Honours student Gabby McDonald was one of 16 students world-wide to be awarded a Student Field Trip Travel Grant from the Society of Economic Geologists to participate in “Archean Base and Precious Metal Deposits, Southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada”. The field trip was lead by a team of Canadian experts and travelled from Timmins to Noranda and then Malartic visiting world famous mines. Gabby finished her own Honours fieldwork in the Yilgarn Craton just in time to get on the plane to Canada.