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FEBRUARY 2020
HES & MERC UPDATE

IN THIS ISSUE

LAURENTIAN RESTRUCTURING

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

PDAC 2021

UPCOMING COURSES

Academic activity and research continuing as LU restructures

As many of you are aware, Laurentian commenced a proceeding under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) that will allow the University to financially and operationally restructure while continuing to operate in all respects.

As you can imagine this has created considerable turbulence and uncertainty in the university community.

HES and MERC are committed to maintaining our positions as global leaders in geoscience education, research, and exploration focused on Precambrian ore systems.

Our core activities are continuing, including teaching and learning, research, student recruitment, publishing, conference participation, and planning for summer research.

We will continue to operate and renew our modular courses to become increasingly relevant to our industry partners and develop collaborative research projects to train and educate the world’s future geoscience leaders.

Despite the challenges, we will emerge from the other end stronger, more focused, and more relevant.

As we go through this restructuring we will be as open and transparent about the process as we can be. If you have concerns or wish to discuss please feel free to reach out.

Douglas Tinkham
Director, Harquail School of Earth Sciences

Ross Sherlock
Director, Mineral Exploration Research Centre

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Haugaard, Rasmus, Crustal-Scale Geology and Fault Geometry Along the Gold-Endowed Matheson Transect of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Katz, L. R., An Archean Porphyry-Type Gold Deposit: The Côté Gold Au(-Cu) Deposit, Swayze Greenstone Belt, Superior Province, Ontario, Canada

Maier, Wolfgang D., Introduction to the special issue on the Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu deposit, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex

Keir-Sage, Evan, Assessing the extent of local crust assimilation within the Flatreef, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, using sulfur isotopes and trace element geochemistry

Reimink, Jesse Ray, Global zircon analysis records a gradual rise of continental crust throughout the Neoarchean

Ielpi, Alessandro, Planform-asymmetry and backwater effects on river-cutoff kinematics and clustering

Mathisen, H. Data crunchers, not decision-makers: Why geologists will always be needed, even as the use of AI and machine-assisted exploration tools grows
*Features interviews with Rebecca Montsion & Ross Sherlock

HES & MERC at PDAC 2021

Laurentian University's Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC), and MIRARCO will have booths at PDAC 2021.

Be sure to visit our booths, and meet with our students participating in the PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium poster session.

MERC Short Course at PDAC:

Crustal scale controls on gold and base metals in the southern Superior Craton

This short course will focus on the gold and base metal endowment of Archean greenstone belts within the Abitibi and Wabigoon terranes of the Superior Craton at regional to deposit scales utilizing integrated 4D architectural interpretations derived from surface geology, geochronology, and geophysical surveys. The course will highlight new results from Metal Earth research program where in excess of 1,000 km of reflection seismic, magnetotelluric and gravity surveys have provided some of the highest resolution crustal imaging across transects of up to 130 km and regional scale isotopic research projects. Crustal geophysical models are complemented by craton to transect scales studies emphasizing integration of field, laboratory, geochemical and isotopic results providing new insights into the geological and metallogenic framework of Archean granite-greenstone terranes, their relationship to metasedimentary terranes, the mantle reservoirs and the architecture of the conduits controlling endowment via upward migration of melts and mineralizing hydrothermal fluids.

PRESENTERS:
Lucy Mathieu, Université du Québec

David Mole, Laurentian University

Kate Rubingh, Laurentian University
Zsuzsanna Toth, Laurentian University
Taus Jøergensen, Laurentian University
Katarina Bjorkman, Consultant
Ben Frieman, Laurentian University
Chong Ma, Laurentian University

View Short Course Details/Register

UPCOMING GRADUATE/MODULAR COURSE

Registrations are open for Dr. Harold Gibson's Exploration for Hydrothermal Ore Deposits course, GEOL 5607. The course runs via webcast from April 6-13, 2021. View details about this course and all of our modular course offerings at: https://hes.laurentian.ca/modular-courses.

This 8-day course focuses on the geology, alteration, and origin of hydrothermal ore deposits.

Deposit types include epithermal and mesothermal precious metal, porphyry Cu-Mo-Au, IOCG, sediment- and volcanic-hosted base-metal deposits, and U and REE deposits. Emphasis is placed on the processes responsible for their formation, the recognition of alteration halos, and features pertinent to exploration.

Webcast delivery via Zoom (3 credits).

Non-student cost: $1200 +13% HST for the full course, $150 + 13% HST per day. Discounts for MERC members. Contact us for information on sharing options for multiple participants in the same company.

Contact Ms Roxane Mehes rmehes@laurentian.ca to register or for additional information.

View All Modular Courses

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