Petrology | Mineralogy | Critical Minerals
Anton Kutyrev
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand
I work on layered intrusions, chromitites, platinum-group elements, and isotope geochemistry. My research moves between field geology, petrology, geochemistry, microanalysis, and modelling. Current projects involve Bushveld Complex, inclusions in Cr-spinel, Ordovician layered intrusions of Wales, behavior of platinum-group elements during differentiation of basaltic magmas, and nanometer-scale ore mineralogy.
I have worked across Kamchatka, Urals, South Africa, Wales, USA, and Tasmania. Right now, I am based in the beautiful country of South Africa.
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Research
Selected publications
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Kutyrev, A., Filimonova, O., Saxey, D.W., Vymazalova, A., Evans, K., Kamenetsky, V.S., Wermeille, D., Fougerouse, D., Reddy, S.M., 2026. Formation of natural IrO2 through Os-Ir-Ru alloy oxidation. Chemical Geology, 123167.
10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123167 -
Kutyrev, A., Bindeman, I.N., O'Neil, J., Rizo, H., 2024. Seawater-oceanic crust interaction constrained by triple oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in rocks from the Saglek-Hebron complex, NE Canada: Implications for moderately low-δ18O Eoarchean ocean. Chemical Geology 670.
10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122378 -
Kutyrev, A., Kamenetsky, V.S., Chayka, I.F., Nekrylov, N.A., Kryuchkova, L., Shilovskikh, V.V., Kontonikas-Charos, A., Krasheninnikov, S.P., Sapegina, A., Perchuk, A.L., 2024. Metamorphic origin of large nuggets of platinum-group metals: evidence from multiphase inclusions in Os-Ir-Ru alloys from the Adamsfield placer, Tasmania. Journal of Petrology.
10.1093/petrology/egae086 -
Kutyrev, A., McDonald, A., Tamura, N., Cabri, L.J., Tolstykh, N., Pekov, I., 2023. Sidorovite, PtFe3, a new mineral from the Snegovaya River placer, Koryak Highlands, Russia. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 61(5), 1021-1030.
10.3749/2200072 -
Kutyrev, A.V., Kamenetsky, V.S., Park, J.-W., Maas, R., Demonterova, E.I., Antsiferova, T.N., Ivanov, A.V., Hwang, J., Abersteiner, A., Ozerov, A.Y., 2021. Primitive high-K intraoceanic arc magmas of Eastern Kamchatka: Implications for Paleo-Pacific tectonics and magmatism in the Cretaceous. Earth-Science Reviews 220, 1-22.
10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103703
