Hi, I’m Ryan Pippy

A consulting geologist specializing in Metasomatic Iron Alkali Calcic Systems (MIAC)
including Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCGs) and Machine-Learning exploration geology

Highlights

  • 10 years experience

  • Current PhD student at St. Mary’s University (Canada) studying MIAC systems

  • Early Machine-Learning Exploration Geology consulting for OZ Minerals (2022) Youtube Team Lecture

  • Discovery of Khamsin IOCG deposit (202 Mt @ 0.6%Cu) in (South Australia, 2014)

  • Produced first resource of Carrapateena IOCG (South Australia)

Academic talks

  • Bass River Fe-Co breccia

    The Bass River magnetite breccia is a variant Co-bearing IOCG deposit depleted in Cu and Au. Biotite and magnetite are the primary iron oxides. Paragenesis indicates early Na-facies (albite), K-Fe facies (magnetite, biotite). Then another cycle of Na facies (scapolite), K-Fe facies (magnetite, biotite), and late Ca-Mg facies (calcite, chlorite).

  • Cobequid-Chedabucto fault zone CCFZ

    Feeling Salty? MIAC systems & evaporites

    Across the Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault Zone (CCFZ), there is evidence of hypersaline solutions creating Metasomatic Iron Alkali Calcic (MIAC) systems. These hypersaline solutions are likely derived from the dissolution or anatexis of the lower Windsor Group evaporite sequences nearby.

  • magnetite-biotite breccia

    Trace elements in magnetite

    Upcoming presentation 2025.

    Trace elements across iron alteration across the Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault Zone MIAC systems.

Contact me.

ryan@ryanpippy.com

Wakefield, Quebec, Canada