A great PDAC for MERC and Metal Earth

Thu

15 Mar 2018

MERC and Metal Earth had a great PDAC with many meetings about potential research projects, hosting a successful Gold Short Course and sponsoring the Student Mineral Colloquim.

MERC Gold Short Course:

An assessment of Precambrian gold deposit models from deep to shallow crustal levels

The Short Course was very well attended and sold out before the conference with 112 participants. A full course description can be found here.

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Metal Earth Superior Data Compilation

Metal Earth released a Superior Data Compilation days before the conference and provided booth visitors with USB keys loaded with the compilation. The Superior Data Compilation is a comprehensive dataset of integrated and standardized geospatial geological data within the Superior Craton. You can access PDF downloads as well as the GIS compilation zip folder on the MERC website here.

9th Annual Student Mineral Colloquium

MERC is a proud sponsor of the Student Mineral Colloquium at PDAC which highlights student research on ore deposits across North America and Internationally. You may read through some posters from students of the Harquail School of Earth Sciences below.

Student Posters from the Harquail School of Earth Sciences

Lithological and Structural Setting of the Komatiite-Associated Cubric Ni-Cu-PGE Showing, Southern Manneville Fault Zone, Southern Abitibi Subprovince, Québec

By Danielle Shirriff

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Characterization of alteration systems associated with synvolcanic intrusions and VMS mineralization in the Duprat-Montbray formation, lower Blake River Group

By Jonathan Sutton

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Improving Resource Estimation of Narrow Vein Gold Deposits using Discrete Fracture Networks

By William Junkin

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Late Cretaceous Metallogenic Implications from the Klaza Au-Ag-Pb-Zn-(Cu) deposit, Yukon

By Well-Shen Lee

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Predictive mapping of the gold mineral potential in the northern Swayze Greenstone Belt, ON, Canada

By Francisca Maepa

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Acquisition and processing of gravity data for the Metal Earth project

By Amir Maleki Ghahfarokhi

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Physical rock property collection and characterization of the Abitibi greenstone belt

By William McNeice

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Structurally constrained inversion in Geochron space

By Eric Roots

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Structural geology of the Timiskaming and Cadillac groups along the Malartic segment of the Larder Lake–Cadillac deformation zone and implications for gold mineralization, Abitibi greenstone belt, northwestern Québec

By Brendon Samson

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Preliminary results from detailed geological mapping of the Powell block, Rouyn-Noranda area, Quebec

By Marina Schofield

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Mineral chemistry of gahnite from the Lalor deposit, Snow Lake, MB

By Elliot Wehrle

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Improving Resource Estimation of Narrow Vein Gold Deposits using Discrete Fracture Networks

By William Junkin

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Basal unconformity between the Hearst and Larder Lake Assemblages

By Nadia St. Jean

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Structural and stratigraphic framework of the Kerr-Addison deposit

By Nadia St. Jean

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On behalf of the MERC and Metal Earth team we thank you for your attendance and participation at this year's PDAC and we hope to see you again soon.

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