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Short Course 4 •
A Practical Guide to the Analysis
of Vein and Breccia Hosted
Hydrothermal Systems
Saturday, January 25
Short Course 5 •
Regional Metallogeny and Controls on
the Location of Ore Systems (MDRU)
Saturday, January 25 – Sunday,
January 26
Presented by:
AME BC and Nick Oliver,
Holcombe Coughlin Oliver
Presented by:
AME BC and Craig Hart, Mineral
Deposit Research Unit (MDRU)
The course will emphasize the combinations of rock observation, geochemistry and structure that lead to
better-informed exploration and mining decisions for geologists working in
brittle and/or ductile environments.
The special focus of the course will be
the combination of aspects of geochemistry and structure applied to field, core
or mine. The intended outcomes for participants will be in the area of better project appraisal skills, approaches to tackle
complex data sets and improved capacity
for pattern recognition in rocks and such
data sets.
Project generation and exploration targeting require quick identification of the
most prospective ground so exploration
budgets can focus efforts on smaller areas.
The identification of these most prospective locations requires recognition of the
key geological features that control and
localize ore-forming systems. These features operate across a range of scales and,
despite the range of metallic ore deposit
types that they form, are surprisingly
similar. Lithospheric enrichments of metals and volatiles, for example, are critical
features of most well-endowed provinces,
and crustal-scale structural breaks control
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