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| tramways in the N.E. .. Rubies from the frozen north ................................................................... . Chart topping rocks: Top 100 UK "Geosites" named ............................ Mineral...aims the recording of new and interesting items of UK topographic mineralogy. If you think your group may...comfort. The amount of water blowing around over the UK is vanishingly small compared to the amounts of water...museum curators we have invited from right across the UK. FinaDy, Dr Denis Martin is stepping down as national |
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| ...............................................North West I Northern 17 ............................................................................. North West 23 ..........................................inviting programme prepared by our friends in the North East. This is closely followed by the one day Conference...Peter Munro Northern Branch: Alec Livingstone North West Branch: Bill Gurney South East Branch: Andrew...the North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to S.E. England until |
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| ................................................ UK Mining Snippets ...................................this issue you will find – among other things: - UK Mining Snippets – a collection of news items about...actual or proposed commercial activities across the UK. Some of these are positive and show projects proceeding...surprised at the level of interest and activity in UK mining. I should point out that these are just plums...and one of the Luncheon Groups, travelled in the UK and Europe and, with her husband John, cruised with |
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| June 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...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite...deposits, such as Higher Pitts Farm and Merehead Quarry, are in fact related, and the discovery of parallels...untoward incident, I might add) and on many occasions, quarry companies have called us in when something interesting |
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| 17. Update of the mineral occurrences at Judkins Quarry ------------------Page 19. Mineralogy in the News...--------------------------------------------------------Page 21. UK Mining Round-up --------------------------------...---------------------------Page 35. Coldstones Quarry (NB) --------------------------------------------------------Page...---------------Page 36. Chipping Sodbury Quarry (SB) ------------------------------------------------Page...------------------------------Page 39. Whatley Quarry (SB) ----------------------------------------- |
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| The: lKcurrence of sphalerite in Leicestershire, England R.J. King 15 Lead-zi nc-copper-arsenic-baryte...e mineralization from Clevedon, near Bristol, England R.A. lxer, R.A. D. Pat/rick and R.E. Starkey NOTES...Moreton and P. Aspen Cinnabar from Stancombe quarry, near Bristol, England N. Zachariades CONSERVING BRITA[N...British minerals, especially those of northern England. Many of the country's museums have benefited from...amateur, especially one so prominent in the north of England, where Sir Arthur Russell, too, made important |
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| the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Trinafour.ScoU. Lochan-na-Lalrigh Loanhead quarry Loanhead quarry Hopeful vein Hopeful vein Ralk's vein Fethaland...averockBraes Meadowfootslag Hagdalequarry Hagdale quarry Ardalanlsh Bay Ecton Hill.staffs Tavistock,Devon |
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| ............. Former miner honoured for building UK - Mexico links .................... Crystal Classics...his medical problems necessitated a return to the UK for treatment. Following this Jorn worked in the...followed through . For two of the GCR sites (Machen Quarry, Mwyndy Mine), the current project was asked to...Well Quarry hosts iron-oxide facies and other mineralisation types, readily seen in fresh quarry faces...Limestone Group is particularly spectacular in quarries north of Cardiff. The area is renowned for scalenohedral |
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| America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................incorporates the AGM. This will be held this year in North Wales; not in Tal-y-bont as originally intended...updates (still lots of activity in various parts of the UK) and an addition to the list of “creative things...minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local museum...countless field trips to sites of interest around England and Wales and although membership numbers have |
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| 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...01452 618015, e-mail: marashean@talktalk.net) North West Bran ch Attendance at the Darwen and Rural...'beautyintheuniverse' biog. Christine Critchley. North West Branch Work at the Botanic gardens Museum,...Craven, the Natural Sciences Advisor for Renaissance North West, had suggested NW Branch members may be able |
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| Sphalerite Strontianite "Sulphate-free symesite" Sulphur Symesite Tetrahedrite Vanadinite Vesigneite "wad"... * X X X * X * X X Doulting Stone Quarry Dulcote Quarry X X Ham Woods X X * X X X X X X...X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Merehead Quarry Moons Hill * X X * T X X X T X * X X X X...X X X X X Stancombe Lane Wesley Mine Westbury-sub-Mendip Whatley Quarry Wick Quarry X X X X X X...Rodney Pitts (Chewton) Rowberrow Sandford Hill + Quarry Shipham x X X X * X X X X X X X X X X X * X |
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| ........... “Encouraging” initial results from North Pennine drilling project ....... Scottish Gold exhibition...nice crystals? There will be events held around the UK and across the world, but one which caught my attention...as you will no doubt be aware, some parts of the UK are richer, mineralogically, than others and therefore...I have suggested an overview of the whole of the UK. I will be focussing on the period from the mid-eighteenth...was born on 4th August 1942 in Middlesbrough, England, the day on which Middlesbrough Railway Station |
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| Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................will be a loss; especially to members in the north of England. On a more up-beat theme, there is positive...to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...South Crotty but a new exploration programme in the north Pennines offers the possibility of significant developments...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry |
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| Cumbria, CA5 7AY Tel 07971 559212 N Mr Tim Hayton North Lodge Farm, Longcliff Hill, Old Dalby, Melton Mowbray...skills, created the displays for Hampstead Farm Quarry, The Mendips, and The Bristol Area. Jim was also...he was joined by his parents. Upon returning to England he was employed by A.C.Dunn of Rugby and seconded...Promoting mineralogy and helping mineralogists in the UK and Ireland; Norman talked about how exhibits in...contacted many people and organisations across the UK). Jean-Claude writes: "My son and I are collectors |
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| difficult, or ferry heavy bags and kit back up steep quarry roads . As we approach the end of the first decade...- just ask anyone who was on the Breedon Cloud Quarry trip on 15 May (see the account in this newsletter)...Dave Lloyd No.1 The Old Coach Yard, East Croker, Somerset, BA22 9HY. Tel 01935 862673 SW Miss Marion Martin...Richards 53 Vereland Road, Hutton, Weston-s-Mare, Somerset, BS24 9TH SW Mr Zack Van Coller Flat 6 Staunton...collection contains numerous excellent pieces from the UK and abroad. On one occasion he was invited to exhibit |
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| -~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli;................................................. North \:\lest.... . 12..................................Force Polish Air Force Remnants. John arrived in England at RAF Manston around April 1940, where he joined...Society Newsletter Issue 51 - September 2007 North Pennines Festival of Geology This consists of two...identified, i.e. Fluorite Zone - Heights Mine and quarry. Baryte Zone - Settlingstones Mine. Virtually no |
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| quarried for civic docks elsewhere. A stone Bixhead Quarry 1983 (FD30) Dean Heritage Museum and at Mitcheldean...entries. The entries are arranged geographically from north to south. Each entry includes a location reference...GSIA plaque. A branch link- ing Leckampton Hill Quarry carried up to 20,000 tons of stone annually. In...structure is 18th century and may be viewed from the north-west- ern side of Sandford Park. Most of the...(1849) lies north of the Barge Arm. building in the The Docks, oldest the North Warehouse (c1826 |
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| RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent gypsum...(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...from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England c. M. Leppinf{toll and D.I. Green 36 Atacamite |
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| area, Cheshire, England R . S. W. Braith waite 91 Fluorite at Hampstead Farm quarry, Chipping Sodbury...109 NOTES Tyuyamunite from St Just, Cornwall , England NJ. Elton and J.J. Hooper 114 Barytocalcite and...witherite from Rorrington mine, Chirbury, Salop, England R.E. Starkey, N. Hubbard and B. Young 115 Witherite...Cumbria, England R . Bunting 118 Vivianite from South Humberside and Yorkshire , England M.E. Smith...121 Cinnabar from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England T. ,veall and M. Lepping ton 123 Analyses of |
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| ..... 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 |
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| Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...29 Ru Ruthenium 44 Dy Dyspros'um 66 s Sulphur 16 Er Erb:um 68 Sb Antimony 51 Eu Europ'um...Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine,nr Priddy,Somerset Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)'...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci |
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| MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. .. ENGLAND AND WALES• EXPLANATION OF SHEET 339. THE GEOLOGY OF THE...Bishopsteignton .. ••• ••• ,, -��_;_R ailway-cutting north of Ashton Station ••• '' Page 10 •• • .... ...Lympston (N. end) ., 5.-· ,,.-. ••• •' 6.-North-west of Hayes Barton ,,,. 7.-Gravel near Langstone...connect it with the maps already described on the north and south, the district, presents in the ·Haldon...the map. . . . . The small granite tract in the north-west corner of the map is for the most pait ·above |
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| 21, OF THE (ONE INCH) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP OF ENGLAND. • BY HORACE B. WOODWARD, F.G.S., ;. .. ....classification of the Triassic rocks ... in the S.W. of England) .. .Penarth beds (Rhretic) .. List of British...Tributaries - 148 153 Congresbury-Yeo,.and the ·North Marsh · ... .. 1 54 South or Brent Marsh and the...to the south of the Mendips ,, 6. Section of the north side of the Mendip Hills near Compton Martin ''...Stoke ,, 9. Section near Dunyate ,, , 1 O. Section north of Shepton Mallet ,, 1 1. General section of beds |
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| smaller. 1t,x1 11 ,f2.00. Specimen A. i.GATE (Somerset Pota.to Stone). Mendip Hills. '.~ell p::>lished...Hemimorphite. 2~1; 11 ,~3.00. 21. ~UTUNITE. Merryvale Quarry,Princetown,Devon. Very rich cover of small yel...minor matrix. 1¼,x111 ,E6.25. CHALCEDONY. Penlee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall. Quartz/Cb.alcedonic hyb~id with...implanted Specimen B. 1¾x1",~.50. RHODOCHROSITE. Stancombe Minor,Bovey Tracey,Devon. seam (about i" thick)...dark-green,large matrix-free TREMOLITE.Sanders Quarry,Franklin,Suaaex Co.,New Jersey,U.S.A. F1uorescent |
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| ............................................. North West iVorthern Wales & West I Southern Russell...not to be biased, but I have to congratulate the North West branch on giving me such a hard time trying...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 |
