Metal Earth
- Transform our understanding of Earth’s early evolution and processes that govern differential metal endowment.
- Improve the science for targeting and finding new orebodies.
- Cement Canada’s position as a global leader in mineral exploration research through open source delivery of new knowledge and the development of transformative technologies targeted at increasing exploration success.
- Improve training of quality young geoscientists for the mineral industry.
- Current metal endowment models emphasize modern geodynamic environments and processes. Precambrian geodynamic environments and processes are controversial. If they differed from those operating today, what are the processes that resulted in early Earth’s metal endowment and how can they be recognized?
- Can we recognize subtle differences in the mantle, the subcontinental lithospheric mantle, the crust and in the deep crustal structures between endowed and less endowed areas, which may explain metal endowment localization?
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MERC, in partnership with Argonaut Gold, is seeking a MSc student to undertake a field-based structural thesis project at the Magino gold project within the GoudreauLochalsh district of the Michipicoten Greenstone Belt near Wawa, Ontario.
MERC, in partnership with Eldorado Gold, is seeking a MSc student to undertake a field-based structural MSc project at Eldorado’s Ormaque zone, a new discovery at the Lamaque Gold Mine.
With the ongoing success of Kirkland Lake Gold’s (KLG) Macassa South mine, the company is seeking to undertake new research to better understand the mineralization controls on the Macassa Mine and the South Mine Complex and their relationships to the 04 Break and the Amalgamated Break.
We are seeking a highly motivated candidate to carry a PhD project to understand the regional magmatic and tectonic evolution of the Upper Beaver Cu-Au deposit (Larder Lake, Ontario).
Metal Earth is seeking an M.Sc. student to participate in the processing and interpretation of singlecomponenet/multi-component passive seismic surveys.
Metal Earth seeks to identify and understand the processes responsible for Earth’s differential metal endowment during the Precambrian.
The successful candidate will integrate within the Magino exploration and development team adhering to their health and safety standards while in the field and working collectively to advance the understanding of the Magino deposit.
Metal Earth is seeking students to assist mapping-based research in the Abitibi and Wabigoon subprovinces of Ontario and Quebec.