{"id":48,"date":"2020-09-21T13:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bms.mineralcollective.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2025-07-27T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:10:35","slug":"the-british-micromount-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"The British Micromount Society"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=351\">regular newsletter<\/a>, occasional field meetings and symposia.<\/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=27\">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=24\">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. Details in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=43\">About <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=43\">link<\/a>.<\/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, occasional field meetings and symposia. The Society publishes the British Directory of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}