soloshenko, N.G. (2023): Low Talnakh Type Intrusions of the Noril’sk ore region. Petrology 31 (5), 492-518 [https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591123050065] (translated from Petrologiya 31 (5), 482-509).

Malitch, K.N., Puchtel, I.S., Badanina, I.Yu., Votyakov, S.L., Soloshenko, N.G., Belousova, E.A., Velivetskaya, T.A. & Ignatiev, A.V. (2024): Sources of ore material in the platinum-group element deposits of Polar Siberia and the Middle Urals based on the data from radiogenic (Re–Os, Pt–Os) and stable (Cu, S) isotopes. Russ. Geol. Geophys. 65 (3), 366–387 [doi: 10.2113/RGG20234681].

(D) Scientific monographs, field trip guidebooks and maps:  

Lazarenkov, V.G., Malitch, K.N. & Sah’yanov, L.O. (1992): PGE mineralisation of zoned ultrabasic and komatiitic massifs. St.-Petersburg: Nedra Press. 217 p. (in Russian).

Gurovitch, V.G., Zemlyanukhin, V.N., Emel’yanenko, E.P., Karetnikov, A.S., Kvasov, A.I., Lazarenkov, V.G., Malitch, K.N., Mochalov, A.G., Prikhod’ko, V.S. & Stepashko, A.A. (1994): Geology, petrology and ore-forming potential of the Kondyor Massif. Moscow: Nauka Press. 176 p. (in Russian).

Malitch, K.N. (1999): Platinum-group elements in clinopyroxenite-dunite massifs of the Eastern Siberia (geochemistry, mineralogy, and genesis). St. Petersburg: Saint Petersburg Cartographic Factory VSEGEI Press. 296 p. (in Russian, with abstract, contents, preface and summary in English). 

Geological map of the Siberian Platform and adjacent territories on the scale 1:1 500 000 (2000): St. Petersburg: Saint Petersburg Cartografic Factory VSEGEI Press. Eds. Malitch, N.S., Tuganova, E.V. and Mironyuk, E.P. (Authors: Malitch, N.S., Tuganova, E.V., Mironyuk, E.P., Avdeeva, V.I., Alekseev, S.P., Anohin, A.M., Bezzubtsev, V.V., Glukhov, Yu.S., Grinenko, V.S., Grinson, A.S., Grishin, A.P.,  Daragan-Sushchov, Yu.I., Egorov, V.N.,  Kamaletdinov, V.A., Kovrigina, E.K., Kropachev, A.P., Lazurkin, D.V., Lotyshev, V.I., Magnushevsky, E.L., Malitch, K.N., Mezhvilk, A.A., Mihailov, M.V., Musatov, E.V., Nikulov, L.P.,  Poyarkova, I.N., Perevalov, O.V.,  Rzhevsky, V.F., Sadovnikov, G.N., Sez`ko, A.I., Semerikov, A.A., Simonov, O.N., Slastyonov, Yu.L., Spektor, V.V., Starnikov, A.I., Strel`nikov, S.I., Timashkov, A.N., Chernyshev, N.M. & Yashin, D.S.). 

Anikina, E.V., Malitch, K.N., Pushkarev, E.V. & Shmelev, V.R. (2014): The Nizhny Tagil and Volkovsky massifs of the Uralian Platinum Belt, and related deposits. Field trip guidebook. 12th International Platinum Symposium. Yekaterinburg: IGG UB RAS, 48 p.

Sluzhenikin, S.F., Krivolutskaya, N.A., Rad’ko, V.A., Malitch, K.N., Distler, V.V. & Fedorenko, V.A. (2014): Ultramafic-mafic intrusions, volcanic rocks and PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide deposits of the Noril’sk Province, Polar Siberia. Field trip guidebook. 12th International Platinum Symposium (Ed. Simonov O.N.). Yekaterinburg: IGG UB RAS, 80 p. 

Malitch, K.N., Badanina, I.Yu. & Tuganova, E.V. (2018) Ore-bearing ultramafic-mafic intrusions of Polar Siberia: new insights on the age, origin and prediction criteria. Ekaterinburg: IGG UB RAS, 287 p. (in Russian with abstract and contents in English).

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