Main/Recent publications
Van Lichtervelde M., Linnen R.L., Salvi S., Béziat D. (2006): The role of metagabbro rafts on tantalum mineralization in the Tanco pegmatite, Manitoba. Canadian Mineralogist 44(3): 625-644
Van Lichtervelde M., Salvi S., Béziat D., Linnen R.L. (2007): Textural features and chemical evolution in tantalum oxides: magmatic versus hydrothermal origins for Ta mineralization in the Tanco Lower Pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada. Economic Geology 102: 257-274
Van Lichtervelde M., Grégoire M., Linnen R.L., Béziat D., Salvi S. (2008): Trace element geochemistry by laser ablation ICP-MS of micas associated with Ta mineralization in the Tanco pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 155: 791-806
Van Lichtervelde M., Melcher F., Wirth R. (2009): Magmatic versus hydrothermal origins for zircon associated with tantalum mineralization in the Tanco pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada. American Mineralogist 94: 439-450
Van Lichtervelde M., Holtz F., Hanchar J.M. (2010): Solubility of manganotantalite, zircon and hafnon in highly-fluxed peralkaline to peraluminous pegmatitic melts. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 160: 17-32
Van Lichtervelde M., Holtz F., Dziony W., Ludwig T., Meyer H.-P. (2011): Incorporation mechanisms of Ta and Nb in zircon and implications for pegmatitic systems. American Mineralogist 96: 1079-1089
Linnen R.L., Van Lichtervelde M., Černý P. (2012): Granitic pegmatites as sources of strategic metals. Elements 8: 275-280.
Van Lichtervelde M., Grand’Homme A., de Saint-Blanquat M., Olivier P., Gerdes A., Paquette J.-L., Melgarejo J.C., Druguet E., Alfonso P. (2017) U-Pb geochronology on zircon and columbite-group minerals of the Cap de Creus pegmatites, NE Spain. Mineralogy and Petrology 111:1–21.
Van Lichtervelde M., Holtz F., Melcher F. (2018): The effect of disequilibrium crystallization on Nb-Ta fractionation in pegmatites: Constraints from crystallization experiments of tantalite-tapiolite. Amer. Mineral. 103: 1401-1416. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6441.
Legros H., Mercadier J., Villeneuve J., Romer R.L., Deloule E., Van Lichtervelde M., Dewaele S., Lach P., Che X-D., Wang R-C., Zhu Z-Y., Gloaguen E., Melleton J. (2019) U-Pb isotopic dating of columbite-tantalite minerals: Development of reference materials and in situ applications by ion microprobe. Chemical Geology 512, 69–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.001.
Turlin, F., Eglinger, A., Andre-Mayer, A-.S, Deruy, C., Cuney, M., Vanderhaeghe, O., Van Lichtervelde, M., Montel, J-M., Moukhsil, A., Solgadi, F. (2019) Peraluminous pegmatoids with several thousands of ppm of LREE in the Central Grenville Province. LIFE WITH ORE DEPOSITS ON EARTH, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH SGA BIENNIAL MEETING, VOLS 1-4, 1854-1857.
Van Lichtervelde M., Goncalves P., Eglinger A., Colin, A., Montel J.-M., Dacheux N. (2021) Solubility of Monazite-Cheralite and Xenotime in Granitic Melts, and Experimental Evidence of Liquid-Liquid Immiscibility in Concentrating REE. Journal of Petrology (in press).
