by ACS.Admin | Aug 30, 2023 | Blog
Coastal Poetry from Sydney’s East Recently Irene and I attended a poetry reading at the Waverley Council Library. Two poets, Libby Hathorn (LH) and Elizabeth Cummins (EC) read from their book entitled Coastal Poetry (Pacific Ocean Press, 2023). It covers that...
by ACS.Admin | Aug 18, 2023 | Blog
Heavy Mineral Sand Mining in Eastern Australia In a previous blog I have commented on mechanisms for the concentration of heavy minerals in sand deposits along the coast of eastern Australia. For just over 100 years commencing around 1870 when gold was discovered in...
by ACS.Admin | Aug 4, 2023 | Blog
Coast to Coast: Adelaide to Darwin Irene and I have just completed a trip across the heart of Australia on the Ghan courtesy of a lovely gift package from our family. I think they felt we needed to get away from our coastal world and experience the vastness of the...
by ACS.Admin | Jul 12, 2023 | Blog
Coastal Sand Mining – Background Southeastern Australia has been endowed (some would say cursed) with concentrations of a group of heavy minerals in coastal sand deposits. The geological history and geomorphological emplacement of these heavy minerals has...
by ACS.Admin | Jun 26, 2023 | Blog
Vale: Eric Bird—International Coastal Geomorphologist I am departing from my planned sequence of blogs on heavy minerals in coastal deposits to pay tribute to Eric Charles Frederick Bird. Eric recently passed away in Melbourne. Over many decades he has made enormous...