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Geoscience Forum 2009
New Schedule...
Confirmed Geoscience Forum Technical Talks (last updated November 22nd, 2009)
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Monday, November 23rd - Session 1 - Overview Talks
Session Chair - Carl Schulze, President Yukon Chamber of Mines
8:30 - 9:00am
Welcome, Opening Remarks (Government of Yukon), Opening Remarks (Council of Yukon First Nations)
Premier Dennis Fentie, Government of Yukon
9:00 -9:45am
Exploration and Mining Activity Overview - Yukon Territory
Mike Burke, Yukon Geological Survey
9:45 - 10:00am
Placer Mining Activity Overview - Yukon Territory
Bill Lebarge, Yukon Geological Survey
10:00 - 10:30am
10:30 - 11:00am
Update on Yukon Geological Survey activities
Carolyn Relf, Yukon Geological Survey
11:00 - 11:30am
Exploration and Mining Activity Overview - Alaska
David Szumigala, Alaska Dept. of Natural Resouces
11:30 - 1:30pm
Session 2 - Exploration Updates
Session Chair - Mike Burke, Yukon Geological Srvey
1:30 - 1:50pm
Update on the White Gold Discovery
Adrian Flemming, Underworld Resources
1:50 -2:10pm
Minto Mine 2009 Exploration Update - Another Year of Discovery
Brad Mercer, Capstone Mining Corp.
2:10 - 2:30pm
Casino - Working towards a world class mine in the Yukon
Dale Corman and Claire Derome, Western Copper Corporation and Scott Casselman, Casselman Geological Services Ltd
2:30 - 2:50pm
Update on the Rau Property
Graham Downs, ATAC Resources Ltd
2:50 - 3:10pm
Structural and stratigraphic controls on vein development at the Bellekeno Mine, Keno Hill District, Yukon
Bruce Otto and Vince Scartozzi, Alexco Resouces
3:10 - 3:40PM
3:40 - 4:00pm
Evaluation of the abundance of fine and ultra fine gold in the placers of the southern Klondike
Rob Chapman, Leeds University, David Bond, Leeds University and Bill Lebarge, Yukon Geological Survey
4:00 - 4:20pm
Major and trace element composition of platinum-group minerals and their inclusions from a placer deposit in Burwash Creel, Kluane area, Yukon: search for the source rock of placer platinum
Yana Fedortchouk, Dalhousie University, Bill Lebarge, Yukon Geological Survey, Andrei Yu. Barkov, McGill University, Luca Fedele and Robert Bodnar, Virginia Tech
4:20 - 4:40pm
Wolverine Project - becoming the Yukon's next producing underground mine - From discovery to production in 15 years
Shae Dalphond and Laura Battison, Yukon Zinc Corporation
4:40 - 5:00pm
McKay Hill Property - a revised deposit model
Lauren Blackburn, Monster Mining
Tuesday, November 24th - Session 3 - Geology Research Talks
8:50 - 9:10am
Coal River (95D) - a new bedrock geology map from the GEM initiative
Grant Abbott, Lee Pigage, Yukon Geological Survey and Charlie Roots, GSC-Whitehorse
9:10 - 9:30am
New Bedrock Geology Map of McQuesten Area
Jim Ryan, GSC-Vancouver and Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey
9:30 - 9:50am
The Quaternary Geology of Southwest McQuesten (115P): Revisiting the Cordillera's Oldest Glacial Deposits
Jeffery Bond and Panya Lipovsky, Yukon Geological Survey
9:50 - 10:20am
10:20 - 10:40am
Some new ideas on the setting and tectonic evolution of the composite Insular terrane in the northern Cordillera
Cees van Staal, GSC-Vancouver
10:40 - 11:00am
Correlating and Calibrating the Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy of the Yukon and Norhwest Territories
Francis Macdonald, Mark Schmidtz, Jim Crowley, Harvard University, Charlie Roots, GSC-Whitehorse
11:00 - 11:20am
The geology and mineral potential of the Coast plutonic complex, B.C., Alaska and Yukon
Steve Israel, Yukon Geological Survey
11:20 - 11:40am
The EMR Library: Your Information Gold Mine
Aimee Ellis, EMR Library, Yukon Government
12:00 - 1:30pm
Session 4 - Alaska Exploration and Best Practices
1:30 - 1:50pm
Alaska's next gold camp: New discoveries at Kiska Metal's Whistler property
Mike Roberts, Kiska Metals Corporation
1:50 - 2:10pm
Update on the Plamer Cu-Zn-Ag-Au project and the untapped potential of the Alexander Triassic VMS belt, southeast Alaska
Darwin Green, Constantine Metals Resources Ltd
2:10 - 2:30pm
Best practices in the Environmental Assessment Permitting Process: A Geotechnical perspective on the MX1 Mine haul road at the Tulsequah Cheif Mine
Scott Weston and Tim Smith, Hemmera Westrek
2:30 - 2:50pm
It's the truth - I'm from Yukon airports and I'm here to help you
Mark Ritchie, Avitation Branch, Yukon Government
2:50 - 3:10pm
Working effectively with the mineral analysis labratory
Brent Mawdsley, ALS Laboratory Group-Minerals Division
3:10 - 5:30pm
Posters, Trade Show Draw
Wednesday, November 25th - Session 5 - Dawson Range Activities
8:30 - 8:50am
Sonora Gold Project
Dennis Ouellette, Northern Tiger
8:50 - 9:10am
Update on Kaminak Gold Corporation's new surface gold discoveries on the Coffee Property
Rob Carpenter, Kaminak Gold Corportaion and Shawn Ryan, Ryanwood Exploration
9:10 - 9:30am
Update on BC Gold activity in the Minto Carmacks copper district
Fionnuala Devine, BC Gold Corp
9:30 -9:50am
Update on Mount Freegold
Wade Barnes and Emily Miller, Northern Freegold Resources
9:50 - 10:20am
10:20 - 10:40am
Preliminary Metallogeny of the Dawson Range
10:40 - 11:00am
Drilling for Assays and Answers at True North Mining Corp's Gold (Scheelite) Dome Project
Joanna Hodge and Art Ettlinger, True North Mining Corp.
1:00 - 11:20am
Eagle Gold Exploration and Mining Activity
Kevin Piepgrass and Mike Padula, Victoria Gold Corp.
11:20 - 11:40am
Clear Lake Exploration Update
Gerry Carlson, Copper Ridge Exploration Ltd.
Confirmed Geoscience Forum Poster Displays (last updated Novevember 3rd, 2009)
| Macmillan Pass | Grant Abbott, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Exploration Overview 2009 | Mike Burke, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Project plans for 2010 | Joyia Chakungal, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Gold and base-metal potential in southeast Yukon (Selwyn Basin) refined by a new regional map of the Coal River area | Lee Pigage, Grant Abbott, Charlie Roots and Kristen Kennedy, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Kluane Ranges/Wrangellia | Steve Israel, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Whitehorse trough compilation | Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Yukon coal fires and shale fires | Grant Lowey, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Yukon digital geology | Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Petroleum Group activities in 2009 | Tiffani Fraser, Yukon Geological Survey |
| The Quaternary geology of southwest McQuesten (115P): Revisiting the Cordillera's oldest glacial deposits | Jeffery Bond and Panya Lipovsky, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Peel Basin Aggregate | Kristen Kennedy, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Yukon Minfile | Robert Deklerk and Lara Lewis, Yukon Geological Survey |
| New bedrock geology map for McQuesten area | J. Ryan, GSC, Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey |
| Regional geohazard assessment and slope stability studies along the Alaska Highway Corridor in Yukon | R. Couture, A. Blais-Stevens, P. Lipovsky, J. Koch, J.J. Clague, A. Lewkowicz, D. Giroux, A. Page, GSC and Yukon Geological |
| Structural Evolution of Northern Yukon: Implications for Hydrocarbon Potential in Eagle Plain - Peel Plateau | Larry Lane, GSC |
| GEM Minerals - Edges | S. Irwin, GSC |
| The Duke River Fault: Insights into the evolution of the Insular terranes | Rosie Cobbett, J. Mortensen, UBC, Cees Van Staal, GSC |
| You say 'Potato', I say 'Orthomagmatic Cu-Au deposit with Deformation assisted Ore Emplacement' | S. Hood, K. Hickey, GSC, Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey |
| McQuesten/Yukon-Tanana metamorphism | R. Staples, SFU |
| First assesment of the failure mechanism for the 2007 Mt. Steele Landslide using airborn LiDAR for discontinuity identification | M.-A. Brideau, D. Stead, P. Lipovsky, M. Jaboyedoff, C. Hopkinson, J. Barlow, M. Demuth, S.G. Evancs & K. Delaney |
| 2008 reactivation of the Little Salmon Lake Lanslide (105/L02) | M.-A. Brideau, D. Stead, P. Lipovsky |
| Age of Roop Lake Stock | S.D. Craggs, UNB |
| Calibrating and correlating Neoproterozoic strata in the Yukon | Francis Macdonald, Mark Schmidtz, Jim Crowley, Harvard University, D. Johnston, Boise State University, Charlie Roots, GSC-Whitehorse |
| Wernecke Supergroup - Pinguicula | K. Medig, SFU |
| New bedrock geology map of the 'Mendocina Creek' area | E. Westberg, SFU |
