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Acceptance of the R.A.F. Penrose Gold Medal for 2003

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President Large, members, and friends: Thank you for your kind remarks, Geoff, and thank you, members of the Society of Economic Geologists.

I feel very humble to be selected to receive the Penrose Medal. Most of the previous recipients of this award have been outstanding educators or researchers in the science of ore deposits. I am a prospector and explorationist whose efforts have been largely in the area of applied science. Often my success has resulted from rejecting popular dogma rather than attempting to apply it, and I am convinced that critical evaluation of both the field data and the academic theories is very important to success in the strange field of mineral exploration.

My first knowledge of the Penrose Medal came in 1949, when I was a mining engineering student in the College of Mines of . . . [Full Text of this Article]