SMEDG is committed to supporting geoscience education and the future minerals industry. The annual SMEDG Geoscience Honours Student Scholarship with a total value of $10,000 is open to students from a NSW or ACT based university with projects related to economic geology (exploration and/or mining).
Applications for 2027 open soon – watch this space!
SMEDG Geoscience Honours
Scholarship winners 2026
An Appetite for Apatite: Investigating Apatite Geochemistry as an Exploration Tool for Carbonatite REE Deposits.
Determining the mineral paragenesis of the Boda deposit, NSW, Australia.
Structural and Geochemical analysis of the Gifford creek carbonatite complex.
Modern hydrothermal mineralisation in the Mediterranean Sea: Key to the past?
Scholarship winners 2025
The role of native vegetation as hyperaccumulators of heavy metals in rehabilitation programs at NSW mine sites
A mechanism for regional granulite facies metamorphism in the Broken Hill domain (NSW), and implications for exploration
Characterisation of niobium mineralisation in the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex (WA)
The Wisemans Arm Formation – its implications for regional tectonism and exploration in the New England Orogen (NSW)