Faculty

Bruno Lafrance

Professor
Structural Geology

B.Sc. (Montreal)
Ph.D. (New Brunswick)

Department of Earth Sciences
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario
P3E 2C6

Telephone: (705) 675-1151 ext 2264
E-mail:
blafrance@laurentian.ca

Dr. Bruno Lafrance, explaining Larder Lake geology

 

Content

GEOL 3006 - Field School II

Research Interests

  • Field structural geology
  • Structural controls on gold mineralization
  • Microstructural and textural analysis of deformed rocks

Available Research Projects

If you are interested in a M.Sc. or Ph.D. research project, please contact me or see our current research projects and geology graduate program information.

Current Graduate Students

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

Rubingh, Kate, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Laurentian) Candidate, Structural, metamorphic, and geochronological evolution of the Fox Fold Belt with emphasis on gelogical controls on gold mineralization. [Lafrance]

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

Journal Articles

Lafrance, B., Gibson, H.L., Pehrsson, S., DeWolfe, Y.M., Schetselaar, E, Lewis, D. submitted. Structural reconstruction of the Flin Flon volcanogenic massive sulfide mining district, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. Submitted to Special Issue of Economic Geology entitled Paleoproterozoic tectonics and ore deposits of the western Trans-Hudson Orogen.

Bailey, K., Gibson, H.L., MacLachlan, K., Piercey, S., Lafrance, B. submitted. Emplacement, Petrogenesis, and Reconstruction of the Paleoproterozoic Myo Rhyolite Complex within Flin Flon cauldron subsidence structure: Implications for subsidence history and VMS formation. Submitted to Special Issue of Economic Geology entitled Paleoproterozoic tectonics and ore deposits of the western Trans-Hudson Orogen.

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.

Lafrance, B. and Kamber, B.S. 2010. Geochemical and microstructural evidence for in situ formation of pseudotachylitic Sudbury breccia by shock-induced compression and cataclasis. Precambrian Research, 180, 237-250.

DeWolfe, Y.M., Gibson, H.L., Lafrance, B., and Bailes, A.H. 2009. Volcanic reconstruction of Paleoproterozoic arc volcanoes: the Hidden and Louis formations, Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46, 481-508.

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.

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.

 
 
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