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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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Host Rock Characteristics at Copper Mountain Mine, BC

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Silver
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits
  • Location: Copper Mountain, British Columbia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2014
  • End Date: 2015
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Controls on Gold Mineralization at the Coffee Gold Deposit, Dawson Range, Yukon, Canada

  • Ore Deposit: Orogenic gold
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Dawson Range, Yukon, Canada
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2014
  • End Date: 2018
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TREK Geology, Magmatism and Metallogeny, Interior Plateau region of central BC, Canada

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Interior Plateau, British Columbia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Researchers: Joel Angen, Mana Rahimi, Craig Hart
  • Start Date: 2014
  • End Date: 2018
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Structural evolution of the Mitchell Au-Cu-Ag-Mo porphyry deposit, NW BC

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Iskut-Stikine River region, British Columbia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2014
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Discovery Tools for Buried Copper Deposits in the Atacama Desert, Chile

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper
  • Research Themes: Copper, Exploration Methods
  • Location: Atacama Desert, Chile
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Students: Alexandra Brown
  • Start Date: 2015
  • End Date: 2018
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Regional Metallogeny and Geochemistry of Colombia

  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Colombia
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: 2015
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Western Tethyan Metallogeny Project, Phase 2 (WT2)

  • Ore Deposit: CRD, Epithermal, Porphyry, Skarn, VMS
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
  • Research Themes: Base Metals, Copper, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey, Georgia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Students: Eoin Cross
  • Start Date: 2017
  • End Date: 2020
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Extracting Geological Value from SeArch Airborne Magnetic Data, central BC

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: west-central British Columbia
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Joel Angen, Mana Rahimi, Craig Hart
  • Start Date: 2016
  • End Date: 2018
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Cordilleran Porphyry Systems: The BC Pb Isotopic Advantage

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: British Columbia
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: 2016
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Application of Genomics to BC’s Mineral Deposit Discovery

  • Ore Deposit: VMS
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Various sites, southern BC
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Rachel Simister
  • Start Date: 2017
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