The annual Calgary Mining Forum will be held April 24-25 at that city’s Ramada Downtown Hotel. The event will include technical sessions on exploration for diamonds in western Canada and on genetic and exploration characteristics of Athabasca Basin uranium deposits.
Organized by the Calgary Mineral Exploration Group and the Alberta Geological Survey (AGS), the forum coincides with an open-house review of the latter’s work over the past year. These presentations will focus on surficial geology, geophysics and terrain-mapping as applied to diamond exploration in northern Alberta.
The forum will also host a series of presentations on the EXTECH IV program, a multi-disciplinary study of the geology of the uranium deposits of the Athabasca Basin being handled by the AGS, the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), and university and industry research partners. Scientists from the participating organizations will present papers on the general geology of the deposits and on two sub-projects — a stratigraphic re-interpretation of the Basin and a study of the diagenesis and evolution of hydrocarbon fluids and formation waters in the sedimentary sequence.
Geologists from the AGS, the GSC and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development will present results of recent studies on potential for Pine Point lookalikes — carbonate-hosted lead-zinc deposits in the Western Sedimentary Basin. Several Calgary-based mineral exploration companies will present updates on their own projects.
More information is available at the Mineral Exploration Group’s website, www.meg.calgary.ab.ca, or by telephoning Paul Hawkins at (403) 242-7745.
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