Economic Geology Assistanship
Undergraduate course, Universidad de Chile, Department of Geology, 2024
This assistanship consisted of lecturing and assisting 27 students during the teoretical classes on the fisrt months of the course, helping to understand practical and the mineralogical concepts around the main economical resources of deposits. During the teoretical parts of the course, it also was done the main planning of transects and the making of geological maps for usage in site (reported geological units maps, main structures found and geological indicators maps such as %Clay, %Fe and Exposed rock where also made using spectral imaging.) On the last months of the course, it was done on two separated full week campaigns, a site study to determine its economic capability on a Fresnillo Chile site, to evaluate and help to improve for the students, map/model making and field practices like mineral identification and structure logging. The campaigns were on separate instances to:
- Aliviate the students to assistant teachers ratio, getting to a 3 : 1 ratio on most of the student sub-groups. As well as to have room for all parties involved on the basecamp.
- To ascertain and evaluate the differences/similitudes of the map-model-interpretation between the two groups, and help a fuller understanding of the site Geology and conditions.