7 pm Wednesday 18 June, RGSC Room, King Edward Mine Museum site, Troon, near Camborne, TR14 9HW A Mine Ends. Then What? 102 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground Dr Pete Whitbread-Abrutat, Future Terrains International Pete will talk about what happens when mines close and how we can do […]
Please register now if you would like to attend the fieldtrip to Porthleven/Loe Bar on Saturday morning 12 July, star ting at 10.30 and ending about 1.30. Please send your name(s), emergency contact details, and if you need an RGSC hard hat to Beatrice beatricekerno@yahoo.co.uk. Once registered, you will receive the joining information. The fieldtrip […]
Wednesday 20 August – Members evening at RGSC room, King Edward Mine Museum if enough people would like to get together. Please RSVP to Beatrice beatricekerno@yahoo.co.uk by 9th July (the date of our next RGSC Council meeting) so we know whether to go ahead and organise this event.
Saturday 27 September at 10 am, Repeat visit to GEL, United Downs to see the deep geothermal energy project, joint with the Cornish Institute of Engineers. Final Call - Saturday 27 th September 10.00 to 12.30 - Visit to the Deep Geothermal energy project at GEL, United Downs, TR15 5HY. The GEL team are now hot […]
Wednesday 15 October – Geoconservation lecture on ‘The field systems and boundaries of the Cornish Landscape’ by Ann Reynolds, Cornwall Council, An overview of the field systems and boundaries of the Cornish landscape, and how they can help us decipher the history of rural Cornwall. 7 pm, Wednesday 15 October, Exchange Lecture Theatre, Exchange building, Penryn […]
www.tungstenwest.com We are invited by Tungsten West to see the geology and activities to re-open one of the World’s largest resources of the critical mineral, tungsten, at Hemerdon, near Plymouth (Hemerdon Mine, Drakelands, Plympton, Devon PL7 5BS *Sat Nav users please use postcode PL7 5BW). The tungsten occurs in the mineral wolframite in greisen veins […]
Wednesday 10 December 7pm - Philip Marsden, ‘Under a Metal Sky’ and Christmas social, in person on Penryn Campus, TR10 9FE Philip Marsden will talk about his latest book, and we will dive a bit deeper into the geology using samples from the Camborne School of Mines teaching collection. For a taste of the book […]
RGSC Annual General Meeting, 2 pm Saturday, 21st February,, Alverne Room, St Johns Hall, Penzance, TR18 2QR The Annual Address lecture will start at about 3.30, all welcome. ‘Ten things you should know about the Cornubian Batholith, by Robin Shail, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, ‘The Cornubian Batholith underlies much of Devon and Cornwall and is the geological engine contributing […]