 | | 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) | | RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm., 1991; XRD by Monica |  | | Catalog/List | | ecimens as half phosphatic geodes from the Hiocene clay vith lmm,yellow-green,tabular xtls in aggregates...FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...hexagonal xtls. LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten Down Quarry,Calstock,Cornwall. 2 specimens. Specimen A-matrix fragment richly |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | carbonate-bearing eclogites at Shuanghe in Dabieshan, central China, 461 Alunite-type minerals, from Broken Hill, New...Argentopentlandite, enclosed within early tin-bearing chalcopyrite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, 317 Armalcolite...Pb-ZnAg and Fe deposits, Qinling, northwestern China, 433 Backscattered electron, imaging of microstructures...Pb-Zn-Ag and Fe deposits, Qinling, northwestern China, 433 Baotite (Nb-rich), in carbonatites and fenites...Pb-Zn-Ag and Fe deposits, Qinling, northwestern China, 433 Barium manganese silicate, nodlbensonite, a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Variscite and metavariscite from Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall VARISCITE, A1PO4.2H20, was first...reported in Cornwall by Barstow (1982), who found specimens in the Hensbarrow china clay works, about...incorporated within Gunheath Pit (NGR SX 005571). Variscite is uncommon at Gunheath Pit, typically occurring...on a n~umber of other specimens collected from Gunheath during 1984 and 1987. Most have characteristics...to those quoted by Roberts et al. (1990). At Gunheath Pit, variscite and metavariscite typically occur |  | | 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 |  | | 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...the ore shoots in the mines comprise of solid chalcopyrite and cassiterite a hundred metres thick. Scoping...Further deposits in Ireland, Germany, Poland and the UK were described, making this a truly absorbing lecture |  | | 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) | | ............ 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) | | study but galena, blende, pyrite and probable chalcopyrite have been found in limestones of Wenlock age...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...stream beds, along with pyrite and also probably chalcopyrite. These two latter minerals have not been located |  | | 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...found some very interesting calcites, some with chalcopyrite crystals. Gavin spent his time examining calcites...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 |  | | 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) | | Mary Ann , Sheppey barite, Hemerdon scorodite, China Clay Pit wavellite, turquoise, cacoxenite and variscite...galena from Madan with a Gunheath China Clay Pit cacoxenite! Day 2 Elatsite Open Pit (a porphyry copper deposit)...Chelopech Gold mine. Elatzite is a working open pit and the mine geologist Zlati Vassilev accompanied...field trip to Siberia in 1992) to take us into the pit to a level which was not being worked . Initially...showed little promise with the odd coating of chalcopyrite and molybdenite and crusts of micro chabazite |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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...believed. In one case, a specimen was covered in chalcopyrite crystals which could not be seen until the dust...synchesite-Ce and some good blue anatase. From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper |  | | 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) | | 3 - ,.� The 1994 Spring Fieldtrip Devon and Cornwall l L� - l 7 th April Driving across wild moorland...prepared to collect. Holmbush mine dumps, Kelly Bray, Cornwall were our first'target, but they proved quite elusive...to be had, but nevertheless there was pyrite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite and siderite. The latter formed...Maurice Grigg who led our party into the Gunheath China Clay Pit, which was working again. Maurice was very...to collect, but he took us around the back of the pit to the region of the old Bunny mine, where we could |  | | Journal (issue) | | Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow 3...a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being about 8 years old at the time. Three years...mention must be made of the excellent suites of chalcopyrite, chalcocite, fluorite, barite, pyromorphite...Book Co. Endsleigh House,50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA or phone (0872)223227 PAUL LOWE MINERALS...MINERALS Endsleigh House, 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA Gerrlmologists Crystals & Gemstones |  | | 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...specimen of tourmaline and libethenite from Gunheath China Clay Pit The applause which greeted his award reflected...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 |  | | 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...of slender,tarnished,prismatic xtls vith ive Chalcopyrite. A boxed MIN Cornish classic. L75. Matrix same... vith ateely-blue crystalline developments. Chalcopyrite xtla alao present. Boxed KIN,t5. ~ -545. |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |
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