NSERC/Agnico-Eagle Industrial Research Chair in Mineral Exploration

NSERC-Agnico-Eagle矿物勘探工业研究主席旨在开发可应用于金矿勘探的新指标矿物和现场便携式方法。该研究将解决基本和应用方面的问题，以设计创新和有效的指示矿物方法，可用于工业金矿勘探和政府调查，以确定未发现的矿产资源的潜力。这些方法将允许识别造山金矿床的化学和同位素特征，并评估部分侵蚀矿床分散轨迹的金矿化潜力或肥力。主席将制定新的方法，利用实地便携式仪器提高矿产勘探和政府调查的效率，以便在实地探测埋藏在第四纪沉积物覆盖层下的金矿。为了实现这些目标，主席的研究计划将解决三个主题：1）指示矿物（黄铜矿，白钨矿，电气石）指纹和肥沃性研究; 2）造山带金矿的远程检测工具; 3）冰川沉积物中造山带金矿的远程检测; 3）现场便携式分析仪器在冰川地形勘探中的应用。

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.