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Starting 2019 off in Vancouver & Toronto
Look for MERC and the Harquail School of Earth Sciences at Roundup and PDAC 2019. Stop by our booth to hear from lead researchers and sit in on one of our various talks.
A Research Update with the Mantle Group
Surprisingly, even though the mantle is the main source for minerals, there is very little that is known about the distribution of key metals.
Metal Oceans Research Expedition
Metal Oceans team departed for the NE Lau Basin December 11th 2018 - January 26th, 2019.
Metal Earth Publications in the OGS Summary of Field Work 2018:
Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 2018 (OFR 6350).
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Upcoming Events:
March 2nd, 5th, 6th, 2019: PDAC Short Courses & MERC Events.
March & May, 2019: Project Management Courses with the Goodman School of Mines.
April 6th-15th, 2019: Modular Course on Exploration for Hydrothermal Ore Deposits: Genesis and Exploration.
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Roundup 2019
MERC and the Harquail School of Earth Sciences are at Roundup - Booth #524!
Ross Sherlock, MERC & Metal Earth Director, will be speaking in the "Precious Metals" session Wednesday January 30th on "Geologic Architecture and Precious Metal Mineralization in the Southern Abitibi; New Insights from the Larder Lake Area".
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Eric Roots, PhD Candidate, will be speaking in the 'Additions to the Geoscience Toolbox' on Tuesday January 29th.
His talk is titled 'An integrated approach to geophysically characterising the mantle and lower crustal conditions and processes responsible for the distribution of mineral endowment within Archean greenstone belts'.
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PDAC 2019
This year MERC, Metal Earth and the Harquail School of Earth Sciences will be seen at various events at PDAC.
Stop by our booth #1230 to meet lead researchers on the Metal Earth project and hear from students from around the world at the 10th Annual Student Minerals Colloquium.
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PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium (SMC)
Tuesday, March 5th 10:00am to 6:00pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) South Building, Room 701
> Event Details
MERC Short Course
March 2nd, 2019
Geology, genesis, and exploration for magmatic and magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits.
> View Course Description
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Metal Earth PhD candidate, Rebecca Montsion, to deliver PDAC Short Course:
March 6th, 2019
Holistic exploration in covered terranes: An example applied to the Cu-Mo porphyry prospectivity of Quesnel, eastern British Columbia (0.5 days).
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Earths Source for Minerals – the Mantle
Research update with Dr. Graham Pearson, University of Alberta, Post Doctoral Fellows Janina Czas and Adrien Vezinet.
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Minerals in economic concentrations are found in earths crust. Ultimately, the source of all these minerals that end up in the crust, came from the mantle.
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Surprisingly, even though the mantle is that main source, there is very little that is known about the distribution of key metals. In particular, the location, spatial distribution and mechanism of transfer of gold from the mantle into the earths crust.
"We aim to change that."
The Mantle Group investigates the relationships between the earths crust and the mantle to contribute to project Metal Earth’s efforts. They are focused around mapping and characterizing the shallowest portion of earths crust to try and establish the link between all that data and the underlining deep seeded processes that took place to facilitate the mineralization process.
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Image Above: Peridotite xenoliths – rounded fragments of green rock - from the lithospheric mantle within a fine grained matrix of volcanic rock (dark grey).
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“Any successful exploration methodology really should be based on a complete and thorough understanding of how that mineralization takes place. How gold, for example, gets into the crust from the mantle, is a critical and completely un-resolved question in genetic models for gold mineralization.”
- Dr. Graham Pearson
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“Part of understanding how to find new deposits is going to involve understanding those processes. The details of those processes affect and shape the locations of where gold deposits might be – both in ancient rocks (Superior Craton) and even processes that might be happening today that create modern day deposits."
- Dr. Graham Pearson
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Metal Oceans Research Expedition
Metal Oceans team research expedition to the NE Lau Basin December 11th 2018 - January 26th, 2019.
ARCHIMEDES I (SO267) is a research expedition led by research scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in collaboration with the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) in the NE Lau Basin of the southwest Pacific Ocean from December 11, 2018 to January 26, 2019 on the RV Sonne.
> Read More
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Metal Earth Publications
Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 2018 (OFR 6350).
Metal Earth field work summary papers published in the Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 2018 (OFR 6350) available online for electronic distribution.
> Visit Website
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March 25-27, 2019
Project Management Essentials
March 28-29, 2019
Managing Project Risk
May 6-10, 2019
PMP Exam Preparation
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The Goodman School of Mines is now accepting registrations for the spring series of courses in our Project Management Certificate program. These courses are standalone courses that combine into the GSM Project Management Certificate. These courses are applicable and available to everyone and are NOT mining focused. The link below will bring you to more information on all three courses.
View All Course Details
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April 6-15, 2019
Modular Course on Exploration for Hydrothermal Ore Deposits: Genesis & Exploration.
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This 10-day course focuses on the geology, alteration, and origin of hydrothermal ore deposits. Deposit types include epithermal and mesothermal precious metal, porphyry Cu-Mo-Au, IOCG, sediment- and volcanic hosted base-metal deposits, and U and REE deposits. Emphasis is placed on the processes responsible for their formation, the recognition of alteration halos, and features pertinent to exploration.
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