About
The Mineralogical Society of New South Wales ("Min Soc NSW") promotes knowledge and enjoyment of mineral science and mineral collecting. The Society was founded in 1975, and includes both professional and lay people interested in mineralogy. We hold monthly meetings, and also organise field trips. Along with other Australian State Mineralogical Societies, we participate in the publication of the Australian Journal of Mineralogy.
Meetings
We meet on the first Friday of the eleven months February to December unless that Friday is before a long weekend or is itself a public holiday, in which case the meeting is put back until the second Friday. Meetings start at 7.30pm. Visitors are very welcome. See list of future meeting dates and topics below.
Meetings are held in the LZG 14 lecture room, on the ground floor of the General Teaching block of the School of Natural Science of the University of Western Sydney - see map below. Note that there are two sections of the Campus - the School of Natural Science is on the North side of Victoria Rd., and can only be entered from Pemberton St.
There is a $4 fee to park on Campus. Tickets are available at the corner marked M on the map, alternatively there is parking in Pemberton St.
Future meetings
April 3rd: 2009 :
Talk on ‘Scheelite in Australia’ by John Chapman and a
lecture to be given
by John Rankin on ‘Early Collectors - George Smith’.
May 1st:
Members Mini Auction.
June 12th,
Talk on
'Malachite, azurite and pseudo morphs' by Jim Sharpe and Lecture on
Gold
July 3rd
:
Talk on 'Zircons from Malawi' by Bruce Myles and Lecture on
the Burra Mine
Mine
by David Colchester
August 7th:
Society A.G.M. and the Betty Mayne Memorial Lecture to be
given by Peter
Williams on ‘The Sunny Corner Silver Mines’.
September 4th:
Lecture on 'History of Copper Mining in NSW" by D. Dolstra
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