President's column

摘要

The final quarter of my term as President has arrived much quicker than I anticipated. The vagaries of the commodity cycle have once again brought us to a time when mining and exploration projects are being cut back, companies are divesting or merging and tightening their belts and there is the inevitable fall out of geologists, particularly in exploration. Due to the process having happening increasingly frequently over the last 25 years, we are missing nearly a generation of professional economic geologist and explorers. I would like to use this column to highlight an area that I am passionate about and which I believe is key to the growth of the Society and the Geological profession in the broader world.