The colloquium will immediately follow the GSC’s Forum 1990 (Jan 15-17) at the same venue. This is expected to be the first of a series of biennial meetings intended to highlight the results of GSC’s minerals program and promote communication between GSC scientists and their colleagues in industry, the universities and other government geoscience agencies. The colloquium will focus on topics of immediate interest to the minerals industry, including research on geophysical and geochemical exploration methods, mineral deposits studies, and resource assessment. Twenty-two talks and more than 100 posters will be presented during the colloquium.
The 1990 Lang Lecture will be presented Jan 18 by David Watkins and Harold Gibson who will address the topic “Noranda Massive Sulphide Deposits: A Guide to Exploration and Seafloor Sulphide Research.”
The oral and poster presentations will be a representative cross- section of recent scientific results of the GSC’s minerals program. The first session will highlight some of GSC’s activities in the field of exploration research, including three case histories illustrating results of borehold geophysical studies of Canadian ore deposits.
Recognizing the renewed interest in base metal exploration, the second session will deal with modern and ancient seafloor hydrothermal sulphide deposits.
The third session will comprise talks on precious metals: an outline of descriptive models of Canadian gold deposits, preliminary results of detailed studies on a large, deformed porphyry copper, molybdenum and precious metal system in the Sulphurets area of British Columbia, observations on some gold deposits in northern China, and the use of chemical characteristics of magmati c nickel-copper sulphide deposits as exploration guides.
For further details, contact David Garson at the GSC in Ottawa. Phone: (613) 992-1600.
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