Research Work by Martin Viala

Martin completed BSc at Univ Quebec Montreal in 2016, started a MSc program at University of Ottawa in January, 2017, defended his MSc thesis in Sept, 2020. During his undergraduate program, Martin took courses to be a certified gemologist by International Gemological Society. He characterized igneous rocks in the Hualgayoc mining district in northern Peru as his MSc project. He was enthusiastic in disseminating his findings. He wrote two refereed papers, and gave several presentations at conferences including the Society of Economic Geologists Keystone meeting, International Association of Genesis of Ore Deposits meeting in 2018, Geological Association of Canada meeting in 2019, and Minerals Colloquium during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

He also made several presentations to Industry people in Peru.

Papers and Presentation

Viala, M., Hattori, K., 2021. Magmatism and related gold and copper mineralization in the Hualgayoc mining district, northern Peru. Society of Economic Geologists Special Publication no. 24, p. 137-158. The entire paper (4 Mb)

Viala, M., Hattori, K., 2021, Hualgayoc mining district, northern Peru: Testing the use of zircon composition in exploration for porphyry-type deposits. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, vol. 223, 106725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2021.106725. Abstract

Viala, M., Hattori, K., 2019. Miocene magmatism responsible for porphyry gold-copper mineralization and gold mineralization in the Hualgayoc area in northern Peruvian Cordillera. Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada, Quebec City. Pdf file of abstract. Pdf file of the poster (9 mb)

Viala, M., Hattori, K., Gomez, P., 2018. Oxidized, water-rich magmatism in the Hualgayoc Cu-Au mining camp in northern Peruvian Cordillera. 2018 Society of Economic Geologist meeting, Keystone. Pdf file of his poster.

Viala, M., Hattori, K., 2018. Magma oxidation conditions related to gold and copper mineralization in the Hualgayoc mining district, Peru. International Association of Genesis of Ore Deposit (IAGOD) meeting, Salta (Argentina). Proceeding volume, p. 109-110. Pdf file.

Viala, M., Hattori, K., Gomez, P., 2018. Gold-Copper fertile magmas in the Hualgayoc mining district, northern Peru. Advances in Earth Science Research Conference. Abstract

Viala, M., Hattori, K., Gomez, P., 2018. Gold-copper fertile intrusions in the Hualgayoc mining district, Peru. SEG-PDAC Minerals Colloquium (March 5, 2018, Toronto). Abstract, poster (2 Mb). Martin received the second best presentation award

Viala, M., Hattori, K., Baumgartner, R., Gomez, P., 2017. Characterization of igneous rocks in the Hualgayoc mining district, northern Peruvian Cordillera. SEG-PDAC Minerals Colloquium. (March 6, 2017, Toronto). Abstract, poster (5 Mb)

Photographs of the field work in Hualgayoc district (near Cajamarca) in Peru, July, 201

From Right; Martin Viala, Angel Uzategui (Goldfields), Keiko Hattori, Elber Gallardos (Goldfields).

Martin Viala (Left) examining rocks with Elber Gallardos (right) of Goldfields in the Cerro Jesus. The large outcrop behind is highly altered Cerro San Jose, on July 18, 2017

Our visit to the core storage of Regulus Resources in Lima, in sunny day.

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Before the field work, we visited the museum dedicated to Andres del Castillo with Jeffrey Hedenquist in Lima. The director of the museum kindly explained the display.

From Left: Martin Viala, Keiko Hattori, Director of the museum, Jeffrey Hedenquist	Martin saw the world largest scheelite in the display.