 | Bullock, Liam, Parnell, John, Perez, Magali, Feldmann, Joerg (2017) Tellurium Enrichment in Jurassic Coal, Brora, Scotland. Minerals, 7 (12) 231 doi:10.3390/min7120231 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tellurium Enrichment in Jurassic Coal, Brora, Scotland Liam Bullock 1, * 1 2 * ID , John Parnell 1...University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK; j.parnell@abdn.ac.uk Trace Element Speciation Laboratory...University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK; magali.perez@abdn.ac.uk (M.P.); j.feldmann@abdn...coals exposed at the village of Brora, northern Scotland, UK, contain a marked enrichment of tellurium (Te)...of Brora coal pyrite is more than one order of magnitude higher than in sampled pyrite of Carboniferous |  | Parnell, J., Perez, M., Armstrong, J., Bullock, L., Feldmann, J., Boyce, A. J. (2017) A black shale protolith for gold-tellurium mineralisation in the Dalradian Supergroup (Neoproterozoic) of Britain and Ireland. Applied Earth Science, 126 (4) 161-175 doi:10.1080/03717453.2017.1404682 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK; bTrace Element Speciation Laboratory (TESLA), Department...Aberdeen, UK; cScottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow, UK Downloaded...including gold and tellurium. LA-ICP-MS mapping of pyrite crystals shows that late stages are enriched in...composition of the pyrite varies with stratigraphic position, reflecting an origin for the pyrite in the depositional...environment through microbial sulphate reduction. Where pyrite was converted to pyrrhotite, trace element contents |  | | Journal (issue) | | IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. TWENTY YEARS IN MINERAL SCOTLAND David Green • Gordon Todd 28 EDITOR David I...MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM THE WELSH GOLDBELT John Mason • Ken Williamson |  | | 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...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue |  | Vernon, R., Holdsworth, R.E., Selby, D., Dempsey, E., Finlay, A.J., Fallick, A.E. (2014) Structural characteristics and Re–Os dating of quartz-pyrite veins in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland: Evidence of an Early Paleoproterozoic hydrothermal regime during terrane amalgamation. Precambrian Research, 246. 256-267 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2014.03.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Re–Os dating of quartz-pyrite veins in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland: Evidence of an Early...DH1 3LE, UK SUERC, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK a r t...geochronology Lewisian Complex Palaeoproterozoic Quartz-pyrite veins Scourie dykes Terranes a b s t r a c t In...mainland Lewisian Complex in NW Scotland, a regional suite of quartz-pyrite veins cross-cut regional Palaeoproterozoic...hypothesis is supported by Rhenium–Osmium dating of pyrite that yields an age of 2249 ± 77 Ma, placing the |  | Bullock, Liam A., Parnell, John, Feldmann, Joerg, Armstrong, Joseph G., Henn, Alessandra S., Mesko, Marcia F., Mello, Paola A., Flores, Erico M.M. (2019) Selenium and tellurium concentrations of Carboniferous British coals. Geological Journal, 54 (3) 1401-1412 doi:10.1002/gj.3238 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Meston Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK 2 Trace Element Speciation Laboratory (TESLA),...Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK 3 Standard mode and collision/reaction cell mass...Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil and pyrite have been identified as potentially significant...University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK. Email: liam.bullock@abdn.ac.uk Funding information...coinciding with high sulphur (S) content and visible pyrite. New Te data for British coals gives a mean concentration |  | | Report (chapter) | | systems: an example from the Dalradian Supergroup in Scotland NYREE J. HILL1*, GAWEN R. T. JENKIN1, ADRIAN J...of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK 2 Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre...G75 0QF, UK 3 Scotgold Resources Limited, Upper Station, Tyndrum, Stirlingshire FK20 8RY, UK 4 Farscape...Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK 6 Geology and Petroleum Geology, Kings College...of Aberdeen, Meston Building, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK *Corresponding author (e-mail: njh35@le.ac.uk) Abstract: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland Robert Chapman *, Taija Torvela and Lucia Savastano...Environment, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK * Correspondence: r.j.chapman@leeds.ac.uk Abstract:...localities to the south of Loch Tay in central Scotland were interpreted to establish different types...Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland. Minerals 2023, 13, 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/...the Grampian Terrane of Scotland. 1.2. The Study Area The Highlands of Scotland (Figure 1A) are world famous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | veining hosted by the Loch Shin monzogranite, Scotland D. LOWRY*,W. E. STEPHENSAND D. A. HERD Department...Division, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK AND C. J. STANLEY Department of Mineralogy, Natural...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Abstract The Loeb Shin monzogranite is host to quartz...aikinite-bismuthinite series, Caledonian intrusives, Loch Shin, Scotland, microprobe data, X-ray powder diffraction. Mineralization...Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK foliation planes in the schists and gneisses. Pyrite, chalcopyrite, and bismuth |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Aberdeen, UK Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Glasgow, UK 2 Pyrite is consistently...microbial activity. We present S isotope data from pyrite in Ordovician pillow lavas at localities across...components of sulphur: groundmass pyrite (~0 ± 4‰) and 32S-enriched pyrite in the vesicles ( 8‰ to 27‰)....WORDS Ordovician; basalt; pillow lava; Ireland; Scotland; Wales; deep biosphere 1. INTRODUCTION Much simple...Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK. E-mail: J.Parnell@abdn.ac.uk Boetius, 2007; Schrenk |  | | Journal (issue) | | ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...8ISHOPTON DIARY OF EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson...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...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS |  | Hall, A. J., McConville, P., Boyce, A. J., Fallick, A. E. (1994) Sulphides with high δ34S from the Late Precambrian Bonahaven Dolomite, Argyll, Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (392) 486-490 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.392.15 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Late Precambrian Bonahaven Dolomite, Argyll, Scotland THE Bonahaven Dolomite Formation (BDF) is about...analysis of pyrite separates Sample 8348%oo Nature BON1 BON1 BONla BONlb BON4a BON4b Pyrite concentrate...concentrate Repeat Drilled pyrite (impure) Drilled pyrite (impure) Pyrite (30 fragments) Pyrite (40 fragments) ...Conventional sulphur isotope analyses Concentrates of pyrite from dolomitic lithologies sampled from the coastal...range from +36.5 to +42.1% and confirm that the pyrite is exceptionally enriched in the heavier isotope |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | European Way, Southampton, UK, SO14 3ZH Funding: This work was supported by NERC, UK [grant number NE/M010953/1]...input from the oxidation of Carboniferous coal pyrite may have provided a minor component. The derivation...Sellafield are further distinct, indicative of a primary pyrite source. These data emphasize that fluid sources...type, but despite their former importance to the UK steel industry their origin is not completely understood...these limestones in Cumbria, and elsewhere in the UK, occur in conjunction with extensive barite mineralization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JtE, Scotland, UK bUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Department...microprobe on pyrite and pyrrhotite in metamorphosed sulphidic schists, and on coexisting pyrite and galena...Geology and Geophysics, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, Scotland, UK. The negative secondary beam was collimated...reserved. 170 C.M. GRAHAM AND J.W. VALLEV dard pyrite from Balmat, New York, U.S.A. (Crowe et al., 1990;...standard was mounted in a poIished thin section of a pyrite-galena rock of amphibolite-facies metamorphic grade |  | | Report (chapter) | | University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX, UK (e-mail: d.lowry@gl.rhul.ac.uk) 2Isotope Geology...G75 OQF, UK 3The School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, UK Abstract:...1991a; Scott et al. 1991; Steed & Morris 1997), and pyrite in metasediments (e.g. Hall et aL 1987, 1988, 1994a...Grouping sulphides pyrite sulphates pyrite sulphides pyrite sulphates sulphides pyrite sulphates sulphides...9 pyrite sulphides pyrite sulphides sulphides sulphides sulphides pyrite pyrite sulphides pyrite pyrite |  | | Report (issue) | | near-shore waters off the island of Rhum, northwest Scotland (for chromite), at Kilmelford in the Scottish...(for copper and gold), at Foreburn in southwest Scotland (for gold) and in the Craven Basin in northern...Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG 12 SGG, UK (telephone: 0()077 6111; telex: 378173 BGSKEY G;...Molybdenite mineralisation rocks, near Lairg, Scotland in Precambrian M J Gallagher and RT Smith (1976)...of Lairg in Sutherland. Molybdenite occurs with pyrite in thin post-foliation quartz veins and as coatings |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Waulsortian Limestone Fm., we identified a sphalerite-pyrite mineralisation, disseminated into a clast- to matrix...origin of Leadhills-Wanlockhead Pb-Zn deposit in SW Scotland David Curriea, Finlay Stuarta, John Faithfullb...Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK (d.currie.1@research.gla.ac.uk; Fin.Stuart@glasgow...Leadhills-Wanlockhead, SW Scotland, has been one of the largest base metal resources in the UK. The 68 documented...17); pyrite: −4.5 to -2.1‰ (n = 3)) overlap the range of δ34S values measured in diagenetic pyrite from |  | Parnell, John, Akinsanpe, Temitope O., Still, John W., Schito, Andrea, Bowden, Stephen A., Muirhead, David K., Armstrong, Joseph G. T. (2023) Low-Temperature Fluorocarbonate Mineralization in Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert, UK. Minerals, 13 (5) 595 doi:10.3390/min13050595 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluorocarbonate Mineralization in Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert, UK John Parnell 1, *, Temitope O. Akinsanpe 1,2 , John...University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK; t.akinsanpe.18@abdn.ac.uk (T.O.A.); j.still@abdn...in the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert, Aberdeenshire, UK, preserved by hot spring silicification. Mineralization...rare earth elements; synchysite; Rhynie chert; Scotland; hot spring Citation: Parnell, J.; Akinsanpe...Fluorocarbonate Mineralization in Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert, UK. Minerals 2023, 13, 595. https://doi.org/10.3390/ |  | | Journal (volume) | | Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Photo: David Green. The UK Journal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles...------------------------- Classified Advertisments UK Journal of Mines &• Minerals No. 23 - 1 - Editorial...dealt with recent mineralogical discoveries in Scotland, Ireland JL and the north of England, we have...nrjebruary saw the UK debut of Alec Livingstone’s long-awaited book on the Minerals of Scotland (reviewed JL...contact the Royal Museum of Scotland as soon as possible. Minerals of Scotland is different in content and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Peridotite Zone; and pyrrhotite with pentlandite, pyrite and chalcopyrite in Gabbronorite I of the Lower... Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 0QF, UK The world-class carbonate-hosted Navan Zn–Pb deposit...stage, unaltered plumose marcasite and framboidal pyrite samples contain the lowest total abundances of...composition. Late plumose marcasite, and the framboidal pyrite with the lowest minor element abundance, also have...Churchill House, Churchill Way, Cardiff, CF10 2HH, UK (cbrough@srk.co.uk) 2 Kroll Institute of Extractive |  | Parnell, J., Armstrong, J., Brolly, C., Boyce, A.J., Heptinstall, E. (2020) Carbon in mineralized ultramafic intrusions, caledonides, northern Britain. Lithos, 374. 105711pp. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105711 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3UE, UK Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, GlasgowG75 0QF, UK a r t...July 2020 Keywords: Graphite Carbon Cumulates Scotland a b s t r a c t Graphite in Ordovician ultramafic...Neoproterozoic country rocks in West Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland attests to the mobility of carbon into subduction-related...2010). The next most graphitic deposit is in NE Scotland, where graphite-bearing Ordovician intrusions...Geological setting The Grampian Highlands terrane of NE Scotland consists of three main units: Proterozoic basement |  | Parnell, J., Still, J., Spinks, S., Thayalan, W., Bowden, S. (2014) Cadmium sulfide in a Mesoproterozoic terrestrial environment. Mineralogical Magazine, 78 (1) 47-54 doi:10.1180/minmag.2014.078.1.04 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK [Received 31 May 2013; Accepted 28 November 2013;...Stoer Group, Torridonian Supergroup, northwest Scotland. Cadmium is strongly redox-controlled, and normally...oxygenation, Scotland. Introduction WE report Cd sulfide mineralization in the Mesoproterozoic of Scotland. The...Stoer Group, Torridonian Supergroup, northwest Scotland. The Stoer Group was deposited in a continental...rhomboid pseudomorph after gypsum, mineralized by pyrite (dull grey), then subsequently by baryte (bright) |  | | Book | | UNESCO Publishing • IAEG • Queen's Printer for Scotland • British Geological Survey and Natural Environment...produced some of the finest building stone in Scotland. BGS © NERC. Photo: A. McMillan. Back cover image:...978-92-3-104031-3 © UNESCO/IAEG/Queen's Printer for Scotland/British Geological Survey and Natural Environment...is vested in NERC. Printed in Spain Stone in Scotland- ISBN 978-92-3-104031-3 - © UNESCO 2006 ■ Authors...QBE, DADun, RIBA, FRIAS, AABC, FSAScot (Historic Scotland) Contributors Joan Walsh, B.Sc., Ph.D., PGCE (University |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | alkaline pyroxenite-syenite complexes, north-west Scotland Received: 30 August 2003 / Accepted: 5 December...Keywords PGE Æ Hydrothermal Æ Alkaline complexes Æ Scotland Introduction Precious metal enrichments associated...at Loch Borralan and Loch Ailsh in north-west Scotland in 1989–1990. This work was carried out under...funded by the Department of Trade and Industry of the UK government, and identified high PGE values and a range...north-west Scotland. This belt forms the north-western margin of the Caledonian orogen in Scotland which abuts |  | Hall, A.J., Boyce, A.J., Fallick, A.E., Hamilton, P.J. (1991) Isotopic evidence of the depositional environment of Late Proterozoic stratiform barite mineralisation, Aberfeldy, Scotland. Chemical Geology: Isotope Geoscience section, 87 (2). 99-114 doi:10.1016/0168-9622(91)90044-w | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Proterozoic stratiform barite mineralisation, Aberfeldy, Scotland A.J. Hall”, A.J. Boyceb,A.E. Fallickb and P.J...8QQ, UK bScottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow, G 75 OQU, UK (Received...Proterozoic stratiform barite mineralisation, Aberfeldy, Scotland. Chem. Geol. (Isot. Geosci. Sect.), 87: 99-l 14...pyrrhotite + pyrite + sphalerite + galena (scarce, and probably formed sub-seafloor only) ; barite + pyrite (common...pyrrhotite and associated sulfides ( + 2 1 to + 24%0); pyrite ( + 27%0) with barite ( +40°/oo); and barite ( |
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