Please join the Calgary Mineral Exploration Group on Friday, November 3rd for a talk given by Dr. Kelsey MacCormack.

Exploring Alberta’s Mineral Potential; Public Geoscience to Support Alberta’s Mineral Strategy

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Luncheon Details:

Date: Friday, November 3rd, 2023
Location: Kerby Centre – downtown Calgary (1133 – 7th Ave. SW)
Doors open at 11:30 am
Talk starts at 12:00 pm (NOTE TIME FOR THIS LUNCHEON)
Membership: $20
Luncheon for Members: $30
Luncheon Non-members: $35
Talk and Beverage (Coffee, Juice, Pop): $10
University, SAIT, NAIT students: FREE with student ID (with purchase of membership)

NOTE: There is complimentary parking at the Kerby Centre. Parking lots are located beside the building (east) or across the LRT (North). Register your vehicle at Reception.

Presentation Abstract:

Exploring Alberta’s Mineral Potential; Public Geoscience to Support Alberta’s Mineral Strategy

In November 2021, the Government of Alberta released the Renewing Alberta’s Mineral Future report. It’s a strategy and action plan for Alberta to better understand, characterize, and capitalize on its mineral potential, and outlines a path to unlock Alberta’s untapped mineral resource potential. The strategy plays an important part by leveraging Alberta’s natural geological advantages and details six key areas to support and achieve Alberta’s vision, with the first key area to “increase public geoscience”. This strategy provided the Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) with the unique opportunity to initiate a massive investigation and data acquisition program to compile historical mineral information that highlights and verifies potential mineral deposits, identifies knowledge gaps, and collects data in strategic locations. So far this program has led to;

  • the acquisition of one of the largest airborne geophysical surveys in the country, covering over 551,500 sq. kilometers
  • hyperspectral imagery from over 51,000m of core and over 50,000 XRF sample points across 13,000 m of core
  • analysis of 312 brine samples from 42 geological units
  • Till and stream sediment: >1350 samples from >700 locations
  • Heavy metal concentrate analysis for 691 samples
  • lithogeochemical analysis of over 6900 rock/core samples
  • digitized over 304 mineral assessment reports
  • acquisition of targeted high-resolution satellite imagery, and
  • field investigations to collect additional samples and verify analytical results.

This presentation will provide an overview of the data acquired thus far, some of the analyses that are underway, and insight into how we are leveraging online interactive platforms to make this new information and data more accessible to stakeholders. Thus, ensuring this new regional and local-scale geoscience information and data can be used to enhance our understanding and characterization of Alberta’s mineral potential.

Presenter Bio:

Dr. Kelsey MacCormack

Kelsey completed both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at McMaster University, with an M.Sc. in 3D geologic and hydrogeologic modelling in southern Ontario, and a Ph.D. focusing on geomodelling and the application of geostatistics to improve the accuracy of 3D subsurface models. In 2012, Kelsey joined the Alberta Geological Survey and Alberta Energy Regulator as a geomodeller. In 2014 Kelsey transitioned into a management roll and became the Director of the Geology and Resources Group in 2016. Kelsey enjoys looking for new and innovative ways to enhance our understanding of Alberta’s geology and resources, and improving access to geological information and data through collaboration with colleagues in academia, government, industry, and communities both across Alberta and around the globe.