International awards at the PDAC 2022 conference

The PDAC conference was held for the 90th time this year. This event is one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of raw material exploration / extraction and mining. The conference was held in a hybrid form: from June 13-15, 2022, Toronto, Canada, hosted the event in person, while the online part of the conference was held from June 28-29, 2022. Three of our students attended the conference online with a poster:

• Lívia Leskóné Majoros: „Comparison of critical mineral and element content of black schists fom NE-Hungary”
• Csilla Balassa: „HFSE enrichment in Bükk Mts., NE-Hungary – Geochemistry and mineral composition”
• Mohamed Badawi: „Structural evaluation and mapping of hydrothermal alteration in the Fatira-Abu Zawal area of the Eastern Desert, Egypt”

The abstracts of the Students are available here:
https://merc.laurentian.ca/sites/default/files/final_smc_programbooklet_june2022.pdf

Lívia Leskóné Majoros and Csilla Balassa won the second place in the PhD category with their work. Congratulations to them!

The official results are available here: https://merc.laurentian.ca/seg-smc-recipients