PDAC-SEG
Student Minerals Colloquium
The Student Minerals Colloquium (SMC) brings together geoscience students and industry professionals to highlight innovative student research on projects essential for the successful evolution of the modern mining industry.
This event provides industry professionals with an opportunity to support and stay current with ongoing international research from students across the world. The 17th annual colloquium will take place at the PDAC 2026 Convention in Toronto, Canada from March 1-4, 2026
A panel of industry professionals will judge the posters and three winners from each of the BSc, MSc, PhD categories will receive $500, $400 and $300 respectively. All students will be at their posters for judging on Tuesday March 3, from 10:00 am – 12 noon.
Convention attendees are encouraged to visit the exhibits to meet the student researchers and attend the SMC Poster Awards & Reception on Tuesday March 3 in the Northern Lights Learning Hub from 3:30 – 5:00 pm.
A panel of industry professionals will judge the posters and three winners from each of the BSc, MSc, PhD categories will receive $500, $400 and $300 respectively. All students will be at their posters for judging on Tuesday March 3, from 10:00 am – 12 noon.
Convention attendees are encouraged to visit the exhibits to meet the student researchers and attend the SMC Poster Awards & Reception on Tuesday March 3 in the Northern Lights Learning Hub from 3:30 – 5:00 pm.
The list of abstracts will be posted shortly.
Access requirement:
 | All Access Pass Including Student, Senior, and One Day Passes |
 | VIP All Access Pass |
 | Exhibitor Staff Pass |
 | Exhibits Day Pass |
For more information, contact:
SMC Organizing Committee
[email protected]
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CHARACTERIZATION AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF MINERALIZATION IN THE EL02 LICENSE, BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA. AN APPROACH TO ITS MAGMATIC FERTILITY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR EXPLORATION
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso
Trace element and sulphur isotope geochemistry of sphalerite in the Ge-bearing Zn-Pb-Ag Prairie Creek deposit, NWT, Canada
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
Multi-source fluid mixing controls on bonanza-grade gold-silver epithermal mineralization at the Brucejack deposit, British Columbia, Canada
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University
Inversion effects on Pb-Zn Mineralization in the Irish Ore-Field
School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin,
Exploring the influence of rock geochemistry on biofilm composition in a lithium pegmatite system using metabarcoding
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University
Mineral Prospectivity Mapping Driven by Geological Knowledge and Data: a Case Study of Orogenic Gold Deposits in Guangxi
State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Carbonate-Hosted Geothermal Lithium in the Leduc Formation, West-Central Alberta
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Saint Francis Xavier University
Melt Evolution: The Transition from Migmatite to Lithium-Mineralized Pegmatite
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
Spinel chemistry in the lowermost part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Insights into the petrogenesis of the Bon Accord Ni-deposit
Department of Geology, University of Ottawa