FROM: Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; Graduated FROM: University of Peshawar (M.Phil); CURRENT RESEARCH: Arc metal budget assessment for porphyry-epithermal deposits in the Kohistan and Talkeetna arcs; SUPERVISOR: Dr. Jeremy P. Richards
FROM: Sudbury, Ontario; GRADUATED FROM: Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario; CURRENT RESEARCH: Tourmaline as an indicator of mineralized porphyry systems; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Andrew McDonald / Dr. Matthew Leybourne
FROM: Antigonish, Nova Scotia GRADUATED FROM: St. Francis Xavier University (BSc), Simon Fraser University (MSc) SPECIALITIES: Economic Geology, Structural Geology CURRENT RESEARCH: Geological and Geochemical Characterization of the Granite-hosted East Kemptville Sn-Cu-Zn-Ag(-In) deposit, Nova Scotia SUPERVISOR: Dr. Daniel Kontak
FROM: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England GRADUATED FROM: University of Leicester (MGeol) SPECIALITIES: Magmatic Ore Deposits CURRENT RESEARCH: Stratigraphy, Geochemistry, and Petrogenesis of the Black Thor Intrusive Complex and Associated Cr and Ni-Cu-PGE Mineralization, McFaulds Greenstone Belt, Ontario FUNDED BY: NSERC-CRD, Cliffs Natural Resources, Noront Resources SUPERVISORS: Dr. Michael Lesher / Dr. Michel Houlé
FROM: Luton, United Kingdom; GRADUATED FROM: University of Leicester, United Kingdom; CURRENT RESEARCH: Mineralising fluids of the Kamoa-Kakula copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Elizabeth Turner / Dr. Daniel Kontak
Structural, metamorphic and lithological controls on low-sulphide PGE mineralization in the southwest Sudbury impact structure.
FROM: Hanover, Ontario GRADUATED FROM: University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario (BSc and MSc) CURRENT RESEARCH: Gold Metallogeny of the Southern Swayze Greenstone Belt, Abitibi Subprovince SUPERVISORS: Dr. Bruno Lafrance / Dr. Daniel Kontak
FROM: Sudbury, Ontario; GRADUATED FROM: Laurentian University (BSc and MSc); SPECIALITIES: Environmental Geology, Analytical Chemistry; CURRENT RESEARCH: Geochemistry of Sudbury Mine Tailings; SUPERVISOR: Dr. Graeme Spiers; COMMITTEE: Dr. Michael Schindler, Dr. François Caron, Dr. Marcus Burnham
FROM: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; GRADUATED FROM: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK (BSc); University of Regina, Regina, SK (MSc); CURRENT RESEARCH: Geological Investigation of Uranium Mineralization along the Qavvik-Tatiggaq Trend, northeast Thelon Basin, Nunavut; SUPERVISOR: Dr. Bruno Lafrance
FROM: Brampton, ON; GRADUATED FROM: University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON (H.B.Sc); Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS (M.Sc.App); SPECIALITIES: Fluid geochemistry; Economic geology; CURRENT RESEARCH: Fluid geochemistry associated with gold mineralization in the Hope Bay Greenstone Belt, Nunavut, and Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia: Fluid origin and application to gold exploration; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Jacob Hanley / Dr. Daniel Kontak
FROM: South Africa; GRADUATED FROM: University of Limpopo, South Africa; CURRENT RESEARCH: Petrology and mineral chemistry of chromitite seams of the Platreef, Bushveld (South Africa): Looking for geochemical markers to identify and differentiate among chromitite cycles; SUPERVISOR: Pedro Jugo
Late Cretaceous Epithermal Gold Metallogeny and fluid evolution in the Dawson Range, Yukon Territories, Canada
GRADUATED FROM: China University of Geosciences, Beijing (BSc, MSc); CURRENT RESEARCH: Geology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrogenesis of the Jinbaoshan Pt-Pd deposit and Baimazhai Ni-Cu deposit, Ailaoshan orogenic belt, Yunnan province, SW China; FUNDED BY: CSC, NSERC-DG, and SEG; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Michael Lesher and Dr. Jun Deng
From: Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa; Graduated from: University of Limpopo; Current research: Mineral Prospectively Mapping using machine learning algorithms of the Swayze Greenstone Belt and the Abitibi Subprovince; Supervisor: Dr. Richard Smith; Thesis Committee: Dr. Daniel Kontak and Dr. Bruno Lafrance
FROM: Sudbury, ON; GRADUATED FROM: Laurentian University (BSc, MSc); CURRENT RESEARCH: Fluid history of three Canadian metallotects; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Elizabeth Turner / Dr. Daniel Kontak
FROM: Negaunee, Michigan, USA; GRADUATED FROM: Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH (BS); CURRENT RESEARCH: Geochemical discrimination between Raglan Formation and North Claim Sills, Cape Smith Belt, New Québec; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Michael Lesher, Dr. Michel Houlé (GSC)
FROM: Markham, ON; GRADUATED FROM: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (BSc Hons and MSc); CURRENT RESEARCH: Geology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Paleoproterozoic Booth River Intrusive Complex, Slave Province, Nunavut; FUNDED BY: GSC and NSERC; SUPERVISORS: Dr. C.M. Lesher/Dr. J. Bédard
RESEARCH PROJECT: The nature of Archean Porphyritic rocks associated with copper mineralization in the Superior Province, Canadian Shield; SUPERVISOR: Dr. Jeremy Richards; EMAIL: xmeng1@laurentian.ca
RESEARCH PROJECT: Factors contributing to metal endowment in the Western Wabigoon Subprovince (WWS): A Mineral prospectivity modelling approach for Archean Greenstone Belt; SUPERVISOR: Stephane Perrouty; TRANSECT: Thematic: Wabagoon; EMAIL: rmontsion@laurentian.ca
Development of new aeromagnetic data interpolation and interpretation methodologies, with a focus on linear features
Integrated Stable Isotopic, Mineralogical and Textural Studies of the LCT Little Nahanni Pegmatite Group in the NWT, Canada: Implications for the Magmatic-Hydrothermal Transition and Rare-metal (Li-Ta-Sn) Mineralization. Supervisor: Dr. Dan Kontak Email: JPfister@laurentian.ca
RESEARCH PROJECT: Interpretation of Metal Earth magnetotelluric data; SUPERVISOR: Dr. Richard Smith; TRANSECT: Geophysics; EMAIL: eroots@laurentian.ca
FROM: England; GRADUATED FROM: Durham University, England (MSci Geological Sciences), Queen's University (MSc Mineral Exploration); SPECIALITIES: Structural Geology, Economic Geology; CURRENT RESEARCH: Structural controls on Gold Mineralization at the Snow Lake Mine, Flin Flon- Snow Lake Greenstone Belt, Manitoba, Canada; SUPERVISOR: Dr. Bruno Lafrance / Dr. Harold Gibson
RESEARCH PROJECT: Volcanic reconstruction and evolution of the Powell Block: Implications for Au Metallogenesis in Au-rich VMS deposits of the Blake River Group; TRANSECT: Rouyn Noranda; SUPERVISOR: Dr. Harold Gibson; EMAIL: mschofield@laurentian.ca
RESEARCH PROJECT: The volcanic and deformation history, geodynamic setting, and metallogenesis of the Upper Chisel Sequence, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Harold Gibson/Dr. Bruno Lafrance; EMAIL: mstewar7@uottawa.ca
RESEARCH PROJECT: Metallogeny of the Onaman-Tashota Greenstone Belt, Eastern Wabigoon Domain, Northern Ontario; TRANSECT: Geraldton/Beardmore; EMAIL: kstrongman@laurentian.ca
PhD candidate working on the geology of the Hardrock world-class orogenic gold deposit, Geraldton, ON.
RESEARCH PROJECT: Localization and genesis of contact Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization in the Sudbury Structure; TRANSECT: Sudbury; SUPERVISORS: Dr. Michael Lesher and Dr. Peter Lightfoot; EMAIL: ywang8@laurentian.ca
