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| Mike Hermolle. Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer - Susan Jackson Newsletter...including visits to the famous the Shap pink granite quarry. On 28 April Alan Richardson led a repeat of his...one of our events in the near future. Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org west.midlands@ougs.org...Joint trip with BCGS organised by BCGS. Contact Sandra Morgan sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com NB This event...have also been extracted. There are remains of quarry buildings and of an iron age fort, and the summit |
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| Hill, Malvern Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Secretary - Vacant Branch Treasurer...forward to seeing many of you in 2015! Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org 2 west.midlands@ougs.org...know if you will be attending the meeting. Contact Sandra Morgan -sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com 3 west.midlands@ougs...have problems finding us on the day please contact;Sandra 07971 053626 or Susan 07773 943489 AGM 2014 information... Field Trip Report Raggedstone Hill and Chase Hill Quarry, Malvern, Worcestershire 20th September 2014 We |
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| Snailbeach Mine Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Secretary - Vacant Branch Bit Branch...org Leamington Spa and Warwick Whitmans Hill Quarry Contents Branch Organiser’s report AGM advert...forward to seeing many of you in 2014! Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org 2 west.midlands@ougs.org...know if you will be attending the meeting. Contact Sandra Morgan -sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com If you have...have problems finding us on the day please contact;Sandra 07971 053626 or Susan 07773 943489 3 west.midlands@ougs |
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| Mike Hermolle. Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer - Susan Jackson Newsletter...Green has agreed to stand for election. Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org west.midlands@ougs.org...Lapworth Museum, Birmingham University. Contact Sandra Morgan sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com 23 Feb 2019 Metamorphic...make an independent visit to the Barnt Green Road Quarry, to see a recumbent fold in Ordovician quartzites...display in the Lapworth Museum, was taken from a quarry along the river and south of the Country Park. |
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| photo. (lower left) Amazonite microcline with smoky quartz, 8.5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller...Marcie Bristol Marc & Janis Countiss Gus Eifler Sandra Gee Will Heierman Jim & Imelda Klein Brent & Janet...2009 7 RICHARDSON BEARD COLLECTION Pyrite on quartz, 11 cm, Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington....Bruce Oreck collection. Joe Budd photo. Pyrite on quartz and siderite, 8 cm, Simplon Tunnel, near Brig,...Maharashtra, lndia. Joe Budd photo. Arsenopyrite with quartz, 10 cm, Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province |
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| Canada by Ann P. Sabina). Quebec Francon Quarry The Francon quarry in Montreal is famous for the abundance...dis covered what appears to be a first for the quarry—cube faces on analcime. This mineral almost always...cross-section and were individually scattered in pyrite-quartz matrix. The grains could be scratched by a pin..."dresserite" examined. It was identified in the quarry by an "expert." On the specimens were gray botryoids...calcite were delicate clear sprays of aragonite. SPAIN Pyrite, etc. Mr. Juan Montal, a mineral dealer from |
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| slopes of the Eglwyseg Escarpment and Offa’s Dyke Sandra Morgan (Moyra Eldridge Competition—Highly Commended)...Commended) Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer - Susan Jackson Newsletter...look out for more information soon! Best wishes, Sandra 2 west.midlands@ougs.org Forthcoming Field Trips...rocks of the Malvern ridge. Lower on the hill is a quarry showing some of the variety of Malvern’s metamorphic...a Triassic conglomerate of local rocks. A small quarry at Coal Hill shows interleaved Ordovician lava |
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| Mike Hermolle. Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer - Susan Jackson Newsletter...Trip programme Field trip reports Barnt Green Road Quarry (an update) AGM Minutes OUGS AGM programme Symposium...alerts when the law changes in May. Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org west.midlands@ougs.org...alanrichardson.geo@gmail.com Saturday 12 May Brown End Quarry and Froghall Wharf, Staffs Leader Ian Stimpson...Excursion to Brown End Quarry and the area around Froghall Wharf. Brown End Quarry, near Waterhouses in |
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| Satin Spar. Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer - Susan Jackson Newsletter...many of you in 2017! Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org 2 You...know if you will be attending the meeting. Contact Sandra Morgan: west.midlands@ougs.org 3 west.midlands@ougs...AGM, free lunch and Lapworth Museum tour. Contact Sandra Morgan sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com Sat 18 Feb Igneous...Herefordshire/Shropshire Border. Leader tbc. Contact Sandra Morgan sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com Sat 29 Apr |
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| Stiperstones Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Bit Branch Organiser's Secretary...join us on the forthcoming field trips. Regards Sandra Our next field trip is to Bradgate Park, Charnwood...Lady Jane Grey. Please come and join us. Contact: Sandra Morgan, sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com for more details...percentage of quartz than the similar, but older, Cambrian Wrekin quartzite seen at the Ercall quarry. Within...occasional bands of conglomerate with small rounded quartz pebbles, further indicating an ancient beach deposit |
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| Listening to Ian’s introduction at the Ercall Quarry, Shropshire, see page 7 for full report Branch...Organiser – Alasdair Farquharson Branch Secretary - Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer- Susan Jackson Newsletter...Wrens Nest Dudley p4 • 39th Symposium p6 • Ercall Quarry The Wrekin Shropshire p7 Random chippings from...Nest and Dudley Limestone Caverns, 28 April 2012. Sandra Morgan On 28 April, 22 participants arrived for...throughout the weekend. On Sunday I went to Pury End Quarry led by Tom Miller which was excellent and a good |
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| through quartz crystals and through calcite cleavage rhombs. I have seen them myself in quartz, but in...mineralogist is not able to recognise transparent quartz crystals on sight. [Manuscript received 25th November... 1980), turquoise (Arnould & Poirot, 1975) and quartz, especially amethyst (Zecchini, 1979; Zecchini...by plastic (Banerjee, 1972). Whereas emerald and quartz are normally investigated as single crystals, natural...from 3800-3000 cm"1. Infrared investigations on a-quartz have been done long since (e.g. Saksena, 1958; |
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| Shorpshire Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Secretary - Vacant Branch Treasurer-...org/society_events/details.php?id=14&&branchcode=ouc Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org 2 west.midlands@ougs.org...interest if you are thinking of attending. Contact Sandra Morgan: sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com Saturday 12th...District village of Earl Sterndale via the Jericho Quarry to the famous carboniferous reef knoll at Chrome...David Bate BGS See advert for full details Contact Sandra Morgan: sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com 12th July |
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| Mike Hermolle. Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer - Susan Jackson Newsletter...emailing membership@ougs.org Best wishes, Best wishes Sandra west.midlands@ougs.org west.midlands@ougs.org...know if you will be attending the meeting. Contact Sandra Morgan: west.midlands@ougs.org west.midlands@ougs...Museum, free lunch, speaker Marco Maffiolo. Contact Sandra Morgan sandra.morgan.13@gmail.com Saturday 10...the now fenced off entrance to the main Hollybush quarry and then past the former village post office building |
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| Quarries, Malvern Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Secretary - Vacant Branch Bit Branch...to Whitman’s Hill Geological Reserve and Gullet Quarry was interesting and varied. Highlights included...folded and shattered pre-Cambrian rocks at Gullet Quarry. Our thanks go to Susan Jackson for organising...welcome! Regards Sandra 2 west.midlands@ougs.org Next field trip Ercall Quarry field trip 6th October...recommended and hard hats are essential near the quarry face. The site is accessed in much the same way |
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| Details: 8th ICOBTE Conference Secretariat, Attn: Sandra Wildman, CSIRO Land & Water, Private Bag No. 2...International Conference and Exhibition, Madrid, Spain. Details: Sandra Hermus, Conference Assistant, Standerdmolen...Symposium on Agate and Other Forms of Cryptocrystalline Quartz, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA. Details:... Seville, Spain. Details: Viajes El Corte Ingles, Teniente Borges 5, Seville 41002, Spain. Tel.: +34 |
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| Editor – Mike Hermolle Branch Committee Emma Askew Sandra Morgan Alan Richardson Adrian Wyatt Contents Branch...visited the Country Park at Burton Dassett and a quarry on Edgehill examining Jurassic marls and even found...make an independent visit to the Barnt Green Road Quarry, to see a recumbent fold in Ordovician quartzites...Ruabon, Clywd and Darley Dale from the Halldale Quarry, Derbyshire. All three are Upper Carboniferous...from potassic feldspars looking closely grey-blue quartz and black hornblende and biotite can also be seen |
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| Editor – Mike Hermolle Branch Committee Emma Askew Sandra Morgan Alan Richardson Adrian Wyatt Contents Branch...visited the Country Park at Burton Dassett and a quarry on Edgehill examining Jurassic marls and even found...make an independent visit to the Barnt Green Road Quarry, to see a recumbent fold in Ordovician quartzites...Ruabon, Clywd and Darley Dale from the Halldale Quarry, Derbyshire. All three are Upper Carboniferous...from potassic feldspars looking closely grey-blue quartz and black hornblende and biotite can also be seen |
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| any material collected would be decided by the quarry owners and the sub-committee. We need to start...the publication of Newsletter 39: Central Branch: Sandra Dann; Kenneth Fairhurst; Bob Goldson; Cal and Kerith...also occur on the south coast of Ulva and at a quarry near Tiroran. Various exposures along the southern...Russell Society Newsletter Rio Tinto mines in Spain which go back to Roman times. The majority of early...on the list of local residents objections. Most quarry faces will eventually become screened by natural |
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| Mike Hermolle Branch Officers Branch Organiser – Sandra Morgan Branch Treasurer - Susan Jackson Newsletter...by emailing membership@ougs.org Best wishes, Sandra Sandra 2 west.midlands@ougs.org Forthcoming Field...good, you may wish to visit the Barnt Green Road Quarry, to see a recumbent fold in Ordovician quartzites...abruptly by change to rounded quartzite and vein quartz clasts with a much longer transport history. It |
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| specimens were collected from a Varlamoffite bearing quartz vein exposed in the side of a 10-foot deep winze...last August has left the future of the limestone quarry which supplied the works uncertain. At present...ceased and permanent closure is very likely. This { quarry is well known for its mineralisation and especially...interest. Drawer after drawer of cryptocrystalline quartz in the form of flint, jasper, agate, opal etc....well done! The theme mineral for the evening was quartz, with a very nice display being put on by those |
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| Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania there is a quarry in Keyser limestone that has become we ll known...Pennsylvan ia"). Many fine mineral specimens from th is quarry have found their way into co llections thr ou ghout...question. Originally, this m ineral was identified as aragon ite on the basis of crystal form. Su bsequent chem...coarse-grained (pegmatatic) gneiss co ntaining feldspar, quartz, biotite mica, ch lorite, and slender crystals...IVIS ION Elsie Adams, Administrative Assistant Sandra Blust, Librarian Constance Grier, Typist Sharon |
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| in mineral collecting. My 13-year-old daughter (Sandra Jo Parsons) and I do a lot of collecting. We live...to others. We collected some beautiful citrine quartz (gem quality) on this trip. I will admit that a...cart. We knew that a vein of smoky and citrine quartz was about two miles down this mountain road and...fishing water is a spot for beautiful gray-blue quartz and Indian arrowheads. We went the rough way, over...the stream where we could do some real casting. Sandra placed her shoes on the rock so she could warm |
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| and brecciated Big Fork Chert is cut by milky quartz veins and has bedding with vertical to very steep...wavellite, 9.8 ⫻ 5.3 cm, from de Linde Pit No. 3. Sandra Hyett photo. hill its name; the road was dug through...shattered chert that are only partly filled with quartz, wavellite, or variscite. 96*2: 405,9(3:...2. The largest cat’s eye is 3.6 cm in diameter. Sandra Hyett photo. =VS\TL 1\S`(\N\Z[ ...Stuart Schmitt and specimen photographs are by Sandra Hyett and Stephen Blyskal. Thanks are extended |
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| mantle as well). 180 ROCKS AND MINERALS Francon Quarry "Collecting hasn't been this unbelievable for a...r k . It is a matter of time before the Francon quarry in Montreal is reclaimed as a sanitary land fill...would have it, that part of the enormous Francon quarry is where the action should be. In mid-September...both in attendance. The bonanza resulted in the quarry men uncovering a down-faulted portion of the upper...top of the sill which was the new floor of the quarry. The enor mous quantity of easily accessible carbonatite |
Sandra quarry, Manzanera, Teruel, Aragon, Spain