Available courses

One very wet, windy, dry cold day... Sedimentary Rocks and Processes

One very wet, windy, dry cold day... Sedimentary Rocks and Processes - a 10-week course beginning in November.

We’ve not offered this as a fully tutored course since 2020 so we guess that there will be a number of you looking forward to this examination of all things sedimentary!

Course dates: Starts Monday November 10 - December 8 and then restarts January 19 for a further 5 weeks.

Cost: Ten hour-long Zoom sessions with electronic background papers £80.00 for one person or £100.00 for 2-people studying together. Printed background papers cost an additional £25.00.

Zoom sessions on Mondays at 2.00 and 7.00 pm (you choose)

Simply Minerals

Simply Minerals! does what it says in the title - it gives you all the essential lowdown on all the major groups: rock forming minerals, metallic ores, gangue minerals and even evaporites. The course begins with the major elements found in the Earth’s crust - our cupboard of chemicals!

We don’t pretend that this is your complete guide to minerals, but it lays the foundations for further study and will help you to sort your calcite from your quartz, your barite from your fluorite! To help you with your practical hands on experience, the cost of this course includes a complimentary set of essential specimens covering all the major mineral types.