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Simon M Jowitt is the Director of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG), Nevada State Geologist, and the Arthur Brant Chair of Exploration Geology at the University of Nevada Reno. In addition to NBMG he currently leads the Ralph J. Roberts Center for Research in Economic Geology at UNR and his research focuses on the use of geochemistry to unravel geological processes in a variety of settings with direct application to understanding not only mineralizing systems but also igneous petrology, mineral exploration, global tectonics and the links between magmatism and metallogeny. He has also undertaken extensive research on mineral economics, global metal resources and the security of supply of critical minerals, and the “economic” side of economic geology. He has published more than 125 scientific papers, peer-reviewed book chapters and geological survey reports since 2010 and was awarded the Society of Economic Geology’s Waldemar Lindgren Award in 2014.