 | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralisation in the Hensbarrow topaz granite, Cornwall, England Received: 9 April 1996 / Accepted: 12 November...the Hensbarrow topaz granite stock (St. Austell, Cornwall) are used to constrain the composition of fluids...magmatic fluids. In quartz-topaz rocks from the New England Batholith, Australia, solid inclusions in topaz...apophyses of the Hercynian batholith of Southwest England (Hill and Manning 1987). The stock contains abundant...open cast mining for kaolinite in the Gunheath china clay pit (Fig. 1) and have a well characterised |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 28 Some recent finds at Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall by Nick Elton ................cnclo "d wa - corundum, var. ruby. Such wa P rr. information, particularly about Cornwall, you would have...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 (article/letter/editorial) | | occur in the St. Austell pluton at the Gunheath china clay pit in the roof of a small cupola of Type E...7) , 'biotite', which, in a sample from Gunheath china clay pit appears to be a ferro an zinnwaldite (Stone...cluster analysis of granitic rocks from southwest England, the megacrystic lithium mica granite is clearly...& Stanworth, 1976) and Porthledden, near Cape Cornwall. Badham and Stanworth (1976) consider that this...system. These rocks have extremel y high norm ative corundum; higher , in general, than values found in the |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | 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...needles growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ...Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate to have a trip |  | | 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) | | UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles...there were surely good specimen from the clay pits in Cornwall and some nice green balls from Ireland,...information and a full review in the next UKJMM. UK Journal vf Mines & Minerals No. 28 -2- Frontispiece...Carruth: Copse Cottage, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall Ron Cleevely: High Croft, Gunswell Lane, South |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Isle of Man, Caldbeck Fells, etc. the North Cornwall Lead and Antimony Mines, Dartmoor Mines, etc....Taff's Well, Machen, Dulcote, Merehead, Croft, Gunheath, Coldstones, Greystones, Hampstead Farm, etc....contained several excellent photographs taken in Melbur China Claypit, and in Wakebridge Mine in Derbyshire, and...synchesite-Ce and some good blue anatase. From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper...of copiapite in the UK as his subject. Only a few recorded specimens from the UK are known in theOA- |  | | 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) | | pale blue turquoise from Gunheath China Clay Pit near St Austell in Cornwall. These and the distinctive...excellent and beautifully illustrated article in the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals (UKJMM) on Wave/lite:...hydrargillite from its chemical composition of water and clay. (Nothing much changes, even these days mineralogists...you before and they consisted almost entirely of clay which is I conjecture in combination with the Acid...from the center & wh.have been deemed Zeolites are clay in a very pure crystallised state ... This, then |  | | Book | | permission of Dr Rob Chapman, bottom © The Royal Cornwall Museum; p. 4 top With kind permission of Alan...gold and gemstones, and to the meadows of middle England to look for buried historical treasure. You will...1980s, when over 50,000 people were involved in the UK alone. Today there are around 30,000 detectorists...below are some of the coins that were minted in the UK from the Anglo-Saxon period right up until decimalisation...denarius coin. The penny was first introduced to England in AD 785 by king Offa of Mercia, and it was eventually |  | | Book | | pegmatites of the region, associated with crystals of corundum, rutile, zircon and magnetite. Russian scientists...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 |
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