Edited Books and Journals
Archibald, S.M., and Piercey, S.J., 2015. Current Views on Zinc Deposits. Irish Association for Economic Geology Special Publication, 251p. [see SEG review and review by Geological Society of London].
Piercey, S.J., Peter, J.M., and Mortensen, J.K., 2008. Special issue of Economic Geology on Continental Margin Massive Sulfide Deposits and their Geodynamic Settings. Economic Geology, v.103, #1.
Journal Articles – (since 2020 – HQP in bold and italics)
Doran, A.L., Geel, C., Hollis, S.P., Menuge, J.F., Piercey, S.J., and Slezak, P., in review. Pyrite vectors to Zn-Pb ore zones: geochemical characterization of diagenetic and early hydrothermal pyrite from the southern Irish Orefield. Economic Geology [submitted December 2024].
Piercey, S.J., 2026. Sulfide mineralogy, textures, and sulfur isotope evidence for the origin of subseafloor replacement-type volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization in the Wolverine deposit, Yukon, Canada. Economic Geology, https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.5233 [invited paper][PDF].
Piercey, S.J., and Brueckner, S.M., 2026. Indium in a Canadian critical minerals context: geology, mineralogy, and potential resources for Canada’s future. FACETS, https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2025-0321 [invited review paper] [PDF].
Mongeau, P., Hollis, S.P., Cooper, M., Mawson, M., Piercey, S.J., McClenaghan, S., Hilderman, R., and Joseph, G., 2026. The Tyrone Igneous Complex: a potential source of critical raw materials in Northern Ireland? Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/1002450 [PDF]
Hollis, S. P., Cooper, M. R., Tapster, S., Mongeau, P., Acken, D. v., Shaw, J., Hilderman, R., Piercey, S. J., Nash, I. J., and Condon, D. J., 2026. Rapid arc-ophiolite formation during the Grampian-Taconic event: evolution of the Tyrone Igneous Complex, Northern Ireland: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 0, p. jgs2026–082 https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2026-082 [PDF].
Conliffe, J. and Piercey, S.J., 2026. Orogenic Ag-Zn-Pb vein mineralization in the Canadian Appalachians: Geological, mineral chemistry, fluid inclusion and isotopic studies of the Sail Pond occurrence, Newfoundland, Canada. Mineralium Deposita, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-026-01446-3 [PDF].
Colpron, M., McClelland, W.C., Piercey, S.J., Kroeger, E.D., Crowley, J.L., and Gehrels, G.E., 2025. Revisiting the ‘Klondike orogeny’: Permian to Jurassic development of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, northern Canadian Cordillera. Tectonics, v.44, e2024TC008748 https://doi.org/10. 1029/2024TC008748 [PDF].
Doran, A.L., Hollis, S.P., Menuge, J.F., Lyons, C., Piercey, S.J., Boyce, A.J., Slezak, P., Torremans, K., Güven, J., 2025. Metal sources and mobility, replacement processes, δ34S isotopic recycling and fluid mixing: Zn-Pb-Cu-Ni mineralisation in the Lisduff Oolite Member at Lisheen, Ireland. Ore Geology Reviews, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2025.106660 [PDF].
Cobbett, R.N., Beranek, L.P., Colpron, M., Piercey, S.J., Crowley, J.L., Strauss, J., and Taylor, J., 2025. Late Cambrian and Ordovician alkalic magmatism along the Dawson fault, Yukon: Evidence for development and reactivation of a rift-transfer fault in the northern Canadian Cordillera. Tectonics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024TC008645 [PDF]
Moriarty, S.N., Bertran, E, Dottin III, J., Farquhar, J., Johnston, D.T., Piercey, S.J., Sanchez-Mora, D., Babechuk, M.G., Sylvan, J., and Jamieson, J.W., 2024. Effects of microbial alteration of oceanic crust on sulfur cycling in hydrothermal systems. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.393, p. 107-121, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.11.031 [PDF].
Denisova, N., Piercey, S.J., Fayek, M., and Sharpe, R., 2024. In situ sulfur isotope geochemistry using secondary ion mass spectrometry of sulfides in the ABM replacement-style volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Finlayson Lake district, Yukon, Canada. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, https://doi.org/10.3749/2300016 [PDF].
Slack, J.F., Swinden, H.S., Piercey, S.J., Ayuso, R., van Staal, C., and LeHuray, A., 2024. Lead isotopes in New England (USA) volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits: implications for metal sources and pre-accretionary tectonostratigraphic terranes. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0058 [PDF].
Scanlan, E.J., Leybourne, M., Layton-Matthews, D., Van Wagoner, N., Paradis, S., Piercey, S.J., 2024. Petrology and lithogeochemistry of Paleozoic alkalic magmatism in the Selwyn Basin, Yukon, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0081 [PDF]
Denisova, N., Piercey, S.J., and Walle, M., 2023. Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of the mineralization at the ABM replacement-style volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Finlayson Lake district, Yukon, Canada. Mineralium Deposita, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-023-01217-4 [PDF]
Manor, M.J., Piercey, S.J., and Wall, C.J., 2023. Zircon and the role of magmatic petrogenesis in the formation of felsic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits: A case study from the mid-Paleozoic Yukon-Tanana terrane, northern Canadian Cordillera, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-023-01213-8 [PDF]
Carabalo, E., Beaudoin, G., Dare, S., Genna, D., Petersen, S., Relvas, J.M.R.S., Piercey, S.J., 2023. Trace element composition of chalcopyrite from volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: variation and implications for provenance recognition. Economic Geology, DOI: http://doi:10.5382/econgeo.5020; 35 p. [PDF].
Huston, D.L., Doublier, M.P., Eglington, B., Pehrsson, S., Piercey, S.J., and Mercier-Langevin, P., 2023. Convergent margin metallogenic cycles: a window to secular changes in Earth’s tectonic evolution. Earth Sciences Reviews, v.245, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.10455 [PDF].
Cobbett, R.N, Beranek, L.P., Piercey, S.J., Crowley, J., and Colpron, M., 2023. Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera: implications for the rift history of western Laurentia. Geosphere, v. 19, p. 1–31, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02613.1. [PDF].
Piercey, S.J., Hinchey, J.G., and Sparkes, G.W., 2023. Volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits of the Dunnage Zone of the Newfoundland Appalachians: setting, styles, key advances, and future research. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.60, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2022-0148 [invited paper for the 60th Anniversary of Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences] [PDF]
Denisova, N., and Piercey, S.J., 2023. Evolution of the hydrothermal system associated with the ABM replacement-style volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Finlayson Lake district, Yukon, Canada. Economic Geology, DOI: http://10.5382/econgeo.5004, 29 p. [PDF].
Manor, M.J., Piercey, S.J., Murphy, D.C., and Wall, C.J., 2022. High-precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon geochronology, chemostratigraphy, and tectono-magmatic framework of the Finlayson Lake volcanogenic massive sulfide district, Yukon-Tanana terrane, Yukon. Lithosphere, v.2022, 4584611, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/2022/4584611 [PDF].
Denisova, N. and Piercey, S.J., 2022. Lithostratigraphy, lithogeochemistry and tectono-magmatic framework of the ABM replacement-style volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Finlayson Lake District, Yukon, Canada. Economic Geology, v.117, p. 1299-1236 [PDF].
Manor, M.J., Piercey, S.J., Wall, C.J., and Denisova, N., 2022. High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon geochronology of felsic rocks in the Finlayson Lake VMS district, Yukon: Linking Paleozoic basin-scale accumulation rates to the occurrence of subseafloor replacement-style mineralization. Economic Geology, v. 117, p. 1173–1201 [PDF].
Doran, A.L., Hollis, S.P., Menuge, J.F., Piercey, S.J., Boyce, A.J., Johnson, S., Guven, J., and Turner, O., 2022. A distal, high-grade Irish-type orebody: petrographic, sulfur isotope, and sulfide chemistry of the Island Pod Zn-Pb orebody, Lisheen, Ireland. Economic Geology, https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4882 [PDF].
Larson, K.P., Cottle, J.M., Camacho, A., Piercey, S.J., and Grujic, D., 2021. Anatexis, cooling and exhumation in the Khumbu Himal. International Geology Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2021.1969524 [PDF].
Cloutier, J., Piercey, S.J., and Huntington, J., 2021. Mineralogy, mineral chemistry and SWIR spectral reflectance of chlorite and white mica. Minerals, v.11, http://doi.org/10.3390/min11050471 [PDF].
Cloutier, J. and Piercey, S.J., 2020. Tracing mineralogy and alteration intensity using the hyperspectral alteration index and depth ratios at the Northwest Zone of the Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, Canada. Economic Geology, v.115, p.1055-1078. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4723 [PDF].
Byrne, K., Lesage, G., Gleeson, S.A., Piercey, S.J., Lypaczweski, P., Kyser, K., 2020. Linking mineralogy to lithogeochemical changes and C isotope composition in rocks around the Highland Valley Copper porphyry district– Implications for porphyry Cu footprints. Economic Geology, v. 115, p. 871-901, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4733 [PDF].
Lajoie, M.-E., Piercey, S.J., Conliffe, J., and Layton-Matthews, D., 2020. Geology, mineralogy, S and Sr isotope geochemistry, and fluid inclusion analysis of barite associated with the Lemarchant Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, Canada: implications for the genesis of VMS-related barite. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.57, p.133-166, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0161 [PDF].
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters (since 2020)
Huston, D.L., LaFlamme, C., Beaudoin, G., and Piercey, S.J., 2023. Light Stable Isotopes in Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Ore Systems, in Huston, D., and Gutzmer, J., eds., Isotopes in Economic Geology, Metallogenesis and Exploration: Cham, Springer International Publishing, p. 245-282 [PDF].
Piercey, S.J., 2022. Appendix I: Petrochemistry. In Writing Geochemical Reports: Guidelines for Geochemical Surveys. Edited by Lynda Bloom and Owen Lavin. Association of Applied Geochemists, Special Volume [PDF].
Government Articles and Open Files (since 2020)
Diekrup, D., Hinchey, A.M., Campbell, H.E., Rayner, N., and Piercey, S.J., 2023. Stratigraphy, structure and mineral potential of the 3.0 Ga Florence Lake Greenstone Belt, Labrador. Current Research (2023) Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Industry, Energy and Technology Geological Survey, Report 231, p. 151-161 [PDF].
Huston, D., Eglington, B., Pehrsson, S., Piercey, S.J., 2022. Global database of zinc-lead-bearing mineral deposits. RECORD 2022/010. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2022.010.
Manor, M.J., and Piercey, S.J., 2021. Whole-rock lithogeochemistry, Nd-Hf isotopes, and in situ zircon geochemistry of VMS-related felsic rocks, Finlayson Lake VMS district, Yukon. In The Targeted Geoscience Initiative 5 Contributions to the Understanding of Base Metals Deposits in Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8755, p. 251-264, [DOI: https://doi.org/10.4095/328992%5D.
Mueller, C., Piercey, S.J., Babechuk, M.G., and Copeland, D.C., 2021. Stratigraphy and Lithogeochemistry of the Goldenville Horizon and Associated Rocks, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland. In The Targeted Geoscience Initiative 5 Contributions to the Understanding of Base Metals Deposits in Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8755, p235-249 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.4095/328990%5D.
Mueller, C., Piercey, S.J., Babechuk, M.G., and Copeland, D.C., 2021. Stratigraphy and Lithogeochemistry of Rocks from the Nugget Pond Deposit Area, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland. In The Targeted Geoscience Initiative 5 Contributions to the Understanding of Base Metals Deposits in Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8755, p.217-234 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.4095/328989%5D.
Piercey, S.J., and Pilote, J.-L., 2021. Nd-Hf Isotope Geochemistry and Lithogeochemistry of the Rambler Rhyolite, Ming VMS Deposit, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland: Evidence for Slab Melting and Implications for VMS Localization. In The Targeted Geoscience Initiative 5 Contributions to the Understanding of Base Metals Deposits in Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8755, p.201-215 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.4095/328988%5D.
Pilote, J.-L., Mercier-Langevin, P., Jackson, S.E., Dube, B., Petts, D., Layne, G, and Piercey, S.J., 2020. Insights into the composition, genesis, and metallogenic implications of argillite-hosted pyrite nodules at the LaRonde Penna Au-rich VMS deposit, Abitibi, Quebec. In The Targeted Geoscience Initiative 5 Contributions to the Understanding of Gold Deposits in Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File. Edited by P. Mercier-Langevin, C.J. Lawley, and S. Castonguay. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8712, p. 75-91, https://doi.org/10.4095/323666.
