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Acknowledgements We would like to gratefully thank to all sponsors for their financial contribution that helped to cover travel
expenses and made this field trip affordable for the students. Special thanks to Mike Ressel (Nevada Geological
Survey) who helped us organizing the field trip. Not only he advised us about the visit and provided the useful
contacts, but also he mentored the student’s group on the field during the day at Eastside project. We gratefully
thank Richard Sillitoe for the excellent short course he gave at Québec Mines 2016. Many professionals and
students benefited from this course as well as funds raised from this course allowed the SEG student chapter
partially finance the international field trip. We would like to thank also Pierre-Simon Ross (INRS-ETE) and
his students Benjamin and Pierre who guided us and taught us about volcanology in Arizona. Next, we would
like to thank Jean Cline for her help organizing the outcrop visits around Oatman and also for the
comprehensive presentation about Carlin type of deposits. Luke Vega is thanked for the directions he gave at
Gold Road Mine and Mineral Park. Finally, we would like to thank all the people that welcomed us and guided
us through the mines and projects, as well as all the people that helped us directly and indirectly organizing
this field trip: Hamish Martin (Rio Tinto), Jerry Bustamante and Denis Fisher (Hudbay Minerals), Doug
McGibbon (consultant), Andy Wallace (Cordex NV), Ted Mahonay and Richard Musselman (Kinross), Jim
Carver and his geology team (Silver Standard), Barrick underground geologists, Gabriel Adogla and his geology
team (Klondex Mines).
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SEG U.LAVAL-INRS-ETE STUDENT CHAPTER
INTERNATIONAL FIELD TRIP 2017 USA (ARIZONA-NEVADA-UTAH) April 29 to May 14, 2017
Introduction Nine students from the SEG U.Laval-INRS-ETE Student Chapter participated in a fifteen days field trip to
Arizona, Nevada, and Utah visiting mines, projects and geological sites. The field trip itinerary (Figure 2) was
design with a focused on porphyry, epithermal, skarn and Carlin-type of deposits. The principal objectives of
the trip was to learn about regional geological settings, local geology, and metallogeny of this world class
mining district as well as about exploration, exploitation techniques and environmental management in the
mining industry. Students organized the itinerary with the help of Mike Ressel and compiled a field trip guide
book to be familiar with the information before and during the site visits. The trip was a great opportunity to
visit representative world-class deposits. Contributions of numerous sponsors and fundraising activities
allowed to cover the trip expenses (Table 1 and Table 2).
Visits and presentations The two first days, the group had the opportunity to visit and learn about the structure of the maar and
diatreme volcanoes in the Hopi Buttes volcanic field (Teshim Maar and Round Butte) and scoria-cones
volcanos in the San Francisco volcanic field (Colton and SP crater) under the guidance of Professor Pierre
Simon Ross. The following days, the group visited current, historical mine sites and exploration projects; the
Resolution Copper project (porphyry Cu, Rio Tinto), the Rosemont project (Cu-Mo-Ag porphyry, Hudbay
Minerals), outcrops of the historical Gold Road Mine (epithermal Au), the Mineral Park site (Cu-Mo porphyry),
the Eastside project (epithermal Au, Columbus Gold Corp.), the Round Mountain open pit mine (Au-Ag
epithermal, Kinross), the Marigold open pit mine (Carlin Au, Silver Standard), the Cortez underground mine
(Carlin Au, Barrick) and the Midas underground mine (epithermal Au, Klondex mines). Site visits started
usually with safety induction and a general introduction to the geology of the deposit. Students had
opportunities to ask various questions about the site discovery, geology, processing, environmental and public
relations issues. Afterward, the company personnel guided the group to open pit or underground visit through
several stops to cover the most important geological features of the deposit. The visit was completed with a
core shack visit where representative core samples were laid out. Students had the opportunity to observe
and learn about typical ore textures, hostrock, ore minerals and hydrothermal alteration assemblages as well
as drill core processing workflow. Additionally, students learned about used methods in exploration and
mining including underground mapping, geophysics, drilling, 3D modeling, machinery and trucks, mining
methods, and mineral processing.
We were fortunate that Mike Ressel from the Nevada Geological Survey joined us for the entire visit at Eastside
Project. Mike gave us an excellent presentation about the economic geology of the Nevada State emphasizing
on the deposits the group was going to visit. The group visited Jean Cline, a Professor Emeritus at the
University of Las Vegas who gave us a general, comprehensive presentation focused on Carlin type gold
deposits prior to our visits at Cortez and Marigold mines.
In addition to those visits, the group had the opportunity to look at the Ray open pit operation (ASARCO Grupo
Mexico), porphyry Cu and several other active mines and projects in rehabilitation. The group also visited the
Bryce Canyon, Zion and Grand Canyon national parks.
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Figure 1. A) Marigold mine visit with Jim Carver. B) Visiting core shack with Hamish Martin at the Resolution
Project C). In the open pit of Round Mountain mine. D) Round Butte diatreme with Pierre Simon Ross. E) Eastside
project with Mike Ressel and Doug McGibbon. F) Klondex Midas operation.
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Figure 2. Itinerary map of the international SEG student field trip in Arizona, Nevada and Utah
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1. BUDGET
Table 1. Funding from organizations, companies and events
Organization/company CAD Rating
SEG U.Laval-INRS-ETE student chapter
Shortcourse Québec Mines with Richard Sillitoe
5,000 Gold
KINROSS 2,500 Gold
LOGIQ Office Jeunesse Internationaux du Québec 1,345.2 Gold
ODM 1,000 Silver
Divex 1,000 Silver
PDAC 1,000 Silver
Fund rising activities 1,196
MDD GAC 750 Silver
SRK 500 Bronze
Osisko Redevances Aurifères 500 Bronze
REFLEX 500 Bronze
E4m 500 Bronze
INRS 500 Bronze
AELIES 250 Bronze
AESGUL 200 Bronze
Estwing 10 hammer and
goggles
Bronze
Rite in the rain 50 sample notebooks Bronze
SUM 16,741.20 CAD
Table 2. Group expenses
Nature CAD
Flight tickets 4,681.19
Transportation
2 mini-vans
gas
4,739.50
1,158.58
Accommodation 4,169.67
Other including field guide books, national park
visits
383.35
Per-diem 1608.91
SUM 16,741.20 CAD
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Table 3. List of participants
Name Surname e-mail University Cycle
Victor De Bronac de Vazelhes [email protected] Université Laval MSc
Roman Hanes [email protected] Université Laval PhD
Alexandre Krushnisky [email protected] INRS-ETE MSc
Alex Lepage [email protected] Université Laval BSc
Haiming Liu [email protected] Université Laval PhD
François-Xavier Masson [email protected] Université Laval PhD
Marjorie Sciuba [email protected] Université Laval PhD
Chao Yang [email protected] Université Laval PhD
Jean-Phillipe Fleury [email protected] Université Laval MSc
