This year’s symposium will be held at a new venue (Salwarpe Village Hall, Salwarpe, near Droitwich, Worcestershire. WR9 0AH). The hall is easy to reach from the M5 motorway and has ample car parking with step-free access to the hall. The Symposium will start at 09:00am on Friday 15 September, 2023, and end at around…
BMS Symposium 2023
The 2022 BMS Symposium has now been and gone and planning underway for 2023. Save the dates! 15th, 16th and 17th September. The venue is different – the Salwarpe Village Hall. Salwarpe is just off the M5 to the south of Droitwich. Please contact Roy with any questions.
BMS Symposium 2022
16th, 17th and 18th September 2022. Everything is in place for our Forty First BMS Symposium to take place at the College Court Conference Centre, Knighton Road, Leicester. It will be great to get back to a real event meeting friends in person and talking about minerals which we can share and enjoy together. Everyone…
Mines and Minerals of the English Midlands
The Micromount Club Facebook Group holds fortnightly Zoom sessions (see details here). Today, Martin Stolworthy took us on a journey through the mines and minerals of the English Midlands. The session was recorded and is available for viewing here.
41st BMS Symposium
From David Ifold… I am writing my first letter to outline our plans for the 41st BMS Symposium which takes place as a real event in Leicester at The College Court Conference Centre this September starting 9.00AM on Friday 16th September and finishing lunchtime Sunday 18th September. Since the outbreak of Covid 19, the world…
Hilton Mine, Scordale, Murton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
A good way to show off specimens with different viewpoints (such as UV reactive). Click here for a higher resolution version and use the slider to see specimen under white light and longwave UV. Colourless but iron-stained fluorite crystals. Fluorescent blue under longwave UV. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images (white light) and…
North West Highlands Geopark
Posted on behalf of the North West Highlands Geopark. In 2015 UNESCO accredited the North West Highlands Geopark as one of their Global Geoparks in recognition of the importance of managing outstanding geological sites and landscapes in a holistic manner. They work closely with their remote communities and warmly welcome large numbers of geologists and…
Newsletter Index Completed
An index of articles, authors, minerals and photographs in BMS Newsletters is now up to date and can be found here. Many thanks to Trevor Devon for this daunting task!
More Missing Newsletters Added
Issues 73, 74, 75, 79, 80, 81 and 83 have now been uploaded. You can find them in the Newsletter Archive.
John Ruskin and his mineral collection
The 40th Annual Symposium of the British Micromount Society has just finished, this year totally on the Zoom platform. The last talk was “John Ruskin and his mineral collection”, presented by Roy Starkey. Roy made mention of the extensive published works of John Ruskin, some of which relates to rocks and minerals, and it is…