Acceptance of the R.A.F. Penrose Gold Medal for 2000

Autor: Alberto Benavides de la Quintana
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Economic Geology. 96:676-678
ISSN: 1554-0774
0361-0128
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.96.3.676
Popis: Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you, Ulrich, for your kind words. It is certainly a great and unexpected honor to receive the Penrose Gold Medal, the highest distinction given by the Society of Economic Geologists. It is particularly pleasant for me because of the appreciation and sympathy that I have for the Society. I might mention here that I am the proud owner of a complete collection of the journal of the Society since no. 1 of 1905. How did I get it? In the earlier 1970s I bought an incomplete set from the Society. A couple of years later Prof. Brian Skinner, then editor of Economic Geology, came to Lima with a group of distinguished geologists. They visited the Julcani mine and other Buenaventura properties. We in Buenaventura were, of course, very glad to extend to them the normal hospitality and courtesies that all mining companies extend to distinguished visitors. I was delighted when I received a note of thanks from them together with a few issues to help complete my collection. The issues received, however, did not quite complete the collection. Finally, through a friend of mine, some 10 years later, I got the two or three missing issues. My collection is now complete and I am the proud owner of it. I trust that you will interpret this pride as a demonstration of my appreciation for the accomplishments of the Society. It is also a great honor for me to have my name together with such distinguished geologists as Professors Lindgren, Emmons, and Graton, to mention only a few. Prof. Graton was at Harvard when I attended that illustrious university on a one-year scholarship granted by Cerro de Pasco Corporation. He was a great lecturer. Somehow, I attracted his attention—probably because he appreciated the effort that I, with …
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