Acknowledgements We would like to gratefully thank to all sponsors for their financial contribution that helped to cover travel expenses and made

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4 Acknowledgements We would like to gratefully thank to all sponsors for their financial contribution that helped to cover travel expenses and made this field trip affordable for the students. Special thanks to Mike Ressel (Nevada Geological Survey) who helped us organizing the field trip. Not only he advised us about the visit and provided the useful contacts, but also he mentored the student s group on the field during the day at Eastside project. We gratefully thank Richard Sillitoe for the excellent short course he gave at Québec Mines Many professionals and students benefited from this course as well as funds raised from this course allowed the SEG student chapter partially finance the international field trip. We would like to thank also Pierre-Simon Ross (INRS-ETE) and his students Benjamin and Pierre who guided us and taught us about volcanology in Arizona. Next, we would like to thank Jean Cline for her help organizing the outcrop visits around Oatman and also for the comprehensive presentation about Carlin type of deposits. Luke Vega is thanked for the directions he gave at Gold Road Mine and Mineral Park. Finally, we would like to thank all the people that welcomed us and guided us through the mines and projects, as well as all the people that helped us directly and indirectly organizing this field trip: Hamish Martin (Rio Tinto), Jerry Bustamante and Denis Fisher (Hudbay Minerals), Doug McGibbon (consultant), Andy Wallace (Cordex NV), Ted Mahonay and Richard Musselman (Kinross), Jim Carver and his geology team (Silver Standard), Barrick underground geologists, Gabriel Adogla and his geology team (Klondex Mines). 4

5 SEG U.LAVAL-INRS-ETE STUDENT CHAPTER INTERNATIONAL FIELD TRIP 2017 USA (ARIZONA-NEVADA-UTAH) April 29 to May 14, 2017 Introduction Nine students from the SEG U.Laval-INRS-ETE Student Chapter participated in a fifteen days field trip to Arizona, Nevada, and Utah visiting mines, projects and geological sites. The field trip itinerary (Figure 2) was design with a focused on porphyry, epithermal, skarn and Carlin-type of deposits. The principal objectives of the trip was to learn about regional geological settings, local geology, and metallogeny of this world class mining district as well as about exploration, exploitation techniques and environmental management in the mining industry. Students organized the itinerary with the help of Mike Ressel and compiled a field trip guide book to be familiar with the information before and during the site visits. The trip was a great opportunity to visit representative world-class deposits. Contributions of numerous sponsors and fundraising activities allowed to cover the trip expenses (Table 1 and Table 2). Visits and presentations The two first days, the group had the opportunity to visit and learn about the structure of the maar and diatreme volcanoes in the Hopi Buttes volcanic field (Teshim Maar and Round Butte) and scoria-cones volcanos in the San Francisco volcanic field (Colton and SP crater) under the guidance of Professor Pierre Simon Ross. The following days, the group visited current, historical mine sites and exploration projects; the Resolution Copper project (porphyry Cu, Rio Tinto), the Rosemont project (Cu-Mo-Ag porphyry, Hudbay Minerals), outcrops of the historical Gold Road Mine (epithermal Au), the Mineral Park site (Cu-Mo porphyry), the Eastside project (epithermal Au, Columbus Gold Corp.), the Round Mountain open pit mine (Au-Ag epithermal, Kinross), the Marigold open pit mine (Carlin Au, Silver Standard), the Cortez underground mine (Carlin Au, Barrick) and the Midas underground mine (epithermal Au, Klondex mines). Site visits started usually with safety induction and a general introduction to the geology of the deposit. Students had opportunities to ask various questions about the site discovery, geology, processing, environmental and public relations issues. Afterward, the company personnel guided the group to open pit or underground visit through several stops to cover the most important geological features of the deposit. The visit was completed with a core shack visit where representative core samples were laid out. Students had the opportunity to observe and learn about typical ore textures, hostrock, ore minerals and hydrothermal alteration assemblages as well as drill core processing workflow. Additionally, students learned about used methods in exploration and mining including underground mapping, geophysics, drilling, 3D modeling, machinery and trucks, mining methods, and mineral processing. We were fortunate that Mike Ressel from the Nevada Geological Survey joined us for the entire visit at Eastside Project. Mike gave us an excellent presentation about the economic geology of the Nevada State emphasizing on the deposits the group was going to visit. The group visited Jean Cline, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Las Vegas who gave us a general, comprehensive presentation focused on Carlin type gold deposits prior to our visits at Cortez and Marigold mines. In addition to those visits, the group had the opportunity to look at the Ray open pit operation (ASARCO Grupo Mexico), porphyry Cu and several other active mines and projects in rehabilitation. The group also visited the Bryce Canyon, Zion and Grand Canyon national parks. 5

6 Figure 1. A) Marigold mine visit with Jim Carver. B) Visiting core shack with Hamish Martin at the Resolution Project C). In the open pit of Round Mountain mine. D) Round Butte diatreme with Pierre Simon Ross. E) Eastside project with Mike Ressel and Doug McGibbon. F) Klondex Midas operation. 6

7 Figure 2. Itinerary map of the international SEG student field trip in Arizona, Nevada and Utah 7

8 1. BUDGET Table 1. Funding from organizations, companies and events Organization/company CAD Rating SEG U.Laval-INRS-ETE student chapter 5,000 Gold Shortcourse Québec Mines with Richard Sillitoe KINROSS 2,500 Gold LOGIQ Office Jeunesse Internationaux du Québec 1,345.2 Gold ODM 1,000 Silver Divex 1,000 Silver PDAC 1,000 Silver Fund rising activities 1,196 MDD GAC 750 Silver SRK 500 Bronze Osisko Redevances Aurifères 500 Bronze REFLEX 500 Bronze E4m 500 Bronze INRS 500 Bronze AELIES 250 Bronze AESGUL 200 Bronze Estwing 10 hammer and Bronze goggles Rite in the rain 50 sample notebooks Bronze SUM 16, CAD Table 2. Group expenses Nature CAD Flight tickets 4, Transportation 2 mini-vans gas 4, , Accommodation 4, Other including field guide books, national park visits Per-diem SUM 16, CAD 8

9 Table 3. List of participants Name Surname University Cycle Victor De Bronac de Vazelhes Université Laval MSc Roman Hanes Université Laval PhD Alexandre Krushnisky INRS-ETE MSc Alex Lepage Université Laval BSc Haiming Liu Université Laval PhD François-Xavier Masson Université Laval PhD Marjorie Sciuba Université Laval PhD Chao Yang Université Laval PhD Jean-Phillipe Fleury Université Laval MSc 9