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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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Rock Physical Properties and Mineral Deposits

  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Global
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Dominique Fournier
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Characteristics and Formation of the Jeronimo Sedimentary rock-hosted Disseminated Gold Deposit, Atacama Region, Chile

  • Ore Deposit: Carlin-type, CRD
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 1999
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The timing and structural evolution of the Donlin Creek gold deposit, southwest Alaska

  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: Alaska, USA
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2009
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Thallium Mineralogy of the Taron Epithermal Cesium Deposit, Argentina: Implications for Economics, Mining, Metallurgy and the Environment

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Salta, Agrentina
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Students: Taylor Ledoux
  • Start Date: 2018
  • End Date: 2019
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WTMP – Structural, Stratigraphic and Temporal Constraints of Gold Mineralization in the Bigar Hill Deposit, Timok Region, Serbia (WTMP Phase 1)

  • Ore Deposit: Carlin-type
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Timok Region, eastern Serbia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2013
  • End Date: 2019
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Biogeochemical Expressions of Buried REE Mineralization at the Norra Kärr Alkaline Complex, southern Sweden

  • Commodity: REE
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Granna, Sweden
  • Project Status: Completed
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Geologically-Constrained UBC-GIF Gravity and Magnetic Inversions, Agnew-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, Western Australia

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Western Australia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2008
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Physical Property Mineralogy Relationship of Ultramafic Rock-hosted Mineral Deposits with Geophysical Data – Kabanga

  • Ore Deposit: Kimberlite
  • Commodity: Diamond, Nickel
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Kabanga, Tanzania; and Mapaktulik Lake, Northwest Territories
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2004
  • End Date: 2006
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Till Geochemistry and Lithogeochemical Exploration for Concealed Kimberlites

  • Ore Deposit: Kimberlite
  • Commodity: Diamond
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Kelvin Lake, Northwest Territories
  • Project Status: Active
  • Students: Andrew (Andy) Wickham
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Colombia Gold & Porphyry Project (CGPP)

  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Middle Cauca Au-Cu Belt and Vetas-California Au-Ag (Cu-Mo) mining district, Colombia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2011
  • End Date: 2014
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