Maggie Woodhead on sun 24 sep 06
Hello ClayArt,
Some of you were asking about Michael Banks so I
wrote and he has given permission to send his reply to those of you who were
asking about him. As you can see he is well and working hard with his new
wife in Sarawak. We hope he will be back when this job is completed.
Regards and Best wishes Maggie
maggie.w@slingshot.co.nz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Banks"
To: "Maggie Woodhead"
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: black sand on beaches
Hi Maggie,
Very nice to hear from you and get the forwarded ClayArt mail. I too miss
writing to the list, but just don't have the time currently.
Phuong and I are in Sarawak (North Borneo), evaluating a gold property at
the moment. Very interesting here with the population being equally divided
between Dyaks (headhunters), Chinese and Malays. Hot & steamy weather
though. The annual rainfall here is over 5 metres per annum! The capital of
Sarawak is Kuching, a small city of about 300,000. Kuching means "cat"in
Malay.
There is terrific white ball clay deposits in the plains around the city,
and also under the city too. I saw some in a deep building site. The great
clay resources supports a big sanitaryware and floor-tile industry. They
also export ball clays around the world.
I'm not sure when we will be back in Nelson because I have more work to do
in Vietnam. Possibly I'll be back in November..
All the best to you and Derek,
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maggie Woodhead"
To: "Michael J Banks"
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 10:39 PM
Subject: Fw: black sand on beaches
> Hi Michael,
> We were talking about you today, Derek and I that is
> and
> tonight there was this email on Clayart, and a whole conversation about
> black sand. They miss you Michael as do we also.
>
> How are you? Hope to hear from you again some time. I trust you are
> still
> there, would love to hear if you are. Love and best wishes to you both
> Maggie
> maggie.w@slingshot.co.nz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frances Howard"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:39 AM
> Subject: black sand on beaches
>
>
> Some 5 years ago, or maybe longer, Michael Banks wrote a lot about this
> and
> the types of minerals etc you could expect to retrieve from black layers
> on
> sandy beaches. I imagine this letter is in the clayart archives
> somewhere.
> His actually wrote a lot about coastal and other geology which was always
> interesting and relevant to pottery. Sadly we haven't heard from him for
> a
> long time, nor from many of the other New Zealanders who also used to
> write
> frequently.
>
> Now I come to think about it, they disappeared at about the same time as
> The
> Lord of the Rings was filmed in their beautiful country.
> Frances Howard.
>
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