The Robert M. Dreyer Award in Applied Economic Geology, established as an annual Award in 1999, recognizes outstanding achievements in applied economic geology. The outstanding achievements so recognized must have been accomplished through commercial exploration or development of metalliferous and/or nonmetalliferous mineral deposits.
Past Award Recipients
- 2023 – John M. Proffett
- 2022 – Richard Sillitoe
- 2021 – Jeffrey A. Pontius
- 2020 – William H. Wilkinson
- 2019 – Donald R. Taylor
- 2018 – Dennis P. Bryan
- 2017 – Robert W. Schafer
- 2016 – Ronald L. Parratt
- 2015 – Donald E. Ranta
- 2014 – Robert J. Kellie
- 2014 – Ihor A. Kunasz
- 2013 – Dan Wood
- 2012 – Peter Megaw
- 2011 – Tom Patton
- 2010 – William Lindqvist
- 2009 – Stephen Leary
- 2008 – C. Mark Rebagliati
- 2007 – John S. Livermore - "The CORDEX Team"
- 2007 – Andy B. Wallace - "The CORDEX Team"
- 2006 – Anton G. Esterhuizen
- 2005 – Charles E. Fipke
- 2004 – Roy Woodall
- 2003 – Merwin Bernstein
- 2002 – John P. Hunt
- 2001 – Leo J. Miller
- 2000 – J. David Lowell
For more information, please contact SME at awards@smenet.org.