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SUDBURY, ON (September 6, 2016) – David Harquail announced today that his family foundation is making a $10 million investment to support Laurentian University’s Department of Earth Sciences...
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Funding is the largest single investment in Laurentian University’s history.
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The defence will take place on Wednesday, September 7, at 1pm, in B8045, Willet Green Miller Centre.
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Laurentian University has received positive news about the status of its “Metal Earth” proposal that was submitted by the Department of Earth Sciences and its Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC)...
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TOPIC: Gold Mineralization in the Missanabie-Renabie District of the Wawa Subprovince (Missanabie, Ontario, Canada) All welcome!
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Dr. Daniel Kontak, Full Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Laurentian University, has been named the 2016 winner of the Duncan R. Derry Medal, awarded by the Geological Association of Canada.
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The Hawley Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada was awarded to our faculty member Dr. Andrew McDonald and Sarah C. Gordon (M.Sc. Geology from Laurentian in 2013) for for the paper "A study of the composition, distribution, and genesis of pyrrhotite in the Copper Cliff Offset, Sudbury, Ontario"
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A few pictures from field work conducted in Matheson, May 2016:
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Rémy Poulin successfully defended his M.Sc. in Geology today, with the thesis titled "Scheelite geochemistry as an indicator of intrusion-related W-Mo-(Au) mineralization"
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On May 10, 2016, Sandra McCardell, the High Commissioner of Canada to South Africa with accreditation to Lesotho, Madagascar, Marutitius and Namibia met with LU DES graduate students; Michael Langa, Evan Keir-Sage, Thabiso Makohliso and Cédric Mayer in South Africa. All four students are M.Sc. candidates who have had learning and teaching experiences in Earth Sciences at both the University of Limpopo, South Africa, and at Laurentian University, Canada.
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This year’s recipient of the Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award is Jordan McDivitt of Laurentian University...
> Read moreThe Department of Earth Sciences (DES) and Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) at Laurentian University invite applications for a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Metallogeny that integrates ore system research with broad scale tectonic processes...
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Congratulations to Philippe Trudel for winning the 2015 Student Industry Field Trip (SIFT) competition in Calgary, AB!
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Joe Petrus was interviewed about his work at Laurentian University.
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Graduate students can now use the following equipment in the research lab on the 5th floor...
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Students, faculty of DES and members of the broader geological community have been avidly bidding on rocks and minerals in the past months...
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CIM Sudbury Branch representatives Sue Tessier and Trang Tran-Valade presented a $25,000 donation towards upgrading the Department of Earth Sciences’ petrographic microscope facilities...
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The Goodman School of Mines’ generous donation of $ 50,000 allowed the Department of Earth Sciences to buy new Olympus BX41 microscopes and Lumenera cameras to accommodate our students’ learning and research.
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Dr. Michael Schindler was interviewed on CBC radio about the black coating on Sudbury rocks.
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The summer field season is upon us and most members of the department are beginning to leave for the field.
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The new $12m pan-Canadian NSERC-CMIC-CRD "Multidisciplinary Exploration Fooprints" project will be based at LU. Including 42 researchers from 24 universities across Canada and 28 sponsoring mining companies and mineral exploration companies...
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