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PDAC - SEG Student Minerals Colloquium Award Recipients

2023

Award Winners

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BSc

1st - Natalia Goszczynski, University of Western Ontario; Distribution and Textural Characterization of Tin in the Iska Iska Polymetallic Project, Bolivia
 

2nd - Rhian Dentelbeck, University of Ottawa; Intraplate volcanism and implications for crustal growth and metal endowment in back-arc basins: Evidence from the Niuafo’ou Volcanic Complex in the Northern Lau Basin
 

3rd - Kingslei Medina, University of Saskatchewan; Pyrite in the Golden Marmot target, Brucejack Au-Ag deposit, British Columbia: Variations in texture, relationship to Au, and comparisons with the Valley of the Kings

 

MSc

1st - Ben Eaton, University of British Columbia; Rapid Cu-porphyry indicator mineral characterization by μXRFF: a case study investigating μXRF corescanners as a prospective automated indicator mineral analytical tool on HMC till samples from central British Columbian Cu-porphyry exploration properties
 

2nd - Tavis Enno, University of Western Ontario; Characteristics of ore fluids and mineralization at the Troilus Gold Project, Quebec: Implications for ore transport and exploration
 

3rd - Julian Melo-Gomez; Laurentian University; Using gold to explore for gold: Trace element content of native gold across Ontario

 

PhD

1st - Duncan McLeish, McGill University; The electrochemical flocculation of colloidal gold by semiconductive p-type pyrite at the high-grade Brucejack epithermal Au-Ag deposit, NW British Columbia: a solution to the bonanza gold ore paradox?
 

2nd - Tyler Hall, Stanford University; Sequential decision-support for optimal exploration data acquisition
 

3rd - Catriona Breasley, University of British Columbia; Mining and processing of micro spodumene-quartz intergrowths at the Tanco pegmatite, Manitoba

 

2022

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ONLINE SMC AWARD WINNERS

ANNOUNCED JUNE 28, 2022

Award BSc MSc PhD
1st Andres Canales, Queen's University Yann Mpaka Waku, Stellenbosch University Marc Lorin Fassbender, University of Ottawa
2nd None Shelby Brandt, University of Regina (Tie for 2nd place) Livia Leskone Majoros & Csilla Balassa, both at University of Miskolc
3rd None Steve Chingwaru, Stellenbosch University Rita Chirico, University of Naples Federico II 

Although there was only one BSc competitor this year, Andres Canales achieved a near-perfect score on his poster. 

The 2022 SMC Online Competition winning posters are available only to those who are registered for the PDAC Online Convention. They may be posted here at a later time, pending PDAC permission. In-person SMC winning poster winners and the associated digital files are below.

IN-PERSON SMC AWARD WINNERS

ANNOUNCED JUNE 14, 2022

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Award BSc MSc PhD
1st Martina Boddy, University of Ottawa Connor Caglioti, Lakehead University Collette Pilsworth, Queen's University
2nd Tavis Enno, Western University Michael Ryan, University of Ottawa Tom Buckle, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter
3rd Caelen Burand, University of Arizona Char Erb, University of Toronto Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, University of Ottawa

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Honourable mentions: MSc level participants Tercio Nunes and Joy Carter

 

2021 PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium Winners Podium
Award BSc MSc PhD
1st Daniel Thomson Nessrine Mohamed Priyal Daya
2nd Sofia Panasiuk Quinton Willms Nini Tatiana Pertuz
3rd Kallie Stone Jessie Kehew Marie Kieffer

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
BSc Student Winners
1st Place - Daniel Thomson, University of Saskatchewan     
Field observations and structural relationships of auriferous quartz veins, Finlay-McKinlay Outcrop, southern Lynn Lake Greenstone Belt, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Manitoba
2nd Place - Sofia Panasiuk, University of Toronto 
Volcanism and hydrothermal venting on a hot-spot influenced slow-spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge
3rd Place - Kallie Stone, Memorial University of Newfoundland 
Black Smoker Fluid Fluxes at the Niua South Seafloor Hydrothermal Vent Field, Tofua-Kermadec Arc
 
MSc Student Winners
1st Place - Nessrine Mohamed, Université Laval 
Mineralogical mapping of ore samples and the implementation of Pd and Pt measurements using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and µ-XRF
2nd Place - Quinton Willms, University of British Columbia 
Structural Evaluation of the Tom Deposit, Selwyn Basin, Yukon
3rd Place - Jessie Kehew, University of Ottawa 
Intrabasinal sediments and tectonostratigraphy of the Lau Basin: Assessing linear vs diachronous models for the opening of the Lau back-arc
 
PhD Student Winners
1st Place - Priyal Daya, Saint Mary’s University 
Melt inclusions associated with Archean volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits: constraints on the pre-eruptive metal and volatile content of magmas
2nd Place - Nini Tatiana Pertuz, Uppsala University
E-vib as an innovative seismic source in hard rock mineral exploration in Ludvika Mines (Sweden)
3rd Place - Marie Kieffer, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi 
Trace elements in apatite in layered intrusions: insights into magmatic processes and application to mineral exploration

2021 Abstracts 

2020

2020 PDAC-SEG SMC Winners
Award BSc MSc PhD
1 Lauren Norenberg, Queen's

Adrian Rehm,  Laurentian

 Well-Shen Lee,                 Laurentian
2 Liam Maw,  uOttawa James Alexander, Western Alexandra Pearce, New Mexico Tech
3 Catherine Gavaris, Queen's Selcuk Cevik, Queen's Francisca Maepa,    Laurentian
 
BSc
1 Lauren Norenberg, Structural setting and kinematic history related to vein emplacement and shear localization at the Van Horne prospect in Dryden, Ontario
2 Liam Maw, Regional Tectonics of the Fiji Platform: Use of Offshore Geophysical Data to Target Mineral Resources on Land
3 Catherine Gavaris, Petrogenesis and mode of emplacement of the Neoarchean Round Lake Batholith, Kirkland Lake, Ontario
 
MSc
1 Adrian Rehm, Origin of mafic-ultramafic volcanic rocks in the northern Pontiac subprovince, Quebec, Canada
2 James Alexander, Gold Mineralization at the Vertigo Target White Gold District, West-Central Yukon, Canada
3 Selcuk Cevik, A combined multivariate approach analyzing the geochemical data for knowledge discovery: The Vazante – Paracatu Zinc District, Minas Gerais, Brazil
 
PhD
1 Well-Shen Lee, Zone Refining in an Epithermal Setting: A Mechanism of Ag-Au liberation at the Klaza Epithermal Deposit, Yukon.
2 Alexandra Pearce, Major Ore Mineraloids of the Grants Uranium Distict, New Mexico, USA
3 Francisca Maepa, Predictive analysis of gold mineral prospectivity using Deep Neural Networks (DNN)

2020 Abstracts

2019

Award BSc MSc PhD
1st

Andrew Bradley,

Laurentian University

Jeff Hrncir,

University of New Mexico

Dennis Sanchez-Mora,

Memorial University of Newfoundland
2nd

Logan Foucault, 

Laurentian University

Christophe Simbo,

University of Arkansas

Camilo Uribe,

New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
3rd

Katharina Holt,

Queen’s University

Arin Kitchen,

University of Regina

Jackie Wrage,

University of Michigan

 

 

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2019 Abstracts

2018

Award BSc MSc PhD
1st

K Cunningham,

University of Regina

Erin Keltie,

Dalhousie University

DF McLeish,

University of McGill
2nd

J Squire,

University of Regina

Martin Viala,

University of Ottawa

Marina Schofield,

Laurentian University
3rd

 

Jianjuang Chen,

Memorial University

  

2017

Award BSc MSc PhD
1st

Robert Meek,

Laurentian University

Dillon Johnstone,

University of Regina

Jessica Stromberg,

Western University
2nd

Katelynn Brown,

University of Saskatchewan

Jessica Pickett,

Queen's University

Charles Bérubé, 

Polytechnique Montréal
3rd

 

Rachel Chouinard,

University of British Columbia

  

2016

Award BSc MSc PhD
1st

Ryan Bachynski,

University of Regina

Raja Yarra,

University of British Columbia

Nicolas Gaillard,

McGill University
2nd

Mikell Bilodeau,

University of Ottawa

Craig Richardson, 

University of British Columbia

Raymond Caron, 

Carleton University
3rd  

Shawn Scott,

University of Waterloo
 

2015

Award BSc MSc PhD
1st

Mélanie Bouchard,

Laurentian University

Mo Asmail,

Western University

Volker Möller,

McGill University
2nd

Thasan Kandasamy,

Western University 

Justin Hoyle,

University of Windsor

Charles Bérubé, 

Polytechnique Montréal
3rd

 

Maria Stefanescu,

University of Ottawa

2014

Award BSc MSc PhD
1st

Marie-Eve Lajoie,

University of Ottawa

Édouard  Côté-Lavoie,

UQAC

Katie Hahn,

Laurentian University
2nd

Justin Emberley,

University of Ottawa

Shannon Gill,

Memorial University

Erin Adlakha,

University of Ottawa
3rd  

Lindsay Upiter,

Carleton University