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EOSC 424 - Advanced Mineral Deposits and Ore Petrology

Course Description

Metal solubility and transport, chemical activity diagrams, fluid inclusions, stable isotopes, radiogenic isotopes, geothermometry, geobarometry, alteration and metal zonation, and mineral exploration. Minerals of ore deposits studied using optical microscopy.


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Learning Goals

under development

Instructors

Kenneth Hickey - course coordinator

James Scoates

Greg Dipple

 

Textbook

NO REQUIRED TEXT, but Robb (2005) is strongly recommended (cheaper online than through bookshop)

 

Course Content

Course marks

  • Lab exercises - 20% - grades
  • Project 1 - 5% - grades
  • Project 2 - 20%
  • Midterm - 15% - grades; Actual example answers
  • Final exam - 40% - final exam outline

 

Project Pairings

Project 1 - short report (max 3 pages)

Project 2 - integrated large exercise

 

Lecture materials

 

Lab exercises

  • Lab05-Advective&ConductiveHeatFlow-ExcelSpreadsheet and instructions
  • Lab06-MagmaticSulfur-ExcelSpreadsheet
  • Lab07-LightStableIsotopes-IsotopeFractionationTables-isofrac.xls

 

 

Lecture Topics

Lecture

Date

Topic

Lecturer

1

Jan 07

Course Intro

Ken Hickey

2

Jan 09

Textures & ore microscopy

Elspeth Barnes

3

Jan 14

Magmatic sulfides

James Scoates

4

Jan 16

Magmatic sulfides

James Scoates

5

Jan 21

Magmatic sulfides

James Scoates

6

Jan23

Magmatic sulfides

James Scoates

Cordilleran Roundup

Jan 28

Project 1


 

Cordilleran Roundup

Jan 30

Project 1


 

7

Feb 04

Hydrothermal fluid flow

Ken Hickey

8

Feb 06

Hydrothermal fluid flow

Ken Hickey

9

Feb 11

cancelled

Ken Hickey

10

Feb 13

Hydrothermal fluid flow

Ken Hickey

Reading week

Feb 18

-


 

Reading week

Feb 20

-


 

11

Feb 25

Hydrothermal fluid flow

Ken Hickey

12

Feb 27

Midterm exam

13

Mar 03

Light stable isotopes

Greg Dipple

14

Mar 05

Light stable isotopes

Greg Dipple

15

Mar 10

Light stable isotopes

Greg Dipple

16

Mar 12

Light stable isotopes

Greg Dipple

17

Mar 17

cancelled

Ken Hickey

18

Mar 19

Geochemistry of hydrothermal systems

Ken Hickey

Easter Monday

Mar 24

-


 

19

Mar 26

Geochemistry of hydrothermal systems

Ken Hickey

20

Mar 31

Geochemistry of hydrothermal systems

Ken Hickey

21

Apr 02

Geochemistry of hydrothermal systems

Ken Hickey

22

Apr 07

Geochemistry of hydrothermal systems

Ken Hickey

23

Apr 09

Alkalic porphyry deposits

Ken, James


Labs

Lab week

Week date

Labs

1

Jan 07

-

2

Jan 14

Ore petrography

3

Jan 21

Ore petrography

4 - Cordilleran Roundup

Jan 28

Project 1

5

Feb 04

Ore petrography

6

Feb 11

Ore petrography

Reading week

Feb 18

-

7

Feb 25

Heat flow modeling - time scales and thermal histories

8

Mar 03

Geochemical modeling - magmatic metal evolution

9

Mar 10

Isotope modeling - hydrothermal fluid flow

10

Mar 17

Project 2

11

Mar 24

Project 2

12

Mar 31

Project 2

13

Apr 07

Project 2


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