The Kamloops Exploration Group has another series of lectures planned for early in 2015.
The schedule includes:
• Jan. 8: Understanding our Ancestors’ Earth; Environments & Biology of the Ice Age Giants with Robert Young, an associate professor in earth and environment sciences at UBC-Okanagan.
• Jan 22: Backyard, Boneyard, Junkyard Geology with Jim Britton, a provincial geologist and planner.
• Feb. 5: From Tree-Tops To Massive Sulphides: New Discoveries with Colin Dunn of the Geological Survey of Canada.
• Feb. 19: Crust Formation on the Early Earth — An Iceland-Like Setting with Jesse Reimink, a PhD student at the University of Alberta.
• March 5: The Yellowstone Hot Spot; One Of The World’s Largest Volcanoes with Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah’s department of geology and geophysics.
• March 19: Critical Raw Materials with George Simandl of the B.C. Geological Survey.
• March 26: Tailings Ponds with Eric Domingue, manager of operations, environment divisi, DST Consulting Inc.
• April 23: New Afton Mine Update with Marty Henning, senior feologist, New Gold Inc.
All sessions are in the Mountain Room at the Campus Activity Centre at Thompson Rivers University.
Each starts at 7 p.m.
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