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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, mineralogical and fluid evolution of the Shahumyan intermediate sulphidation vein deposit, Kapan district, Armenia

  • Commodity: Gold, Silver
  • Research Themes: Base Metals, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Kapan district, southern Armenia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2017
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Geology, geochronology and structural reconstruction of the Cerro Bayo epithermal district, Chilean Patagonia

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Lago Gral Carrera, Chile
  • Project Status: Completed
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Geometallurgy of the Giant Pebble Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Alaska

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Location: Iliamna region, southern Alaska
  • Project Status: Completed
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Intrusion-Related gold deposits in Yukon and Alaska – Longline, Yukon

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: westernmost Yukon, Canada
  • Project Status: Completed
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Intrusion-Related Gold Deposits in Yukon and Alaska – Pogo

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Delta Junction, central Alaska
  • Project Status: Completed
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Geometallurgy and Mineralogy of the Kvanefjeld (Ilimaussaq) REE-U Deposit, Greenland

  • Ore Deposit: Various
  • Commodity: REE
  • Location: Narsaq, southwestern Greenland
  • Project Status: Completed
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Footprints of Orogenic Gold Systems – Red Lake, Ontario

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: Red Lake gold district, northwestern Ontario, Canada
  • Project Status: Completed
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Footprints of Porphyry Copper Systems – Butte, Montana

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper
  • Research Themes: Copper
  • Location: Butte, Montana, USA
  • Project Status: Completed
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Footprints of Porphyry Copper Systems – Christmas, Arizona

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry, Skarn
  • Commodity: Copper
  • Research Themes: Copper
  • Location: Christmas, Arizona
  • Project Status: Completed
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Footprints of Porphyry Copper Systems – Yerrington, Nevada

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits
  • Location: Yerrington, Nevada, USA
  • Project Status: Completed
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