 | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | 8ARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0736) V.A...£3.50. 6. 7. 8. APATITE. Great Work Mine, 8reage, Cornwall. Small sharp transparent colourless to... £33.00. ARSENOPVRITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Specimen A - well " .•. ·formed silvery...matrix. 2tx2xlt". £3.50. BARVTES. settlingstones Mine, Hexham, Northumberland. Sharp, lustrous, creamy...£2B.00. BARVTOCALCITE. Admiralty Flats, Nentsberry Mine, AlstJn Moor, Cumberland. Specimen A - Lustrous |  | | Catalog/List | | mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...Barstow green stock label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | of the basic copper(II) chlorides atacamite, paratacamite and botallackite A. M. POLLARD, R. G. THOMAS...trimorphs of composition Cu2CI(OH)3 , atacamite, paratacamite, and botallackite, have been developed. In syntheses...recrystallization of this phase to atacamite or paratacamite, or of the latter from the former, depends upon...The crystallization sequence indicates that paratacamite, as has long been suspected, is the thermodynamically...stability, copper(II) chlorides, atacamite, paratacamite, botallackite. Introduction BASIC copper(II) |  | | Catalog/List | | Levant Gallery_ Joscaswell, Pendeen. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Dritain. .. 7882b(. (STD Code 0736) ...with red cavity. 2. 3. ALSTONITE, Fallowfields Mine,Hexham,Northumberland. Sharp,creamy,small spikey...ANALCHlE/CALCI'fE.. Dean Quarry, St, Keverne, Cornwall. to i'' in size,intergrown with sharp golde~-coloured...00. 11 length) ;'cross". ANGLESITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Tsumeb 1 0tavi,S.W.Africa. Choice,gemmy,flattened...APATITE var FRANCOLITE- Wh.Pendarves,Camborne,Cornwall. Sparkling crust of transparent,tiny hexagonal |  | | Journal (issue) | | the agreed £600 sponsorship had been paid to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, a new Catalogue of...hematite, calcite, and quarts from the famous Florence Mine, Cumbria. These were contributed by Roy Starkey...(1044), an iron arsenate, from South Terras in Cornwall. It looks like pale yellow liverwort and is much...but X-rayed); linarite prisms from the Britannia Mine (1051), associated with lanthanite; parnauite (1052/54)...quite photogenic; the alstonite from Fallowfield Mine is interesting since it is frosted with white crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite from...Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 ...COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy, The Natural...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | (MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well formed, dodecahedral...ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large dodecahedral crystals, interformed |  | | Journal (issue) | | OF THE EARTH - SOCIETY - MEMBERS' FINDS FROM THE UK. LOCAL SOCIETIES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS. ADMISSION...Geology at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff and Head of the Mineralogy/Petrology Section, Richard, through...botriodal Smithsonite, and Sphalerite from Trelogan mine with Fluorite which is a relatively rare species...hydrozincite coloured by malachite from the Abcrlynn Mine near Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd was found to be a nC'V{...showing the "cog wheel" Marcasite from Gwynfynydd mine and purple Erythrite from Vigra. On into the Mid-Wales |  | | Journal (issue) | | mmtall fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals publishes...CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C. Spence SADDLEBACK MINE Peter Briscoe • David McCallum • Paul Nicholson...Editorial Board. fEITKNECHTITE FROM BENALLT MANGANESE MINE Publication ofinformation on a collecting site...0952-2409 Tom Cotterell 49 NORTH DEVON UNITED MINE Mike Rumsey • Mike Savage 53 PIUNTING DY Ratcliff&...Worksop, Notts. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Minos & Minerals No. 29 -1- EDITORIAL |  | | Journal (issue) | | incompletely characterised mineral from Penberthy Croft Mine .. 16 Meeting & Field Trip Reports .............hosting next years event, on the south coast of England, so put the date (11-13 April) in your diary and...perhaps, leading a fieldtrip to some long forgotten mine in Wales. I joined the Russell Society fifteen years...the heavy metallic ‘rocks’ that could be found on mine dumps in Mid-Wales during walking trips. My parents...to come. The number of mineralogy curators in the UK can now be counted on two hands, but more worryingly |  | | Journal (issue) | | ·rREASURES OF THE EARTH� SOCIETY MEMBERS' FINDS FROM THE UK. LOCAL SOCIETIES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS. SALES &...botriodal Smithsonite, and Sphaleritc from Trclogan mine with Fluorite which is a relatively rare species...hydrozincitc coloured by malachite from the Aberlynn Mine near Bctws-y-Cocd, Gwynedd was found to be a new...showing the "cog wheel" Marcasite from Gwynfynydd mine and purple Erythrite from Vigra. On into the Mid-Wales...helping to redress the balance.. John Ha!\ -5- r CORNWALL 1995 April 20 -23 The traditional Spring fieldtrip |  | | Catalog/List | | MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE, pure CHALCOCITE...pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ince 8 SO VERY FOOLISH: THE HISTORY OF THE WHERRY MINE, PENZANCE - Roy Starkey 27 BMS REFERENCE COLLECTION...Droitwich—Twinned with Bad Ems Roy Starkey 30 HERODSFOOT MINE & LISKEARD MUSEUM - Roy Starkey 31 NOTHING TO...- Trevor Bridges JOURNALS FOR SALE - David Neal UK VIRTUAL MICROSCOPE AVAILABLE - Roy Starkey 19 MINCO... Flat 3, Over Garage, Paynters Lane, Illogan, Cornwall. TR16 4DJ MEMBERSHIP CHANGE OF DETAILS Beryl...Julie Green at the bottom of Whim Shaft, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian April 2009 BMS Newsletter 89 Julie |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............ 14 Greystones Quarry, Lawhitton, Cornwall by Nick Elton ..................................going to meet with our demise and go to the big mine in the sky, where all the vughs are full of topaz...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...fieldleaderduringthe Society's weeklongmeeting in Cornwall in 1980, when he agreed to lead the Society for |  | | 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...for obscure references, and for support from my head of department and secretary. In all cases, help...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent Levanl Gallery, Lower Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain...- ✓...,· -~Xc ,d, 12. APATITE.Panesquira xtls Mine,Beira i3eixa,PortugaL (to about 1ri in size) .....prismatic ARTHURITE.Hingston Downe Consol Callington,Cornwall. Ricb cover of bright green colou.red cryetalline...D2~5.OO. r ' \ 20. lURICBJ.ICITE. Golconda Mine,Brassington,Derbyshire. Silky blue-green xtl aggregRtee...Specimen B. 1~1"(very gemmy) ~2.00. AZURITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,S.W.Africa~ Brilliant,sharp,striated 'Roman-sword' |  | | Journal (issue) | | and one member suggested that this could be in the UK or EU. COST A location with on-site accommodation...were identified: geological/mining walks, museums (UK or EU) and member's collections. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS...polymorphous with atacamite, clinoatacamite and paratacamite. The term "isostructural with ... " means that...feldspar from the famous locality of Wheal Coates in Cornwall, which I subsequently accessioned under my catalogue...other fluorites; Wheal Wrey calcites, the north Cornwall sulpho-salts including endellionite (the name |  | | Journal (issue) | | t;>.,,.,. J..2. w ,·tf, SI' l'UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...of local knowledge, by the well known north-of-England collector Lindsay Greenbank. T The celebration |  | | Catalog/List | | Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...of ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall Pure black-brown cleavage... Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________ |  | | Journal (issue) | | FRONT COVER: Vanadinite, probably from High Pim mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Orangybrown...The: lKcurrence of sphalerite in Leicestershire, England R.J. King 15 Lead-zi nc-copper-arsenic-baryte...Bristol, England R.A. lxer, R.A. D. Pat/rick and R.E. Starkey NOTES Botallackite from Dooneen mine, Allihies...Cinnabar from Stancombe quarry, near Bristol, England N. Zachariades CONSERVING BRITA[N S MINERALOGICAL...and D. B. Johnson 40 The botanical interest of mine spoil heaps - the lichen story 0. W Purvis 45 |  | | Catalog/List | | pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | We((enj\linera(s Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2D A. Telephone:...ADULARIA/SCHORL. Whiskey Lode,Geevor Mine.Pendeen,West Cornwall, Pale creamy-pink coloured.rhombic xtls and gr<■eenish-black...5x2-Jx1-J", £8.50. ALLOPHANE/LINARITE. Maid of Sunshine Mine,Cochise Co..Arizona.U.S.A. Highly attractive and... 1-£xl£x1", £8.00. 5- ALSTONITE. Fallowfields Mine,Nr.Hexham,Northumbria. A 2x£" channel developed...APATITE/ORTHOCLASE. Hegiligger Rocks .Tremearne ,Cornwall. Most attractive, thin crystalline Orthoclase-plate |
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Cligga Mine, Cligga Head, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK