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1 SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, INC Shaffer Parkway Littleton, CO USA Tel: Fax: Student Chapter Annual Report Form This form is used 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 information up-to-date on the SEG website. Please provide a summary of 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: September 30th Submit to: studentprograms@segweb.org Month/Year Reported: From (mm/yyyy) 10/2016 To (mm/yyyy) 09/2017 Chapter Name: SEG UFRGS Student Chapter Chapter Mailing Address: Av. Bento Gonçalves-9500 Bloco 1- Prédio Post Box Porto Alegre Chapter segufrgs@gmail.com Chapter Website: Chapter Facebook: Chapter Executive Committee (in office during the time frame captured on this report) (type Vacant if position not filled): President: Renan Guilherme de Souza renangeologia@live.com Name Vice President: Betina Friedrich friedrich.betina@gmail.com Name Secretary: João Rodrigo Pilla Vargas Dias joaorodrigo.dias@gmail.com Name Treasurer: Pedro Henrique Sulzbach de Andrade pedrohgeo@hotmail.com Name Chapter Academic Sponsor (SEG Fellow membership in good standing): José Carlos Frantz jose.frantz@ufrgs.br Name Phone Av. Paulo Gama, 110-7o andar - Porto Alegre , RS, Brazil Address Fax Chapter Industry Sponsor (SEG Fellow membership in good standing and not affiliated with the student chapter s institution): Francisco I. de Azevedo, Jr. chico.azevedo@gfexpl.com Name Phone 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 chapter who has received funding from the Stewart R. Wallace Fund. 3. If your chapter received funding from the Stewart R. Wallace Fund, please submit a separate actual 4. Organization of conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants, benefits for students) 5. Participation in conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants from the chapter, benefits for students) 6. Fund-raising programs 7. Other programs accounting of how chapter funds were spent/used. 8. Future plans Aug2015VS

CHAPTER EXECUTIVE COMITEE: President: Cristiano Rocha Born* Vice president: Renan Guilherme de Souza* Secretary: Luiz Henrique Cadaxa Silveira* Treasurer: Natanael de Matos Cezario* Executive

2 CHAPTER EXECUTIVE COMITEE: President: Cristiano Rocha Born* Vice president: Renan Guilherme de Souza* Secretary: Luiz Henrique Cadaxa Silveira* Treasurer: Natanael de Matos Cezario* Executive director: Nadine Goulart da Silva* OTHER STUDENT MEMBERS: André Luis Araujo* Augusto Santarossa* Betina Maria Friedrich* Bruno Petracco* Carlos Silveira* Diego da Silveira Lyra* Fernanda Class Ronchi* Gabriel Barbosa Drago* Gabriel Bertolini* Jhenifer Caroline da Silva Paim* João Rodrigo Pilla Vargas Dias* Juliana Casali Marco Antônio Sartori Castoldi* Marila R Andrade* Matheus R Santos* Pedro Henrique Sulzbach de Andrade* Rodrigo Winck Lopes* Siegbert Roos* Thaiane Niederauer dos Santos* Vitor Casagrande Dias* * SEG student members

3 ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES October, 2016 September, 2017 Porto Alegre, Brazil October, 2017

4 SEG UFRGS Student Chapter History and Members: The SEG UFRGS Student Chapter was founded in 2011 and since then has been supporting our members in activities related to Economic Geology. The Student Chapter is currently composed by 25 members, wherein 24 are affiliated to the Society of Economic Geologists. Among our members we have 16 undergraduate students, 5 MSc students and 4 PhD students. SEG UFRG Student Chapter Executive Committee was: President: Renan Guilherme de Souza Vice president: Betina Friedrich Secretary: João Rodrigo Pilla Vargas Dias Treasurer: Pedro Henrique Sulzbach de Andrade OTHER SEG UFRGS SC MEMBERS: André Luis Araujo, Augusto Santarossa, Bruno Petracco, Carlos Silveira, Cristiano Rocha Born, Diego da Silveira Lyra, Fernanda Class Ronchi, Gabriel Barbosa Drago, Gabriel Bertolini, Jhenifer Caroline da Silva Paim, Juliana Casali, Luiz Henrique Cadaxa Silveira, Marco Antônio Sartori Castoldi, Marila R Andrade, Matheus R Santos, Nadine Goulart da Silva, Natanael de Matos Cezario, Rodrigo Winck Lopes, Siegbert Roos, Thaiane Niederauer dos Santos, Vitor Casagrande Dias.

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES The activities promoted from October 2016 to September 2017 are listed below: a) Regular meetings: Student Chapter members have been meeting once a month aiming to organize

5 SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES The activities promoted from October 2016 to September 2017 are listed below: a) Regular meetings: Student Chapter members have been meeting once a month aiming to organize current activities, as well as to discuss the member s professional interests to better plan future activities for the Student Chapter. b) Geophysics lecture: on October 7 th, 2016 the SEG UFRGS SC promoted the lecture Applied Geophysics: examples of crustal architecture and mineral exploration. The lecture was given by PhD applicant and member of the UNICAMP SEG Student Chapter João Gabriel Motta. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professors from UFRGS Geosciences Institute attended. Figure 1: João Motta giving a talk about applied geophysics. c) 48th Brazilian Geological Congress: The SEG UFRGS SC was present for the geological community at the booth of the UFRGS Geosciences Institute during the 48th Brazilian Geological Congress (48 CBG), which occurred on October 9 th 13 th, 2016 in Porto Alegre city. Besides disclosing our activities and products, the member Pedro Sulzbach de Andrade presented our Field Trip 2016 in a talk titled The actions of the Society of Economic Geologists Student Chapter in Brazil, which was given together with members from the UNICAMP and UFMG SC in the central stage Geo Theather. After the talk, all SEG student members gathered to meet each other and share experiences and difficulties from the Brazilian SC.

Figure 2: Pedro Sulzbach de Andrade presenting the SEG UFRGS Field Trip 2016.

We had three professional from the mining industry (AngloGold Ashanti, Codelco and Votorantim Metals) and one professor from our Institute confirmed.

6 Figure 2: Pedro Sulzbach de Andrade presenting the SEG UFRGS Field Trip d) I Cycle of Lectures canceled : The SEG UFRGS SC organized our 1 st Cycle of Lectures, planned to occur on November, 10 th. We had three professional from the mining industry (AngloGold Ashanti, Codelco and Votorantim Metals) and one professor from our Institute confirmed. Unfortunately, we had to cancel the event once the campus was occupied by students demonstrating against cutting in education funding. e) SEG-SC Disclosure and Membership Campaign: From November, 28 th to December, 2 nd 2016 and May, 8 th 12 th 2017, we set a booth during lunchtime for promoting the SC and attracting new members. These are opportunities for students to know the SC members, take questions about chapter s activities and operations, and apply for SEG student member. During the campaign we also put our T-shirts, Australian hats and field books to sell. The money raised was applied to cover costs of the field trip Figure 3: Our members Luiz (left), Betina (center) and Natanael (right) promoting our chapter.

f) Short course Introduction to Geostatistics: On March, 23 rd 25 th we promoted a 20-hours-long short course titled Introduction to Geostatistics, taught by Prof. Diego Marques.

The topics included univariate and bivariate statistical analysis, types of data, random variables, presentation of statistical data (distribution of frequencies, descriptive measures, distribution

7 f) Short course Introduction to Geostatistics: On March, 23 rd 25 th we promoted a 20-hours-long short course titled Introduction to Geostatistics, taught by Prof. Diego Marques. The course was took place in the facilities of the UFRGS and addressed theoretical concepts and practical aspects about the fundamentals of Geostatistics. The topics included univariate and bivariate statistical analysis, types of data, random variables, presentation of statistical data (distribution of frequencies, descriptive measures, distribution models), analysis of preferential grouping of samples (impact on statistical inference, ungrouping methods), spatial continuity measures (location maps, spatial description, spatial continuity measurement functions - variograms), estimates and predictions (search strategies, point estimate, ordinary and simple kriging, variance of kriging). The participants used the software SGeMS for the practical activities. The course had no costs for the chapter, nor for the 14 attendants, among which 12 were SC members and 2 were non-members chosen by raffle. Figure 4: Pictures takes during the course Introduction to Geostatistics, occurred in March g) Lecture for the freshman Geology students: On May, 16 th the SEG UFRGS SC members introduced the Society of Economic Geologists and the Student Chapter to the freshman students. The talk was given during a lecture of Fundaments of Geology and had the aim of introduce Economic Geology and the opportunities related to it to the students since the first semester of the course. Figure 5: Our members Pedro, Cristiano and Renan talking to the freshman students about the Society of Economic Geologists and the Student Chapter s activities.

h) SEDEGEO 2017: The SEG UFRGS Student Chapter participated in the 30th Week of Geological Debates of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (XXX SEDEGEO), held in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do

8 h) SEDEGEO 2017: The SEG UFRGS Student Chapter participated in the 30th Week of Geological Debates of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (XXX SEDEGEO), held in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from May 28 th to June 2 nd The event is primarily focused to undergraduate students, although all the local geological community attends. Our chapter contributed offering a 3-days-long course of Uses of CorelDRAW for geological purposes. The short course was taught by our member Natanael Cezario and covered the following topics: CorelDRAW s interface, basic tools, organization of files for vectorization, tools used for drawing and vectorizing, concepts to plan and vectorize an image, vectorization exercise, creation of a stratigraphic column exercise, creation and implementation of legend and textures, basic concepts in creating a block diagram, ways to export and save a project. Once again we took 15 minutes to introduce the Society of Economic Geologists and explain the benefits of being part of the Student Chapter, encouraging the affiliation of new members to the Student Chapter. Figure 6: The members Renan, Cristiano and Betina talking about the Society of Economic Geologists and inviting the student to affiliate to the Student Chapter during the XXX SEDEGEO. i) 1 st SISBRAMME: The SEG UFRGS SC help to organize, along with SME UFRGS Chapter (Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration) and ISEE Brazil Student Chapter (International Society of Explosives Engineers), the first South Brazilian Symposium for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SISBRAMME), on June 8 th 9 th. The event took place at the facilities of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and brought together 200 participants, including professionals and students from the host and other universities. The first day included lectures by qualified professionals in the mining and metallurgic industry and presentations developed by undergraduate, master s and PhD students. Six members of the SEG UFRGS Student Chapter presented on their research. Presentations covered such themes as characterization of mineral deposits from Brazil, metallogeny, and improving of technologies for the mining industry. The second day counted with the fourth edition of the Blasting Day and six short courses: Gemology, Programming in Geostatistics, Geomechanics Applied to Underground Mines,

Mineralogical and Textural Characteristics of Classic Ores, Mineral Research, Mining and Environment: Granting and Inspection by DNPM (National Department of Mineral Production), Hydrometallurgy and

9 Mineralogical and Textural Characteristics of Classic Ores, Mineral Research, Mining and Environment: Granting and Inspection by DNPM (National Department of Mineral Production), Hydrometallurgy and Environment. By promoting the symposium, the SEG UFRGS Student Chapter achieved its goal of encouraging interaction between students and professionals. Figure 7: (A) Organizing committee, composed by members of the SEG UFRGS SC, SME UFRGS Chapter and ISEE Brazil SC; (B) Votorantim Metals geologist Samuel Boucas do Lago talking about the Caçapava Polymetallic Project: Pb-Zn-Cu. j) Expedition ADIMB to the Carajás Mineral Province: From July, 9 th 16 th, two of our members took part in the Expedition to the Carajás Mineral Province. Promoted by ADIMB (Agency for Technological Development of Brazilian Mineral Industry), the expedition gathered 18 students from 9 Brazilian SEG Student Chapters. Localized in the central-eastern portion of the state of Pará, the Serra dos Carajás region is considered the largest mining district in Brazil and one of the most important in the world. Besides having giant iron deposits, the region has important deposits of Au, Cu, Ag, Mn, Ni, REE and occurrences of Cr, Pt and Pd. The group was accompanied by professors Marcondes Costa (Federal University of Pará) and Caetano Juliani (University of Sao Paulo) and by ADIMB s geologist Gustavo Mello. The students also had the technical support from Vale s exploration geologist Fernando Matos, who has 32 years of experience in the area. In the first day in the Carajás Province, Fernando exposed to the students a state of the art of the knowledge about Carajás, covering aspects such as tectonic compartmentalization, geological evolution, metallogenetic epochs, mineralization models, geology of the deposits and ore typologies. The group visited the Salobo Cu-Au mine, the giant Fe project S11D, the oldest Fe mine in the region N4 and the Mn mine of Azul, all operated by Vale. The group also visited the Cu-Au Antas Norte mine, operated by the junior Avanco Cooper, the old Au garimpo in Serra Verde, and Vale s core sheds. The group had the opportunity to know Carajás exactly in the month when the Province celebrates in 2017 the 50 years of the discovery of iron deposits in the region. The expedition was fully supported by ADIMB, so the participants had no costs with transportation, accommodation and food.

Figure 8: (A) SEG UFRGS Student Chapter members Betina and Renan visiting the world s largest iron project S11D; (B) the group visiting the Cu-Au mine of Salobo, the largest Vale s Cu mine.

The course was taught by our member André Luis Araújo and took 16-hour-long, helded in the facilities of the UFRGS.

10 Figure 8: (A) SEG UFRGS Student Chapter members Betina and Renan visiting the world s largest iron project S11D; (B) the group visiting the Cu-Au mine of Salobo, the largest Vale s Cu mine. k) Short Course Geographic Information System: The SEG UFRGS SC promoted the short course Geographic Information System occurred on August, 10 th 11 th. The course was taught by our member André Luis Araújo and took 16-hour-long, helded in the facilities of the UFRGS. All the 9 vacancies were filled with chapter members, who used the software QGis during the course. The topics covered were: Basic concepts on creating a GIS project, management of raster and vector objects, layers proprieties and management, editing, using attribute table, print compositor. Also, a practical exercise focusing on create a thematic map of the Rio Grande do Sul State (RS) using open source cartographic basis, including: Mining titles (retrieved from SIGMINE-DNPM website), hydrography (retrieved from Environmental Secretary of RS) and municipalities (retrieved from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics website IBGE). The course had no costs for the participants. Figure 9: SEG UFRGS SC members during the GIS short course.

l) Field Trip 2017: The SEG UFRGS Field Trip 2017 Expedition to the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, occurred on September, 12 th -19 th and took 10 of our members to know the historically important mining

11 l) Field Trip 2017: The SEG UFRGS Field Trip 2017 Expedition to the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, occurred on September, 12 th -19 th and took 10 of our members to know the historically important mining district of Quadrilátero Ferrífero in the state of Minas Gerais Brazil. The group performed technical visits to Fe mines of Mutuca and Capao Xavier, operated by Vale, and the currently deactivated Capanema mine; Au mines Lamego and Córrego do Sítio, operated by AngloGold Ashanti, were also visited. Moreover, the members visited two old Au garimpos, exploited in the colonial era, during the gold cycle which brought the first impulse of advancement and settlement to the region. The group also performed a profile along the western limb of the Moeda Syncline, one of the structures generated during the Transamazonian Orogeny. Along this profile we walked from the basal sediments of the Minas Supergroup, which register the opening of the basin, through the fluvial sediments and end up at the marine sediments, accompanying the evolution of the sedimentary basin. Afterwards, the group visited old dolomite and komatiite quarries, and the dam of Fundao which collapsed in 2015 in a huge disaster. Two activities of the field trip, namely the lectures given by professors Rosaline Silva and Carlos Alberto Rosière from the Federal University of Minas Gerais were kindly organized by the UFMG SEG Student Chapter. We also had the engagement of Professor Maximiliano Souza Martins, who invited us to spend a day under his guidance. Our academic advisor, Professor José Carlos Frantz participated in the last three days of the field trip. The field trip was mostly supported by the Stewart Wallace Fund Grant. We also received support from Core Case company. Besides, the Student Chapter members contributed with BRL each. The rest of the expenditures were covered by the SEG UFRGS SC funds, obtained through several money raising activities along the year. The students had no costs with transportation and accommodation. Figure 10: SEG UFRGS SC members visiting (A) the Capão Xavier iron mine (Vale) and (B) the Córrego do Sítio gold mine (AngloGold Ashanti); (C) View of the Capanema iron mine and the beautiful landscape of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero in the background.

12 m) Future plans: To continue meetings at least twice a month to organize the next activities; organize more entertaining activities among the members; we are trying to make viable a cycle of lectures, to occur at the end of November; we are preparing a workbook of the GIS course to perform the course again, this time opened to non-members students, under the payment of a fee, in order to help us to raise funds for the chapter next activities; we are organizing a QA/QC short course to occur on February or March next year; we are in contact with LeapFrog Enterprises for them to offer us a one-week-long course of the software, to occur in the first semester next year; we plan to organize a second edition of the SISBRAMME; we are also organizing our field trip 2018 to know the geology and mineral deposits of the Andes mountains; in order to raise resources for the field trip, we will apply for the second round of the Student Chapter Stewart R. Wallace Funding Support.

SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, INC Shaffer Parkway Littleton, CO USA Tel: Fax:

SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, INC. 7811 Shaffer Parkway Littleton, CO 80127-3732 USA Tel: +1.720.981.7882 Fax: +1.720.981.7874 E-mail: studentprograms@segweb.org Student Chapter Annual Report Form This