Michael Power

Michael started a MSc program at the University of Ottawa in September, 2011 after completing a BSc Honours program at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John’s

Currently, he is working as Senior Scientist of Dillon Consulting in Halifax.

Michael has been awarded a 2012 Society of Economic Geologists Graduate Students Fellowship, a Research Assistantship from Natural Resources of Canada for two years, a GAC-MAC travel grant to attend the annual meeting in Winnipeg in 2013, and a travel grant to SGA Meeting in Uppsala in August, 2013..

Michael project is to examine the surficial dispersion of elements from deeply buried uranium deposits. In September, we conducted a field work in the Wheeler River area where the Phoenix deposit lies over 400 metres below the surface. Michael is very active. He is engaged in “Let’s Talk Science” and giving talks at local schools. He will be presenting the results at Saskatoon in the end of November.

Research presentations

Power, M., Hattori, K., Pinti, D., Potter, EG, 2013. Anomalous abundances of He and mobile metals in surface media over the deeply buried Millennium U deposit, Athabasca Basin, Canada. 2013 Goldschmidt Conference. Mineralogical Magazine, vol 77 (5) 1993, Abstract pdf

Power, M.J., Hattori, K., Pinti, D.L., Sorba, C., Kotzer, T., Potter, E., 2013. Surface media expressions of buried uranium deposits: The Phoenix and Millennium deposits, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada. 12^th Biennial meeting of Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, Uppsala, Sweden. Extended abstract

Michael Power, Keiko Hattori, Chad Sorba, Tom Kotzer, Daniele Pinti, Eric Potter (2013) Surface media expressions of buried unconformity-related uranium: The Phoenix and Millennium deposits, Athabasca Basin. Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada. Pdf file for abstract

Michael Power, Keiko Hattori & Chad Sorba (2012) Geochemical anomalies overlying the concealed Phoenix uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin, Canada. Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) and Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI) Uranium Workshop, St John’s. Nfld.

Michael Power, Keiko Hattori & Chad Sorba (2012). Geochemical Anomalies in surface media and uppermost sandstones overlying the concealed Phoenix uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin, Canada. Joint Annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada, May, 2012. Pdf file.

Michael Power, Keiko Hattori & Chad Sorba, (2012) The Surface Expression: What do geochemical anomalies in surface media and shallow sandstones overlying the Phoenix uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, tell us? Advances in Earth Sciences Research Conference, Queen’s University. Pdf file.

Power, M., Hattori, K., Sorba, C., 2012. Geochemical in surficial media and the upper sandstones over the Phoenix uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin. Minerals Colloquium during the PDAC meeting in Toronto in March. Poster (3.3 Mb)

Michael Power, Keiko Hattori & Chad Sorba, (2011). Geochemical anomalies in the surface media over the Phoenix deposit, Athabasca Basin. Saskatchewan Geological Survey Open House, Nov 28-30, 2011. Poster (11 Mb)

Research Papers

Power, M.J., Hattori, K., Sorba, C., Potter, E., 2012. Geochemical anomalies in the soil and uppermost sandstones overlying the Phoenix uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report Number 7257 (6.1 Mb)

Power, M.J., Hattori, K., Sorba, C., Potter, E., 2012. Geochemical anomalies in surface media and uppermost sandstones overlying the concealed Phoenix uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin, SK. Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report. Number 7235 (15 Mb)

Photos at conferences

Michael’s poster at the Saskatoon Geological Survey Open House meeting (2011) was very well received. He is pleased to get many praises.

Field photographs in the Wheeler River area in the Athabasca Basin.

Jack Dann and Michael Power in September, 2011

These small vehicles were very useful for our field work	Michael loves birds. Birds love cookies in his hand.

Jack (R), Michael (C), and Keiko (L)	Success!!

Underground mine tour at the McArthur River mine in August, 2012

UTV certification training program in August, 2012

Field work in the Millennium property

It has a good view, but the road was bumpy.