| | Book | A Mineralogy of Wales RfCHARD E. BEYfNS Ocpartmellf o[Geolngy, Nmin11a/Museum of\Valcs, Cardiff AMGUEDDFA...with galena. from Cymmer Colliery, Ponh, Mid Glamorgan. National Museum of Wales specimen 48.264.GR 175...CE 6 I CES IN WALES 9 30 127 138 6 INTRODUCTION The mineralogy of Wales is diverse. with over...reveal the presence of additional species new to Wales. and perhaps new to the British Isles. It is also...completely new to cience will be discovered in Wales. as techniques for analysing specimens become ever | | | Journal (issue) | charity No. 803308. Copyright The Russell Societ y 1993. ISSN 0263 7839 FRONT COVER: Strontianite, Strontian...core of the collection at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. ~ow settled in Tewkesbury and curator...emplacement of the granites, the host rocks were thermall y metamorphosed in the albite-actinolite and hornblende...series of more stable secondary phases. Although sphalerite and galena are present in the hypogene ore, no...connelJite, a new variety from the Britannia mine, North Wales, and from the Botallack mine, Cornwall. Journal | | | Journal (issue) | Farquharson Mineral Collection-page 11 CONTENTS 3 UK mining update 18 Christmas cheer for BMS Member(s)...Micromount Society I 0th anniversary edition of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals in 199 1, and was a...to meet up for occasional trips to Shropshire, Wales and further afield. We kept a tradition of going...Rust ! Siderite, sphalerite, millerite. Locality Wyndham Colliery, Wyndham, Bridgend (Mid Glamorgan, Glamorgan)...Glamorgan), Wales. Star-like twinned crystals of white siderite to about 0.5mm, with dark red-brown sphalerite | | | Book | hystatite .................................... 262 Y: yarrowite to yugawaralite .........................provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...a'1thanum 36 57 VI Tungsten Li L'.h;um Lutc:tium Xe y Xenon Lu l/.3 11.agnesum 3 71 12 Yb Ytterbium...tellurob:smu'Ji::eC!ogau andVigramines,nr Oolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales t!.e'.don ra:::ayqJarry,nr o~eha'Tlp'.:i. , Dev:i:i...United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain. The offshore teITitorics | | | Journal (issue) | 4 HARMOTOME FROM PEN-Y-CLUN D. Morgon • R.E. Starkey 7 DIARY OF EVENTS 8 The UK Joumol of illines mul...Typin~ Sen-ice, 2CJRycon St., Worksop, Nocts. SH0 2,\ Y Td. 38 ------MINERAL NEWS ROCK BOTfOi\l Pl'BLICATIO:"\S...Society organised its first field meeting to mid-Wales and the first British Microm~unt Society Symposium...identification of many new collecting sites throughout the UK, new finds from old localities, minerals new to Britain...the leading topographical mineralogy groups in the UK. Any society is about people, the members who help | | | Book | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...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 &...During this period, I was going back and forth to the UK and worldwide shows and projects, as well as keeping | | | Journal (issue) | Chamberlain(Syracuse,New York, U.S.A.) Dr J.R.Plimer(New So.uth Wales) Mr .J.P.Fuller(London) (Deceased) Mrs. T .Sheppard(Oerby)...Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. National Museum of Wales Collection, 83.41G.M7818 (Photo. M.P.Cooper) •...Editor, Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CFl 3NP working hours (0222)...Department of Geology in the National Museum of Wales, especially to its departmental secretary for her...went bj canal to the Cwmbran Iron Co. (Noted: Colliery Guardian, 11 July 1879, pa |
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