

- This event has passed.
Chair(s): Carolyn Relf, Britt Bluemel, Bronwen Wallace,
January 25 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
This session will highlight innovations in public geoscience. Assembling new tools for your ‘Exploration Toolbox’, presenters will share results from recent innovative geoscience projects across Canada and deliver talks featuring new methodologies that support the mineral exploration and mining industries. Speakers represent national, provincial, and territorial geological surveys, universities, and Canadian research agencies.
Start Time | Talk Title | Speaker |
1:00 PM | Opening Remarks | Britt Bluemel, Carolyn Relf and Bronwen Wallace |
1:35 PM | BC Critical Minerals Inventory | Evan Orovan, BC Geological Survey |
1:50 PM | BCGS sample archive update | Alexei Rukhlov, BC Geological Survey |
2:05 PM | Regional isotope patterns in Yukon: a useful exploration tool? | Patrick Sack, Yukon Geological Survey |
2:20 PM | Uncovering Alberta’s Mineral Potential Through Innovative Data Acquisition, Dissemination and Integration Approaches | Kelsey MacCormack, Alberta Geological Survey |
2:35 PM | Cosmic-ray Muon Tomography: New Developments | Doug Schouten, Ideon Technologies/ SFU |
2:50 PM | Data Integration and Machine Learning | McLean Trott, Queen’s University |
3:05 PM | Whole-rock analysis with LIBS for downhole investigations. | Fernando F. Fontana, UniSA -MinEx CRC |
3:20 PM | Closing Remarks | Britt Bluemel, Carolyn Relf and Bronwen Wallace |