Geology and Geophysics

• National Mineral Award, 2005
• PRL Award from PRL, Ahmadabad
• IIT SJ Research award, 1987
• INSA Young Scientist award
• University Gold Medal, 1980

Journal
• In-situ trace element and Li-isotope study of zinnwaldite from the Degana tungsten deposit, India: implications for hydrothermal tungsten mineralization Ghosh U., Upadhyay D. , Mishra B. , Abhinay K. By Chemical Geology - (Accepted/In-Press)
• In-situ laser ablation of mineral fluid inclusions: Evaluating the effects of solid and liquid matrices, laser repetition rate and fluence on data quality Singh T., Upadhyay D., Mishra B. By International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 485 - (2023)
• Reconstruction of hydrothermal fluid composition of the Kamthai carbonatite complex, India using lattice strain model: Implications for LREE/HREE fractionation Patel A.K., Upadhyay D., Mishra B., Pruseth K.L. By Lithos 444-445 - (2023)
• Magnetite-fluorapatite geochemistry and monazite U Pb geochronology of the Mohuldih uranium deposit, Singhbhum Shear Zone, eastern India Patel S., Upadhyay D., Ranjan S., Mishra B. By Geological Journal - (2023)
• High MREE-HREE solubility in a carbonatite-derived hydrothermal fluid: Evidence from fluorite-hosted fluid inclusions in the Amba Dongar carbonatite complex, India Singh T., Upadhyay D., Patel A.K., Mishra B. By Chemical Geology 613 - (2022)
• Mineralogical and Geochemical Evidence of Dissolution-Reprecipitation Controlled Hydrothermal Rare Earth Element Mineralization in the Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex, Gujarat, Western India Patel A.K., Mishra B., Upadhyay D., Pruseth K.L. By Economic Geology 117 683-702 (2022)
• Modelling B-release and isotopic fractionation during metamorphic dehydration of basalt and pelite: Implications for the source of mineralizing fluid in greenstone-hosted orogenic gold deposits Hazarika P., Upadhyay D., Mishra B., Borah P., Abhinay K. By Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 304 83-100 (2021)
• Discriminating Tectonic Setting of Igneous Rocks Using Biotite Major Element chemistry A Machine Learning Approach Saha R., Upadhyay D., Mishra B. By Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22 - (2021)
• Multiple episodes of hydrothermal alteration and uranium mineralization in the Singhbhum Shear Zone, eastern India: constraints from chemical and boron isotope composition of tourmaline Patel S., Upadhyay D. , Mishra B. , Abhinay K. , K S. A. By Lithos 388-389 106084- (2021)
• Nature of the mineralizing fluids in the Balda and Motiya W-prospects, western India: Constraints from chemical and B-isotope composition of tourmaline Ghosh U., Upadhyay D., Abhinay K., Mishra B. By Chemical Geology 582 - (2021)
• Rare earth element precipitation induced by non-redox transformation of magnetite to hematite: Microtextural and geochemical evidence from the Kamthai carbonatite complex, western India Upadhyay D., Mondal S., Patel A.K., Mishra B., Pruseth K.L., Bhushan S.K. By Lithos 400-401 - (2021)
• Experimentally produced Cu-Pb-Ag-Sb-S melts at 500 °C: Implications to partial melting of massive sulfide ores Govindarao B., Pruseth K.L., Mishra B. By Ore Geology Reviews 121 - (2020)
• Sulfide partial melting and galena-tetrahedrite intergrowth texture: An experimental study Govindarao B., Pruseth K.L., Mishra B. By Mineralogical Magazine 84 859-868 (2020)
• Magmatic and Hydrothermal Ore Deposits Mishra B. By Proceedings of Indian National Science Academy 86 263-273 (2020)
• Nature and source of the ore-forming fluids associated with orogenic gold deposits in the Dharwar Craton Mishra B., Pruseth K.L., Hazarika P., Chinnasamy S.S. By Geoscience Frontiers 9 715-726 (2018)
• Sulfide partial melting and chalcopyrite disease: an experimental study Govindarao B., Pruseth K. L., Mishra B. By American Mineralogist 103 1200-1207 (2018)
• Sulfide partial melting and chalcopyrite disease: An experimental study Govindarao B., Pruseth K.L., Mishra B. By American Mineralogist 103 1200-1207 (2018)
• Geochemistry and chemical dating of uraninite in the Samarkiya area, central Rajasthan, northwestern India implication for geochemical and temporal evolution of uranium mineralization Ozha M. K., Pal D. C., Mishra B. , Desapati T. , Shaji T. S. By Ore Geology Reviews - (2017)
• Geochemistry and chemical dating of uraninite in the Samarkiya area, central Rajasthan, northwestern India Implication for geochemical and temporal evolution of uranium mineralization Ozha M. K., Pal D. C., Mishra B. , Desapati T. , Shaji T. S. By Ore Geology Reviews 88 23-42 (2017)
• The occurrence of breithauptite and nisbite-like Sb-Ni phases at Sindesar-khurd, Rajasthan, India: implications for melt-assisted Sulfide remobilization Govindarao B., Pruseth K. L., Biswajit B. By Canadian Mineralogist 55 75-87 (2017)
• The occurrence of breithauptite and nisbite-like Sb-Ni phases at Sindesar-Khurd, Rajasthan, India: implication to melt-assisted sulfide remobilization Govinda Rao B., Parihar R. , Pruseth K. L., Mishra B. By Canadian Mineralogist 55 75-87 (2017)
• Trace element geochemistry of pyrite and arsenopyrite: ore genetic implications for late Archean orogenic gold deposits in southern India Hazarika P., Mishra B. , Pruseth K. L. By Mineralogical Magazine - (2017)
• Trace element geochemistry of pyrite and arsenopyrite: ore genetic implications for late Archean orogenic gold deposits in southern India Hazarika P., Mishra B. , Pruseth K. L. By Mineralogical Magazine 81 661-678 (2017)
• An improved EPMA analytical protocol for U-Th-Pbtotal dating in xenotime: Age constraints from polygenetic Mangalwar Complex, Northwestern India Hazarika P., Mishra B. , Ozha M. K., Pruseth K. L. By Chemie der Erde (Geochemistry) 77 69-79 (2017)
• EPMA monazite geochronology of the basement and supracrustal rocks within the Pur-Banera basin, Rajasthan: Evidence of Columbia breakup in Northwestern India Ozha MK, Mishra B, Hazarika P, Jeyagopal AV, Yadav GS By Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 116 284 - 303 (2016)
• Evidence of sulfide melting and melt fractionation during amphibolite facies metamorphism of the RajpuraDariba polymetallic sulfide ores Pruseth K. L., Mishra B. , Jehan N. , Kumar B. By Ore Geology Reviews 72 1213-1223 (2016)
• Reaction aureoles around uraninites within biotite and plagioclase: evidence of low-temperature sequential fluid alteration and LREE-mobilization from monazite Ozha MK, Mishra B, Jeyagopal AV By Mineralogical Magazine 80 567- 584 (2016)
• Metallogeny Mishra B By Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 82 505-513 (2016)
• Scheelite, apatite, calcite and tourmaline compositions from the late Archean Hutti orogenic gold deposit: Implications for analogous two stage ore fluids Hazarika P., Mishra B. , Pruseth K. L. By Ore Geology Reviews 72 989-1003 (2016)
• Scheelite, apatite, calcite and tourmaline compositions from the late Archean Hutti orogenic gold deposit: Implications for analogous two stage ore fluids Hazarika P, Mishra B, Pruseth KL By Ore Geology Reviews 72 989- 1003 (2016)
• Scheelite, apatite, calcite and tourmaline compositions from the late Archean Hutti orogenic gold deposit: Implications for analogous two stage ore fluids Hazarika P., Mishra B. , Pruseth K. L. By Ore Geology Reviews 72 989-1003 (2016)
• The occurrence of breithauptite and nisbite-like Sb-Ni phases at Sindesar-Khurd, Rajasthan, India: implications for melt-assisted sulfide remobilization Rao B. G., Parihar R. , Pruseth K. L., Mishra B. By Canadian Mineralogist 54 - (2016)
• Diverse tourmaline compositions from orogenic gold deposits in the Hutti-Maski greenstone belt, India: Implications for sources of ore-forming fluids Hazarika P, Mishra B, Pruseth KL By Economic Geology 110 337-353 (2015)
• Neoarchean greenstone metamorphism in the eastern Dharwar Craton, India: constraints from monazite U-Th-Pbtotal ages and P-T pseudosection calculations Hazarika P, Pruseth KL, Mishra B By Journal of Geology 123 429-461 (2015)
• The possibility of a ZnS-rich sulfide melt at 600°C: Evidence from Rajpura-Dariba deposit, India supported by laboratory melting experiment Pruseth KL, Jehan N, Sahu P, and Mishra B By Ore Geology Reviews 60 50-59 (2014)
• Contrasting geochronological evolution of the Rajpura-Dariba and Rampura- Agucha metamorphosed Zn-Pb deposit, Aravalli-Delhi Belt, India Hazarika P, Upadhyay D, Mishra B By Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 73 429-439 (2013)
• Multi-stage growths and invisible gold distribution in pyrite from the Kundarkocha sediment-hosted gold deposit, eastern India Hazarika P, Mishra B, Sakthi Chinnasamy SS, Bernhardt HJ By Ore Geology Reviews 55 134-145 (2013)
• Greenstone metamorphism, hydrothermal alteration and gold mineralization in the genetic context of the granodiorite-hosted gold deposit at Jonnagiri, eastern Dharwar Craton, India Chinnasamy SS and Mishra B By Economic Geology 108 1015-1036 (2013)
• Mineral Deposits in India Mishra B, Deb M By Proc. Ind. Natn. Sci. Acad. 78 423-430 (2012)
• Chemical and sulfur isotope compositions of pyrite in the Jaduguda U (-Cu-Fe) deposit, Singhbhum shear zone, eastern India: Implications for sulfide mineralization Pal DC, Sarkar S, Mishra B, Sarangi AK By Journal of Earth System Science 120 475-488 (2011)
• Mesoproterozoic sulfidic ocean, delayed oxygenation and evolution of early life: sulfur isotope clues from Indian Proterozoic basins Sarkar A, Chakraborty PP, Mishra B, Bera MK, Sanyal P, Paul S By Geological Magazine 147 206-218 (2010)
• Metamorphism, graphite crystallinity and sulfide anatexis of the Rampura-Agucha massive sulfide deposit, northwestern India Mishra B, Bernhardt HJ By Mineralium Deposita 44 183-204 (2009)
• Uniformity in sulfur isotope composition in the orogenic gold deposits from the Dharwar Craton, southern India Sakthi Saravanan C, Mishra B By Mineralium Deposita 44 597-605 (2009)
• Economic mineralizations Mishra B By Ore Geology Reviews 36 363-364 (2009)
• P-T conditions of mineralization in the Jonnagiri granitoid-hosted gold deposit, eastern Dharwar Craton, southern India: Constraints from fluid inclusions and chlorite thermometry Sakthi Saravanan C, Mishra B, Jairam MS By Ore Geology Reviews 36 333-349 (2009)
• Proterozoic polyphase metamorphism in the Chotanagpur Gneissic Complex (India), and implication for trans-continental Gondwanaland correlation Maji A K, Goon S, Bhattacharya A, Mishra B, Mahato S, Bernhardt HJ By Precambrian Research 162 385-402 (2008)
• Thermo-tectonic evolution of the North Singhbhum Mobile Belt; A view from the western part of the belt Mahato S, Goon S, Bhattacharya A, Mishra B, Bernhardt HJ By Precambrian Research 162 102-127 (2008)
• Metamorphism, fluid flux and fluid evolution relative to gold mineralization in the Hutti-Maski Greenstone Belt, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India Mishra B, Pal N By Economic Geology 103 801-827 (2008)
• Ore Mineralogy and geochemistry of pegmatite-hosted Sn-, Ta-Nb-, and Zr-Hf-bearing minerals from the southeastern part of the Bastar-Malkangiri pegmatite belt, Central India Pal DC, Mishra B, Bernhardt HJ By Ore Geology Reviews 30 30-55 (2007)
• Contrasting Fluid Inclusion characteristics of staniferous and non-staniferous Pegmatites of southeast Bastar, Central India Pal DC, Panigrahi MK,Mishra B By Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 28 306-319 (2007)
• Implications of super dense carbonic and hypersaline fluid inclusions in granites from the Ranchi area, Chottanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern India Mishra B, Saravanan CS, Bhattacharya A, Goon S, Mahato S, Bernhardt HJ By Gondwana Research 11 504-515 (2007)
• Metamorphism of the host and associated rocks at the Rajpura- Dariba massive sulfide deposit, Northwestern India Mishra B, Upadhyay D, Bernhardt HJ By Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 26 21-37 (2006)
• Fluid inclusion characteristics of the Uti gold deposit, Hutti-Maski greenstone belt, southern India Mishra B, Pal N, Basu Sarbadhikari A By Ore Geology Reviews 26 1-16 (2005)
• Rampura-Agucha zinc-lead deposit Mishra B By Gondwana Research 7 1255-1257 (2004)
• Epigenetic nature of the BIF-hosted gold mineralization at Ajjanahalli, southern India: Evidence from ore petrography and fluid inclusion studies: Reply Pal N, Mishra B By Gondwana Research 7 632-635 (2004)
• Epigenetic nature of the BIF-hosted gold mineralization at Ajjanahalli, southern India: evidence from ore petrography and fluid inclusion studies Pal N, Mishra B By Gondwana Research 6 531-540 (2003)
• Fluid evolution of the Mosabani and Rakha copper deposits, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand: evidence from fluid inclusion studies in mineralized quartz vein Mishra B, Pal N, Ghosh S By Journal of Geological Society of India 61 51-60 (2003)
• Alteration geochemistry and fluid inclusion characteristics in relation to formation of greenstone- hosted gold deposit at Hutti, eastern Dharwar Craton, India Pal N, Mishra B By Mineralium Deposita 37 722-736 (2002)
• Geochemistry of the Palim granite, Bastar tin province, Central India Pal N, Pal DC, Mishra B, Meyer FM By Mineralogy and Petrology 72 281-304 (2001)
• The minerals boulangerite, falkmanite and Cu- free meneghinite: synthesis, new powder diffraction data and stability relations Pruseth KL, Mishra B, Bernhardt HJ By European Journal of Mineralogy 13 411-419 (2001)
• An experimental study on cubanite irreversibility: implications on natural chalcopyrite-cubanite intergrowths Pruseth KL, Mishra B, Bernhardt HJ By European Journal of Mineralogy 11 471-476 (1999)
• Fluid evolution in quartz- vein hosted tungsten mineralization at Chhendapathar, Bankura district, WB Mishra B, Pal DC, Panigrahi MK By Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. (Earth & Planetary Sciences) 108 23-31 (1999)
• Fluid evolution in the Kolar Gold Field: Evidence from fluid inclusion studies. Mineralium Deposita Mishra B, Panigrahi MK By Mineralium Deposita 34 173-181 (1999)
• Fluid inclusion characteristics of tin-bearing pegmatites of Malkangiri district, Orissa Pal DC, Panigrahi MK, Mishra B By Journal of Geological Society of India 51 685-696 (1998)
• Solid solubility in synthetic zinkenite, robinsonite and meneghinite in the Cu2S-PbS-Sb2S3 system Pruseth KL, Mishra B, Bernhardt HJ By Canadian Mineralogist 36 685-696 (1998)
• Phase relations in the Cu2S-PbS-Sb2S3 system: an experimental appraisal and application to natural polymetallic sulfide ores Pruseth KL, Mishra B, Bernhardt HJ By Economic Geology 92 720-732 (1997)
• Phase equilibrium studies in the system Cu2S - PbS - Sb2S3: non-stoichiometry in the sulfosalts and isothermal variation in sulfur fugacity Mishra B, Pruseth KL By Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 118 92-98 (1994)
• Variation in Forbidden energy gap on the PbS-AgSbS2 quasi-binary join Pruseth KL, Mishra B By Indian Journal of Earth Science 20 96-103 (1993)
• A Diffuse reflectance study of synthetic acanthite, stibnite and bournonite Mishra B, Pruseth KL, Sarkar S By Journal of Geological Society of India 37 7-12 (1991)
• Tetrahedrite mineral chemistry and metal zoning: A thermodynamic assessment from the Rajpura-Dariba polymetallic deposit, India Mishra B, Mookherjee A By Economic Geology 86 1529-1538 (1991)
• Fe-Zn mixing energetics of the Iss phase in the system Cu -Fe -Zn -S Mishra B, Panigrahi MK By Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology 105 562-568 (1990)
• Ore mineralogy and fluid inclusion characteristics of different ore associations from Malanjkhand copper deposit MP (India) Panigrahi MK, Mishra B, Mookherjee A By Journal of Geological Society of India 37 239-256 (1990)
• Geothermometry based on fractionation of Mn and Cd between coexisting sphalerite and galena from some carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits in India Mishra B, Mookherjee A By Mineralium Deposita 23 179-185 (1988)
• Analytical formulation of phase equilibria in two observed sulfide-sulfosalt assemblages in Rajpura-Dariba polymetallic deposit Mishra B, Mookherjee A By Economic Geology 81 627-639 (1986)
• Derived' and observed sulfosalt - sulfide phase assemblages compared - a case study from Rajpura-Dariba, India Mookherjee A, Mishra B By Mineralium Deposita 19 112-117 (1984)
• Rare minerals from Rajpura-Dariba, Rajasthan VI : Thalcusite, its geochemical significance Mookherjee A, Mozgova N, Golovanova TI, Mishra B By Neues. Jahrb. Miner. Monatsch. H10 444-454 (1984)
• On the reaction-rim texture tetrahedrite + galena = bournonite + chalcopyrite Mookherjee A and Mishra B By Journal of Geological Society of India 24 588-593 (1983)
Conferences
• Applying machine learning to discriminate host rock of quartz using its trace element chemistry potential application to sedimentary provenance Saha R., Upadhyay D. , Mishra B. By Goldschmidt Conference - (2022)
• Chemistry of Li-bearing micas (zinnwaldite): clues to magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of granite-hosted W-mineralization at Degana, India Ghosh U., Upadhyay D. , Mishra B. , Pruseth K. L. By Goldschmidt Conference - (2021)
• Eoarchean (3.8-3.7 Ga) transition in geodynamic regime of continental crust formation revealed from secular change in TTG composition Saha R., Upadhyay D. , Mishra B. By Goldschmidt Conference - (2021)
• Textural and chemical study of brannerite from the Mohuldih uranium deposit, Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ), India: evidence of U, Ti, Fe mobilization during late stage of hydrothermal mineralization Patel S., Mishra B. , Upadhyay D. , Ozha M. K. By International Geologic Congress - (2020)
• The composition of the REE mineralizing fluid in the Amba Dongar carbonatite complex: constrain from chemistry of fluorite and its fluid inclusions Singh T., Upadhyay D. , Singh A. K., Mishra B. , Patel A. K. By AGU Fall - (2020)
• . On the origin of fluorite mineralization in the Amba Dongar carbonatite complex, India: constraints from thermobarometry and chemistry of fluid inclusions in fluorite Singh T., Upadhyay D. , Patel A. K., Mishra B. By International Geologic Congress - (2020)
• Fluid-assisted alteration of apatite and mobilization of rare earth elements in carbonatites from Amba Dongar, western India Patel A. K., Mishra B. , Upadhyay D. , Pruseth K. L. By International Geologic Congress - (2020)
• Trace element chemistry of fluid inclusions in quartz from pegmatites of the Bihar Mica Belt, eastern India Singh T., Upadhyay D. , Mishra B. By Goldschmidt Conference - (2019)
• Source of fluid for Balda & Motiya tungsten mineralization, western India: a boron isotope study of tourmaline Ghosh U., Upadhyay D. , Abhinay K. , Mishra B. , Pruseth K. L. By Goldschmidt Conference - (2019)
• Chemical and B-isotope composition of tourmaline from Bagjata uranium deposit, Singhbhum Shear Zone, India: implications for source of mineralizing fluids Patel S., Upadhyay D. , Mishra B. , Abhinay K. By Goldschmidt Conference - (2019)
Book Chapter/Section
• Precambrian Basins of India: stratigraphic and tectonic context Mishra B By Precambrian metallic mineralization in India 327-337 (2015)
• Proceedings of the workshop on magmatic sulfide deposits Pruseth KL, Mishra B By Magmatic (?) base metal sulfide deposits 226-230 (2014)
• Gold metallogeny in India and beyond Mishra B By Metamorphism and hydrothermal fluid evolution in relation to gold metallogeny, Dharwar Craton, southern India 154-167 (2010)
• Crustal evolution and Metallogeny in the northwestern Indian shield, Narosa Mishra B By Evolution of the Rajpura-Dariba polymetallic sulfide deposit: constraints from sulfide- sulfosalt phase equilibria and fluid inclusion studies 347-370 (2000)

Principal Investigator

• GENETIC MODELING OF OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE DHARWAR CRATON: CONSTRAINTS FROM METAMORPHISM, ORE MINERALOGY
• GENETIC MODELLING OF OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE DHARWAR CRATON : CONSTRAINTS FROM METAMORPHISM, ORE MINERALOGY AND FLUID EVOLUTION
• Structural, Mineralogical & Geochemical Appraisals of the PUR-BNERA Basin, Rajasthan for Assessing its Uranium Potential
• Petrogenesis & Rare Earth Element Potential of Kamthai & Amba Dongar Carbonatities

Co-Principal Investigator

• ESTABLISHMENT OF ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSER (EPMA) -NATIONAL FACILITY IIT KHARAGPUR
• Major, Minor and Bulk REE Analysis for Coal and Related Sample (TSR)
• MODELLING THE REACTION GARNET + QUARTZ = ORTHOPYROXENE + PLACIOCLASE : APPLICATION TO MASSIVE ANORTHOSITES FROM THE EASTERN GHATS BELT