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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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Volcanic framework, geochronology and geochemical evolution of the El Dorado Gold District, El Salvador, Central America

  • Author: Mathieu Richer
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal, Dominique Weis, Jim Mortensen
  • Year: 2006

Geologic framework of the Thunderstruck massive sulphide prospect, Goalnet property, Finlayson Lake district, YT

  • Author: Nakano
  • Degree Type: BSc
  • Year: 2006

Crustal contamination, sulphide mineralization, and compaction during formation of the marginal zone of the Muskox Intrusion, Nunavut, and implications for the evolution of the 1.27 Ga Mackenzie magmatic event

  • Author: Robin Mackie
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: James Scoates, Dominique Weis
  • Year: 2006

Distal alteration in the carbonate-hosted replacement and skarn systems at Yauricocha, central Peru

  • Author: Julio J. Carrasco
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Greg Dipple, Richard Tosdal
  • Year: 2006

Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Ormsby zone and relative timing of gold mineralization: A newly defined Archean orogenic gold prospect hosted on the Discovery property, Yellowknife greenstone belt, Slave Province, Canada

  • Author: William H. R. Whitty
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal
  • Year: 2007

Turnagain Alaska-type ultramafic-mafic complex in northern British Columbia

  • Author: J. Erik Scheel
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: James Scoates, Graham Nixon
  • Year: 2007

The Renard 4 Kimberlite:  Implications for ascent of kimberlites in the shallow crust

  • Author: Emma L. Gofton
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal
  • Year: 2007

Klondike placer gold: New tools for examining morphology, composition and crystallinity

  • Author: Evan C. Crawford
  • Degree Type: MSc
  • Supervised by: Jim Mortensen
  • Year: 2007

The genesis of ‘giant’ Cu-Zn-Au-Ag volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits at Tambogrande, Perú:  Age, tectonic setting, paleomorpholgy, lithogeochemistry and radiogenic isotopes

  • Author: Lawrence S. 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 C. Williams
  • Degree Type: PhD
  • Supervised by: Richard Tosdal, Doug Oldenburg
  • Year: 2008

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