Society of Economic Geologists Silver Medal for 2015

Abstract

President Foster, SEG members, and friends: Jeremy P. Richards was born in England and fell in love with economic geology when he was a child. The first pieces in his rock collection included galena and other minerals from some small historic lead mines in the Yorkshire Pennines. He received his bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Cambridge (1983–1985), an M.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto (1986), an M.A. from Cambridge (1987), and completed his Ph.D. degree at the Australia National University in 1990. His education at universities in the UK, Canada, and Australia provided him with opportunities to work with world experts in economic geology, followed by a post-doc with Robert Kerrich at the University of Saskatchewan (1990–1992), after which he returned to the UK as Lecturer at the University of Leicester. In recognition of his outstanding publications in economic geology as a young scientist, Jeremy …