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SGA News 1, June 1996

Economic Geology Research and Exploration in Central and Eastern Europe (Ferenc Molnár, Jeffrey W. Hedenquist)

Presidential address (Zdeněk Johan)

News of the Society

SGA News presentation (Lluís Fontboté, Massimo Chiaradia)

Gold in the Czech Republic (Petr Morávek)


SGA News 2, November 1996

Mining and Exploration in Finland (Pekka A. Numi, Peter Sorjonen-Ward)

Welcome to Turku 4th Biennial SGA Meeting in Turku, Finland, August 11-13, 1997

News of the Society

The SGA Journal: Mineralium Deposita (David Rickard)

SGA Biennial Meeting Field Trips August 1997 – Turku, Finland (Pekka A. Nurmi)


SGA News 3, May 1997

Mineral Exploration in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Sáez, R., Almodovar, G.R., Barriga F.)

From the President of the SGA (E.F. Stumpfl)

News of the Society

The Editorial Board of Mineralium Deposita (David Rickard)

What is M.I.R.O? (Vivien Fenton)


SGA News 4, November 1997

Hunting base-metal giants down-under – current research into Australian Proterozoic Zn-Pb-Ag deposits (Garry Davidson, Peter McGoldrick, Tony Webster)

From the Editor of SGA News (Lluís Fontboté)

News of the Society

Letters to the Editors

Appeal for donations to the Professor I.R. Plimer Fighting Fund (E.F. Stumpfl)


SGA News 5, May 1998

The “Kola Ecogeochemistry Project”: - some lessons for the mineral exploration and processing industry from environmental geochemical mapping of the central Barents Region (Clemens Reimann)

From the Editors of Mineralium Deposita (David Rickard and Richard Goldfarb)

News of the Society

Report on the North American initiative (David Leach)

GEODE A new European Research Initiative on Metallogeny (L.F. – I assume it stands for Lluís Fontboté?)

Book review (Lluís Fontboté)


SGA News 6, November 1998

The nineties as a decade of change in African and global exploration patterns (Gregor Borg)

The new European Research Programme on the Ore Deposits – GEODE (Derek J. Blundell)

News of the Society

IGCP 429 “Organics in Major Environmental Issues” successfully launched in Prague (Jan Pašava)

Joint 5th Biennial SGA Meetina-and 10th Quaddennial IAGOD Symposium, London, 22nd to 25th August 1999


SGA News 7, May 1999

Copper and gold exploration in Southeast Asia (Craig A. Feebrey)

Report on the SGA/Mineralium Deposita exhibit at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada 1999 Annual Meeting (David Leach)

News of the Society

David Rickard retires from Editor of Mineralium Deposita

The new Associate Editors of Mineralium Deposita

Joint 5th Biennial SGA Meetina-and 10th Quaddennial IAGOD Symposium, London, 22nd to 25th August 1999


SGA News 8, January 2000

Thirty years of Base and Precious Metals Exploration in the Central Andes (José Cabello)

Professor Ross Large elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science & Engineering (Jessica Tyler)

News of the Society

Dr. Peter M. Herzig receives Leibniz Prize for 2000

European Metallogenesis Thematic Issue of Mineralium Deposita is dedicated to David Johnstone

Geochim 99 – postgraduate certified training course in geochemical exploration methods and their environmental applications successfully launched in the Czech Republic (Jan Pašava)


SGA News 9, May 2000

The state of the Mining Industry in 1999: a brief review (Christian Bauchau)

1999 Mineralium Deposita Reviewer Award attributed to Professor Nick Oliver

News of the Society

Proposal of amendments of statutes of the SGA Constitution – Lette of the SGA President to the SGA members (Heikki Papunen)

Joint SGA-SEG Meeting in Cracow, Poland, 26-29 August 2001 preliminary information


SGA News 10, December 2000

Crustal-scale hydrothermal paleofield and related Variscan Au, Sb, W orogenic deposits at 310-305 Ma (French Massif Central, Variscan Belt) (V. Bouchot, J.P. Milesi, P. Ledru)

Geochim 2000 - postgraduate certified training course in geochemical exploration methods and their environmental applications successfully terminated in the Czech Republic (Jan Pašava)

News of the Society

Joint SGA-SEG Meeting in Cracow, Poland, 26-29 August 2001


SGA News 11, June 2001

Mineral exploration in the Mount Read Volcanics, Tasmania, Australia (Andrew W. McNeill)

The Joint 6th SGA-SEG Meeting Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century Kraków, Poland, 26-29 August 2001 (Adam Piestrzyński)

News of the Society

The state of the mining industry in 2000: a brief review (Christian Bauchau)

Joint SGA-SEG Meeting in Cracow, Poland, 26-29 August 2001


SGA News 12, December 2001

Industrial Minerals Support Economic Geology in a Globalized World (Milos Kuzvart)

Mineralium Deposita Editors’ Report (Richard Goldfarb, Bernd Lehmann)

News of the Society

Geochim 2001 - postgraduate certified training course in geochemical exploration methods and their environmental applications successfully terminated in the Czech Republic (Jan Pašava)

SGA’s first Student Chapter News (Craig R. McClung)

Joint SGA-SEG Meeting in Athens, Greece, August 24-28, 2003, preliminary information


SGA News 13, June 2002

Late timing for high sulfidation cordilleran base metal lode and replacement deposits in porphyry-related districts: the case of Colquijirca, central Peru (R. Bendezú, Lluís Fontboté)

News on Mineralium Deposita (Bernd Lehmann, Richard Goldfar)

News of the Society

Report on SGA Booth at the SEG 2002 Meeting (Eric Anderson, Rich Goldfarb)

New databases on European Metallogeny A GEODE initiative (Derek Blundell)

7th Annual European Short Course on Metallogeny (Yannick Beaudoin)

The SGA Young Scientist Award

Seventh Biennial SGA Meeting in Athens, Greece, August 24-28, 2003, preliminary information


SGA News 14, December 2002

Sediment-hosted base metal sulphide deposits in Neoproterozoic strata of Namibia (Hartwig E. Frimmel)

News of the Society

“Ex Africa aliquid novi” SGA at the IAGOD/Geocongress 2002 in Namibia (Gregor Borg)

Fourth run of the GEOCHIM 2002/UNESCO postgraduate certificated training course in geochemical exploration methods and their environmental applications (Jan Pašava)

Seventh Biennial SGA Meeting in Athens, Greece, August 24-28, 2003: 2nd circular


SGA News 15, August 2003

Non-sulphide zinc deposits: a new (old) type of economic mineralization (Maria Boni)

News of the Society

Reports of Regional Vice-Presidents

Seventh Biennial SGA Meeting in Athens, Greece, August 24-28, 2003: 2nd circular


SGA News 16, December 2003

Enrichment processes in oxidizing sulfide mine tailings: Lessons for supergene ore formation (Bernhard Dold)

Report on the 7th Biennial SGA Meeting

News of the Society

Reports of the SGA President and Executive Secretary (David Leach, Jan Pašava)

Peter Herzig new Director of Marine Research at Kiel University, Germany

GEOCHIM 2003: Geochemical prospecting methods and their environmental applications (Jan Pašava)


SGA News 17, June 2004 (first one with the modern layout)

Ore Deposit Research in the Times of Minimised Budgets (Gregor Borg)

A new look for SGA News (Massimo Chiaradia)

News of the Society

Reports of Regional Vice-Presidents

Meet the new student representative on the SGA Council (Anna Vymazalová)

News from the joint Prague-Freiberg SGA Student Chapter

Call for nominations for the SGA Young Scientist Award

8th Biennial SGA Meeting Beijing 18-21 August 2005: first circular


SGA News 18, December 2004

The northern Fennoscandia IOCG-province (Åsa Edfelt, Pasi Eilu, Olof Martinsson, Tero Niiranen, Pär Weihed)

From the President of SGA (David Leach)

Report on “SEG 2004: Predictive Mineral Discovery Under Cover” Meeting in Perth (co-sponsored by SGA) (Frank P. Bierlein)

Report on MORE-SGEG Conference in Orange, NSW, July 6-8, 2004 (Frank P. Bierlein)

Iron oxide-copper-gold excursion and work-shop: Northern Finland and Sweden May 31–June 4 2004 (Pasi Eilu, Pär Weihed)

In Memoriam of Professor Eugen F. Stumpfl (Oskar A.R. Thalhammer)

The UNESCO-SEG Latin America Metallogeny Course, 2004 edition (CLAM’2004) (Fernando Tornos)

GEOCHIM – CGS/UNESCO/SGA TRAININGCOURSE SUCCESSFULLY FINISHED IN CZECH REPUBLIC (Jan Pašava)

News from joint Prague-Freiberg Student Chapter (Lukás Ackerman)

8th Biennial SGA Meeting Beijing 18-21 August 2005: second circular


SGA News 19, June 2005

The Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) celebrates its 40th Anniversary: 1965-2005 (Jan Pašava)

A commitment from SGA to students (David Leach)

News of the Society

A brief introduction of the Regional SGA Vice-President for Australia/Oceania (Frank P. Bierlein)

News from other Regional Vice-Presidents

G. Christian Amstutz died on 23 June 2005 (Massimo Chiaradia)

In Memoriam of Pierre Evrard (1914-2005) SGA President 1983-1984 (Francis R. Saupé)

News from joint Prague-Freiberg Student Chapter (Anna Vymazalová)

8th Biennial SGA Meeting Beijing 18-21 August 2005: second circular


SGA News 20, March 2006

Mineralisation associated with the 1076 Ma Giles mafic-ultramafic intrusions, Musgrave Complex, central Australia; a review (Franco Pirajno, Hugh R. Smithies and Heather M. Howard)

A message from the new President of SGA (Hartwig Frimmel)

Highlights of the 8TH BIENNIAL SGA MEETING, BEIJING, CHINA, AUGUST 18-21, 2005 (David Leach)

News of the Society

GEOCHIM Courses celebrate their 30th Anniversary: 1975-2005 (Jan Pašava)

SGA TAKES ON NEW OPPORTUNITIES WITH OTHER SOCIETIES (Holly Stein)

UNESCO-SEG Latin American Metallogeny Course (August, 22 – September, 2, 2005; Lima, Peru) - For the second time completely devoted to mine waste management (Bernhard Dold)


SGA News 21, January 2007

New mineral deposit model for the Cu-Co-Zn-Ni-Ag-Au sulphide deposits in Outokumpu, Finland (Petri Peltonen, Asko Kontinen, Hannu Huhma, Urpo Kuronen)

From the SGA President (Hartwig Frimmel)

News of the Society

Invitation to students to participate in the 9thSGA Biennial Meeting - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 20th-23rd August, 2007 (Anna Vymazalová)

Generous Sponsors fund two prestigious SGA-Awards

In memoriam: G. Christian Amstutz (November 27, 1922 – June 23, 2005) (Lluís Fontboté, Francis Saupé)

Zdenek Johan celebrated his 70th birthday and received the Charles University Gold Medal (Zdeněk Pertold)

In memoriam: Wolfgang Engel (1940-2006) (Larry Meinert, Bernd Lehmann, Massimo Chiaradia)

In memoriam: Hans-Jochen Schneider (1923-2006) (Bernd Lehmann, Ulrich Hein)

SGA Short Course on Gold Mineral Systems GeoZentrum Munich, Germany June 5-9, 2006 (Robert Moritz)

The new SGA website (Georges Beaudoin)

9th Biennial SGA Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, 20-23 August 2007 circular


SGA News 22, January 2008

Submitting manuscripts to international journals – suggestions from the editors of Mineralium Deposita (Larry Meinert, Bernd Lehmann)

From the SGA President (Hartwig Frimmel)

The 9th Biennial SGA Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, 20–23 August 2007: Digging Deeper (Gerry Stanley, Hartwig Frimmel)

SGA N-Ireland Gold and Wales and Avoca (SE Ireland) VMS fieldtrips: a student perspective (Angela Page)

SGA Conference 2009, Townsville, Australia (Patrick Williams, Nick Oliver, Rowena Duckworth)

News of the Society

News from the SGA Student Chapter – Prague (Jirí Sláma)

Report on the XXVI Curso Latinoamericano de Metalogenia UNESCO-SEG-SGA Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Instituto de Geofísica, Ciudad de México (México), 25 June – 7 July 2007 (Massimo Chiaradia)

Zdenek Johan first recipient of the SGA-NEWMONT Gold Medal (Jan Pašava)


SGA News 23, June 2008

Fingerprinting of conflict minerals: columbite-tantalite (“coltan”) ores (Frank Melcher, Maria A. Sitnikova, Torsten Graupner, Nicola Martin, Thomas Oberthür, Friedhelm Henjes-Kunst, Eike Gäbler, Axel Gerdes, Helene Brätz, Don W. Davis, Stijn Dewaele)

From the President of SGA (David I. Groves)

News of the Society

Website NEWS! SGA Mineral Deposit Archive (Georges Beaudoin)

New Mineral Deposit Archive: The Rammelsberg Deposit (Andreas Mueller)


SGA News 24, January 2009

Metallogeny and the evolution of the Australian continent: linkage between mineralisation and tectonic history (David L Huston)

SGA booth at the XIII Latin American Geological Congress, Lima, Peru 29 September–3 October 2008 (Fernando Tornos)

News from the Prague Student Chapter (Aneta Štastná)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Report on the XXVII edition of the UNESCO-SEG-SGA Latin American Metallogeny Course La Paz, Bolivia, August 18–29, 2008 (Fernando Barra)

10th Biennial SGA Meeting, Townsville, 17-20 August 2009 circular


SGA News 25, June 2009

Major metallogenic provinces and epochs of Mexico (Antoni Camprubi)

SGA-SEG Co-Sponsored Ore Deposit Models and Exploration Short Course (1-5/11/2008) in Kunming, Yunnan, China (Xuanxue Mo, Zhaoshan Chang, David Leach)

Obituary P. Routhier (1916-2008)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

News from the Prague Student Chapter (Aneta Stastna, Jakub Trubač, Lukáš Vondrovic)

Report on the XXVIII UNESCO-SEG-SGA Latin American Metallogeny Course, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 19-26 May, 2009 (Fernando Tornos)

10th Biennial SGA Meeting, Townsville, 17-20 August 2009 circular


SGA News 26, January 2010

The 10th Biennial SGA Meeting, Townsville, Australia, 17-20 August 2009: Smart Science for Exploration and Mining (Pat Williams, Brian Rusk)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

SGA Awards at the 10th SGA Biennial Meeting in Townsville (Jan Pašava)

SGA Student/Young Scientist Regional Networks (Anna Vymazalová, Jorge Relvas, Filipa Marques)

Metallic and non-traditional resources of the Erzgebirge Mts., Central Europe. Field trip report of SGA Student Chapter Prague (Michal Čurda, David Dolejš and Kateřina Schlöglová)

SGA at the PROEXPLO and the Bolivian Geological Congress (Eugenio Ferrari)

11th Biennial SGA Meeting, Antofagasta, 27-30 September 2011 circular


SGA News 27, June 2010

The geology and discovery of the Merlin Mo-Re zone of the Mount Dore Deposit, Mount Isa Inlier, NW Queensland, Australia (Mat Brown, Florinio Lazo, Paul Carter, Barry Goss and Doug Kirwin)

From the SGA President (Fernando Tornos)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Call for SGA award nominations (Dave Huston)

News from the SGA Student Network: SGA Student Meeting Halle (Saale), Germany (Mareike Decker)

News from the SGA Student Chapter in Prague SGA-Students Meeting in Halle, Germany (Nikola Denisová and Radim Jedli ka)

Invitation to students to participate in the 11th SGA Biennial Meeting “Let’s talk Ore Deposits” 27th – 30th September, 2011 Antofagasta, Chile (Anna Vymazalová, Jorge Relvas, Andres Veloso)

News from the Baltic Student Chapter (Bartłomiej Bil, Gabriela Lato, Marta Sosnicka, Janne Hokka)

Obituary Dr. Ricardo Davis Presnell (1958–2010) (Karen Duttweiler Kelley)


SGA News 28, December 2010

Gold Systems in Argentina: Diversity in Types, Times and Space (Ana S. Fogliata,Steffen G. Hagemann)

From the Chairman of the 11th SGA Meeting (Eduardo Campos)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

SGA at IMA2010 in Budapest (Hartwig Frimmel)

Call for SGA award nominations (Dave Huston)

11th International Platinum Symposium Meeting Report (Michael Lesher, Pedro Jugo)

Ore Deposits Models and exploration Workshop China University of Geosciences in Wuhan (CUG), May 24-29, 2010 (Huashan, Steven D. Scott)

SGA at the XV Peruvian Geological Congress in Cuzco (Eugenio Ferrari)

“The world of crystals” Review of a scientific movie (Fernando Tornos)

11th Biennial SGA Meeting, Antofagasta, 26-29th September 2011 second circular


SGA News 29, June 2011

An Overview of Chilean Economic Deposits (Shoji Kojima, Eduardo Campos)

From the Chairman of the 11th SGA Meeting (Eduardo Campos)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

SGA booth at the SEG conference Keystone, Colorado, October 2-5, 2010 (Karen Duttweiler Kelley, David Leach)

Ore deposits associated with the Variscan orogeny in the Bohemian Massif, central Europe Field trip report from the SGA Student Chapter Prague (Nikola Denisová, Kate ina Schlöglová and David Dolejš)

SGA Student Conference “Mineral Resources for the Society”(Jan Soumar, Jakub Truba)

6th Annual Workshop and Training Session on ORE DEPOSITS MODELS AND EXPLORATION

11th Biennial SGA Meeting, Antofagasta, 26-29th September 2011 second circular


SGA News 30, December 2011

11th Biennial SGA Meeting, Antofagasta, Chile, 26–29 September 2011, Let´s Talk Ore Deposits (Eduardo Campos and Andrew Menzies)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

News of the SGA General Assembly (Jan Pašava)

SGA Awards at the 11th Biennial Meeting in Antofagasta (Jan Pašava)

News from the Siberian SGA Student Chapter and Young Scientist Network Group (Pavel Gavryushkin, Irina Tretiakova)

News from the SGA Student Network: Short Course on Platinum-Group Elements (PGE) Geochemistry (Anja Ehser, Manuela Frotzscher, Sabine Walther)

Mineral deposits of the Fennoscandian shield: a 22 day-long journey through Sweden and Finland (Katerina Schloglova and David Dolejs)

Mineral deposits of the Czech-Polish border Field trip report from the SGA Student Chapter Prague (Katerina Schloglova and David Dolejs)

Obituary: Prof. John M. Moore, former Regional Vice-President for Southern Africa (H. Tsikos, J. S. Marsh)


SGA News 31, June 2012

Lousal, Portugal: a successful example of rehabilitation of a closed mine in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Jorge MRS Relvas, Álvaro MM Pinto, João MX Matos)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Report on the 1st SGA-SEG-UNESCO-IUGS Short Course on African Metallogeny in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 12–18 March 2012 (Hartwig Frimmel)

News from the Baltic Student SGA Chapter (Karolina Kielczyk, Andrzej Lis, Marta Sośnicka, Friederike Minz, Lisa Andersson)

Ophiolites and related ore and industrial nminerals: field workshop, Turkey, 16–22 May 2012 (Ibrahim Uysal)

SGA 12th Biennial Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12–15 August 2013

SGA 13th Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015


SGA News 32, January 2013

Activities of SGA Student Chapters

  1. Tin mineralization and alteration styles in the northwestern Bohemian Massif, Czech republic: a field trip report from the SGA Student Chapter Prague (Vít Peřestý, Matylda Heřmanská, David Dolejš)
  2. Volcanic-r rt [K1] of the sGa student Chapter Prague (Matylda Heřmanská, Luboš Vrtiška, Jan Soumar, David Dolejš)
  3. Stratabound and vein mineralization in the northwestern Bohemian Massif, central Europe: A field trip report from the SGA Student Chapter Prague (Jan Soumar, Luboš Vrtiška, David Dolejš, Matylda Heřmanská)
  4. News from the Siberian Student Chapter (Ilya Prokopyev, Irina Tretiakova, Olga Gavryushkina)
  5. News from the Barcelona SGA Student Chapter (Thomas Aiglsperger, Lisard Torró i Abat)

34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 5–10 August 2012 (Dave Huston)

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and links with SGA (Ian Lambert)

SGA 12th Biennial Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013 – Second Circular

SGA 13th Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015


SGA News 33, June 2013

Metallic mineral deposits in Fennoscandia, Greenland and NW Russia (Pär Weihed, Pasi Eilu, Jochen Kolb, Jan Sverre Sandstad)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Baltic Student Chapter SGA Annual Meeting 2012 (Paulina Kolarz, Tomasz Ćwiertnia)

News from the Prague Student Chapter – Origin of ore deposits in the Erzgebirge (Krusne hory) Mts., Central Europe (Vit Peresty, David Dolejs)

SGA 12th Biennial Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013 – Second Circular

SGA 13th Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015


SGA News 34, January 2014

Challenges for heavy rare earth production: lessons from Japan (Yasushi Watanabe)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

News of the SGA General Assembly (Jan Pašava)

International Student Geological Conference Brno, Czech Republic (Ivo Macek, Kristyna Novotna)

SGA Awards at the 12th Biennial Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden (Jan Pašava)

D. Groves – Geology of Gold Deposits: SGA Education Fund Short Course (Nikola Denisová, David Dolejš)

News from the Baltic Student SGA Chapter (Marta Sosnicka, Nikola Denisová)

News from the Siberian Student Chapter (Andrey Vishnevskiy, Maria Cherdantseva)

Shiny and bright future for minerals deposit research for a high tech world (Erika Ingvald)

Habachtal and Knappenwand – precious stones deposits in Hohe Tauern: a field trip report from the SGA student Chapter Prague (Luboš Vrtiška, Jan Soumar)

SGA 13th Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015


SGA News 35, August 2014

Activities of SGA Student Chapters

  1. Colombia Student Chapter Vetas-California Mining District Field trip (Rojas M. José. J, Botello. B. Fabian, Claro V. Dalton. A)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

En route for Nancy (Georges Beaudoin)

  1. SGA Student Chapter Prague 2013 second field trip – Western Carpathians deposits near Slovakia-Hungary border (Ondřej Krátký, Luboš Vrtiška, Jan Soumar)
  2. A field trip report from the SGA Siberian Student Chapter: Sinyuhinskoe – largest gold deposits in the Altai Mountains (Maria Cherdantseva, Andrey Vishnevskiy, Evgeniy Naumov)
  3. Events during 2013–2014 organized by the SGA Student Chapter of Nancy (François Turlin)
  4. Barcelona SGA Student Chapter: our sophomore year! (Lisard Torró i Abat)

Elucidating granites and associated mineral deposits during the 12th Freiberg Short Course in Economic Geology (Patrick Krolop, Tobias W. Höfig)

The 8th Ore Deposit Models and Exploration Workshop – Hefei University of Technology mGeological Society of Anhui, China Hefei, December 9–15, 2013 (Taofa Zhou, Fan Yu, Steven D. Scott)

SGA 13th Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015 first circular


SGA News 36, January 2015

Speculation with mining shares in the 16th to 18th century in Germany in comparison with metal exploration worldwide today – Did the willingness to take risks in exploration changed significantly during the last 500 years? (Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer, Wolfgang Lampe)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Happy Birthday, SGA!! (Georges Beaudoin, Jan Pašava)

Iron ores of the Barrandian Paleozoic in central Europe – Field trip report from the SGA Student Chapter Prague (Ondrej Krátký, David Dolejš)

Mineralization related to the Devonian crustal extension and volcanosedimentary processes in the Silesian domain, northeastern Bohemian Massif (SGA student chapter Prague) (Filip Podolský, David Dolejš, Ondrej Krátký)

SGA workshop on gold in the epithermal environment organized by the Barcelona SGA Student Chapter (Sandra Baurier Aymat, Lisard Torró i Abat)

Report on the 3rd SGA Short Course on African Metallogeny „Mining in Africa“ (Alain Cheilletz)

OBITUARY Günther Friedrich 1929 –2014 (Franz Michael Meyer)

SGA 13th Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015 second circular


SGA News 37, August 2015

The 6th Annual Baltic Student Chapter meeting 2015 – A journey to the active and historical mines in Poland (Tobias C. Kampmann, Tomasz Ćwiertnia)

Welcome back to Nancy! (Georges Beaudoin)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

News from the Siberian SGA Student Chapter: a field trip to visit the Kamenushinskoe copper and Salairskoe Pb-Zn deposits (Kemerovo Region, Russia) (Maria Cherdantseva, Ilya Prokopyev, Andrey Vishnevskiy)

The Barcelona SGA Student Chapter: supporting the continuous educational training of our students (Sandra Baurier Aymat, Lisard Torró i Abat, María Clara Román Alday, Laia Arqués Farré)

News from the Colombia SGA Student Chapter: Field Trip in the mineralized belt of Cauca (Gamboa H. Jorge., Pinzón N. Diego., Camacho G. Diana. Y.)

News from the Prague SGA Student Chapter: Mineralization styles of the Krusne hory/Erzgebirge Mts. (Ondrej Kratky, Jan Kulhanek, David Dolejs)

SGA launches a new award for recognizing service to the Society: the SGA-KGHM Krol Medal (Jan Pašava, Georges Beaudoin)

SGA 13th Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015 second circular


SGA News 38, December 2015

SGA 2015, 13th SGA Biennial Meeting (Anne-Sylvie André-Mayer)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

News of the SGA General Assembly (August 25th, 2015, Nancy, France) (Jan Pašava)

SGA Awards at the 13th Biennial Meeting in Nancy, France (Jan Pašava)

The 7th Annual Baltic Student Chapter Meeting (Adrian Krzemiński, Emelie Hedlund Nilsson)

Extension of trip to Scandinavia by Polish students on the occasion of the 7th Annual Baltic Student Chapter Meeting (Adrian Krzemiński, Emelie Hedlund Nilsson)

News from the Barcelona SGA-SEG Student Chapter: 2015th Summer Closure Event, Attendance to the 13th SGA Biennial Meeting at Nancy and 2015th field-workshop (Sandra Baurier Aymat)

News from the Bucaramanga – Colombia SGA Student Chapter: Participation in the XV Colombian Geological Congress (Alfredo Pinzón, M. Juliana Puente, Luis F. Páez, Danilo Gonzales)

News from Morocco SGA Student Chapter (Zaineb Hajjar, Said Ilmen)

Volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits from the Portuguese part of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SGA Student Chapter Prague) (Ondrej Kratky)

The 2015 Latin American Metallogeny Course – A Brazilian twist (Fernando Tornos)


SGA News 39, August 2016

Activities of SGA Student Chapters

1. First Student Meeting and Field trips on Moroccan Mining Potential: News from SGA-Moroccan Student Chapter (Morocco) and Student Chapter of Prague (Czech Republic) (Ilmen Said, Jan Kulhánek, Dominik Brém, Hajjar Zaineb)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Message from the President (Jorge Relvas)

2. News from the Nancy SGA Student Chapter (François Turlin)

3. Mineral deposits of the Upper Silesia – Mississippi Valley type and the Kupferschiefer type deposits (SGA Student Chapter Prague) (Ondřej Krátký, Marek Tuhý)

4. Freiberg shaft, Terra Mineralia exhibition and several localities in the field (SGA Student Chapter Prague) Ondřej Krátký, Marek Tuhý

5. News from the Colombia-Bogotá SGA Student Chapter (Héctor R. Campos, Eduard F. Mora, Eduardo Torres)

6. Geological Excursion Through Ore Deposits in Czech Republic by the SGA Baltic Chapter with the SGA Student Chapter Prague (Filip Zych, Dorota Pietruszka, Ondřej Krátký)

7. News from the Laval University-INRS-ETE – Québec SGA Student Chapter (Marjorie Sciuba, Arnaud Fontaine)

Ore Deposits and 3D/4D modelling in Northern Fennoscandia – Fruitful knowledge exchange about one of Europe’s most prospective regions for metal exploration (Tobias C. Kampmann, Pietari Skyttä, Tobias E. Bauer, Edward P. Lynch)

Obituary Prof. Dr. Z. Johan, DrSc. (1935 –2016) (Jan Pašava)

10th Ore Deposits Models and Exploration Workshop (Meng-Xi Wang)

SGA 14th Biennial Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, 20 –23 August 2017


SGA News 40, April 2017

Activities of SGA Student Chapters

1. Year 2016 for the Barcelona Student Chapter (Sandra Baurier Aymat, Joan Gutiérrez León)

SGA Quebec 2017: a very special invitation! (Jorge Relvas)

From the Editor of SGA News (Massimo Chiaradia)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

2. Mineral deposits of Central Slovakia –SGA Student Chapter Prague (Ondrej Kratky)

3. Mineral deposits and mineralogical localities connected to Tertiary tectonic processes and volcanism below the Krušné hory/Erzgebirge mountains (Jan Bubal, Ondrej Kratky)

4. SGA Siberian Chapter activities in 2016: field trip to Sorsk Cu-Mo-porphyry deposit (Maria Cherdantseva, Evgeniy Naumov, Irina Tretiakova)

5. The 8th annual Student Baltic Chapter meeting in Finland (Filip Zych, Jukka-Pekka Ranta)

6th edition of the Summer School on Ore Deposits – Ressources Minérales: du terrain à l‘expérimentation (Stefano Salvi)

Field trip to Rudny and Gorniy Altai within the framework of 8th International Siberian Early Career Geoscientists conference (cosponsored by SGA) (Maria Cherdantseva, Evgeniy Naumov, Irina Tretiakova)

VI Russian young-scientists scientific school (Elena Amplieva)

Report of the 11th Ore Deposit and Exploration workshop Guiyang, China, 9 –14 November 2016 (Huayong Chen)

SGA 14th Biennial Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, 20–23 August 2017


SGA News 41, August 2017

Potential of phosphate deposits in Europe (Sophie Decrée, Peter M. Ihlen, Henrik Schiellerup, Anders Hallberg, Alecos Demetriades, Margus Raha, Alvar Soesoo)

An invitation: 14th Biennial SGA Meeting, Québec City, 20–23 August 2017

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Colombia-Bogotá SGA Student Chapter: First steps towards the exploration of mineral deposits in the Colombian Territory (José R. Tenjo, Héctor R. Campos, Daniel F. Franco)

News from the Bucaramanga Student Chapter – Deposits Of The Coast And Peruvian Mountain (González P, Danilo A. Hernández B, Javier E.)

News from the Bucaramanga Student Chapter – Visit To The Western Emerald Frame And Saline Dome, Andean Region, Colombia (González P, Danilo A. Hernández B, Javier E.)

SGA 14th Biennial Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, 20–23 August 2017 circular


SGA News 42&43, August 2018

SGA: a quick look at the last two years … (Jorge Relvas)

A message from the President of SGA (Karen D. Kelley)

News of the Society, SGA Ordinary Council Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, August 19, 2017 (Jan Pašava)

News of the SGA General Assembly, August 21st 2017 Québec City, Canada (Jan Pašava)

The 14th Biennial SGA Meeting, Québec, August 2017 (Georges Beaudoin)

SGA Awards at the 14th Biennial Meeting in Québec City, Canada (Jan Pašava)

Call for SGA Award Nominations (Jan Pašava)

News of the Society, SGA Ordinary Council Meeting, Glasgow, UK, April 17, 2018 (Jan Pašava)

The international project to replicate the teaching mineral collection of the University of Barcelona (Joan Carles Melgarejo, Núria Pujol-Solà, Júlia Farré-de-Pablo, Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent)

Fieldtrip through Catalonia: Barcelona, Prague and Siberia Student Chapters (Núria Pujol-Solà, Júlia Farré de Pablo, Cristina Villanova de Benavent, Jan Kulhánek, Marek Tuhý)

Activities of the SGA Siberian Chapter in 2017: collaborative field trip with Prague and Barcelona Student chapters to Catalonia, September, 4 –10, 2017 (Anna Nekipelova, Dmitry Chebotarev, Maria Cherdantseva)

Activities of the SGA Siberian Chapter in 2017: Field trip to the Verkhnetioiskoe iron deposit (Anna Nekipelova, Igor Yakovlev, Maria Cherdantseva)

SGA Student Chapter of Nancy report

Report on the 4th SGA Short Course on African Metallogeny: Granite-related Ore Deposits in the Great Lakes Area, Kigali, Rwanda, 5 – 9 June 2017 (Sharad Master)

ECROFI 2017 International Conference – Report for SGA NEWS

Annual Report of the SGA Peru Student Chapter (Jhon Trebejo Inocente)

A fieldtrip through Colombia‘s western cordillera: ore deposits and relationship with continental crust-forming processes (Daniel Franco, Pablo Porras)

Various metal and fluorite deposits in central part of the Krušné Hory Mts. – Erzgebirge (SGA Student Chapter Prague) (Jakub Mysliveček, Jan Kulhánek)

Historical mining area Kutná Hora and its surroundings (SGA Student Chapter Prague) (Lucie Kunstmüllerová)

XXXV SEG-SGA-UNESCO Latin American Metallogeny Course (Fernando Tornos, Nora Rubinstein, Anabel Gomez and Carolina Méndez)

The VII Russian young-geoscientists scientific school “New knowledge in ore-forming processes” (13th to 17th of November 2017; Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGEM RAS)

News from the SGA Baltic Student Chapter: Field trip to the Kupferschiefer-type Cu-Ag deposits in Poland (Judyta Kazmierczak, Szczepan Bal, Krzysztof Foltyn, Barbara Zygo)

The 9th annual Baltic Student Chapter meeting in Poland (Krzysztof Foltyn, Slawomir Mederski, Wladyslaw Zygo)

SGA Baltic and Prague Chapters pre-conference Field Trip – Québec (Krzysztof Foltyn, Marek Tuhý, Slawomir Mederski)

The 8th Geochemistry Symposium in Antalya, Turkey, 02– 06 May 2018 (Ibrahim Uysal)

5th SGA-SEG-UNESCO-IUGS Short Course on African Metallogeny (Beate Orberger)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 44, January 2019

“Sediment-hosted Mn-U and Fe deposits” from exploration to processing 5th SGA-SEG-UNESCO-IUGS Short Course on African Metallogeny (Beate Orberger)

International Conference on the Middle and Lower Yangtze Metallogenic Belt (MLYB) Hefei, China, July 9 –14 (Emily Beard)

News of the Society SGA Ordinary Council Meeting, Würzburg, Germany, October 22, 2018 (Jan Pašava)

2018–2019 SGA Activities in North America (Graham Garth)

10th Annual Meeting of the SGA Baltic Student Chapter – Oulu 2018 (Krzysztof Foltyn, Thomas Dols)

Fieldtrip through Tertiary magmatic-hydrothermal deposits of Northern Greece (Krzysztof Foltyn, Sławomir Mederski, Magdalena Ożóg, Jakub Wżgrzynowicz, Christos L. Stergiou)

Graduate Short Course on Exploration Geology in Freiburg (Malte Junge, Katerina Schlöglova)

Mineral deposits of the Harz Mountains –Field trip report from the Black Forest –Alpine SGA Student Chapter (Lars Wihanto, Thomas Belgrano, Lisa Richter)

Columbian SGA student chapter visiting Black Forest – Alpine SGA student chapter in Freiburg, Germany (Malte Junge, Ivan Mateo Espinel Pachón)

SGA Colombia – Bogotá: Reconnaissance of the old and new open doors for mineral exploration (Pablo E. Porras, Milton A. Santos, Valentina Bocanegra and Daniel F. Solano)

Activities of the SGA Siberian Chapter in 2018: Field trip to the Sludyanka deposit, Baikal Lake (Polina Bondarenko and Anna Devyatiyarova)

The Russian and Baltic SGA Chapters collaborative field trip to Kola Region (Maria Cherdantseva and Maria Shapovalova)

Report from the Gold Short Course 2018 (led by Prof. David. I. Groves) and of the post-course field trip in Bohemian Massif (Jan Kulhánek, Marek Tuhý, Dominik Brém, Rafael Baieta)

Heritage stone excursion to the south-western part of the Bohemian Massif (Eliška Bršlicová, Marek Tuhý, Rafael Baieta)

David I. Groves: Novel writer (Bernd Lehmann)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 45, August 2019

SGA 2019 Glasgow

News of the Society SGA Ordinary Council Meeting, Pamukkale, Turkey, April 15, 2019 (Jan Pašava)

Graduate Short Course on Seafloor Resources in Karlsruhe (Qasid Ahmad and Thomas Belgrano)

SGA Student Chapter Prague traditional autumn field trip (heritage stone, mineral and metal deposits of Slovakia) (Jakub Mysliveček, Jan Kulhánek, Vít Peřestý and Štěpán Jaroměřský)

Heritage stones of the eastern part of the Czech Republic (Michal Čurda and Marek Tuhý)

A Fieldtrip to Kola Peninsula (Arina Martinova, Evgenia Borisova)

Homage to Donald Frederick Sangster,1935 – 2018 (Charlie Jefferson, Georges Beaudoin, Alex Brown, Jim Franklin, Tom Frisch, Beth Hillary, and Bill Poole)

Homage to Jeremy Peter Richards, 1960 – 2019 (Harquail School of Earth Sciences)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)

6th SGA-SEG-UNESCO-IUGS Short Course on African Metallogeny Gold Deposits: from Exploration to Mining


SGA News 46, February 2020

The consequences of climate change in the Arctic and implications for natural resource utilisation (Denis M. Schlatter, Hannah S. R. Hughes, Ronald Schenkel, Isabella Pasqualini, Nathalia S. Brichet, Helen C.M. Smith)

News of the Society SGA Ordinary Council Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 26, 2019 (Jan Pašava)

News of the SGA General Assembly August 29th, 2019, Kelvin Gallery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Jan Pašava)

SGA Awards at the 15th SGA Biennial Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland (Jan Pašava)

President‘s Corner The past is the key to the future (Karen D. Kelley)

President‘s Corner A bright future from a strong past (David Huston)

Baltic Student Chapter’s North Macedonia –Kosovo field trip (Aneta Drzymała, Aleksandra Furtak, Radosław Mróz, Karolina Szczurek, Dominika Szurynowska, Jakub Węgrzynowicz)

Celebrating 10 years of the SGA Baltic Student Chapter (Krzysztof Foltyn, Sławomir Mederski)

Mineral deposits of the Erzgebirge: A field trip report (Black Forest – Alpine Student Chapter) (Alannah Brett, David Dolejš)

SGA Student Chapter Colombia-Bucaramanga (Jaime Andres Cortes, Luis Fernando Paez)

First National Meeting of the SGA Student Chapter Peru (Raíd Merino, Silvana Stipetich)

SGA Student Chapter Prague geological and mineralogical trip to the Eastern Alps (Barbora Píšová)

Prague SGA Student Chapter visiting Columbia-Bogotá SGA Student Chapter: Mineral deposits of Columbia (Štěpán Jaroměřský, Ivan Mateo Espinel Pachón, Jan Hofmann, Milton A. Santos)

Report from the SGA Turkey Student Chapter 2019 (Fatih Özbaş, Oktay Canbaz)

SGA UK Chapter trip to the Scottish Highlands – visits to ancient Pb-Zn workings and a modern gold mine (Lewis Banks, Jo Miles)

Workshop on Gemstone Deposits in Prague (Monika Kubernátová, Jan Cempírek)

Report on the SGA-sponsored session on “New Mineral Exploration Challenges” Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 18th – 23rd August 2019 (Zié Ouattara)

Gold Deposits: from Exploration to Mining 6th SGA-SEG-UNESCO-IUGS Short Course on African Metallogeny (Beate Orberger, Lenka Baratoux, Ghislain Tourigny, David Baratoux, Lionel Boya)

The 15th SGA Biennial Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland (Karen Kelley, David Banks)

Homage to Steven Donald Scott, June 4, 1941 – June 11, 2019 (Jan M. Peter)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 47, October 2020

Hub & speak: the story of Ore Deposits Hub (Tom Belgrano & The Ore Deposits Hub Team)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

President‘s Corner (David Huston)

Mineralium Deposita: 2019 bibliometric data (Georges Beaudoin and Bernd Lehmann)

Ore geology workshop by SGA Baltic Student Chapter: Scandinavian exploration geology applied to younger terrains (Leslie Logan, Jonathan Rincon, Filip Simán)

1st SGA Brazillian Student Chapter Workshop: gold mineralisation in the Ouro Preto region (Frederico Guimarães; Júlia Pimenta; Alexandre Raphael Cabral)

SGA Student Chapter Colombia-Bucaramanga (Juan Pablo Jaimes, Luis Fernando Paez)

SGA Nancy Student Chapter –Field Trip in Morocco, February 2020 (Margarita Melfou, Celestine Berthier)

Fieldtrip to the various deposits of the Czech site of Krušné hory Mts. (Erzgebirge) (Kamil Bulcewicz, Štěpán Jaroměřský, Jan Šulc, Marek Tuhý)

1st International Student Conference on Geochemistry and Mineral Deposits (Michal Roll)

SGA Student Chapter Prague traditional fieldtrip “Heritage stones of the Czech Republic“ vol. V (Marek Tuhý, Michal Čurda)

SGA Ural Student Chapter mineralogical and geological trip to the Southern Urals (Daria Kiseleva, Evgeny Shagalov)

James David Lowell, legendary explorationist (1928-2020) (Bernd Lehmann)

Anthony J. (Tony) Naldrett (1933-2020) (Stephen Barnes)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 48, March 2021

Toward an effective global green economy: The Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative (CMMI) (Karen D. Kelley, David. L. Huston, Jan M. Peter)

GeoERA Raw Materials to support Europe’s resilience on raw materials (Antje Wittenberg, Daniel P.S. de Oliveira, Lisbeth Flindt Jørgensen, F. Javier González, Tom Heldal)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

President‘s Corner (David Huston)

SGA – Green Metal Virtual Seminar 2020: Green Metals for a Sustainable Society (Eudes Sati Tegan, and Faye Malick)

SGA – Green Metal Virtual Seminar 2020: preparation to the 7th Short course on African Metallogeny: Energy Metals for a Sustainable Society (Beate Orberger and Ismahene Chaouche)

Moldavites of South Bohemia (Štěpán Jaroměřský, Karolína Fizková, Jan Šulc, Štěpán Dvořák, Marek Tuhý)

Field trip to Ural Mountains,September 12–20th 2019 (Borisova E., Shpakovich L., Kalashnikova S., Yakubovich O)

SGA Student Chapter UniLaSalle – Field trip in Alsace, France, October 2020 (Léon Foucault, Alexandre Le Boulch)

Prof. Dr. hab. eng. Henryk Kucha (Adam Piestrzynski)

Professor Richard Stanton, geologist (1926–2020) (Ross Large)

Dietrich D. Klemm in memoriam (Bernd Lehmann)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 49, August 2021

Mining - smelting - recycling, is the German demand and supply of raw materials resilient? (Katharina Steiger, Christoph Hilgers, Jochen Kolb)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

President‘s Corner (David Huston)

The great digital movement: take-home messages from open online seminars (Alannah C. Brett, Aaron Hantsche, Wren Bruce, Filipa Luz, Thomas Belgrano)

SGA Student Chapter Peru: PDYM and Second National Meeting (Stipetich, S. and Romero, S.)

SGA UK Chapter goes virtual! (Lewis Banks and Jo Miles)

Looking for ghosts in the West Australian Outback (Anne Brandt Virnes and Sean Standen)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 50, February 2022

Geology and mineral deposits of New Zealand (Tony Christie, Richard Barker)

News of the Society - Council Meeting (Jan Pašava)

News of the Society - General Assembly (Jan Pašava)

President‘s Corner (David Leach, Hartwig Frimmel, David I Groves, Fernando Tornos, George Beaudoin, Jorge MRS Relvas, Karen Duttweiler Kelley, David Huston)

Introduction to reports from SGA Student Chapters (Anna Vymazalová)

SGA Prague – The oldest Student Chapter of SGA (Jan Kulhánek and Marek Tuhý)

A Brief history of the SGA Baltic Student Chapter (Krzysztof Foltyn, Sławomir Mederski)

Siberian SGA Student Chapter (Deviatiiarova A.S., Shaparenko E.O.)

Brief history of the SGA Barcelona Student Chapter (Pol Suñer Castillo and Oriol Vilanova Pagès)

SGA Student Chapter Colombia –Bucaramanga (Fabián Samuel Reyes and Luis Fernando Paez)

Back to the Nancy SGA Student Chapter’s activities (Alix Hauteville & Caroline Van De Vyver)

SGA Student Chapter Peru (Romero, S. and Hurtado de Mendoza, R.)

SGA Colombia - Bogotá: Adopting the COVID-19 Pandemic as an opportunity to diversify knowledge (Maria A. Paz, Jose A. Perez)

SGA ULaval-INRS Student Chapter, Quebec, Canada (Ana Carolina Miranda and Liam Maw)

The North-West Russia SGA student chapter (Borisova E.B., Kalashnikova S.A., Ivanova E.S., Sokolova L.A., Semenova L.P., Vasilyeva N.A., Panteev I.A., Chumakov A.V. and Yakubovich O.V.)

Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits Student Chapter Turkey (Fatih Özba & Oktay Canbaz)

The Rapid Uplift of the Black Forest –Alpine Chapter (Alannah Brett, Simon Hector)

SGA Brazilian Student Chapter: Prospecting our pathway (Júlia Pimenta)

Introducing the newly shuffled UK SGA Student Chapter Committee (Lauren Tuffield)

SGA Student Chapter Côte d’Ivoire: Overview and Activities (Sahy Anthelme Veh and Ziandjêdé Hervé Siagné)

SGA Moscow student chapter – a brief summary of 2019–2021 (Elena Kovalchuk, Mariya Komarova, Anna Usacheva and Elena Amplieva)

SGA Ural Student Chapter (Daria Kiseleva and Evgeny Shagalov)

About SGA-SEG Student Chapter –La Plata, Argentina

Short course with field trip on practical aspects in mineral exploration – Senegal Chapter (Malick Faye, Doro Niang and Cheikh.A.B.Niang)

The UWA SGA student chapter – Entering the Australasian territory (Anne Brandt Virnes)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 51, July 2022

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on teaching Earth sciences in Central Africa: Gabon and Cameroon (Ndongo Alexis, Mary Immaculate Neh Fru, Edmund Nickless, Ismahen Chaouche, Beate Orberger)

News of the Society – Council Meeting (Jan Pašava)

SGA awards at the 16th SGA Biennial Meeting in Rotorua, New Zealand (Jan Pašava)

President‘s Corner (David Banks)

SGA Student Chapter UniLaSalle –Field trip in Britanny, France, March 2021 (Mélanie Bonnefoy)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 52, February 2023

President‘s Corner (David Banks)

News of the Society – Council Meeting (Jan Pašava)

Summary of the 2022 activities of SGA Baltic Chapter (Adam Tomczak and Leslie Logan)

SGA UNC Student Chapter - Córdoba, Argentina (Gregorio Delgado and Daniela Alonso)

SGA Student Chapter Prague – The 20th Anniversary of its foundation (Jan Kamenský)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 53, July 2023

The raw material potential of SW-Germany - A brief overview (Benjamin F. Walter, Jochen Kolb)

News of the Society – Council Meeting (Jan Pašava)

Resources of the oceanic crust – story of a successful meeting (S. Hector and K. Perthenová)

Field Trip to the Kaiserstuhl Volcanic Complex (M. Eigler)

Sampling for thermochronology in a skarn-type deposit and in a phosphorous and REE prospect: short course and field trip report (Juan F. Correa and Lucia Bastidas)

SGA UIS-Bucaramanga Colombia 10th anniversary (Angie Uribe, Rafael Comas, Camilo Gutierrez, Ana Mantilla, Luis Paez)

Finally a face-to-face meeting! SGA Student Chapter Peru report on the 2022 National Meeting and field trip to Mina Justa, Peru (Medaly Vicuña Guerra and Johan Ramírez Briones)

In memoriam: Brian G. Hoal (Karen Kelley)

In memoriam: Giulio Morteani (1935-2023) (Bernd Lehmann)

In memoriam: Nic Beukes (Jens Gutzmer, Albertus Smith)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (Jochen Kolb)


SGA News 54, March 2024

A message from the President of SGA (Stanisław Z. Mikulski)

Guide to authors for the SGA News (David Banks)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Minutes of the SGA Extraordinary General Assembly, August 30th, 2023, Room HPH G1, ETH Zurich, 11:00 – 12:10 CET

SGA AWARDS at the 17th SGA Biennial Meeting in Zurich, Switzerland (Jan Pašava)

SGA Student Chapter Activities Meet Erlangen‘s Dynamic SGA Student Chapter! (Frederik Börner, Jakob Machleidt, Hans Reiser and Malte Junge)

Exploring the depths: A journey into the world's largest underground iron mine (Nadja Lundberg, Filip Simán and Leslie Logan)

Finnish pegmatites and Polish copper –2023 spring and summer activities of the SGA Baltic Student Chapter (Adam Tomczak, Konrad Kluza, Aleksander Błasiak and Marta Wróbel)

SGA at the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting (Nils Jansson and Axel Sjöqvist)

Inaugural SGA Field Conference (David Huston, Vlad Lisitsin, Ioan Sanislav and Nick Cook)


SGA News 55, August 2024

SGA Notices

SGA Biennial Conference, 2025, Golden, Colorado

Guide to authors for the SGA News (David Banks)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Change of the SGA Treasurer’s Assistant (Hartwig Frimmel)

SGA Student Chapter Activities SGA Russian North-West Student Chapter–Field trip to Southern Urals (Anna Titova, Alina Saratova, Anna Pazukhina, Nadezhda Vasilyeva, Lidia Sokolova, Nikolay Fursov)

SGA Keynote speaker Professor Hartwig E. Frimmel in Prague (Jan Kulhánek)

SGA Student Chapter Prague Field trip to the Ore Mountains, Czech Republic (petrological overview, mining history, and current mineral deposits) (Jan Kamenský, Jan Kulhánek)

Excursion to the Giant Mountains 2023

SGA Prague chapter fieldtrip to Slovakia, Slanské a Zemplinské Vrchy

SGA Student Chapter Turkiye, 2024 Lectures by Prof. Dr. David Holwell from the University of Leicester (Fatih Ozbaz)

SGA Student Chapter Erlangen: Field Trip to Slovakia (Julia Wenske and Jakob Machleidt)

SGA Chapter UIS-Bucaramanga Colombia (Rafael Comas, Danna Serrano, Vanessa Ruiz, Erick Villamizar, Luis Paez)

SGA Peru Student Chapter Activities 2023


SGA News 56, April 2025

SGA Notices

SGA Biennial Conference, 2025, Golden, Colorado

Georges Beaudoin is the 2025 recipient of the Duncan R. Derry Medal

Guide to authors for the SGA News (David Banks)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

In 2025, SGA Celebrates its 60th Anniversary.Happy Birthday (Stanislaw Z. Mikulski, David Banks and Jan Pašava)

How West Africa can best use its mineral wealth for economic development: Case study: Senegal (Mary Immaculate Neh Fru, David Baratoux, Edmund Nickless, Malick Faye, Rokhaya Samba, Ishmahen Chouche, Doro Niang, Beate Orberger)

The Panasqueira Mine (Portugal): a landmark in W (-Sn-Cu) mining and geological research (António Mateus, Fernando Noronha, Filipe Pinto)

Abstracts of Theses by SGA Student Chapter Members

SGA Student Chapter North-West Russia: Field Trip to Central Karelia. (Saratova A., Titova A., Kichigin V., Suslikova O., Sveshnikov N., Masloboeva A.)

Student Chapter ULaval-INRS SGA-SEG 2024 Peru field trip

SGA Moroccan Student Chapter Activities (Marieme JABBOUR, Ismail BOUSKRI, Imad AFLLA, Zoubair EL OUAD, Fatiha ASKKOU)

The SGA Peru Student Chapter in 2024: Growing our Mineral Deposits Digital Platform (PDYM) and learning in the field

SGA Student Chapter Prague Field trip to Western Bohemia, Czech Republic. (Jakub Ptáček, Jan Mráček)

SGA Student Keynote Speaker Dr. Jakub Ciążela Prague (Jan Mráček)


SGA News 57, December 2025

SGA Notices

Guide to authors for the SGA News (David Banks)

News of the Society (Jan Pašava)

Minutes of the Extraordinary General Assembly (Jan Pašava)

Retirement of Jan Pasava and Bernd Lehmann

SGA Awards at the 18th Biennial Meeting in Golden, Colorado, USA (Jan Pašava)

The 18th SGA Biennial Meeting in Golden, Colorado USA (Karen D. Kelley)

Field Trips Associated with the 18th Biennial SGA Conference

SGA Mobility Grants Awarded

SGA Student Chapter Bucaramanga Activities 2025

SGA Prague chapter fieldtrip to Slovakia, Slanské a Zemplinské Vrchy