35th International Geological Congress

摘要

This large quadrennial conference took place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 27 August to 4 September 2016, and attracted over 4,200 delegates from 115 countries. The programme included a session titled 'Gems: Bringing the World Together', and some additional gem-related presentations took place in other sessions. Gemmologically relevant talks and posters that were seen by the author are summarized below. Several field excursions took place before and after the Congress, including one trip to various alluvial diamond deposits in South Africa (to be covered in a future issue of The Journal).