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Deon De Bruin

Adjunct Research Fellow
 Centre for Exploration Targeting

Contact details

Phone
+61 418955576

Email
deondebruin@iinet.net.au

Deon De Bruin holds BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His PhD was on mantle derived xenoliths and megacrysts from the Schuller and Premier kimberlites. He has specialized in mineralogy and electron microscopy but also has experience in all aspects of the interpretation of geochemical data of rocks and minerals. He was the manager of the Analytical Laboratory and Regional Geochemistry Division of the Geological Survey of South Africa for ten years.

Deon moved to Perth in 2006 and established Diamond Indicator Minerals Pty. Ltd. He provided quality and high volume electron probe analytical analyses used in kimberlite exploration until 2011. He is a consulting geochemist at Intertek Genalysis and has also served as a database and QAQC consultant for Maxwell Geoservices.  

He is an Editorial board member for the journal Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis and is a member of the South African Council for Natural Scientists (SACNASP) and Australian Institute for Geoscientists (MAIG). He is part of the Working Group to establish a Geochemical Map of the World. He has been an Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia for the last three years.

Research

His research interests are kimberlites, diamond exploration, mantle minerals (specifically megacrysts in kimberlites). He has experience with a variety of analytical techniques for the analysis of minerals and rocks, regional scale geochemical mapping programs and interpretation of geochemical data. 

Publications

 

De Bruin D., Barton E. and Simoneti A. (2012). The Sr-isotope composition of clinopyroxene megacrysts determined by ICP-MS-LA from localities across the Kaapvaal Craton through the ages.  Extended Abstracts 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India.

De Bruin, D. (2010).  Evaluation of a quality control monitor material for the routine electron probe microanalyses of kimberlite exploration garnets. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 34, 257-264.

Jochum, K.P., et al. (2006). MPI-DING reference glasses for in situ microanalysis: New reference values for element concentrations and isotope ratios. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 7, Q02008, doi 10.1029/2005GC001060.

Tuchscherer, M.G., Reimold, W. U., Gibson, R. L., De Bruin, D. and Spath, A. (2006). Major and trace element compositions of melt particles and associated phases from the Yaxcopoil-1 drill core, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 41, 1361-1379.

De Bruin, D. (2005).  Multiple compositional megacryst groups from the Uintjiesberg and Witberg kimberlites, South Africa. South African Journal for Geology, 108, 229-242.

Kostrovitsky, S.I. and De Bruin, D. (2004). Chromium assemblage of minerals in micaceous kimberlites of Yakutian Province. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 45, 565-576.

Lombard, M., De Bruin, D. and Elsenbroek, J.H. (1999). High density geochemical mapping of soils and stream sediments in South Africa. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 66, 145-149.

Hong, Z., Chen, F. and  De Bruin, D. (1997). New developments in regional stream sediment geochemical survey for platinum-group elements. Editor X. Xie: Geochemistry: Proc 30th International Geological Conference Vol. 19 pp 141-149.

Wilhelm, H.J., Zhang, H., Chen, F.L., Elsenbroek, J.H., Lombard, M. and De Bruin, D. (1997). Geochemical exploration for platinum-group elements in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Mineralium Deposita, 32, 349-361.

Meyer, F.M., Moller, P., De Bruin, D., Przybylowicz, W.J. and Prozesky, V.M. (1994). The gold-pyrite association in Witwatersrand reefs: Evidence for electrochemical precipitation of gold. Exploration and Mining Geology, 3, 207-218.

Grantham, G.H., Thomas, R.J., Eglington, B.M., De Bruin, D., Atanasov, A. and Evans, M.J. (1993). Corona textures in Proterozoic olivine melanorites of the Equeefa Suite, Natal Metamorphic Province, South Africa. Mineralogy and Petrology, 49, 91-102.

De Bruin, D. (1993). The  megacryst suite from the Schuller kimberlite, South African. Geological Survey of South Africa, Bulletin 114, 112p.

De Bruin, D. (1989). Mantle eclogites from the Schuller kimberlite, Transvaal, South Africa, South African Journal of  Geology, 92, pp 134-145.

Siegfried, H.P., De Bruin, D. and Boshoff, A. (1984). The geology and geochemistry of the Paarl Granite Pluton, Cape Granite Suite, south-western Cape. South African Geological Survey Bulletin 75, 44p.