Research Updates

New look at an old mineral nets Dr. Andy McDonald an academic hat trick

LU Scientist Provides Critical Recommendations for the Search for Life on Mars

HES Reference Mineral Collection

The HES boasts a reference mineral collection with > 7000 specimens representing > 2500 mineral species.

Paper on the CL response of quartz from Sudbury offsets trending

Congratulations Mitchell (Mitch) Kerr for a successfully defended PhD thesis!

News coverage on Dr. Alessandro Ielpi's Nature Geoscience Publication

Laurentian University's Dr. Alessandro Ielpi, Assistant Professor of Sedimentology, co-authored a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Dr. Alessandro Ielpi Published in Nature Geoscience

Metal Earth Annual Report 2018-2019

Metal Earth publishes the 2018-2019 annual report - Year 3.

Metal Earth Online Tools

MERC launches an interactive project map and a Metal Earth document portal (Metal Earth Hub) to provide the public with tools to navigate through Metal Earth project information.

Microanalytical Centre (MAC) Update

Oldest reported fossil fungi: Laurentian researcher published in Nature

Laurentian University’s Dr. Elizabeth Turner, professor of geology at the Harquail School of Earth Sciences, co-authored a paper published in the journal Nature this week.

MSc & PhD Opportunities with Metal Earth

Canada’s largest mineral exploration research project, Metal Earth, is seeking MSc & PhD students to join the project

Watch: Metal Earth, Mineral Exploration Research Project

Metal Earth is a Canadian $104 million applied R&D program led by Laurentian University. With funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund and federal/provincial/industry partners, this initiative will be a strategic consortium of outstanding Canadian researchers from academia and allied Canadian and international research centres, government, and industry.

New NSERC-CRD Grant

Prof Michael Lesher is leading a new 4-year $1M ($630K cash, $426K cash-equivalent in-kind) NSERC-CRD project on the Genesis and Localization of Ni-Cu-PGE Mineralization in the Sudbury Igneous Complex that will test new hypotheses for the origin of the sulfur and metals in the ores and the mechanisms of localization.

Using luminescence to discover ore bodies

HES Researcher Rémy Poulin, is one of the first to investigate the properties of scheelite on a world-wide scale to uncover potential geochemical patterns that could aid in the discovery of new ore deposits.

Metal Earth Annual Report 2017-2018

This annual report represents the work completed in Years 1 and 2 (March 2017-April 2018), the period marking the beginning of Metal Earth, a seven-year, $104 million applied R&D program.

Metal Earth Field Crew Overview

Mineral Exploration Footprints Project Nears Completion

Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal: A progress report on year one of Metal Earth

"Providing framework geoscience will allow industry to understand greenstone belts with a higher degree of resolution than has ever been the case in the past."

Researcher Profile: Evan Hastie

Evan Studies How Major Rock Structures Control the Distribution of Gold Deposits in Northern Manitoba.

Kilohigok Basin Geoscience Project

An update on progress of the Kilohigok Basin Geoscience Project will be delivered tonight by Dr. Alessandro Ielpi (Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University) and Holly Steenkamp (Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office).

Laurentian University conducting 7-year, $104-million study into structures in earth's crust

Dr. Alessandro Ielpi et al. published in Nature Communications

It has been previously assumed that large and deep rivers could not have developed in the Precambrian due to lack of stabilizing vegetation. In this article, the authors challenge this assumption...