Dr Chris Stanley

Dr Chris Stanley

Scientific Associate

Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Economic and Environmental Earth Sciences
Specialisms: ore mineralogy, mineral characterization, mineral nomenclature and classification, reflected light spectrophotometry
  • Phone: 020 7942 5627

Summary

I am an ore mineralogist and economic geologist with more than 160 peer reviewed scientific papers, and a part in the characterisation of more than eighty new mineral species, For the major part of my career I had an academic partnership with the late Alan Criddle and together we initiated the ore mineralogy group and published the Quantitatative Data File for Ore Minerals 2nd and 3rd editions.

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I was honoured in 1998 by the naming of a new silver palladium selenide mineral 'chrisstanleyite' from the Hope's Nose deposit, Devon, for my contributions to ore mineralogy.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrisstanleyite

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I was appointed Deputy Head of Mineralogy in 1996, a position I held until July 2012 when the Mineralogy Department was absorbed into Earth Sciences. From then until recently I was Head of the Division of Economic and Environmental Earth Sciences. My current job title is Scientific Associate. I have conducted fieldwork in Europe, Canada, Australia, Russia and Central Asia and made a substantial contribution to the ore collections of the Natural History Museum. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In 2007, I discovered that a new mineral I was working on, jadarite, had the same chemistry as kryptonite in the film "Superman Returns". This resulted in global media coverage culminating in:

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Time Magazine - Top 10 Scientific Discoveries 2007. #10 Real-life kryptonite

http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1686204_1686252_1690961,00.html

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BBC Most Popular Stories of 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7116765.stm

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Qualifications

Degrees

  • BSc, University of Aston, United Kingdom, 1973 - 1976
  • PhD, University of Aston, United Kingdom, 1976 - 1979

Employment history

Academic

  • Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2018 - ongoing
  • Researcher in Ore Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2017 - 2018
  • Head of Economic and Environmental Earth Sciences Division, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2017
  • Deputy Head of Mineralogy Department, Natural History Museum, Mineralogy, United Kingdom, 1996 - 2012
  • Principal Scientific Officer (Grade 7), Natural History Museum, Mineralogy, United Kingdom, 1991 - 1996
  • Senior Scientific Officer, British Museum (Natural History), Mineralogy, United Kingdom, 1984 - 1991
  • Higher Scientific Officer, British Museum (Natural History), Mineralogy, United Kingdom, 1980 - 1984

Highlighted publications

  • Biagioni C, George LL, Cook NJ, Makovicky E, Moëlo Y, Pasero M, Sejkora J, Stanley CJ, Welch MD, Bosi F (2020) The tetrahedrite group: Nomenclature and classification. American Mineralogist, (1) Mineralogical Society of America : 109 - 122. doi: 10.2138/am-2020-7128
  • Bindi L, Stanley CJ (2020) Natural versus synthetic quasicrystals: analogies and differences in the optical behavior of icosahedral and decagonal quasicrystals. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, (1) Springer Science and Business Media LLC : 9 - 17. doi: 10.1007/s12210-019-00859-9
  • Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Liu W, Slattery A, Wade BP, Mills SJ, Stanley CJ (2019) Polytypism and Polysomatism in Mixed-Layer Chalcogenides: Characterization of PbBi4Te4S3 and Inferences for Ordered Phases in the Aleksite Series. Minerals, (10) MDPI AG : 628 - 628. doi: 10.3390/min9100628
  • Stanley CJ, Vymazalova A (2015) Kojonenite, a new palladium tin telluride mineral from the Stillwater Layered Igneous Intrusion, Montana, U.S.A.. American Mineralogist, (2-3) Mineralogical Society of America : 447 - 450. doi: 10.2138/am-2015-5057ccbyncnd
  • Stanley CJ, Jones GC, Rumsey MS, Blake C, Roberts AC, Stirling JAR, Carpenter GJC, Whitfield PS, Grice JD, Lepage Y (2007) Jadarite, LiNaSiB3O7(OH), a new mineral species from the Jadar Basin, Serbia. European Journal of Mineralogy, (4) Schweizerbart : 575 - 580. doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2007/0019-1741
  • Stanley CJ, Criddle AJ, Spratt J, Roberts AC, Szymański JT, Welch MD (2005) Mineralogical Magazine, (4) Mineralogical Society : 447 - 453. doi: 10.1180/0026461056940262
  • Criddle AJ, Stanley CJ (1993) Quantitative Data File for Ore Minerals. Criddle AJ, Stanley CJ (Eds).Chapman & Hall: London. : null - null.
  • Cooper MP, Stanley CJ (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District: Caldbeck Fells. British Museum (Natural History): London. : null - null.
  • Jaszczak J, Rumsey M, Bindi L, Hackney S, Wise M, Stanley C, Spratt J Merelaniite, Mo4Pb4VSbS15, a New Molybdenum-Essential Member of the Cylindrite Group, from the Merelani Tanzanite Deposit, Lelatema Mountains, Manyara Region, Tanzania. Minerals, (4) MDPI AG : 115 - 115. doi: 10.3390/min6040115

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