Exploration Geophysics

Industrial Research Chair in Exploration Geophysics

The Chair's research for the first 5 years will focus on the development of geophysical tools and techniques to detect the geophysical response of Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization and associated host rocks in the emerging deep contact, footwall, and newly discovered low sulphide PGE ore environments of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. In Sudbury, Ontario there is little information about the crust at depths >1.5km and geophysical models and techniques will be required to detect and pursue these deposits at depth and to construct sophisticated and quantitative geophysical models of the ore environment and deposit that, when integrated with other geoscientific information, will bring the geophysical anomaly closer to the reality of the ore body. This will aid in exploration (detecting and delimiting new resources) and mine planning (ore geometry, tons, grade, structure, stress directions, and safe work practices.