Abstract
President Arribas, SEG members, and friends: It is a great honor to be here tonight to accept the Waldemar Lindgren Award. Also, I am doubly honored that my citationist is Steve Kesler, past SEG president and recipient of the Penrose Gold Medal, our Society’s most prestigious award. I was born and raised in Chile, a mining country. However, my first introduction to economic geology and ore minerals was in my sophomore year at the University of Concepcion, one afternoon during the Intro Mineralogy class. I vividly remember staring at a bunch of shiny chalcopyrite and bornite samples from the El Teniente mine south of Santiago, and wondering about their formation. It was not until I started my undergraduate honors thesis at El Teniente under Osvaldo Rabbia, two years later, that I realized that I wanted to dig into the mysteries and complexities of ore deposit formation. Fifteen years after, I …
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