WELCOME

SC127

VNIR-SWIR Spectral
Short Course

DEC 7 - 8, 2023

IMPORTANT PARTICIPANT
INFORMATION

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WELCOME
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We are one week away from the start of the upcoming VNIR-SWIR Spectral Short Course.
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Below is more information about the upcoming course and the course agenda. If you have
any additional questions, please reach out to Elena (emacgregor@eoas.ubc.ca) or Cassady
(charraden@eoas.ubc.ca).

SCHEDULE
DAY 1: Thursday, December 7
8:30am to 5:30pm PST

DAY 2: Friday, December 8

8:30am to 5:30pm PST

LOCATION
UBC Robson Square (downtown)
800 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2E7
ROOM C400/C420
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FOOD PROVIDED
• Morning tea break (coffee and tea)
•NLunch
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• Afternoon tea break (coffee and tea)

NOTE: we will accommodate dietary restrictions that have been indicated on your
registration form. Please find the section marked: Dietary Special Orders

IMPORTANT NOTES
• Bring your laptop if you would like to work through the exercises on your own.
• Excel and ioGAS will be used for the exercises during the course. Participants who wish to
follow along on their own computer need to install this program ahead of time.
• We will be projecting the exercises on-screen, so participants without access to a laptop
or ioGAS can still follow along.
• If you are interested in ioGAS, please visit https://reflexnow.com/product/iogas/ (please
note that software charges apply).
• The data for the exercises (which you will need for Thursday and Friday afternoon) can be
download here: https://owncloud.eoas.ubc.ca/s/YB9KHqqPTPiDCBQ
• This folder also contains supplementary information (papers/publications, etc.). NOTE: we will
upload the PDF presentations (for those that can be shared) to this folder after the course.
• Digital certificates of participation will be sent out at the completion of the course.
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ONLINE PARTICIPANTS

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Please connect via zoom 15 minutes before the start of each session.
The chat will be monitored for questions.

Topic: VNIR-SWIR Spectral Short Course

Time:Dec 7, 2023 08:30 AM
Dec 8, 2023 08:30 AM

Join Zoom Meeting

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Please reach out to Elena (emacgregor@eoas.ubc.ca) or Cassady (charraden@eoas.

ubc.ca) if you have any issues connecting online.
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SC127: VNIR-SWIR SPECTROSCOPY

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SHORT COURSE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2023

8:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

8:50 Welcome
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9:00 Light and the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, Reflectance Spectroscopy Basics, & The infrared region
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for mineral interpretation - Cassady Harraden (MDRU)

10:15 MORNING TEA

10:45 Mineralogy and mineral compositions from spectra & Instruments and measurement systems -
Cassady Harraden (MDRU)

12:30 LUNCH

13:30 Hand-held analysis with Spectral Evolution’s oreXpert™ NIR field spectrometer + discussion -
Lori Shelton (Spectral Evolution)
14:15 Line scan analysis/geoLOGr + discussion - Michelle Tappert (Hyperspectral Intelligence)
15:00 Applications of SWIR at Kisladag: geology, alteration, and geomet - Tim Baker (Eldorado Gold)

16:00 AFTERNOON TEA

16:30 Exercise 1 - Porphyry Cu SWIR imaging data + Geochemistry

FRIDAY DECEMBER 8, 2023

8:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9:00 SWIR-active porphyry alteration mineralogy - Farhad Bouzari (MDRU)

10:00 Practical uses of spectral data in exploration (and beyond) - Cassady Harraden (MDRU)

10:30 MORNING TEA

11:00 Data quality and consistency - Cassady Harraden & Cari Deyell (MDRU & Veracio)
11:45 Exercise 2 - Golden Mile point dataset

12:30 LUNCH

13:30 Mineral quantification and XRF integration - Cari Deyell (Veracio)

14:15 Geometallurgical Applications of Hyperspectral Imaging Data - Cassady Harraden (MDRU)
14:45 Exercise 3 - Au-Cu recovery and throughput proxies from SWIR

15:45 AFTERNOON TEA

16:15 Smart Spectroscopy - Past, Present and Future + group discussion and wrap-up -
Anne Thompson (PetraScience)

17:15 CONCLUDING REMARKS

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LOCATION DETAILS
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University of British Columbia

Robson Square Campus
800 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2E7

Downstairs, Room C400/C420

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the stairs down to get to the main entrance of the building. Walk in, veer right and take the
stairs to the bottom level (elevator available). At the bottom of the stairs take a left and
walk until you see the MDRU banner outside the room.

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