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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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CO2 Sequestration of Ultramafic Tailings (SCO2UT)

  • Ore Deposit: Tailings
  • Commodity: Diamond, Nickel, Platinum
  • Research Themes: CO2 Mineral Sequestration
  • Project Status: New Opportunity
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MDRU Colombia Metallogeny

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Hydrothermal, IOCG, Orogenic gold, Placer gold, Porphyry, Sedex, Skarn, Supergene, VMS
  • Commodity: Copper, Emerald, Gold, Nickel, Platinum, REE, Silver, Zinc
  • Research Themes: Base Metals, Gold Deposits, New Projects, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Colombia
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: 2010
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Western Tethyan Metallogeny Project (WTMP Phase 1)

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Turkey, Serbia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Iran, Romania
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2012
  • End Date: 2016
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Regional Metallogeny of Ratanakiri, Cambodia

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Ratanakiri, Cambodia
  • Project Status: Active
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Coastal Cordillera IOCG, northern Chile

  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Chile
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SeArch Mapping Project: Extracting Geological Value from SeArch Airborne Magnetic Data, west-central British Columbia

  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: west central British Columbia
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Mana Rahimi
  • Start Date: 2016
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