Research Interests and Duties

I am part of the research team in PCIGR, and am involved in several aspects of the group. I am primarily involved in analysis and interpretation of lead isotopes in sulphides, for mineral deposit-related studies and isotopic tracer studies.

I am the Laboratory Coordinator for the Stable Isotope laboratory. I run the Delta Plus XL mass spectrometer, used for analysis of light stable isotopes in minerals, waters and gases (C, O, H).

Selected Publications

Ebert, S.W., Tosdal, R.M., Goldfarb, R.J, Ayuso, R., Gabites, J, 2003, The 23 million ounce Donlin Creek gold deposit, SW Alaska: A possible link between reduced porphyry Au and epizonal to epithermal Au-As-Sb-Hg mineralization, 2003. Abstract, GAC - MAC Vancouver - Canada - May 25-28 2003.

Alldrick, D.J. and Nelson, J.L., Gabites, J.E., and Childe, F.C., J, 2003. Lead isotopes from the Ecstall Greenstone Belt, Coast Mountains, northwest British Columbia - Significance for global VMS exploration and crustal evolution of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane. Abstract, GAC - MAC Vancouver - Canada - May 25-28 2003.

Lepitre, M. E., D. M. Allen, J. K. Mortensen, and J. E. Gabites, 2003, Differentiating sources of dissolved lead in mine waters using lead isotope techniques, Sullivan Mine, British Columbia. Water Resour. Res., 39(1), 1008.

Hada, S., Yoshikura, S., and Gabites, J.E, 2000. U-Pb zircon ages for the Mitaki igneous rocks, Siluro-Devo ian tuff, and granitic boulders in the Kurosegawa terrane, Southwest Japan. The Memoirs of the Geological Society of Japan no. 56.

Gabites, J.E., 1995. U-Pb (zircon) age determination on a volcanic flow rock from the Kulutingwak Formation; Appendix 4C in Trettin, H.P., Pre-Carbiniferous geology of the northern part of the Arctic Islands. Hazen Fold Belt, Clements Markham fold Belt, and Pearya; Geolgical Survey of Canada, Bulletin.

Gabites, J.E., and Christie, A.B., in prep. Galena lead isotopes from mineral deposits in the Coromandel Volcanic Province, North Island, New Zealand.

Godwin, C.I., Gabites, J.E. and Andrew, A., 1988. LEADTABLE: A Galena lead isotope data base for the Canadian Cordillera, with notes for Explorationists. British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Paper 1988-4, 188 p.