Presentations

1. Kosler, J., Mason, P.R.D., and Sylvester, P.J. (2005) High-precision in-situ sulphur isotope measurements by laser ablation MC ICP-MS. 2005 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 30 January – 3 February.
2. Cabri, L.J., Sylvester, P.J., Tubrett, M.N., Peregoedova, A., McMahon, G., and Laflamme, J.H.G. (2005) Development and application of Laser Ablation Microprobe (LAM)-ICP-MS for trace precious metals. TMS 134^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Francisco, 13-17 February, Program with Abstracts, p. 25-26.
3. Rudashevsky, V.N., Rudashevsky , N.S. , and Cabri, L.J.* (2005) Recent advances in concentration of fine particles by hydroseparation. TMS 134^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Francisco, 13-17 February, Program with Abstracts, p.245.
4. Currie, J.J., and Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). A comparative analysis of gold occurrences from the Sops Arm area – The first Gold-only producers in Newfoundland . Geological Association of – Newfoundland Section – Technical Meeting, 21-22 February.Atlantic Geology – in press.
5. Hinchey, J.G., and Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). The distribution of gold in sulphides from the Lodestar Prospect, Newfoundland , as determined by LAM-ICP-MS analyses.  Geological Association of – Newfoundland Section – Technical Meeting, 21-22 February.  Atlantic Geology – in press.
6. O’Driscoll, J.M., and Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). Preliminary geochronological, geochemical and isotopic studies of auriferous systems in the Botwood Basin and environs, central Newfoundland . Geological Association of – Newfoundland Section – Technical Meeting, 21-22 February.  Atlantic Geology – in press.
7. Pollock, J., van Staal, C., and Wilton , D. (2005). The final closure of Iapetus: New U-Pb zircon geochronological constraints from the collision of Ganderia and Laurentia along the Dog Bay Line, Newfoundland . Geological Society of , Northeastern Section - 40^th Annual Meeting, 14-16 March, Paper No. 17-2.
8. Valenta, R., Smith, R., Hall, R., Marshall , L., Wilton , D., Crocker, P., and Butler , R. (2005). IOCG-style Uranium Mineralization in the Makkovik Province of the Labrador Central Mineral Belt . CIM 2005 Mining Industry Conference and Exhibition, Toronto , 24-27 April.
9. Collins, P.G., and Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). Preliminary evaluation and characterization of the nickel-copper-PGE potential of the Red Cross Lake Intrusive Suite, central Newfoundland . Geological Association of Annual Meeting, Halifax , 15-18 May,Abstract Volume 30, p. 31.
10. Huminicki, M.A.E., Sylvester, P.J., Wilton , D.H.C., and Evans-Lamswood, D. (2005). Mineralogical and geochemical variations of the Voisey’s Bay Ovoid and Eastern Deeps Deposits, Labrador . Geological Association of Annual Meeting, Halifax , 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30, p. 90.
11. Huminicki, M.A.E., Wilton , D.H.C., Shaffer, M., Tubrett, M.N., Sylvester, P.J., Evans-Lamswood, D., and Cox, R.A. (2005). Characterization of the Voisey’s Bay Deposits - Integrated XRF, petrographic, electron microprobe and laser ablation ICP-MS studies. Geological Association of Annual Meeting, Halifax , 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30, p. 90.
12. Mader, M.M., Sylvester, P.J. and Myers, J.S. (2005). Juxtaposed oceanic and continental basalts in the mid-Archean Ivisârtoq greenstone belt, Godthåbsfjord region, southwest Greenland .  Geological Association of Annual Meeting, Halifax , 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30.
13. Perry, T., Leitch, A., and Wilton , D. (2005). Investigation of a Late Proterozoic mafic sill and its environs - Cape St. Francis, Newfoundland . Geological Association of Annual Meeting, Halifax , 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30, p. 153.
14. Pollock, J.C., and Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). U-Pb detrital zircon geochronological constraints on Late Ordovician-early Silurian closure of Iapetus along the Dog Bal Lin, Newfoundland Appalachians. Geological Association of Annual Meeting, Halifax , 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30, p. 157.
15. Poujol, M. (2005), A review of the geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa . Geological Association of Annual Meeting, Halifax , 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30.
16. Wilton , D.H.C., Shaffer, M., Huminicki, M.A.E.,Sylvester, P.J., and Evans-Lamswood, D. (2005). Examination of Ni contents in pyrrhotite vs. troilite from the Voisey’s Bay Deposits. Geological Association of Annual Meeting, 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30, p. 211.
17. Wilton , D.H.C., Winter, L.S., and Tuach, J. (2005). The Clementine West Prospect - A new base metal occurrence in the Buchans Group, Buchans Camp, Newfoundland. Geological Association of Annual Meeting, 15-18 May, Abstract Volume 30, p. 211.
18. Crowley J, Chatterjee N, Bowring S, Sylvester P, Myers J & Searle M. (2005) U-(Th)-Pb dating of monazite and xenotime by EPMA, LA-ICPMS, and IDTIMS: Examples from the Yilgarn Craton and Himalayas. 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference , Moscow , Idaho , 20 - 25 May 2005.
19. Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). The history of geological exploration in Labrador – 4000 (+) years of rock bashing. Public lecture sponsored by the Iron Ore Company of Canada for their 50^th anniversary celebrations, June 7, 2005, Labrador City-Wabush. (written up in “53 North – Labrador ’s News Magazine”, v. 2, issue 15, p. 36,  as “ Labrador Artifact changes historical theory of New World settlement”).
20. Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). The Labrador West iron ore deposits - products of ancient oceans, tiny critters and moving continents. Lecture for schools sponsored by the Iron Ore Company of Canada, 50^th anniversary celebrations, June 8, 2005, Labrador City-Wabush (and two related CBC Labrador Morning sessions in mid-June, 2005)
21. Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). The lure of Labrador rocks – A.P. Low and 19^th century geological exploration in Labrador . Invited paper, Mina Hubbard 100^th century conference, June 28, 2005, Northwest River .
22. Belcher, R.W., Kisters, A.F.M., Poujol, M. and Stevens, G. (2005), Structural emplacement of the 3.2 Ga Nelshoogte pluton: Implications for the origin of dome-and-keel structures in the Barberton granite-greenstone terrain. GEO2005 conference, Durban , 4-7 July 2005.
23. Cabri, L.J.  Sylvester, P.J. Tubrett, M.N., Rudashevsky, V.N. and Rudashevsky N.S. . (2005) Current developments in quantitative process mineralogy of PGE-bearing ores from different deposits.  10^th International Pt Symposium, Oulu, 8-11 August.
24. Huminicki, M.A.E., Sylvester, P.J., Evans-Lamswood, D., Lastra, R., Cabri, L.J., and Wilton , D.H.C. (2005). First report of platinum-group minerals and in situ platinum-group element analyses in sulphide phases from an amphibolite dyke in the vicinity of the SE Extension of the Voisey’s Bay Ni-Cu-Co Deposit, Labrador. 10^th International Pt Symposium, Oulu, 8-11 August.
25. Sylvester, P.J., Cabri, L.J., Tubrett, M.N., Peregoedova, A. McMahon, G., and Laflamme, J.H.G. (2005) Synthesis and evaluation of a fused pyrrhotite standard reference material for platinum group element and gold analysis by laser ablation-ICPMS. 10th International Pt Symposium Oulu, 8-11 August.