Minerals South 2009 – Prestige Rocky Mountain Resort
and Convention Centre, Cranbrook BC
Agenda (Sept. 12 working draft - subject to change)
DAY ONE – Tuesday October 27
SHORT COURSE 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
8:30 to 12:00
12:00 to 1:00
1:00 to 4:30
Structural controls on
mineralization (working title)
Lunch
An Introduction to Reading
Geophysical Maps
Bob Thompson, RIT Minerals
Jamie Kraft, University of Alberta
Peter Kowalczyk, Geoscience BC Project
Team
Sponsored by Geoscience BC
SOCIAL EVENT 5:00 to 6:30 pm
5:00 to 6:30
Ice-breaker reception
Sponsored by FB Drilling
PLENARY SESSION: FREE EVENING PUBLIC LECTURE 7:30 to 9:00 pm
7:30 to 9:00
If Mountains Could Talk: a
geologist's tour of rocks and mines,
ghost towns and gold, dinosaur
tracks and hot springs of the East
Kootenay
Bob Turner, Geological Survey of Canada
DAY TWO – Wednesday, October 28
TRADE SHOW 10:00 am to 4:30 pm
TECHNICAL SESSION I 8:30 to 4:45
8:30 – 9:25 am
9:25 – 10:00
Opening and welcoming remarks
Keynote address:
TGI-3 Cordilleran Project in
southern BC: new exploration
targets, and, looking ahead.
Various
R.G. Anderson and S. Paradis, Geological
Survey of Canada
10:00 – 10:20
10:20 – 10:45
10:45 – 11:10
11:10 – 11:35
11:35 – 12:00
12:00 – 1:00 pm
1:00 – 1:20
1:20 – 1:45
1:45 – 2:10
2:10 – 2:35
2:35 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:30
3:30 – 3:55
3:55 – 4:20
4:20 – 4:45
Coffee
New maps and syngenetic sulphide
potential of the Lardeau Group
near Trout Lake
Geology and Exploration of the
Thor Deposit, Trout Lake, British
Columbia
Cambrian carbonate-hosted basemetal deposits in the LardeauTrough succession
Nox Fort – intrusion-related Au-BiTe, Salmo, BC
Lunch
Association for Mineral Exploration
British Columbia update (title not
final)
Update on Geoscience BC’s 2009
projects
What’s new for carbonate-hosted
Zn-Pb deposits of the Kootenay
Terrane, British Columbia?
Project updates for southeast BC
TBA
Coffee
Greenwood camp history (title not
final)
Grizzly Diamond’s Greenwood gold
project (title not final)
Recent exploration activities in the
Rossland area
SOCIAL EVENTS 5:00 to 9:00 pm
5:00 – 6:00
6:30 – 7:00
7:00 – 9:00
Reception
Banquet cash bar
Entertainment – Rick Voisey
Banquet
Presentations: Pierre Gratton,
Mining Association of BC; Keith
Powell, author of “Living in the
Shadow of Fisher Peak – The life
and times of Jack Fisher”
Jamie Kraft, University of Alberta
John Gardiner, Jim Helgeson and George
Kent, Taranis Resources Inc
Barry Richards, Geological Survey of Canada
Bruce Ballantyne and J. David Williams,
Jaxon Minerals Inc.
AMEBC
‘Lyn Anglin, Geoscience BC
S. Paradis, Geological Survey of Canada and
G. Simandl, BC Geological Survey Branch
Brian McGrath, Valterra Resource
Corporation
Colin Joudrie, Teck Resources Limited
Sponsored by FB Drilling
Giles Peatfield, consulting geologist
Michael Dufresne, APEX Geoscience Ltd
Dan Wehrle, Gold Guild Geological Ltd
DAY THREE – Thursday, October 29
TRADE SHOW 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
TECHNICAL SESSION II 8:30 to 4:40
8:30 – 8:40 am
8:40 – 8:50
8:50 – 9:25
9:25 – 9:50
9:50 – 10:15
10:15 – 10:35
10:35 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:25
11:25 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:15 pm
12:15 – 1:15
1:15 – 1:40
1:40 – 2:05
2:05 – 2:30
2:30 – 2:55
2:55 – 3:25
Announcements
CMEBC update
Keynote address:
Some aspects of regional controls
on mineralization in the Cordillera:
examples from NW
Argentina/Chile, Northern Mexico
and parts of BC
BC Geological Survey Branch
update and provincial activity
overview (title not final)
Mineralization, intrusions and
facies controlled by basement
structure, southeastern British
Columbia
Coffee
Kimberley Gold Trend (title not
final)
The lithogeochemical architecture
of the Purcell Supergroup: the
effects of hydrothermal reservoirs
Geological setting of sedimenthosted Cu+/-Ag+/-Co in the Purcell
Supergroup
Carbonate-hosted base-metal
deposits in Cambrian strata
deposited on the western cratonic
platform and in the adjacent White
River Trough
Lunch
Geology and mineral deposits of
the Early Cretaceous Spences
Bridge Group
Rare earth mineralization in the
Wicheeda Carbonatite Complex
near Prince George, BC
Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project
(title not final)
Application of HRAM to delineation
of Crowsnest coal field
Coffee
Jack Denny, Chamber of Mines of Eastern BC
Tom Richards, Kootenay Gold Inc
Kirk Hancock, BC Geological Survey Branch
Margot McMechan, Geological Survey of
Canada
Ruby Red Resources Inc
John Lydon, Geological Survey of Canada
Russell Hartlaub, British Columbia Institute
of Technology
Barry Richards, Geological Survey of Canada
Larry Diakow, BC Geological Survey Branch
Chris Graf, Spectrum Mining Corporation,
Bob Lane, Plateau Minerals Corp, Murray
Morrison, M.S. Morrison Geological
Jim Gray, Moose Mountain Technical
Services
Pavlo Cholach, bp Canada Energy Co
Sponsored by FB Drilling
3:25 – 3:50
3:50 – 4:15
4:15 – 4:40
Field portable XRF and XRD
analysers and the applications and
implications for mineral
exploration
Advances in instrumental analysis
(title not final)
The role of mineralogy in
exploration
SOCIAL EVENT 5:00 to 7:00 pm
5:00 to 7:00
East Kootenay Chamber of Mines
reception
Chris Gallagher, Jarrod Brown and Glen
Hendrickson, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd
Ron Cardinall, AGAT Laboratories Ltd
Geoffrey Lane, ALS Laboratory Group
DAY FOUR – Friday, October 30
FIELD TRIPS – all field trips leave from the Prestige promptly at 7:30 am
FIELD TRIP I 7:30 am to approximately 3:00 pm (lunch provided)
Elkhorn gypsum mine – CertainTeed Gypsum Canada
FIELD TRIP II 7:30 am to approximately 2:00 pm (lunch provided)
Elkview coal mine – Teck Coal Limited
FIELD TRIP III 7:30 am to approximately 5:00 pm (lunch provided)
Mt. Brussilof magnesite mine – Baymag Inc
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POSTER AND MAP DISPLAYS
Relationship between the MAX porphyry Mo
deposit and peripheral Pb-Zn-Ag deposits
New 1:50,000-scale maps of the Kananaskis west
half map area
TGI-3 Cordilleran Project: new maps, data and
ideas help stimulate mineral exploration in
southern BC
New maps and syngenetic sulphide potential of
the Lardeau Group near Trout lake
Prospective trends for Pb-Zn deposits in Cambrian
carbonates, southeastern British Columbia
Digital Geological Compilation of the Purcell
Anticlinorium (Sullivan Mine Area), southeastern
British Columbia: A TGI-3 Project
Christopher Lawley, University of Alberta
Margot McMechan, Geological Survey of Canada
R.G. Anderson, Geological Survey of Canada
Jamie Kraft, University of Alberta
Barry Richards, Geological Survey of Canada
Derek Brown, Strategic West Energy Ltd