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Passing of Maarten de Wit

We regret to announce that one of our Honorary Members, Maarten de Wit, passed away on Wednesday, April 15.

In 2000, Maarten delivered Macgregor Memorial Lecture to the Geological Society of Zimbabwe titled "Old rocks act lies: that's why it is so difficult to reconstruct what Earth looked like long ago”

Professor Maarten de Wit was one of Africa’s most distinguished earth scientists whose research interests spanned geodynamics, tectonics and stratigraphy, early earth processes and the evolution of the Gondwana supercontinent.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Thu, 16/04/2020 - 15:22

AGM 2020

The 2020 AGM was held at 1700 hours on 28th February 2020 at Kia Ora Lodge, 60 Knightsbridge Road, Newlands, Harare.

The following agenda was dicussed:

1. Convening of Meeting

2. Obituaries and Minute of Silence

3. Apologies

4. Minutes of Previous AGM

-Consideration and approval of the minutes

-Matters arising not covered elsewhere in the agenda

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 02/03/2020 - 16:46

Passing of David Murangari

We regret to announce that one of our Honorary Members, David Murangari, passed away on Monday 24th February 2020.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Tue, 25/02/2020 - 08:21

Talk - Pegmatites – questions and answers? - Judith Kinnaird

Judith Kinnaird, SEG Regional Vice President Lecturer 2019, delivered a talk titled 'Pegmatites – questions and answers?' to approximately 30 members of the Society at 530pm on Thursday 23 January 2020 in the Kramers room, Geology Depatment - UZ.

Please see the presentation attached below:-

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Fri, 24/01/2020 - 07:59

Talk - 'Overview Petroleum Exploration - A Zimbabwe Perspective' - Brent Barber

Brent Barber delivered a talk titled 'Overview Petroleum Exploration - A Zimbabwe Perspective' to 20 members of the Society at 530pm on Friday 13th December in the Kramers room, Geology Depatment - UZ.

Please see the presentation attached below:-

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 16/12/2019 - 08:15

Field Trip - Shamva - Tony Martin

On 30 November 2019 Tony Martin led a trip to the Shanva Areas.The field trip covered outcrops of porphyritic granite, the Umwindsi Shear Zone and parts of the Shamvaian Group within the Shamva Greenstone Belt.

30 members participated.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 02/12/2019 - 09:31

Summer Symposium 2019

The Summer Symposium was held at the Geology Department UZ on 29th November 2019 and attended by 75 members

Welcome - Nevison Chikandiwa- Geological Society Chair

Official Opening - Forbes Mugumbate - Director of the Geological Survey

Summary Of The Petroleum Exploration Completed In The Mzarabani Project By Invictus Energy - Brent Barber

Sijarira surprise!

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Mon, 02/12/2019 - 09:28

Zimbabwe Mineral resource Conference 2020

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Thu, 21/11/2019 - 14:45

Talk - 'The Black Gold of Hwange' - Trish Nyirenda

On 25th October 2019 Trish Nyirenda gave a talk to the Society in Bulawayo on 'The Black Gold of Hwange'

The talk was presented at the Zimbabwe School of Mines

See presentation attached.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Thu, 31/10/2019 - 15:23

Trip - Arcadia Lithium Project

On 7th June 2019 Prospect Resources hosted 25 members of the Geological Society of Zimbabwe at their Arcadia Lithium Project.

Arcadia lies 38km east of Harare in the Harare Greenstone Belt

Roger Tyler and Adam Moodley, our hosts explained how drilling of 12 000m of diamond core and more than 15 000m of reverse circulation has revealed multiple stacked, flat-lying pegmatites with little surface outcrop.

Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Tue, 11/06/2019 - 08:11

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