Lakehead participating in Footprints: Changing the Future of Mineral Exploration project (LU's contribution led by Dr. P. Hollings)

Lakehead University will collaborate with numerous Canadian universities in the largest NSERC Collaborative Research and Development grant ever awarded.

This $11-million project will draw on the expertise of a Canadian university-based research team, as well as the mining and mineral exploration industry, to give geologists the next generation of high-tech tools to identify the subtle markers, or "footprints," of ore deposits far beneath the surface and accelerate the discovery of new mineral resources.

Lakehead's contribution will be led by Dr. Pete Hollings from the Department of Geology, who will be the co-leader on the Copper Module of the study investigating the Highland Valley porphyry system in B.C.

Of the grant's total value of $11,834,046, NSERC is contributing $5,078,596, industry is adding $2,841,000, and the in-kind from industry is worth $3,914,450.

Geology Students (E. Smyk & B. Beh) awarded at Geology conference

 Students awarded at Geology conference

Two Lakehead University Geology students were recognized at the 59th annual meeting of the Institute on Lake Superior Geology, in Houghton, Mich., last week.

Emily Smyk and Breanne Beh both received awards for presentations they gave at the conference.

Emily, a fourth-year Geology student, won for best undergraduate presentation.

Her presentation was based on her Honours thesis, Geochemistry and petrography study of a Mesoarchean felsic metavolcanic unit near Musselwhite Mine, North Caribou greenstone belt, supervised by Dr. Pete Hollings

She undertook the research for her thesis while working for Goldcorp Musselwhite Mine, which also provided financial support for the study.

In addition, Emily received a $1,000 grant from the Society of Economic Geologists to support her Honours research and recently received a $10,000 scholarship from the Society of Economic Geologists to support her MSc research.

Breanne received the award for the best graduate student presentation.

Her presentation was called Depositional Processes Operating on the Paleoproterozoic Gowganda Ice Margin, based on the results of her recently completed MSc which was supervised by Dr. Phil Fralick.

Honours Thesis for 2013-2014

 Honours Thesis 2013-2014 FORM.pdf

For those of you thinking about doing an Honours thesis next year it is time to start thinking about potential projects and supervisors. The first step is to talk with faculty about possible projects and see if they are willing to supervise you. If they are then you need to fill out form (link above), have them sign it and return it to me.

I would also encourage you to attend the seminar presentations for this years Honours students starting on March 13

Dr. Peter Hollings