 | | 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...subscriptions and advertising. ARSENTSUMEBITE FROM DOLYHIR QUARRY Neil Hubbard • David Green • Tom Cotterell...Cox • Ron Cleevely 31 PARALSTONITE FROM DOLYI-IIR QUARRY Tom Cotterell CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean...FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges 55 ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD |  | | Journal (volume) | | Green 19 32 Richelsdorfite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys: the first British occurrence Neil...Tetrahedrite-group minerals from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys David I. Green, Neil Hubbard and Andrew...unusual magnesium-bearing vivianite within a sandstone hone from Canterbury, Kent Rob A. Ixer and Andrew... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | K. Abstract The Llandovery Folly Sandstone near Presteigne, Powys, contains disseminated thorium mineralization...sub-millimetre-scale bitumen nodules throughout the sandstone. The nodules grew replacively in situ. The two...two square kilometres outcrop/subcrop of the sandstone may contain over 500 tonnes thorium. KEYWORDS: thorium...thorium, thorite, thorianite, bitumen, Silurian, Wales. Introduction THORIUM mineralization is reported...reported from Llandovery sandstones near Presteigne, Powys, in the Welsh Basin. The mineralization occurs throughout |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Summer (1973) Field Meeting in Central Wales 31August to 7 September 1973 Organising Directors: J. W...'first observed a passage downwards from the Old Red Sandstone into these (Silurian) older formations' (Murchison...(1976) have demonstrated, in the Ludlow rocks of Radnor Forest, the relationship between palaeocurrents...the area lay near the northern limit of the Old Red Sandstone molasse basin in which 66 J. W. BAKER AND...:':':::': :) '. 0. D , , , r- u'l / Old Red Sandstone , Dawntonian -~ D ~ DIIJJ Lud low and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 113-120 (1989) The Longmyndian Rocks of the Old Radnor Inlier, Welsh Borderland N. H. WOODCOCK Department...presumed Precambrian sedimentary rocks of the Old Radnor Inlier. The Strinds Formation comprises fine-...correlation with the homogeneous and cross-bedded sandstone facies of the BaystonOakswood Formation of the...Stratigraphy Wales Precambrian Church Stretton Fault 1. GEOLOGICAL SETTING The Old Radnor area exposes...(1900) first recognized the similarity between the Old Radnor rocks and part of the Longmyndian sequence in |  | | Catalog/List | | ■■ CRYPTOMELANE Moel Llyrnant, Arenig, Gwynedd, Wales Rich black massivt: to botryoidal with some matrix...USA Single red-brown flower-like , replaced by sandstone lxl £3.50 1140 ■ ERYTHRITE Skutterud Cobalt Mine...· lf22 ■■ BANNISTERITE - ·· Benallt Mine. Lleyn Wales '-J ' Dark brown veinlets, quite rich with calcite...x2 £6 2x2 £ IO Mn 0 Si0 1136 ■ BROOKITE Prenteg Wales Orange brown small plaly crystal sections on quartz...2x3 £6 Feldspar -- 127 ■■ EWALDITE Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys.Wales Single palt: yellow micro |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology of the Pedwardine district, Herefordshire and Powys HELEN E. BOYNTON 1 AND C. H. HOLLAND 2 * 2 1 7...7 The Fairway, Oadby, Leicester LE2 2HH, UK Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland...extending westwards across the Welsh border into Powys. The district is almost surrounded by others previously...to be overlain by nearly horizontal May Hill Sandstone. He regarded the shales as lithologically indistinguishable...(1884) drew the same conclusions. Additionally, in a quarry in Brampton Bryan Park, he found `an exposure of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vou LXXIV FOR 1918. 1. On the GEOLOGY of tile OLD R.~DNOIt DISTRICT, with special ~'eference to an....................................... II. The Old Radnor Inlier ........................................(Longmyndian) Rocks. (b) The Position of the Old Radnor Rocks in ~he Longmyndian Series. (c) The Woolhope...e d t h e rocks of Old R a d n o r H i l l as a l t e r e d M a y H i l l Sandstone, and t h e s u r r...e d b y t h e lim(~stone a t N a s h Scar a n d Old R a d n o r , when c o m p a r e d with t h e n o |  | | Book (chapter) | | strata crop out in the UK in the West Midlands of England, the Welsh Border- land, Wales, the Lake District...the local succession. Much of central and north Wales has thick sequences of Wenlock rocks, with the Denbigh—...PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL SETTING The Wenlock deposits of the UK were laid down in several major sedimentary basins...500 .River Rawthey Torver- Ashgill O Arcow Quarry .. ........ 400. ~o~~,/ 4e / Ty Mawr // //...Penstrowed El Eaton Track Quarries Eteo e-, Wren's Quarry Qury / Longville–Stanway Nest Road Section Burrington |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hereford. The party drove first to Lowe's Hill Quarry, Bartestree, and examined the section of the Bartestree...base of the Downtonian is marked by a thin brown sandstone, containing fish remains, which is regarded as...Foley of Stoke Edithby whose kind permission the old quarries in Wenlock Limestone were examined. These...Cockshoot where a quarry in Aymestry Limestone was seen and the fine view over the Old Red Sandstone country to...ridge is caused by a minor fault. At Woolhope an old quarry in Woolhope Limestone, north of the church, was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wenlock stratigraphy and palaeogeography of Wales and the Welsh Borderland J. M. HURST, N. J. HANCOCK...1978. Wenlock stratigraphy and palaeogeography of Wales and the Welsh Borderland. Proc. Geol. Ass. 89(3)...description of brachiopod communities in the Wenlock of Wales and the Welsh Borderland permits interpretation...'Ty'n-y-Coed', Llanrhos, Llandudno LL30 lSA, North Wales. W. S. McKerrow, Department ofGeology and Mineralogy...Wenlock Edge ... (c) Ludlow ... (d) Nash Scar and Old Radnor ... (e) Builth (t) Sawdde Gorge ." (g) South |  | | Catalog/List | | lx2 £6 2x2 £10 34 ■ ANDRADITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Pale beige fine grained mass with reddish bands...Ix! £5 lx2 £10 38 BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Rich brown mass with approx 5 % Cymrite .minor matrix...Na Al SiO 22 BANNISTERITE Benallt Mine. Lleyn, Wales Dark brown veinlets throughtout calcite/ quartz...wave Jxl £4 442 ■■ CARYOPILITE Bemallt Mine, Lleyn Wales thin felty brown vens in Calcite Mn Mg OHSiO ½"...-- -- - ... 860 ■ CELSIAN Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales Rich white crystalline mass, with some black Romancheite |  | | Journal (volume) | | Central Wales Orefield Tom Cotterell 15-25 NOTE The composition of volborthite from Newhurst Quarry, Leicestershire...part of the Central Wales Orefield. There are notes on volborthite from Newhurst Quarry, Leicestershire,...Croft Mine and Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall; Dolyhir Quarry, Powys; Ecton Hill, Staffordshire; Potts Gill,...Tynagh Mine, High Longrigg Mine, Ecton Hill and Dolyhir Quarry tend to cluster toward the copper-rich end...Tindle, 2008 for a full list). DOLYHIR QUARRY, POWYS Dolyhir Quarry is located in the Welsh Borderlands |  | | Journal (issue) | | (14th November). These are perhaps the best of the UK shows and well worth a day of your time (other mineral...things you can sometimes find in the drawers of old pieces of furniture. There is also information on...developments in terms of new mining enterprises in the UK. Hopefully the continuing up-turn (albeit slow) in...in the Niagara Falls district. He returned to the UK in the 1930s where he met Doris Holden. They were...Price, M.T. 2012. The Norman Thomson Collection. UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, 33, 21-34) which publicised |  | | Journal (issue) | | bags being deposited on garage floors all over the UK. It was an altogether memorable trip - socially,...Society. Professor Bob Howie was major figure in UK geology and well known to many members. He will be...Curator: Mineralogy Specialist at National Museum Wales, has agreed to have his name put forward for the...field trip to Nant-yr-Eira Mine, Hafren Forest, Powys, Wales. The collection includes several images of minerals...Event". The annual Maisemore event organised by the Wales & West branch and the Cheltenham Mineral and Geological |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 ITS, UK. CDepartrnent of Geology, Stanford University, Stanford...Wrentnall Pitchford Hall Pedwardine Harp Inn Dolyhir Dolyhir Comley WhiteleavedOak Nills Hill Snailbeach...Snailbeach Llanfawr Llanelwedd Houghs Coppice Dolyhir Row Brook Coalport Great OrmesHead Halkyn Minera Vale of...sandstonepore-filling fracture-fill fracture-fill black shale sandstone pore-filling sandstonepore-filling fracture-fill...fracture-fill sandstonepore-filling seepage from sandstone in chalcopyrite vein in galena vein in galena |  | | Book | | Silurian Field Excursions A geotraverse across Wales and the Welsh Borderland D.J. SIVETER, R.M. OWENS...AMGUEDDFA GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WALES GEOLOGICAL SER I ES NO. 10 Published in conjunction...Cardiff, March 1989 ... © National Museum of Wales, 1989 ISBN 0 7200 0329 6 REFERENCE TO THIS VOLUME...geotraverse across Wales and the Welsh Borderland. I 33pp National Museum of Wales, Geological Ser ies...south-west Dyfed, Wales (locality 6.4d of this guide). Near-vertical beds of sandstone standing proud from |  | Aldridge, R. J., Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J., Lane, P. D., Palmer, D., Woodcock, N. H. (2000) British Silurian Stratigraphy - Geological Conservation Review No. 19. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. | Book | | University of Leicester, UK David J. Siveter Department of Geology, University of Leicester, UK Derek J. Siveter...Oxford, UK P.D. Lane School of Earth Sciences, University of Keele, UK D. Palmer Cambridge, UK and N.H...Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK GCR Editor: L.P. Thomas NATURE JOINT CONSERVATION...Monkstone House, City Road, Peterborough, PE1 1JY, UK First edition 2000 2000 joint Nature Conservation...study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication |  | Aldridge, R. J., Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J., Lane, P. D., Palmer, D., Woodcock, N. H. (2000) References, Glossary, Fossil Index & General Index. In British Silurian Stratigraphy - Geological Conservation Review No. 19. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. p.459-542. | Book (chapter) | | du Vieux Gres Rouge ou Systeme Devonien [Old Red Sandstone] des Isles Brittanique et de Russie, Neuchatel...Researches in the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth... Holland and M.G. Bassett), National Museum of Wales, Geological Series No. 9, pp. 274-9. Aldridge, R...sedimentation: six cyclothems from the Lower Old Red Sandstone, Anglo-Welsh basin. Sedimentology, 3, 163-98...sedimentation and palaeogeography of the Old Red Sandstone of Anglesey, North Wales. Proceedings of the Yorkshire |  | | Journal (issue) | | specific topics, anecdotes of collecting in the “good old days” or whatever. Fire up those e-mails, sharpen...is a great way to meet new people, catch up with old friends or to acquire a few new specimens all within...Mineralogy at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, in Cardiff, where I have worked for thirteen years... Many interesting mineral species, some new to Wales or the British Isles, have been identified and through...leading a fieldtrip to some long forgotten mine in Wales. I joined the Russell Society fifteen years ago |  | | 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...individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other organisations |  | | Book (edition) | | cover Operations in the Welton Chalk at Melton Ross Quarry, Singleton Birch Ltd., near Brigg, North Lincolnshire...Figures 1 An extract from Hunt’s 1858 listing of Quarry Returns 2 Current distribution of BRITPITS database...resources and workings in the UK in 2014 4 Limestone resources and workings in the UK in 2014 5 Sand and Gravel...resources and workings in the UK in 2014 6 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK in 2014 7 Coal resources...and workings in the UK in 2014 8 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas workings in the UK in 2014 9 Marine Sand |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................. Wales & West 9 ............................................................... North West iVorthern Wales & West I Southern Russell Society Field Meetings...Campus of the University College of Wales Newport. Our friends in the Wales and West Branch have got together...Steven Mulley South West Branch:Christopher Sharp Wales & West Branch:Rhiannon Cottrell; Edward Penfold...website - just follow the links. Or contact the Wales and West secretary - Lynda Garfield, lyndagarfield@tesco |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | southeast margin of the Wenlock turbidite system, Mid-Wales A.J. Dimberline and N.H. Woodcock Department of...CB2 3E0, U.K. Wenlock age turbidites in central Powys are subdivided into the mudstone rich Llanbadarn...pore-waters may have been anoxic. KEY WORDS Mid Wales Wenlock Turbidites Hemipelagic facies Slope 1...1. Introduction The Wenlock turbidites of mid Wales were described by Cummins (1957) at a time when turbidite...and Nantglyn Flags (McKenny Hughes 1879) of North Wales. This subdivision is well established (Boswelll926 |  | | Report (chapter) | | of the Usk and Tortworth inliers. Over much of S Wales the sandstones are finer and transitional to the...Radnoria/Cornuproetus This association is best developed in the Dolyhir and Nash Scar Limestone Formation, a sparry algal...shale/turbidite belt but upper Wenlock beds in N Wales have yielded Miraspis and Struveria. These FIG...Schizoproetus _ Cornuproetus Decoroproetus sandstone belt Decoroproetus Radnoria other Brachymetopidae...shelf limestones Proetus/Warburgella association sandstone belt Acaste/lrimerus association j Trimerus |
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