 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world would be a drab place indeed. Gone would be azurite, malachite, and the plethora of related supergene...historically interesting localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York; Pennsylvania...counties, Missouri. It has been found in the Martin mine of the Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district...district, Lafayette County, Wisconsin; and the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. In the western United |  | | Book | | A Mineralogy of Wales RfCHARD E. BEYfNS Ocpartmellf o[Geolngy, Nmin11a/Museum of\Valcs, Cardiff AMGUEDDFA...Colliery, Ponh, Mid Glamorgan. National Museum of Wales specimen 48.264.GR 175. ex Cymmer Welfare Library...CE 6 I CES IN WALES 9 30 127 138 6 INTRODUCTION The mineralogy of Wales is diverse. with over...reveal the presence of additional species new to Wales. and perhaps new to the British Isles. It is also...completely new to cience will be discovered in Wales. as techniques for analysing specimens become ever |  | | Journal (issue) | | ·rREASURES OF THE EARTH� SOCIETY MEMBERS' FINDS FROM THE UK. LOCAL SOCIETIES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS. SALES &...well known minerals found in the area of the south Wales coalfield such as Milkrite needles and the brilliantly...Sphaleritc from Trclogan mine with Fluorite which is a relatively rare species in Wales. Many superb specimens...ofFfestiniog who as H.M. Inspector of Mines for north Wales was obviously able to make the most ofhis travels...coloured by malachite from the Aberlynn Mine near Bctws-y-Cocd, Gwynedd was found to be a new species. This |  | | Catalog/List | | Etiro Mine, Karibab Disbict, South Africa. Sea blue soild XN mass. GRF. SC. £8.00 4 AZURITE, Chingola...sliver. GRF. SM!. £10.00 11 CASSITERITE, Birch Tor Mine, Dartmoor, Devon. Massive ore. Olab on specimen...STIBICONITE after STIBNITE and STIBNITE, Knipes Mine, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Yellow chalky...VGRF. Ml. .- -£12.00 16 TETRAHEDRrTE, Silver Vein Mine, St Winnow, Cornwall. Glistening bright silvery...Twisting leafy pure vein section. GRF. C. £12.00 18 AZURITE, Laurium, Attica Disbict, Greece. Very richly xtllized |  | | Catalog/List | | refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill |  | | Journal (issue) | | to Sheppey, Writhlington and to Blaengwynlais in Wales for collecting, and to London for sightseeing. I...architecture is magnificent. Bou Azzer is a cobalt mine where you can find skutterudite, CoA5:2-3 and erythrite...this material on some tips before he approached the mine to ask permission. Not only was he not allowed to...to collect, but he was escorted from the mine area under vehicular escort! At some other mines Peter...the entrance to the famous Mibladen mine. It is not a very deep mine and the entrance is covered with cerussite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS Minerals From North Wales The Trials and Tribulations of Mineral Identification...Membership Details 2 5 19 20 MINERALS I ROM NORTH WALES Mike Rothwell During the 1996 BMS Symposium, Richard...on the mineralogy of a few chosen sites in North Wales. The following is a short summary of the workshop...chose Eclusham Mountain Wedding Cave Mine at Bwlchgwyng, Bryngwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain, and Great Orme...Llangollen (OS GR SJ 255.503). At nearby Wedding Cave Mine (OS GR SJ 265.541) there is galena mineralisation |  | | Catalog/List | | of greenish chlorite. 40x40x30mm. £48. AZURITE. Yangchun Mine, Guangdony Prov. China. A superb dark blue...Displays well. 30x50x50mm. £125. 5. BERYL. Huya Mine, Sichuan Prov. China. Unusual flat tabular pale...xls 50x50x20mm. £40. 6. CASSITERITE. Polberro Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. 7An intergrown ‘ ' group of...matrix. 30x20x15mm. £45. 7. CASSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Chlorite matrix showing several...£48. 8. CASSITERITE AND TOURMALINE. Egloshellan Mine, St Austell, Cornwall. Rich veinstone showing sharp |  | | Journal (issue) | | OF THE EARTH - SOCIETY - MEMBERS' FINDS FROM THE UK. LOCAL SOCIETIES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS. ADMISSION...Assistant Kccpcr of Geology at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff and Head of the Mineralogy/Petrology...known minerals found in the area. of the south Wales coalfield such as Milkrite needles and the brilliantly...Sphalerite from Trelogan mine with Fluorite which is a relatively rare species in Wales. Many superb specimens...ofFfestiniog who as HM Inspector of Mines for north Wales was obviously able to make the most of his travels |  | | Report (volume) | | Britain Volume XXX COPPER ORES OF TlIE MIDLANDS, WALES, THE LAKE DISTRICT AND THE ISLE OF M~i\N. BY HENRr·...exploitation. The mines are scattered over the Midlands, Wales and the North of England. Most of them have been...this information. Our thanks are due to numerous mine managers for assistance while visiting their mines...of gold in the ore of many of the lodes in North Wales may encourage further exploitation. JOHN S. FLETT... IV.--MINES WORKED IN THE LODES AND VEINS Oli' WALES AND ITS BORDERS :-Introduction, pp. pp. 32-39 ; |  | | Journal (issue) | | the author. -3- SMLS Journal 162 Nov/Dec 1999 UK VISIT OF THE MILLAU GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 16th-23rd...wife Danielle. They both speak English and know the UK. However, the rest of the group knew little English...of the visit was twofold. Firstly, to visit some UK collecting sites, and obtain some specimens of British...X-ray machine just like at an airport. I passed mine through, and they removed my Swiss Army knife, tagging...long day followed with the field trip to South Wales, led by Peter Moore and Austin Woodbridge. We left |  | | Journal (issue) | | c5anvw,((e,vMintrafs Mineral Dealer & Mine gent Levant Gallery Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance...CATALOGUE GENEROUS TRADES AND COLLECTION PURCHASES UK Journal of Mines and Minerals IssueNo3 SUMMER1987...No. Editorial 2 Micro-Minerals from Bontddu Gwynedd 3 D. A. SaichandS. Rust CIRCULATION The Worlds...SUBSCRIPTIONS are payable in local currency, or direct to the UK in Sterling. Barite from Silverwood Colliery ARTICLES...Minerals 35 37 FRONT COVER Caledonite. Red Gill Mine., Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Largest crystal 1.25 |  | | Book | | ......................... 421 A: abhurite to azurite ......................................... 18 R:...provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...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...theLakeDistrictan:iCorrr::a!I natrojarosite Wanlhwaite mine,StJohn'sin theVale,Cumbria SouthTerrasmine,StStephen-in-Brannel |  | | Catalog/List | | clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment... 14. APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen....Aragonite to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece. 3 specimens. Specimens A and B.... ARSENOPYRITE/BORNITE/CASSITERITE. South Crofty Mine,Camborne, Cornwall. Grey sulphidic,vuggy matrix...lustre. specimen. SC,.t4. 23. AURICHALCITE.Cha Kouh Mine,Isfahan,Iran. Earthy,limonlte stained vuggy matrix |  | | Journal (volume) | | with minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK...2012 PAPERS Geology and mineralisation at Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria Brian Young 3-18 A geochemical...mineral assemblage of the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK using a stability field model Trevor F. Bridges,...species at the Benallt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell 29-40 Tungsten...experience of an underground tour of the Florence Mine in Cumbria. With the closure of Florence, it is |  | | Journal (volume) | | and Andy Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...from localities such as Tynagh Mine in Co. Galway and Pendarves Mine in Cornwall (Figs 1 and 2) serves...confirmed by XRD at Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales. It may be of interest to potential authors to note |  | | Journal (issue) | | Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CFl 3NP, Wales, U.K. CO-EDITOR: Peter A. Williams...Chemistry, Universi ty of Wales College of Cardiff, P.O. Box 912, CardiffCFl 3TB, Wales, U.K. JOURNAL MANAGER:...World Occurrence from the Dolgellau Gold Belt, Wales R.E.Bevins and C.J. Stanley 67 Infrared Spectroscopy...Caradon Mine, Cornwall I.A. Lawrence 81 NOTE Cinnabar from Machen Quarry, Machen, South Wales T.F. Bridges...to 1'. Pieces 2'x 2' to 4'x 3' from £5. FLORENCE MINE. CUMBRIA, Botryoidal Hematite, plus some pieces |  | | Book | | 21:98100 Abstracts of the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich)...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...20:355-362 ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE |  | | Journal (issue) | | of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, CardiffCFI 3NP, Wales, U.K . CO-EDITOR: Peter A. Williams...Barite, Cleator Moor, Cumbria. National Museum of Wales specimen NMW 83.4IG. M8874. R.J. King Collection...D .H .M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES...N. Hubbard 35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper...Arthur made his first visit underground in a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being |  | | Book | | Clay Ironstones - · - .. South Wales •• • • .. ... , North Wales - • Shropshire - · South Staffordshire...scale in limestone a1·e a·t Llandudno in N ortl1 Wales and Ecton in North Staffordshire. They are commonly...Humphries. 2. NATIVE COPPER. From Penibrol,e Mine, St. A.1.istell, Cornwall. Presented by R. Taylor...at Mu'llion, Liza,rd District, Corn- St. George Mine, Perran Porth, Cornwall. Presented by H. IIumphries...Cornwall. NATIVE COPPER, dendritic. Pe'IJibroke Mine, ,_~t. Austell, Cornwall. 19. NATIVE COPPER, cr3rsta |  | | Journal (issue) | | details of our Spring holidays. 1 The Kloof gold' mine, 6,00Q ft. below the surface Gold is dispersed throup...metal has never been recovered in any quantity. Wales, by far the richest source, yielded gold to the...Gold-bearing sites Wales Gold has been reported from locali ties scattered all over Wales, from grains found...counties in Wales-Caermarthenshire and Merionethsh'ire. The Ogofau, Gogofau or Dolaucothi gold mine near Pumpsaint...here. In Merionethshire is the Castell Carn dochan mine (SH 846307), near Llan uwchllyn, worked in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jr & J. S. White, Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California.......................article “on the chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.” Two of the plates show 21...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...Changma in Shandong Prov ince. Here the Victory No. 1 mine annually produces 1500 carats of gem quality diamonds...rooms devoted to a mineral gallery tunnel, a tin mine diorama, and a review of China’s mineral deposits |  | | Book | | WORCESTERSHIRE 70 70 YORKSHIRE MINERAL LOCALITIES IN WALES . ANGLESEA 72 72 72 72 . BRECKNOCKSHIRE CAERMARTHENSHIRE...other. Huel, the old Cornish appel lation for a mine, has become corrupted by degrees into “ wheal,”...altered the old spelling of this word which means a mine, into wheal, more particularly as it is still retained...has sometimes crept in, as Wheal Maria Mine, where the word mine is thus repeated twice. In order to avoid...AND WALES. NOTE . When the name of a metal is put in capital letters after the name of a mine, thus |  | | Book | | survey of the country, GEMS found that while some mine managements themselves collect and market good speci...of Tynagh Mine, Co. Galway, last year put aside some tons of fine materials —including azurite, malachite...never know what you may come across in a disused mine! ' This would be unlikely to happen in Weardale...fluorite minerals. Last October at the Becermet Mine in West Cumber land the management held a well...bismuth, rare coppers. Curiously, although a tin mine, little good (specimen quality) cassiterite. 1'ENDARVES |  | | Report (volume) | | NORTH WALES. P.A.RT I.-WEST SHROPSHIRE, . SMITH, ~I.A. P.A.RT II.- BY BERNARD NORTH WALES, BY HENRY...PRE-CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS OF WEST SHROPSHIRE AND NORTH WALES. p .ART I.-WEST SHROPSHI RE, SMITH, M.A. BY BERNARD...the otherwise difficult task of reading the old mine plans. The memoir has been edited by l\fr. Cantrill...T,Vestern Area: Hope-Shelve District Nick Knolls Mine, 13. Batholes lVline, 13. East Roman Gravels 1,:1ine...22. Myttonsbeach Mine, 25. Perkins Beach Mine, 25. Burgam l\fine, 26. Tankerville :Mine, 26. Potter's Pit |
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