Home | News Room | Events Events November 10-13, 2008 Mineral project evaluation techniques and applications: From conventional methods to real options Michel Bilodeau, McGill University, Canada Learn the basics of economic/financial evaluation techniques, as well as the practical implementation of these techniques to mineral project assessments. Learn how to: • How to gain a practical understanding of economic/financial evaluation principles. • How to develop the skills necessary to apply these to support mineral project decisions. • About the real options approach to valuing mining projects. For more information and registration please go to: http://www.cim.org/mcgill/index.cfm Montreal, McGill University, Canada November 21, 2008 University of Toronto, Department of Geology Lecture Series Friday November 21 - 11:00am Location: ESC 2093 Metamorphism, Melting, Magmatism, Microbes, and Mars: A Nitrogen Isotopic Perspective Professor Gray Bebout Department of Geology Lehigh University We are involved in field and experimental studies aimed at understanding pathways for transfer of organic N (and C) signatures into and within the deep Earth. This has partly involved the development of (carrier-gas) methods for the extraction and isotopic analysis of small amounts of nitrogen in silicate minerals and glasses. As an example of the approach, N cycling into (and out of) subduction zones involves assessment of subduction inputs (sediments, variably hydrothermally, in some cases, microbially altered oceanic basalts), the redistribution and isotopic fractionation of N during diagenesis and low- to high-grade metamorphism, partial melting and the extents of N mobility in melts, and the mechanisms by which slab/sediment N is conveyed into arc source regions (later to be measured as volcanic gases) or otherwise redistributed or stored in the mantle. One theme in the work on silicates is the common residency of N as ammonium molecules in micas, thus the experimental work on mica-fluid isotope fractionations that is being conducted partly at the University of Toronto. The studies of N incorporation into volcanic glasses during seafloor alteration, and work on N storage in microporous silicate phases and clay minerals, could have some extensions to the search for biosignatures on Mars (and ancient Earth). Coffee and cookies Provided - Everyone Welcome June 1-4, 2009 24th International Applied Geochemistry Symposium 2009 Monday, June 1st to Thursday June 4th, 2009 Hosted by University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick(Canada) http://www.unb.ca/conferences/IAGS2009/