 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Mendip Hills, Somerset. By ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY. [Read March 7, 1940.] the Mendip Hills,...together by J. W. Gough in his book 'The mines of Mendip', 1 but apart from a few general remarks on the...LM.A.4-309.] F 68 ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY ON Mendip. These specimens have fortunately been preserved...interesting localities in the area, Higher Pitts farm, near Priddy. Apart from these, the only other full...from the Mendip Hills',l in 1899, and 'New lead-copper minerals from the Mendip Hills (Somerset) ',~ in |  | | Journal (volume) | | from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of the...CONTENTS Volume 13, 2010 PAPERS The minerals of the Mendip Hills and their relationships Rick Turner and Michael...Trevor F. Bridges 61-65 A report on Westernhope Old Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges Journal...look at the work that we have been doing in the Mendip Hills (reported in this issue of the Journal) in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten...mineral localities: The H igher Pitts m ine, M endip H ills, Somerset, E n g la n d ....................PYROMORPHITE crystal group, 6 cm tall, from the Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Idaho. James and Dawn Minette collection;...discovered at M erehead quarry, the H igher Pitts m ine at Priddy was the main source o f specimens o f this |  | | Journal (issue) | | variety, from the Britannia Mine , North Wales, and from the Botallack Mine, Cornwall A.M. Pollard, R.G...Williams, R.E. Bevins and S. Turgoose 23 The Wesley Mine; a further occurrence of manganese oxide-hosted...Croft Mine , Cornwall- a second English occurrence 1. Betterton Native silver from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck...Fells, Cumbria M. Wirth Rosasite from West Pasture Mine, Weardale , Co. Durham B. Young and J.G. Francis...relationship to sulfide mineralization. At the Pinnacles Mine, 16 km south west of Broken Hill , the Pinnacles |  | | Journal (issue) | | INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of | | | Journal (volume) | | Fluorite Fornacite Galena Ganomalite Gibbsite Goethite Greenockite Halloysite Hausmannite Hedyphane Hemimorphite...Mn-oxide suite Mn pod contents Slag Minerals Chewton Mendip Chewton Warren “Churchill” X X X X X X X ...X X X X X X Stancombe Lane Wesley Mine Westbury-sub-Mendip Whatley Quarry Wick Quarry X X X X X...X X X T * X X X T X X X X X “Priddy” Priddy Hill Farm Rodney Pitts (Chewton) Rowberrow Sandford Hill...* X X X X X X X X X X X * X Harptree Higher Pitts Farm + Mine Holcombe Quarry Lambs Leer Caverns + Quarry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Greigite. As a secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm |  | | Journal (issue) | | this year we offer two concessions :1. Despite higher costs, we are holding the price exactly the same...Clare 9 12 Collecting Angles1te from the Hilton Mine by Steven A . Rust Francohte from C ornwall & Devon...Devon by Steven A . Rust ... Some Observations on Mendip Minerals by Michael F. Brooke ... Three Yorkshire...E I ( 198 1/92) No. I July/Aug 198 1 Fluorite La Mine de Lacan Bo n a ll M oor Min e ra ls 28 pp. , 3...No. 2 Sept/O ct I 9 Pha rm acoside rite Red Gill Mine ral Whea l G o rla nd Mille rite 32p p .. 25 illu |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR...emplaced into Carboniferous limestones throughout the Mendip Hills during the late Permian or Triassic period...Antony Mine. The complexity of these formation processes probably explains the rarity of Mendip-type Pb-Mn...mereheadite, Mn deposits, oxychloride, Somerset, Mendip, Merehead, England. Introduction T HIS paper presents...theory proves the long-held conjecture that the Mendip Mn deposits are of secondary origin (see for example |  | | Book | | —Swildon’s Hole Site 34 — Hunter's Hole Site 35 — Priddy dry valley Site 36 — Bishop's Lot swallet and closed...Conservancy Council. Born and brought up at Chewton Mendip, where my family live, Ihave always been fascinated...and improvement work carried out by the NCC. Many Mendip localities were described by geologists working...position to undertake frequent routine maintenance of Mendip sites and it would be most helpful if schools,...maintaining and improving the field facilities in east Mendip (or elsewhere) should be addressed to the Geology |  | | Journal (issue) | | ., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northern segment of Merehead Quarry, near Cranmore, Somerset, exposed a large, complex manganese- and iron-rich...The principal ore constituents of the vein are goethite and an intergrowth of various manganese oxides...and closely resemble those from the near-by Higher Pitts mine (Spencer, 1923); preliminary descriptions...and Embrey (in press). Lower in the vein, the goethite increased considerably in width and completely... Here, in an area of 2 x i m, cavities in the goethite were found to be encrusted by an assemblage o |  | | Catalog/List | | Austrian collection 8 . BREWSTERITExx - Whi tesmi th Mine, Strcn tiar, Argy llshire, Scotland.· Hundreds of...- Stoneyccmbe Quarry, Kingskerswell, Cornwall, England. Intergra,m reddish large flatrhanbohedral xls...bi-terminated 651 00 7 - 7 P" f) 18. FORNACITE- Shebaz Mine, Ola Khun, Anarak, I::::-an. Small (Mvt-size) bright...Sizes r-M-SMIN- Fran 3,00 to OOID xx - Ollie Johnson Mine, Kittitas Co., Washington, USA. B.cilliant micro...32~ 12,50; B. 51 X 28 X 48 25. IRANITE - Shebaz Mine, Cha Khun, Anarak, Iran. 7 Excellent rich specinens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The principal ore constituents of the vein are goethite and an intergrowth of various manganese oxides...and closely resemble those from the near-by Higher Pitts mine (Spencer, 1923); preliminary descriptions...and Embrey (in press). Lower in the vein, the goethite increased considerably in width and completely... Here, in an area of 2 x i m, cavities in the goethite were found to be encrusted by an assemblage o...crystals lie in direct contact with botryoidal goethite, and contain white aggregates of platy baryte |  | | Journal (issue) | | Anniversary Dinner Meadowfoot Smelter Minerals Make It Mine: Sir Arthur Russell Journal 298 July August 2022...10 copies of Roy Starkey’s latest book Making It Mine: Sir Arthur Russell; for SMLS members to save the...that provides a much shorter wavelength and thus a higher resolution image. A SEM scans a small area of the...although siderite has never been found at Pike Law, goethite pseudomorphs of the carbonate are quite common...with this interpretation. A headline from recent UK mineral news was the re-examination of a museum specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | Re-discovery of Stokesite Crystals in Cornwall, England..................................................Rare Oxychloride Minerals from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England..................................298...Symes and P. G. Embrey Fluorite from the Font Sante Mine, Esterel, Var, France.............................d C rescen t, Don M ills, O ntario M 3 C 1 N 8 England: Dr. R .S . H ark er, 3 6 -3 8 O xfo rd St., L...more astonishing that the minerals from the Rogers mine in Madoc, Ontario show such extraordinary similarity |  | | Journal (issue) | | Naden 63 Mineralogy of Snelston mine, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite...Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop and R.A. Fairbairn 97 A further...Cornwall, England N.J. Elton and 1.1. Hooper 98 Diaboleite from Gunver Head, Cornwall, England R.S. W...rauenthalite or phaunouxite, from Ivy Tor mine, Devon, England R.S. W Braithwaite, M.G.H. Merry and B....Jackson 100 Stalactitic galena in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England: another 17th century reference S. |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...publishing his first work on the minerals of the Mendip Hills (Kingsbury 1935). he aspired to become a...Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine,nr Priddy,Somerset Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)'...meneghinile Pengenna mine,St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria...CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth mine,Grassinglon, Yorkshire Severallocalities in theLakeDistrictandComw melacinnabar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................a loss; especially to members in the north of England. On a more up-beat theme, there is positive news...to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry...at Easter to join the Northern Mine Research Society for a week of mine exploration, sight-seeing and |  | | Book (edition) | | Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright...overgrowth by its darker colour that relates to its higher Fe content and its hexagonal shape, while it is...The polishing hardness of pyrite (creme) is much higher than that of graphite (brownish grey), which shows...coated with finest silver grains and develops a much higher reflectance (right side of image). Under XPL, this...Valleriite Lithiophorite yellow, red, brown Goethite strong, orange to brown Vonsenite strong, orange |  | | Journal (volume) | | Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...characteristic trigonal sym metry, from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, described by Bridges et...botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green photograph |  | | Journal (issue) | | from many working mines and ancient but untouched mine dumps. The metalliferous mining industry is now...office at South Crofty Mine, and later on, in the same capacity at Geevor Mine. In 1978, Richard and his...died. We were far undergound in a disused Cornish mine, and although he was very weak due to this illness...illness and the exertion required getting through the mine, followed by two hours hard work with hammer and...position in the Surveyor's Department at the Geevor Tin Mine, at Pendeen, in Cornwall, and later with Consolidated |  | | Book | | "ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...Castle, Tickow Lane Lead Mine, Earl Ferrers' Lead Mine, Mancetter Manganese Mine, the Great North Museum...was started, the first being at Penberthy Croft Mine (2021). A real testament to the success of the Russell...the original excavation of the Tickow Lane Lead Mine was one of these projects (see the 'Society Projects |  | | Catalog/List | | (2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm) 81B06 STILPNOMELANE, Sterling Mine, Antwerp, N.Y. (a) very nice (7 x 11 cm) Botryoidal...millerite spray) ••• $20.00 81B07 CHALCOCITE, Magma Mine, Superior, Arizona. Sharp (1 mm) chalcocite crystals...MONTEBRASITE , Li Al (P0 ) (OH,F), Tourmaline Queen Mine, Pala, California (a) 4 large (9 x 6 cm) very crude...-t"'-- 81B21 GUANAJUATITE, Bi Se, La Industrial Mine, Sierra de Santa Rosa, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico;...$ 5n00 81B27 DIABCLEITE, (Collins Vein), Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Arizona. (a) very good and rich diaboleite |  | | Report (edition) | | CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE SERIES (AVONIAN ) : Bristol and Mendip Area ; Volcanic Rocks (Bristol Area) ; Forest of...the Rhætic Series in Gloucestershire 43 and Somerset 44 16. Comparative vertical sections of the...the Lower and Middle Lias in Gloucestershire and Somerset 47 50 17. Sections across the Cotteswold Scarp...of abnormal Lias deposits in the region of the Mendip uplift 53 20. Map of part of the Cotteswolds...Diagrammatic horizontal section through Dundry Hill, Somerset 23. 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