Pricing:

1. $200 per person for half a day (4 hours) of training in Val d’Or.

2. $125 per person for 2 hours of training in Val d’Or, during the day (for evenings, please contact me).

3. Other options (please call me to discuss pricing): short training (1 hour), whole day (8 hours), customized training (theme not listed below), videoconference, and/or travel to Montreal, Quebec, or elsewhere in Québec/Canada.

Short courses offered:

I. Metallogeny (magmatic, magmatic-hydrothermal, and hydrothermal mineralization) – description below

II. Geochemistry applied to mineral exploration – description below

I. Metallogeny (magmatic, magmatic-hydrothermal, and hydrothermal mineralization)

This short course will provide you with the basic concepts of the metallogenic models developed for gold and base metal deposits. The short course refers to terrains of varied ages, although the emphasis is on Neoarchean greenstone belts.

The short course includes several modules that can be followed independently, depending on your interest:

• Geodynamic and mineralizing processes (4h) – review of the spatial and temporal links between the different stages of the Wilson cycle and mineralizing events

• Orogenic gold (2h) – metallogenic model(s)

• Orogenic gold and metamorphism (4h) – metallogenic model(s) and impact of post-mineralization metamorphism

• IRGS and RIRGS (2h) – metallogenic model

• Porphyries, IOCG, skarns (2h) – metallogenic model

• From porphyry to epithermal system (2h) – metallogenic model

• Magmatic Ni-Cu-(PGE) (2h) – metallogenic model

• Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE and Fe-Ti-V (4h) – metallogenic model

• VMS – volcanogenic massive sulphides (2h) – metallogenic model

• Carbonatites and LREE, alkaline systems and HREE (on request)

• Meteorite and mineralization (on request) – SIC (Sudbury Igneous Complex)

• Kimberlites (on request)

• Water and other fluids in the earth's crust (on request)

II. Geochemistry applied to mineral exploration

This short course aims to promote the use and understanding of a variety of methods available to geologists in a mineral exploration context. The methods mainly apply to geochemical and petrological data.

The short course includes several modules that can be followed independently, depending on your interest.

Part A. Hydrothermal alteration

• Quantifying hydrothermal alteration (2h) – presentation of the main methods (e.g. Trépanier method, Consonorm, alteration indices)

• Quantifying hydrothermal alteration (4h) – presentation of the main methods and examples of applications

• Mineralogical and chemical changes (2h) – review of the main alteration processes

• Chloritization (1h) – process, distribution, and intensity

• Sericitization (1h) – process, distribution, and intensity

• Potassium alteration and albitization (1h) – process, distribution, and intensity

• Carbonatization (1h) – process, distribution, and intensity

• Other alterations (on request)

Part B. Igneous Petrology

• Geochemistry, general concepts (2h) – major elements, traces, etc. ; notions of mobility and compatibility

• Source of magmas (2h) – understand the origin of magmas

• Magmatic processes (2h) – partial melting and differentiation (understanding the chemical heterogeneity of magmas)

• Diagrams (4h) – the main diagrams for classifying magmas and rocks, when and how to use them

• Archaean magmatism (2h) – komatiites, TTG suites, etc. (origin, chemistry, petrology)

• Partition coefficient (2h) – interpret the chemistry of silicate-dominate and sulfide-bearing rocks based on this essential notion of igneous petrology.

• Stable isotopes (on request)

• Radioactive isotopes (on request)

• Composition of the mantle (on request)

• Crust composition (on request)

Part C. Mineral Chemistry

• Chemistry of pyrite (on request)

• Mica chemistry (on request)

• Chemistry of mica and alkali feldspar – for the exploration of Li-bearing pegmatites (on request)

• Chemistry of Fe-Ti oxides (on request)

• Zircon chemistry (on request)