Pierre Bérubé - ing. géo.

Pierre Bérubé is President of Abitibi Géophysique Inc. and Géopolis Ltd. During his professional career, he worked for the MRNQ, Relevés Géophysiques and Sagax Géophysique before becoming Director of R&D at Val-d’Or Sagax and founding Abitibi Géophysique, a mineral exploration consulting engineering firm whose expertise is recognized on 5 continents, in 2000. Abitibi Géophysique is currently collaborating with Universities in Quebec, Newfoundland-Labrador, Ontario and Australia on technology development projects. Abitibi Géophysique holds several patents and proprietary methods for subsurface exploration and had just unveiled the very first distributed networked resistivity/induced polarization system allowing real-time visualization of subsurface models in the field. 

Mr. Bérubé served the APGGQ (Professional Association of Geologists and Geophysicists of Quebec, now the Order of Geologists of Quebec) as secretary-treasurer from 1989 to 1993 and then served as its president until 1995. He chaired the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association (AEMQ) from 2002 to 2004 and then the MISA Group (Mines, Innovation, Solutions, Applications). He was also VP of the Northern Mining Transit Centre (CTMN) and sat on the Gold Valley Environment and Sustainable Development Commission and the Gold Valley Community Development Corporation (SADC).

On the technical level, Mr. Bérubé developed the first automatic 2D/3D imaging software in resistivity/PP and is co-inventor of InfiniTEM®, a technology patented in 23 countries, and which has enabled the investigation scope of temporal electromagnetism in mining exploration to be increased fivefold and led to the discovery of several base metal deposits.

Mr. Bérubé graduated from the École Polytechnique de Montréal in geological engineering with a specialization in geophysics.