Hélène Legros

Hélène Legros studied in France. She holds an engineering degree in Mines and Quarries and a doctorate in metallogeny. Her doctoral thesis focused on tungsten mineralization in SE China. She then worked for four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. Her first project was on the skarns W of the Canadian Cordillera. She then worked on the resources of mantle rocks from the Superior Craton as part of the Metal Earth project. Legros specializes in understanding the mobility of rare metals in magmatic-hydrothermal systems. She is now working with the Ministère and UQAC to understand Nb and REE mineralization in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.