12 Inter Guiana Geological Conference, Georgetown Guyana 12 & 13 December 2022.
Thanks to all presenters and participants for making the IGGC12 a success!
You can download the abstract volume here!
The conference had a great program of speakers, a large number of posters on display and plenty of opportunities to network.
This year, the IGGC committee introduced the Student Awards for best talk and best poster to encourage young talents in their research.
The nominees for each award, who will receive a grant of US$ 1000 are:
Best Talk: Gabriel SOARES, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, “The Geological Setting and Hydrothermal Alteration of the Tucano Gold Deposit, Guiana Shield, Brazil”
Best Poster: Renoesha NAIPAL, Anton de Kom University of Suriname and Utrecht University, “Hydrothermal desilicification, alkali leaching and oxidation in metapelites of the Rosebel gold district in the Paleoproterozoic Marowijne Greenstone Belt, Suriname”
Registration – Program – Your stay in Georgetown – Abstract – Abstract volume
Organising Committee
Alexis Plunder
Anil Subramanya
Augusto Mol
Corinne Debat
Geoffrey Aertgeerts
Hayley McGillivray
LaDonna Fredricks
Mark Jessell
Michael Tedeschi
Nicolas Thebaud
Nicole Kioe-A-Sen
Olivier Vanderhaeghe
Salomon Kroonenberg
Stephane Perrouty
Theo Wong
History of the IGGC
The idea of an Inter Guiana Geological Conference was in 1949 first proposed by Hendricus (Henk) Schols, at that time head of the Geological and Mining Service of Suriname. He had graduated as a mining engineer from Delft University of Technology, and had passed the years of the Second World War in Suriname on secondment from a private organisation. After the war, he was asked by the governor of Suriname to set up the Geological and Mining Service. He organised the first Inter Guiana Geological conference in Paramaribo from September 23 to October 3, 1950, and the series continued up until the 10th IGGC in Belém, Brazil in 1975. The South American Exploration Initiative revived the conference series in Paramaribo, Suriname in 2019, and this current edition is thus the 12th IGGC.
