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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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Volcanology of the Renard kimberlite pipe, Quebec

  • Ore Deposit: Kimberlite
  • Commodity: Diamond
  • Research Themes: Kimberlites
  • Project Status: Completed
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Searching for ore shoots in a low sulfidation epithermal vein system at Manatial Espejo, Argentina

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2009
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Deformation, metamorphism, and gold deposition in the Archean Ormsby gold prospect, Northwest Territories

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: northern Yellowknife region, Northwest Territories, Canada
  • Project Status: Completed
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Cretaceous Thorn magmatic-hydrothermal systems in northwestern British Columbia

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods, Gold Deposits
  • Project Status: Completed
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Building 3-D Earth Models: Integrating geology, physical properties and geophysics – Hislop, Ontario

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2004
  • End Date: 2009
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Building 3-D Earth Models: Integrating geology, physical properties, and geophysics – Mt Keith, Australia

  • Commodity: Gold, Nickel
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Wiluna, Western Australia
  • Project Status: Completed
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Geochronology of Lake Victoria goldfields, Tanzania

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Lake Victoria region, Tanzania
  • Project Status: Completed
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Sulfur isotope zoning in alkaline porphyry Cu deposits, Mt Polley, BC

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Exploration Methods
  • Location: Central British Columbia
  • Project Status: Completed
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Sources and exhausts in polymetallic carbonate rock-hosed ore deposits: Miocene magmatism and alteration in central Peru

  • Ore Deposit: CRD, Epithermal
  • Commodity: Silver, Zinc
  • Research Themes: Base Metals
  • Location: central Peru
  • Project Status: Completed
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Volcanology of Buffalo Head Hills kimberlite, Alberta

  • Ore Deposit: Kimberlite
  • Commodity: Diamond
  • Research Themes: Kimberlites
  • Location: Buffalo Head Hills, northern Alberta
  • Project Status: Completed
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