WINTER 2020
THE HES NEWSLETTER
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IN THIS ISSUE
MARY-CLAIRE WARD GEOSCIENCE AWARD
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP DR. J RICHARDS
YEARS OF SERVICE AWARD
PDAC 2020
STUDENTS PREP FOR COLUMBIA
ANDYMCDONALDITE
WELCOME NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
RESEARCH @ HES & MERC
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
UPCOMING MODULAR & MAPPING COURSES
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Hello 2020!
Welcome to 2020 at the Harquail School of Earth Sciences. This winter semester is in full swing and brings significant travel for our students and researchers, starting in Vancouver for Round Up in January, then heading to Colombia this February, followed by travel to PDAC in Toronto.
Exciting news includes our MSc Geology student Kendra Zammit winning the 2020 Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award, a celebration of the exceptional years of service to Laurentian University by faculty and staff (Willard Desjardins, Roxane Bourgouin-Mehes, and Dr. Bruno Lafrance), the formal approval of a new mineral species named after Dr. Andy McDonald, an amazing student planned and led field trip to Colombia this month, and student scholarship and many thesis defence successes. We also welcome Jennifer Abols to the Laurentian University community as the Executive Director of the Goodman School of Mines and President and CEO of MIRARCO.
We hope to see many of you at PDAC in March at our annual Alumni and Friends reception to catch up and discuss the future successes of HES and our new strategic planning that is being finalized.
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KENDRA ZAMMIT WINNER OF 2020 MARY-CLAIRE WARD GEOSCIENCE AWARD
We are celebrating our MSc Geology student Kendra Zammit, winner of the 2020 Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award! Results from Kendra's thesis will document the influence of structural evolution of the western Superior Province greenstone belts on their differential gold endowment, and will assist future orogenic gold exploration.
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Kendra Zammit's research focusses on the Neoarchean evolution of progressive deformation and orogenic gold mineralizing events in the western Wabigoon subprovince of Canada’s Superior Province, by integrating legacy data, new field observations, microstructural analyses, and U-Pb geochronology to revise the structural and metallogenic evolutionary history of the region.
The Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award is awarded annually to a graduate student at a Canadian university whose thesis incorporates geoscience mapping as a significant component. The award is administered by the Geological Association of Canada (GAC), the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), the National Geological Surveys Committee, the Canadian Geological Foundation, and Watts, Griffis and McOuat Ltd.
A previous Laurentian University MSc Geology winner of the Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award was Jordan McDivitt in 2016 Learn more.
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DR. JEREMY P. RICHARDS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
The Dr. Jeremy P. Richards Memorial Scholarship has been established by family, friends, students, and colleagues to recognize Professor Richards’ seminal contributions to our understanding of magmatic-hydrothermal and hydrothermal ore deposits.
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Professor Richards occupied a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Metallogeny in the Harquail School of Earth Sciences at Laurentian University. He was an internationally recognized authority in the geology and genesis of porphyry and epithermal deposits, which he studied globally, a mentor to many students and post-doctoral fellows, and a valued consultant to industry.
Awarded annually to a minimum of one student enrolled in the thesis-based MSc or PhD program working in the field of ore-deposit geology (preferably the metallogenesis of magmatic-hydrothermal or hydrothermal ore deposits), the award will be made on the basis of academic excellence and financial need. Should no suitable candidate be available in any given year, the funds will be reinvested into the Endowment.
Completed applications should be submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies no later than February 15th. Learn more.
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YEARS OF SERVICE AWARD
HES recognizes years of service from three HES employees!
Willard Desjardins
(45 years of service. Pictured right.)
Roxane Bourgouin-Mehes
(25 years of service. Pictured middle.)
Dr. Bruno Lafrance
(20 years of service. Pictured left.)
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Roxane Bourgouin-Mehes - 25 years of service
Started in 1994, administrative assistant, is our reliable pillar in managing and running the organizational part of the Harquail School of Earth Sciences.
Dr. Bruno Lafrance - 20 years of service
Started in 1999, professor, supervisor of numerous students and alumni in the field of structural geology, structural controls on ore deposits, and Precambrian geology.
Willard Desjardins - 45 years of service
Started in 1974, petrographic technologist, managing and running the petrographic lab, tireless supplier of thin sections, polished rocks and other petrographic services.
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PDAC 2020
HES & MERC head to PDAC in Toronto at the end of February to share research updates in workshops and short courses, host a world wide student poster competition, and connect with alumni and friends at the annual Harquail Alumni Reception.
Learn more about the opportunities to connect with us this March below!
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March 2nd:
Harquail Alumni & Friends Reception
Celebrate HES successes with currents students, alumni, and friends! View Invitation.
March 3rd:
PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium:
Support ongoing student (BSc., MSc., PhD.) research relating to the mining industry while celebrating a century of discovery with SEG!
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STUDENTS PREP FOR COLOMBIA
The Laurentian University Society of Economic Geologists student chapter (LU-SEG) is organizing a 13-day long tour of the regional geology and mining districts of the Central and Eastern Colombia.
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ANDYMCDONALDITE (Fe3+2Te6+O6), NAMED AFTER HES PROFESSOR
A new ferric iron tellurate with inverse trirutile structure from the Detroit district, Juab County, Utah named after Prof Andy McDonald.
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HES ALUMNI 2019 MAC FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Congratulations to HES alumni Derek Leung and Christopher Beckett-Brown for receiving the 2019 Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) Foundation Scholarship!
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LAURENTIAN WELCOMES NEW LEADER
Jennifer Abols appointed Executive Director of the Goodman School of Mines and President and CEO of MIRARCO at Canada's Mining University.
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Laurentian University and its Mining Innovation Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO) were pleased to welcome Jennifer Abols this past November as the new Executive Director of the Goodman School of Mines and President and CEO of MIRARCO.
When Dr. Bruce Jago completed his term as Founding Executive Director of the Goodman School of Mines and Vic Pakalnis retired as the President of MIRARCO, this created an opportunity for one person to direct both organizations. This change will take advantage of synergies between the two entities which will position Laurentian University as Canada´s Mining University.
Abols grew up in Sudbury, graduated from Laurentian University with a Bachelor of Engineering in Extractive Metallurgy, and obtained her MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University with a focus on marketing and international strategy. Abols is a bilingual, professional engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the mining and minerals sector. Her wealth of experience across the mining cycle made her the perfect candidate to build Laurentian’s reputation as Canada’s Mining University.
Welcome Jennifer!
Goodman School of Mines, news, October 30, 2019
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Colleagues and students at Kipushi (Frost, Mathieu, Twite).
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RESEARCH IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Prof Elizabeth Turner, Adjunct Prof David Broughton, and graduate students Christian Frost (MSc) and Jordan Mathieu (PhD), traveled to the DRC in September to work on two sedimentary-rock-hosted base-metal deposits, Kipushi and Kamoa-Kakula. Thanks to the contributions of Congolese colleagues - especially Franck Twite - the group was able to complete the core-logging and sampling required for two of the numerous research projects that Turner's group has been pursuing at Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi, in the Congolese part of the central African copperbelt.
To date three projects have been completed; ongoing work includes projects aimed at deciphering the origin of Kamoa-Kakula's world-class ore-bodies, Kipushi's ultra-high-grade "Big Zinc" deposit, and the geological factors controlling the development of the copperbelt as a whole.
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Kipushi coreyard in the shadow of the famous shaft 5.
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Geologists inspecting core at Kipushi.
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MERC LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE TOOLS
In the fall MERC launched a research projects map as well as a Metal Earth GeoHub, to provide the public with tools to navigate through Metal Earth project information including research presentations, maps, scientific reports, journal papers, and data. These tools can be accessed on the MERC website under research.
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HES REFERENCE MINERAL COLLECTION
HES boasts a reference mineral collection with > 7000 specimens representing > 2500 mineral species. The bulk (>5000) come from the Irwin Kennedy collection, donated ~ eight years ago. The collection has been archived and a searchable database created (using Microsoft Access) through the Herculean efforts of Derek Leung, with further dedicated work by Mattea McRae. View database.
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PAPER ON THE CL RESPONSE OF QUARTZ FROM SUDBURY OFFSETS TRENDING
The paper, written by Elliot Wehrle (LU 2014-2018 undergrad) and Prof. Andrew McDonald, is currently the most downloaded paper in The Canadian Mineralogist, with > 50 reads since being uploaded two weeks ago.
Read more.
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DEATH VALLEY SEDIMENTARY FIELD SCHOOL TO RUN FOR A SECOND YEAR
Dr. Alessandro Ielpi will run the second iteration of his field school for the course 'Sedimentary Geology in the Field', in Death Valley, California.
This year, an expanded version of the field school will include additional days of field activities dedicated to the regional geology of the southwest United States. This multidisciplinary field school will include five students from the Harquail School of Earth Sciences, a student from the Department of Biology at Laurentian, and two students from, respectively Stanford University and Simon Fraser University.
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SUCCESSFUL THESIS DEFENSES
Students, faculty and staff of the Harquail School of Earth Sciences would like to congratulate recent graduate students for successfully defending their theses!
PhD
Yujian Wang, Oct 2019
Mitchell Kerr, Dec 2019
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MSc
Thomas Bagley, Sept 2019
William McNeice, Sept 2019
Philippe Trudel, Oct 2019
Quinn Dabros, Oct 2019
Mélanie Bouchard, Dec 2019
Robert Meek, Jan 2020
Sharlotte Mkhonto, Jan 2020
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Sharlotte Mkhonto, MSc candidate
“The use of sulfide mineral chemistry to understand PGE-mineralization processes in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa”.
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Robert Meek, MSc candidate
"Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Husky Creek Formation, Nunavut, Canada".
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SPRING 2020 RESEARCH & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Join the Harquail School of Earth Sciences and the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) as early as this spring! Detailed postings are available for download on the HES careers page hes.laurentian.ca/careers.
- Tier I Canada Research Chair in Metallogeny
- Harquail PhD Scholarship
METAL EARTH:
- Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associates (LU)
- Differential VMS endowment of Archean greenstone belts.
- Geology of Metal Earth Atikokan transect in the Mesoarchean to Neoarchean Marmion Terrane, Superior Craton, western Ontario.
- MSc Opportunities:
- Sedimentology, detrital zircon geochronology, and geochemistry of the Archean Ament Bay assemblage, Sturgeon Lake greenstone belt, western Ontario (LU).
- Structural geology and stratigraphy of the Archean Steep Rock Group, Atikokan, western Ontario (LU).
- Gold metallogeny of the Archean Steep Rock and Finlayson greenstone belts, Atikokan, western Ontario (LU).
- Gold Fingerprinting Project (LU).
- Metallogeny of the Douay syenite (UQAC).
- PhD Opportunities:
- Greenstone belt Assemblage Boundaries (LU).
- Metallogeny of the Archean VMS Sturgeon Lake greenstone belt, western Ontario (LU).
- Modern/Ancient Ocean Crust (UOttawa).
- Trace Element Geochemistry of Ore Systems (UOttawa).
View Careers
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Exploration for Magmatic Ore Deposits [GEOL 5606]
March 31 - April 9, 2020
Live webcasting delivery option available (non-credit).
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10-day intensive course in magmatic Ni-Cu-(PGE), PGE, Cr, and Ti-V deposits including 3 days of theoretical material, 5 days of case studies, and 2 days of exploration methods.
Confirmed Speakers: Prof Sarah-Jane Barnes (UQAC), Dr. David Burrows (Vale), Dr. Danielle Giovenazzo (Salda Geosciences), Dr. Michel Houlé (GSC/HES), Alan King (Geoscience North), Prof. Michael Lesher (MERC/HES), Prof. Edward Ripley (Indiana University), and Dr. Rebecca Sproule (Tascan Geosciences).
Learn more.
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MERC Greenstone Gold and Base Metal Mapping Course: Exploration Models and Methods
May 3-10, 2020
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MERC presents a greenstone gold and base metal mapping course May 3 -10, 2020. This course is best suited for professional geoscientists who have recently entered the exploration sector, or professionals who are new to gold and base metal exploration in Precambrian Shields.
Learn more.
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Mineral Exploration in Volcanic Terrains [GEOL 5326]
August 20 - 29, 2020
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This 10- day field-based course focuses on recognizing, describing, and mapping volcanic lithofacies, alteration types, mineralization, and deformation in a well-exposed Precambrian volcanic succession hosting base and precious metal deposits. The course is delivered as a mapping project with evening lectures and discussion following a one-day introductory field trip. An introduction to graphic core logging is provided.
Learn more.
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