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Date(s) - 14/05/2025
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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The evening will feature the following speakers:

Craig Bosel on Discovery of turgite and thousands of quartz crystals at the Tallering Peak mine, 2007 – 2009

Craig Bosel has been a MinSocWA member since 2008. He started collecting minerals as a 9-year-old living on a cattle station in North Queensland, and then ‘followed his dream’ by studying back in New

Zealand to become a geologist. He worked in the mining industry for 39 years in WA, NZ, NT and QLD at various gold, iron ore, manganese, diamonds, uranium, lead and nickel operations before semi-retiring into Uber driving. Walking around above or underground at remote mine sites could occasionally benefit his mineral collection. His stint at the Tallering Peak iron ore mine 2007–2010 was the most productive in that regard and will be the subject of the short presentation tonight.

Stephen Turner on Minerals of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Stephen Turner is a MinSocWA member and associate editor for the Australian Journal of Mineralogy. He has collected minerals since he was a child, after receiving some specimens from his uncle who worked as a surveyor in the Kimberley region. His work as a geologist, principally involved with gold exploration, has taken him all over the world. He started a serious mineral collection while working in Peru which has continued to grow in subsequent years. Since retiring from Newmont in 2023 he has been reducing his overly large collection while focusing on collecting minerals from Western Australia and Japan. Fukushima Prefecture in Japan became known worldwide for the huge undersea earthquake, devastating tsunami and failure of the Fukushima nuclear power station. The province is also host to an unusual array of rare earth and uranium minerals in pegmatites as well as more common species such as beryl and columbite

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 7.30pm

(venue opens at 6.30 pm for socialising and Show & Tell)

WA Lapidary and Rock Hunting Club Inc.
31 Gladstone Road, Rivervale