Department of Geology - University of New Brunswick

 

Departmental Seminars

Visiting speakers and guest lectures

CIM-NB presents Patrick Merrin, Adex Mining Inc.

Friday February 17th, 2012, 12:30 pm F104 Forestry/Geology. "A Strategic and Operational Review of the Mount Pleasant Project"

Abstract:

Adex Mining Inc. is a Canadian junior mining company focused on developing its flagship Mount Pleasant Mine property, a multi-metal project that is host to tungsten-molybdenum and tin-indium-zinc mineralization.  The site contains the globe's richest and largest known indium resource and North America's largest tin resource. The 2011 diamond drilling program identified new, high-grade intercepts containing tungsten, molybdenum and bismuth, which extends the expanse of the tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth mineralized bodies.  Given the current world demand for tungsten and indium, come and listen to what this might mean to the future of this mine in NB.

Mount Pleasant is located in Charlotte County, New Brunswick approximately 80 km south of Fredericton.

Patrick Merrin Chief Operating Officer, Adex Mining, is a metals and mining executive with more than 15 years of operations, business and engineering experience in multiple countries.

All students, faculty, interested members from industry and the public are welcome to attend.

Pizza and pop will be available. 

 

Past speakers and guest lectures

2012 APICS-AS Speaker, Fraser Keppie, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Tuesday January 17th, 2012 12:30 pm, F104 Forestry/Geology. "How do supercontinents breakup? Evaluating the type example of Pangea in Middle America"
A. Hamid Mumin, Professor, Department of Geology, Brandon University. Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum,
Distinguished Lecture Series		 Tuesday November 8th, 2011 12:30 to 1:20pm F104 Forestry/Geology. "Colliding Continents, Ancient Volcanoes, Awesome Fiords, Future Resources: The Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories"
Robert Morgan, VP Buisness Development & Latin American Operations, Major Drilling Group International Inc. Tuesday April 5, 2011, 12 - 2pm F104 Forestry/Geology. "Drilling - A Global Experience"

Dr. Bernd Kulessa - Harrison McCain Visiting Professor

Wednesday March 30, 2011, 12:30 -1:20 pm N105 McLaggan Hall Auditorium. "Climate, sea level and fast flow of Polar ice masses".

Dr. Yana Fedortchouk (Dalhouse University)
2011 APICS-AGS Speaker 		Thursday February 10th, 2011, 12:30 pm F104 "Diamonds: "window" in the Earth's interior"
Dr. Jim Franklin (Franklin Geoscience)
NB CIM sponsored lecture		 Friday February 11th, 2010, 12:00 F104 Hot Water, Hot Minerals and Hot Life Forms on the Ocean Floor? What "Black Smokers" Tell Us About Earth Systems

Dr. James A Hunter
Geophysicist and Emeritus Scientist
GSC Terrain Geophysics Section

Wednesday October 27th, 2010, 12:30
F104 Forestry/Geology Building. "Some Applications of Near-surface Geophysics to Earthquake Geohazards Investigations: Examples from Eastern Ontario, Canada"

Norm Miller
Corridor Resources; NB-CIM sponsorded

Tuesday September 28th 2010, 12:30 pm
Room F104, Forestry/Geology Building. "Natural and shale gas development in NB and the Maritimes"

Dr. Chris Hawkes
University of Saskatchewan

Thursday March 18th, 2010 12:30 pm Room 104, F/G Building. “Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide – An overview, and some early Canadian experience"

Dr. Dan Marshall
2009-10 GAC HOWARD STREET ROBINSON LECTURE
Simon Fraser University

Friday March 19th, 2010 12:30 pm Room 104, F/G Building. “Genesis of emerald deposits within the Canadian context, from a global perspective"

Dr. Steven Scott
2010 CIM DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
University of Toronto

Friday March 12th, 2010 12:30 pm Room 104, F/G Building. “Seafloor Massive Sulphide Mining –
The Dawning of a New Industry"

Dr. Vern Singhroy ,
Canda Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa

Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 3:30 pm Room F104, F/G Building. "Advanced radar and hyperspectral imaging techniques: Implications for Planetary Geology:"

Dr. John Waldron,
2010 APICS-AGS Speaker, University of Alberta

Tuesday January 26th, 2010 12 :30 pm
Room F104, F/G Building. "Evolution of the Maritimes Basin: transtension, transpression and salt tectonics"

Dr. Donald T. James,
Chief Geologist, Canada-Nunvut Geoscience Office

Friday January 15th, 2010 12:30 pm
Room F24, F/G Building. "Some thoughts on Paleoproterozoic assembly of northeast Laurentia:
Labrador, Quebec, and Baffin regions"

Dr. Axel Wittman
Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas

Thursday December 3rd, 2009 1:30 pm Room F303, Forestry/Geology Building
"Impact Cratering on the H-Chondrite Asteroid"

Dr. Richard Smith
Industrial Research Chair in Exploration Geophysics Laurentian University
THE 2010 CANADIAN SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS (CSEG) DISTINGUISHED LECTURE TOUR

Thursday October 1st, 2009 10:30 am Room F309, Forestry/Geology Building
"A Tutorial on Airborne Electromagnetic Methods and Some Examples from Mineral Exploration, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Water Exploration"

Dr. Clive R. Neal
University of Notre Dame

Friday September 4th, 2009 11:00 am Room F203
"The Moon: Still inspiring the world 40 years after Apollo"

Dr. Richard Grieve Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada Adjunct Professor, Geology, UNBF

Tuesday May 19th, 2009 2:30 pm Room F203 Forestry/Geology Building
"Large-scale impact and terrestrial evolution"
Andrian Park
UNB Geology

GAGS-sponsored guest lecture
Friday April 3rd, 2009 @ noon Room F24, Forestry/Geology
"A long-lived high- strain zone: Structural evolution of the Neoproterozoic-Lower Paleozoic Caledonian Highlands, southern Brunswick"

Sandra Barr
Acadia University, Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences

Tuesday February 17th, 2009, F24 F/G bldg. 12:30 pm:
"Building The northern Appalachians: a new look at an old orogen"

Peter Duncan
UNB Alumnus
President, Microseismic Inc., Houston TX

Wednesday January 28th, 2009, F24 F/G bldg. 12:30 pm:
"Aggressively Passive: Microseismic Opportunities Over an Oilfield's Life"

Mary Sanborn-Barrie
Geological Survey of Canada
2008-2009 GAC Howard Street Robinson Lecturer

Monday January 12th, 2009, F24 F/G bldg. 1:30 pm:
"New Understanding of the Precambrian Geology of northern Canada"

Ronald Clowes
2009 CSEG Distinguished Lecturer

Monday November 17th, 2008, F24 F/G bldg. 12:30 pm:
"A new view of the continent beneath our feet - LITHOPROBE's Scientific, Economic and Social Contributions"

Cliff Stanley
Acadia University

Tuesday November 4th, 2008 F24 F/G bldg. 12:30 pm:
"Lithogeochemistry: What you discover depends on where you stand"

Patrick Carr
Geologist, Xstrata Zinc Canada Exploration

Thursday October 30th, 2008, F24 F/G bldg. 12:30 pm:
"Ore deposits formed from convectively-cooled sills: Insights from numerical simulations of heuristic models and the VMS system at Matagami, Quebec."