 | | Book | | Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although |  | | Journal (issue) | | RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field of view 13 mm x 9 nun. Roy Starkey specimen...anJ other phosphates from Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation...Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES Valentinite |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...English China Clay Group Ltd. This later enabled me to obtain an annual pass into the working clay pits...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce & |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 28 Some recent finds at Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall by Nick Elton ................Such wa P rr. information, particularly about Cornwall, you would have been wise to ask Peter Colley...collections, a11d is used by many museums i11 tlze UK. (Ed.) North-West Branch · November Meeting: Basic...Further deposits in Ireland, Germany, Poland and the UK were described, making this a truly absorbing lecture...Ancient M ining This lecture by Adam Sharpe of Cornwall Archaeological Unit was given on 14 May 1996. |  | | Catalog/List | | ecimens as half phosphatic geodes from the Hiocene clay vith lmm,yellow-green,tabular xtls in aggregates...FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...hexagonal xtls. LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten Down Quarry,Calstock,Cornwall. 2 specimens. Specimen A-matrix fragment richly |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............ 14 Greystones Quarry, Lawhitton, Cornwall by Nick Elton ..................................Colin Sparrow for the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and the vitalising of its geological collections...organised by any geological or mineralogical group in the UK. If only I could get to even a fraction of these...left school at 14 years of age to work in the china clay industry, an occupation which lasted for 48 years...fieldleaderduringthe Society's weeklongmeeting in Cornwall in 1980, when he agreed to lead the Society for |  | | Journal (issue) | | which took our attention: galena, rhodochrosite, pyromorphite, quartz, iridescent pyrite, manganocalcite,...Mary Ann , Sheppey barite, Hemerdon scorodite, China Clay Pit wavellite, turquoise, cacoxenite and variscite...galena from Madan with a Gunheath China Clay Pit cacoxenite! Day 2 Elatsite Open Pit (a porphyry copper deposit)...Chelopech Gold mine. Elatzite is a working open pit and the mine geologist Zlati Vassilev accompanied...field trip to Siberia in 1992) to take us into the pit to a level which was not being worked . Initially |  | | Book | | ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath...needles growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ...Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate to have a trip |  | | Journal (issue) | | B. Young(Newcastie upon Tyne) COVER PHOTO Pyromorphite crystals on plumbogummite, from Roughton Gill...resting upon 150rnrn of yellow clay. This passed down into blue-grey mottled clay with lumps of coal about...about 0.4m thick. It seems that these clay bands acted as a barrier to the iron-Dearing solutions. The exposure...1780s refers to rights to dig cinders, iron-ore and clay (Gloucester Records Office 04212/Tl). In the 19th... cyanotrichite from Cornwall R.E. STARKEY starkey, R.E. 1986. . Cyanotrichite from Cornwall. J. RusseLL Soa |  | | Journal (issue) | | SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.0119.uk ....................................... ················...new members out. When combined with a week in Cornwall, a day on a Kent coal tip for carboniferous plant...Sue showed us where it was posible to collect pyromorphite. The field in question, near the old mine shaft...specimens, but this is the location of the best pyromorphite from the Mendips. It is fascinating to realise...Sussex. One of the main reasons for returning to the UK, John told me at this year's BBQ, was so that he |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I |  | | Journal (issue) | | Derelict Land Advisory Panel (Cornwall) Founder member of CUAAG (Cornwall Underground Access Advisory Group)...Johns Hall refurbished and re-opened. Moved to Cornwall 1981 Trewallard, St. Just then to Penzance. After...North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to S.E. England until moving...moving to Cornwall in 1981. Collecting minerals started in 1976-77, as an invalid he now had time to do...do this, in the North of England and Cornwall. Although having deep involvement in issues of conservation |  | | Book | | important part of Society activities. Localities from Cornwall to Cumbria were visited – at a time when attitudes...travelled the British Isles, searching on beaches, in china clay pits and stone quarries, and even down mines...on his caving experiences in various parts of England and illustrated it with a splendid set of colour...talk by Chris Pollard on “Mineral Collecting in Cornwall”. There was also an illustrated talk and demonstration...Holidays. There were two long weekend field trips to Cornwall, the first in April for which a minibus was hired |  | | Journal (issue) | | Isle of Man, Caldbeck Fells, etc. the North Cornwall Lead and Antimony Mines, Dartmoor Mines, etc....Taff's Well, Machen, Dulcote, Merehead, Croft, Gunheath, Coldstones, Greystones, Hampstead Farm, etc....contained several excellent photographs taken in Melbur China Claypit, and in Wakebridge Mine in Derbyshire, and...synchesite-Ce and some good blue anatase. From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper...of copiapite in the UK as his subject. Only a few recorded specimens from the UK are known in theOA- |  | | Journal (issue) | | pleasure to so many. He took many groups into the China Clay Pits and guided them around . the vast white...sceptred black quartzes from the Treviscoe China Clay pit At one stage he had small groups of children...specimen of tourmaline and libethenite from Gunheath China Clay Pit The applause which greeted his award reflected...contributions. In 1990 he mounted the main exhibit of China Clay minerals and photographs at the Sussex Mineral...chapel. Maurice had worked for 48 years in the China Clay industry, apart from an interruption in the Royal |  | | Journal (issue) | | Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow 3...a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being about 8 years old at the time. Three years...chalcopyrite, chalcocite, fluorite, barite, pyromorphite and mimetite. One of Russell's unfulfilled ambitions...Book Co. Endsleigh House,50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA or phone (0872)223227 PAUL LOWE MINERALS...MINERALS Endsleigh House, 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA Gerrlmologists Crystals & Gemstones |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral Field Notes from Cornwall - Hallenbeagle Mine Field Notes from Cornwall - Wheal Charlotte The Munich...Sussex Branch Micromount Study Evening - West Cornwall Branch News - Branch Meetings for 20 I 0 Other... Flat 3, Over Garage, Paynters Lane, Illogan, Cornwall. TRl6 4DJ MEMBERS- CHANGE OF DETAILS John Pearce...to receive your remittance. (£7 Single; £9 Family (UK); £9 and £11 Overseas. ) You have paid - thank you...hopefully loud enough for Sheila to hear it in Cornwall! After the meal, David Binns (BMS Membership Secretary) |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..................... 37 Minerals in Northern England Yorks.Geol.Soc/Northern Branch Meeting report by...This is certainly a place to visit if you are in Cornwall so make a note of it in your diaries. Get well...Musewn in Penzance. The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall have been successful in securing £92,000 from...exhibition of mineral specimens from N orthern England to be exhibited in a gallery at the H ancock M...our Chairman, Peter W allace, gave a talk on 'Pyromorphite and Mimetite' which was accompanied by a display |  | | Journal (issue) | | "Wow!" category. The includes radiant green pyromorphite from "Realces," Mina San Andres, Villaviciosa...muscovite, and albite from Hu Ya, Ping Wu, Sichuan, China. The crystals tend to be coated with a thin waxy...import major selections of mineral specimens from China. He has been designing and selling trimmers for...well as a number of solution cavities filled with clay or sandy sediment. The vugs generally contain quartz...in the middle of Roscommon Cliff at St. Just, Cornwall. "The middle" being approximately halfway between |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1966 and held several senior posts in Europe and the UK before retiring in November 1998. In 1981 he was...turn covered galena crystals. Cerussite, white pyromorphite and some anglesite were also in close association...this mineral from Leadhills .... Bill Bolton Pyromorphite 'Wheat Sheafs' An interesting find from the...bundles of acicular crystal groups of pyromorphite. The pyromorphite is a pale yellowish-green colour occurring...a narrow 'waist' and bushy rounded ends. The pyromorphite is very pure 'with little arsenic substituting |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles...there were surely good specimen from the clay pits in Cornwall and some nice green balls from Ireland,...information and a full review in the next UKJMM. UK Journal vf Mines & Minerals No. 28 -2- Frontispiece...Carruth: Copse Cottage, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall Ron Cleevely: High Croft, Gunswell Lane, South |  | | Journal (issue) | | earth science related clubs and societies in the UK, was last updated in 1993 with the aid of a grant...tel: 0116 247 3080. Austin Lockwood 1998 AGM in Cornwall The South-West Branch will be hosting the 1998...By far the greatest number come from southern England and is hoped that these will form the core ofa...from vases and goblets from 16th and 17th century England, Spain and Italy to modern 'designer' glasses from...valleys, glacial deposits, particularly in Northern England and Scotland, and from sand and gravel quarries |  | | Journal (issue) | | pale blue turquoise from Gunheath China Clay Pit near St Austell in Cornwall. These and the distinctive...excellent and beautifully illustrated article in the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals (UKJMM) on Wave/lite:...hydrargillite from its chemical composition of water and clay. (Nothing much changes, even these days mineralogists...you before and they consisted almost entirely of clay which is I conjecture in combination with the Acid...from the center & wh.have been deemed Zeolites are clay in a very pure crystallised state ... This, then |  | | Catalog/List | | GILBERTITEon ORTHOCLASE.Megiliggar Rocks,Tremearne, Cornwall. Boxed MIN. Upper Gilbertite coated surface carrying...35. BAYLDOHIT!. Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornwall, Three rich 1pecimena. Specimen A-large vughy... BAYLDOHITE/MIKETITE, Wheal Carpenter,Gvinear,Cornwall, Large limonitic Quartz gossan fragment coated...,,; 51. CASSITERITE. Redmoor Mine,Callington,Cornwall, Large shale killas fragment forming a mound....52. CASSITERITE, South Terras Mine,St Stephen,Cornwall, Ex Sergeant collection. Two specimens. Specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, Shoots and Leaves Truss, Lynne (2003) Eats...expanded to become one of the largest barite mines in England. Production rose to over 20,000 tons per year in...March 27th at Ladock Community Hall, near Truro, Cornwall. Some of you will remember the very successful...mineral collection of an elderly collector from mid-Cornwall who wishes to remain anonymous, and many also...collectors, particularly from the clay pits and mines of Cornwall and Devon, but also from Cumbria-which |
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