{"id":43,"date":"2020-09-21T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bms.mineralcollective.com\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:51:27","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=43","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The British Micromount Society is a national organisation, founded in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aims of the Society are to promote contact between micromounters in the UK and encourage the development of micromounting as a branch of mineralogy through the publication of a regular newsletter (<a href=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=351\">detail and back issues available here<\/a>), occasional field meetings and <a href=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=356\">symposia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Society publishes the British Directory of Micromounters &#8211; now in its 10th Edition, and maintains a <a href=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=355\">National Reference Collection of Micromounts<\/a>, available for postal loan to members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Society has also developed a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=354\">Occasional Papers<\/a> on topics of interest to amateur mineralogists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are local groups in Norfolk, Sussex, West Midlands, Cornwall, The North West Group in Bolton, and the South East Group in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These meet at regular intervals and all members are welcome to attend any of the branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Devon and Cornwall Branch Meetings <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meetings on a Saturday afternoon in March, June, September and December at Liskeard Municipal Offices, 3- 5 West St., Liskeard&nbsp; PL14&nbsp; 6 BW.&nbsp; Ample parking within 100 yards. Visitors very welcome, come and meet the local collectors. For dates and further details contact Chris Jewson on phone 01872 560687 or email&nbsp; ceejaykernow@gmail.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>North West Branch Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment meetings are suspended owing to the death of Harry Critchley. If any other news becomes available we will update this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Norfolk Branch Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Norfolk Branch usually meet twice a year as part of the Norfolk Mineral and Lapidary Society Monthly meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>South-East Branch Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South-East Branch usually meet twice a year as part of the Sussex Mineral and Lapidary Society Monthly meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Midlands Branch Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Midlands Branch meet at Roy and Mary Starkey&#8217;s house several times during the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Micromount Society is a national organisation, founded in 1981. The aims of the Society are to promote contact between micromounters in the UK and encourage the development of micromounting as a branch of mineralogy through the publication of a regular newsletter (detail and back issues available here), occasional field meetings and symposia. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}