 | | Book | | A Mineralogy of Wales RfCHARD E. BEYfNS Ocpartmellf o[Geolngy, Nmin11a/Museum of\Valcs, Cardiff AMGUEDDFA...Colliery, Ponh, Mid Glamorgan. National Museum of Wales specimen 48.264.GR 175. ex Cymmer Welfare Library...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 (article/letter/editorial) | | be a drab place indeed. Gone would be azurite, malachite, and the plethora of related supergene copper...historically interesting localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York; Pennsylvania...counties, Missouri. It has been found in the Martin mine of the Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district...district, Lafayette County, Wisconsin; and the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. In the western United |  | | Book (edition) | | Gold Occurrences in the UK A Gold Prospector's Guide LEE GARY PALMER MSc Published in the United...40 Archers Ave Irvine, Ayrshire KA11 2GB Scotland UK Content copyright© Lee Gary Palmer, 2019 The right...Contents Acknowledgements Notable Nuggets of the UK Preface Gold The Word The Element Origin Locations...Isle of Man Wales South Wales - South Glamorgan South Wales - Carmarthenshire South Wales - Pembrokeshire...Mid Wales - Powys Mid Wales - Ceredigion North Wales - Gwynedd North Wales - Anglesey North Wales - Conwy |  | | Journal (issue) | | and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...core of the collection at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. ~ow settled in Tewkesbury and curator...chlorides and sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall |  | | Journal (issue) | | c5anvw,((e,vMintrafs Mineral Dealer & Mine gent Levant Gallery Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance...CATALOGUE GENEROUS TRADES AND COLLECTION PURCHASES UK Journal of Mines and Minerals IssueNo3 SUMMER1987...No. Editorial 2 Micro-Minerals from Bontddu Gwynedd 3 D. A. SaichandS. Rust CIRCULATION The Worlds...SUBSCRIPTIONS are payable in local currency, or direct to the UK in Sterling. Barite from Silverwood Colliery ARTICLES...Minerals 35 37 FRONT COVER Caledonite. Red Gill Mine., Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Largest crystal 1.25 |  | | Book | | provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...meneghinile Pengenna mine,St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria...CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth mine,Grassinglon, Yorkshire Severallocalities in theLakeDistrictandComw melacinnabar...theLakeDistrictan:iCorrr::a!I natrojarosite Wanlhwaite mine,StJohn'sin theVale,Cumbria SouthTerrasmine,StStephen-in-Brannel...Cumbria pharmaco!ite Wanlhwaite mine,StJohn'sin theVale,Cumbria Chatsworth mine,Grassington, Yorkshire p:cropharmacolne |  | | Journal (volume) | | with minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK...2012 PAPERS Geology and mineralisation at Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria Brian Young 3-18 A geochemical...mineral assemblage of the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK using a stability field model Trevor F. Bridges,...species at the Benallt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell 29-40 Tungsten...experience of an underground tour of the Florence Mine in Cumbria. With the closure of Florence, it is |  | | Report (volume) | | Britain Volume XXX COPPER ORES OF TlIE MIDLANDS, WALES, THE LAKE DISTRICT AND THE ISLE OF M~i\N. BY HENRr·...exploitation. The mines are scattered over the Midlands, Wales and the North of England. Most of them have been...this information. Our thanks are due to numerous mine managers for assistance while visiting their mines...of gold in the ore of many of the lodes in North Wales may encourage further exploitation. JOHN S. FLETT... IV.--MINES WORKED IN THE LODES AND VEINS Oli' WALES AND ITS BORDERS :-Introduction, pp. pp. 32-39 ; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...tennantite. Dolyhir quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, October 2004. Collection: Neil Hubbard. Photograph:...Tim Neall Mud-filled fluorite vugs in Greenlaws mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Stephen Moreton Gearksutite...te from the Westphalian coal measures of South Wales, u.K. Stephen Plant and David Evans NOTES The composition...Andy G. Tindle Cotunnite from Penrhyn Du Mine, Gwynedd, Wales Neil Hubbard and David I. Green An update |  | | Journal (issue) | | fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals publishes articles of...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Association. Special care should be taken at old mine workings some of which may be in a dangerous condition...coppsr mineralization < V V Extensive, high level dolerite and local acid volcanic intrusion c.48>...establishment of a sedimentary basin that covered all of Wales, much of England, parts of lreland and extended...the end of the Tremadoc. Although m uch of orth Wales wa. emergent at this time, Lynas ( 1 973) showed...deposit worked in this area is at the Turf copper mine where peat, impregnated with copper minerals deposited |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Greigite. As a secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm...schr6ckingerite and gypsum, on walls of a level in Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall (Elton and Hooper, 1992)...Dearman, 1966). Antimony Sb Trigonal From Pengenna mine, St. Kew, Cornwall; Hannaford, near Barnstaple,... [Also, as rare inclusions in galena, at Tynagh mine, Co. Galway, Eire (Clifford etal., 1986). Earlier |  | | Journal (issue) | | logy. Contribution; co ncerning the topographical mine 7alogy of the British Isles are particularly welcome...with calcite, galena and pyrite. Glengowla East mine, Oughterard, Co . Galway, Eire. Sir Arthur Russell...vivianite PG. Embrey 77 Native silver from Hilderston mine , West Lothian. Scotland T.K. Meikle 83 Mineralogy...occurrence of arsenate minerals at Gwaith-yr-Afon mine, Dyfed , Wales S.A . Rust and J.s. Mason 109 NOTES Tyuyamunite...114 Barytocalcite and witherite from Rorrington mine, Chirbury, Salop, England R.E. Starkey, N. Hubbard |  | | Journal (volume) | | caledonite crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection...spherules to 0.5 mm from the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson...Tindle 3-9 Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall Jens C. Ø. Andersen and David Moulding...associated with the Camdwr Fault in the Central Wales Orefield Tom Cotterell 15-25 NOTE The composition...Thomson 33-45 The mineralogy of Short Grain Low Level, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Tim Neall and David I. |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineral exploration in the· Harlech Dome, North Wales I ·t I I I· I I I I I I • I I· I I I I 1....Mineral exploration in the Harlech Dome, North Wales. Geology P. M. Allen, BSc, PhD Geochemistry D....Geochemical and geophysical investigations around Garras Mine, near Truro, Cornwall Molybdenite mineralisation...Shetland Preliminary mineral reconnaissance of Central Wales Report on geophysical surveys at Struy, Invernessshire...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria Investigation of stratiform sulphide mineralisation |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Churchill Way, Churchill House Cardiff CF10 2HH, Wales United Kingdom rbowell@srk.co.uk ROBERT B. COOK...reported from the now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine....West. It occurs sparingly in ores of the Tucson mine in the Leadville district of Lake County, Colorado...prolific specimen occurrence was on the 1,050-foot level of the Irish Mag shaft where it was found as scattered...fine chalcophyllite microcrystals is the 3 Metals mine in the Weepah district of Esmeralda County. Utah |  | | Catalog/List | | MARCH/APRIL 2008 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan...50x40x20mm. £35. 2) APATITE and CASSITERITE. Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A small...£125. 7) CASSITERITE. Great Flat Lode, Dolcoath Mine, Cambome, Cornwall. Rich heavy chloritic veinstone...50x30x12mm. £15. 8) CASSITERITE and TOPAZ. Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. The top... £35. ... . 11) CHALCOPYRITE. South Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall. A nice solid mass of chalcopyrite | | | Catalog/List | | MARCH/APRIL 2008 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan...50x40x20mm. £35. 2) A PAT I T E and CASSITERITE. Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A small...£125. 7) CASSITERITE. Great Flat Lode, Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Rich heavy chloritic veinstone...1 2 m m . £15. 8) CASSITERITE and TOPAZ. Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. The top...40x25x18mm. £35. 11) CHALCOPYRITE. South Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall. A nice solid mass of chalcopyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...of individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other |  | | Journal (issue) | | NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...Ordnance Survey map, on this map he refers to a trial in the upper most part of the eastern most tributary...today and this may indicate the presence of a trial level. However, it is possible that it may simply be...stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly...resembles the quartz in the tungsten veins at Carrock mine, being very coarse and greasy with few cavities |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Geochemical and geophysical investigations around Garras Mine, near Truro, Cornwall 3 4 Molybdenite mineralisation... Preliminary mineral reconnaissance of Central Wales 6 Report on geophysical survexs at Struy, Invernessshire...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria 8 Investigation of stratiform sulphide...Scotland 38 10 Geophysical surveys around Talnotry mine, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Geophysical evidence...geophysical investigations northwest of Llanrwst, North Wales 23 Disseminated sulphide mineralisation at Garbh |  | | Journal (issue) | | Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent ME3 8AT, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD: F.B. Atkins, Oxford, UK. RE. Bevins, Cardiff, U.K. RS...Braithwaite, Manchester, UK. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, UK. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, UK. RA. Howie, Matlock, U...U.K. R.J. King, Tewkesbury, UK. A. Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK. l.R Plimer, Parkville, Australia RE....Bromsgrove, UK. R.F. Symes, London, U.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia B. Young, Newcastle, UK. Aims...locality Minerals of Machen qoarry, Mid Glamorgan, Wales S.P. Plant and I.E. Jones 27 31 Stalactitic galena |  | | Book | | siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale...(bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS 4490) (bottom right) ISBN O 85272 099...present century when the area's last major lead mine, Greenside, closed in 1962. The celebrated graphite...England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is at present ( 1986) suspended. In this century |  | | Report (volume) | | Mines, Mr. W. H. Borlase and staff of Greenside Mine, Mr. Stretton of Force Crag, :tvir. J. Hemingway... Flo. 2.-Diagramma.tic Sketch Plan of Greenside Mine to show shifting of the lode by east and west faults...F10. 3.-Diagramma.tic Sketch Plan of Goldscope Mine along the ad.it, showing shifting of east and woot...' Ed. 3, 1913. • The copper ores of England and Wales will be described in a special memoir of this series...and its various coloured alteration products (malachite, &c.). . There is a certain amount of iron-pyrites |
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Trial level, Vigra Mine, Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK