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The Russell Society – Virtual Talks Programme 2022-2023

12th August 2022 By Mary Starkey

Our programme of monthly zoom talks starts in September. All talks start at 8pm with the waiting room open from 7.45pm. As usual log-in details will be given on the members’ page. Non-members are welcome to join us subject to there being places as there is a limit on numbers. If you would like to attend any lecture but are not a member, please contact the webmaster about a week before: 

 

21 September – Roy Starkey – Philip Rashleigh’s Mineral Collection at the Royal Cornwall Museum and Why It Is Important.        Joint meeting with the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (see http://geologycornwall788.bravesites.com/2021-lectures-and-events for full details and the log-in link)  Note: The waiting room for this talk will open at 7.50pm

19 October – Shane Webb – Loch Tay, Scotland: a mineralogical overview of some of the highest-grade gold deposits in Britain.

16 November – Ollie O’Reilly, Cornish Lithium – The Geology and Mineralogy of the Trelavour Deposit: a Lithium-Rich Granite Resource

21 December Rachel Walcott – Data-capturing history, mysteries, and the emergence of Robert Jameson’s systematic mineral collection.

18 January – Michael Doel – The Uranium Mine at Menzenschwand.

15 February – David Aubrey-Jones – Last Season’s Russell Society Trips.

15 March – Woody Thompson – Maine Pegmatites.

19 April – Speaker and topic awaiting confirmation.

17 May – Speaker and topic awaiting confirmation.

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