Wed

12 Aug 2026

MERC Short Course October 6 @ NEOMMS in Timmins

MERC Short Course, October 6, 2026, Timmins, Ontario 

Northeastern Ontario Mines and Minerals Symposium (NEOMMS)

Details and registration: https://porcupineprospectors.ca/events/neomms-2026-geoscience-insights-and-innovations

New Insights into Crustal-Scale Influences on Gold and Base Metal Endowment in the Superior Craton and the Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Presentations 

9:00-9:45: John Ayer; Crustal architecture and metal endowment of the Timmins region.

9:45-10:30: Bruno Lafrance; Structural controls on gold mineralization along the Larder Lake-Cadillac break

10:30-10:50: Break:

10:50-11:35: Jack Simmons; Archean metasedimentary belts and gold deposits of the Superior craton.

11:35-12:20: Gyorgyi Tuba; Born of Magma, Shaped by Deformation: An Updated Ore System Model for the Kirkland Lake Gold Camp.

12:20-1:20: Lunch

1:20-1:40: Carla Petahtegoose; Integrating Western Geoscience with Indigenous Views of the Land

1:40-2:10: Taus R.C. Jørgensen; Assemblage and lithological compilations of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt and their use in assessing differential VMS endowment.

2:10-2:30 Break

2:30-3:15: Stefanie Brueckner; The Many Faces of VMS deposits: Exploration, Lithochemistry and Critical Metals.

3:15-4:00: Rasmus Haugaard; Deep drilling and geophysical evidence for a new large Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposit and impact structure in the northeastern part of the Sudbury basin

Contact: John Ayer. Email: jayer@laurentian.ca