SUMMER 2023
HES NEWSLETTER
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IN THIS ISSUE
REMEMBERING BRUCE JAGO
GAC-MAC-SGA SUDBURY 2023
CAREERS & RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
PUBLICATIONS
STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS
RECENT GRADUATES
UPCOMING COURSES
OUTREACH & EVENTS
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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
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Greetings to all readers, and welcome (or welcome back) to all of our new and returning students.
We hope you had an enjoyable and productive summer and feel ready for the new academic year. Warm greetings to all members and friends of the Harquail School of Earth Sciences (HES).
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As Director, I am pleased to introduce our summer 2023 Newsletter, which summarizes relevant and recent highlights and keeps you updated on ongoing initiatives that make Laurentian University and HES the best place to study geology.
Looking back on the past few months, we welcomed more than 700 geologists and students to our campus for GAC-MAC-SGA. It was a very successful conference!
We are adding a full-time faculty position in Critical Minerals to our School to advance research and teaching. We also said farewell to Dr. Alessandro Ielpi, who has elected to take a new position at UBC, and we are fondly remembering Dr. Bruce Jago, who passed away this month. We're also running undergraduate and graduate field schools, modular courses, and wrapping up summer fieldwork.
As September brings a new semester, we look forward to meeting new students and welcoming them to our School. Please share this newsletter with your colleagues and friends, and send us your feedback. We always appreciate hearing from you.
Pedro Jugo
Director, Harquail School of Earth Sciences
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REMEMBERING DR. BRUCE JAGO
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Colleagues, students, alumni, family, and friends are remembering Dr. Bruce Jago, PhD, PGeo, who passed away peacefully on August 5, 2023, at age 66.
The founding executive director of Laurentian University's Goodman School of Mines (GSM), Dr. Jago joined Laurentian in 2013 and led the School for six years. During his tenure, he created many new partnerships, scholarships and training opportunities for LU, attracted international students, and started the Goodman Gold Challenge. The GSM continues to support programs across the mining life cycle, from Earth Sciences to Indigenous Relations. After his time at GSM, Dr. Jago continued at Laurentian as a Full Professor in the Harquail School of Earth Sciences.
Dr. Jago was widely recognized as a leader in his industry and regarded as an exceptional geologist.
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Laurentian University’s Harquail School of Earth Sciences hosted GAC-MAC-SGA Sudbury 2023, the Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, and the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (GAC-MAC-SGA) from May 23-31.
More than 700 geologists and students from across the globe participated in three days of scientific presentations and six days of field trips and workshops, including symposia on Critical Minerals and Sudbury Geology, and special sessions on Environmental Aspects of Mine Wastes, Geoscience Communication, and a range of other geoscientific topics.
Post-event feedback from participants was very positive, including praise for the strong technical program, field trips, and social events. Overall, 94% of participants rated their GAC-MAC-SGA Sudbury 2023 experience as excellent, very good, or good. The local organizing committee would like to thank all participants, staff, and volunteers for making the event such a success!
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CAREERS & RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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We’re searching for candidates for positions at Harquail School of Earth Sciences (HES) and the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC).
- Assistant/Associate Professor in Ore Deposits, Critical Minerals (Tenure-track)
- MSc Graduate Opportunity – Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Applied to Geoscience
- Metal Earth Post-doctoral Fellow Positions at Université Laval
- PhD Project: Metallogeny and geologic controls of the Detour Lake gold deposit
- MERC/Kinross MSc Project – Metamorphic P-T-t and Fluid History
- Data Analytics PhD Student
- Senior Research Associate - Metal Earth
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Photo: Weathered intermediate metavolcaniclastic rocks (with weathered amphibole lineation). Stéphane Perrouty, Guiana Shield.
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Harquail School of Earth Sciences researchers, Canadian industry partners and international collaborators were awarded a two-year NSERC Alliance Grant on the "Stratigraphy and Gold Metallogeny of the Guiana Shield." The grant, complementary to the AMIRA's Project P1061B - South American Exploration Initiative, will support a postdoctoral fellow and graduate students at Laurentian University. The project aims at updating and integrating the geology of the Guiana Shield. It represents the first sustained collaborative effort at integrating and modernizing the geology of the Guiana Shield since the 1970s, seeking to overcome the scientific isolation caused by colonial-era divisions of the region between five different countries, each with a different language and culture. For details, contact Dr. Stéphane Perrouty at sperrouty@laurentian.ca.
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Dr. Andrew M. McDonald has received a new 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant, "Insights into the evolution of critical-metal deposits through mineralogy and crystal chemistry." The funds will enable Dr. McDonald to continue his research into the geology, geochemistry and crystallization of platinum-group minerals, Ni-and Co-bearing base-metal sulfides and indicator minerals applicable to the exploration for Cu-Mo-Au porphyry systems. For details, email Dr. Andrew McDonald at amcdonald@laurentian.ca.
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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
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Textural and geochemical evidence for two-stage mineralisation at the Kamoa-Kakula Cu deposits, Central African Copperbelt
Turner, E.C., Dabros, Q., Broughton, D.W. et al. Miner Deposita (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-023-01165-z
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Textural and Mineralogical Evolution of the Little Nahanni Pegmatite Group (NWT, Canada) with Implications for Metasomatism, Rare-Metal Mineralization, and Pegmatite–Wall Rock Interaction
Pfister, J.D., Kontak, D., et al; The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 2023; 61 (3): 467–505. https://doi.org/10.3749/2000086
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Metal Earth Partner Meeting scientific research presentations are available for students, researchers, and industry professionals to watch on the Metal Earth YouTube playlist on the HES YouTube channel.
We would like to thank the Metal Earth partner meeting participants for their excellent presentations.
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BSc Earth Sciences Paige Pilote received a Canadian Exploration Geophysics Society (KEGS) Foundation Scholarship. Paige also participated in the summer 2023 Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S-IMEW).
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PhD student Chris Mancuso received the Michael and Patricia Carson Indigenous Scholarship (KEGS Foundation). Mancuso is pictured left presenting at GAC-MAC-SGA Sudbury 2023.
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PhD student Théo Lombard (second from left) earned the Geological Association of Canada Mineral Deposits Division (MDD) Keating-Boyle Best Poster Award at GAC-MAC-SGA Sudbury 2023. Lombard's poster detailed his early results on the alteration footprint of the Larder Lake-Cadillac deformation zone in the Val-d'Or area, based on petrography, hyperspectral and geochemistry/mass balance.
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Recent PhD graduate Fabiano Della-Justina won the GAC Geophysics Division Student Award for outstanding student presentation on a geophysics topic at GAC-MAC-SGA Sudbury 2023 for "The Incorporation of Geophysical, Petrophysical and Geological Constraints in Gravity Modeling to Resolve Structures at Depth."
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In 2022-23, seven undergraduate students received generous $5,000 Harquail BSc Scholarships. Four (pictured) are: Andrea Demers, Paige Pilote, Allyson MacPhee, and Madeline Norman. Not pictured: Pooja Gosai, Jacklyn Krueger, and Jessica Beaudry. Also pictured: previous recipient Nia Gauthier and benefactor David Harquail.
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Students, staff, and faculty from HES and Laurentian University were active at PDAC 2023. HES graduate students organized and competed in the PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium and participated in research presentations. Faculty, researchers, and students at all levels attended talks and workshops, and networked with industry and government.
As Canada's Mining University, Laurentian also organized an Alumni and Friends Breakfast to present the latest advancements and news to an audience of PDAC attendees. Guests included alumni, as well as supporters from industry, government, and academia. The main message was that "Laurentian is back," and on track. Laurentian administrators, students, staff, and faculty from HES, the Mineral Exploration Research Centre, the Goodman School of Mines, MIRARCO, and Advancement networked with the guests to renew connections and build new relationships. It was a meaningful event for Laurentian and all guests.
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CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES
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Congratulations to our graduates of Fall 2022 and Spring 2023!
Faculty, staff, students and researchers congratulated our newest BSc, MSc, and PhD graduates of the Harquail School of Earth Sciences at the fall and spring convocation ceremonies. They join a proud family of alumni who continue to make a difference worldwide.
We thank our graduates for their contributions to our School and wish them well as they begin or continue their careers!
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Exploration Geophysics
GEOL 5956
December 6-15, 2023
Led by Dr. Richard Smith, this 10-day course includes an introduction to the physical properties of rocks and how these can be inferred from geophysical data. The role that geophysics plays in mineral exploration programs will also be discussed. Methods covered gravity, magnetics, electrical and induced polarization, electromagnetics, gamma-ray spectrometry, reflection seismology, borehole, and airborne methods. There are daily exercises, many involving computer applications, and the final day will include a regional interpretation of public domain geophysical data.
View the Syllabus, Schedule, and Logistical Information or see the latest details about this course here.
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NEW COURSE: GEOL 4826 / 5826
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Potential-field and gamma-ray Spectrometry Methods
This course covers gravity, magnetic and gamma-ray spectrometry methods, including a discussion of the relevant physical properties, the background theory, instrumentation and procedures to collect the data using ground, airborne and drill hole equipment. Students will learn methods for processing the data (e.g. filtering, gridding, continuation, reduction to the pole) and how to interpret the data using qualitative methods and forward and inverse modelling methods. Case history examples will be discussed. PREREQ: Completion of 30 university credits which include GEOL 1006; PHYS 1006 /1007; MATH 1036 or 1912. Recommended MATH 2037. Students cannot retain credits for both GEOL 4826 and GEOL 5826. (lec 3, lab 3) cr 3.
Questions? Contact Dr. Richard Smith at rssmith@laurentian.ca.
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GEOSCIENCE OUTREACH & RECRUITMENT
ACTIVITY SUMMARY
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As the fall semester begins, we reflect on a productive year engaging with prospective students, teachers, and families. First, we want to thank our students, faculty, and staff for their support in representing HES. We couldn't do it without them. We are planning another recruitment season, as well as our PDAC and conference activities, and we welcome your help and ideas.
From July 2022-2023, HES engaged with more than 1500 prospective students worldwide through interactive sessions and events online and in-person, at conferences, gem and mineral shows, in schools, and on campus.
In addition, in summer 2023, 400 elementary school students visited Laurentian University and the Harquail School of Earth Sciences for geoscience activities through the Electrifying the Future summer camp program. The free program builds awareness of post-secondary programs that lead to careers in the electric vehicle supply chain, from mineral exploration to the automotive and mobility industry.
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Photos: (L) Students visit the HES table at Sudbury's Dynamic Earth during Mine Opportunity events. (R) Lab Technologist & Outreach Coordinator Tobias Roth with minerals, ID cards, and a microscope to engage students in discovering geoscience.
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Photos: (L) Promotional image for one of our Geology Games webinars. (R) Students and teachers benefit from field experiences from HES, such as these high school students on a trip this spring.
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In 2023, we started an online webinar series called Geology Games to make our events more accessible. These webinars attracted another 200 participants through the end of June 2023. With these events, on top of open houses, university fairs, call campaigns, geology and mineral exploration conferences like PDAC and GAC-MAC-SGA Sudbury, and STEM learning events such as MineOpportunity and the WISE Sudbury Science and Engineering Career Café, we have been very engaged with the public.
Teachers, parents, and students are always encouraged to contact us to coordinate class field trips and online Earth Science sessions. We are happy to oblige!
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We are grateful for the support of our students, colleagues, faculty, alumni, and staff who assist in delivering these experiences, which inspire students to discover the field of geoscience and the opportunities that come with studying at our School.
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Photo: Students, faculty, staff, and collaborators helped to organize a public event at Dynamic Earth as part of the GAC-MAC-SGA Sudbury program, featuring popular geoscience communicators and social media influencers Cate Larsen and Becky Nesel.
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UPCOMING RECRUITMENT EVENTS
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HES invites you, your friends, colleagues, and family to meet us and learn about geoscience programs and courses at Laurentian University. Please consider joining us, or share these details with those who may be interested.
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Ontario Universities’ Fair (OUF)
The Ontario Universities' Fair (OUF) is one of the largest educational fairs in North America. Dr. Pedro Jugo and Geoscience Instructor Tobias Roth from the Harquail School of Earth Sciences invite you to drop by the Laurentian Univesity booth at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to discover our Earth Sciences program, learn about geoscience careers, scholarship opportunities, and how to apply to Laurentian.
October 21-22, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building
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Laurentian University Fall Open House
Please save the date for Laurentian University's Fall Open House. Join us for guided campus tours, Harquail School of Earth Sciences tours, and demonstrations. Can't make it for Open House? You can book a Laurentian Campus Tour here. We are also happy to offer private Harquail School of Earth Sciences tours to prospective students, families, and alumni! Contact Tobias Roth at tm_roth@laurentian.ca for details.
Saturday, November 4, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Laurentian University, Sudbury
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ABOUT US
HARQUAIL SCHOOL OF EARTH SCIENCES &
MINERAL EXPLORATION RESEARCH CENTRE
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The Harquail School of Earth Sciences and Mineral Exploration Research Centre are located in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The School and Research Centre are located in the Willet Green Miller Centre, and are home to internationally-recognized and award-winning faculty and research scientists, as well as distinguished graduate students who are focused on Precambrian geology, mineral deposits, petrology, geophysics, paleontology, and exploration methodology and targeting, among other geoscience disciplines.
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