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From seed to fruition: Building your own public mining company from scratch

This manual contains papers from a short course held in March 2000. The course was directed towards geologists, engineers and others in the mineral industry and was intended as a primer on how to launch a new commercial venture in resource property ownership and junior company operations. The eight papers contained in the manual cover the following topics: building your own mining company – what you should aim for; strategic alternatives; corporate and securities laws; resource property and the qualifying report; some practical legal thoughts on going public; administering the company; finding investors and maintaining your market; and a case history demonstrating how a mining company was built.

New developments in the geological understanding of some major ore types and environments, with implications for exploration

These proceedings of a PDAC short course, held in March 1999, examine new ideas about and geological developments on priority exploration target types, linking the new thinking to exploration. The ten papers in the volume include: Fe-oxide-Cu-Au deposits of the Olympic Dam/Ernest Henry-type; Magmatic processes that generate porphyry and associated ore deposits; Controls on alteration and mineralization in high-temperature, carbonate-replacement Zn-Pb-Ag+Cu+Au deposits in Mexico and Southern Arizona: implications for development of effective exploration models; Auriferous polymetallic massive sulfides and the VMS-epithermal transition: a new exploration target; Carlin-type gold deposits in the Great Basin, Western USA; Geological environments for Carlin-type gold deposits in Canada; Recent ideas on the origin of Witwatersrand-type gold deposits; Heavy mineral placer deposits as sources of past and present metal output - important exploration guides for discovery of lode deposits in Alaska, Yukon, and the Russian Far East; Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits through geologic time; and New developments in extractive metallurgy and mineral processing and what these may mean for the definition of ‘ore’ and ‘ore reserves.’

Practical Application of Exploration Geochemistry

Proceedings of a short course presented for the PDAC by Steve Amor, Lynda Bloom, and Peter Ward in March 1998. Topics in the volume include sampling; data management; data evaluation techniques; and case histories in various terrains.

Fundamentals of Exploration and Mining

Proceedings of a short course presented by the PDAC in March 1998. The volume contains papers on: mining development fundamentals; basics of mining laws and regulations; technical report writing & common terminology; overview of ore deposit models; the impact of deposit models on exploration strategies of a major mining company (a case study); evolution of a mineral property from exploration to operating mine; financial analysis and decision making for mineral deposits; mining agreements from a North American major mining company perspective; and environmental considerations.

Securities Law Reporting Requirements for Ore Reserves

Papers given in a workshop organized by the PDAC and by the Natural Resource and Energy Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, Ontario, during the PDAC’s 1997 Annual Convention Topics covered include: a report of the CIM's Ad Hoc Committee on Mineral Resource Classification; reporting requirements of the SEC's Industry Guide No.7; defining an ore reserve; ore reserve reporting from a mining analyst's perspective; and reserve reporting in Latin America.

Trends, Technologies, & Case Histories for the Modern Explorationist

Proceedings of a short course presented by the PDAC in March 1996. Topics include: airborne electromagnetic technologies; seismic exploration technology; deep drilling in the Sudbury Basin; GIS; exploration geochemical innovations; biooxidation / bioleaching technology; advances in lithogeochemical exploration; and borehole geophysics.

Project Evaluation and Due Diligence

Proceedings of a short course given by the PDAC in March 1995. The intent of the course was to provide practical information on the evaluation of mineral exploration properties, advanced exploration projects, or mines for geologists, investors, prospectors, and mining engineers. The ten papers contained in the proceedings volume cover the following aspects of due diligence: legal; location; geology; sampling; ore reserves; mining methods and costs; metallurgy and processing; environmental (opening through closure); and general economics.

Prospecting in Tropical and Arid Terrains

Proceedings of a short course given by the PDAC in March 1994. The manual contains approximately 450 pages and 18 papers, grouped into the following categories: definition of terms and description of the processes; geochemistry; geophysics; geology and logistics; case studies.

Diamonds: Exploration, Sampling and Evaluation

Proceedings of a short course given by the PDAC in March 1993. Contains 15 papers by leading experts from around the world. Topics include the geology of kimberlites, prospecting techniques, the application of geochemistry and geophysics in the search for diamond deposits, and the methods involved in their evaluation.

Sampling and Ore Reserves

A manual of the ten papers presented at a PDAC seminar in March 1991. Topics include sampling in exploration; sample preparation and assaying; methods of reserve estimation; grade control; and reserve reporting.

Exploration and Development Highlights

An annual magazine distributed free of charge to all PDAC members. Outlines industry events of the past year in Canada. Recent issues have included an international section. Also includes a composite table of the past year's new mines and projects.

Geoscience Reporting Guidelines (Majorly Revised April 2003)

This new colour manual identifies & describes essential components required for informative geoscience reports and maps, provides standards for geoscience report and map contents, recommends style and presentation concepts, incorporates standards for data acquisition and presentation, provides guidelines for editing and review of reports, includes numerous illustrations and handy tables with reference information, includes a newly revised geological time scale. This manual is of broad interest to geoscientists regardless of specialty.

A Guide to Regulatory Requirements and Procedures for Exploration, Development & Mining in Canada

A series of eleven volumes, one for each province and territory within Canada, outlining mining and environmental regulatory procedures and requirements for each stage of the mining sequence from prospecting through advanced exploration to mining and closure Also included are sample copies of permit application forms and the names of key government contacts.

The First Age of Giant Ore Formation: Stratigraphy, Tectonics & Mineralization in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic

A volume of papers presented during a special technical session at PDAC Convention 98. Topics include: Archean & Early Proterozoic geology and metallogeny of the Southern Canadian Shield; new insights on the stratigraphy & structural geology of the Southwestern Abitibi Greenstone Belts: Early Precambrian metallogeny; the prolific Early Proterozoic: a bonanza time for volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits; New models of greenstone belt evolution and implications for metallogeny, including recent lithoprobe results; and an overview of world class Archean gold deposits.

Pacific Treasure Trove - Copper-Gold Deposits of the Pacific Rim

Contains the papers and figures presented in a technical session on Pacific Rim copper-gold deposits during the PDAC's 1997 Annual Convention Subjects include: geological parameters and economic importance of giant Cu and Au porphyry deposits; geological and economic considerations of porphyry Cu and Au Systems of North and South America; mining and processing; geological setting and evolution of porphyry-related Cu-Au deposits in the Southwest Pacific; cost of acquisition; and new advances in the understanding of the Grasberg Cu-Au porphyry system in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

Nickel in a Nutshell

Contains the abstracts and figures used in a series of papers on nickel presented during the 19% Annual Convention of the PDAC Topics include: nickel economics; nickel metallurgy; nickel laterites; giant nickel deposits ; Sudbury and Noril'sk; our significant nickel sulphide deposits: and a geological profile of Voisey's Bay, Labrador.