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2018 Winner of the David Elliott Best Paper Award

Congratulations to Jordan McDivvitt (Laurentian U, now at U Western Australia), Bruno Lafrance (Laurentian U), Daniel Kontak (Laurentian U) and Lise Robichaud (Ontario Geological Survey).

MERC Technical Program at Resources for Future Generations (RFG) 2018

Join MERC and Metal Earth at the technical program on Monday June 18th: Bridging the Discovery Gap - Providing the Exploration Industry More Effective Area Selection Tools.

New! Career and Research Opportunities

MERC Newsletter April 2018

Mineral Exploration Footprints Project Nears Completion

Luis Alfonso Arteaga: MSc Thesis Defense MERC Project

Luis studied temporal and spatial relationships between gold mineralisation and intrusive rocks in the Boston Creek area, Abitibi greenstone belt under supervision from Professors Harold Gibson and Daniel Kontak.

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."

Harquail School Hosts Annual Year End Banquet

Researcher Profile: Evan Hastie

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

Students head out to Southwestern USA on a 13-day mine tour!

The Laurentian Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) Student Chapter is heading out today on a 13-day mine tour in Southwestern USA! There are a total of 15 students participating ranging from BSc, MSc and Phd students, and they will be visiting a total of 5 mines.

HES Newsletter January 2018

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

David Harquail New Chair of the World Gold Council

Congratulations to David Harquail for his appointment as new Chair of the World Gold Council (WGC). Faculty, students, researchers and staff at the Harquail School of Earth Sciences and its Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) are thrilled about this news and wish David all the best.

Metal Earth Welcomes Dr. Ross Sherlock

The Harquail School: Who we are and what we do

Laurentian University's Department of Earth Sciences was renamed to the Harquail School of Earth Sciences in September 2016, the Harquail Family invested $10M into Laurentian University’s Department of Earth Sciences and the $104M Metal Earth project commenced.

Successful PhD defense

Dr. Yongxing Li has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology.

Spring Convocation: HES congratulates two PhD graduates

Dr. Taus Jørgensen and Dr. Robert Craig Stewart both graduated with their PhD in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology from Laurentian University in Spring 2017.

Dr. Harold Gibson presented with LU Research Excellence Award

Dr. Harold Gibson, Director of the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC), was presented today the Laurentian University’s Research Excellence Award, in recognition of a career of research excellence in economic geology and volcanology.

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...

Job Posting: Metal Earth BSc field assistants, June 2017

With CAD $104 million in funding provided by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) and through strategic partnerships with 5 Canadian universities, 6 government geological surveys and 3 international research centres, Laurentian University will conduct Metal Earth...

Dr. Craig Stewart - successful PhD defense

Dr. Craig Stewart has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology on April 19, 2017.

Year End Banquet Pictures

The first Harquail School of Earth Sciences banquet took place on April 8, 2017 at the Italian Club in Copper Cliff. Pictures from the event can be viewed here.