IDL researcher Jorge Relvas is co-chairing the SGA 2025 Special Session “Volcanogenic Massife Sulfides: In Remembrance of Jim Franklin"
IDL researcher Jorge Relvas is co-chairing the SGA 2025 Special Session “Volcanogenic Massife Sulfides: In Remembrance of Jim Franklin” to be held next August 3-7, 2025 in the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA (see details here: https://sga2025.org/).
Jorge has long experience in metallogenetic research, especially in VMS systems, whether fossil or their modern analogues. He served the SGA - Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits for 16 years, as a member of its Council, as Promotional Manager, Vice-President and, finally, as President of this renowned European Scientific Society, which, in 2022, distinguished him with the SGA- KGHM Silver Medal for exceptional service. Throughout his life, Jorge became a figure of international prestige in his scientific field and, naturally, he cultivated personal working and friendship relationships with a large number of reference figures, from different generations, in his field of specialty.
Jim Franklin was certainly one of these figures, considered by many the most influential scientist with regard to the foundations and construction of the existing edifice of knowledge on VMS deposits. It was at the invitation of Jim Franklin and Dick Hutchinson that, 25 years ago, shortly after having defended his PhD on Neves Corvo metallogeny, Jorge appeared, in front of around 800 participants, as a keynote speaker at the most prestigious meeting of the SEG - Society of Economic Geologists, exactly in Denver, Colorado, very close to where he will go in 2025, this time at the invitation of SGA, to pay homage to the man who, at that time, wanted and knew how to support him, by then still a junior researcher, giving him a stage, encouragement, and precious advice.