The SGA encourages participation of students to its Biennial meetings. The prizes are awarded based of the scientific merit and the presentation quality. The winning students receive a certificate and a prize of 250 EUR.
Zurich 2023: The 17th SGA Biennial meeting
Best student presentations:
- Diogo Ribeiro Metal and ligand mobility during prograde metamorphism of metasedimentary belts in the Superior Province: Implications for gold endowment
- Olivia Mejías Exploration of indium in sulfidic mine waste and acid mine drainage environments
- Yann Mpaka Waku Pyrite analysis enhanced by dimensionality reduction: investigating texture, trace elements, and sulphur isotope signatures in the Kibali gold district, DRC
- Margarita Melfou In-situ trace element analyses of pyrite from the Pefka epithermal Cu-Au-Te-In-Se deposit, Rhodope, Northern Greece
Best student posters
- Bastien Audran Serpentinization of the Ronda Massif (Spain): structural control and fluid origin, a framework for metal mobility
- Ivana Carcamo Valencia Cobalt-rich manganese nodules in Pliocene marine deposits of the onshore forearc Pisco Basin, Peru
Glasgow 2019: The 15th SGA Biennial meeting
Best student presentations:
- Laura Petrella: Naturally occurring Au nanoparticles associated with high-grade mineralization at the world-class Callie deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.
- Sibele Nascimento: Geoenvironmental characterisation of the King River Delta: A combined geophysical, geochemical and mineralogical approach.
- Willem Kruger: Field and geochemical constraints on the origin of massive magnetite layers of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa.
Best student posters
- Marion Grosjean: In-situ Cu-isotope systematics of the Copperbelt (DRC, Zambia): variations in different scales.
- Mónica Ágreda López: Characterization of serpentinites in Tlima and Antioquia (Colombia): analyzing their CO2 sequestering potential through carbonation processes.
- Olga N. Filimonova: The state of platinum in pyrrhotite studied by X-ray absorption spectroscopy of synthetic crystals.
Québec 2017: The 14th SGA Biennial meeting
Best student presentations:
- Chris Voisey: The Silver Bullet: Ag isotope systematics in native gold from the central Victorian goldfields, Australia.
- Marek Tuhý: Mineralogy of smelter- and mining-derived particles in semi-arid soils and their potential mobilization during wildfires.
- Matthew Polivchuk: The formation of vanadium deposits of the Archean Bell River Complex, Québec, Canada: Insights from Fe-Ti oxide chemistry.
Best student posters
- Júlia Farré de Pablo: PGE mobility and PGM neoformation by low-temperature hydrothermal fluids - evidence from uvarovite-bearing chromitites in the Dominican Republic.
- Thomas Belgrano: A new volcanic map for VMS exploration in the Oman ophiolite based on field, geochemical and aeromagnetic data.
- Caio De Mello: U-Pb geochronology of the igneous rocks associated to the Rio Tinto VMS deposit.
Nancy 2015: The 13th SGA Biennial meeting
Best student presentations:
- Rebecca Strachan: Gold mineralization during progressive deformation along the Ashanti Belt: Wassa Mine, Ghana.
- Maria Teresa Bellver Baca: High Sr/Y magmas and porfyry-type deposits: what is the role of timescales of magmatic processes?
- Vikraman Selvaraja: Sulfur sources in the Glenburg Orogenic gold deposit.
Best student posters
- Diodac Navarro-Ciurana: Geochemical evidences and heat-transport simulations for warm fluid involvment in the formation of Riopar MVT deposit (Prebetic Basin, SE Spain).
- Matthew Brzozowski: Variation in vein mineralogy and mineral chemismy arend the Marathon Cu-PGE deposit, Ontario: insights into the development of an exploration tool.
Uppsala 2013: The 12th SGA Biennial meeting
Best student presentations:
- Pedro Acosta-Gongora: Trace element geochemistry of magmatite and its relationship to mineralization in the Great Bear magmatic zone, NWT, Canada.
- Michael Tucker: Geology, alteration and mineralization of the Conrad Zone, Yukon Territory – a new Carlin-type gold discovery.
- Koen Torremans: Structural analysis and distribution of layer-parallel veins at the Nkana stratiform Cu-Co deposit, Zambia.
Best student posters
- Emily Firth: Mesozoic quartz-vein hosted Au (Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu) mineralization at the Mineral de Talca, Coastal range, Chile: the role of felsic intrusives.
- Dora Kavecsanszki: Magma mingling between sulfide-rich and carbonatite magmas to form a multi-commodity metal deposit: reconstruction using QEMSCAN® analysis.
Antofagasta 2011: The 11th SGA Biennial meeting
Best student presentations:
- Yongjun Lu: New types of porphyry Cu (Au-Mo) mineral systems of Eastern Tibetan Plareau in western Yunna: compositional characteristics, sources, and exploration implications for continental collision metallogeny implications for continental.
- Flavia C. Braga: The BIF-bearing sequence from Morro Escuro Ridge, Santa Maria de Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil: main petrographic and geochemical characteristics.
- Mattew McGloin: Mid-crustal anorogenic granite magmatism at Mt Isa: a spatial and geochemical study, and potential links to Mesoproterozoic U-REE deposits.
- Carolina Moreto: In situ LA-ICPMS U-Pb zircon dating of the host rocks of the Sossego and Bacaba iron oxide-copper-gold deposits, Carajas Mineral Province, Brazil.
Best student posters
- Therese Bejgarn: The Algtrask Au+-Cu deposit, northern Sweden: a Palaeoproterozoic porphyry-related hydrothermal system?
- Edward Spencer: Molybdenum transposr and mineralization at the El Teniente Cu-Mo porphyry deposit, Chile.
Townsville 2009: The 10th SGA Biennial meeting
Best Student Presentations
- Kathryn Kitney, Gema Olivo, Don Davis, Jean-Philippe Desrochers, André Tessier: Structural, mineralogical, geochemical and geochronological investigation of the Barry Gold Deposit, Abitibi Subprovince, Canada: Precisely dated greenstone-hosted mineralization coeval with late archean deformation and magmatism
- Maarten Haest, Philippe Muchez, Frank Vanhaecke: The influence of supergene reworking on variations in the Cu isotopic composition in the Dikulushi Cu-Ag derposit (DRC)
- Irina Tretjakova, Alexander S. Borisenko, Vadimir I. Lebedev, Evgeniy A. Naumov: The hydrothermal cobalt deposits of Altay-Sayan fold area: Age and relationships with magmatism
Best Student Posters
- Michelle Deakin, Georges Beaudoin, Michel Malo: Metallogeny of the Pb-Zn-Ag-Au Nicholas-Denys deposit, Canada: a deformed pyrrhotite-rich SEDEX deposit
- Yanbo Cheng, Jingwen Mao: Preliminary study on the Geochronology of the host rocks of the Supergiant Gejiu Tin Deposit, SW China
- Kimberly A. Casey: Proposed methodology for detection of geochemical species on glaciers
Dublin 2007: The 9th SGA Biennial meeting
Best Student Presentation
- Joaquin Perona et al. : Origin of diapir-related Zn-Pb deposits in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain)
Best Student Poster
- Irina Tretjakova et al. : New data on mineral composition of ores, zonality and age of cobalt deposits in Altai-Sayan Orogenic Area
Beijing 2005: The 8th SGA Biennial meeting
Best Student Presentation(ex-aqueo)
- Pang Kwan Nang et al. : Fe-Ti-V oxide mineralization in the Permian Panhihua Gabbro, Emeishan large igneous province, SW China
- Karen M. Volp : The Estrela copper deposit, Carajas, Brazil: Geology and implications of a Proterozoic copper stockwork
Best Student Poster
- Seitjadji Lukas Donny et al. : Evolution of Cenozoic arcs in East Java (Sunda Arc, Indonesia), high Sr/Y magmatism, and melt controls on metallogeny