Curran Wearmouth, M.Sc., P.Geo.
Last updated on April 3, 2025Mineral Potential Geoscientist
As a Mineral Potential Geoscientist, Curran delivers modernized mineral potential maps that support land use planning and policy development.
Education
Utah State University (B.Sc., Geology, 2014)
University of Ottawa (M.Sc., Earth Sciences, 2018)
Expertise
Curran joined the British Columbia Geological Survey in 2018 as a senior field assistant, mapping bedrock geology in northwestern British Columbia. Curran rejoined the BCGS in 2023, as a mineral potential geoscientist. Curran’s work identifies prospectivity for key mineral systems across the province.
Curran worked as an exploration geologist in the mineral exploration and the oil and gas industry. He executed and managed programs focussed on orogenic gold systems in British Columbia and Yukon as well as magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE systems in north-central Saskatchewan.
Publications
2025
Graham, A.C., Wearmouth, C.D., Northcote, B., and Ootes, L., 2025. A preliminary assessment of critical companion elements in SEDEX deposits of eastern British Columbia: Examples from the historic Sullivan mine and the Cirque project. In: Geological Fieldwork 2024, British Columbia Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals, British Columbia Geological Survey Paper 2025-01, pp. 141-152.
2024
Wearmouth, C.D., Peters, K.J., Czertowicz, T.A., and Orovan, E.A., 2024. Mineral potential modelling results for northwestern British Columbia, a comparison between past and current work at the British Columbia Geological Survey. In: Geological Fieldwork 2023, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, British Columbia Geological Survey Paper 2024-01, pp. 79-95.
2023
van Straaten, B.I., Logan, J.M., Nelson, J.L., Moynihan, D.P., Diakow, L.J., Gibson, R., Bichlmaier, S.J., Wearmouth, C.D., Friedman, R.M., Golding, M.L., Miller, E.A. and Poulton, T.P., 2023. Bedrock geology of the Dease Lake area: Supporting GIS, structural, magnetic susceptibility, and other digital data, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, British Columbia Geological Survey GeoFile 2023-08, 5p.
2022
Ningthoujam, J., Wearmouth, C., and Arnott, R., 2022. Stratal characteristic and depositional origin of two-part (Mud-poor overlain by mud-rich) and associated deep-water strata: Components in a lateral depositional continuum related to particle settling in negligibly sheared mud-rich suspensions. Journal of Sedimentary Research 2022-92 (6): 503-529.
van Straaten, B.I., Logan, J.M., Nelson, J.L., Moynihan, D.P., Diakow, L.J., Gibson, R., Bichlmaier, S.J., Wearmouth, C.D., Friedman, R.M., Golding, M.L., Miller, E.A. and Poulton, T.P., 2022. Bedrock geology of the Dease Lake area. British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, British Columbia Geological Survey, Geoscience Map 2022-01, 1:100,000 scale.
2019
van Straaten, B.I., and Wearmouth, C., 2019. Geology of the Latham and Pallen Creek area, northwestern British Columbia: Distinguishing the Tsaybahe group, Stuhini Group, and Hazelton Group, and the onset of Triassic arc volcanism in northern Stikinia. In: Geological Fieldwork 2018, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, British Columbia Geological Survey Paper 2019-5, pp. 79-96.
van Straaten, B.I. and Wearmouth, C.D., 2019. Preliminary bedrock geology of the Latham and Pallen Creek area. British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, British Columbia Geological Survey Open File 2019-05, 1:50,000 scale.
2018
Wearmouth, C. 2018. Spatial, Temporal and Physical Origin of Matrix-Poor to Matrix-Rich Sandstones, Neoproterozoic, Windermere Supergroup, British Columbia, Canada. Unpublished M.Sc thesis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 153 p.