Member Benefits

Access to Highly Qualified People

• MDRU Researchers provide rapid consultation
• Our graduate students are your next employees
• UBC Professors bring extensive research expertise
• Visiting researchers & distinguished lecturers provide opportunities for learning and collaboration
• MDRU Staff provide technical support

Visit our Resource Room to view and read

• Books & Reports
• Technical & Scientific Journals
• Newsletters & Trade magazines
• Past MDRU project reports
• Past MDRU short course volumes

Access to our Analytical Equipment

• Numerous microscopes, including camera attachment
• TerraSpec SWIR for alteration studies, and software for spectra evaluation
• Fluid Inclusion Analysis, including IR light for sulphides like sphalerite and stibnite
• Carbon and oxygen isotopic analysis on carbonates
• Rock photography and thin section scanning
• Cathodoluminescence and UV evaluation of geomaterials, veins, mineral grains

Maybe you can get some use from our Archives

• BHP/Utah Mines, Island Copper Archives
• Sheahan Diamond Library
• Cordillera galena archive
• MDRU rock and sample archives

Rock & Sample Preparation

• Rock prep, and sample washing and sorting space
• Rock saw
• Rock crushing and heavy mineral separations

*Due to UBC safety, access to some these spaces is restricted to trained students and staff

Look over our shoulder and see how we use various software to solve problems

• Leapfrog and ioGas
• GOCAD
• Geosoft
•  ArcGIS and MapInfo
•  Iolite for laser ablation data reduction
• TSG for SWIR spectra evaluation
  We also have a plotter for large-scale map and poster printing

Please talk to us if you have any questions or any other facilities you are interested in!