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Student Chapter Annual Report Form The purpose of this form is to report on Student Chapter activities over the previous year. The report provides a useful medium to document the status and progress of individual chapters. Annual Reports are used to evaluate applications for SEG support and to keep Student Chapter information up-to-date on the SEG website. Please provide a summary of Student Chapter activities in a concise form as suggested below. Description of programs may be supported by a limited number of photographs and figures in a format appropriate for publishing on our website. Submission Deadline: 30th September

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December/2013 December/2014 Month/Year Reported — From: Mo./Yr_______________________ To: Mo./Yr. _______________________ Brasilia Student Chapter - BRASC Student Chapter Name: _________________________________________________________________________________ [email protected] Student Chapter Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________

Student Chapter Website : _______________________________________________________________________________ Student Chapter Executive Committee (in office during the time frame captured on this report) (type “Vacant” if position not filled): President:

Alisson Lopes Oliveira ___________________________________________

[email protected] ________________________________________

Name

E-mail

Eduardo Teixeira Mansur Vice President: ___________________________________________

Secretary: Treasurer:

[email protected] ________________________________________

Name

E-mail

Thais Takayassu Magaldi ___________________________________________

[email protected] ________________________________________

Name

E-mail

Túlio Marques Soares ___________________________________________

[email protected] ________________________________________

Name

E-mail

Student Chapter Academic Sponsor (must be SEG Fellow Member in good standing): Cesar Fonseca Ferreira Filho [email protected] __________________________________________ _________________________________

55-61-31076786 ______________________

Name

Phone

E-mail

Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de Brasilia, Campus Asa Norte, Brasília-DF _____________________________________________________________________________

______________________

Address

Fax

Student Chapter Industry Sponsor (SEG Fellow Membership is highly recommended; Industry Sponsor should not be affiliated with the student chapter’s institution): __________________________________________ _________________________________

______________________

Name

Phone

E-mail

_____________________________________________________________________________

______________________

Address

Fax

Sponsoring Institution or Company (name): _________________________________________________________________ Attach: 1. a list of names of all Student Chapter members (please indicate by * if SEG Student Member). 2. complete Student Chapter Membership Information form with the current Executive Committee listed on page 1. On a separate page(s) provide a summary of student chapter annual activities: 1. Regular meetings, lectures 2. Field trips (dates, area visited, field trip leaders, number of participants, sponsors, benefits for students). Note: this is not the place for a detailed field trip report that is required from a Student Chapter who has received funding from the Stewart R. Wallace Fund. 3. Organization of conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants, benefits for students) 4. Participation in conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants from the Student Chapter, benefits for students) 5. Fund-raising programs 6. Other programs 7. Future plans July2014VS

BRASC – Annual Report 2014

Introduction The Brasilia Student Chapter (BraSC) was founded in 2011 accomplishing various activities since then the chapter have arranged short-courses, meetings, lectures and field trips as well as a Brazilian symposium. BraSC has the support of University of Brasilia and an academic sponsor in addition to cooperation between industry and academy. International collaboration has been reached in past years in the form of exchanged field trips between Bogota, Lima and Brasilia Student Chapters.

Summary of activities Throughout 2014 Brasilia’s Student Chapter participated in the organization of two lectures, one short-course and one field trip exchange in Brazilian soil. The group also went to one national symposium of mineral exploration (Simexmin). These activities are described as follow:  Lectures in the Geology Department of University of Brasilia, ministered by Prof. Dr. Carlos José Alvarenga and Prof. Dr. Reinhardt A. Fuck. Both contemplating the geological context of the Brasilia Fold Belt.

Figure 1: Prof. Dr. Carlos José Alvarenga during his lecture.

 Short-course on modeling software Leapfrog Geo ministered by an employee of the company for student chapter associates in cooperation with University of Brasilia which assigned the laboratory and materials necessary for the course. All costs were paid by the university.  Simexmin is a Brazilian symposium that incentives the expansion of the mining sector. In 2014 five BraSC members were able to participate in the symposium. Registration taxes were given by ADIMB (Brazilian agency for mineral exploration development). During the symposium, other Brazilian student chapters had the chance to disclose SEG activities to all the participants.

Figure 2: SEG members from Brazilian student chapters during the symposium.

 BraSC also organized a field trip involving our student chapter and Lima’s (UNMSM – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) consisting of 9 days of visits in six mining sites of two Brazilian states.

It was a total of twelve Peruvian students and four BraSC members. The objective was to promote integration between the two student chapters also straightening the relation among academy and industry. Field trip schedule is presented as follow:

Distance Day

Date

Origen

Destination

Transport

Activities (Km) Lecture about the geological context of

1

20/ago

Peru

Brasilia/Paracatu

Airplane/Bus

250 visiting mining sites (UnB) Visit to Paracatu, orogenic-Au mine

2

21/ago

Paracatu

Paracatu

Bus

30 Kinross

3

22/ago

Paracatu

Anicuns

Bus

470

4

23/ago

Anicuns

Itapaci

Bus

280

Trip to Anicuns Visit to Sanclerlândia’s, supergenic vermiculite mine – Brasil Minérios Outcrops for regional geology

5

24/ago

Itapaci

Itapaci

Bus

120 understanding (Komatiite rocks) Visit to Crixás, orogenic-Au mine –

6

25/ago

Itapaci

Alto Horizonte

Bus

150 AngloGold Ashanti

Alto 7

26/ago

Visit to Chapada, Au-Cu porphiryNiquelândia

Bus

150

Horizonte

Yamana Visit to Niquelândia, lateritic Ni mine–

8

27/ago

Niquelândia

Niquelândia

Bus

100 Votorantim Metais

9

28/ago

Niquelândia

Brasília

Bus

260

Return to Brasilia

The funds used to pay for the field trip came from SEG annual funding and University of Brasilia support.

Figure 3: Vemiculite mining site.

Figure 4: Visit to Au-Cu porphiry, Chapada deposit.

Figure 5: Visit to orogenic-Au, Paracatu (Kinross) deposit.

Future Plans 

Organize one lecture per month from industry advisers or academy professors about economic geology around the world and specially Brazilian mining complexes, having already one lecture scheduled for May 25th (Dr. Kelley – SEG annual lecture).

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Plans to a Peruvian field trip in order to complete the field trip exchange between BrasiliaLima student chapters.

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One short-course for second semester of 2015 to be confirmed.

Thank-you, on behalf of the University of Brasilia SEG Student Chapter Executive and our members. Alisson Lopes Oliveira, President and Eduardo Teixeira Mansur, Vice-President.