In this section I will try to report on the activities that I take part in. Collecting trips, meetings, symposia, lectures. Click on the photos to see the whole message. If you would like to comment or have questions, please use the guest book to do so.
As I already told some time ago, in 2023 three of my friends and I went to the Azores for a mineral collecting trip. Now I have produced an article on the harvest of that trip, which was published recently in the november edition quarterly magazine Conglomeraat from the LVGA, our Dutch national association for geology and mineralogy. In Dutch...
During the weekend from September 13th to 15th the yearly conference of the British Micromount Society took place in Droitwich near Birmingham/England. There were over 50 participants, 3 of which from France and myself as the only one from the Netherlands. Besides the very pleasant meetings with old and new friends and a number of interesting...
Yesterday evening it was my turn again to do on online presentation in the Micromount Zoom Club. The topic this time were the regions and microminerals of Italy, the country that I have visited many times. Today I did part 1 of the story, part 2 will follow in July. Here the YouTube link to the presentation yesterday: https://youtu.be/PYCSvRobphA ...
La Marsiliana near Massa Marittima is one of the places in Tuscany/Italy where nowadays slag minerals, dating from Etruscan times, still can be found. In march 2024 my article on the subject was published in Conglomeraat, the quarterly magazine of the LVGA, the Dutch national association for geology and mineralogy. It is in Dutch, if you wish to...
This is one of the very few specimens of the sulfosalt baiamareite, a newly discovered mineral that is only recently been approved by the IMA. On the photo one of the pieces from the original batch, found by Gábor Koller, that was analysed at Harvard University. This particular specimen is in the collection of André Robbemond. From the Sāsar Mine,...
Yesterday evening I had the opportunity to do a presentation titled "Microminerals from Italy, from Aosta to Sicily", on invitation from the LVGA West-Brabant, in Breda, Netherlands. The audience was very interested and enthousiastic, which made the evening very pleasant, and made giving the presentation a pleasure. Here are a few impressions.
As I already told in an earlier blog, three of my friends and I last may went on a collecting trip the Azores Islands. In september I was given the opportunity to do an online presentation of the trip and the mineral finds there in the Micromount Zoom Club Meetings. Here is the link to the recording on YouTube: ...
In may 2024 just like every year the Minerant will take place, the well known mineral show in Antwerp, organized by the Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen, of which I am a member. It pleases me much to show one of the flyers for the show, the photo on which is one of mine.... Click on the photo to see the whole flyer....
On saturday September 30 2023, the second micromounts exchange fair in Eemnes, Netherlands will take place. In the program of the day three presentations are foreseen, one of which will be done by me, the subject being our recent collecting trip and the finds on the Azores Islands in may this year. Click on the photo to see the whole flyer....
In the first week of may 2023 three of my collecting buddies and I spent a week on São Miguel, the largest island of the Azores archipelago, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There are two interesting collecting sites: the Vale das Lombadas (the picture on the right) and the so-called Pumice Quarry, both on the flanks of the...