NSERC/Agnico-Eagle Industrial Research Chair in Mineral Exploration

NSERC-Agnico-Eagle矿物勘探工业研究教席旨在开发可应用于金矿勘探的新的指示性矿物和现场便携式方法。这项研究将解决基础和应用方面的问题，以设计创新和有效的指示矿物方法，可用于行业金矿勘探和政府调查，以确定未发现矿产资源的潜力。这些方法将允许对造山型金矿床的化学和同位素特征进行指纹识别，并评估部分侵蚀矿床分散轨迹的金矿化潜力或丰度。主席将利用实地便携式仪器制定新的方法，以提高矿物勘探和政府调查的效率，以便在实地探测埋在第四纪沉积盖层下的金矿。为了实现这些目标，教席研究方案将涉及三个主题：1)指示矿物(黄铜矿、白钨矿、电气石)指纹和造山型金矿的富矿工具；2)远距离探测冰川沉积物中的造山型金矿；3)野外便携式分析仪器应用于冰川地区的勘探。

The NSERC-Agnico-Eagle Industrial Research Chair in Mineral Exploration aims to develop new indicator mineral and field portable methodologies that can be applied to exploration for gold deposits. The research will tackle fundamental and applied aspects in order to devise innovative and efficient indicator mineral methods that can be applied in exploration for gold deposits by industry and for government surveys to determine the potential for undiscovered mineral resources. The methods will allow to fingerprint the chemical and isotopic signature of orogenic gold deposits, and assess the gold mineralization potential, or fertility, of the dispersed track of partially eroded deposits. The Chair will develop new methodologies using field portable instruments to increase the efficiency of mineral exploration and government surveys to detect, in the field, gold mineral deposits buried under quaternary sedimentary cover. In order to reach these goals, the Chair research program will address three themes: 1) indicator mineral (chalcopyrite, scheelite, tourmaline) fingerprinting and fertilitytools for orogenic gold deposits; 2) long range detection of orogenic gold deposits in glacial sediments; 3) field portable analytical instruments application to exploration in glaciated terrains.