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Your submitted abstract will be available in our PDF Roundup 2018 Abstract Guide available for download prior to the conference. The Abstract Guide will act as a marketing piece to attract delegates to your booth.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM

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  • Deadline for submissions: Friday, November 24, 2017 at 4:00 PM (PST)
  • Abstracts received after November 24, 2017 may not be included in the Abstract Guide.

An example has been provided on the following page for reference.

EXAMPLE

Eskay Rift Profiled: VMS Potential in the Northwest

Dani Alldrick and Joanne Nelson, BC Geological Survey; Tony Barresi, Dalhousie University; Martin Stewart, Barrick Gold Corporation; and Kirstie Simpson, Geological Survey of Canada

Located in northwest BC, the Eskay Rift is the geological setting for the world’s richest volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit – the Eskay Creek gold-silver mine. The rift structure was first postulated by GSC geologists in 1990 and they extended the structure southward in 1998. The BC Geological Survey began detailed mapping and mineral deposits studies of the northern half of the rift in 2003, and combined this work with lithogeochemical studies at Dalhousie University.

Eskay Rift is defined as a fault-bounded basin, hosting thick accumulations of bimodal basalt and rhyolite flows, with intercalated sedimentary rocks. Rift strata record the final eruptive events of the Early to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group, an island arc complex that extends from the Yukon to Washington State. This rift hosts 60 known VMS deposits and prospects, including two new VMS prospects discovered in outcrop during the 2004 field season.

Eskay Rift is preserved as a narrow, discontinuous, 250-km-long belt extending from Klastline Plateau in the north to Anyox in the south. There are 25 individual segments of these rift-fill-sequence rocks preserved. Detailed mapping along the northern half of the rift shows that most segments have generally similar lithological characteristics, but the proportions of key lithologies within and between rift segments vary widely. Some rift-fill-sequences were clearly deposited in isolation from those of adjacent rift segments, suggesting that they occupied nearby, but unconnected basins. Paleo-water depth varied between these different rift segments, ranging from subaerial, to shallow to moderate water depth (0-500 metres), to deep-water ocean floor setting (>1000 metres). Associated VMS deposits reflect these varying water-depths.

Exhalative mineral deposits and prospects are known in three rift segments: Eskay Creek, Anyox and Table Mountain. The Eskay Creek and Anyox rift segments host producing and past-producing mines; the several exhalative prospects in the Table Mountain rift segment are recently discovered, have limited outcrop exposure, and so far have yielded sub-economic assays. These exhalative deposits and prospects developed at a range of water-depths, account for pronounced differences in mineralogy and metal associations, and require different exploration strategies. The Georgie River and Downpour Creek rift segments have had limited exploration work to date, and deserve further investigation due to their favourable lithologic associations and prominent felsic volcanic centres. The five small, remote, rift segments between Frankmackie Icefield and the Granduc mine are unmapped and unexplored.

Eskay Rift has been regarded as the final, brief (176-174 Ma) episode of Hazelton Arc history, but new mapping and age dates suggest that onset of rifting may have started in early Hazelton time (191 Ma). In this particular rift segment, rift-fill strata rest directly on metamorphosed Paleozoic substrate.

The Eskay Rift records a major Early Jurassic - Middle Jurassic crustal break which extended from a subaerial setting within island arc rocks at its northern end, to a near-continent, mid-ocean-ridge setting at its southern end. Analogous settings are preserved in Triassic arc rocks of the southeast Alaska panhandle, and along the east-trending arm of the Great African Rift.

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