Program

Eight sessions are planned, each including a mix of invited keynote and abstract presentations. Poster sessions will complement oral session themes, and dedicated poster viewing time will be made available each day.

Confirmed Keynote Presentations include:

  • Exploration and strategy (Tom Albanese, Richard Sillitoe and others) 
  • Yukon gold (Murray Allan, Shawn Ryan and others)
  • Large igneous provinces (Richard Ernst)
  • Tectonics and metallogeny of the northern Cordillera (Joanne Nelson’ Maurice Colpron and others)
  • An overview of developments in the Carlin district (Ken Hickey and co-authors)
  • BC porphyry deposits (Claire Chamberlain)

Topics

  • Global View Tectonics, Terranes and Metallogeny – the geoscience building blocks
  • Regional View Metallogenic Provinces and Belts – regional and deposit controls
  • Deposit View Discovery – ideas, geoscience data and technology producing results

Preliminary Program Overview

Pre-Conference  Field Trips • Short Courses

Tuesday, September 24  Registration opens •  Welcome Reception

Wednesday, September 25

  1. Tectonics, terranes and metallogeny: New and developing concepts in tectonics, petrology and terrane paleogeography, and implications for metallogeny
  2. Arc terranes: Petrology and metallogeny of arc terranes and implications for copper-molybdenum-gold-silver mineralization
  3. Regional metallogeny – China, Mongolia and Russia: Regional metallogenic setting, districts and deposits

Thursday, September 26

  1. Regional metallogeny – classic districts: New ideas for deposits in specific metallogenic environments such as the Great Basin, Nevada and the arc terranes of British Columbia
  2. Regional metallogeny – western North America: New regional concepts and emerging districts from Alaska to Mexico
  3. Regional metallogeny – the continental margin: Regional setting and controls in the continental margin related to zinc, lead, silver, gold, tin , tungsten and other commodities

Friday, September 27

  1. Exploration, Discovery and Deposits I: Exploration strategy and new discoveries in the region
  2. Exploration, Discovery and Deposits II: Emerging discovery plays, exploration technologies and lessons for the future

Post Conference  Field Trips • Short Courses