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MDRU Awarded Over $1 million In Funding From NSERC Alliance-Mitacs To Launch New British Columbia Golden Triangle Project

The Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is pleased to announce the award of $1,042,923 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate program (matching $450,000 in industry cash contributions). This project aims to define a chemical and temporal “fingerprint” for volcanic rocks in […]

MDRU awarded $2.7 million NSERC funding for mineral exploration research in BC

The Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is pleased to announce the award of $2,700,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance program (matching $1,350,000 in industry cash contributions).  The project aims to improve exploration success for porphyry copper deposits in British Columbia. Over […]

MDRU wins NSERC funding for mineral exploration research in Yukon and Alaska

MDRU obtains $557,670 from NSERC to Support >$1.2M Mineral Exploration Research in Yukon and Alaska MDRU-Mineral Deposit Research Unit at The University of British Columbia announces successful leveraging of industry funds to support and expand research on their Yukon-Alaska Metallogeny (YAM) Project from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) program. MDRU’s YAM project is […]