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MDRU ACTIVE Projects

MDRU research projects are developed as a collaboration between MDRU members and UBC faculty and researchers. Our projects focus on delivering value for the research sponsors, training students and postdoctoral research fellows to be highly skilled employees. If you have a research project idea or a problem you’d like to solve, please contact us – we’d love to hear from you.

BC PORPHYRY PROJECT

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GOLDEN TRIANGLE STRATIGRAPHY PROJECT

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MDRU COLOMBIA METALLOGENY

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Carbonate Alteration footprints

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Red Chris Porphyry Project

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Analytical Method Development

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Ore Body Knowledge

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Structure and Zn-Pb mineralization in the Selwyn basin

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Northern Toodoggone exhumation project

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Unlocking Critical Metal Potential

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Structural and Thermal Evolution of the Klondike Gold Fields, Yukon

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold, Placer gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Klondike gold fields, Yukon territory, Canada
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Tyler Ambrose
  • Start Date: 2017
  • End Date: 2019
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Exploration Framework for Porphyry to Epithermal Transitions in the Toodoggone Mineral District, BC

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Toodoggone District, Peace River Region, BC
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2016
  • End Date: 2018
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Geology, Geochronology & Geochemistry of the El Alacrán Deposit, San Matías Project, NW Colombia

  • Ore Deposit: Hydrothermal, IOCG, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits
  • Location: San Matías Project, Cordoba Department, NW Colombia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Students: Julian Manco Parra
  • Start Date: 2017
  • End Date: 2020
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Dawson Range–Mount Freegold Mapping, Mineralization and Magmatism, Yukon

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Dawson Range and Mt. Freegold areas, Yukon Territory
  • Project Status: Active
  • Students: Melissa Friend
  • Start Date: 2017
  • End Date: 2020
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MDRU Geometallurgy Initiative

  • Ore Deposit: Carlin-type, Epithermal, Orogenic gold, Porphyry, Tailings, VMS
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Location: Worldwide
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: 2017
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Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics of Porphyry Fertile Plutons: Guichon Creek, Takomkane and Granite Mountain Batholiths, BC

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia, Canada
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2015
  • End Date: 2018
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Structural Controls on Barkerville and Related Orogenic Gold Camps of Interior British Columbia

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Barkerville Gold Camp, central BC, Canada
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2016
  • End Date: 2017
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Yukon-Alaska Metallogeny (YAM)

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Orogenic gold, Placer gold, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Yukon Territory; Alaska
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2014
  • End Date: 2019
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Assessing BC Porphyry Fertility with Zircons

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
  • Research Themes: Copper, Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia
  • Project Status: Active, Completed
  • Start Date: 2016
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PIMS-Porphyry Indicator Minerals

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
  • Research Themes: Copper, Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia, Canada
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2010
  • End Date: 2015
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