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HES Reference Mineral Collection
The HES boasts a reference mineral collection with > 7000 specimens representing > 2500 mineral species.
> Read moreNews 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.
> Read moreMetal Earth Annual Report 2018-2019
Metal Earth publishes the 2018-2019 annual report - Year 3.
> Read moreMetal 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.
> Read moreOldest 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.
> Read moreMSc & PhD Opportunities with Metal Earth
Canada’s largest mineral exploration research project, Metal Earth, is seeking MSc & PhD students to join the project
> Read moreWatch: 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.
> Read moreNew 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.
> Read moreUsing 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.
> Read moreMetal 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.
> Read moreSudbury 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."
> Read moreResearcher Profile: Evan Hastie
Evan Studies How Major Rock Structures Control the Distribution of Gold Deposits in Northern Manitoba.
> Read moreKilohigok 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).
> Read moreDr. 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...
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