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Yao Cui is the Geomatics Geoscientist. |
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Laura deGroot is the
MINFILE/ARIS Database Administrator. She is responsible for
maintaining the mineral inventory databases and the BC Geological Survey website. |
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Tania Demchuk is the Manager of Geoscience Marketing and Partnerships. |
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Pat Desjardins has worked for the
BC Geological Survey for 21 years.
He began as a regional mapper and mapped
the Babine and Telkwa range around Smithers. He
is one of the GIS specialists in the branch and provides support to
the MapPlace as well as other related GIS needs for the BC Geological
Survey. |
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Larry
Diakow has
spent over twenty-three years mapping in British Columbia with an
emphasis on Mesozoic and Cenozoic arc magmatism and associated
epithermal and porphyry systems. |
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Travis Ferbey is the Quarternary Geologist. |
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Jay Fredericks is the new Manager of the Mineral
Development Office in Vancouver, B.C. |
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Kirk Hancock
is the Acting Senior Geoscientist for MapPlace/MINFILE. |
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Larry
Jones is the new Director of Resource Information. |
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Rachel Kerr is one of two administrative assistants who support the BC
Geological Survey. |
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Dave
Lefebure is the Director and Chief Geologist of the
BC Geological Survey.
He has more than 20 years experience with mineral
deposit studies, regional geoscience surveys and mineral exploration
in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. Currently involved with a
wide variety of geoscience-related issues, including economic
development, land use planning, database development and
distribution, government policies and funding models. |
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Andrew
Legun specializes in geological mapping, coal and coal related
research. He has also worked as a District Geologist. Andrew has carried out
geological mapping
in the Peace River coalfield and northern Rockies
(with GSC).
Assisted in Northern Kechika Trough project (sedex) and compilation
mapping in area of Sustut copper deposit.
Sub-basin recognition in Aldridge Fm. (Sullivan target) and
worked on the Howell
Creek structure in southeast BC. Geologic
Reconnaissance of Wokkpash park proposal area. |
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Ray
Lett specializes in the
applications of exploration geochemistry to the discovery of new
mineral resources. Previous projects, many of which have involved
detailed geochemical sampling in areas of high mineral potential, focused on exploration targets such as SEDEX, VMS and gold and
PGE bearing vein deposits. |
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Jim
Logan has completed regional
mapping and mineral deposit studies in the Telegraph Creek-Iskut
River and Schaft Creek areas of northern BC and the Goldstream area
of southern BC. His current project is a study of the geologic
setting and controls to mineralization for intrusion related gold
occurrences throughout BC. |
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Nick
Massey has mapped areas
favourable for VMS deposits on Vancouver Island and in northern BC.
Recent projects have involved provincial scale thematic overviews of
the potential for Eskay Creek and SEDEX massive sulphide deposits,
new aggregate resources. He is currently working on the digital
geological compilation map for BC. |
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Mitch
Mihalynuk has
completed mapping projects in the Haines Triangle (Windy Craggy),
Llewellyn gold belt, Tulsequah VMS camp and the Atlin and Dease gold
camps of northern BC with emphasis on structural and stratigraphic
controls to mineralization. Mitch is currently working on the Atlin Targeted
Geoscience Initiative. |
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Joanne
Nelson has mapped important
mineral deposit camps in central and northern BC including the
Silvertip and Cassiar camps; Takla Group rocks at Mt. Milligan and
in the Nations Lake area and, most recently, as co-leader of the
Ancient Pacific Margin Natmap Project, favourable host rocks for
VMS deposits in the Finlayson Lake belt. |
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Graham
Nixon has
mapped favourable host rocks for porphyry Cu, skarn and epithermal
Au deposits as part of the Northern Vancouver Island project, has
studied PGE occurrences associated with Alaskan-type
ultramafic-mafic complexes in northern BC and is now working on the
PGE potential of alkaline intrusive complexes and Cu-Au porphyry
deposits throughout BC. |
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Bruce Northcote is the Regional/Staff Geologist
based in the Vancouver Mineral Development Office. |
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Tasneem Pirani is one of two administrative assistants who support the BC
Geological Survey. |
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Paul
Schiarizza has
completed detailed bedrock mapping in the Taseko Lakes-Bridge River,
Adams Plateau, Takla Lake areas of BC with a focus on the
statigraphic and structural setting of VMS, Sedex and Au bearing
vein occurrences. He is currently working in the Little Fort - Canim
Lake area of central BC. |
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Manager of the Vancouver Mineral Development
Office - position is vacant as of June 1, 2007. |
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George
Simandl is
the industrial mineral and gemstones specialist. George has
focused on the geology and marketing of a wide
variety of industrial mineral deposit types throughout BC and is
currently monitoring new developments in the industry.
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Allan
Wilcox is the contact for all aspects of mineral industry
Assessment reporting. Allan has worked on the development and
implementation of the ARIS database system, and recently initiated
scanning and delivery of the assessment report library via digital
files on the Ministry website.
Email/Contact numbers
of BC Geological Survey Staff
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