| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | AND CURVED FELDSPAR GROWTH IN THE ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT GRANITE, CORNWALL. G. E. A. JACKSON AND G. M. POWER...and curved feldspar growth in the St Michael's Mount Granite, Cornwall. Proceedings of the Ussher Society...Society, 8, 363-367. The St Michael's Mount Granite is well-known for its spectacular Sn-W mineralisation...Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 3QL. INTRODUCTION St Michael's Mount lies approximately 4 km east of Penzance...feldspar aggregates on the southern foreshore of the Mount but did not comment further on its possible origin | | | Catalog/List | Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...terminations. £110 13 14 PYROMORPHITE (4cm 4cm x 3cm) St. Salvy, Tam, France Grass green crystal groups of...shaped specimen £>15 37 ATACAMITE (5cm x 4cm x 4cm) Mount Gunson Mint, South Australia A nodular type specimen...garnet to 1cm on a skarn matrix Lovdy colour £40 APATITE, CASSITERITE & MICA (3cm x 8cm x 6 Jem) Ltvtl 3...Portugal Very sharp well formed greenish crystals of apatite to almost 1cm in size richly intergrown with mica | | | 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 | | Dominy, S.C., Camm, G.S., Bussell, M.A., Scrivener, R.C., Halls, C. (1995) A review of tin stockwork mineralization in the south west England orefield. Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 (4) Ussher Society. | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | TIN STOCKWORK MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND OREFIELD S.C. DOMINY, G.S. CAMM, M.A. BUSSELL ...tin stockwork mineralization in the south-west England orefield. Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8...of mineralization encountered in the south-west England orefield less typical than the characteristic composite...4AW. R. C. Scrivener, British Geological Survey, St. Just, 30 Pennsylvania Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 6BX...Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP. INTRODUCTION Cornwall was formerly one of the world's greatest tin and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | IN THE PNEUMATOLYTIC LODE SYSTEMS OF SOUTH WEST ENGLAND C. HALLS, J. W. COSGROVE AND G. S. CAMM Halls,...pneumatolytic lode systems of south west England. Geoscience in south-west England, 10, 058-063 Cliffs, foreshore...foreshore and opencast mining operations in south west England provide outstanding exposures of mineral lodes...School of Mines, University of Exeter, Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom INTRODUCTION Swarms of parallel...molybdenite, with or without topaz, fluorite, apatite and/or accessory tourmaline and with well-defined | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Petrogenesis of the Bosworgey Granitic Cusp in the SW England Tin Province and Its Implications for Ore Mineral...Nottingham, England 2 Institute of Geological Sciences, 64-78 Grays Inn Road, London, England Abstract....and S which are present largely as tourmaline, apatite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, bismuth, columbite...irregular Fig. 1. Simplified geological map of SW England showing positions of the granite plutons and cusps...cusps. L= Land's End, S = St. Michael's Mount, T-G = Tregonning-Godolphin, B = Bosworgey, CB=Cam Brea | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 196 EXCURSION TO CORNWALL. MONDAY, AUGUST 8TH, TO SATURDAY, AUGUST 13TH, 1887. Directors: THE PRESIDENT;...Secretary to the Mining Association and Institute of Cornwall; and A. K. BARNETT, F.G.S., of Penzunce. (Report...which a visit of tIle Association to the West of England had been extended beyond the TaIllar, an unusual1y...August 6th, and these had not struck far into Cornwall before an interesting rock presented itself for...the party assembled at the Royal Institution of Cornwall, ill Pydar Street, Truro. Here they were cordially | | | Journal (issue) | CHAIRMAN'S REPORT 3 Mineralogy and paragenesis at the Mount Wellington Mine (Abstract). By Y.A. Kettaneh and...age of some cassiterite mineralisation in S. W. Cornwall (Abstract). By A.N. Halliday....................technique to selected mineralised areas in S.W. England (Abstract). By K. Atkinson and M.J. McCullough...Palaeomagnetism, and the dynamothermal history of the St. Peter Port Gabbro, Guernsey. By E.A. Hailwood and...occurrence of topaz-rich greisens in St.Michael's Mount, Cornwall. By Farid Moore........................... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Wolfsberg, Harz, gersdorffite, 38. British Isles :ENGLAND Barwell, Leicestershire, meteorite, 101, 855. Bigrigg...Wold Newton, Yorkshire, meteorite, 101,855. Cornwall St. Minver, minverite, kaersutite, 874. The Rill...Ease quarry; Great Zawn, Zennor; Knill's Steeple, St. Ives; Morvah ; Mouselmle ; Pedn men Du, Sennen Cove;...Trelavour clay pits and St. Roche Rock, St. A ustell ; St. Mewan Beacon; St. Michael's Mount ; Tregarden quarry...hyalophane, 914. Wajula, Almora, Uttar Pradesh, kle. St. Gotthard, hematite, 625. mentite, 752. Bihar A u | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | EarlyandMain StageOre Mineralization in Southwest Cornwall A. N. H^i•i•m^¾ Scottish Universities Research...southwestEngland (Cor- ondary muscovite,fluorite, apatite, cassiterite,pyrite, nubian) batholithof 290 to...The quartz yieldsfluid inRb-Sr wholerockagesfor the St. Austellgraniteand clusiontemperaturesof Th (homogenization...S. W. CORNWALL r'• Basement Rocks ,,,. . . • Granite Cupolas • • •r•gn(•t•-•--•'• "•- St. Agnes...porphyry stocks, such as Cligga Head and St. Michael's Mount (Fig. 1) (Hall, 1974). The greisenizationprocess(phyllic | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 57 Francolite, a Variety of Apatite from Levant Mine, St. Just, Gornwall. By R. H. SOLLY,F.G.S., Demonstrator...1886.] HE three varieties of apatite at present known to occur in Cornwall are the sea-green limpid crystals...crystals from St. Michael's Mount and other places, the dirty-white, semi-opaque, hexagonal prisms associated...chalybite from the deep workings of Levant Mine, St. Just. The specimens are closely analogous to those...widely separated and highly coloured rings of apatite, and with the aid of a mica plate the sign of double | | | Journal (issue) | Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow 3...underground in a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being about 8 years old at the time. Three...Book Co. Endsleigh House,50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA or phone (0872)223227 PAUL LOWE MINERALS...suites:Pseudomorphs, Wulfenites, Pyromorphites Mont St Hilaire, Kola Peninsula USSR,lvigtut Greenland, Radioactives...MINERALS Endsleigh House, 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA Gerrlmologists Crystals & Gemstones | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | GREENSTONES" OF W~STERN CORNWALL. 155 19. On a~e so~lled " GR~NSTONm" Of"WmTSRN CORNWALl. By J. AxTm~ P~I...West Cornwall, reserving for a future occasion an account of those found east of the parish of St. Stephens...regard to what he calls the "slate formation " of Cornwall : " T h i s formation is much more complicated...associated with the Primitive Ridge of Devonshire and Cornwall," by the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, M.A., M.G.S. (Trans...Oeynhausen and Von Dechen remark, " t h e Killas (of Cornwall) is, at i~s contact with the a ,, On the Geology | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Rankin, A. H. (1976)Fluid inclusion studies at St Michael's Mount. Proc. Ussher Soc. 3, 430--4. Kelly, W. C...inclusion study of mineralization at St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England. Trans. Instn Min. Metall. (B),...Other minerals in the nodule-bearing rocks are apatite, zircon, allanite, monazite, pyrrhotite, and rutile | | | Book | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...r_0 'f_'--"t S:r•a!e. or S age of the opal from St Austell is cred1te o Greenside Minerals (www.greenside...14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious | | | 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 | | Clark, A.H., Chen, Y., Farrar, E., Wasteneys, H.A.H.P., Stimac, J.A., Hodgson, M.J., Willis-Richards, J., Bromley, A.V. (1993) The Cornubian Sn-Cu (-As, W) Metallogenetic Province: product of a 30 m.y. history of discrete and concomitant anatectic, intrusive and hydrothermal events. Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 (2) Ussher Society. | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Crofty mine took place prior to intrusion of the St. Austell and Land's End plutons. Microgranular, igneous-textured...South Crofty Mine, Dudnance Lane, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3RS. J. Willis-Richards, Camborne School...Rosemenowas, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9DU. A. V. Bromley, Petrolab, Wilson Way, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3RS....± 1.4 Ma; Carnmenellis (Carnsew), 293.1 ± 1.3 Ma; St. Austell (Luxulyan), 280.6 ± 0.7 Ma; Bodmin Moor...muscovite plateaux (see below) are as follows: St. Michael's Mount, 281.4 ± 1.5 Ma; Boswyn (Carnmenellis), 276 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | following papers were then read : , On the geology of Cornwall, with special reference to the Long Excursion... SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF CENTRAL AND WEST CORNWALL. With special reference to the Long Excursion...stratified rocks of tho Central and Western parts of Cornwall-with the exception of about twelve square miles...actually the case, having traced them southward to St. Martin's III Meneage, and westward beyond Helston...five large masses * t 'Report on the Geology of Cornwall,' &c., p. 86. iua., p. 95. t "On tho Geolouical | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 161lingite at the New Consols mine, Stolce Climsland, Cornwall. By P. G. EMBREY, B.A., B.Sc., A.R.I.C. Department...elements in the New Consols mine, Stoke Climsland, Cornwall. Unfortunately, I was unable to collect further...of the small number of reported occurrences in Cornwall. S BERYL. The beryl was found in specimens...beryllium minerals from the New Consols mine. St. Michael's Mount has been known as a locality for beryl for...this list, with the addition of Wheal Castle, near St. Just. More recently, J. Robson ~ adds Long Downs | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. November 14, 1920. "On the Geology of St. Michael's Mount." By E. H. Davison...cassiterite, blende, wolfram, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, apatite, lithia mica, fluor, tourmaline, beryl, etc. The...occurs in the island, which in many respects resembles St. Erth Sand. Tourmalinization is the exception, and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | wolframite, and sulphide mineralization in South-West England P. K. SWART* AND F. MOORE'~ Department of Geology...localities in the Cornubian batholiths of south-west England has been investigated. Cassiterites showed concentrations...cassiterite, and wolframite from St. Michael's Mount and Cligga Head, Cornwall, revealed that these minerals...Cryptocrystalline Late infill Lithionlte mica Apatite 2 65 Pharmocosiderite Clay mineral 125 70 W...crystals collected from the two localities in Cornwall all exhibited similar relationships. These FIG | | | Book | undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...phonolite of Wolf Rock. Small outcrops of Pliocene St Erth Beds are described and there is a full account...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE...British Geological Survey, Sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales). Authors A J J Goode, BSc and R T Taylor | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | quartz from a quartz-cassiterite vein, St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, using the two methods described in...possessing higher or lower refractive indices such as apatite, calcite, and fluorite. Our usual procedure is | | | Catalog/List | LIROCONITE (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Wheat Garland Mine, St. Day, Cornwall Green/blue liroconite crystals to 5mm infilling...CASSITERITE AND APATITE (3cm x 2cm x 2cm) St. Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall Pale blue/green apatite crystal...x 3cm x I cm) Wheat Phoenix Mine, linkinhorne, Cornwall Ball-like aggregates ofdark green chalcosiderite...pretty specimen with lustrous deep blue and lilac apatite crystals 10 5mm, encrusting plates of muscovite...(5cm x 4cm x 2cm) Whea/ Gorland Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall Bright carmine red chalcotrichite crystals totally |
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