Education

[BSc, MPhil (Ghana), MSc (DTU), PhD Okayama)]

Research Interest

1. Geochemistry, geochronology, and petrology igneous rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Birimian greenstone belts of Ghana

2. Hydrochemistry of surface and groundwater resources

3. Provenance studies of sedimentary rock using petrography, geochemistry and isotope studies.

Publications

• Afrifa, G.Y., Ansah-Narh, T., Ibrahim, K., Loh, Y. S. A., Sakyi, P. A., Chegbeleh, L. P., & Yidana, S. M. (2023). A Monte Carlo simulation approach for the assessment of health risk from NO3--N perturbation in groundwater. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-023-01753-y
• Yuan, Q. H., Su, B. X., Cui, M. M., Sakyi, P. A., & Jing, J. J. (2023). Syn-mineralization hydrous fluid activity in giant Jinchuan magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposit in North China Craton. Lithos 438-439: 107014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.107014
• Afrifa, G. Y., Chegbeleh, L. P., Sakyi, P. A., Yidana, S. M., Loh, Y. S. A., Ansah‑Narh, T.,  & Manu, E. (2022): Quantifying nitrate pollution sources and natural background in an equatorial context: a case of the Densu Basin, Ghana, Hydrological Sciences Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2022.2114357 
• Afrifa, G. Y., Ansah‑Narh, T., Doe, C., Loh, Y. S. A., Sakyi, P. A., Larry P. Chegbeleh, L. P., & Yidana, S. M. (2022). A gamma mixture model‑based approach for the estimation of natural background levels of NO3--N in groundwater. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-022-01415-5 
• Cui, M.-M., Su, B.-X., Wang, J., Tang, D.-M., Sakyi, P. A., & Moynier, F. (2022). Linking Selective Alteration, Mineral Compositional Zonation and Sulfide Melt Emplacement in Orogenic-type Magmatic Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposits. Journal of Petrology, 00: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac043
• Pan, Q.-Q., Xiao, Y., Su, B.-X., Xia Liu, X., Robinson, P. T., Uysal, I., Peng-Fei Zhang, P.-F., & Sakyi, P. A. (2022). Amphibole as a witness of chromitite formation and fluid metasomatism in ophiolites. American Mineralogist, 107, 294–305.
• Afrifa, G. Y., Ansah-Narh, T., Loh, Y. S. A., Sakyi, P. A., Chegbeleh, L. P., & Yidana, S. M. (2021). Estiation of Groundwater heavy metal pollution indices via an amalgam of stack ensemble learning. ICECET. doi:10.1109/ICECET52533.2021.9698570       
• Xie, M., Xiao, W., Su, B. Sakyi, P. A., Ao, S., Zhang, J., Song, D., Zhang, Z., Li, Z., & Han, C. (2021). REE mineralization related to carbonatites and alkaline magmatism in the northern Tarim basin, NW China: implications for a possible Permian large igneous province. International Journal of Earth Science (Geol Rundsch).  doi:10.1007/s00531-021-02138-1
• Wang, J., Su, B. X., Chen, C, Ferrero, S., Malaviarachchi S.P.K., Sakyi, P. A., Yang Y.-H., & Dharmapriya P.L. (2021). Crustal derivation of the ca. 475 Ma Eppawala Carbonatites in Sri Lanka. Journal of Petrology, 62(11), 1-18.
• Antonio, P. Y. J, Baratoux, L., Trindade, R. I. F., Rousse, S., Ayite, A., Lana, C., Macouin, M., Adu, E. W. K., Sanchez, C., Silva, M. A. L, Firmin, A.-S., Dopico, C. I. M., Proietti, A., Amponsah, P. O., & Sakyi, P. A. (2021). West Africa in Rodinia: High quality paleomagnetic pole from the ~ 860 Ma Manso dyke swarm (Ghana). Gondwana Research, 94, 28-43.
• Wang, J., Su, B. X., Robinson, P. T., Xiao, Y., Bai, Y., Liu, X., Sakyi, P. A., Jing, J.-J., Chen, C, Liang, Z., & Bao, Z.-A. (2021). Trace elements in olivine: Proxies for petrogenesis, mineralization and discrimination of mafic-ultramafic rocks. Lithos, 388-389, 106085.
• Su, B. X., Wang, J., Liu, X., Bai, Y., Yang, Y.-H., Bao, Z.-A., & Sakyi, P. A. (2020). Mantle and crust interaction scenario at the crust-mantle transition zone: Depicted from inter-layered pyroxenite-granulite xenolith in Hannuoba area, North China Craton. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 309, 106594
• Han, C. M., Xiao, W. J., Su, B. X., Sakyi, P. A., Ao, S. J., Zhang, J., Wan, B., Song, D. F., Zhang, Z. Y., Wang, Z. M., Xie, M. C. (2020). Age and tectonic setting of the Jingangku Besshi-type volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit from the Northern Shanxi, North China Craton. Precambrian Research, 350, 105873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105873
• Su, B.-X., Bai, Y., Cui, M.-M., Wang, J., Xiao, Y., Lenaz, D., Sakyi, P.A., & Robinson, P.T. (2020). Petrogenesis of the Ultramafic Zone of the Stillwater Complex in North America: constraints from mineral chemistry and stable isotopes of Li and O. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 175(7), 68. doi: 10.1007/s00410-020-01707-y
• Ding-shuai Xue, Ben-Xun Su, Yan-Hong Liu, Dan-Ping Zhang, Qian Guo, Ju-Jie Guo, Jie-Fang Sun, & Sakyi, P. A. (2020). On-Line Flow-Based Spectrophotometric Determination of Ferrous Iron Mass Fraction and Total Iron Mass Fraction in Twenty-Seven Rock Reference Materials Using a Schlenk-Line Technique. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 44(4), 785-804. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12353
• Wang, Z.-M., Han, C.-M., Xiao, W.-J., & Sakyi, P. A. (2020). Paleoproterozoic multiphase magmatism and metamorphism recorded in metamorphic basement rocks of the northern Altyn Tagh, southeastern Tarim Craton. Precambrian Research 346, 105827. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105827
• Han, C. M., Xiao, W. J., Su, B. X., & Sakyi, P. A., Ao, S. J., Zhang, J., Wan, B., Song, D. F., Zhang, Z. Y., Wang, Z. M., Xie, M. C. (2020). Late Paleozoic metallogenesis and evolution of the Chinese Western Tianshan Collage, NW China, Central Asia orogenic belt. Ore Geology Reviews, 124, 103643.
• Cui, M.-M., Su, B.-X., Wang, J., Chen, K.-Y., & Sakyi, P. A., Tang, D.-M., He, Y.-P., Sun, J.-G., Cui, J., Anani, C. Y., Gao, D.-L. (2020). Alaskan-type nature and PGE mineralization of the Wuxing mafic–ultramafic complex in eastern part of the Central Asian Orogenic belt.  Ore Geology Reviews, 123, 103566
• Chen, C., Su, B.-X., Yan Xiao, Y., Uysal, I., Lin, W., Chu, Y., Jing, J.-J.,&  Sakyi, P. A. (2020). Highly siderophile elements and Os isotope constraints on the genesis of peridotites from the Kızıldağ ophiolite, southern Turkey. Lithos, 368-369, 105583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105583
• Gao, B., Zhang, L. C., Jin, X., Li, W. J., Bai, Y., & Sakyi, P. A. (2020). Re-Os geochronology and trace element characteristics of the hydrothermally reworked pyrite of the Gaobanhe sediment-hosted polymetal pyrite deposit in Northern China and its geological significance. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 215, 106561. 
• Sakyi, P. A., Su, B.-X., Manu, J., Kwayisi, D., Anani, C. Y., Alemayehu, M., Malaviarachchi, S. P. K. D., Nude, P. M., & Su, B.-C. (2020). Origin and tectonic significance of the metavolcanic rocks and mafic enclaves from the Palaeoproterozoic Birimian Terrane, SE West African Craton, Ghana. Geological Magazine, 157, 1349-1366. https://doi.org/10.1017/S001675681900150X
• Sakyi, P. A., Addae, R. A., Su, B. X., Dampare, S. B., Abitty, E., Su, B. C., Liu, B., Asiedu, & D. K. (2020). Petrology and geochemistry of TTG and K-rich Paleoproterozoic Birimian granitoids of the West African Craton (Ghana): Petrogenesis and tectonic implications. Precambrian Research, 336, 105492.
• Anani, C. Y., Anim, R. O., Armah, B. N., Atichogbe, J. F., Sakyi, P. A., Mahu, E., & Asiedu, D. K. (2020) Petrography of detrital zircons from sandstones of the Lower Devonian Accraian Formation, SE Ghana: Implications on provenance. Geological Journal, 55, 3716-3731. dx.doi.org/10.1002/gj.3633 
• Dampare, S. B., Shibata, T., Asiedu, D. K., Okano, O., Osae, S. K. D., Atta‐Peters, D., & Sakyi, P. A. (2020). Ultramafic-mafic and granitoids supra‐subduction magmatism in the southern Ashanti volcanic belt, Ghana: Evidence from geochemistry and Nd isotopes. Geological Journal, 55, 2495-2531.
• Xiao, Y., Zhang, H.-F., Su, B.-X., Liang, Z., Zhu, B., & Sakyi, P. A.(2019) Subduction-driven heterogeneity of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Cathaysia block, South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 186, 104062.
• Sakyi, P. A., Manu, J., Su, B.-X., Kwayisi, D., Nude, P. M., & Dampare, S. B. (2019). Geochemical and Sm–Nd isotopic evidence for the composition of the Palaeoproterozoic crust of the West African Craton in Ghana. Geological Journal, 54 (6), 3940-3957. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3387 . 
• Chen, C., Su, B. X., Xiao, Y., Sakyi, P. A., He, X. Q., Pang, K. N., Uysal, I., Avcı, E., & Qin, L. P. (2019). High-temperature chromium isotope fractionation and its implications: Constraints from the Kızıldağ ophiolite, SE Turkey. Lithos, 342–343, 361–369
• Wenjun Li, Bingyu Gao, Lianchang Zhang, Xindi Jin, & Sakyi, P. A.(2019). LLHR-type chalcopyrite Re-Os geochronology and geochemistry of the Xiaotongchang Cu deposit in south Ailaoshan and its geological Significances. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 198, 123-131.
• Liu, X.,  Su, B.-X., Xiao, Y., Chen, C., Uysal, I., Jing, J.-J., Zhang, P.-F., Chu, Y., Lin, W., & Sakyi, P. A. (2019). Initial subduction of Neo-Tethyan ocean: Geochemical records in chromite and mineral inclusions in the Pozantı-Karsantı ophiolite, southern Turkey. Ore Geology Reviews, 110, 102926. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.05.012
• Wang, Z. M., Han, C. H., Xiao, W. J., Sakyi, P. A., Yanga, L., Zhao, N. (2019). Mineralogy, geochemistry, and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of the Paleoproterozoic granulite-facies metamorphic rocks from the Aketashitage area, southeastern Tarim Craton. Precambrian Research, 321, 13-33.
• Malaviarachchi, S. P. K., Bindusara, S., Dharmapriya, P. L., Su, B. C., Su, L., Su, B. X., Zhang, H., Zhang, C., Sajeev, K., Sakyi, P. A., &  Alemayehu, M. (2019). U-Pb geochronology of zircons from river sediments in Sri Lanka: Implications on early Archean to late Cambrian magmatism and episodic crustal growth. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 171, 388–412.
• Yidana, S. M., Vakpo, E. K., Sakyi, P. A., Chegbeleh, L. P., & Akabzaa, T. M. (2019). Groundwater–lakewater interactions: an evaluation of the impacts of climate change and increased abstractions on groundwater contribution to the Volta Lake, Ghana. Environmental Earth Sciences, 78, 1-16.
• Yang, S. H., Su, B. X., Huang, H. W, Tang, D. M., Qin, K. Z., Bai, Y., Sakyi, P. A., & Alemayehu, M. (2018). Platinum-Group Mineral Occurrences and Platinum-Group Elemental Geochemistry of the Xiadong Alaskan-Type Complex in the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Minerals, 8, 494. doi:10.3390/min8110494  
• Han, C. M., Xiao, W. J., Su, B. X., Sakyi, P. A., Songjian Ao, Jien Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang, Bo Wan, Dongfang Song, Zhongmei Wang, & Na Zhao (2018). Geology, Re-Os and U-Pb geochronology and sulfur isotope of the Donggebi porphyry Mo deposit, Xinjiang, NW China, Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 165, 270-284.
• Amoako, Y. K., Gordon, C., Sakyi, P.A., & Gyimah, R. (2018). Carbon Footprint of the Large Scale Gold Mining Industry of Ghana. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 26, 242-260.
• Xiao, Y., Zhang, H. F., Liang, Z., Su, B. X., Zhu, B., & Sakyi, P. A. (2018). Origin of sapphirine- and garnet-bearing clinopyroxenite xenoliths entrained in the Jiande basalts, SE China. Lithos, 304–307, 95–108. 
• Liang, Z., Xiao, Y., Thakurta, J., Su, B. X., Chen, C., Bai, Y., & Sakyi, P. A. (2018). Exsolution Lamellae in Olivine Grains of Dunite Units from Different Types of Mafic-Ultramafic Complexes. Acta Geologica Sinica, 92 (2), 586–599.
• Su, B. X., Chen, C., Pang, K. N., Sakyi, P. A., Uysal, I., Avcı, E., &  Zhang, P. F. (2018). Melt penetration in oceanic lithosphere: Li isotope records from the Pozantı-Karsantı ophiolite in Southern Turkey. Journal of Petrology, 59(1), 191-205.
• Bai, Y., Su, B. X., Yan Xiao, Lenaz, D., Sakyi, P. A. Zi Liang, Chen Chen, & Sai-Hong Yang (2018). Origin of Reverse zoned Cr-spinels from the Paleoproterozoic Yanmenguan mafic-ultramafic complex in the North China Craton. Minerals, 8(2), 62; doi:10.3390/min8020062 
• Alemayehu, M., Zhang, H. F., Sakyi, P. A., & Haji, M. (2018). Lithium Enrichment and Isotopic Variation in Minerals from Peridotite Xenoliths from Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau. Journal Geological Society of India, 91, 99-108.