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The Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC)

A semi-autonomous exploration geoscience research centre at Laurentian University focused on Precambrian ore systems research, education, and exploration methodology and targeting. 

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  • MERC Metal Earth Short Course, Oct. 5 2025, Kirkland Lake - NEOMMS
    MERC - Metal Earth Short Course at NEOMMS, Kirkland Lake
    Thursday August 28, 2025
  • Workshop – SCW-A8 GAC-MAC-IAH-CNC (Ottawa) Controls on Gold and VMS Deposits in Archean Terranes and Modern Oceans Sunday, May 11, 2025
    GAC-MAC Workshop: Controls on Gold and VMS Deposits in Archean Terranes and Modern Oceans
    Tuesday March 18, 2025
  • 2023-24 MERC Annual Report Cover 16x9
    MERC 2023-24 ANNUAL REPORT
    Tuesday January 7, 2025

Recent Publications

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    5 Sep 2025
    Characterizing some major Archean faults at depth in the Superior craton, North America
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  • Tue

    19 Aug 2025
    Channelized metasomatism in Archean cratonic roots as a mechanism of lithospheric refertilization

    Archean cratons represent stable continental domains which form the nuclei of the Earth’s...

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    28 Jul 2025
    Overprinting of primary magmatic features by fluid-mediated processes in a F-bearing felsic...

    Fluids are major fractionation agents in granitic systems because they partly control the...

  • Tue

    1 Jul 2025
    Coeval development of dome-and-keel and linear accretionary architectures in the eastern Wabigoon...

    The eastern Wabigoon superterrane in the Superior Province, Canada, comprises two belts with...

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  • View of cliff side overlooking Donald Lake, near Sudbury, Ontario
    MERC Newsletter Fall 2025
    Wednesday October 1, 2025
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  • Phil Thurston
    Remembering Phil Thurston
    Wednesday September 17, 2025
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  • Lisa Gibson
    Harquail School of Earth Sciences welcomes Lisa Gibson, P.Geo., as new Program Director, MSc Geology - Applied Mineral Exploration
    Monday September 8, 2025
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