Author Archives: Josef Berka

Field trip: Heritage stones of N part of Bohemian massif

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Date: October 19-20, 2017

Program: First day we visited famous heritage stones deposits: Ruprechtice (typical granit deposit “Liberecká žula”) and Spa Bělohrad – quarry Javorka (nicely coloured sandstones). Then we moved to Hořice town, famous by its sculpture school, which we also visited. Here we joined the lecture about “How the statue is made” and also seen different processes and approaches of making statues. Besides the school we also visited a famous park and graveyard with many sculpture works (many times made by famous sculptors) from local school.

Leader: RNDr. Barbora Dudíková Schulmannová (Czech Geological Survey)

Attendance: 10 members of our Chapter

Field trip and conference: Various deposits of the South Karelia region (Sortavala- Pitkäranta) – joined field trip with the SGA Student Chapter – North-West Russia

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Date: October 3-9, 2017

Program: Presentation of poster at student conference of St. Petersburg University. Excursion about heritage stones in St. Petersburg. Field trip in Karelia region with various types of deposits (different zones of skarns, marble and rapakivi granite used as heritage stone, nice samples of almandines in micashist and visit of central uplift island in Yanis”Yarvi lake made after impact).

Leader: NW Russia Chapter

Attendance:

members of NW Russia Chapter

4 members of our Student Chapter

Field trip: Through Catalonia: Barcelona, Prague and Siberian Student Chapters cooperation

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Date: September 5-9, 2017

Program: This field trip was held to show a representation of many different styles of mineralization, by using the large diversity in types of ore deposit models found in Catalonia. In addition, some of the deposits were considered for other aspects, such as archaeological or environmentalIt was a great opportunity for us to have a joint field trip with participation of 3 SGA Chapters (Barcelona, Siberia and Prague). We are very grateful to SGA to enable us this opportunity to visit such interesting places and meet international students.

Leader: Barcelona Student Chapter

Attendance:

12 members of Barcelona Student Chapter

5 members of our Student Chapter

5 members of Siberia Student Chapter

Field trip Morocco High Atlas

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Date: December 1-10, 2017

Program: The fieldtrip was coordinated with members of the Marrakech SGA Student Chapter. The participants were visiting the Bou Azzer Mine, a full ophiolitic sequence and the chromitites from Aït Ahmane.

Leader: Barcelona Student Chapter

Field trip: Historical mining of Pb, Zn and Ag deposits in the Kutná Hora ore district

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Date: June 3-4, 2017

Program: This two-day field trip was concipated to visit mainly Fe, Mn and fluorite deposits in the central part of Krušné hory Mts. (Erzgebirge) with some additional stops on other deposits.

Leader: Bc. Jakub Mysliveček

Attendance: 8 members of our Student Chapter