Chief Geologist Dr. Gary Delaney has been with the Saskatchewan Geological Survey since 1986, initially doing geological mapping in northern Saskatchewan. “I walked thousands of kilometres up there. I did a lot of detailed work around what’s now known as the Seabee Gold operation. It’s our only gold producer right now. In 1986, I started at what is today the mine site, developing a series of very detailed geological maps for that whole area. There’s been many gold discoveries in that area and I’d like to think that my work helped inform some of those discoveries,” he said. His PhD research focused on the sedimentology and stratigraphy of a sequence of Precambrian sedimentary rocks in the Yukon.
“I’m passionate about what we do here. We’ve got a really good team. We’re really important to developing the province’s mineral and petroleum resources. Like I said, it all starts with the rocks. You don’t know what you’ve got, where it is, how to get it. We’re the foundation of economic development in our resource sector,” he said.
