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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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Paleotopography of the Ovacik low-sulfidation epithermal deposit, Turkey

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Project Status: Completed
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Eocene Reconstruction of the Carlin District – Jerritt Canyon area

  • Ore Deposit: Carlin-type
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: Carlin District, Nevada, USA
  • Project Status: Completed
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Giant volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits: The volcanologic and structural setting of Tambo Grande, Peru

  • Ore Deposit: VMS
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
  • Research Themes: Base Metals
  • Location: Tambo Grande, Peru
  • Project Status: Completed
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ICaRN – International Caving Research Network

  • Ore Deposit: Kimberlite, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Diamond, Gold
  • Location: Global, currently Indonesia, Australia, Canada
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: January 2020
  • End Date: open
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Carbon Mineralization Potential Assessment for BC – CaMP

  • Research Themes: CO2 Mineral Sequestration
  • Location: British Columbia
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Jamie Cutts, Dominique Fournier
  • Start Date: 2019
  • End Date: 2021
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Paragenetic Relationships and Timing of Orogenic Gold, Klondike District, Western Yukon

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Klondike, Yukon
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2016
  • End Date: 2019
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Metallogenesis of the Iskut River Area, Northwestern British Columbia

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry, Sedex
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Iskut River area, northwestern British Columbia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 1989
  • End Date: 1993
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Hydrocarbon Compounds in Soil as Mineral Deposit Pathfinders

  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Mount Washington, Vancouver Island BC; central BC
  • Project Status: Active
  • Students: Pearce Luck
  • Start Date: 2017
  • End Date: 2020
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Microbial-Community Fingerprints as Indicators for Buried Mineralization in British Columbia

  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Rachel Simister
  • Students: Bianca Iulianella Phillips
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Linking Porphyry Deposit Geology to Geophysics via Physical Properties: Adding Value to Geophysical Data

  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia
  • Project Status: Completed
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