Transformative research: mega millions for Laurentian U mineral exploration research.

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The largest single investment ever in Laurentian University (LU) will help launch what the Sudbury post-secondary institution is calling an "unprecedented research effort to help the mineral industry make lower risk exploration investments in Canada and abroad."

The $104-million project received the university's largest ever single investment--$49.2 million --from the federal government's $900-million Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

That amount, which was announced Sept. 6, is combined with $55 million in investments --in cash and in-kind contributions --from 22 partners from academia, industry and government.

The seven-year initiative is named Metal Earth.

he project will see a team of more than 100 professionals and students compare data about the planet's crust, a first-of-its-kind experiment in Canada to use geo-science to produce 4D images of the Earth--from the surface where we live to the mantle beneath our feet.

Laurentian is calling it an "MRI of the Earth" to identify key metallogenic differences between regions on the planet.

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Sudbury MP Paul Lefebvre, in a news release, said LU is already No. 1 in Canada for economic geology research funding and "among the best in the world."

"We are proud to support Laurentian and its Mineral Exploration Research Centre at the Harquail School of...

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