- Lima, June 24, 2022
MURRAY HITZMAN, DISCOVERER OF POLYMETALLIC MINE IN IRELAND, TO SPEAK AT PROEXPLO 2023
The discoverer of Chevron Corporation's Lisheen lead, zinc, and silver mine in Ireland in 1990, Murray Hitzman, confirmed his participation as a keynote speaker at the 13th International Congress of Prospectors and Explorers - proEXPLO 2023.
He currently serves as Director of the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), and as Research Professor of the Science Foundation Ireland, University College Dublin.
Until December 2017, he served successfully as associate director of Energy and Minerals at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); and, in 2006, as president of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG).
Previously, he served on the boards of numerous junior exploration mining companies and larger companies.
In 1996, he was appointed Professor of Economic Geology at the Colorado School of Mines and became head of the Department of Geology and Engineering Geology in 2002, where he focused on research in the Central African Copperbelt.
He was also a policy analyst in the U.S. Senate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1993 to 1996.
He is also noted for his experience in the oil and mineral industries from 1976 to 1993, primarily in mineral exploration around the world.
For his valuable contributions, he has been recognized with the SEG Silver Medal in 1999, the Daniel C. Jackling Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, the Des Pretorius Award from the Geological Society of South Africa in 2015, and the Haddon Forrester King Medal from the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Murray Hitzman holds a BS degree in geology and anthropology from Dartmouth College (1976), a BS degree in geology from the University of Washington (1978), and a PhD degree in geology from Stanford University (1983).
About proEXPLO
Organized by the Peruvian Institute of Mining Engineers, proEXPLO is one of the main geological-mining meetings in Latin America and a must-attend event for companies and professionals working in exploration.
The thirteenth edition of proEXPLO will be held under the slogan "Discovering the Mining of the Future" between May 8 and 10, 2023, in the city of Lima, Peru.
