The Scottish Gemmological Association

Events

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2012

The Spring Programme 

Tuesday 28^th February 2012

Brian Jackson

Optical Phenomena

Following on from Brian's highly successful workshop at our 2011 Perth Conference and his workshop at the Gem-A conference, Brian will repeat this workshop for the benefit of those members who did not manage to attend the earlier events.

At The British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9.   Talks start at 7.30 pm.  Doors open from 7.00 pm.   Free for SGA members, guests £5.

Wednesday 28^th March 2012

Jeff Harris:  ‘Smashing Diamonds’

The talk will discuss the mineral inclusions found inside diamond. These impurities provide

information about the chemical environments, the depths, the pressures and temperatures

and the genesis ages of diamonds. With further information from the diamond fragments left

after the release of the inclusions, we can start to put together the conditions of diamond

formation within the Earth.

Until the end of 2006, Jeff Harris was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geographic

and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.  Although now retired, he is still research

active at Glasgow and works solely on diamond.  In addition to his University position he

was a diamond consultant to DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd for 35 years. In that capacity

he was responsible for establishing diamond research programmes with universities and

equivalent research institutions throughout the world. He facilitated, co-ordinated and

participated in many of these endeavours and they became joint research projects with the

University of Glasgow. He has been principal or co-author on over 150 peer reviewed

papers on diamond. Put simply, he is a diamond geologist.

At The British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9.  

Talks start at 7.30 pm.  Doors open from 7.00 pm.   Free for SGA members, guests £5.

4^th to 7^th May 2012

Annual Conference at the Queens Hotel, Perth

Please see Conference 2012 for details in the links above