Thank you, Howard, and to Francois and SEG: It’s a humbling experience to be awarded SEG’s Penrose Medal. I looked at the list of previous winners and realize the exceptional contributions that all of them have made to our profession. I’m honored to join such a distinguished group, and just hope that my continuing activity in our profession comes even close to meeting the standard set by these earlier recipients, both recent and historic. Achieving success in our business requires at least three things: 1. Continuing curiosity about mineralization processes and the attributes of ore deposits will enable us to make new discoveries with greater and greater precision. As seen at this meeting, the researchers and students of today are making enormous strides, using the latest technology along with good, solid fieldwork that involves little more than a hand lens and the compass, to advance our understanding and consequently improve the exploration efficiency of our industry. We have learned at this conference and throughout our careers as geoscientists that the complex, multidimensional problems attendant on ore formation are not easily, if ever, completely solved. We all must accept that our models are somewhat incorrect, that we must never take ourselves too seriously in our pronouncements about solutions to problems attending the processes that …