Time flies and we have now hit the 2 year milestone. Our semestral meeting was hosted by our Czech partners in the beautiful city of Prague. For 2 days we discussed our achievements, shared knowledge and defined the roadmap to the finish line. Integrating datasets as diverse as surface geochemistry, rock geochemistry, geophysics, at regional and local scales using machine learning and prospectivity mapping is incredibly challenging. For this reason, we break out in specialized workshops where the science teams from various disciplines and reference sites can cross information and have in-depth discussions. Some of these took 2 extra days of our meeting making it for a very busy week!

The highlight of this meeting was the possibility to finally visit the Reference site of Ransko, a Variscan (ultra-mafic) intrusion that hosts sulfide mineralization. The relevance of orogenic intrusions for magmatic ore deposits has been on a steady rise and SEMACRET will make important contributions from the study of Ransko and Beja (Portugal), our other Variscan reference site hosting oxide mineralization.