The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) will stage its second Minerals Colloquium in Ottawa on Jan. 22-24. The colloquium will follow the GSC Forum on Jan. 20-22.
The colloquium and forum comprise the second of a series of biennial meetings intended to highlight the results of GSC’s minerals program and to promote communication between GSC scientists and their colleagues in industry, the universities and other geoscience agencies.
A mid-term report of the EXTECH Project (exploration science and technology project) will be featured at the colloquium. A federal-provincial co-operative study, the project is dedicated to developing integrated deposit models for volcanogenic massive sulphides in the Snow Lake and Ruttan areas of northern Manitoba.
Five presentations will focus on Cordilleran metallogeny, including the Golden Triangle and Quesnel Trough areas. Updates on the status of current mapping and research will be presented by the GSC, the British Columbia Department of Energy and Mines and
the University of British Columbia’s Mineral Deposits Research Unit. Two presentations on Appalachian metallogeny will examine sediment-hosted barite and sulphide deposits of the Quebec Appalachians and intra-crustal chromitites in the Bay of Islands ophiolite. As well, a full morning will be devoted to the recent ocean drilling program in Middle Valley, Juan de Fuca Ridge.
Delivering the 1992 Lang Lecture will be Jim Gill and Howard Stockford, president and executive vice-president, respectively, of Toronto-based Aur Resources (TSE). The pair will speak on “integrated exploration strategies plus positive economic criteria equal new mine development.” Aur’s exploration strategy, particularly as it applied to the discovery of the Louvicourt Twp. massive sulphide discovery northeast of Val d’Or, Que., will be reviewed.
In a special lecture, John Tilton of the Colorado School of Mines will address the question of whether resource scarcity might someday undermine economic development and the high living standards now found in the industrialized world.
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