Smith, Richard S.

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Richard Smith received a BSc and MSc from the University of Adelaide, Australia and an MSc and PhD from the University of Toronto. In 1989, he worked at Lamontagne Geophysics in Toronto (1989) where he helped develop methods for generating conductivity depth sections from airborne electromagnetic data. In 1990, Richard held an ARC post-doctoral fellowship at Macquarie University in Sydney (1990). From 1990 to 1992, Richard worked as an explorationist at Pasminco Exploration in Melbourne.

In 1993, Richard joined Geoterrex Ltd, an airborne geophysical survey company, later purchased by Fugro. Here he developed methods for processing and interpreting airborne magnetic and electromagnetic data. In May 2009, Richard took up an Industrial Research Chair in Exploration Geophysics at Laurentian University in Sudbury. Dr Smith is a member of the SEG (Chair, Mining and Geothermal committee, 2008-2010), the EAGE, KEGS, the ASEG (Federal Executive, 1992-1993), and the PDAC (conference organizing committee, 2008-2011). He is the recipient of a number of awards for the "best presentation" at conferences and is a co-recipient of the award for the best paper in the journal Geophysics for 1997 and the best paper in Exploration and Mining Geology (2012). In 2009/2010 he was the CSEG Distinguished Lecturer.

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    Integrated Multi-Parameter Exploration Footprints of the Canadian Malartic Disseminated Au, McArthur River-Millennium Unconformity U, and Highland Valley Porphyry Cu Deposits: Preliminary Results from the NSERC-CMIC Mineral Exploration Footprints Research Network
    (2017) Lesher, M.; Hannington, M.; Galley, A.; Ansdell, K.; Astic, T.; Banerjee, N.; Beauchamp, S.; Beaudoin, G.; Bertelli, M.; Bérubé, C.; Beyer, S.; Blacklock, N.; Byrne, K.; Cheng, L.-Z.; Chouinard, R.; Chouteau, M.; Clark, J.; D'Angelo, M.; Darijani, M.; Devine, M.; Dupuis, C.; El Goumi, N.; Farquharson, C.; Enkin, R.; Fayol, N.; Feltrin, L.; Feng, J.; Gaillard, N.; Gleeson, S.; Gouiza, M.; Grenon, C.; Guffey, S.; Guilmette, C.; Guo, K.; Hart, C.; Hattori, K.; Hollings, P.; Joyce, N.; Kamal, D.; King, J.; Kyser, K.; Layton-Matthews, D.; Lee, R.; Lesage, G.; Leybourne, M.; Linnen, R.; Lypaczewski, P.; McGaughey, J.; Mitchinson, D.; Milkereit, B.; Mir, R.; Morris, W.; Oldenburg, D.; Olivo, G.; Perrouty, S.; Piercey, S.; Piette-Lauzière, N.; Raskevicius, T.; Reman, A.; Rivard, B.; Ross, M.; Samson, I.; Scott, S.; Shamsipour, P.; Shi, D.; Smith, Richard S.; Sundaralingam, N.; Taves, R.; Taylor, C.; Valentino, M.; Vallée, M.; Wasyliuk, K.; Williams-Jones, A.; Winterburn, P.
    Mineral exploration in Canada is increasingly focused on concealed and deeply buried targets, requiring more effective tools to detect large-scale ore-forming systems and to vector from their most distal margins to their high grade cores. A new generation of ore system models is required to achieve this. The Mineral Exploration Footprints Research Network is a consortium of 70 faculty, research associates, and students from 20 Canadian universities working with 30 mining, mineral exploration, and mining service providers to develop new approaches to ore system modelling based on more effective integration and visualization of multi-parameter geological-structural-mineralogical-lithogeochemical-petrophysical-geophysical exploration data. The Network is developing the next generation ore system models and exploration strategies at three sites based on integrated data visualization using self-consistent 3D Common Earth Models and geostatistical/machine learning technologies. Thus far over 60 footprint components and vectors have been identified at the Canadian Malartic stockwork-disseminated Au deposit, 20–30 at the McArthur-Millennium unconformity U deposits, and over 20 in the Highland Valley porphyry Cu system. For the first time, these are being assembled into comprehensive models that will serve as landmark case studies for data integration and analysis in the today’s challenging exploration environment.