Talk Online - Drones in Mining - Tatenda Mafara
On Thursday 5th August 2021 Tatenda Mafara delivered an online talk titled:-
'Drones in Mining'
Please find a copy of the presentation below.
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Talk Online - On the spatial association of granite intrusions & gold mineralization in the Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe - Godfrey Chagondah
On Thursday 15th July 2021 Godfrey Chagondah delivered an online talk titled:-
'On the spatial association of granite intrusions & gold mineralization in the Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe'
Please find a copy of the presentation below.
Passing of Chiedza Mugwagwa
The Geological Society wishes a sad farewell to Chiedza Mugwagwa who died of COVID 19 in June 2021.
A graduate of the University of Zimbabwe Geology Department she also obtained an MBA and an MSc in GIS from University of Salzburg, Austria.
Chiedza had a successfull career both in the Zimbabwean mining industry and in South Africa, Tanzania and the USA.
She will be greatly missed and leaves behind two daughers.
Her obituary is attached below:-
Passing of Neil Bliss
It is with great sadness that the family of Neil Welbourne Bliss, aged 88, of Bedford, Nova Scotia announces his passing on May 29th, 2021 at Victoria General in Halifax.
Born and educated in London, Neil moved to Rhodesia to work with the Rhodesian Geological Survey from 1959 to 1969. He then went to McGill to complete his Ph.D and settled in Canada.
Neil is survived by his children, grand children and great grandchildren.
Please refer to his obituary below.
Talk Online - Long-term low-price benchmarks for metals and their effects on exploration, mining and investment - Peter Buchholz
Submitted by Andrew du Toit on Wed, 09/06/2021 - 18:44
Talk Online - Studio Mapper: An Underground Mapping Solution - Solomon Gumbie
On Thursday 6th May 2021 Solomon Gumbie delivered an online talk titled:-
'Studio Mapper: An Underground Mapping Solution'
Please find a copy of the presentation below.
A recording of the talk can be found at this link:-
Passing of Sydney Simango
Sydney was a well known and active member of the geological community.
Sydney joined the Geological Survey in 1981 as a graduate from Aston University in Birmingham, UK with a BSc (Honours) Degree in Geology. Sydney was assigned as counterpart to the British Geological Survey team and sent to map the country between Rushinga and Nyamapanda (Bulletin 92, 1991)where he was responsible for mapping that section of the area north of Sutswe and Chikwizo. Here he supervised field teams in the stream-bed geochemical sampling of his area,
Talk Online - Mineral Asset Valuation and Its Uses - William Gamiza
On Friday 30 April 2021 William Gambiza delivered an online talk titled:-
Talk Online - Alluvial Diamond Deposits across Africa - A Travelogue- Tanya Marshall
On Thursday 15 April Tanya Marshall delivered an online talk titled:-
'Alluvial Diamond Deposits across Africa - A Travelogue'
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A recording of the talk can be found at this link:-
AGM 2021
The 2021 AGM was held at 1700 hours on 26th February 2021 via Zoom.
The following agenda was dicussed:
1. Convening of Meeting
2. Obituaries and Minute of Silence
3. Apologies
4. Minutes of Previous AGM – 28 th February 2020
Consideration and approval of the minutes
Matters arising not covered elsewhere in the agenda
5. Chairman’s Statement – Ellah Muchemwa
6. Treasurer’s report – Collins Mwatahwa
a. 2021 Subscription rate
7.