November 6, 1996
(Mines and Energy)
Provincial geoscientist selected as Distinguished Lecturer
Rex Gibbons, Minister of Mines and Energy, is pleased to announce that Bruce Ryan, an employee of the department, has been selected as the Howard Street Robinson Distinguished Lecturer for 1996-97.
Mr. Ryan is a geoscientist in the Geological Survey, Mines Branch. For the past 20 years, he has been investigating the geology and mineral potential of central and northern Labrador. His focus of study for the last few years has been the Nain area, including the rock formations that host the now-famous Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt deposit.
The Howard Street Robinson Distinguished Lecturer is selected annually by the Geological Association of Canada. The chosen lecturer is someone judged to be making a significant contribution to the scientific study of Canada's oldest rocks and Canadian metal mining. Ryan's work in Labrador is relevant and important on both counts. He is also a proven exceptional lecturer, having won the national Julian Boldy Award earlier this year for a technical paper presented at a national geoscience conference.
Mr. Ryan will be conducting a cross-Canada Robinson lecture tour, which is fully sponsored by the Geological Association of Canada. His lecture, Plutonic Rocks of the Nain Area: Anorogenic Intrusions and the Setting of the Voisey's Bay Sulphide Deposit will be presented in major centres across the country to university, government and mineral- industry audiences. "This will be an important showcase for highlighting the quality of work being done by the Geological Survey, as well as the province's exciting mineral potential," says Dr. Gibbons.
Bruce Ryan joined the Geological Survey in 1976 as a project geologist, having done research in Labrador for his master's degree at Memorial University. Since then, he has been one of the chief government geoscientists carrying out geological mapping in Labrador. He is the author of numerous Geological Survey reports and maps, and has had his results published in some of the leading international journals on geology. His work continued during the 1996 field season with the mapping of the region inland from Okak Bay.
NOTE:Mr. Ryan will be presenting a public lecture entitled the "Voisey's Bay Nickel-Copper deposit: What is it... and why is it where it is" on Thursday, Nov. 7, 1996 at the Delta, St. John's Hotel and Convention Centre, Salon "B" at 8 p.m.
For further information or to obtain a photo of Mr. Ryan, please contact: Tara Laing, Assistant Director, Communications, (709) 729-0050.
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