Jérôme Lavoie

Jérôme Lavoie is a geological engineer with more than 25 years of experience in mineral exploration. He has a master’s degree in economic geology from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. He was a project manager with Virginia Mines/Osisko James Bay from 2004 to 2013. During this period, he worked on numerous projects and contributed to the discoveries of the Éléonore gold mine and the Coulon polymetallic deposit. He was a researcher at CONSOREM from 2016 to 2021, and has been an associate researcher there since 2024. Since September 2023, he has been working with the metallogeny team in the geoscientific knowledge acquisition division of the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts. He is responsible for the metallogeny of the vast Eeyou Istchee James Bay area.