Stanley B. Keith

Stan Keith has over 40 years of exploration experience focusing on ideas, exploration and discovery for minerals and energy. Stan is a prolific writer and speaker and has authored hundreds of technical reports and publications. His marathon, 3 day, magma-metal series workshops and field trips have been presented to the mineral industry, major companies in the oil and gas industry, and various government agencies. Beginning in 2000, Stan and colleagues began to apply the MagmaChem model to oil and gas, which led to the concept of the serpentosphere, the hydrothermal origin of kerogen and its conversion to graphene. Throughout his career, he continually returns to the reality of the field, testing ideas through geologic mapping. He received a B.S. degree in Philosophy in 1971 from the University of Arizona and an M.S. degree in Geology from the University of Arizona in 1975. Stan and the research team at MagmaChem are known for their ideas and exploration tools, developed from the relationship between magmatism and various kinds of mineral resources, for example, porphyry coppers. These resources now also include petroleum and graphite/graphene.