The Clay Minerals Group was founded 75 years ago! We are celebrating to mark the occasion. During 2022 we will:
- Host a series of monthly online interviews which will be available through our Youtube channel.
- January 2022 interview – Adi Radian
- February 2022 interview – Warren Huff
- March 2022 interview – Kirill Shafran
- April 2022 interview – Lynda Williams
- May 2022 interview – Nathalie Fagel
- June 2022 interview – Christopher Jeans
- July 2022 interview – Yael Mishael
- August 2022 interview – Ruhaida Rumsin
- September 2022 interview – Sabine Petit
- October 2022 interview – David Morgan, Derek Bain, George Christidis and Chun Hui Zhou
- Ran a (hybrid) two-day conference in the Natural History Museum, London from 25–26 May 2022, with a series of invited speakers and including a talk on the history of the group (contact Francis Clegg).
- Launch a new CMG ‘Research Grant‘
- Each month a new image of a clay is being added to the Images of Clay archive. All of the 12 new images will be from Great Britain and Ireland.
- January 2022 image – Scottish halloysite
- February 2022 image – Yorkshire berthierine
- March 2022 image – Cornish kaolinite
- April 2022 image – Irish gibbsite
- May 2022 image –Welsh dickite
- June 2022 image –Scottish saponite
- July 2022 image – Irish Kaolinite/smectite
- August 2022 image – Devonian palygorskite
- September 2022 image –Worcestershire illite/smectite
- October 2022 image – Cornish allophane
- November 2022 image – Kent Ca-montmorillonite
- December 2022 image – Hampshire glauconite
- Run an international competition to find the ‘best’ new images to add to the Images of Clay archive (see the archive page for how to submit images) a panel from CMG will judge the best new addition to the archive from the images received, and the ‘winner’ will be announced in December. And the winner is ….an image of chlorite with goethite from the Triassic, Schleerieth Sandstone, Germany, submitted by Marli de Jongh, see if you can find it in the archive!
- Run a Twitter Campaign (@CMG_minsoc) to publicize our group and the work that it does (contact: Helen Pendlowski).
- Launch a new CMG Newsletter (contact: Megan Baker).
