MDRU – Mineral Deposit Research Unit at The University of British Columbia is proud to announce representatives on two of the top five final teams in the highly competitive Integra Gold Rush Challenge. Craig Hart, MDRU Director, and Sara Jenkins, MDRU GIS Specialist, comprise Team GoldRX; and MDRU PhD student Fabien Rabayrol is a member of Team Data Miners - a group of six students from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique and UBC.
These finalists were selected from more than 100 team and individual submissions. A blue ribbon panel of industry icons determined the top five finalists. The winner will be decided at a Gala event held during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto on Sunday March 6.
The Integra Gold Rush Challenge was launched by Integra Gold Corp as a global crowd-sourcing opportunity to discover the next big, high-grade and cost-effective target on their Sigma-Lamaque orogenic gold property near Val d’Or, Québec. Integra Gold owns the intellectual property of more than 6 terabytes of digital mining and exploration data, spanning more than 75 years of mining activity and 9 million ounces of gold production in Val-d'Or. Many millions of dollars have been spent by others acquiring this digital data – and Integra decided now was the time to use it.
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