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  1. The Lavrion Mines: A Unique Site of Geological and Mineralogical Heritage

    Article • Minerals, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos, Dr Konstantinos Soukis

  2. The Geology, Geochemistry, and Origin of the Porphyry Cu-Au-(Mo) System at Vathi, Serbo-Macedonian Massif, Greece

    Article • Applied Sciences, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  3. Multi-Stage Introduction of Precious and Critical Metals in Pyrite: A Case Study from the Konos Hill and Pagoni Rachi Porphyry/Epithermal Prospects, NE Greece

    Article • Minerals, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  4. Mineralogical Constraints on the Potassic and Sodic-Calcic Hydrothermal Alteration and Vein-Type Mineralization of the Maronia Porphyry Cu-Mo ± Re ± Au Deposit in NE Greece

    Article • Minerals, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  5. Characterization of stone artifacts from the Middle and Late Neolithic to the Chalcolithic deposits of Drakaina Cave, Kephalonia, Ionian Islands: a mineralogical-geochemical approach for determination of local and “exotic” raw materials and their sources

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  6. Editorial for Special Issue “Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Gems”

    Article • Minerals, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  7. Trace Elements in Magnetite from the Pagoni Rachi Porphyry Prospect, NE Greece: Implications for Ore Genesis and Exploration

    Article • Minerals, November 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  8. The geology and mineralogy of the Stypsi porphyry Cu-Mo-Au-Re prospect, Lesvos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Konstantinos Soukis, Dr Vasilios Melfos

  9. Gemstones of Greece: Geology and Crystallizing Environments

    Article • Minerals, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  10. Porphyry and epithermal deposits in Greece: An overview, new discoveries, and mineralogical constraints on their genesis

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  11. Fluid Inclusions at the Plavica Au-Ag-Cu Telescoped Porphyry–Epithermal System, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

    Article • Geosciences, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  12. Application of zeolitic rocks in the environment: assessment of radiation due to natural radioactivity

    Article • Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  13. Gem Corundum Deposits of Greece: Geology, Mineralogy and Genesis

    Article • Minerals, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  14. A New Porphyry Mo Mineralization at Aisymi-Leptokarya, South-Eastern Rhodope, North-East Greece: Geological and Mineralogical Constraints

    Article • Geosciences, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  15. The Gersdorffite-Bismuthinite-Native Gold Association and the Skarn-Porphyry Mineralization in the Kamariza Mining District, Lavrion, Greece

    Article • Minerals, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Konstantinos Soukis, Dr Vasilios Melfos

  16. Mineralogical Study of the Advanced Argillic Alteration Zone at the Konos Hill Mo–Cu–Re–Au Porphyry Prospect, NE Greece

    Article • Minerals, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  17. Amethyst Occurrences in Tertiary Volcanic Rocks of Greece: Mineralogical, Fluid Inclusion and Oxygen Isotope Constraints on Their Genesis

    Article • Minerals, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  18. Selected Metal Content and Binding Behaviour in Riverbed Sediments of the Kavala–Philippi Area (Northern Greece)

    Article • Geosciences, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  19. Cenozoic metallogeny of Greece and potential for precious, critical and rare metals exploration

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  20. Occurrence of arsenic in waters and sediments of the Palea Kavala River, NE Macedonia, Northern Greece

    Article • Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, January 2017, National Documentation Centre

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  21. HYPOGENIC FEATURES IN MARONIA CAVE, THRACE, GREECE. EVIDENCE FROM MORPHOLOGIES AND FLUID INCLUSIONS.

    Article • Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, January 2017, National Documentation Centre

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  22. Bi-sulphotellurides from the Stan Terg deposit, Kosovo

    Article • Geologica Carpathica, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  23. Sn-Bearing Minerals and Associated Sphalerite from Lead-Zinc Deposits, Kosovo: An Electron Microprobe and LA-ICP-MS Study

    Article • Minerals, May 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  24. Fluid evolution in Tertiary magmatic-hydrothermal ore systems at the Rhodope metallogenic province, NE Greece. A review

    Article • Geologia Croatica, February 2016, Croatian Geological Survey

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  25. Searching for ancient gold mines in Filippoi area, Macedonia, Greece, using Worldview-2 satellite imagery

    Article • Geocarto International, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  26. Chemical composition and varieties of fahlore-group minerals from Oligocene mineralization in the Rhodope area, Southern Bulgaria and Northern Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  27. Bismuth minerals from the Stan Terg deposit (Trepça, Kosovo)

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, July 2015, Schweizerbart

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  28. Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the formation of shear-zone hosted Cu–Au–Bi–Te mineralization in the Stanos area, Chalkidiki, northern Greece

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  29. Erratum to: Re–Os isotope evidence for mixed source components in carbonate-replacement Pb–Zn–Ag deposits in the Lavrion district, Attica, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  30. Re–Os isotope evidence for mixed source components in carbonate-replacement Pb–Zn–Ag deposits in the Lavrion district, Attica, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  31. Extremely Re-Rich Molybdenite from Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Prospects in Northeastern Greece: Mode of Occurrence, Causes of Enrichment, and Implications for Gold Exploration

    Article • Minerals, May 2013, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  32. THE PAGONI RACHI/KIRKI Cu-Mo Re Au DEPOSIT, NORTHERN GREECE: MINERALOGICAL AND FLUID INCLUSION CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF A TELESCOPED PORPHYRY-EPITHERMAL SYSTEM

    Article • The Canadian Mineralogist, April 2013, Mineralogical Association of Canada

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  33. Bismuthinite derivatives, lillianite homologues, and bismuth sulfotellurides as indicators of gold mineralization in the Stanos shear-zone related deposit, Chalkidiki, northern Greece

    Article • The Canadian Mineralogist, February 2013, Mineralogical Association of Canada

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  34. Aluminum-phosphate-sulfate (APS) minerals in the sericitic-advanced argillic alteration zone of the Melitena porphyry-epithermal Mo-Cu ± Au ± Re prospect, western Thrace, Greece

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, January 2013, Schweizerbart

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  35. Geological, Mineralogical and Geochemical Aspects for Critical and Rare Metals in Greece

    Article • Minerals, October 2012, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  36. Application of infrared thermometry and ultrasonic velocity for the investigation of the building materials of historic monuments of Dion, Greece

    Article • April 2012, SPIE

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  37. Mineralogical, stable isotope, and fluid inclusion studies of spatially related porphyry Cu and epithermal Au-Te mineralization, Fakos Peninsula, Limnos Island, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  38. Applying the Techniques on Materials II

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  39. Mineralogy and geochemical environment of formation of the Perama Hill high-sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag-Te-Se deposit, Petrota Graben, NE Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  40. The first cave occurrence of orpiment (As₂S₃) from the sulfuric acid caves of Aghia Paraskevi (Kassandra Peninsula, N. Greece)

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, June 2011, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  41. Is the Palea Kavala Bi–Te–Pb–Sb±Au district, northeastern Greece, an intrusion-related system?

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  42. The Geochemistry of Carbonate-Replacement Pb-Zn-Ag Mineralization in the Lavrion District, Attica, Greece: Fluid Inclusion, Stable Isotope, and Rare Earth Element Studies

    Article • Economic Geology, June 2011, Society of Economic Geologists

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  43. The ancient Greek names “Magnesia” and “Magnetes” and their origin from the magnetite occurrences at the Mavrovouni mountain of Thessaly, central Greece. A mineralogical–geochemical approach

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  44. RHENIUM-RICH MOLYBDENITE AND RHENIITE IN THE PAGONI RACHI Mo-Cu-Te-Ag-Au PROSPECT, NORTHERN GREECE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE Re GEOCHEMISTRY OF PORPHYRY-STYLE Cu-Mo AND Mo MINERALIZATION

    Article • The Canadian Mineralogist, October 2009, Mineralogical Association of Canada

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  45. GREEN THESSALIAN STONE or VERDE ANTICO

    Article • Oxford Journal of Archaeology, October 2008, Wiley

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  46. Carbonate-replacement Pb–Zn–Ag ± Au mineralization in the Kamariza area, Lavrion, Greece: Mineralogy and thermochemical conditions of formation

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  47. Mineralogical and fluid inclusion constraints on the evolution of the Plaka intrusion-related ore system, Lavrion, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  48. Bi–Ag-bearing tetrahedrite-tennantite in the Kapsalina copper mineralisation, Thasos island, Northern Greece

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, June 2004, Schweizerbart

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  49. Origin and evolution of the Tertiary Maronia porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit, Thrace, Greece

    Article • Mineralium Deposita, April 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos