| | Report (issue) | X-ray Powder Pattern: Torr Works quarry, near Cranmore, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. 3.390 (100), 2.544...1.76 100.00 (1) Torr Works quarry, near Cranmore, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England; average electron...diaboleite, mimetite, calcite, aragonite, quartz, baryte. Distribution: At Torr Works quarry (‘Merehead...(‘Merehead quarry’), near Cranmore, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Name: For the county of Somerset in South...South West England where the first specimens were collected. Type Material: Department of Mineralogy, St | | Rumsey, M. S., Krivovichev, S. V., Siidra, O. I., Kirk, C. A., Stanley, C. J., Spratt, J. (2012) Rickturnerite, Pb7O4[Mg(OH)4](OH)Cl3, a complex new lead oxychloride mineral. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (1) 59-73 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.1.59 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Crystallography, St Petersburg State...University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK [Received 30 March 2011; Accepted 6 December 2011;...new mineral from Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, near the village of Cranmore in Somerset, United Kingdom...with mereheadite, cerussite, calcite, aragonite, mimetite, hydrocerussite, ‘plumbonacrite’ and an uncharacterized...oxychloride, Merehead quarry, Somerset, mineral nomenclature, Torr Works quarry, new structure type. Introduction | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | with 3-mm azurite crystals, acicular malachite, mimetite, and calcite (the hydrocerussite occurs only on...arsentsumebite, azurite, malachite, pale yellow mimetite, and 2–4-mm phosgenite crystals; and (3) pseudomorphs...are associated with small radiating sprays of mimetite, duftite, and white dolomite crystals. Keller...locality for hydrocerussite is the Higher Pitts mine, Mendip Hills, in the United Kingdom (Burr 1996). The mineral...crystals with individuals to 1.4 cm, Torr Works quarry, Mendip Hills, England. The Arkenstone specimen and photo | | Turner, R. W., Siidra, O. I., Rumsey, M. S., Polekhovsky, Y. S., Kretser, Y. L., Krivovichev, S. V., Spratt, J., Stanley, C. J. (2015) Yeomanite, Pb2O(OH)Cl, a new chain-structured Pb oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 79 (5) 1203-1211 doi:10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.14 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | chain-structured Pb oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England R. W. TURNER1,*, O. I. SIIDRA2, M. S....Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Mineral Deposits, St Petersburg State...assemblage at Merehead (Torr Works) Quarry, near Cranmore, Somerset, England. Yeomanite is named in joint...her company, Foster Yeoman, who operated Merehead Quarry for aggregate until 2006. The mineral is normally | | Siidra, Oleg I., Nekrasova, Diana O., Turner, Rick, Zaitsev, Anatoly N., Chukanov, Nikita V., Polekhovsky, Yury S., Spratt, John, Rumsey, Mike S. (2018) Somersetite, Pb8O(OH)4(CO3)5, a new complex hydrocerussite-related mineral from the Mendip Hills, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (5) 1211-1224 doi:10.1180/minmag.2017.081.087 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Complex Hydrocerussite-Related 3 Mineral from the Mendip Hills 4 5 6 Oleg I. Siidra1*, Diana O. Nekrasova1...Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK 12 3 Department of Mineralogy, St. Petersburg...Petersburg, Russia 14 4 15 Road, London SW7 5BD, UK 16 5 Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics...Russia 19 7 20 Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Mineral and Planetary Sciences Division, Earth Sciences...somersetite, has been found at Torr Works (“Merehead Quarry”) in Somerset, 29 England, United Kingdom. Somersetite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mineralized Mn deposits at Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track...Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR ACT Mississippi Valley type galena deposits emplaced into...into Carboniferous limestones throughout the Mendip Hills during the late Permian or Triassic period...formation processes probably explains the rarity of Mendip-type Pb-Mn deposits. The collective importance...mereheadite, Mn deposits, oxychloride, Somerset, Mendip, Merehead, England. Introduction T HIS paper presents | | | Report (issue) | 9393(16) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, England. 6.474 (100), 3.233 (73), 2.867...2.33 6.15 2.60 1.39 100.00 (1) Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, England; electron microprobe analyses, H2O...Association: Mereheadite, cerussite, calcite, aragonite, mimetite, hydrocerussite, “plumbonacrite,” manganite, pyrolusite...Distribution: From the Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, near the village of Cranmore, England. Name: Honors Rick...Type Material: Natural History Museum, London, England (BM 2008,100). References: (1) Rumsey, M.S., S | | | Book | "ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...was born on the 18th March 1923 in Leicester, England. He attended the City Boys School, Leicester, and...mineral from New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical Magazine, 66...Silurian Konservat-Lagerstatte of Herefordshire, UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series | | | Journal (volume) | 2006 from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...twinned trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of...CONTENTS Volume 13, 2010 PAPERS The minerals of the Mendip Hills and their relationships Rick Turner and Michael...look at the work that we have been doing in the Mendip Hills (reported in this issue of the Journal) in...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mineral from the Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, near the village of Cranmore in Somerset, U.K. Rickturnerite...with mereheadite, cerussite, calcite, aragonite, mimetite, hydrocerussite, “plumbonacrite,” and an uncharacterized...[Pb2OF]Cl, is a new mineral from Merehead quarry, Somerset, England. Rumseyite occurs in a single cavity (~1...Limestone at the Merehead (also known as Torr Works) quarry. Rumseyite is found enclosed in a platy mass...is noted for his work on the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills and Kombat mine (Namibia), and in particular | | | Journal (issue) | Locality: ⓘ Torr Works Quarry (Merehead Quarry), Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK Mike responded...years, including our ambitious field trips in the UK and overseas; Nick remembered those magic moments...so I have selected two (photos 9a/b) Photo 9a Mimetite Photo 9b Cerussite In a short report on Tsumeb | | | Book | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...minerals. MB/ does not simply report on published works, but also takes one further step in reporting many...publishing his first work on the minerals of the Mendip Hills (Kingsbury 1935). he aspired to become a...Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine,nr Priddy,Somerset Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)'...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | segnitite, marcasite, galena, sphalerite, and mimetite. The mineral is pale green to yellowish-green...hydrocerussite-related mineral from the Mendip Hills, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 82(5), 1211–1224...from the Torr Works quarry, near the town of Cranmore in Somerset, England. The quarry works Carboniferous...named for the locality in the county of Somerset in South West England. Type material is deposited in the | | | Journal (volume) | Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...white botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green...photograph. Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, UK, with a structure based on polyoxometalate clusters...village of Goldsithney, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England, U.K. (50.1414°N 5.4269°W). The mine is well known...the pegmatite from a blast pile at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld...sulfosalts accumulations in dolostone of the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland. This well-known...the knowledge of the mineralogy of the Lengenbach quarry. The holotype specimen of ralphcannonite is deposited | | | Journal (issue) | ................................... New Find at Torr Wor.ks Rick Turner 16 ...........................he relocated to the North of England and at the age of sixteen left the UK to live and study in Canada...Canada for seven years. Colin returned to England, this time the south east region, and then relocated to Cornwall...collecting minerals around 1976, both in the North of England and especially in Cornwall. Colin ColinSparrowreceivingthe...For one of the leading mineralogical society in the UK to be at odds with the government department responsible | | | Journal (issue) | anglesite, PbSO4, pyromorphite, Pb5(PO4)3CI and mimetite, Pbs(AsO4}3CI are examples of common secondary...Dumps from old mines, for example in south west England, are often rusty brown with iron oxides, and where...Flints • Books • Accessories Tuperssuatsiaite, Aris Quarry, Near Windhoek, Namibia (6mm across) Specimen:...a tray of mineral specimens) were subdivide into UK only and worldwide, while a new photographic class...SINGLE MINERAL OR ROCK SPECIMEN COLLECTED IN THE UK. There were 7 entries in this class. First place | | | Journal (issue) | UK TS 2 EDITORIAL 2 BUXTON COVER:A superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate...Piddcollection. MUSEUM Ros Westwood 6 MINERAL NEWS 11 The UK ]011mal ef Mines a11dMinerals publishes articles...UKJounul of Mines & Mincr:ils No '7 -l- EDITORIAL he UK]oumal efMi11es& Mi11eralsis now in its twenty second...which at least eight have makers or retailers marks. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -2- Frontispiece...The imageis a combination of six digitalphotos. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -3- However | | | Journal (issue) | him to explore the geology and minerals of the Mendip Hills, an area which became of intense interest...endless analysis of two unknown phases from Merehead Quarry, took up much of his time. Eventually, with the...rare oxychloride minerals from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England," Mineralogical Record, vol. 8, no...Merehead quarry in particular, was honored by the naming of a pink oxychloride from the Torr Works (formerly...(formerly Merehead quarry) as symesite in 2000. In addition to his research and curatorial activities, Bob | | | Journal (issue) | l.llr.::r.m o:1~. ~ fn ►•:, u, 1b.: .\~-nl h .~ UK =...a new member who went on an invite to his first quarry and was so interested he joined the society and...Alderley Edge Mines (insurance fee) Minera, Llyn Clys Quarry Manchester Museum Llanrwst Mines, Dolyhir Thurstaston...techniques it is possible to authenticate and date works of art. Ruth ran through a ran ge of mineral pigments...FitzGerald with a display of specimens from Dean Quarry, Cornwall. Peter Wallace Wales & West Branch | | | Journal (volume) | non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David...herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals, from Chywoon Quarry, in Cornwall. There are, however, four other Cornish...mandarinoite, the rare iron selenite. Back in England, but at the northern end of the realm on this occasion | | | Journal (issue) | of minerals and a C d-substituted derivative of mimetite. Vanackerite is trigonal with space g roup P-3...crystal structure is o bta ined from the hexagonal mimetite structure by s ite-spl itting of one of the Pb-positions...collected in 1980 and since then mistaken for mimetite. The sample o rig inates from the second oxidation...mineral assemblage at Merehead (Torr Works) Quarry. near C ranmore. Somerset, Eng land. Yeomanite is named...company, Foster Yeo ma n. who o perated Merehead Quarry fo r aggregate until 2006. The minera l is no rmally | | | 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...other publications quote the Journal in their own works. Long may it continue to flourish and expand". Cheltenham...formation of rivals like Rockbottom and its successor UK Journal of Mines and Minerals. The Russell Society...sargent714@btinternet.com chrisandsue@five.eclipse.co. uk micromin@tiscali.co.uk ksnellgreenbank@gmail .corn | | | Journal (issue) | along some excellent photos of minerals from Machen Quarry, unfortunately just too late to go in the branch...branch had got up to this year. Minerals of Dolyhir Quarry On Sunday morning, November 16th 2003 in the Glanely...handout on all the minerals to be found in the quarry was provided. Quite a few of these minerals from...finest exposures of a porphyry-copper deposit in the UK. In 1998 the section was carefully cleared of talus...the Northern Pennines) was identified by BGS as mimetite and is stuffed full of nickel! Trevor Bridges | | | Journal (issue) | with high temperatures, but they are unusual for the UK and are therefore worth a comment. As responsible...unusual for the temperature at the bottom of a quarry to be 15 degrees Centigrade higher than the outside...under these conditions the bottom of our local quarry is a pretty fair approximation of the Sahara in...you can. Get them out of the sun, and out of the quarry. In the meantime, loosen their clothing and lie...seen any truly serious cases of heatstroke in the UK, the potential is there and I have seen many minor |
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