Important Reminders Icebreaker and Student Night: Convention Floor and Mezzanine Floor Monday, 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm 45th SASKATCHEWAN Geological Open House Delegates’ Luncheon: Convention Floor and William Pascoe Room Tuesday, 11:40 am to 1:45 pm Public Lecture: Battlefords Room, Tuesday, 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm Speaker Breakfasts: ‘Garden Court Cafe’ Restaurant Tuesday and Wednesday, 6:00 am to 8:00 am Mark Next Year’s Open House in your Calendars: November 30 to December 2, 2015 See Reverse for Detailed Schedule of Events Find and ‘Like’ the Saskatchewan Geological Survey and the Saskatchewan Geological Society on Facebook Premier Sponsors Major Sponsors December 1 to 3, 2014 Delta Bessborough Hotel Saskatoon Public Lecture About Our Speaker Bigger than T. rex – Nizar Ibrahim is a the Hunt for the Largest vertebrate paleontologist and Predatory Dinosaur comparative anatomist currently working at the University of Chicago. He is particularly interested in the anatomy and evolutionary history of vertebrates from the Cretaceous Period in Africa and has carried out extensive ﬁeldwork in the Sahara Desert. In 2008, Ibrahim and his team unearthed the largest dinosaur bone ever found in the Kem Kem region of Morocco. In 2010 they named and described the largest ﬂying reptile known from the African continent, the 20-foot wingspan pterosaur Alanqa saharica. Ibrahim is currently publishing on various aspects of the bizarre world of North Africa’s dinosaurs that he refers to as the ‘river of giants’. Collectively, these publications will represent the most complete scientiﬁc record of vertebrate life in the Cretaceous of Africa. In 2014, Ibrahim and his team described a new skeleton of the largest predatory dinosaur known: Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Ibrahim is also one of the principal curators for the Phenoscape project, a major National Science Foundation funded endeavor with the goal of making anatomical information computer readable and linking this information to genetic and developmental data. Dr. Nizar Ibrahim, Paleontologist University of Chicago Tuesday, December 2, 2014 7:30 to 8:30 pm – Battlefords Room Cretaceous Africa was home to one of the most bizarre dinosaurs known – a creature bigger than T. rex, armed with long jaws, huge claws, and sporting 7-foot spines along its back: Spinosaurus. The ﬁrst remains of this giant were discovered in the deserts of Egypt, and put on display in a museum in Munich, Germany. In 1944 an Allied air raid destroyed the museum and the only known partial skeleton of Spinosaurus was lost – seemingly forever. Almost 100 years later paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim tracked down a new skeleton, resurrecting this lost giant of the Sahara in an incredible story of detective work, adventure and cutting edge science. Public Lecture Sponsors www.economy.gov.sk.ca www.openhouse.sgshome.ca www.sgshome.ca 45th SASKATCHEWAN 9:30 – 9:50 am GEOLOGICAL OPEN HOUSE David Thomas*, Alexander Aubin, Dan Brisbin, Joshua Muwakwami, Haiming Yang, Gerard Zaluski Fault architecture, associated structures and uranium mineralization, eastern Athabasca Basin: A provisional empirical classification 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm 9:50 – 10:20 am Contemplations regarding basement geology compilation and interpretation for the southeast Athabasca Basin Donald Wright WhY ThinK about Unique Uranium? Emphasizing uranium mineralization patterns using geochemistry and radiometrics, Athabasca Basin 11:00 – 11:20 am Rong Liang*, Guoxiang Chi, Ken Ashton Characterization of fluids associated with uranium mineralization in the Beaverlodge area, northern Saskatchewan, Canada: Field, petrographic, fluid inclusion and C-O isotope studies OPEN MEETINGS Mineral Tenure Outlook Meeting Monday – 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Kelsey/Sask Room Reception: Women in Mining/Women in Nuclear Monday – 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm in Kelsey/Sask Room MARS Workshop Tuesday – 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in Harvest Room Wednesday – 9:00 am to noon in Harvest Room CGEN Meeting Wednesday – 11:45 am to 1:30 pm in Salon Batoche 11:20 – 11:40 am David Quirt Geochronological update on the Shea Creek uranium deposits 11:40 am – 1:45 pm Lunch – Sponsored by West Wind Aviation and McKercher LLP – Poster and Commercial Exhibit Areas, Convention Floor and William Pascoe Room on the Mezzanine Floor CLOSED MEETINGS SMA Exploration Committee Meeting Monday – 8:30 am to noon in Kelsey/Sask Room Time Speaker(s) 1:45 – 1:50 pm Co-chairs: Michelle Hanson and Anna Fonseca INTRODUCTION TO SESSION 2 1:50 – 2:10 pm Gary Delaney* and Survey Staff Saskatchewan mineral exploration overview 2:10 – 2:30 pm Engin Özberk International Minerals Innovation Institute (IMII) progress report 2:30 – 2:50 pm Anna Fonseca*, Ivo Vos, Bert De Waele, Mathieu Lacorde Unraveling structural history through alteration mapping Tuesday, December 2 – Battlefords Room 2:50 – 3:10 pm Morteza Rabiei*, Guoxiang Chi, Charles Normand The MAW REE zone revisited: Field, petrographic and preliminary fluid inclusion studies Technical Session 1: URANIUM GEOSCIENCE Sponsored by: Golder Associates 3:10 – 3:30 pm Melinda Yurkowski Black gold in Saskatchewan – an update on the Province’s oil and gas industry 3:30 – 3:50 pm Charles Normand*, Ryan Bachynski, Rong Liang Brittle microtectonics and gold mineralization in the Pine Channel – Algold Bay area, Tantato Domain 3:50 – 4:10 pm Brian Skanderbeg* and Anders Carlson The great commodity super-cycle: Through the eyes of a Saskatchewanbased junior gold company POSTER DISPLAYS (Mezzanine Floor and Cypress Room on Convention Floor) Same time as Commercial Exhibits Authors will be present: Monday – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Tuesday – 4:10 pm to 6:00 pm Monday, December 1 Time Event Location 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Hydrothermal alteration short course Salon Batoche 6:00 – 11:00 pm Time Icebreaker and Student Night – Poster and Commercial Exhibit Areas – Convention Floor and Mezzanine Floor Speaker(s) Welcoming Remarks 8:25 – 8:30 am Co-chairs: Sean Bosman and Rebecca Hunter INTRODUCTION TO SESSION 1 Ken Witherly Geophysical expressions of ore systems, not deposits – Our current understanding 8:50 – 9:10 am 9:10 – 9:30 am 10:40 – 11:00 am Technical Session 2: OVERVIEWS, GOLD, REEs Sponsored by: Team Drilling LP Title 8:10 – 8:25 am 8:30 – 8:50 am 10:20 – 10:40 am Paul Ramaekers Basin development, lithogeochemistry and mineralization of the Athabasca Basin, Canada Sean Bosman Spectacular conglomerates of the northwest Athabasca Basin: an overview 4:10 – 6:00 pm Technical Session 3: BASE METALS AND GENERATIVE MAPPING Sponsored by: Instrumentation GDD Inc. Refreshment Break – Sponsored by Heli-Lift International Inc. and Points North Group of Companies Colin Card COMMERCIAL EXHIBITS (Convention Floor and Mezzanine Floor) Monday – 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm Tuesday – 9:00 am to 5:30 pm Wednesday – 9:00 am to 1:30 pm 2:50 – 3:10 pm Igor Ingerov Successful experience of ground electroprospecting application for mining exploration 3:10 – 3:30 pm James Sykes*, Garrett Ainsworth, Andrew Browne, Shayne Rozdilsky, Jenn Kocay Arrow: A new high-grade uranium discovery in an emerging district Chad Sorba*, Clark Gamelin, Dale Verran, Larry Petrie, Lawson Forand, Steve Blower The discovery of the Gryphon Zone, new high grade basement hosted mineralization: Evolving exploration models in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin Wednesday, December 3 – Battlefords Room SCHEDULE OF EVENTS / TALKS Registration begins at 3:00 pm Monday, December 1 Convention Floor Conference registration will continue to be available until 1:45 pm Wednesday, December 3 PUBLIC LECTURE Battlefords Room Bigger than T. rex – the hunt for the largest predatory dinosaur Dr. Nizar Ibrahim, University of Chicago Time Speaker(s) Title 8:45 – 8:50 am Co-chairs: Ralf Maxeiner and Dave Flemming INTRODUCTION TO SESSION 3 8:50 – 9:10 am Murray Rogers Comments on the Saskatchewan mineral deposit models with the iron oxide copper-gold model as an example 9:10 – 9:30 am Ralf Maxeiner*, Ryan Morelli, Nicole Rayner, Rob Creaser A forearc basin and new Archean inlier in the western Reindeer Zone: Implications for amalgamation of the orogen and for exploration 9:30 – 9:50 am Ryan Morelli Context of VMS mineralization and other mineral potential in the Brabant Lake area 9:50 – 10:10 am Bernadette Knox* and Jaida Lamming A new look at Ni-Cu mineralization in the Tantato Domain, Rae Province: Can correlations be made along a 150 km portion of the Snowbird tectonic zone? 10:10 – 10:40 am Refreshment Break – Sponsored by SaskTel and Points Athabasca Contracting Ltd 10:40 – 11:00 am Michelle Hanson Quaternary investigations in the southern Tantato Domain and the adjacent Athabasca Basin 11:00 – 11:20 am Cliff Stanley*, Roger March, Dave Fleming, Ryan Morelli A lithogeochemical comparison of rock types, stratigraphy, and hydrothermal alteration in two drill cores through the McIlvenna Bay massive sulphide deposit and the Target A prospect, Hanson Lake 11:20 – 11:40 am Steven Kramar*, Cliff Stanley, Ryan Morelli Lithogeochemistry of the Hanson Lake assemblage, Flin Flon Domain 11:40 am – noon Roger March* and Dave Fleming McIlvenna Bay: Setting a course for mine development and VMS exploration in the western Flin Flon Domain noon – 1:45 pm Lunch – No Planned Event Poster and Commercial Exhibit Areas Open, Mezzanine Floor and Convention Floor Title POSTER DISPLAY (AUTHORS PRESENT) Mezzanine Floor and Cypress Room on Convention Floor * Denotes speaker for multi-authored talks Technical Session 4: EMERGING PROJECTS, EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES AND ECONOMICS Sponsored by: Saskatchewan Research Council Time Speaker(s) Title 1:45 – 1:50 pm Co-chairs: Jason Berenyi and Mike Villeneuve INTRODUCTION TO SESSION 4 Mike Villeneuve* and Eric Potter Key results from NRCan’s Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4 that supports innovative approaches to mineral exploration 2:10 – 2:30 pm William Kerr* and Roger Wallis Economics of unconformity versus basement hosted uranium 2:30 – 2:50 pm Greg Hodges* and Tianyou Chen Chargeability from Airborne TDEM data: Model studies and field examples 1:50 – 2:10 pm 3:30 – 3:50 pm * Denotes speaker for multi-authored talks OUR SPONSORS PREMIER • Golder Associates • Instrumentation GDD Inc. • Saskatchewan Research Council • Team Drilling LP MAJOR • Heli-Lift International Inc. • McKercher LLP • Points Athabasca Contracting LP • Points North Group of Companies • SaskTel • West Wind Aviation CONFERENCE • AllTech Mining & Foresty Supplies Ltd. • Access Helicopters Ltd. • Boart Longyear • Bryson Drilling Ltd. • City of Saskatoon • Discovery Int'l Geophysics • Discovery Mining Services Ltd. • Hy-Tech Drilling Ltd. • Information Services Corporation • International Minerals Innovation Institute • MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP • OH!Media • Osprey Wings Ltd. • RCM Safety Services Ltd.