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5th FEEG Symposium

Saturday 25 January 2003

Vienna

Lectures

How Much Crystallography do you need in Gemmology?
Dr. Joaquim M. Nogués-Carulla (EGUB Barcelona)

Amber - Real or Fake?
Mag. Dr. Waltraud W1nkler (ÖGEMG / Institute Of Mineralogy, University of Salzburg)

Cathodoluminescence of Colourless Gemstones
Hr Dr. Techn. Dipl. Ing. Johann Ponahlo (ÖGEMG / National Museum of Natural History Vienna)

The Myth of Padparadscha
Dr. Ulrich Henn (DGEMG, Idar-Oberstein)

A Status Report On Gemstones from Pakistan and Afghanistan
Dr. Vera M.F.Hammer (ÖGEMG / National Museum Of Natural History Vienna)

New Pannonian Obsidian and some Tectonic Considerations
Mag. Thomas de Riedmatten, FGG, EG

Obsidian from Mexico?
Roger Dedeyne (ACAM Antwerp)

Synthetic Gemstones of Austrian Producers
OSR Dir. Prof Leopold Rössler (ÖGEMG)
Lecture in German language with English presentation.

Venue

The General Assembly of FEEG and the 5th FEEG Symposium
will be held in Vienna from 23^rd - 26^th January 2003
at the Hotel Stefanie, a traditional Viennese first-class hotel.