 | | Book | | So ·Very Foolish A History of the Wherry Mine, Penzance Peter Joseph THE 1:rDVII1rIHill CCJK SOCIETY...Founded1935 Cover image: Print ofa painting of the Wbeny Mine by Denys Law (1907-1981), taken from the Holman...artist bad one or more of the early skecthes of the mine to refer to. Published by The Trevithick Society...by Peninsula Projects, c/o PO Box 62, Camborne, Cornwall TR14 7ZN I instanced a lamentable case of a...000, by a Comish mine. 'I remember,' said another passenger, 'the case of the Wherry mine being re-opened |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALISATION IN G.K. ROLLINSON 1, N. LE BOUTILLIER CORNWALL – A AND NEW DISCOVERY AT PORTHTOWAN R. SELLY...mineralisation in Cornwall – A new discovery at Porthtowan. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 176–187...Although cobalt mineralisation has been noted in Cornwall and Devon in the mining literature, there are...cobalt mineralisation discovered at Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the vicinity of old workings which are part...which found that samples contained up to 50% cobaltite, along with chalcopyrite, bornite, galena, sphalerite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SOCIETY June, 1949 Vol. XXVIII The Wherry mine, Penzance, its history and its mineral productions...standing at Wherry Town on the south-western end I Fofthethevisitor esplanade at Penzance looks seaward...by water, there existed many years ago a rich tin mine, unique in the boldness of its conception, romantic...during the hey-day of its career, this remarkable mine was examined by a very competent observer in the...John Hawkins (1761 ?-1841), F.R.S., of Trewithen, Cornwall, and Bignor Park, Sussex, and it is to him that |  | | Journal (issue) | | INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of |  | | Book | | A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C. ASSOCIATE TRURO:...F.R.S., THB ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL, AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS, (WHOSE OBSERVATIONS |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Kibblehouse Quarry F. A. Keidel 130 The "Cobaltite° Crystals from the K.Joblehouse Quarry J. Alexander...James R. Craig Roderick J. Hill 13S Pennsylvania's Cornwall-Type Iron Mines Bryon Brookmyer 140 The Native...localities such as the Cornwall mines and those of French Creek, the Grace Mine and the Kibblehouse Quarry...the Blue Ridge and the Reading Prong of the New England Province separates the Piedmont from the Valley...vania's "Oil Rush" which began in the 1860s when Cornwall magnetite deposits provided most of the the oil |  | | Book | | There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 |  | | Report (issue) | | MEMOIRS· ·OF ·-1}RE-·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -: ,. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. - -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F PRACTICAL GEOLOGY• of...6d. A Compl1 �) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake ENGLAND .i Di��rct) Dewon;}; ' ....' .. -: Torquay NEW...by Joseph Ca1�·n e, a11d the geological map of Cornwall of 1 832 by D1'. H . S. Boase, are deserving of...ILLUSTRATI ONS. ... ... Fig. 1 .-Map of South-Western Cornwall Fig. 2.-Diagrarnmatic Section across the St. Erth |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK Journal of mes ·and .Minerals Issue SprJng 1989 , No ...6 Pr:f ee ~3.95 ·- • r .. Arnold...Lower Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Calcite (Cornwall) UK Journal of Mines...EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Merritt Cassiterite from Whiteworks Carharrick, Cornwall R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking 22 Mining Methods...the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of City of Manche |  | | Report (issue) | | LOCALITIES: Bucks County: Rushland; Lebanon County: Cornwall? Philadelphia: Fairmount Park. . H ; MICA GROUP...The following analysis of "chrome ore" from Wood's mine by Garrett (1852: 45) lies may be taken as an example...regarding Pennsylvania minerals: to Dr. Edgar T. Wherry for much data, and a critical examination... where they 4 may form hydrothermal Edgar T. Wherry and Samuel G. Gordon, An arrangement veins. Quite...and Chester Counties, at Wood's mine, the Line Pit, and Scott's mine. At a number of lite, ; localities |  | | Report (issue) | | longitude) 2. deposit size (occurrence type - mine, prospect, or occurrence; production estimate) 3...south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which was used in reference descriptions...category. Where multiple names have been given to one mine or prospect site, generally the most recent name...(p), or mineral occurrences (o) in Table 1. The mine designation is given to deposits with a written...Most of these occurrences provided only limited mine production of base metals, although some were temporarily |  | | Report (issue) | | Selection Trust Ltd.; Rhokana Corporation Ltd.; Rhoanglo Mine Services Ltd.; Anglo-American Corporation of South...ore minerals include skutterudite, smaltite, cobaltite, linnaeite, carro/lite, and some oxides such as...groups being the most important. · The Sulphides Cobaltite, CoAsS, contains 35 per cent cobalt metal, and...streak greyish-black. It has a good cleavage. Cobaltite occurs commonly in metasomatic contact deposits...known in Canada (Ontario), Australia, and Burma. Cobaltite is isomorphous with gersdorffite, NiAsS. · The |  | | 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) | | Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11 lllit/, co,uribwions...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,·ri.11l·ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL...whittling-away of the old minesites throughout the UK: foremost in the list of threats arc the use of sites |  | | Report (edition) | | with cubic and octahedral cleavages, Pequea silver mine; middle left: azurite crystals on calcite, “old”...from the owners of the land, from the quarry or mine operators before entering to collect. (Land ownership...tested copper by Benjamin Franklin. In 1732 Gap mine land was owned by the honorable Proprietors Thomas...manganese locality Wharton mine manganese-wavellite Delaware County Behr garnet mine locality Chrome Run chromite...nickel-cobalt-copper mine Mud Lake goethite locality Pequea silver mine Red Pit chromite mine Wood chromite mine Lebanon |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............ 14 Greystones Quarry, Lawhitton, Cornwall by Nick Elton ..................................going to meet with our demise and go to the big mine in the sky, where all the vughs are full of topaz...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...fieldleaderduringthe Society's weeklongmeeting in Cornwall in 1980, when he agreed to lead the Society for |  | | Journal (issue) | | 55 Colorado 57 Congo 57 East Indies 58 England Europe 61 Finland France 84 French Guiana ...Canada Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Texas Ann. Rep. Roy. Cornwall Polyt. Soc. Ann. Rep. Roy. the Board of ReSmithsonian...Survey of Texas, Austin. Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth. gents Institution...the Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Institu- tion of Cornwall, Truro. Annual Report of the School...Supply. Ann. Rep. Trans. Plymouth Inst. Devon and Cornwall Nat. Hist. Soc. . Annual Report of the Secretary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | these pepem are given in the article by Edgar T. Wherry, published elsewhere in this number. CRYSTALLINE...like atoms. Representatives, cobaltite,r CoSAs; other memberg of cobaltite group; some pyrite must belong |  | | Book | | An appendix lists under various subheadings all "UK" (unknown) minerals according to the manner in which...b} (of Chesnokov) calcium iron oxide from burning mine dump Acid Aluminium Phosphate = (of Marchand) inadequately...Chesnokov) calcium chloro-oxy-silicate from burning mine dump Afanerita, Afonesa, Afanesite, Afanezit, Afonite...Chesnokov) calcium chlorosilicate from a burning mine dump Albriltonite = an artificial hydrated cobalt...(of Jusli) m ixture of Chlorargyrite and Calcite? [Mine d'Argent Alkaline] Alkalidavyn, Alkalidavyne = |  | | Journal (issue) | | complex base-metal assemblage from the Sterling mine, New Jersey ......................................Misiur Famous mineral localities: The French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania.........Dickinson Famous mineral localities: The Burra Burra mine, Burra, South Australia ..........................Saddle-shaped rhodochrosite crystals from the Foote mine, North Carolina ..................................ezica m ine (Y ugo slavia), C aldbeck Fells (England), SEM , Eugui quarries (Spain) $10 v .2 2 /# 3 |  | | Report (volume) | | 1-5; vol. 54, pts. 1-3. Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Institution of Petroleum Technologists: Journal...others, no. 16. Bastin, Edson S. ' 50. The Gold Log mine, Talladega County, Alabama (abstract by R. W.-S...134-145, 1917. 168. Molybdenite*deposits of the Moss mine, Quyon, Quebec: Canada, Geol. Survey, Summ. Rept...Chalcedony mistaken for an iron sulphate mineral. See Wherry and . Glenn, no. 1129. Goldman, Marcus I. ' 381...7, 1917. Hardman, John E. 421. The Kingdon lead mine [Ontario]: Canadian Min. Inst, Trans., vol. '20 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. in era ls C TS -----2 EDITORIAL 3-----THE...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene |  | | Book (chapter) | | yellow Fe-rich quartz, László 275 (1995). safre = cobaltite, de Fourestier 309 (1999). sagenite = twinned...orpiment, Kipfer 141 (1974). Schwefelarsenikkobalt = cobaltite, Kipfer 141 (1974). Schwefelblume = sulphur-α...Hammarit = wittite, Chudoba EII, 642 (1958). sehta = cobaltite, Dana 6th, 89 (1892). Seidengips = fibrous gypsum...287 (1966). selencobalt lead = clausthalite + cobaltite + hematite, Egleston 86 (1892). selen-copper-lead...clausthalite + cobaltite + hematite, Dana 6th, 52 (1892). Selenkobaltbleiglanz = clausthalite + cobaltite + hematite |  | | Journal (issue) | | J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...Nineteen, Number Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt...........221 COVER: ANGLESITE from the Touissit mine, Morocco. The large crystal measures 4.5 cm. This...223 8 1 notes from b u EDTYOR M INERALS OF CORNWALL It is an honor indeed for the Mineralogical Record...Museum: Peter Embrey and Robert Sym es’ Minerals o f Cornwall and Devon. We received our first complete copies |  | | Book (volume) | | and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...upper left hand figure, labeled Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall, for X read F. 494 *495 1, line 3, for (155...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...Crystal Chemistry, University Press, Cambridge, England, 1939. L. Bragg, Atomic Structure of Minerals,...1-7, 1834-63. Later name of Boston Society, New England Museum of Natural History. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist |
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Wherry Mine, Wherrytown, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK