Several Past SGA Presidents
2024/25 S. Mikulski (Poland)
2022/24 D. Banks (U.K.)
2020/21 D. Huston (Australia)
2018/19 K. Kelley (USA)
2016/17 J. Relvas (Portugal)
2014/15 G. Beaudoin (Kanada)
2012/13 P Weihed (Sweden)
2010/11 F. Tornos (Spain)
2008/09 D. I. Groves (Australia)
2006/07 H. Frimmel (Germany)
2004/05 D. Leach (USA)
2002/04 P. Fenoll-Hach Ali (Spain)
1999/01 H. Papunen (Finnland)
1997/98 E. F. Stumpfl (Austria)
1994/96 Z. Johan (France)
Once upon a time...
Legal incorporation in Switzerland
SGA was legally incorporated in Switzerland in 1971 with its statutes in English, French and German.
First attempt of establishment at the International Geological Congress in Prague
The new Society was scheduled to be formally established at the International Geological Congress in 1968 in Prague, then Czechoslovakia. The Congress was interrupted, however, by the invasion of Soviet troops, which forcded the constituent assembly to be postponed. Thus, the constituent assembly could only reconvene in the following year, on May 26, 1969, in Vichy, France.
First Executive Committee
The Provisional Executive Committee of the Society consisted of the following members:
- G. L. Krol – President
- P. Ramdohr – Honorary President
- A. Maucher – Vice-President
- A. Bernard – Secretary
- J. Ottemann – Treasurer
- G.C. Amstutz – Chief editor
First issue of Mineralium Deposita
Furthermore, a new scientific journal, MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, was established and its distribution promoted as a means to make known the foundation of the new Society, its objectives, its function, and its structure.
First Statutes of the Society
The nucleus of a Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) was formed by a first working group that met in Heidelberg, Germany, in June 1965, to form a Provisional Executive Committee. Within a few months, the statutes were designed, contact was established with the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) in view of a close cooperation, providing a similar scope for the two societies.
First Secretary of the Society: Prof. A. Bernard (France)
In the mid-1960s economic geology was a fast-growing discipline, and a need existed for increased international cooperation and scientific exchange, by meetings, publications and joint activities. Prof. A. Bernard (France), who became the first secretary of SGA, described the origin of the Society in the first issue of Mineralium Deposita.