- Ore Genesis
- Application of hydrothermal mineral compositions in understanding ore forming processes
- Application of tourmaline boron isotopic compositions in ore genesis
- Petrology applied to crust forming processs
- Electron microbeam and LA-ICPMS probing of mineral compositions and chemical dating of monazite and xenotime
- Geochemistry and Isotope Geology
- Economic Geology: Ore Genesis
- Analytical Techniques in Geosciences
- Thermodynamics in Geology
Journal Publications
- Hazarika, P., Upadhyay, D., Mishra, B., Borah, P., Kumar, A., 2021. 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. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 304, 83-100.
- Chinnasamy, S.S., Hazarika, P., Pal, D., Sen, R., Govindaraj, G., 2021. Pyrite Textures and Trace Element Compositions from the Granodiorite-Hosted Gold Deposit at Jonnagiri, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India: Implications for Gold Mineralization Processes. Economic Geology, 116, 559-579.
- Hazarika, P., Bhuyan, N., Upadhyay, D., Abhinay, K., Singh, N.N., 2019. The nature and sources of ore-forming fluids in the Bhukia gold deposit, Western India: constraints from chemical and boron isotopic composition of tourmaline. Lithos, 350, 105227.
- Borah, P., Hazarika, P., Mazumdar, A.C., Rabha, M. 2019 Monazite and xenotime U-Th-Pb(total) ages from basement rocks of the (central) Shillong-Meghalaya Gneissic Complex, Northeast India. Journal of Earth System Science, 128(3), 68.
- Mishra, B., Pruseth, K.L., Hazarika, P., Chinnasamy, S.S., 2018. Nature and source of the ore forming fluids associated with orogenic gold deposits in the Dharwar Craton. Geoscience Frontiers, 9, 715-726.
- Hazarika, P., Mishra, B., Ozha, M.K., Pruseth, K.L., 2017. An improved EPMA analytical protocol for U-Th-Pbtotal dating of xenotime: Age constraints from polygenetic Mangalwar Complex, Northwestern India. Chemie der Erde-Geochemistry, 77, 69-79.
- Hazarika, P., Mishra, B., Pruseth, K.L., 2017. Trace element geochemistry of pyrite and arsenopyrite: ore genetic implications for late Archean ororgenic gold deposits of southern India. Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 661-678.
- Hazarika, P., Upadhyay, D., Pruseth, K.L., 2016. Episodic tourmaline growth and reequilibration in mica-pegmatite from Bihar MIca Belt, India: major and trace element variations under pegmatitic and hydrothermal conditions. Geological Magazine, 154, 68-86.
- Hazarika, P., Mishra, B., Pruseth, K.L., 2016. Scheelite, apatite, calcite and tourmaline comositions from late Archean Hutti gold deposit: implications for analogous two stage ore fluids. Ore Geology Reviews, 72, 989-1003.
- Ozha, M.K., Mishra, B., Hazarika, P., Jeyagopal. A.V., Yadav, G.S., 2016. EPMA monazite geochronology of the basement and supracrustal rocks within the Pur-Banera basin, Rajasthan: evidence of Columbia breakup in Northwestern India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 117, 284-303.
- Mishra, B., Hazarika, P., 2016. Rare greenockite (CdS) within the chromite-PGE association within the Bangur Gabbro, Baula-Nuasahi Complex, Eastern India. Ore Geology Reviews, 72, 1327-1334.
- Hazarika, P., Pruseth, K.L., Mishra, B., 2015. Neoarchean greenstone metamorphism in the eastern Dharwar craton, India: constraints from monazite U-Th-Pbtotal ages and P-T pseudosection calculations. The Journal of Geology ,123, 429-461.
- Hazarika, P., Mishra, B., Pruseth, K.L., 2015. Diverse tourmaline compositions from orogenic gold deposits in the Hutti-Maski greenstone belt, India: implications for sources of ore-forming fluids. Economic Geology, 110, 337-353.
- Hazarika, P., Mishra, B., Chinnasamy, S.S., Bernhardt, H.J., 2013. Multi-stage growth and invisible gold deistribution in pyritefrom Kundarkocha sediment-hosted gold deposit, eastren India. Ore Geology Reviews, 55, 134-145.
- Hazarika, P., Upadhyay, D., Mishra, B., 2013. Contrasting geochronological evolution of the Rajpura-Dariba and Rampura-Agucha metamorphosed Zn-Pb deposit, Aravalli-Delhi Belt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 73, 429-439.
Conference articles
- Hazarika, P., 2019. Trace element distribution between sphalerite and pyrite in Rajpura-dariba SEDEX deposit, India. In Goldschmidt Conference 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
- Hazarika, P., Mishra, B., 2015. Tourmaline as fluid source indicator in the late Archean Hutti orogenic gold deposit. In 13th SGA biennial meeting, Nancy, France, v. 2, pp. 465-467.
- Mishra, B., Hazarika, P., 2015. Ore fluid characterization using pyrite and arsenopyrite compositions from greenstone-hosted Hutti gold deposit. In 13th SGA biennial meeting, Nancy, France, v. 2, pp. 481-483
- Hazarika, P., 2014. Invisible gold in pyrite vis-a-vis mineralization: a case study from Kundarkocha sediment-hosted gold deposit, india. In National seminar on "Making of the Indian Continent", Presidency University, Kolkata, India
- Hazarika, P., Mishra, B., Pruseth, K.L., 2013. Contrasting tourmaline chemistry from late Archean orogenic gold deposits at Hutti and Hira-Buddini, eastern Dharwar Craton, India. In Goldschmidt conference, Florence, Italy. Mneralogical Magazine Special volume 77, 1275
- INSA Medal for Young Scientists, Indian National Science Academy, 2020
- Professor NN Chatterjee Medal of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2020
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Natural Resources Canada, 2016
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Johannesburg, 2016
- DST-INSPIRE faculty award, 2016
- National Post-Doctoral Fellowship, (Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology), 2016
- Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for research fellowship, Council of Scienitifc and Industrial Research, India, 2009
- Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Summer Research Fellowship, 2010
- National Merit Scholarship, Government of India, 2005
- Represented India at Society of Economic Geology Foundation sponsored Field Trip "Archean precious and base metal deposits, southern Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada, September 3-11, 2014
1. Determination of elemental and isotopic compositions of tourmaline from Pb-Zn and Cu-Au deposits of Northwestern India: implications for compositional fractionation, ore genetic processes and sources of ore-forming fluids.
Role: Principal Investigator; Funding agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Duration: 2016-2021
2. Geochemical and Petro-mineralogical characterization of Pegmatoid Leucosome Mobilizate (PLM) and pink granite within Proterozoic migmatitic basement around Wadagiri, Anek, Rongram, Ringi Nala, Dasol Nala areas, Garo Hills, Meghalaya Plateau: implications for genesis of PLM and pink granite vis-a-vis uranium mineralization.
Role: Principal Investigator; Funding agency: Department of Atomic Energy-Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (DAE-BRNS), Government of India. Duration: 2019-2022
3. Petrology, microstructures, geochemistry, rock strength measurement and crustal stresses within basement granitoid underlying the Deccan Basalt in and around the Koyna-Warna area.
Role: Co-Investigator (CI); Funding agency: Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India. Duration: 2019-2022
Ph.D. students
1. Niraj Bhuyan
2. Rhituparna Gogoi