Duncan R. Derry Medal
The Duncan R. Derry Medal is the highest award bestowed by the Mineral Deposits Division (MDD). It is awarded annually to the outstanding economic geologist who has made significant contributions to the science of economic geology in Canada.
Candidates should be recognized for their skill and stature as professional economic geologists, and also by their public contributions to the science field. It is acknowledged that publication is the prime, but not only method, of disseminating scientific information in any discipline. Candidates should be members of the GAC®, and preferably, but not necessarily, MDD members.
The 2025 Duncan R. Derry Medal is awarded to Dr. Georges Beaudoin (Université Laval)
Prof. Georges Beaudoin is a global leader in his contributions to mineral exploration and the genesis of hydrothermal ore deposits. He received his BSc (1985) and MSc (1987) from Université Laval, and his PhD (1991) from the University of Ottawa. Following this he completed a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship at the Geological Survey of Canada. He was an assistant (1993-1998), associate (1998-2002) and full professor (since 2002) in metallogeny at Université Laval. From 2012 to 2022, Prof Beaudoin held the NSERC-Agnico Eagle Industrial Research Chair in Mineral Exploration at Université Laval. He now leads the Agnico Eagle-Eldorado Gold Québec Research Chair in Mineral Exploration. From 2013 to 2022, he was the Founding Director of the Centre de recherche sur la géologie et l’ingénierie des ressources minérales (E4m), a recognized research centre at Université Laval, consisting of 34 researchers and 150 graduate students and HQP. From 2009 to 2019, he was Director of the DIVEX research network, regrouping researchers in metallogeny from 7 universities in Québec. Georges is an internationally recognized expert in metallogeny, hydrothermal mineral deposits, and isotope geochemistry, in addition to his world-leading research in indicator mineral methodologies for exploration. With his team of HQP he has developed indicator minerals for orogenic gold deposits, in addition to establishing magnetite and hematite as ubiquitous fertility indicator minerals (Dupuis and Beaudoin 2011, 704 citations; Dare et al. 2014, 548 citations). Prof Beaudoin was Chief-Editor of Mineralium Deposita between 2012-2022, contributing to increasing the international scientific journal’s impact factor to the highest (5.1) in the field. He was elected as the first Canadian President (2014-2016) of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), during which he presided over the organization of the 14th Biennial Meeting in Québec in 2017. Prof Beaudoin has published 174 peer-reviewed papers and more than 230 conference abstracts (+8200 citations, h-index=48). He has experience leading large research teams, as shown by his leadership as Research Chair, and his involvement in large research initiatives such as the NSERC CRD Footprints and CFREF Metal Earth programs. In and outside of these initiatives Prof Beaudoin has trained 10 PDFs, 24 PhD students, 32 MSc students, 24 BSc students, and 12 Research Assistants. Evidently, Professor Beaudoin is an outstanding geologist in the field of ore deposit geology, having contributed to our understanding of ore deposits and indicator mineral exploration, and therefore a worthy recipient of the Duncan Derry award.
The 2024 and 2025 Derry Medals will be presented to Dr. Keiko Hattori and Dr. Georges Beaudoin at the 2025 GAC-MAC meeting in Ottawa.
2024: Keiko Hattori
2023: Stephen J. Piercey
2022: Patrick Mercier-Langevin
2021: Iain SamsonParagraph
2020: Sarah-Jane Barnes
2019: Jeremy Richards
2018: Wouter Bleeker
2017: Kurt Kyser
2016: Dan Kontak
2015: Doreen Ames
2014: B. H. S. Smith
2013: A. Galley
2012: H. L. Gibson
2011: B. Dube
2010: N. Duke
2009 F. Robert
2008: M. Hannington
2007: C. M. Lesher
2006: H. Poulsen
2005: J. Hedenquist
2003: R. Kerrich
2002: A. Clark
2001: H. S. Swinden
2000: A. E. Williams-Jones
1999: D. H. Watkinson
1998: R. V. Kirkham
1997: S. D. Scott
1996: F. R. Joubin
1995: C. J. Hodgson
1994: A. C. Brown
1993: W. H. MacLean
1992: J. M. Franklin2
1991: J. D. Harvey
1990: C. I. Goodwin
1989: G. O. Allard
1988: E. A. Swanson
1987: A. E. Soregaroli
1986: R. W. Hodder
1985: M. J. Knuckey
1984: J. J. Brummer
1983: R. W. Hutchinson
1982: G. D. J. Boldy
1981: D. F. Sangster
1980: A. J. Naldrett
