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The following links will retrieve PDF files of OFM publications:

Chutas NI and Sack RO (2004) [OFM Contribution #1]

Ore genesis at La Colorada Ag–Zn–Pb deposit in Zacatacas, Mexico. Mineralogical Magazine 68(6), 923-937.

Gerke TL, Kilinc AI and Sack RO (2005) [OFM Contribution #2]

Ti-content of high-Ca pyroxenes as a petrogentic indicator: an experimental study of mafic alkaline rocks from the Mt. Erebus volcanic region, Antarctica. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 148(6), 735-745.

Sack RO (2005) [OFM Contribution #3]

Internally consistent database for sulfides and sulfosalts in the system Ag2S-Cu2S-ZnS-FeS-Sb2S3-As2S3: update. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69(5), 1157-1164.

Sack RO, Fredericks R, Hardy LS, and Ebel DS (2005) [OFM Contribution #4]

Origin of high–Ag fahlores from the Galena Mine, Wallace, Idaho, USA. American Mineralogist, 90, 1000-1007.

Sack RO and Ebel DS (2006) [OFM Contribution #5] (Erratum) (Corrected version of Appendix 1) (Corrected version of Appendix 4 )

Thermochemistry of sulfide mineral solutions. Reviews in MIneralogy and Geochemistry 61: 265-364.

Gualda GAR and Ghiorso MS (2007) [OFM Contribution #6]

Magnetite scavenging and the buoyancy of bubbles in magmas. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 154: 479-490.

Spera FJ, Bohrson WA, Till CB, Fowler SJ, and Ghiorso MS (2007) [OFM Contribution #7]

Partitioning of trace elements among coexisting crystals, melt and supercritical fluid during isobaric fractional crystallization and fractional melting. American Mineralogist, 92: 1881-1898.

Chutas NI, Kress VC, Ghiorso MS, and Sack RO (2008) [OFM Contribution #8]

A solution model for the high temperature PbS-AgSbS2-AgBiS2 galena. American Mineralogist, 93, 1630-1640.

Ghiorso MS and Evans BW (2008) [OFM Contribution #9] (On-line geothermometer/oxybarometer calculator)

Thermodynamics of Rhombohedral Oxide Solid Solutions and a Revision of the Fe-Ti Two-oxide Geothermometer and Oxygen-barometer. American Journal of Science 308, 957-1039.

Martin GB, Spera FJ, Nevins D, Ghiorso MS (2009) [OFM Contribution #10]

Structure, Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Of Molten Mg₂SiO₄: Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Model EOS. American Mineralogist, 94: 693-703.

Nevins D, Spera FJ, Ghiorso MS (2009) [OFM Contribution #11]

Shear viscosity and diffusion in liquid MgSiO₃: Transport properties and implications for magma ocean stratification. American Mineralogist, 94:975-980.

Spera FJ, Nevins D, Cutler I, Ghiorso MS (2009) [OFM Contribution #12]

Structure, thermodynamic and transport properties of CaAl₂Si₂O₈ liquid. Part I. Molecular dynamics simulations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 6918-6936.

Ghiorso MS, Nevins D, Cutler I, Spera FJ (2009) [OFM Contribution #13]

Structure, thermodynamic and transport properties of CaAl₂Si₂O₈ liquid. Part I. Equation of state and a thermodynamic model. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 6937-6951..

Sack RO, Lichtner PC (2009) [OFM Contribution #14] (Erratum)

Constraining compositions of hydrothermal fluids in equilibrium with polymetallic ore-forming sulfide assemblages. Economic Geology 104: 1249-1264.

Ghiorso MS, Spera FJ (2009) [OFM Contribution #15]

Large Scale Simulations, In, Wentzcovitch, R., Stixrude, L., eds., Theoretical and Computational Methods in Mineral Physics and Geophysics. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 71, chapt 19, in press.