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Rewriting the Lithium Playbook: Archean roots, greenstone belts, and giant pegmatites

Smithies, R.H. et al. (2025). Giant lithium-rich pegmatites in Archean cratons form by remelting refertilised roots of greenstone belts. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02622-5.

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Lithium-rich pegmatites formed from crustal sources refertilised by hydrous, mantle-derived sanukitoid magmas beneath greenstone belts.
The parental leucogranites are metaluminous, juvenile, and evolved from igneous—not sedimentary—sources, challenging traditional Li-pegmatite models.
Major crustal-scale faults and greenstone-granite contacts enabled upward melt transfer and Li-enrichment at craton margins.

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Rewriting the Lithium Playbook: Archean roots, greenstone belts, and giant pegmatites

Smithies, R.H. et al. (2025). Giant lithium-rich pegmatites in Archean cratons form by remelting refertilised roots of greenstone belts. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02622-5.

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Lithium-rich pegmatites formed from crustal sources refertilised by hydrous, mantle-derived sanukitoid magmas beneath greenstone belts.
The parental leucogranites are metaluminous, juvenile, and evolved from igneous—not sedimentary—sources, challenging traditional Li-pegmatite models.
Major crustal-scale faults and greenstone-granite contacts enabled upward melt transfer and Li-enrichment at craton margins.

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Smithies, R.H. et al. (2025). Giant lithium-rich pegmatites in Archean cratons form by remelting refertilised roots of greenstone belts. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02622-5.

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Lithium-rich pegmatites formed from crustal sources refertilised by hydrous, mantle-derived sanukitoid magmas beneath greenstone belts.
The parental leucogranites are metaluminous, juvenile, and evolved from igneous—not sedimentary—sources, challenging traditional Li-pegmatite models.
Major crustal-scale faults and greenstone-granite contacts enabled upward melt transfer and Li-enrichment at craton margins.

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Rewriting the Lithium Playbook: Archean roots, greenstone belts, and giant pegmatites

Smithies, R.H. et al. (2025). Giant lithium-rich pegmatites in Archean cratons form by remelting refertilised roots of greenstone belts. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02622-5.

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Lithium-rich pegmatites formed from crustal sources refertilised by hydrous, mantle-derived sanukitoid magmas beneath greenstone belts.
The parental leucogranites are metaluminous, juvenile, and evolved from igneous—not sedimentary—sources, challenging traditional Li-pegmatite models.
Major crustal-scale faults and greenstone-granite contacts enabled upward melt transfer and Li-enrichment at craton margins.

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An application to process U-Th disequilibrium data from the SHRIMP II instrument - Marsden, R. C., Kirkland, C. L., Danišík, M., Daggitt, M. L., Ahn, U.-S., Friedrichs, B., & Evans, N. J. (2022). A new approach to SHRIMP II zircon U-Th disequilibrium dating. Computers & Geosciences, 158, 104947. IF: 3.372 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104947

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An application to process U-Th disequilibrium data from the SHRIMP II instrument - Marsden, R. C., Kirkland, C. L., Danišík, M., Daggitt, M. L., Ahn, U.-S., Friedrichs, B., & Evans, N. J. (2022). A new approach to SHRIMP II zircon U-Th disequilibrium dating. Computers & Geosciences, 158, 104947. IF: 3.372 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104947

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