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. 
 
The list of abstracts will be posted shortly.  
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Long Lake Zinc Deposit in the Grenville Province, Canada: Evidence of Post-Metamorphic Mineralization and Magmatic Input
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University
Characterizing the stratigraphy of the Mafic Domain host rocks of the Great Bear gold deposit, Red Lake, northwestern Ontario
Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC), Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University
Structural Architecture of the Kirkland Lake gold camp, Southern Abitibi greenstone belt (Ontario, Canada)
MERC, Laurentian University
Pyrite textures and alteration minerals in the Timmins gold camp
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
Constraining ore assemblage, textures, gold composition and timing of deformation and mineralization at the LP deformation zone, Great Bear deposit, Red Lake, ON
Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Laurentian Univeristy
Petrogenesis of chromitite associated with the platiniferous J-M Reef, Stillwater Igneous Complex, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa
Biotite Geochemistry as an Exploratory Vectoring Tool in the Zafranal Cu Porphyry Deposit, Southern Peru
School of Geological Engineering, Faculty of Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Sequestration of Co and Au in the hydrothermal system: Insight from the Tuolugou Co-Au deposit in East Kunlun Orogen, China
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry of Syenite-Hosted Quartz–Carbonate Veins at the Young-Davidson Orogenic Gold Deposit
Department of Earth Science, University of Toronto