SEG 45 Final_qx4 - Society of Economic Geologists
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14 <strong>SEG</strong> NEWSLETTER No 55 • OCTOBER 2003<br />
<strong>SEG</strong> NEWS<br />
7 th Biannual SGA Meeting in Athens, Greece:<br />
Report on the <strong>SEG</strong> Symposium<br />
Ferenc Molnár (<strong>SEG</strong> 1995 F)<br />
Over 300 participants gathered for the<br />
7th Biannual SGA Meeting held August<br />
23-28 in Athens. Most who attended<br />
represented the academic sector but a<br />
number <strong>of</strong> industry geologists also participated.<br />
The <strong>SEG</strong> Symposium entitled<br />
“Exploring for Tethyan Ores: Development<br />
from Historic Roots” was part <strong>of</strong><br />
the program and took place on August<br />
26 in four sessions. All together, 21 talks<br />
and 10 posters were presented during<br />
the symposium, including 6 presentations<br />
(4 talks and 2 posters) by speakers<br />
from industry. The program aimed to<br />
summarize the newest achievements<br />
and reviews, both from academia and<br />
industry, about mineral deposits,<br />
mostly related to various Tethyan magmatic<br />
belts stretching between southeast<br />
Europe and Iran. Thirty-three<br />
papers on the subject <strong>of</strong> <strong>SEG</strong> symposium<br />
are published in the SGA conference<br />
proceedings (Mineral Exploration and<br />
Sustainable Development: Proceedings <strong>of</strong><br />
the Seventh Biennial SGA Meeting, Athens,<br />
p. 1133–1256).<br />
Two morning sessions that focused on<br />
southeast Europe started with a keynote<br />
presentation by Pr<strong>of</strong>. Franz Neubauer,<br />
Salzburg University, who summarized<br />
the present state <strong>of</strong> our understanding<br />
about metallogeny in the Alps-Balkan-<br />
Carpathian-Dinaride orogen on the<br />
basis <strong>of</strong> the results <strong>of</strong> the GEODE-ABCD<br />
project. This paper was followed by<br />
a series <strong>of</strong> talks discussing origin,<br />
ages, and mineralogy <strong>of</strong> and exploration<br />
for mostly porphyry-copper<br />
and epithermal gold deposits in the<br />
ABCD region.<br />
The first afternoon session was<br />
devoted to Tethyan metallogeny <strong>of</strong><br />
Turkey and was introduced with a<br />
keynote presentation by Mesut<br />
Soylu, country manager <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Southern European Exploration<br />
Ltd. Talks about granitoid-related<br />
metallogeny <strong>of</strong> Turkey, VMS deposits<br />
<strong>of</strong> Turkey, and PGE potential<br />
<strong>of</strong> chromitites in Turkey followed.<br />
The focus <strong>of</strong> the last part <strong>of</strong><br />
symposium was the Tethyan metallogeny<br />
<strong>of</strong> Iran with reviews on<br />
the geodynamic context <strong>of</strong> formation<br />
<strong>of</strong> ore deposits and specific<br />
talks about porphyry-copper and<br />
gold deposits and a newly discovered<br />
giant Mississippi Valley-type<br />
base metal deposit.<br />
The estimated attendance for<br />
the <strong>SEG</strong> symposium was between 50 and<br />
80 conference participants (two other<br />
sessions were running parallel with the<br />
<strong>SEG</strong> sessions). The symposium generated<br />
some discussions among participants,<br />
especially in the field <strong>of</strong> future academic<br />
cooperation and about a need <strong>of</strong> a broad<br />
international cooperation (possibly an<br />
Student volunteers help out at the <strong>SEG</strong> booth in<br />
Athens, Greece, during the <strong>SEG</strong>-SGA meeting<br />
(pictured here are Krisz–tian Sz–entpeteri <strong>of</strong> Hungary,<br />
left, and Sophia Katsouri <strong>of</strong> Greece, right)<br />
IGCP project) for comparison and better<br />
understanding <strong>of</strong> metallogeny in the<br />
western and eastern Tethyan systems.<br />
Delegates from both academia and<br />
industry considered the Tethyan symposium<br />
to have provided useful information<br />
on many aspects <strong>of</strong> metallogeny in<br />
the target area, and the event can thus<br />
be regarded as a success.1<br />
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