CAGG committee, 2017-12-15
Minutes

Minutes of a Caradon Amateur Geology Group committee meeting held on 2017-12-15, 19:30 - 21:32. Readership is CAGG members.

Present:

Peter Jackson
Calum Beeson
Megan Shute
Pat Fitzsimmons
Bob Jay
Anne Bolt
Tina Hitchings

The meeting was chaired by PNJ.

Previous minutes

The Minutes of the meeting on 2017-02-24 were summarised and agreed as a true record.

PF described the state of our accounts:

We had £1462.44 in the bank on 2017-11-28.

The income breaks down as

Our expenses have been

From this we think we could comfortably budget about £300 for external speakers.

Suggestions for topics included:

Technologies of geophysical measurement (Synthetic Aperture Radar, Magnetic Variation, Trace Gasses, Seismic Methods, Satellite Data);
Lightning talks;
Local limestone;
Visit the caves at Buckfastleigh - Pengelly cave trust centre, includes a museum by special arrangement;
Building stone in Plymouth;
Truro Cathedral stone (CB has samples) - can be a talk followed by field trip;
Cot Valley and the beach at Cape Cornwall have points of interest connected with granite/country rock boundaries;
Buildings at Redruth (possibly for 2019);
Something dinosaur-related during the summer.
Camborne School of Mines.

CB will be at Skye in April so we should plan for an external speaker on 2018-04-20.

Actions:

TH to contact Dave Jean about visiting Buckfastleigh, aiming for July.
BJ to contact Dave Williams of Lostwithiel about giving a talk on 2018-04-20.
PF to contact the person at Redmore for a talk in May.
PF to contact Rick Stewart about doing a talk in October (Mining historian, recent book is about the industrial archaeology of steam mining engines).

Immediate plans are:

January 19/27: "How to build a Cathedral"
February 16/24: "How to build a mountain".
Bude, followed by Sandymouth.
March 16/31: AGM, "What I found on my geological map".
(2018-03-31 is an easter weekend) Puckator Rock.

2018-02-02T19:30, at Tregarthwin for AGM and programme planning.

CB will try to get us into Dean Quarry on a weekday.

This document is maintained by Peter Jackson. Comments should be addressed to CAGG_secretary at caradon dot org dot uk.