Monthly Lunch Seminars: Thursday December 10 , 2015 - Ramada Inn – Okanagan East Room Remote Sensing for Resource Exploration and Development Remote Sensing technology has made huge strides recently. From satellites hundreds of kms above the earth: we can acquire full color imagery in 30cm resolution, distinguish mineral deposits and detect movement of the [...]
Monthly Lunch Seminars: Thursday November 5 , 2015 - Ramada Inn - Okanagan East Room The Calgary Mineral Exploration Group Society offers monthly lunchtime seminars relating to geology and mining in the province of Alberta, across Canada and around the world. Lunch prices: $20.00 for members $25.00 for non-members Ramada Hotel Downtown Convention Level 708 - 8th [...]
Monthly Lunch Seminars: Thursday October 8 , 2015 - Ramada Inn - Okanagan East Room The Calgary Mineral Exploration Group Society offers monthly lunchtime seminars relating to geology and mining in the province of Alberta, across Canada and around the world. Lunch prices: $20.00 for members $25.00 for non-members Ramada Hotel Downtown Convention Level 708 - 8th [...]
Free Range Tectonics - Using multiple global tectonic models to generate mineral and hydrocarbon targets Rick Boulay, B.SC. (Geology) Today’s dominant tectonic concept is the plate tectonic model that rolled over the geologic landscape in the late 1960’s. Classic tectonic models, abandoned tectonic models and alternative tectonic models also exist and can provide effective exploration [...]
Arrow: A Recent High-Grade Uranium Discovery in a New District by Garrett Ainsworth, PGeo., Vice President Exploration & Development, NEXGEN ENERGY LTD. The Arrow zone (“Arrow”) is a recent basement-hosted uranium discovery made in February 2014 by NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen”) at its Rook I property in the southwest Athabasca Basin, Northern Saskatchewan. A total [...]
*Geology screwed up again! or A template for Mine Site Technical Support* by Ted Hannah, PGeo., Vice President, Geology, NORWEST CORPORATION In an operating scenario, everyone must understand that there will never be enough data to predict the lateral and vertical variability of Mother Nature with 100% certainty. With this in mind, mine site geologists [...]
Global Exploration Trends 2015 by Glen Jones, Director, SNL Metals and Mining Exploration companies continued to face headwinds in 2014, leading many to cut exploration budgets across the board. As a result, companies are budgeting to spend even less in 2015. Higher operating and capital costs, lower ore grades, and uncertain demand for commodities have [...]
21st Century Prospecting ... still in business at $45/bbl by Robert Munday, Ph.D., P.Geol. Robert J. Munday is making an official disclaimer: he will be making forward looking investment strategy statements in the followings to which he assumes no legal responsibility whatsoever. Robert considers himself a prospector - which is more business than science and [...]
Lunch prices: $20.00 for members $25.00 for non-members Ramada Hotel Downtown, 708 - 8th Avenue SW. Calgary, Alberta Convention Level A documentary video by Approaching Science: The discovery of a thousand year old gold mine in Suichang, Zhejiang, China Explained and translated in English by Virginia Trapnell, P.Geol. This video in Chinese Mandarin documented the [...]
Lunch prices $20.00 for members $25.00 for non-members Ramada Hotel Downtown, Convention Level 708 - 8th Avenue SW. Calgary, Alberta Please confirm your intention to attend by email to vtrapnell@meg.calgary.ab.ca so that the appropriate number of sandwiches can be ordered. NEW IRON ORE PRODUCTION FROM THE QUEBEC-LABORADOR LATERITE DEPOSITS by Lee Nichols, Terracon Geotechnique New [...]
