MAY 2024
“Colourless Characters”
by Peter Rosewarne
“Gangue Minerals”
by Peter Rosewarne
FACETING A THIRD CERUSSITE ... WARTS AND ALL
by Duncan Miller
A Curiosity
APRIL 2024
Blue Lace Agate News
“Back in Black”
by Peter Rosewarne
The Sources of Colour in Minerals
by Peter Rosewarne
An Easter Curiosity
MARCH 2024
Letters to the Editor
Igneous Activity, Mineral Deposits and Groundwater: Is There a Connection?
by Peter Rosewarne
In the Pink!
by Peter Rosewarne
Curiosity - Opal Pineapples
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024
The Club’s Field Trip to the Hout Bay Manganese Mines
by Prodromos Nikolaidis
Why?
by Peter Rosewarne
Faceting a large Spodumene
by Duncan Miller
Curiosity - Libyan Desert Glass
brDECEMBER 2023
Famous Mineral-Specimen Producing Regions of the World, Part 4, Morocco
by Peter Rosewarne
meteoric Curiosity
NOVEMBER 2023
Famous Mineral-Specimen Producing Regions of the World, Part 3, Pakistan
by Peter Rosewarne
Curiosity in need of identification
OCTOBER 2023
Horror Stories: From Graven Images to the Real Thing
by Peter Rosewarne
Famous Mineral-Specimen Producing Regions of the World, Part 2, Mexico
by Peter Rosewarne
A worm-like Curiosity
Weird electron microscopy photos to identifY
BY Lesley Andrews
SEPTEMBER 2023
Famous Mineral-Specimen Producing Regions of the World - Part 1: Afghanistan
by Peter Rosewarne
Another Curiosity
AUGUST 2023
Desert Roses from Port Nolloth, Northern Cape, South Africa
by Gisela Hinder, Rosh Pinah Geo Center, Namibia
Rutile: A Mineral of Many Habits
by Peter Rosewarne
Another Curiosity
JULY 2023
Artisanal Gold mining in Zimbabwe
by Peter Rosewarne
One Million US Dollars’ Worth of Mineral Specimens
by Peter Rosewarne
Another Curiosity
JUNE 2023
Gemboree, Augrabies, 2023
by JD
The Most Famous Mineral Finds of all Time: Part 2
by Peter Rosewarne
Another Curiosity
Several Ways to make a Sphere
MAY 2023
Letters to the Editor
The Most Famous Mineral Finds
of all Time: Part I
by Peter Rosewarne
A Geological Curiosity
Freshly Faceted Kunzite
The Billy Millen Legacy
APRIL 2023
Letters to the Editor
Minerals and War
by Peter Rosewarne
"Another Curiosity"
"Some Lapidary stuff"
MARCH 2023
The Feldspathoids
by Peter Rosewarne
An unusual Curiosity
"Time is an Abyss"
by Duncan Miller
FEBRUARY 2023
Our 60th Anniversary party
“What’s in a Name? Celebrity and Other Mineral Specimen Names”
by Peter Rosewarne
An unusual Curiosity
by Peter Rosewarne
Some Facetips news
by Duncan Miller
DECEMBER 2022
Cape Town Gem & Mineral Club's 60th Anniversary and other interesting numbers
by Peter Rosewarne
From the Cabinet of Curiosities
Investigating Moldavite
by Duncan Miller
NOVEMBER 2022
Agatized Coral Geodes
The Crystal Singles Club
by Peter Rosewarne
A Costly Curiosity
OCTOBER 2022
Beryl – A Gem of a Colourful Mineral
by Peter Rosewarne
October Curiosity - Smithsonite
Open Day Agate find
The Mechanism of Diamond Grinding
by Duncan Miller
SEPTEMBER 2022
Great Balls of Fire
by Peter Rosewarne
Lithium
by Peter Rosewarne
and another Curiosity - Sand
by Peter Rosewarne
AUGUST 2022
An Alluvial Diamond Mine on the Orange River
by Peter Rosewarne
Minerals in Art II
by Peter Rosewarne
The Afghan Girl
by Jo Wicht
and Nambulite in the Cabinet of Curiosities
JULY 2022
Postscript to the Uranium Article of March 2022
by Peter Rosewarne
Minerals in Art
by Peter Rosewarne
The Rocks of Yzerfontein
by Duncan Miller
Another Curiosity
JUNE 2022
An Iconic Mineral of the Ukraine: Gemmy Heliodor Beryl
by Peter Rosewarne
Rocks, Mines, Minerals and Gems on Postage Stamps
by Peter Rosewarne
Faceting the Softies
by Duncan Miller
Another Curiosity
MAY 2022
Colourful Botryoidal Minerals Revisited
by Peter Rosewarne
Stalactitic Malachite from the Cabinet of Curiosities
Facetips - List of Small Items for Faceting
Brukkaros Mountain and Tses Barite Prospect
by Gisela Hinder
APRIL 2022
Did you know that Africa is sitting on a large blob in the mantle?
by Peter Rosewarne
Uranium: From Colourful Secondary Minerals to Yellow Cake and from Reactors to Weapons
by Peter Rosewarne
This month's curiosity is a Heřmanov Sphere
Sphere making in the club workshop
Facet Cutting Laps
by Duncan Miller
Faceting another softy - Barite. This one was hard!
by Duncan Miller
MARCH 2022
Are there any other
blue agate deposits in southern Namibia?
by Jo Wicht
This month's Curiosity is a Sonoran Sunrise
Annette
Taylor’s treasure from the 2021 FOSAGAMS Tour
Worked lapidary material from the FOSAGAMS
Tour
by Malcolm Jackson
Faceting
in the 21st Century – an equipment guide for beginners
by Duncan Miller
FEBRUARY 2022
From 0 to 5 762 and Counting: Where Did All These Minerals Come From?
by Peter Rosewarne
A Curiosity from du Toits Kloof
FaceTips for wishful faceters
by Duncan Miller
DECEMBER
2021
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Season’s Greetings with a mineralogical theme
by Peter Rosewarne
From the Cabinet of Curiosities
FaceTips, something very unusual: Enstatite
by Duncan Miller
NOVEMBER
2021
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Rockhounding the Trethewey Way in North West Canada
by Bruce Trethewey
“It’s a Kind of Magic”: From Drab Hand Specimen to a Rainbow Thin Section
by Peter Rosewarne
From the Cabinet of Curiosities
Tracy, the Intrepid Tripper by Tracy Hannath
OCTOBER 2021
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Blue chalcedony pseudomorphs from Ysterputs, southern Namibia
by Jo Wicht and Duncan Miller
From the Cabinet of Curiosities
FACETIPS - If you are looking for a trilliant design for a 64 Index, try this….
by Duncan Miller
SEPTEMBER
2021
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The re-emergence of some Jan Coetzees Orange River quartzes
Riemvasmaak - resurrected from ashes
by Duncan Miller
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK: SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL MONUMENTS
WITH A GEOLOGICAL THEME
by Peter Rosewarne
AUGUST
2021
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JOURNEYS IN PEGMATITE PARADISE
by Duncan Miller
PHOTOGRAPHING MINERALS IN STEREO
by Duncan Miller
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