KEGS marks 50 with symposium

To mark its 50th anniversary, the Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS) is holding a symposium on mining and environmental geophysics.

Speakers at the event, slated for March 8 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Toronto, include Peter Annan of Mississauga, Ont.-based Sensors and Software, Leo Fox of Toronto-based Phoenix Geophysics, and Ken Witherly of Condor Consulting in Wheat Ridge, Colo.

KEGS will continue its anniversary celebrations by hosting a breakfast on March 11 in the Imperial Room of the Royal York Hotel. Walter Lynn, past president of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), will talk on the “technology race” and later Prof. Chris King, head of the department of geography and environmental engineering at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., will speak on environmental geophysics.

For more information, contact Micki Allen at (905) 474-9118. E-mail: maracmicki@cs.com

Focus on lode gold deposits

The Northwestern Ontario Mines and Minerals Symposium, slated for April 8-9 at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay, Ont., will feature a workshop on where to find and how to prospect Archean lode gold deposits.

The workshop will be led by a geologist from the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, as well as representatives of companies active in the Red Lake camp.

Several field trips are planned.

For further information, visit the web site of the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association at www.tbaytel.net/nwopa or contact John Halet at (807) 475-4142. E-mail: jhalet@tbaytel.net.

Gordon to talk on Titan technology

Robert Gordon, director of sales and marketing with Toronto-based Quantec Geoscience will headline the Toronto Geological Discussion Group’s first talk of 2003, on Jan. 28 at the Ontario Club in Toronto.

Gordon’s talk will highlight recent results from demonstrations of the new Titan 24 magnetotelluric/induced-polarization system employed at several properties across the province, including Kidd Creek in Timmins. The Titan 24 system has also been used by Barrick Gold in Nevada.

The Titan system maps resistivity contrasts in lithologies down to depths of 2 km and can provide direct detection of massive sulphides to these depths. In addition, IP responses for disseminated-to-massive sulphides can be obtained to depths of 400 metres.

For more information, contact Neil Gow at (416) 947-0907. E-mail: gown@rpacan.com