 | | 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 | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...Gecvor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An approx 60x60mm area on bro\\11 cellular quartz hematite matrix showing...£20. (b) 40xl5mm coverage. Smaller xls with white quartz. 45x20x30mm. £9. (c) 3) A PATITE. Cerro de Mercado...transparent light green apatite xl partly imbedded in a quartz apatite matrix. 30x35x30mm. £20. 4) ARSENOPYRITE...approx. £30. 6) BABINGTONfTE, PREHNITE and QUARTZ. Hongquizhen Quarry, Meiqu Co , Sidman, China. A floater |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Acknowledgements 350 Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction...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 & |  | | Catalog/List | | 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...lustrous off 'M'lite platy anglesile xtls on milky quartz iron stained quart.z.RF.C.£24 OCX>6 SPHALERITE...scaltered with spany quartz xtls on greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen...micro X!ls fo:m1ng modes! coverage on l1montic quartz matrix RF SPC Ml. £12 0024 ALBITE,Tinlagel,Cornwall...Pentee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall.Pretty botryoidal encrustations of chalcedony coaling milky quartz & chlorile |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y... 2txlt". £6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea...Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown in a cavity in quartz gossan...lxl lT • £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised...granite matrix. 3Xlt". £2. lig~t AUTUNITE. Merrivale Quarry, D8rtmoor, Devon. micro crystals richly encrusting |  | | Journal (issue) | | MALACHITE Collected in 1980 from Castle Hill quarry, Somerset. A rare form as curved strands up to...GOETHITE Collected in 1982 from Wheal Edward, Cornwall. As newcomers to minerals we thought goethite...AGARDITE(Y) Collected in 1987 from Marke Valley mine, Cornwall. Identified by David Green and photographed by...FLUORITE Collected in 1985 from Meldon Aplite quarry, Devon. A group of octahedral crystals on axinite...EPIDOTE Collected about 12 years ago from Loanhead quarry, near Beith, Southern Scotland. Fascinated by the |  | | Book | | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious...physical properties of minerals (pages I I 0- 1 I). Cornwall, for its size, has one of the most diverse ranges...1n museum collections such as hose of the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro and the aural His ory Museum ...spectacular examples of this are exposed in North Cornwall. It was during this period of mountainbuilding |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England .................................... 570 by T. P. Moore Columns COVER: QUARTZ crystal with red hematite inclusions, 4.5 cm, from... Bill Pinch at the Tucson Show in 2008. Kent England photo. The Pinch Medal, established in Bill’s...of Lincoln: “A tree is best measured when it is down—and so it is with people.” Looking over Bill’s career...parents’ lot in Rothenkirchen was littered with quartz pebbles whose colors and forms she especially liked |  | | Catalog/List | | Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake B32381 (STD (022) V.A.T...to over 4 mm in size scattered over intergrown Quartz crystals and crystal sections. 3x1-2-X1~", £14...arsenopyrite. 3x2~x1t", £13.00 . 5. Hingston Down Mine: nr. C~llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green micro crystallised...Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich light green micro crystals and crystallised crusts covering milky quartz. Specimen...1~x1", £2.25p. 10. BORNITE. Wheal Baspet, Illogan, Cornwall. Solid purply metallic heavy mass with a slight |  | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Orakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PLl8 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...APATITE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. A --v" shaped quartz/mica matrix showing about 40 prismitic...CASSITERITE. Robinsons Section, South Crafty Mine, Pool, Cornwall. An intergrown mass or black cassitcritc ,Is and...sections cemented together with red hematite and quartz. 50x40x20mrn. £20. 9) CASSJTERlTE. North Lode...WalkJiam United Mine, Whitchurch, Devon. Small quartz veinlet in tourmaline kilbs showing crystalline |  | | Catalog/List | | BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Pensance, Cornwall, England. V.A.T .No.132-78~ -67 CRDERING INFORMA.TION...botryoidal, shelly mass partially overlain with whitish Quartz and ~lcite. 2txlt't. £6.50. 4. ANATASE. Cavradi...t" in length, scattered and lying flat on small Quartz crystals covering Galena. 2x2x2". £13;50. 6. APATITE...dark brown Siderite lining cavities in ~ellular Quartz with minor Chalcopyr ite. Specimen A - 2ixlt"....intergrown and covering an area txt" on matrix of Quartz with disseminated Sulphides. ltxlt". £5. An old |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEl\ING INFOftMATION Mail orders are promptly...2txlt". £4. 6. AZUhITE. Wheal Gor13nd, St. Day, Cornwall. Deep blue masses intergrovm and impregnating...in association. 2!-x2". £1.25. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich apple green crystaline crust...£3.5C. . 11. BOhNITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An unusual specimen showing botryoidal masses...with small cubic crystals encrusting Chalcopyrite/Quartz matrix. 4x3". £7. CrUdely formed -2- BOURNONITE |  | | Catalog/List | | Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...BRITISH MINERALS I. showing a red agate with a quartz druse inside the cavity. Great example. £4. AGATE...A). 3.8x3x0.5cm. A lovely slice showing a filled quartz middle and peachtbrown radiating rings rather reminiscent...under magnification. £8. 4. AMETHYST, St. Austell, Cornwall. 2.5x3x2.5cm. A single fairly pale dumpy xtl with...with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix |  | | Catalog/List | | formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- ·--- lx2 £6 ½x½£3...IxI£-l Flux Canyon.Sanln Cruz Rich orange masses in quartz. under 1/, x ½ £2 y K Al S0/4 OH _ _ magnification...-�b Ag �b� 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2£1 2x3 £ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregoseal, St; Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL NO.: St Just 788880 (STD 0736) 0 V.A...1" in sizo, thickly intergrown on Arsenopyrite/Quartz matrix with h;o b12c:...~xltxlt". £2.50. 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Nr. Callington, Cornwall. Specimen A - Rich lime green...crystals to 2~" in length, richly embedded in milky Quartz. 3x2-}x 2 " • £4.50. 8. AUTUNITE. Bess:·.nes...£22.00. 10. AZURITE. Ting Tar.g Mine, Gwannap, Cornwall. Rich, Bright blue small sparkling crystals and |  | | Journal (issue) | | ·>:~· .:t ~--~~ II I I ~ II I I I I I Cornwall Field Trip Journal 203 - September/October 2006...persuaded me to buy it. It was indeed difficult to put down . ..... I would have thought that the recently published...our 200th issue of the SMLS journal in Issue 55 of Down To Earth. The article is included in this issue...slow steady pace with no deadlines. (Peter slowing down - you must be joking!!) However, by the time he...identifying seven boxes of minerals he had dropped down earlier in the week for SMLS tombotas, sales and |  | | Catalog/List | | 8ARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0736) V.A...6. 7. 8. APATITE. Great Work Mine, 8reage, Cornwall. Small sharp transparent colourless to very pale...enish Chlorite veinstuff with a little Fluorite and Quartz. 3x3xl~". £7.00. APOPHYLLITE. Jewel Tunnel, PoorJ...a 2xl~" area on Basalt matrix with small sharp Quartz crystals and odd pale greenish crystalised masses...transparent Quartz on cellular Arsenopyrite mat rix. 3b<4x2t". £33.00. ARSENOPVRITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055................................... 428 8: babel quartz to bytownite .............................. 66...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 |  | | Book | | sowed the ~eds of future pla.ns - o minerologie-af down Built on foundations firm and strong wi1h standards...ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath...Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate to have a trip down th e Nangiles |  | | Catalog/List | | cheaper examples. Please ask for details). 8. SMOKY QUARTZ (8cm x 8cm x 2cm) Macaco Mine, Sao Geraldo...Minas Gerai·s, Brazil A highly unusual, tabular smoky quartz crystal forming a 'square' looking crystal aggregate...Mine, St. Day, Cornwall Green/blue liroconite crystals to 5mm infilling a gossanous quartz matrix. (Rich...(3cm x 2cm x 2cm) St. Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall Pale blue/green apatite crystal 3mm in size with...x 3cm x I cm) Wheat Phoenix Mine, linkinhorne, Cornwall Ball-like aggregates ofdark green chalcosiderite |  | | Catalog/List | | RICHARD ’ BYWAYS, , COBHAM ENGLAND MINERALS T AY L E R C L 0 00 E 2 0 B U R S T E A D P h one SURREY...PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ f, ■ro^k^^B^qier’...OH green micro crystals on matrix. (Levant Mine Cornwall) lx 14 £1.50 . lxl £2.50 518 CHENEVIXITE / KAOLIN...Gotland, Cornwall) lxl £2 561 REICHENBACHITE Cu PO/4 OH green veinlets and coatings on Quartz. (Old Gunnislake...Gunnislake Mine,Cornwall) 14 ins £4.50 065 BOURNONITE PbCuSbS/3 grey massive in quartz (Les Anglais Mine |  | | Journal (issue) | | LA9 6AD Tel:(01539) 724988 Fax: (01539) 734761 UK journal of mtnes & minerals CONTENTS number...1996 2-----------COVER:STEUERITEfrom Sarbayskaya Quarry, Rudr:iiy,Kazakhstan,'40mmtall. EDITORIAL David...show, p. I 0. Photo David Green. 3-----------The UK Joumal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles of...Tel (01909) 476906 46 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -1- EDITORIAL...of a mineral. MineralogicalMagazi11e59, 767-768. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -Z- "" (' |  | | Catalog/List | | MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE, pure CHALCOCITE...PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on rock £3 b) lx half ins,...blue-green micro crystals on rock or quartz. (Levant Mine Cornwall) 1 x 55 £3 1x1 £4 to £6 563 CERULEITE...areas on matrix.(Wheal Maid Incline of Wheal Jane, Cornwall) 54x56 £2 1x1 £4 1x2 £8 516 CHALCOCITE black micro...micro crystals on matrix. (Geevor Mine, Pendeen Cornwall) showing one micro xl £2 with 2 or 3 micros £4 |  | | Catalog/List | | 34. Bur J rnin. 61lo6 2~5ff. greyish micros on Quartz. X20neeeed.(Hangabeira Hine,Gois 3ra;:il) ~-r....hard white sphere shaped nodule. (Newhaven,Sussex,England) 1" 50p 2". fl.00 3" El.GO 4" E3.80 • 017 ANALCITE...F~DALUSITE Al Silicate Rich pink mass with Muscoviteor Quartz. (Cabracao, Minho,North Portugal) lxl 60p lx2 f...rich grey, faintly blue masses (Staffordshire, England) lx2 40p 2x2 80p 2x4 El.SO 80p 168 ANORTHOCLASE...massive with minor Chalcopyrite (Hingsten Quarry, Cornwall) lx2 El.SO 2x2 E3.00 2x3 E5.00 2 002 AEGIRINE |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.No.: st. Just 880 (STD CJ73 677) V...variety FRA~CoLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Select, sharp, lustrous transparent terminated...mostly around 2 - 3 mm. in size, richly encrusting quartz/Slate veinstuff with a little gold en Chalcopyrite...balls and radial masses of DKENITE and small sharp quartz crystals in association. Good specimen for display...of the specimen encrusted with small sharp clear quartz crystals with odd pale greenish crystalised aggregates |
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