NEWS OF THE SOCIETY

News of the Council

Report of the President

P. Fenoll Hach-Alí reported on the period from January 1, 2002 (when she became the SGA President) to April 27, 2002. She welcomed all newly elected officers and thanked officers whose term expired at the end of 2001.

Report of the Treasurer

The SEG Treasurer apologies for any inconvenience which has resulted from problems with the former SEG Treasurer´s secretary. As of May 1, Sabine Lange , M.Sc., has replaced Dr. Judith Vogtmann in the Treasurer´s Office. In order to improve the process of membership to SGA, the Treasurer´s Office, in agreement with the Council, has designed some new strategies. The Treasurer's Office will inform all new applicants, either through e-mail or fax, when the application process has been completed. Springer-Verlag will assign an ID number to the new member for electronic access to MD, and will begin sending MD.

The SGA Treasurer´s Office will also check the possibility of paying membership fees through INTERNET with a printout of receipt (or email which confirms payment).

Report of the Chief Editors, MD

R. Goldfarb will retire from his position with the end of 2002. The Council approved that Larry Meinert from the Washington State University, who joined the Editorial Board in 2001, will replace him. The Editors will discuss positions on the Editorial Board with suitable candidates (9 vacancies for 2003) and will inform the Council on the status of these negotiations at the next Council Meeting. The Council approved an increase of the number of pages of MD from 800 to 1000 effective from 2003.

Report of the SGA Promotion Manager

G. Borg presented new developments for the public promotion of SGA.

SGA Student Chapters

The SGA Council is open to Student Members to form Student Chapters. The Council approved the creation of a joint Prague-Freiberg SGA Student Chapter. Participation in SGA Student Chapter activities does not necessarily entitle the member to SGA Student fees.

Proposal for creation of SGA Awards

The Council approved the creation of the SGA Young Scientist Award. The award will be given biannually to a young scientist for research in economic geology published before his 35th birthday. The award consists of a citation, 1500 EURO and travel to the Biennial meeting for the presentation.

Sponsoring of SGA membership in less economically developed countries

The Council approved a special subsidized subscription program for institutions, and under special circumstances, also for individuals in an economically challenged situation.

7th SGA Biennial Meeting

The progress report was given by D. Eliopoulos. The 7th Biennial SGA Meeting "Mineral Exploration and Sustainable Development" will be organized by Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits in Athens (Greece), August 24-28, 2003. The meeting will be co-organized by the Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration, Athens Technical University, Geological Society of Greece, Society of Economic Geologists and others.

The SGA Council thanked D. Eliopoulos for the excellent organization of both the SGA Executive Committee and Ordinary Council Meetings in Athens and the great hospitality provided by IGME. A personal welcome by Director General, IGME, and Head, Mineral Deposit Department, were highly appreciated. The Council approved that D. Leach will act as a technical liaison within the Organizing Committee. The registration fees for the congress have been fixed as follows:

The second circular will be sent to only those people who responded to the 1st call or will make a request for a copy.

Status of SGA-SEG collaboration

The Council approved the organization of the SGA module -session on "Cutting edge advancements in economic geology" for the 2004 SEG meeting in Perth, Australia (already approved by SEG Council).

Status of SGA-IAGOD collaboration

The Council approved that SGA should take a larger role in the organization of the 12th IAGOD Quadrennial Meeting (St. Petersburg - August 2006) and recommended to discuss more on SGA-IAGOD collaboration during a possible joint IAGOD-SGA Council meeting in Windhoek, Namibia.

Meeting sponsorship

The Council approved the following requests for meeting sponsorship by SGA:

- 4th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining (FEM), December 3-5, 2003, Rovaniemi, Finland. H. Papunen will act as SGA keynote speaker.

- 12th IAGOD Quadrennial Symposium, August 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia.

- 16th Australian Geological Convention, June 30 -July 5, 2002, Adelaide, Australia.

- World class mineral deposits and earth evolution, August 19-21 2003, Cardiff, UK. Ch. Heinrich will act as SGA keynote speaker.

Various

J. Cabello (Regional Vice-President for South America) will launch a promotion campaign of economic geology in South America. Jingwen Mao offered to organize the next SGA Biennial Meeting (2005) in Beijing (China).

SOCIETY FOR GEOLOGY APPLIED TO MINERAL DEPOSITS

SGA COUNCIL 2002

Executive Committee

President P. Fenoll-Hach Alí (Spain)

Vice-President D. Leach (U.S.A.)

Past President H. Papunen (Finland)

Executive Secretary J. Pasava (Czech Republic)

Treasurer P. Herzig (Germany)

Promotion Manager G. Borg (Germany)

MINERALIUM DEPOSITA Editors

B. Lehmann (Germany)

R. Goldfarb (U.S.A.)

SGA News Editor

M. Chiaradia (Switzerland)

Regional Vice-Presidents

N. America G. Beaudoin (Canada)

S. America J. Cabello (Chile)

Asia M. Shimizu (Japan)

Australia R. Hill (Australia)

South Africa R. Viljoen (South Africa)

Councillors: term ending on December 31, 2003

A. Björlykke (Norway)

D. Eliopoulos (Greece)

B. Gemmel (Australia)

I. R. Jonasson (Canada)

F. Mitrofanov (Russia)

H. Stein (U.S.A.)

Councillors: term ending on December 31, 2005

N. Arndt (France)

F. Barriga (Portugal)

A. Boyce (U.K.)

H. Frimmel (South Africa)

Ch. Heinrich (Switzerland)

J. Mao (China)

P. Weihed (Sweden)

Ex officio Members, SEG

President D. Groves (Australia)

Executive Director B. G. Hoal (U.S.A.)

Ex officio Members, IAGOD

Secretary General N. Cook (Norway)

Membership Secretary R. Seltmann (U.K.)

SOCIETY FOR GEOLOGY APPLIED TO MINERAL DEPOSITS

Report of the Executive Secretary about membership

42 Regular Members, 44 Student Members, 1 Senior Member and 2 Corporate Members applied for membership from August 23, 2001 to April 24, 2002

LIST OF NEW SGA MEMBERS

(August 23, 2001-April 24, 2002)

Regular Members

Djamal AISSA, University of Bab- Ezouar, Algiers, ALGERIA

Omar KOLLI, USTHB, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, Alger, ALGERIA

Raul Pablo ANDRADA DE PALOMERA, Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, ARGENTINA

Phillip BLEVIN, Tuggeranong, 2901 ACT, AUSTRALIA

Marek WENDORFF, University of Botswana, Gaborone, BOTSWANA

Sylvia ARAUJO, Universidade de Brasilia,Brasilia, BRAZIL

Jose C. FRANTZ, Porto Alegre - RS, BRAZIL

Alan CLARK, Queen`s University, Kingston, ON, CANADA

Patrice GOSSELIN, Quebec City, CANADA

David LENTZ, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, CANADA

Pierrette TREMBLAY, St-Rédempteur, Quebec, CANADA

Bo PENG, Changsha Institute of Geotectonics, P.R. CHINA

Yi-Tian WANG, Institute of Mineral Resources, Beijing, P.R. CHINA

Richard Mark SPENCER, Quito, ECUADOR

Daniel CASSARD, Orléans cedex, FRANCE

Krister SUNDBLAD, FIN 200 14 Turunyliopisto, FINLAND

Kerr ANDERSON, Ormonde Mining PLC, Navan, IRELAND

Majid GHADERI, Tarbiat Modares University,Teheran, IRAN

Tserenjav TSEVEGDORJ, Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA

Anthony COOTE, St Arnaud, NEW ZEALAND

Dylan JEFFRIESS, c/o OZSCOT Reculsos S.A.C, Lima, PERU

Chris LODDER, AngloGold Exploration Peru S.A.C., Lima, PERU

Friedrich SPEIDEL, Lima, PERU

Bobos IULIU, Universidade de Porto, Porto, PORTUGAL

Antonio SOARES DE ANDRADE, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, PORTUGAL

Tatiana Anatolievna BARABOSHKINA, Moscow, RUSSIA

Michael BUXTON, Johannesburg, Marshalltown 2107, SOUTH AFRICA

Wolfgang MAIER, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA

Zbigniew SAWLOWICZ, Krakow, POLAND

Bernhard DOLD, Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

Jean VALLANCE, Universite de Geneve, Geneve, SWITZERLAND

Howard DAVIES, Spital, Wirral, Merseyside, U.K.

Kip JEFFREY, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K.

Charles MOON, University of Leicester, Leicester, U. K.

Cameron ALLEN, Cominco American Inc., Spokane, WA, U.S.A.

William W. ATKINSON, Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.

Omar EL-MAHDY, Mays landing, NJ, U.S.A.

John DILLES, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.

Jeff DOEBRICH, USGS, Reno, NV, U.S.A.

Lawrence DREW, Reston VA, U.S.A.

Brian HOAL, Society of Economic Geologists, Littleton, CO, U.S.A.

Erik MELCHIORRE, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, U.S.A.

Student Members

Silvia Irene CARRASQUERO, Museo de Ciencias Naturales, La Plata, ARGENTINA

Sebastian GONZALEZ CHIOZZA, FCEN-UBA, Pabellon, ARGENTINA

Pilar MOREIRA,La Plata BS AS, ARGENTINA

Karina MYKIETIUK, La Plata, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

Julie HUNT, EGRU,James Cook University, Townsville, AUSTRALIA

Neil MARTIN, Margate, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA

Andrew STEWART, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA

Andrew WURST, Bellerive, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA

Stijn DEWAELE, Leuven, BELGIUM

Wouter HEIJLEN, Leuven, BELGIUM

Paula ALVES, 1870 Miner Circle, ROLLA-MO 65409, BRAZIL

Sibila BOROJEVIC, Zagreb, CROATIA

David DOLEJS, McGill University, Montréal,Québec, CANADA

Daniel LAYTON-MATTHEWS, Toronto, ON, CANADA

Lukás ACKERMAN, Charles University, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Petr CERNY, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Petr DRAHOTA, Charles University, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Karel MALY, Tachov, CZECH REPUBLIC

Tomás HRSTKA, Charles University, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Michal PONAVIC, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

Luminita GRANCEA, Université Henri Poincaré,Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, FRANCE

Stanislas SIZARET, Orleans cedex, FRANCE

Chris BENDALL, Institute for Mineralogy, Frankfurt/Mein, GERMANY

Claudia BULEY, Freiberg, GERMANY

Samuel FAMIYEH, Freiberg, GERMANY

Andreas KINDERMANN, Institut fur Mineralogie,Freiberg, GERMANY

Emmanuel SUP, Technical University of Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, GERMANY

Carboni VINCENT, UCD Belfiel, Dublin 4, IRELAND

Alla LOSHKAREVA, Korolee, Moscow region, RUSSIA

Rejune HUMBULANI, University of Venda,Thohoyandou, SOUTH AFRICA

Marcel STALDER, Stellenbosch University,Stellenbosch, SOUTH AFRICA

Carmen CONDE RIVAS, I.G.M.E., Salamanca, SPAIN

Regina BAUMGARTNER, Universite de Geneve, Geneve, SWITZERLAND

Omer GUNDUZ, Karadeniz Technical University,Trabzon, TURKEY

Michael LEE , Leicester, U.K.

Michael MOGGERIDGE, Leicester University, Leicester, U.K.

Patrick CARR, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.

Joseph FABRIZIO, Collegeville, PA, U.S.A.

Seth MUSLLER, USGS DFC, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

David PALS, Polk City, IA, U.S.A.

Christopher SMITH, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

Paula SHAFER, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

Christopher VAN TREECK, Fairbanks, AK, U.S.A.

Senior Members

Todor TODOROV, Sofia, BULGARIA

Corporate Members

Sons of Gwalia Ltd., West Perth, WA, AUSTRALIA

Teck Cominco Limited, Vancouver, CANADA