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Student Chapter Annual Report FormThis form is used to report on Student Chapter activities over the previous year. The report provides a useful medium to doc-ument the status and progress of individual chapters. Annual Reports are used to evaluate applications for SEG support and tokeep information up-to-date on the SEG website. Please provide a summary of chapter activities in a concise form as suggest-ed below. Description of programs may be supported by a limited number of photographs and figures in a format appropriatefor publishing on our website.

Submission Deadline: September 30th Submit to: studentprograms@segweb.org

Month/Year Reported: From _______________________(mm/yyyy) – To _______________________(mm/yyyy)

Chapter Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Mailing Address: _______________________________________________________________________________

Chapter E-mail: _______________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Website: ______________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Facebook: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter Executive Committee (in office during the time frame captured on this report) (type “Vacant” if position not filled):

President: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Vice President: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Secretary: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Treasurer: __________________________________________ __________________________________________Name E-mail

Chapter Academic Sponsor (SEG Fellow membership in good standing):

______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________Name E-mail Phone

_____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________Address Fax

Chapter Industry Sponsor (SEG Fellow membership in good standing and not affiliated with the student chapter’s institution):

______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________Name E-mail Phone

_____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________Address Fax

Sponsoring Institution or Company (name): _________________________________________________________________

Attach: 1. a list of names of all Student Chapter members (please indicate by * if SEG Student Member).2. complete Student Chapter Membership Information form with the current Executive Committee listed on page 1.

On a separate page(s) provide a summary of student chapter annual activities:

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1. Regular meetings, lectures2. Field trips (dates, area visited, field trip leaders, num-

ber of participants, sponsors, benefits for students).Note: this is not the place for a detailed field tripreport that is required from a chapter who has receivedfunding from the Stewart R. Wallace Fund.

3. If your chapter received funding from the Stewart R.Wallace Fund, please submit a separate actualaccounting of how chapter funds were spent/used.

4. Organization of conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants, benefitsfor students)

5. Participation in conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants from thechapter, benefits for students)

6. Fund-raising programs7. Other programs8. Future plans

08/2016 08/2017Colorado School of Mines

Berthoud Hall, 1500 Illinois St, Golden CO 80401segcsm@gmail.comwww.inside.mines.edu/Economic-Geology-SEG-Student-Membres

Dante Huff dhuff@mines.edu

Allison Severson aseverson@mines.edu

Timothy MacIntyre tmacinty@mines.edu

Lisa Lesar llesar@mines.edu

Thomas Monecke tmonecke@mines.edu

Berthoud Hall, 1500 Illinois St, Golden CO 80401

Richard Nielsen rnlgeocon@aol.com

Colorado School of Mines

Department of Geology and

Geological Engineering

1516 Illinois Street

Golden, CO, USA, 80401

(303) 273-3800

(303) 273-3589

September 21, 2017

Dante Huff, 2016-2017 President

An overview of the activities of the Colorado School of Mines

SEG Student Chapter

Colorado School of Mines

SEG Student Chapter:

2016-2017

Annual Report

2016-2017 CSM-SEG Student Chapter Committee:

Figure 1. SEG Student Chapter Committee. From left to right: Dante Huff, President; Tim MacIntyre, Secretary; Allison Severson, Vice President; Lisa Lesar, Treasurer.

Student Members:

Alex Badgette Alex Cheney

Alex Peretiatho Aline Melo

Allison Severson Anna Gallagher

Ben Frieman Ben Teschner

Bo Sinkler Bryce Meis

Cheryl Fountain Cory Beaver Dan Halford

Danielle Rocha Dante Huff

David Sutterfield Emilie Gentry Emily Giddens

Emily Perry Erin Morrison Evan Allred

Graham Closs Grainne Byrne Halley Keevil Helen Twigg

Hui Lu Jacob Gabel Jingqi Xu

Johana Pedraza Rojas John Dedecker

John Michael Meyer Kim Cone

Lauren Foiles Lauren Zeeck Leah Macey Lee Alford

Leiaka Welcome Lindsey Fisher

Lisa Lesar Logan Powell

Louden Grieser Mario Guzman Marion Nicco

Mark Hansford Marko Visnjic Martin Roth

Mary Elise Bingham-chee Matt Rossi

Max Pranckh Max Ulm

Megan Doughty Michael Arnold Michael Berger Michael Hurth

Miguel Tavars Nassif Mike Tinney

Mustafa Tokoglu Nicole Allen

Owen Nicholls Patrick Wood Phil Persson

Rachel Becker Recep Letin

Roxana Safipour Samantha Pascarelli

Samuel Pierre Sergio Cattalani

Stephen Piurkowsky Subaru Tsuruoka

Timothy "Orie" Wyatt Timothy MacIntyre

Trevor Copple Tyler Rockley Wesley Hall

Zoheir Khademian

Associated Faculty and Staff: Dr. Thomas Monecke

Dr. Graham Closs

Dr. Elizabeth Holley

Dr. Yvette Kuiper

Dr. Stephen Enders

Dr. Richard Wendtland

Dr. Karin Hoal

1) Regular Meetings, Lectures

CSM-SEG Student Chapter Student Weekly Meetings

The Colorado School of Mines SEG Student Chapter held weekly meetings every Wednesday from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, where external speakers were invited to give technical talks on different stages and aspects of the mining life cycle. All students in the department were invited to these meetings.

CSM-SEG Student Chapter Technical Luncheons

Throughout the 2016-2017 academic year, the CSM-SEG Student Chapter hosted 25 speakers that were invited solely for the purpose of the weekly SEG Student Chapter Lecture Series. This year the lecture series was designed to expose students to different stages and aspects of the mining life cycle. These lectures included free lunch and were held in the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering. These lectures were all attended by 20-40 people. The attendees were dominantly graduate students with lesser professors and undergraduate students. In keeping with our collaboration, Denver Region Exploration Geologists’ Society (DREGS) members were invited to all of our SEG invited lectures, and all of our lectures had at least one or two DREGS members in attendance.

Additionally, the student chapter hosted Jeremy Richards, the 2016-2017 SEG Distinguished Lecturer and helped out at every monthly DREGS meeting. The DREGS meetings are held the first Monday of every month at the CSM Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, and the SEG Student Chapter is in charge of setting up and taking down every meeting. In turn, the DREGS members give small donations to our student chapter every month. A detailed list of all of the aforementioned speaker events can be seen below:

September 6th, 2016 – Richard Palin, CSM Assistant Professor: “Petrological Modeling of Subduction-Zone Metamorphism: Old and New.”

September 12th, 2016 – DREGS Speaker, Dr. Steve Enders, CSM Geology Department Head, “The Potential for Transformation in the Geosciences & Engineering Disciplines, in the Mining Industry, and Even in Academia Using the Principles of Applied Neurosciences.”

September 14th, 2016 – Eric Eckberg, Bureau of Land Management: “Nuts and Bolts of Locateable Minerals Permitting.”

September 15th, 2016 - Dr. Nasser Zirakparvar, Postdoctoral Research and Education Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History: “Constraints on Lu-Hf, Sm-Nd, and Nb-Ta Systematics in Globally Subducted Oceanic Crust from a Survey of Orogenic Eclogites and Amphibolites.”

September 19th, 2016 - Dr. Tim Johnson, Professor in the Department of Applied Geology, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University: “Making Earth’s Continents and the Onset of Plate Tectonics – A Metamorphic Perspective.”

October 3rd, 2016 – DREGS Speaker, Dave Kelley, Geologist at MMG: “The Las Bambas Porphyry Cluster in the Andahuaylas-Yauri Batholith, Southern Peru”

October 12th, 2016 – Elizabeth Titus and Andrew Lillie, Hogan Lovells law firm: “Drip, Dribble, or Deluge: Managing the Legacy of Mine-Water Discharges from Historic and Abandoned Mines in the American West.”

October 19th, 2016 – Russ Cranswick, Partner at Resource Capital Funds: “From the Field to Finance – Geology to Private Equity and Beyond.”

October 26th, 2016 – Rael Lipson, Former Exploration Chief Geologist at Gold Fields: “Global Mineral Exploration Targeting: Where/How Do We Start the Process?”

November 1st, 2016 – DREGS Speaker, Kevin Creel, VP North American Discoveries at Barrick: “Alturas – A Recent High Sulfidation Gold Discovery on the El Indio Belt, Chile.”

November 9th, 2016 –2016 SEG Thayer Lindsley Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Jeremy Richards, Professor in the Department of Earth Science at the University of Alberta: “Links Between Porphyry and IOCG Deposits.”

November 16th, 2016 – Dr. Steve Enders, CSM Geology Department Head and Geologist at Cupric Canyon Capital LLC: “Discovery in the Kalahari Copperbelt of Botswana.”

December 5th, 2016 – 2016 DREGS Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Murray Hitzman, Associate Director for Energy and Metals at the USGS: “Mud, Malaria, and Mining – 19 Years of Geological Research in the Central African Copperbelt.”

January 9th, 2017 – DREGS Speaker, Mac Canby, Exploration Geologist at Freeport-McMoRan: “Bootprints Across the Southern Balkans: Discovery of the Cukaru Peki Cu-Au Deposit, Serbia, and Other Observations on Exploration in Former Yugoslavia.”

January 25th, 2017 – Alex Paul, Consultant: “History of Exploration at the Magma Mine, Superior, AZ and Discovery of the Magma (Resolution) Porphyry.”

February 6th, 2017 – Jim Wise, Exploration Geologist at MMG Limited: “Dike Modes Along the Western Continental Margin of South America.”

February 8th, 2017 – Dave Leach, CSM Affiliate Professor: “New Insights into the Relationships of Evaporites with Mississippi Valley-Type Zn-Pb Ores: A Paradigm Shift for Exploration.”

Febrary 22nd, 2017 – CSM-SEG Student Chapter Rock Talks, assorted student members presenting on their research in preparation for conferences.

March 1st, 2017 - Dr. Zhaoshan Chang, Professor at the Economic Geology Research Center at James Cooke University: “Mineral Geochemistry and its Application in Exploration.”

March 15th, 2017 – Lindsey Schultz, Corporate VP at Management Resource Consulting (Mining Recruiter): “Networking and Getting a Job in Mining.”

March 15th, 2017 – Nathan Brewer, Geologist at Gold Fields: “The Discovery and Geology of the Salares Norte Colg-Silver Deposit, Northern Chile.”

April 3rd, 2017 – Timothy Brown, GFG Resources Inc.: “New Developments in the Rattlesnake Hills, Natrona County, Wyoming.”

April 5th, 2017 – Bill Thompson, Founder of Urenergy LLC: “Uranium Deposits on the Colorado Plateau: Lisbon Valley Area, Utah.”

April 12th, 2017 – Jeff Blackmon, Newmont Exploration Manager at Long Canyon Gold: “From Discovery to Production: A History of the Long Canyon Gold Deposit.”

April 13th, 2017 - Dr. Stuart F. Simmons, Research Professor, Energy & Geoscience Institute, University of Utah and Consulting Geoscientist, Hot Solutions Ltd (Auckland, New Zealand): “Spatial and Temporal Variations in Epithermal Ore-Forming Processes.”

May 15th, 2017 – James Franklin, Franklin Resources Inc.: “Ring of Fire and Beyond: A New Metallogenic Super-Domain.”

2) Field Trips

CSM-SEG Student Chapter Local (State-Wide) Field Trip

September 16-17, 2016 – Introduction to Colorado Geology: Trip Leader: Donna Anderson (Faculty Member at CSM) and Jeff Edelen (Exploration Geologist

at Eurasian Minerals Inc.) Trip Summary and Benefits to Students: This field trip was run in tandem with the CSM AAPG Student Chapter to encourage interdisciplinary learning within the department. Students learned the basics of Colorado’s geologic history and how this setting has created areas of interest to both the sedimentary/petroleum and mineral deposit communities. After reviewing the depositional history of the stratigraphic sequence in central Colorado, students learned how tectonism and structural deformation helped produce world-class deposits. The trip visited the Argo Mine Tunnel to discuss the rich gold-mining history of the Idaho Springs area and then Freeport-McMoRan’s Henderson Mine, which is one of the world’s largest molybdenum producers. This trip also provided an excellent opportunity for incoming graduate students gain exposure to the activities and interests of the SEG Student Chapter and several new members were recruited as a result of the trip.

List of Student Chapter Member Attendees:

Nicole Allen Mark Hansford Dante Huff

Timothy MacIntyre David Sutterfield Helen Twigg Patrick Wood Lauren Zeeck

List of Other Attendees (and affiliation):

Donna Anderson (CSM Faculty) Jeff Edelen (Geologist, Eurasian Minerals Inc.)

CSM-AAPG Student Chapter Members

Wes Bucker Alyssa Charsky Alex Cheney Rosemarie Fryer Matt Huels Bryan Macdowell Luke Pettinga Dessy Sapardi James Smith Oscar Vasquez Garcia Jianqiao Wang Roy Xiali

Figure 2. Students review the geology and structure of the Idaho Springs area at the Argo Mine Tunnel. Donna Anderson (CSM) and Jeff Edelen (Eurasian Minerals). Major tectonic events and their impacts on the Colorado mineral belt were discussed. The historic mining that occurred in Colorado and the remnant environmental concerns were also discussed while looking at the water treatment facility associated with the Argo Mine Tunnel.

Figure 3. Students reviewing the stratigraphic column in the Wolcott area – these units are producing formations elsewhere in Colorado and the western U.S.; Jeff encourages students to look at the material along the railroad tracks to see that it is slag from a smelter – even here there is evidence of Colorado’s mining history!

Figure 4. Jeff Edelen giving an overview of porphyry systems and the alteration and

mineralization students could expect to see at Henderson.

CSM-SEG Student Chapter Paradox Basin Field Trip

March 26-29 – Sediment-Hosted Copper in the Paradox Basin:

Trip Summary and Benefits to Students:

Three students from the CSM-SEG student chapter participated in a three-day field trip to Paradox Basin between Colorado and Utah. The trip focused on the intriguing structures created by evaporite units in the stratigraphy and how these evaporites have helped to create both structural and chemical traps for sediment-hosted copper and uranium deposits. The trip was largely self-directed using the SEG Paradox Basin field trip guide. Participants visited the historic Cashin Mine and the operating Lisbon Valley Mine. Students were fortunate enough to have Chief Geologist Brian Sparks from Lisbon Valley Mine provide a detailed presentation on the regional and project geology, as well as a tour of the mine, leach pads, and processing facility. Students prospected for uranium showings in Canyonlands National Park, once they understood the necessary conditions for uranium formation.

This trip was an excellent opportunity for students to learn about deposit styles that are often neglected in courses, yet exist very close to home. Without a formal field trip leader, this trip provided an opportunity for participants to debate amongst themselves and try to interpret geology on their own, as is so often the case outside of school.

Sites visited: Unaweep Canyon, Uncompaghre Fault, Sinbad Valley Anticline, Cashin Mine, Canyonlands National Park, Moab Museum, Lisbon Valley Mine, Cane Creek Anticline

CSM-SEG Student Participants: Dante Huff, Allison Severson, Patrick Wood

Figure 5. Crosscutting Precambrian dikes in the walls of the glacially-derived Unaweep Canyon.

Figure 6. Patrick Wood (incoming CSM-SEG Student Chapter President) searching for reduced sandstones and uranium showings in Canyonlands National Park, UT.

Figure 7. Triassic through Cretaceous units are exposed beautifully in the outcrops of Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Figure 8. VP Alli Severson is excited to find stratabound sediment-hosted copper in outcrop at the historic Cashin mine.

Figure 9. Copper slag from Lisbon Valley mine.

Figure 10. Malachite and azurite occur as

concretions and nodules in outcrop at the Cashin mine.

3) Organization of conferences, workshops, short courses

Participation in Conferences The CSM-SEG Student Chapter encourages and supports all of its members to attend and/or

participate in professional conferences. Conferences allow students the opportunities to meet and network with other students and industry professionals, involvement in field trips and workshops, as well as presenting research and new developments in economic geology.

2016 SEG Annual Conference in Çeşme, Turkey: September 25-28, 2016

Unfortunately the 2016 annual SEG conference in Turkey was scheduled for the same dates as the 2016 GSA conference in Denver. This conflict resulted in most student opting not to travel and to present at home in Colorado instead. One of the student chapter members did submit a poster, but a secondary author presented the poster instead.

Participants:

Mustafa Tokoglu – submitted poster

2016 GSA Conference, Denver, Colorado: September 25-28, 2016

Benefits for Students: The 2016 GSA conference provided students with technical sessions, scientific field trips, short courses, and lunchtime lectures. Students had the opportunity to meet with professional contacts, network, and present research.

Participants:

Nicole Allen – poster presentation

John DeDecker – oral presentation

Lyndsey Fisher – poster presentation

Lauren Foiles – oral presentation

Ben Frieman

Wesley Hall

Dante Huff – oral presentation

Halley Keevil – oral presentation

Tim MacIntyre – oral presentation

John Meyer – poster presentation

Marion Nicco – oral presentation

Emily Perry – poster presentation

Allison Severson – poster presentation

Mustafa Tokoglu

Subaru Tsuruoka – oral presentation

Helen Twigg

2017 SME Annual Conference & Expo, Denver, Colorado: February 19-22, 2017

Benefits for Students: The 2017 SME Conference allowed students to attend technical session presentations given by mining professionals from both the geosciences and engineering disciplines. Students met peers from other universities and networked with professional attendees. This conference provided an opportunity for students to give oral presentations about current and future research.

Participants:

Dante Huff – oral presentation

Halley Keevil

John Meyer

Marion Nicco

2017 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, Toronto, ON: March 4-10, 2017

Benefits for Students: The 2017 PDAC meeting was an occasion for students to meet with professional contacts, network, and present research in a student poster session.

Participants:

Ben Frieman – poster presentation

Dante Huff – poster presentation

Miguel Tavars Nassif – poster presentation

Mustafa Tokoglu

Subaru Tsuruoka – poster presentation

Helen Twigg

Lauren Zeeck

Short Courses and Workshops

Leapfrog Short Course: October 17-18, 2016

Description and Benefits for Students: The Leapfrog class is provided students with an introduction to Leapfrog and how to model different datasets (lithology, structure, grade, geochemistry) in 3D space. Leapfrog provides real data from real exploration and mining projects, which makes for a much more helpful and applied learning experience than many training courses. Students received a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

Course Lecturers: Janina Micko and Antonio Celis. Participants:

Mary Bingham Chee Recep Cetin Dong Ding

Samantha Pascarelli Miguel Tavar Nassif Alyssa Smith

Mustafa Tokoglu Lauren Zeeck

4) Participation in conferences, workshops, short courses

See above.

5) Fund-raising programs

Fundraising during 2016-2017 consisted of donations from DREGS members at the DREGS monthly meetings and from non-student chapter members who attended the weekly technical luncheons. One of our student members, Phil Persson, purchased a wholesale flat of minerals at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show to be sold on campus for fundraisers next year.

6) Other programs

During the 2016-2017 academic year, the CSM Department of Geology and Geological Engineering accepted faculty applications for both a metamorphic petrologist and an economic geologist to fill the Fogarty Endowed Chair in Economic Geology. As part of the faculty interview process, candidates gave a lecture to the department, providing student members with an additional opportunity to learn from and interact with geologic experts. All technical talks were attended by graduate student members.

The affiliation between the CSM-SEG student chapter and DREGS provides a very positive and unique opportunity for students. DREGS members donate to the chapter each month and the students are able to join the society and attend meetings for free. Many students show up for the monthly meeting to attend the technical talks and to network with the experienced exploration geologists of DREGS.

7) Future plans

A goal of next year will be to seek closer ties with the SME campus chapter, which shares a common interest in mining. SME will be invited to SEG events so that members can interact. This will be an opportunity for economic geology students to understand the world of mining engineering. It is virtually impossible to work in exploration without understanding the details of minerals extraction and metals production, so the student chapter will encourage a collaborative relationship. Involvement from the USGS and Colorado State Survey is a high priority for the incoming chapter to improve to the integration of the CSM SEG Student Chapter with the geoscience community in the Greater Denver Area. Concealed mineral deposits is now a central focus at the Minerals and Geochemistry Department of the USGS at the Denver Federal Center. There are geologists at the survey who have expressed interest in giving talks on aeromagnetic geophysics and hyperspectral imaging applications in exploration. Many of these scientists work in remote areas such as SW Alaska, but are also involved on Proterozoic mid-continent rift projects in Wisconsin and Missouri.

The incoming student chapter intends to make SEG as enjoyable and inclusive as possible. Student members will be consulted to determine what they want from their SEG membership and what software courses they are interested in taking. Potential short courses include GIS targeted to geological applications, geological data collection, and subsurface mapping techniques in mining geology. The incoming committee will work towards improved participation and membership of undergraduate

seniors and economic geology graduates through extracurricular social and academic events with wide appeal.