Welcome to the seventh issue of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Industrial Group dedicated XRF Newsletter. There is a copy of this Newsletter on the web.
Our meeting on the 14th May at the British Geological Survey was a great success and we are now seeking contributions for our 3 day meeting in 2009. More details on both follow.

Call for papers 21^st-23^rd April 2009 BCA Spring meeting - XRF sessions.
A three day programme of XRF sessions to include "General Applications, New Developments in Instrumentation and TXRF, Environmental - including a plenary and joint XRF/XRD session, Trace Analysis, Method Validation and Portable Instruments".
Please consider offering a talk in one of these sessions, more details and who to contact can be found from the link below.
View the Meeting outline.
MEETING EXHIBITION There will be a full exhibition at this meeting and details will be posted on the meeting web page as they become available.

2008 Minerals and much more - Meeting report
Nearly 70 delegates enjoyed the varied programme with some time to interact with the meeting sponsors at their table displays. A full report with photographs is on the web.
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Fancy a new job?
Check out our jobs page. We've been asked to draw your attention to an opportunity at Johnson Matthey
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Paper Newsletter XRF page
Twice a year the Industrial Group send out a paper Newsletter and we now include an XRF page. The next Newsletter will be published at the end of July.
There is still time to get your article or news item into this edition or on the web! Send your item to or contact Dave Taylor for more information.
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Forthcoming Events
21-23 April 2009 - Three day Spring Meeting, Loughborough. More...
Note the date in your diary now! See our calendar of events.

XRF Mailing List!
Regular updates about our XRF activities for anyone who signs up to our mailing list.
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On our Web site
Take a look at the XRF jobs page on the web site for you to browse. What would you like to see on our web pages? - Please help us to expand the content.

Submit a contribution
Send a contribution by E-mail for our web pages, offer an article for our Newsletter or a presentation at a future meeting

Links Page
Try our external links page - we need your help to expand it!
Hint
Type BCA IG (with a space) into Google to find us!