Nelson, holding a sample of a pebble dike from the Tintic Mining District, Utah USA, while attending the Yellowstone field trip organized by the UofT SEG Student Chapter in May 2023.
Congratulations to Nelson Roman Moraga, recipient of the 2022/23 Laurence Curtis Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Earth Sciences. Nelson is a Chilean economic geologist with five years of working experience in the mining industry, working as exploration geologist, mine geologist, geochemist and geometallurgist in various companies. He got HBSc and MSc degrees in geology at University of Chile, and currently he is a third year PhD candidate in Earth Sciences at UofT, in Professor Dan Gregory’s research team. His research aims to understand the source of metals, metallogeny and main geochemical features of the orogenic gold deposits in Yukon, Canada, through the study of sulfides and gold alloy in these systems.