Research

Research Areas

  • Geology
  • Mineral Deposits

Cassady is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. Her current research is focused on porphyry exploration and vectoring in BC with a specific focus on mineralogy and mineral chemistry from LIBS data. Before joining MDRU, she spent 4 years with Corescan interpreting hyperspectral data as well as developing new geometallurgical and geotechnical applications of data collected using Corescan's automated core logging technology outputs. In 2018, she completed her PhD in geometallurgy with the CODES group at the University of Tasmania in Australia developing methods for geotechnical rock mass and gain size assessment using multi-sensor systems and various microanalytical methods.

Harraden, C.L., Barker, S., Somers, A., Jennings, M. 2024, Predicted Mineralogy from Field-Portable Laser induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (pLIBS) Spectral Analysis for Real-time Orebody Knowledge, in Proceedings of the International Applied Geochemistry Symposium Meeting, 14-18 October 2024, Adelaide, Australia.

Harraden, C.L., Steiner, A. P., Barker, S. L. L., Bouzari, F., (submitted Sept 2024), Mineralogy from µXRF Elemental Maps: Comparison of Supervised and Unsupervised Methods, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis.

Harraden, C.L., Barker, S., Somers, A., 2023, Opportunities for Rapid, Field-Based Sulfide Deportment and Trace Element Chemistry using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), in Proceedings of the Society of Economic Geologists Meeting, 26-29 August 2023, London, England.

McNulty, B., Harraden, C., Barker, S., Rugingh, K., & Mejia, H. L., 2023, In-situ evaluation of zirconium-bearing minerals for geochronology using micro X-ray fluorescence. MethodsX, 102390.

Harraden, C.L., Hong, W., Deyell-Wurst, C., 2021, Characterising the hyperspectral SWIR features of tourmaline from two western Tasmanian granites: Keynote for the Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2021, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Geological Society of Australia Abstract, vol. 133, p. 44.

Harraden, C.L., Stothers, L., Deyell-Wurst, C., 2021, Automated Core Imaging: Opportunities for Integrating Hyperspectral Mineralogy and Structural Orientation Data for More Robust Structural Interpretations: Society of Economic Geologists Conference 2021, Whistler, BC, Canada, presented 16 September 2021.

Harmon, R.S., Lawley, C.J.M., Watts, J., Harraden, C.L., Somers, A.M., Hark, R.R., 2019, Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy – An emerging analytical tool for mineral exploration: Minerals, vol. 9, no. 12, p. 718.

Harraden, C.L., Cracknell, M.J., James, L., Berry, R.F., Carey, R. and Harris, A.C., 2019, Automated Core Logging Technology for Geotechnical Assessment: A Study on Core from the Cadia East Porphyry Deposit: Economic Geology, v. 114, p. 1495-1511. 

Harraden, C.L., Scher, S., Deyell-Wurst, C., Carey, R., 2019, Geometallurgical Considerations: Processing Mineralogy vs Alteration Footprints, in Proceedings, Procemin– Geomet 2019, Santiago, Chile, presented November 2019.

Harraden, C.L., Meffre, S., Berry, R., 2017, Geometallurgical grain size assessment using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) line scan analysis, in Proceedings of the 14th SGA Biennial Meeting, 20-23 August 2017, Québec City, Canada, pp 43-46.

Harraden, C.L., Cracknell, M., Lett, J., Berry, R., 2017, The use of automated core logging technology to improve estimation of fracture mineralogy and weathering for geotechnical calculations, in Proceedings, Drilling for Geology II, Brisbane: Queensland, Australia, Australian Institute of Geoscientists, pp 73-80.

Harraden, C.L., Berry, R., and Lett, J., 2016, Proposed Methodology for Utilising Automated Core Logging Technology to Extract Geotechnical Index Parameters, in Proceedings the Third AusIMM International Geometallurgy Conference (GeoMet) 2016, pp 119–124.

Harraden, C.L., Gregory, M.J., 2015, Delineation of geometallurgical domains in the Pebble porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Alaska: Society of Economic Geologists Conference 2015, Hobart, TAS, Australia, presented 29 September 2015.

Spencer, N., Gonzales, D.A., Harraden, C.L., 2015, Testing Models on the Relationship of Clay Alteration and Mineralization: Bulldog Mountain Vein System, Creede, Colorado: Geological Society of America, vol.  47, no. 6, p. 33.

Harraden, C.L., McNulty, B.A., Gregory, M.J., Lang, J.R., 2013, Shortwave Infrared Spectral Analysis of Hydrothermal Alteration Associated with the Pebble Porphyry Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Deposit, Iliamna, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 108, p. 483 – 494.

Harraden, C.L., Gonzales, D. A., and Gianniny, G.L., 2007, An assessment of the depositional history of the Telluride Conglomerate and implications for mid-Tertiary tectonic-volcanic events in the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Geological Society of America, vol.39, no.5, p. 10.

Gilbert, J.J., Gonzales, D.A., Aspelund, J.M., Beyer, C.R., Bircher, M.J., Ebel, J., Harraden, C.L., Marsters, M.A., Miller, J.B., and Moore, J., 2007, To be pre- or not to be pre-1.7 GA, that is the question: Testing competing hypotheses on the deformational history of the Tenmile Granite, Southwestern Colorado: Geological Society of America, vol.39, no.5, p. 10.