Past talks
2015-2016
April 15, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 4:00pm): Rob Lee (MDRU): “The Geology of BEER!”
March 30, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 4:00pm): Jamil Sader (Bureau Veritas): “Analytical geochemistry for a financially constrained industry”
March 18, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 4:00pm): Julia Lane (ATAC Resources): “Characteristics of Carlin-type gold mineralization on the Rackla Gold Project in east-central Yukon”
March 16, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 12:00pm): Julian Dierkes (IAR, UBC): Gearing up for International Field Trip 2016 to Mongolia: “Mining regulations in Mongolia”
March 11, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 4:00pm): Paul Geddes (Barkerville Gold Mines): “Exploration and Development of the Cariboo Gold Project, BC”
February 26, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 4:00pm): Pim van Geffen (Reflex Geochemistry): “Taking the Lab into the Field: Real-Time Geochemistry and Mineralogy at the Drill Rig”
February 22, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 5:00pm): Bradford Cooke (CEO, Endeavour Silver): “Corporate Social Responsibility”
February 5, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 4:00pm): Jack Milton (Copper North Mining Corp.): “Sedimentary rock hosted copper mineralization in the Neoproterozoic Redstone Copperbelt, Northwest Territories”
January 12, 2016 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 5:00pm): Pat McAndless (P.Geo, FGC): “The Pathway to a Successful Career: Building Value”
December 11, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3:30pm): Craig Richardson (MDRU): “Exploring for Porphyry and Polymetallic Vein deposits in Northeastern Cambodia”
November 27, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3pm): Dr. Rob Lee (MDRU): “An Overview of the CMIC “Footprints” Project”
November 20, 2015 (ESB 4192 – UBC, 9:30am): GAC Distinguished Lecturer – Dr. Steve Piercey: “A semi-permeable interface model for the genesis of subseafloor replacement-type volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits”
November 18, 2015 (BCIT’s downtown campus, 555 Seymour St., Atrium Theatre 825, 4pm): GAC Distinguished Lecturer – Dr. Steve Piercey: “Zn-rich Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) Deposits”
October 30, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3pm) – Peter Winterburn (MDRU): “Exploration for Skorpion Style Zn-oxide deposits”
October 2, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3pm) – Kaleb Boucher (M.Sc Candidate, MDRU): “Fluid Evolution of the Efemçukuru LS/IS-epithermal Au deposit, western Turkey: A C & O isotope approach”
2014-2015
April 17, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3 pm) – Jim Mortensen (UBC): “Metallogeny of the Iberian Peninsula”
March 20, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3 pm) – Peter Winterburn (MDRU): “Exploration for Copperbelt style mineralization in the Central African Copperbelt”
March 13, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3 pm) – Ben Whiting (Orex Minerals): “Exploring for Silver and Gold in Mexico: The Case for Hidden Deposits”
February 19, 2015 (4 pm, GSC office downtown, 1500 – 605 Robson Street) – Dr. Ali Polat, GAC Distinguished Lecturer: “Archean Anorthosite Petrogenesis: A Case Study on the 2.97 Ga Fiskenæsset Layered Intrusion, West Greenland”
January 23, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3 pm) – Patrick McAndless: ” A career in geoscience: getting discovered”
January 16, 2015 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 3 pm) – Albert Chong (Silver Wheaton): “Preparing Your Exploration Program and Mineral Resource for a Due Diligence Review”
December 05, 2014 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 5 pm) – Sarah Rice (ALS): “Copper Mineral-Selective Leaches for Exploration Geochemistry and Geometallurgy”
November 28, 2014 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 5 pm) – Silvana Costa (AME BC): “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee”
November 21, 2014 (ESB 5106 – UBC, 5 pm) – Peter Bradshaw (First Point Minerals Corp.): “Discovery history of Porgera”
November 14, 2014 (ESB 5106 – UBC, 5 pm) – Prof. Colin Godwin (UBC Emeritus): “Geological approach to interpreting geochemical exploration data”
November 7, 2014 (MDRU Resource Room, 5th Floor, ESB – UBC, 4 pm) – Britt Bluemel (Reflex): “Geochemical Wizardry: Exploratory Data Analysis in action – practical applications and demonstrations”
October 31, 2014 (ESB 5104 – UBC, 5 pm) – Dr. Thomas Bissig (MDRU): “Formation, supergene upgrading and preservation of porphyry and epithermal deposits in the Andes”
October 17, 2014 – Dr. Pedro Cordeiro (Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.): “Discovery of Kamoa”
2013-2014
March 7, 2014 – Dr John-Mark Staude (Riverside Resources): “Economics of geology revisited”
Feb. 4, 2014 – Dr. Jacob Hanley (Saint Mary’s University): “Multiple stages of platinum-group element deposition in alkalic Cu-Au porphyry systems in the Canadian Cordillera, and links to mafic magmatism” NOTE: UBC Robson Square
Feb. 3, 2014 – Dr. Jacob Hanley (Saint Mary’s University): “The origin and role of volatiles in the formation of magmatic Ni-Cu-platinum-group element deposits: What have we learned from fluid and melt inclusions?”
Jan. 17, 2014 – Dr. Jim Mortensen (UBC): “Intrusion-Related and Orogenic Gold Exploration in the Variscan Belt in NW Spain and Portugal – Following in the Footprints of the Romans”
Jan. 10, 2014 – Dr. Patrick McAndless (Imperial Metals): “A Career in Geoscience: Getting Discovered”
Dec. 6, 2013 – Steve Cook (Teck): “Regional Geochemical Techniques in Modern Mineral Exploration”
Nov. 22, 2013 – Dr. Patrick Redmond (Teck): “Metal deposition by fluid cooling in porphyry systems: Insights from the Bingham Canyon porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit”
Nov. 15, 2013 – Todd Ballantyne (3D Geoscience, Inc.): “A brief Overview of Magnetic Data Processing & Presentation”
Nov. 1, 2013 – Dr. Murray Allan (UBC): “MDRU’s Yukon Gold Project: Contributions to the Metallogenic Understanding of West-Central Yukon”
