 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | P P 517-518 Morinite from Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall N. J. Elton Tregears, Little...Austell, Cornwall PL26 7QL, UK J.J. Hooper 48 St Julitta, Luxulyan, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 5ED, UK L. Coggon...Coggon 2 Anjardyn Place, Tywardreath, Par, Cornwall PL24 2PJ, UK MORINITE, NaCa2A12(PO4)2(OH)F4.2H20, is...the Hensbarrow section of Gunheath China Clay Pit, near St Austell, Cornwall (NGR SX 005571). Identification...occurrence of morinite in the British Isles. At Gunheath Pit, morinite forms crusts of intergrown crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geoscience in south-west England FIELD EXCURSION TO STUDY ASPECTS OF THE ST. AUSTELL GRANITE AND ITS...south-west England, 10, 370-372. Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3SE... and secondly to look at some aspects of the china clay industry, especially restoration and waste treatment...Pegmatite Quarry, Great Wheal Prosper China Clay Pit and Gunheath China Clay Pit were visited before lunch, which...the restoration and revegetation of some of the china clay waste tips. However, the time was spent profitably |  | | Report (issue) | | 190(4) α = 67.57(2)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Cornwall, England. 3.77 (100), 3.39 (70), 3.02 (60), 3.56 (40)...Total 100.95 100.00 (1) West Phoenix mine, Cornwall, England. (2) CuFe6 (PO4 )4 (OH)8 • 4H2 O. Polymorphism...mine, Cornwall, England); dufrénite, cyrilovite, leucophosphite (Gunheath china clay pit, Cornwall, England);...England); sampleite, libethenite, crandallite, cyrilovite, pseudomalachite, saléeite, torbernite, ulrichite...Distribution: In England, from the West Phoenix United mines, Linkinhorne, and the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell |  | | 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) | | cracks (Fig. 1), selenite gypsum was found in the clay and a fair number of hard slabs of teredo-bored...in the cliffs. There was much evidence of London Clay all along the beach and three of the group were...also sunk! Because of the vast quantities of London Clay along the beach, many of the fossils still needed...to interpret tectonic movements within southern England in the context of global tectonic movements. It...wavellite associated with turquoise from Gunheath China Clay pit. The wulfenites not only differed in colour |  | | Journal (issue) | | dissolved and washed away. In some areas, e.g. in Cornwall, large quantities of very pure cassiterite can...North Africa, South Africa, Russia, Spain and Cornwall, but not North America where the granites have...earlier. Reverbatory furnaces were introduced into Cornwall early in the 19th century, but unfortunately not...return to Weardale, and other sites in the North of England and some members have recently been in Wapping...which also has a treacle mine - a clay pit with very sticky red clay and nearby is a pub called The Treacle |  | | 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) | | 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...Sussex. One of the main reasons for returning to the UK, John told me at this year's BBQ, was so that he...**** SMLS FIELD TRIP TO CORNWALL Chichester Guest House, Newquay, Cornwall 17th to 24th May 2003 SMLS...in a coastal strip for about 4 miles from Cape Cornwall north to Pendeen, which includes the well known |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...matrix. This year also provided new material from China. This was the year of glued scheelite and cassiterite |  | | 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) | | ............ 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) | | Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite and florencite-(Ce) from Gunheath china clay pit. St Austell...Austell. Cornwall N.J. Elton alld M.J.£. Grigg 81 Epistilbite from the Isle of Skye. Scotland D.l....Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop and R.A. Fairbairn 97 A further...widenmannite in Cornwall, England N.J. Elton and 1.1. Hooper 98 Diaboleite from Gunver Head, Cornwall, England...rauenthalite or phaunouxite, from Ivy Tor mine, Devon, England R.S. W Braithwaite, M.G.H. Merry and B. Jackson |  | | 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) | | .. 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. |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...from Cornwall is reported; it has been found in situ in a tin-rich stockwork in Lanivet, Cornwall, associated |  | | 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...beautiful specimen of tourmaline and libethenite from Gunheath China Clay Pit The applause which greeted his...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) | | Chatsworth estate. These can also be seen in vol.13 of the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals (UKJMM), which is devoted...Southern Europe pushed north caused uplift in Northern UK and East/West faulting in the limestone. The limestone...many rare and common minerals from mines in New England. Smithsonian Gem and Mineral Collection A collection...of dinosaurs then ·and now, a dinosaur dig sand pit, fossil rubbings and identification, plaster casting...from the scientific community, notably here in the UK where the British Mid Ocean Ridge Initiative (BRIDGE) |  | | 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 |  | | 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...distinguished speaker travels a long w ay, in this case, Cornwall, to give a talk to our Branch, one of the nightmare |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 1966 and held several senior posts in Europe and the UK before retiring in November 1998. In 1981 he was...more field meetings than any other society in the UK, has no formal written Fieldwork Code covering visits... twinning common. I also have some of the 'wall' of the clay-filled vugh in which these crystal grew. These crystals...are similarly banded but mostly less than 2mm. The clay in the vugh was a reddish-yellow colour. For any...them because they had been 'washed' out from the clay. Has anyone else discovered these or similar crystals |  | | Book | | chisel-shaped terminations, usually with some brown clay staining. ILVAITE UNITED STATES and CANADA IDAHO...lesser specimens, from the boron workings of the Bar Pit (Grant and Wilson, 2001; Moroshkin and Frishman,...underground mine in 1924, then became a giant open-pit operation in the late 1950s (Puffer, 1975;Bancroft...probably predate slightly, the 1992 find. ASIA CHINA Fengjiashan mine near Daye, Daye district, Hubei...its localities in California, South Africa and China, inesite was found in excellent specimens in the |
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Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK