Tuesday, October5
NICKEL-PGE SESSION
8:00 AM – Noon – Colorado Rockies Ballroom
Session Chair:   Jim Mungall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

New Perspectives on Exploration for Magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE Sulfide Deposits: Edward Ripley, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Thompson Ni Belt: Michael Lesher, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada; and Dan Layton-Matthews, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Geophysical Methods for NI Exploration: Present and Future: Steve Balch; Jim Mungall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Jeremy Niemi, Kinross Gold, Toronto, ON, Canada

Eagle’s Nest: the Discovery and Geology of a Magmatic Ni-Sulfide Deposit Under Overburden in the James Bay Lowlands of Ontario, Canada: Jim Mungall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; John Harvey; Steven Balch; James Atkinson and Michael Hamilton

Break

Exploration, Discovery and Geology of the Nachingwea Area Ntaka Hill Nickel Sulfide Deposits: A Potential New Proterozoic Nickel District in the Mozambique Belt of Tanzania: Patricia Tirschmann; S. C. MacDougall and G. R. Katchen, Continental Nickel Ltd., Oakville, ON, Canada

Progress in Understanding the Evolution of Nickel Laterites: Paul Golightly

Characterization of Hydrothermal Alteration Assemblages Associated with ‘Low-Sulfide’ Footwall Cu-Ni-PGE Mineralization (North and East Ranges, Sudbury Structure, Canada): Györgyi Tuba, Eötvöx Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Session Chair:   David Burrows, Vale Exploration Canada, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Recent Advances in Uranium Metallogenic Models and Exploration Techniques in Last 10 Years: David Burrows, Vale Exploration Canada, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Recent Exploration Successes by Cameco in the Athabasca Basin: Charles Roy

Genesis of the Wyoming Uranium Province: William Boberg, Ur-Energy Inc., Littleton, CO

Break

The Discovery of the Phoenix Zone: A New High-Grade, Athabasca Basin Unconformity Uranium Deposit, Saskatchewan, Canada: William Kerr and Roger Wallis, Roger Wallis and Assoc., Etobicoke, ON, Canada

Geology and Mineralization of the Recently Discovered Rossing South Uranium Deposit in Namibia: Martin Spivey, Andrew Penkethman, Neal Culpan

Uranium Mineralizations in Niger: Guy Breton

Geological Evolution and Exploration Geochemistry of the Boomerang Lake Unconformity-Type Uranium Prospect, Northwest Territories, Canada: Steve Beyer, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada