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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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The genesis of ‘giant’ copper-zinc-gold-silver volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits at Tambogrande, Perú : age, tectonic setting, paleomorphology, lithogeochemistry, and radiogenic isotopes

  • Author: Lawrence Winter
  • Degree Type: PhD
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal
  • Year: 2008

Geologically-constrained UBC–GIF gravity and magnetic inversions with examples from the Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt, Western Australia

  • Author: Nicholas Williams
  • Degree Type: PhD
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal, Doug Oldenburg
  • Year: 2008

Understanding physical property : mineralogy relationships in the context of geologic processes in the ultramafic rock-hosted mineral deposit environment : aiding interpretation of geophysical data

  • Author: Victoria Sterritt
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal
  • Year: 2006

Tracing hydrothermal fluid flow in the rock record : geochemical and isotopic constraints on fluid flow in Carlin-type gold systems

  • Author: Jeremy Vaughan
  • Degree Type: PhD
  • Supervised by: Ken Hickey
  • Year: 2013

Low-temperature thermochronology of the northern Carlin Trend : evidence for Late Cretaceous exhumation of northern central Nevada and short duration of Carlin ore-forming hydrothermal systems

  • Author: Moira Cruickshanks
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Ken Hickey
  • Year: 2012

Geological & geochronological framework and mineralization characterization of the Thorn Property, and associated volcanoplutonic complexes of northwestern British Columbia, Canada

  • Author: Adam Simmons
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal
  • Year: 2005

Geologic Map and Structural Evolution of the Black Hills Creek Area in the Smash Minerals Whiskey Project, Yukon Territory

  • Author: Stacie Jones
  • Degree Type: BScHon
  • Supervised by: Jim Mortensen
  • Year: 2012

Microstructures and Trace Element Signatures of Orogenic Quartz Veins in the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada

  • Author: Gareth Wolff
  • Degree Type: BScHon
  • Supervised by: Murray Allan
  • Year: 2012

Geology and mineralization at Independence Creek : Dawson Range, West-central Yukon Territory

  • Author: Greg McKenzie
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Jim Mortensen, Murray Allan, Craig Hart
  • Year: 2014

Late Jurassic fault-hosted gold mineralization of the Golden Saddle deposit, White Gold district, Yukon Territory

  • Author: Leif Bailey
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Craig Hart
  • Year: 2013

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