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Welcome to MDRU's newest Corporate Member!
Visit us at Roundup!  Check out Booth #700
Please come by MDRU's booth in the Roundup Exhibit Hall and catch up with everything we have going on! Researchers, students and staff will all be available to discuss their latest projects, where we are taking MDRU in 2016 and the benefits of MDRU membership.
Last chance to register for our Short Courses - January 23-24, 2016
Exploring Smarter in Glaciated and Covered Terrains
This two-day short course will provide tools and knowledge to help overcome some of the challenges associated with exploring through cover. Talks will largely emphasize the northern Cordilleran environment and the search for porphyry deposits.
Presentation topics include:
  • glaciated materials, patterns and distribution;
  • nature and use of heavy mineral concentrates and indicator minerals;
  • developments in Porphyry Indicator Minerals;
  • case studies, methods, sampling and survey strategies.
For more information visit: www.amebc.ca/roundup
Microdiamonds
MDRU and Minerals Services Canada Inc. are partnering to present this 1.5 day short course at The University of British Columbia.
A full day of lectures from Mineral Services and guest speakers, accompanied by an interactive half-day practical session, will include topics such as:
  • diamond formation, characteristics and value;
  • microdiamond characteristics and origin;
  • diamond recovery methods;
  • geological controls on diamond distribution in primary diamond deposits;
  • the relationship between microdiamonds and macrodiamonds;
  • and the application of microdiamond data in resource evaluation.
Registration available here
MDRU Corporate Membership Renewal Reminder
A friendly reminder that 2016 MDRU Membership fees are welcome - please submit payment at your earliest convenience, either on-line or we would be happy to send you an invoice. If you would like to become an MDRU member, more information can be found here
MDRU Presentations at Mineral Exploration Roundup
MDRU's research will be well-represented with several talks and poster presentations.
  • Farhad Bouzari will present a talk, "Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics of Porphyry Indicator Minerals for Exploration of Covered Deposits", at 9:10am, Tues. January 26th. 
A Poster Session Reception will be held Tues. January 26th from 1:00 - 4:00pm and authors will be in attendance. The following MDRU posters will be displayed in the Poster Session, 9:00am - 4:00pm, Mon. January 25th - Thurs. January 28th:
  • Christopher Herron "Defining the Carbonate Stable Isotope Alteration Footprint of the Cortez Hills Carlin-type Au Deposit in North-Central Nevada, USA and Applications to Mineral Exploration"
  • Craig T Richardson "Controls on Polymetallic Vein Deposits and Porphyry Deposits in the Phum Syarung-Dok Yong Fault Corridor, Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia"
  • Erika Cayer "Development of Geochemical Exploration Technologies for the Discovery of Kimberlites Concealed under Glacial Drift, NWT"
  • Fabien Rabayrol "Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Porphyry and Epithermal Systems in the Anatolian-Tauride Metallogenic Belt, Turkey"
  • Farhad Bouzari "Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics of Porphyry-Fertile Plutons: Guichon Creek, Takomkane and Granite Mountain Batholiths, South-Central British Columbia: Evidence from Apatite"
  • Joel Angen "TREK Mapping Project Year 2: New Geology and Mineralization Highlights from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia"
  • Kaleb Boucher "Structural and Fluid Evolution of the Efemçukuru Epithermal Au-deposit, western Turkey"
  • Kathryn Grodzicki "Multi-parameter geologic mapping at the Coffee gold deposit, west-central Yukon, Canada"
  • Matthew Bodnar "Integration of Surface Regolith Mapping and Soil Field Measurements with Geochemistry in a Till-Covered Terrain, Lara Volcanogenic Massive-Sulphide Deposit, Southern Vancouver Island"
  • Mana Rahimi "Making and Improving Geological Maps from Regional Geochemical Datasets Making and Improving Geological Maps from Regional Geochemical Datasets"
  • Nikolett Kovacs "Geological Investigation of the Carmacks Cu-Au-Ag oxide deposit, central Yukon"
  • Rachel Couinard "Defining the Surficial Geochemical 'Footprint' of Buried Cu-Mo Porphyry Mineralization at the Highland Valley Copper Deposits"
  • Rachel Kim "Stratigraphic and Lithological Constraints of Late Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks in the TREK Project Area, Central British Columbia (NTS 093E)"
  • Samuel Cantor "Stable Isotopes as an Exploration Tool, Mapping Cryptic Alteration Haloes in the Mesozoic Carbonate Rocks in the Iscaycruz Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag Skarn-CRD Deposit and Surrounding Areas, Central Peru"
  • Sandra Rosset "Hydrothermal alteration and mineralization at the Kerr and Deep Kerr Cu-Au Porphyry deposits, Northwestern British Columbia"
  • Shane Rich "Geochemical Mapping of the Deerhorn Cu-Au Porphyry Deposit and Associated Alteration through Transported Cover"
  • Stephen Bartlett  "Field investigations of the Sugar gold prospect, Dawson Range, Yukon (NTS 115J/14 and 115J/15)"
Josh Pillsbury will have his poster "Characterizing the Bennett Pluton" on display in the Yukon Room for the duration of the conference.

Recent Publications

Holley, E.A., Bissig, T., Monecke, T., in press, The Veladero High-Sulfidation Epithermal Au-Ag Deposit, El Indio-Pascua Belt, Argentina: Geochronology of Alunite and Jarosite: Economic Geology, accepted manuscript.

Anna L. Harrison, Gregory M. Dipple, Ian M. Power, K. Ulrich Mayer 2016. The impact of evolving mineral–water–gas interfacial areas on mineral–fluid reaction rates in unsaturated porous media. Chemical Geology, v. 421, p.65-80

PVS Raju, CJR Hart, P Sangurmath, 2016. Scheelite geochemical signatures by LA-ICP-MS and potential for rare earth elements from Hutti Gold Mines and fingerprinting ore deposits. Journal of African Earth Sciences 114, 220-227.

Bissig, T., Clark, A.H., Rainbow, A., Montgomery, A., 2015, Physiographic and tectonic settings of high-sulfidation epithermal gold–silver deposits of the Andes and their controls on mineralizing processes. Ore Geology Reviews, Volume 65, Part 1, March 2015, Pages 327-364, ISSN 0169-1368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2014.09.027

Joyce, N L; Ryan, J J; Colpron, M; Hart, C J R; Murphy, D C., 2015. A compilation of 40Ar/39Ar age determinations for igneous and metamorphic rocks, and mineral occurrences from central and southeast Yukon; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7924,229 pages, doi:10.4095/297446

YJ Lu, TC McCuaig, ZX Li, F Jourdan, CJR Hart, ZQ Hou, SH Tang, 2015. Paleogene post-collisional lamprophyres in western Yunnan, western Yangtze Craton: Mantle source and tectonic implications. Lithos

DTA Symons, PJA McCausland, K Kawasaki, CJR Hart, 2015. Post-Triassic para-autochthoneity of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane: paleomagnetism of the Early Cretaceous Quiet Lake batholith. Geophysical Journal International 203 (1), 312-326

Scott Halley, John H. Dilles and Richard M. Tosdal, 2015. Footprints: Hydrothermal Alteration and Geochemical Dispersion Around Porphyry Copper Deposits. Society of Economic Geologists Newsletter, v. 100, January 2015. MDRU Publication #341

Harrison, A.L., Dipple, G.M., Power, I.M., and Mayer, K.U., 2015, Influence of surface passivation and water content on mineral carbonation rates: Implications for CO2 sequestration in mine tailings. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 148:477-495.
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