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Dr Cassidy is currently Chief Geoscientist at Gold Fields, a major gold mining & exploration company. Since completing his PhD in geology at UWA, Kevin has over 30 years experience in university research, government research and the resources industry. Kevin maintains particular research interests in the discovery and generation of gold & base metal mineral systems, felsic & mafic igneous geochemistry and regional geology.
Industry keywords
- Mining and Resources
Research expertise keywords
- Archean metallogeny
- Gold and Copper exploration
- Archean granites
- Granites and related rocks
- Mineral exploration targeting
- Mineral systems
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Giant lithium-rich pegmatites in Archean cratons form by remelting refertilised roots of greenstone belts
Smithies, R. H., Lu, Y., Champion, D. C., Sweetapple, M. T., Lowrey, J. R., Bowman, N. H., Cassidy, K. F., Ivanic, T. J., Kemp, A. I. S., Turnbull, R. E., Gessner, K. & Korhonen, F. J., 5 Aug 2025, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 6, 11 p., 630.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Crustal growth in the Archean: Insights from zircon petrochronology of the far-east Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
Schreefel, R., Fisher, C. M., I. S. Kemp, A., Hagemann, S. G., Masurel, Q., Thébaud, N., Davy's, C., A. J. Martin, L., Lowrey, J. R., Lu, Y. & Cassidy, K. F., 1 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Precambrian Research. 401, 24 p., 107253.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The tectonic setting and evolution of the 2.7 Ga Kalgoorlie–Kurnalpi Rift, a world-class Archean gold province
Witt, W. K., Cassidy, K. F., Lu, Y. J. & Hagemann, S. G., 1 Apr 2020, In: Mineralium Deposita. 55, 4, p. 601-631 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth's crust in the Archean
Smithies, R. H., Lu, Y., Johnson, T. E., Kirkland, C. L., Cassidy, K. F., Champion, D. C., Mole, D. R., Zibra, I., Gessner, K., Sapkota, J., De Paoli, M. C. & Poujol, M., 1 Dec 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 5559.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Time-space evolution of an Archean craton: A Hf-isotope window into continent formation
Mole, D. R., Kirkland, C. L., Fiorentini, M. L., Barnes, S. J., Cassidy, K. F., Isaac, C., Belousova, E. A., Hartnady, M. & Thebaud, N., 1 Sept 2019, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 196, 102831.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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