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Jolyon Ralph 2024

Jolyon Ralph, 2024. http://www.mindat.org/user-1.html

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A Review of the “Geological Digressions” Website
Fifty Polished Kai Iwi Beach Stones for the Book Man: Part Two, Stones 11 to 20
Fifty Polished Kai Iwi Beach Stones for the Book Man: Part One, Stones 1 to 10
Tumbling an Orbicular Jasper Found on Kai Iwi Beach, Whanganui
A Review of Three Kiwi YouTube Rockhounds
A Review of “AlexStrekeisen” Website
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 17, Low Tide at Ward Beach, Thursday 2 April
Three 2026 Calendars For Sale, Reduced Price
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 16, An Introduction to St Andrew’s Beach, South Canterbury, Tuesday 31 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 15, Finding Patches of Stones on Seadown Beach, Kakanui, Monday 30 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 14, Starting the Trip Back Home, A Fossick on Seadown Beach, Kakanui, Sunday 29 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 13, Fossick on Riverton Aparima’s Beach Past the Back Beach, Saturday 28 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 12, Poppy Jaspers from Riverton Aparima’s Back Beach, Friday 27 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 11, Maybe an Agate, and Maybe a Large Rhodonite, Gemstone Beach, Thursday 26 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 10, A Foggy Start to a Gemstone Beach Fossick, Wednesday 25 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 9, An Introduction to Tiwai Beach, Sunday 23 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 8, Papatotara Beach, Friday 20 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 7, Second Visit to a Sandy Gemstone Beach, Thursday 19 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 6, Lots of Sand on Gemstone Beach, Tuesday 17 March
Index to “March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip” Series
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 5, Stones Disappear Again on Kakanui’s Seadown Beach, Sunday 15 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 4, Stones Appear on Kakanui’s Seadown Beach, Saturday 14 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 3, Wet Gumboots and Quartzites, Seadown Beach, Kakanui, Friday 13 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 2, Timaru South, Thursday 12 March
March 2026 Stone Collecting Trip – Part 1, Ward Beach, Tuesday 10 March
A Review of “New Zealand Geographic” Magazine Online
Orbicular Jasper Find? Kai Iwi Beach, Whanganui
“Maitland and the Waikaka Stream: How Green Was Our Valley” by Allan Simpson
Malcolm Leslie Luxton, 1947-2026
Z is for Zeolite
Y is for YesterYear’s Yellows at Year End
X is for Xcellent Xample of an Xtrusive Igneous Stone
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A Review of the “Sandatlas” Website
A Review of Jocelyn Thornton’s (1985) “Gemstones”

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