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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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WTMP – Regional Magmatism and Controls on Porphyry Copper Deposit Distribution in Iran (WTMP Phase 1)

  • Commodity: Copper
  • Research Themes: Copper, Regional Metallogeny
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Researchers: Farhad Bouzari, Mana Rahimi
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WT2 – Regional Constraints on Porphyry-Epithermal Deposits in the Artvin Au-Cu district, eastern Pontides Belt, Turkey

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2020
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WT2 – New constraints on magmatic rocks and porphyry Cu-Au mineralization episodes in the Timok Magmatic Complex, eastern Serbia

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper
  • Research Themes: Copper, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Bor, Timok district, eastern Serbia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2020
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WT2 – Magma fertility assessment for gold and copper mineralization in a frontier area: Insights from the postcollisional Middle Eocene Adjara-Trialeti metallogenic belt, Lesser Caucasus, Georgia

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods, Regional Metallogeny
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2020
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Colombia Gold and Porphyry Project – La Bodga and La Mascota

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Project Status: Completed
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Regional Framework, Structural Controls & Alteration Vectoring of the Quimsacocha Epithermal Gold District, Ecuador

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Project Status: Completed
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Stratigraphic and petrographic characterization of HS epithermal Au-Ag mineralization at the TV Tower district, Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Canakkale, Biga district, northwestern Turkey
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2016
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Magmatic-hydrothermal evolution and post-ore modifications of the Halilağa porphyry Cu-Au deposit, NW Turkey

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Canakkale, Biga district, northwestern Turkey
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2017
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Structural and fluid evolution of the Efemçukuru epithermal gold deposit, western Turkey (WTMP Phase 1)

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: Izir region, western Turkey
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2016
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Geology and Geochronology of the Bozshakol Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit, Kazakhstan

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper
  • Research Themes: Copper, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: northern Kazakhstan
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: 2019
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