Project Geologist
Mineral Deposits Section
Email: jamesconliffe@gov.nl.ca
Azmy, K. and Conliffe, J.
2010: Dolomitization of the lower St. George Group on the Northern Peninsula in western Newfoundland: Implications for lateral distribution of porosity. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, Volume 58(4), pages 1-14.
Blamey, N., Azmy, K. and Conliffe, J.
2016: Geochemistry and diagenetic history of the Ordovician Lower Head Formation sandstones, western Newfoundland, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 53(12), pages 1501-1510.
Blamey, N.J.F., Conliffe, J., Parnell, J., Ryder, A.G. and Feely, M.
2009: Application of fluorescence lifetime measurements on single petroleum-bearing fluid inclusions to demonstrate multicharge history in petroleum reservoirs. Geofluids, Volume 9, pages 1-8.
Conliffe, J.
2022: VMS-style mineralization in the Kettle Pond Formation, Glover Island (NTS map areas 12A/12 and 13). In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Industry, Energy and Technology, Geological Survey, Report 22-1, pages 1-28.
2021: Geochemical and hyperspectral data from gold occurrences in the Glover Island and Grand Lake area, western Newfoundland. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Industry, Energy and Technology, Geological Survey, Open File 012A/12/1845.
2021: Structurally controlled orogenic gold mineralization in the Glover Island and Grand Lake area, western Newfoundland (NTS map areas 12A/12 and 13). In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Industry, Energy and Technology, Geological Survey, Report 21-1, pages 1-25.
2020: Geochemical data related to mineral occurrences in the eastern Labrador Trough (NTS map areas 23I/12, 13 and 23J/16), Labrador. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File LAB/1761, 8 pages.
2020: Petrology and geochemistry of the Montgomery Lake showing: Evidence of IOCG-type mineralization in the eastern Labrador Trough. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 201, pages 103120.
2019: Iron-ore deposits of southwestern Labrador. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, St. John’s, Occasional Paper 2019-01, 210 pages.
2017: Geochemical data from drillcore samples in the Gabbro Lake area, eastern Labrador Trough (NTS 23H/11). Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File 023H/11/0152
2017: Geology and geochemistry of the Sokoman Formation in the Gabbro Lake area, eastern Labrador Trough. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 17-1, pages 147-168.
2016: Geology and geochemistry of high-grade iron-ore deposits in the Kivivic, Timmins and Ruth Lake areas, western Labrador. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 16-1, pages 1-26.
2016: Geochemical data from high-grade iron-ore deposits and altered and unaltered iron formation in the Labrador Trough (NTS 23J and 23O). Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File LAB/1667.
2015: Geological setting and genesis of high-grade iron-ore deposits in the eastern Labrador Trough. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 15-1, pages 1-25.
2015: Geochemical data from high-grade iron-ore occurrences in the eastern Labrador Trough (NTS map areas 23I and 23J). Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File LAB/1646.
2014: Geochemical data from the Julienne Lake (NTS map area 23G/02) iron ore deposit, western Labrador. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File 0323G/02/0298.
2014: The Sawyer Lake iron-ore deposit, western Labrador: Potential for future high-grade iron-ore deposits in the Labrador Trough. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 14-1, pages 1-14.
2013: The geological setting of the Julienne Lake iron-ore deposit, western Labrador. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 13-1, pages 83-98.
2012: Preliminary geological assessment of the Julienne Lake iron ore deposit, western Labrador. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report, 22 pages. NLGS Geofile 023G/02/0284.
Conliffe, J., Azmy, K., Gleeson, S.A. and Lavoie, D.
2010: Fluids associated with hydrothermal dolomitization in St. George Group, western Newfoundland, Canada. Geofluids, Volume 10(2), Article 422-437. https://doi.10.1111/j.1468-8123.2010.00295.x.
Conliffe, J., Azmy, K. and Greene, M.
2012: Dolomitization of the lower Ordovician Catoche formation: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration in western Newfoundland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 30, pages 161-173. https://doi.10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.10.007.
Conliffe, J., Azmy, K., Knight, I. and Lavoie, D.
2009: Dolomitization of the Lower Ordovician Watts Bight Formation of the St. George Group, western Newfoundland: Evidence of hydrothermal fluid alteration. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 46(4), pages 247-261.
Conliffe, J., Blamey, N.J.F., Feely, M., Parnell, J. and Ryder, A.G.
2010: Hydrocarbon migration in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: Evidence from fluid inclusion studies. Petroleum Geoscience, Volume 16(1), pages 67-76. https://doi.10.1144/1354-079309-007.
Conliffe, J., Burden, E.T. and Wilton, D.H.C.
2017: The use of integrated fluid inclusion studies for constraining petroleum charge history at Parsons Pond, western Newfoundland, Canada. Minerals, Volume 7(3), 39 pages. https://doi.org/10.3390/min7030039
Conliffe, J., Corriveau, L., Montreui, J-F. and Blein, O.
2019: The mineral potential of the Labrador Trough for iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) and affiliated deposits. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File LAB/1760.
Conliffe, J. and Feely, M.
2010: Fluid inclusions in Irish granite quartz: monitors of fluids trapped in the onshore Irish Massif. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 101, pages 53-66. https://doi.10.1017/S1755691010009047.
2006: Microthermometric characteristics of fluids associated with granite and greisen quartz and vein quartz and beryl from the Rosses Granite Complex, Donegal, NW Ireland. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, Volume 89, pages 73-77.
Conliffe, J., Kerr, A. and Hanchar, D.
2012: Iron ore. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Mineral Commodities Series 7, 15 pages. NLGS Geofile NFLD/3184.
Conliffe, J., King, R. and Wilton, D.
2018: Geochemical, petrographic and isotopic data from zinc occurrences in the Hare Bay area, western Newfoundland (NTS map sheets 02M/12, 12P/01, 08 and 09). Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File NFLD/3329, 18 pages.
2018: Genesis of carbonate-hosted Zn mineralization in the Hare Bay and Pistolet Bay areas, Great Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 18-1, pages 71-93.
Conliffe, J., Selby, D., Porter, S. and Feely, M.
2010: Re-Os molybdenite dates from the Ballachulish and Kilmelford Igneous Complexes (Scottish Highlands): Age constraints for late-Caledonian magmatism. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Volume 167(2), pages 297-302. https://doi.10.1144/0016-76492009-077.
Conliffe, J. and Smith, A.
2018: Geochemical data from Montagnais Gabbro sills and associated rocks in the Labrador Trough (NTS map areas 23I/12, 13, 23J/16, 23O/01 and 02). Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File LAB/1723, 8 pages.
Conliffe, J., Smith, A. and Wilton, D.
2019: Petrographic, geochemical and sulphur isotope studies of gabbro sills, Labrador Trough: Implications for Ni–Cu–PGE exploration. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 19-1, pages 1-21.
Conliffe, J., Wilton, D.H.C., Blamey, N.J.F. and Archibald, S.M.
2013: Paleoproterozoic Mississippi Valley Type Pb–Zn mineralization in the Ramah Group, northern Labrador: Stable isotope, fluid inclusion and quantitative fluid inclusion gas analyses. Chemical Geology, Volume 362, pages 211-223. ISSN 0009-2541.
Feely, M., Conliffe, J., Faure, K. and Power, S.
2006: Fluid inclusion trails in granite quartz: Evidence for low salinity aqueous fluid infiltration in the Oughterard granite, eastern Connemara. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 24, pages 1-11.
Feely, M., Selby, D., Conliffe J. and Judge, M.
2007: Re-Os geochronology and fluid inclusion microthermometry of molybdenite mineralization in the late-Caledonian Omey Granite, western Ireland. Applied Earth Science (Trans. Inst. Min. Metall. B) incorporating Proceedings of AusIMM.
Feely, M., Selby, D., Hunt, J. and Conliffe, J.
2010: Long-lived granite-related molybdenite mineralization at Connemara, western Irish Caledonides. Geological Magazine, Volume 147(6), pages 886-894. https://doi.10.1017/S0016756810000324.
King, R. and Conliffe, J.
2017: Carbonate-hosted Zn mineralization in the Hare Bay and Pistolet Bay areas, Great Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 17-1, pages 169-187
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 deposit, Newfoundland, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 57(1), pages 133-166. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0161.
Lindgren, P., Parnell, J., Norman, C., Mark, D.F., Baron, M., Ormö, J., Sturkell, E., Conliffe, J. and Fraser W.
2008: Formation of Uranium/thorium-rich bitumen nodules in the Lockne Impact Crater, Sweden: A mechanism for carbon concentration at impact sites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Volume 42(11), pages 1-8.
Magyarosi, Z. and Conliffe, J.
2021: REEY patterns and fluid inclusion analysis of fluorites from the AGS fluorite deposit, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Industry, Energy and Technology, Geological Survey, Report 21-1, pages 27-47.
Magyarosi, Z., Sparkes, B.A., Conliffe, J. and Dunning, G.R.
2019: The AGS fluorite deposit, St. Lawrence: Paragenetic sequence, fluid-inclusion analysis, structural control, host rock geochronology and implications for ore genesis. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 19-1, pages 59-83.
Sandeman, H.A., Wilton, D.H.C., Conliffe, J., Froude, T. and O’Driscoll, J.M.
2013: Geological setting, geochronological constraints and the nature of mineralization at the Mosquito Hill (Huxter Lane) gold deposit, central Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 13-1, pages 167-188.
Selby, D., Conliffe, J., Crowley, Q.G. and Feely, M.
2008: Geochronology (Re-Os, U-Pb) and fluid inclusion studies of molybdenite mineralisation associated with the Shap, Skiddaw and Weardale Granites, UK. Applied Earth Science (Trans. Inst. Min. Metall. B) incorporating Proceedings of AusIMM 117, pages 11-28.
Smith, A., Conliffe, J. and Wilton, D.
2018: Montagnais Gabbro of western Labrador: Preliminary geological and petrographic data and implications for Ni–Cu–PGE mineralization. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 18-1, pages 153-166.
Valvasori, A., Fonkwe, M.L.D., Piercey, S.J. and Conliffe, J.
2015: Orthomagmatic Fe–Ti–V oxide mineralization hosted in Paleoproterozoic anorthosite in the Cape Caribou River allochthon, Grenville Province, southeast Labrador: Preliminary results. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 15-1, pages 125-138.
Wright, A.J., Blamey, N.J.F., Conliffe, J. and Parnell, J.
2012: Origin of vein-graphite in Moine (Glenfinnan Group) rocks, NW Scotland, supported by the study of volatile gases in fluid-inclusions. Scottish Journal of Geology, Volume 48, pages 47-59. https://doi.10.1144/0036-9276/01-426.