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Our research focusses on regional to deposit scale controls on base and precious metal deposits particularly copper and gold, improving ore body knowledge, and method development. Innovation is in our DNA – from new analytical technology to new geoscientific data, we are at the cutting edge of mineral deposit research.
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Mapping geological information flow in the mining value chain : strengthening downstream decision-making through robust orebody knowledge

  • Author: Carolina Marin Suarez
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Shaun Barker; Cassady Harraden
  • Year: 2026

Investigating rapid porphyry indicator mineral characterization by automated benchtop micro X-ray fluorescence

  • Author: Ben Eaton
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Shaun Barker
  • Year: 2026

The skarn to porphyry transition : establishing links between skarn and porphyry-type mineralization at New Craigmont, British Columbia

  • Author: Warren Wegener
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Shaun Barker
  • Year: 2026

Mineralogical and textural analysis of the Torbrit and Wolf silver deposits, Kitsault Valley, northwestern British Columbia

  • Author: ZaneAldeen Rahabi
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Shaun Barker
  • Year: 2025

The detection and quantification of reactivity in ultramafic rocks, minerals and mine waste for carbon dioxide removal via carbon mineralization

  • Author: Xueya Lu
  • Degree Type: PhD
  • Supervised by: Gregory Dipple
  • Year: 2025

Feasibility of in-situ carbon mineralization in serpentinite via shallow injection, British Columbia, Canada

  • Author: Katrin Steinthorsdottir
  • Degree Type: PhD
  • Supervised by: Gregory Dipple
  • Year: 2025

Geology and footprints of porphyry deposits in the Iron Mask District, British Columbia

  • Author: Fabrizzio Abello Hurtado Gonzalez Polar
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Shaun Barker
  • Year: 2025

Platinum group elements and gold deportment in the Kwanika copper-gold±molybdenum porphyry system, British Columbia, Canada

  • Author: Cansu Karatas Ahmadli
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Shaun Barker
  • Year: 2025

Petrology and geochemistry of the Lorraine alkalic copper-gold deposit, British Columbia, Canada

  • Author: Huaze Xu
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Shaun Barker
  • Year: 2025

Structural, stratigraphic and temporal constraints of gold mineralization in the Bigar Hill deposit, Timok region, Serbia

  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Author: Jelena Živanović
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Craig Hart
  • Year: 2019

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Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
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