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Team members
Antoine Caté is a Ph.D. student at INRS-ETE in Québec City under the supervision of Dr. Patrick Mercier-Langevin (Geological Survey of Canada). He graduated as a Geological Engineer (Master Degree) from Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais (France) in 2011. Antoine has been working as a student at LaSalle Beauvais and as a junior exploration geologist with Teck Resources on various deposits and prospects in France, Morocco, Australia, Ireland and Canada. He started to work on the Hudbay-owned Lalor gold-rich VMS deposit for his Ph.D. in 2012. He has been the recipient of the DIVEX scholarship and the Eric Mountjoy Exchange Award of the GAC in 2014. He is a SEG, SGA and PDAC student member. Antoine’s professional interests include field geology, geochemistry, 3D modelling and data analysis.
Thesis completion: Summer 2016​
William Oswald is a Ph.D. candidate at INRS-ETE in Québec City studying the geology and metallogeny of the Goldcorp-owned, Musselwhite BIF-hosted gold deposit (Ontario), under supervision of Sébastien Castonguay (Geological Survey of Canada). He obtained his B.Sc. in Geology in 2009 and Master Degree in 2011 from the Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, France. William has worked on geological risk analysis and Geographic Information Systems for Bouygues Construction (France) and field, geological and structural mapping in Tanzania for Quebec-based MDN Inc. He was the recipient of the Keating-Boyle Poster Award from the GAC Mineral Deposit Division in 2015.
Thesis completion: Fall 2016
Nathalie Schnitzler received her geological engineer degree (Master Degree) from Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, France (2012). She worked for NioGold Mining Corporation (Val d’Or, Québec) as a junior exploration geologist and took part in several drilling campaigns. During fall 2014, Nathalie began a second master's degree at INRS-ETE (Québec). For her current M.Sc. project she works on the statistical analyses of multiparameter data from the Bracemac-McLeod VMS deposit (Matagami mining district, Quebec), with The Mobile laboratory for the physical, mineralogical and chemical characterization of rocks (LAMROC). Nathalie is specialized in structural geology, geochemistry and geostatistics.​
Thesis completion: Summer 2016
Vincent Dubé-Bourgeois is a M.Sc. student at INRS-ETE under the supervision of Dr. Pierre-Simon Ross. He graduated with a B.Sc. in geology from the University of Ottawa in 2013. Vincent worked as an assistant geologist for the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) for a total of 1 year over three summers, as well as a junior geologist for Noront Resources during a summer drilling campaign in the Ring of Fire. His current M.Sc. project consists of describing and interpreting the geochemistry and geodynamic setting of the volcanic rocks hosting the gold-rich VMS Lalor deposit, Snow Lake, Manitoba. During his professional and academic experience, Vincent specialized in structural geology, mapping, geochemistry, big data analysis and geodynamic setting.
Thesis completion: Summer 2016
Fabien Rabayrol is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at the University of British Columbia. He obtained his Master degree from the Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais in 2011. He subsequently worked for Balmoral Resources Ltd. in Québec and Teck Resources Ltd. in Turkey as field geologist on grassroot exploration programs. Fabien is currently working on the tectonic-magmatic evolution of the Anatolian-Tauride metallogenic belt in Turkey as a part of the industry-sponsored MDRU - Western Tethyan Metallogeny project supervised by Craig Hart and Alex Miskovic. He has also been the recipient of the Mitacs Accelerate and Globalink scholarship programs as well as the SEG Canada Foundation Research Grant in 2014 and 2015.​
Thesis completion: Fall 2017
Sarane Sterckx is a M.Sc. student at INRS-ETE in Québec City under the supervision of P.-S. Ross (INRS-ETE) and working on the geochemistry of the Archean volcanic rocks of the Blake River Group in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt in relation with occurrences of VMS deposits. She graduated in 2011 with a M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Brussels, Belgium. Sarane worked as geologist for the Ministry of natural resources of Quebec in 2013, and as a student for the Belgium geological survey in 2011 and for the Royal observatory of Belgium in 2010. She also has field experience in France, Indonesia and Morocco. Sarane’s research interests goes from geochemistry, volcanology, geodynamic settings, field geology to data and statistical analysis.
Thesis completion: Winter 2016
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