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Office: 420D Flarsheim Hall

Phone: 816 2352980

Email: coveneyr@umkc.edu

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Professor Ray Coveney was a student of Wm. C. Kelly at the University of Michigan where his dissertation involved detailed geologic mapping, fluid inclusions, and the geochemistry of high-grade Mother Lode gold deposits of the Alleghany district, California. He joined UMKC as an assistant professor in 1971. For the past twenty years his research has focused on metalliferous black shales of the American Midwest and southern China. Recent efforts have concentrated on 1) lower Cambrian platinum and gold-bearing nickel-molybdenum black shale beds of Hunan and Guizhou; (2) Genetic connections between carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ores and Pennsylvanian metalliferous shales in the central USA; (3) Assessing the impact of black shales on metal pollution in the Kansas City area; and (4) k-16 environmental science education. He has recently become involved with associates from Peking University in the study of pollution of the Lean River, southern China, caused by mining and processing copper ores and fate modeling of organic and inorganic pollutants in the Tianjin metropolitan area. Coveney chairs the Department of Geosciences and directs the undergraduate environmental studies degree program at UMKC.

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