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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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Reconstructing the Oyu Tolgoi porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Mongolia

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Copper, Gold Deposits, Regional Metallogeny
  • Location: South Gobi Region, Mongolia
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2003
  • End Date: 2008
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Seeing through Chilcotin basalts: the geochemical signal of what is hidden underneath

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: Central BC
  • Project Status: Completed
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Surficial Geochemical Models of British Columbia Porphyry Systems

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia
  • Project Status: Completed
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Predicting Magmatic Fertility & Detecting Hydrothermal Alteration of Porphyry Copper Systems with Porphyry Indicator Minerals (PIMS)

  • Ore Deposit: Epithermal, Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold
  • Research Themes: New Projects
  • Location: Global
  • Project Status: New Opportunity
  • Start Date: 2019
  • End Date: 2022
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MDRU-GIF Geophysical Toolkit for Geologists

  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia, Canada
  • Project Status: Active
  • Researchers: Dominique Fournier
  • Start Date: May, 2018
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Carbonate Alteration Footprint of the Cortez Hills Carlin-type Gold Deposit, Nevada

  • Ore Deposit: Carlin-type
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods, Gold Deposits
  • Location: Carlin district, Nevada, USA
  • Project Status: Completed
  • End Date: 2018
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Mineralogical Controls on Gold Recovery at Kişladağ, Turkey

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Gold
  • Research Themes: Gold Deposits
  • Location: Turkey
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: 2017
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Carbonate Alteration Footprints of Hydrothermal Ore Systems

  • Ore Deposit: Carlin-type, CRD, Epithermal, Hydrothermal, MVT, Porphyry, Skarn
  • Commodity: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
  • Research Themes: Base Metals, Exploration Methods, Gold Deposits
  • Location: Peru; Nevada, Washington, USA; British Columbia, Canada
  • Project Status: Active
  • Start Date: 2012
  • End Date: 2018
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Exploration Geochemistry Initiative

  • Ore Deposit: Kimberlite, Porphyry, VMS
  • Research Themes: Exploration Methods
  • Location: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Chile
  • Project Status: Active
  • Students: Pearce Luck, Bianca Iulianella Phillips, Ryan Shaw, Andrew (Andy) Wickham
  • Start Date: 2013
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CMIC – Copper Exploration Footprints: Highland Valley Copper Porphyry

  • Ore Deposit: Porphyry
  • Commodity: Copper
  • Research Themes: Copper, Exploration Methods
  • Location: Highland Valley Copper Mine, BC
  • Project Status: Completed
  • Start Date: 2014
  • End Date: 2018
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