Ph.D. Students

Mukwakwami, Joshua, B.Sc. (Hons.) MPhil U Zimbabwe, Deformation of Ni-Cu-PGE Ores and Mobilization of Metals in the Garson Mine, Sudbury [co-supervised with Michael Lesher] - supported by CVRD-Inco and NSERC

M.Sc. Students

Bygnes, Lindsay
B.Sc. A comparative study of mineralized and unmineralized breccias along the Whistle offset dyke in the North Range of the Sudbury impact structure. [Lafrance / McDonald]

Byron, Jennie
B.Sc. (Acadia), G.I.S. Dipl. (COGS). GoCad reconstruction of the Flin Flon-Callinan-777 deposits. [Gibson / Lafrance / Schetselaar]

Lewis, David
B.Sc. Saskatoon; Structural Investigations of Millrock Hill and the Hinge Zone of the Beaver Road Anticline, Creighton, Saskatchewan. [Lafrance / Gibson / MacLachlan]

Representative Publications

Lafrance, B. , Legault, D., Ames, D.E. 2008. The formation of the Sudbury breccia in the North Range of the Sudbury impact structure. Precambrian Research,v.165, 101-119.

Ispolatov, V., Lafrance, B. , Dubé, B., Hamilton, M., and Creaser, R. (in press). Geological and structural setting of gold mineralization in the Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake gold belt, Ontario. Economic Geology.

Ayer, J.A., Thurston, P.C., Lafrance, B. (in press). A special issue devoted to base metal and gold metallogeny at regional, camp and deposit scales in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. Economic Geology.

De Wolfe, J.C., Lafrance, B. , Stott, G.M. 2007. Geology of the shear-hosted Brookbank gold prospect in the Beardmore-Geraldton Belt, Wabigoon Subprovince, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 44, 925-946.

Bailey, J., McDonald, A.M., and Lafrance, B. 2006. Pentlandite alteration and Ni mobility at the Thayer Lindsley mine, South Range Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario. Canadian Mineralogist, v. 44, 1063-1077.

Jones, L.R., Lafrance, B. , and Beaumont-Smith, C.J. 2006. Structural controls on gold mineralization at the Burnt Timber mine in the Lynn Lake greenstone belt, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Manitoba. Exploration and Mining Geology, v. 15, 89-100.

Lafrance, B., and Heaman, L.M. 2004. Structural controls on hypothermal gold mineralization in La Ronge Domain, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 1453-1471. View PDF

Lafrance, B. 2004. Conjugate oblique-extension veins in shear and tensile fracture systems at Komis gold mine and Mufferaw gold prospect, northern Saskatchewan. Exploration and Mining Geology, v.13, 129-137. View PDF

Bailey, J., Lafrance, B. , McDonald, A.M., Fedorowich, J.C., Archibald, D.A., and Kamo, S. 2004. Mazatzal-age (1.7-1.6 Ga) deformation of the South Range of the Sudbury impact structure at the Thayer Lindsley mine, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 41, 1491-1505.

Lafrance, B. , DeWolfe, J.C., and Stott, G.M. 2004. A structural reappraisal of the Beardmore-Geraldton Belt at the southern boundary of the Wabigoon Subprovince, Ontario, and implications for gold mineralization. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 41,217-235.