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posted on June 8, 2022

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 …

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posted on May 12, 2022

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

The Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) at the University of …

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posted on September 30, 2020

Geoscience BC study suggests a new tool for copper exploration (CIM Magazine, Sept. 2020)

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posted on August 13, 2020

MDRU Board of Directors & EOAS–UBC Announce Appointment of Incoming MDRU Director and Transition Plan

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In the News

posted on June 17, 2020

Will a copper face mask protect against COVID-19? Experts aren’t so sure (Yahoo Canada, June 2020)

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In the News

posted on May 5, 2020

Deep Learning – International Caving Research Network looks for solutions to deep mining problems and challenges (CIM Magazine March 02, 2020)

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In the News

posted on January 30, 2020

Quest to ‘See the Unseeable’ drives exploration innovation in B.C. (CIM Magazine, January 2020)

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In the News

posted on December 6, 2019

New Drilling Results from South Grass Valley Gold Project, Battle Mountain – Eureka (Cortez) Trend, Nevada

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In the News

posted on December 6, 2019

New Independent Study Points to Porphyry Potential at Lawyers

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In the News

posted on February 9, 2019

Bridging Academia and Research (Mineral Exploration Magazine, December 2018)

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posted on February 6, 2019

Is there a new golden age for copper coming to British Columbia? (Business in Vancouver, 05 Feb 2019)

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posted on April 24, 2020

UBC Launches of the International Caving Research Network (ICaRN)

The Deans of the Faculty of Applied Science and the …

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In the News

posted on August 23, 2018

Tailings to the rescue: UBC professor Greg Dipple aims to prove that tailings could be a mine’s secret weapon for reducing its carbon footprint (CIM Magazine)

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posted on December 6, 2019

MDRU Research Identifies NEW Porphyry Mineralization and Potential, in northern BC Mineral District

MDRU research into the transitions that exist between epithermal and …

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In the News

posted on October 30, 2017

MDRU, Fathom Geophysics target central BC (The Northern Miner)

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posted on November 29, 2019

MDRU Research Develops a New Way to Build Geophysically-Constrained 3D Structural Models

A recently released manuscript documents how MDRU students, researchers and …

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In the News

posted on January 10, 2019

The Northern Miner podcast – episode 52: Featuring UBC’S MDRU (20 March 2017)

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posted on February 6, 2019

UBC Student wins National Geological Mapping Award

MSc candidate Andrew Steiner is the 2019 recipient of the …

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In the News

posted on January 11, 2019

Mining Industry Titans to Award $1 Million in Prizes for Canada’s Next Potential Gold Discovery (02 March 2016)

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posted on February 8, 2019

Scientists search for gold in Yukon and Alaska (The Ubyssey, 01 Oct. 2016)

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posted on February 6, 2019

MDRU and BRIMM students awarded First and Second Place at RoundUP 2019 Student Poster Competition

A special congrats and a big shout out to Sterling …

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posted on January 6, 2019

MDRU Uncovers Mineral Potential of BC’s ‘TREK’ Central Interior Region

MDRU has literally rewritten the book on Central BC geology …

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In the News

posted on June 15, 2016

Fitting the Pieces: How MDRU is Uniting Explorers in the Yukon to Assemble the Discovery Puzzle (North of 60 Mining and Exploration Review 2016)

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posted on December 27, 2018

New MDRU Research Characterizes Footprint of Giant Carlin Gold System

Research at MDRU has documented spatial variations of several geochemical and …

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posted on March 2, 2016

$2.5M boost to cutting-edge exploration geochemistry research at UBC (UBC Science News)

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posted on January 11, 2019

UBC’s MDRU Celebrates 25th Anniversary (Northern Miner, 22 April 2015)

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posted on January 11, 2019

AcmeLabs Contributes Funds to Support the Mineral Deposit Research Unit’s Exploration Geochemistry Initiative (04 June 2014)

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posted on September 18, 2018

Welcome new students

Four new students have joined us in recent months. Connor …

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posted on January 5, 2019

MDRU Mineral Occurrence Discovery Purchased for $2.5M CAD

Field mapping by MDRU crews in 2015 in central British …

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posted on June 25, 2018

MDRU & BRIMM students win Geoscience BC scholarships

Today, three MDRU and BRIMM students received $5000 each in …

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posted on August 12, 2016

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

MDRU obtains $557,670 from NSERC to Support >$1.2M Mineral Exploration …

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