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UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for...subscriptions and advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY...David I. Green Julie Ballard Mike Rumsey NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe David McCall um Richard Bell |
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Cornish Mineral Reference Manual Peter Golley and Richard Williams April 1995 First published 1995 by...Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's 'Manual...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter |
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of mi nes UK & minerals summer 1997 number 2----------EDITORIAL Dtlf.!idGreen COVER: Chalcodte...Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. The UK Journal ofM;nts...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for...welcome. Sec back page for address, subscriptions and advertising. FRONTISPIECE OLIVENITE Royal Comwa/1Museum...MANAGER Jean C. Spence NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe of EVENTS 9 SUSSEX MINERAL and LAPIDARY SOCIETY Peter |
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everyone, and here’s the 34th report in this space concerning What’s New Online. The web is wide, and now,...full of interesting minerals new and old, in large-lot clusters and as one-of-a-kind lone stars, scattered...to pursue…or maybe just to admire on your screen and/or learn a thing or two from. Pyromorphite, 5.8...Espiel, Cordoba, Spain. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. An “Initial Tucson 2013 Update” on the site...first saw them) and in the late 1990s (when about a thousand new specimens were collected, and Jordi brought |
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There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...very valuable ores and minerals. Besides their economic importance, many of the ores and associated minerals...beauty both in form and colour. They range from azure-blue 'hair crystals' of copper ore and the branching...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...'"'ell as providing information on their extraction and exploitation. Prefaced by a brief introduction on |
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to the illustrations 8 9 10 10 11 Descriptions and illustrations of the most important mineralogical...minerals in a quaint setting to the second largest and most comprehensive collection in the world. Some...have their origin in Renaissance times. In the 17th and 18th centuries, most mineral specimens particularly...nobility and the wealthy, and were kept in natural history cabinets reserved for "objets d'arts" and natural...specialised exhibitions of natural history specimens, and a trend towards the establishment of a large number |
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Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the desrruction...Claudio Vita-Finzi Principles of emergency planning and ma11agemer:1DaYid Alexander Vesurius: a biography...Scarth & Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...ooper 2005) and the promise of new mineral galleries in Edinburgh in '.!011. I hope that these and all other |
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ROCKS AND MINERALS MICHAEL O’DONOGHUE AMERICAN NATURE GUIDES ROCKS AND MINERALS AMERICAN NATURE...NATURE GUIDES ROCKS AND MINERALS Michael O’Donoghue GALLERY BOOKS An Imprint of W. H. Smith Publishers...City 10016 This edition first published in the United States 1990 by Gallery Books, an' imprint of W...strictly forbidden. Published in England by Dragon’s World Ltd, Limpsfield and London All rights reserved under...under International and Pan American Copyright Convention No part of this book may be reproduced, stored |
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Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...Switzerland Articles Collector’s diary: Chuquicamata and the Nitrate Pampa ......................... 355 by...Capitol Communications, Crofton, MD Color Separations and Printing Smith Lithograph Corp., Rockville, MD Special...Special second class postage Paid at Tucson, Arizona, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address changes...Circulation, reprints, books 602-297-6709 Editing and advertising 602-299-5274 Subscriptions $23 per year |
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simple, clear exposition of the nature, occurrence and properties of minerals is accompanied by detailed...specialist writers and is abundantly illustrated throughout with over 500 color photographs and 1 50 explanatory...particular minerals are to be found, and the methods for testing and recognizing samples-all these are fully...explained in full, from building your own tumbling and grinding machineto cutting an emerald !The extensive...recognition, localities where most commonlyfound, and characteristics most important to the lapidary. Those |
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published at $30.00 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MINERALS AND GEMSTONES Edited by Michael O’Donoghue This comprehensive...simple, clear exposition of the nature, occurrence and properties of minerals is accompanied by detailed...specialist writers and is abundantly illustrated throughout with hundreds of color photographs and many explanatory...particular minerals are to be found, and the methods for testing and recognizing samples — all these are...explained in full, from building your own tumbling and grinding machine to cutting an emerald! The extensive |
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ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. http://books.google...CHEMICAL, AND MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES WAYNFLETE PROFESSOR OF MINERALOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND FELLOW...COLOURED PLATES AND 716 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT or THE UNIVERSITY OF iLonnon MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited...reproduction, although these constitute the most important, and, perhaps, the most interesting section of Mineralogy...separate • volume, and cannot be treated adequately in a volume dealing with the characters and properties of |
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