Emeritus Professor
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
3450 University St.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 0E8
Email: robert.martin [at] mcgill.ca
Research
Anorogenic felsic magmas, and associated metasomatic activity and mineralization; mineralogy of peraluminous and peralkaline granitic rocks; x-ray diffraction and electron microscopy applied to the characterization of the rock-forming minerals; the mineralogy of feldspar-group and platinum-group minerals in all crustal environments.
Recent Articles
Barkov, A.Y., Martin, R.F., Barkova, L.P., Silyanov, S.A. & Lobastov, B.M. (2025) Mineralogical and geochemical features, structure, and stages of formation of the Rogomu concentrically zoned massif (Lapland-Belomorian Belt, Kola Peninsula). Petrology 33, 581-603. See also Petrologiya 33(6), 35–63 (in Russian).
Tice, P. & Martin, R.F. (2025) The Line Rock pegmatite dike, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 63, 639–654.
Barkov, A.Y., Lepore, G.O., Bindi, L., Martin, R.F., Panikorovskii, T., Nikulin, I.I. & Silyanov, S.A. (2025) A Cl-dominant analogue of annite occurs at the eastern edge of the Oktyabrsky Cu−Ni−PGE deposit, Norilsk, Russia. Minerals 15, 640.
Barkov, A.Y., Martin, R.F., Barkova, L.P. & Korolyuk, V.N. (2025) Coronitic associations at Gabrish in the Kovdozero layered complex in the southern part of the Lapland – Belomorian Belt, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Minerals 15, 565.
Martin, R.F., Galí, S., Alfonso, P. & Melgarejo, J.C. (2025) Three-phase perthite and the progressive predominance of albite in the Cap de Creus LCT pegmatite swarm, Catalunya, Spain. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 63, 747–759.
Barkov, A.Y., Martin, R.F., Korolyuk, V.N., Lobastov, B.M. & Mezhetskiy, S.A. (2025) The coronitic Perchatka layered intrusion, central Lapland – Belomorian Belt, Kola Peninsula, Russia. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 63, 347–369.
Martin, R.F. & Schumann, D. (2025) Varicolored marble in the Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Supergroup. II. Petrogenetic insight from apatite. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 63, 223-247.
Martin, R.F., Schumann, D., Kumarapeli, S. & Abdel-Rahman, A.-F.M. (2024) The Eppawala anatectic carbonatite, Sri Lanka: a mineralogical, petrological and geochronological contribution. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Sri Lanka 24, 13-30.
Barkov, A.Y., Nikulin, I.I., Martin, R.F., Nikiforov, A.A., Silyanov, S.A. & Lobastov, B.M. (2024) Ore assemblages, platinum-group minerals and behavior of Cl in low-sulfide zones of the Vologochan–Pyasinskiy suites, Norilsk complex, Russia. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 62, 747-764.
Books in the Special Publications series (R.F. Martin, editor), The Canadian Mineralogist
Menzies, M. and Scovil, J. (2022). Pegmatites and their Gem Minerals. The Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication 15.
Horváth, L., Gault, R.A., Pfenninger-Horváth, E., and Poirier, G., (2019). Mont Saint-Hilaire: History, Geology, Mineralogy. The Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication 14.
Fontan, F. and Martin, R.F., (2017). Minerals with a French Connection. The Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication 13, 588 pp.
Paar, W., Brodtkorb, M. de, Putz, H., and Martin, R.F. , (2016). Atlas of Ore Minerals: Focus on Epithermal Deposits of Argentina. The Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication 11, 408 pp.
Melgarejo, J.C. and Martin, R.F., (2011). Atlas of Non-Silicate Minerals in Thin Section. The Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication 7, 528 pp.