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Wardell Armstrong Prize

For the best paper published in Transactions B: Applied Earth Studies.

Wardell Armstrong Prize

The award is no longer available

The Wardell Armstrong Prize is presented for the best paper published in Transactions B: Applied Earth Science.

The winner will receive a crystal bowl or £250.00

Award judging

Nominations for the Wardell Armstrong Prize are judged by the editors of the Transactions journals.

Past winners

2022
Not awarded

2021
Not awarded

2020
The treatment of missing ‘not at random’ geological data for ore grade modelling
Camilla Z da Silva & Joao Felipe C L Costa

2019
Carbonatites: Related ore deposits, resources, footprint and exploration methods
G Simandl & S Paradis

2018
Australia: geology and mineral resources
D Klingner & C A Standing

2017
Coastal evolution and associated titanium sand mineralisation of Jangamo district, Inhambane Province
J. Dumouchel, F. Hees & M. P. Alvin 

2016
Demystifying migmatites: introduction for field-based geologist
M. Pawley, A. Reid, R. Dutch, W. Preiss

2015
Drill core, structure and digital technologies
S. Bright, G. Conner, A. Turner and J. Vearncombe

2014
Early Neoproterozoic rare metal (Sn, Ta, W) and gold metallogeny of the Central Africa Region: a review
W L Pohl, M Biryabarema, B Lehmann

2013
Background concentrations of gold in different rock types
I K Pitcairn 

2012
The Fortescue story: From exploration to the third largest iron ore producer in Australia
Dr John M F Clout & W G Rowley 

2011
Assessing the potential involvement of an early magma staging chamber in the generation of the Platreef Ni–Cu–PGE deposit in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex: A pilot study of the Lower Zone Complex at Zwartfontein
I McDonald, D Holwell & D Wesley

2010
Chromite and PGE in the Logar Ophiolite Complex, Afganistan
A J Benham, P Kováč, M G Petterson, I Rojkovic, M T Styles, A G Gunn, J A McKervey & A Wasy

2009
Geochemistry of komatiites in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrance, Western Australia, and the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada, and implications for the distribution of associated Ni-Cu-PGE deposits
S J Barnes, C M Lesher & R A Sproule

2008
The Kayelera uranium deposit, Northern Malawi: past exploration activities, economic geology and decay series disequilibrium
R A Bowden & R P Shaw

2007
Three-dimensional mapping of the Platreef at the Zwartfontein South mine: implications for the timing of magmatic events in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa
D Holwell & A Jordaan 

2006
Chemicals in the environment: implications for global sustainability
Prof J A Plant, Dr A Korre & Dr N Voulvoulis for their paper
2005
Shortcomings of multiple indicator kriging for assessing local distributions
X Emery & J M Ortiz

2004
Chromite formation: a key to understanding processes of platinum enrichment
J A Kinnaird, F J Kruger, P A M Nex & R G Cawthorn