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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.
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"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."
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Evan Studies How Major Rock Structures Control the Distribution of Gold Deposits in Northern Manitoba.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Yongxing Li has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology.
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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.
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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.
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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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Dr. Craig Stewart has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology on April 19, 2017.
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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.
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Starting on Apr 3, 2017, Rémy Poulin (M.Sc.) has been hired to be the new electron microprobe operator at the Harquail School of Earth Sciences.
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Dr. Taus Jørgensen successfully achieved his PhD in Mineral Deposits and Precambrian Geology from Laurentian University on March 28, 2017. Dr. Jørgensen's topic was titled the "Evolution of the Sudbury Igneous Complex Southern Metamorphic Aureole and Control on Anatexis".
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Laurentian university has achieved recognition in mining innovation.
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Our talented squad brought back some great results from the competition.
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The PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium 2016 Call for Abstracts has now been released.
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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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