Karl Ludwig Von Bezing, Austrian-born South African amateur mineralogist (Klagenfurt 1945 –

Discovered the mineral species such as poldervaartite, guidottiite and nchwaningite described by other researchers

With Giester, Lengauer, Pristacz, Rieck & Topa codescribed the mineral cairncrossite (2016)

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

With D.A. Banks, J. Gutzmer, V. Luders & N.J. Beukes. The composition of seawater in the Paleoproterozoic. Trans. Inst. Min. Metall. 112:153-4, 2003

With J. Gutzmer, D.A. Banks, V. Luders, J. Hoefs & N.J. Beukes. Ancient sub-seafloor alteration of basaltic andesites of the Ongeluk Formation, South Africa: implications for the chemistry of Paleoproterozoic seawater. Chem. Geol. 201:37-53, 2003

With J. Gutzmer. Amethyst/Eisenkiesel-Quarze vom Orange Fluss in Namibia. Lapis 25:39-41, 2000

The Angelierspan pegmatites. S. Afr. Lapid. Mag. 28:11-3, 1996

Phosphate minerals of the Straussheim nº1 pegmatite. Micro News & Views 21(4), 1995

Jacobsite from the Kalahari manganese field. Micro News & Views 20(1):4, 1994

With J. Gutzmer. Das Kalahari manganerzfeld und seine mineralien. II. Mineralienwelt 5:41-59, 1994

With J. Gutzmer. Das Kalahari manganerzfeld und seine mineralien. I. Mineralienwelt 4:24-43, 1994

The new minerals of the Kalahari manganese field. S. Afr. Lapid. Mag. 26:5-6, 1994

With J. Kotze. The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa. Min. Rec. 24:39-40, 1993

Bertrandite and phenakite from two localities. Micro News and Views 19(4):5-6, 1991

With R.D. Dixon, D. Pohl & G. Cavallo. The Kalahari manganese field: an update. Min. Rec. 22:279-97, 1991

With R.R. Inskeep. Modelled terra-cotta heads from Lydenburg, South Africa. Man 1(1):102-4, 1966

HONORS

Vonbezingite Dai & Harlow 1992 (Mineral)