 | | Book | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geology .of the country around Penzance ' . i\i�i / ---�-----✓- \ \ // •• ,- ---...C-�. --·.J;:;{ GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION IN THE PENZANCE DISTRICT Superficial deposits (Drift) Quaternary... Geology of the country around Penzance The district around Penzance (Sheets 351 and 358) has been exploited...copper since the Bronze Age. Only the Geevor tin mine was still open in 1986, but the vigorous development...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and |  | | 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 (issue) | | 8 SO VERY FOOLISH: THE HISTORY OF THE WHERRY MINE, PENZANCE - Roy Starkey 27 BMS REFERENCE COLLECTION...Droitwich—Twinned with Bad Ems Roy Starkey 30 HERODSFOOT MINE & LISKEARD MUSEUM - Roy Starkey 31 NOTHING TO...- Trevor Bridges JOURNALS FOR SALE - David Neal UK VIRTUAL MICROSCOPE AVAILABLE - Roy Starkey 19 MINCO... Flat 3, Over Garage, Paynters Lane, Illogan, Cornwall. TR16 4DJ MEMBERSHIP CHANGE OF DETAILS Beryl...Julie Green at the bottom of Whim Shaft, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian April 2009 BMS Newsletter 89 Julie |  | | Journal (issue) | | elements in Permo-Triassic red beds of south-west England, by R. K. Harrison, M.Sc. with contributions by...age of the Brannel, South Crofty and Wherry el van dykes, Cornwall, by J. R. Hawkes, Ph.D., R. R. Harding...and chalcedonic concretions in anhydrite, Sandwith Mine, St Bees, Cumbria, by R. K. Harrison, M.Sc. . ....occurrence of sapphire in the Land's End Granite, Cornwall, by A. C. Wilson, B.Sc., Ph.D. 61 I. VII. Refringence...Sandwith Mine, St Bees, Cumbria 58 Photomicrographs of concretions in anhydrite from Sandwith Mine, St Bees |  | | Catalog/List | | BJillSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDERING INFORMJi.TION Mail orders are...bN~TaSE~ 4. hNGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Small sharp transparent "spear shaped" crystals...Quartzose gossan. 2x2". £1. 5. hNGLESITE. Parys Mine, bllglesey, N. Wales. Small well formed lustrous...3xlt'l. £2. 6. aPATITE. Stennagwyn Mine, Nr. St. ~ustell, Cornwall. Pale bluish hexagonal crystals aggregated...var iety FRl..NCOLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardrea th, Cornwall. i,. 2xl" cavity in Quartz/slate matrix |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | elvans and lamprophyres. Geoscience in South-West England, 13, 459-470. The TellusSW survey of 2013-4 consisted...and eK. Rose Cottage, Church Hill, Calstock, Cornwall, PL18 9QQ, U.K. and Camborne School of Mines,... INTRODUCTION Geological mapping in Devon and Cornwall and subsequent interpretation is often difficult...magnetic surveys were first flown in Devon and Cornwall in 1956 and 1957-9, respectively. Regional geochemical...of higher resolution public domain surveys in the UK: in the English Midlands, Isle of Wight and Northern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EarlyandMain StageOre Mineralization in Southwest Cornwall A. N. H^i•i•m^¾ Scottish Universities Research...Introduction 752 ORE MINER/ILIZ/ITION TIMING: S. W. CORNWALL r'• Basement Rocks ,,,. . . • Granite Cupolas...replacementat the granite margin (in the Geevor mine). The K-feld- orange-pink swarms(Hall, 1971) andcommonly... ORE TABLE MINERALIZATION TIMING: S. W. 755 CORNWALL RboSr Data for Muscovitesand K-Feldspars from...which plots slightly low and has a high S. W. CORNWALL 757 tematicsin minerals from the Land's End |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tabusome Franklin minerals . .122, 34O _ lation oI. (Wherry) and Palache,c. Beryllium It9 Ameletite. (Marshall)...Apophyllite(analysis). 340 Beryllium ores of New England. Arandisite.(Partridge) 274 . . 120 (Gedney).....[Book review]. . . . China clay deposits, Cornwall, England. (VanHorn)... . . . .. Chlorophoenicite CIay...Four stagesin the alteration of ttre Villeneuve uraninite... . . and Graham, R. P. D. Cenositefromontario.... . 167 Gedney,E. K. Beryllium oresin l2O New England. Mineralogy of New Engl a n d p e g m a t i t e |  | | 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 |  | | 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 | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | prolific zone has recently been issued by Benge and Wherry. With 1 281331 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MINERALOGY...small amount of MnO in the green variety. P & R mine, Siesholtzville, Berks county. (W. Headden) B light...Montgomery county. 410: Olive-green; Kober's copper mine, Sumneytown, Montgomery county. 418: Dark olive-green...MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 16 361: Light pea-green; Cornwall, Lebanon county. 419: Precious; light green to...from peridotite.(F. Bascom). Some of the Wood's mine picrolite is nothing but a mixture of calcite and |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | of the localities. Magnetite deposits of the "Cornwall type" are included because of their economic significance...the most important type of deposit has been the Cornwall-type magnetite group (type N), with a production...of this value is from the Cornwall mine, but the ore body of the Grace mine near Morgantown appears to...lead-zinc 110,000 Sandstone copper-uranium 10,000 Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent...Friedensville zinc mine in type F is clearly the third largest mine in the state after Cornwall and Morgantown |  | | Book | | Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS...WHERE. Beaches Cliffs and Caves. River Beds etc. Mine Dumps Quarries St. Just - Botallack - Pendeen Camborne |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | orange-red,amorphousraglike coating on magnetite from Cornwall. The same substance has been noted by Lacroix...amorphouscuprousoxid in specimensfrom the Lowell mine, Bisbee, Arizona; the Poderosa mine, Collahuasi, Chile; and an unknown...a very rare mineral, known only from Vesuvius, Cornwall, and Keweenaw Point, Michigan, but the amorphous...limonite and aragonite. Pitchblende UO,,UO3,(H,O), (Uraninite in part, nasturan).The colloform or massive pitchblende...seems to be the amorphous equivalent of isometric uraninite. Its water content is higher and its nitrogen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 7OI 909 Diadochite,a mineraloidfrom New Idria mine, Calif. (Rogers) . . Diaphorite, crystallography...interpretation of. D e a n s , T . . . . .. . (Wherry) 156 539 Deer,W.A...... 121 Deforrnation of single...Westmoreland, New Hamp. (Bannerman, Stoiber) Fluorite of England and Wales, rare-earth content of. (Aspland, Brammall... @dwards) Inderite. (Godlevsky) Ingerson, E. Uraninite and associated minerals from Haddam N e c k ,C... 177 916 Rare-earth content of fluorite of England and Wales. (Aspland, Brammall,Leech).... from Rasor |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geoscience in south-west England INSIGHTS INTO THE FORMATION OF THE ISLES OF SCILLY PLUTON S. J....Isles of Scilly pluton. Geoscience in south-west England, 10, 000-000. The Isles of Scilly granite is one...small number of separate granite bodies (e.g. England, 1992; Castro and Fernandez, 1998; Cruden, 1998)...andalusite, monazite, apatite, ilmenite, zircon, uraninite and anatase (this study and Hawkes et al., 1986)...produced by Hawkes et al. (1975) for the Brannel and Wherry elvans and arrived at ages of 270±3 Ma and 282±6 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | heterosite (secondary after triphylite), and uraninite. The uraninite analyzed by Hillebrandl in 1889 was from...and nailhead calcite. The greater part of the uraninite from Portland has come from a small area near...tourmalines may now be obtained. Lepidolite, uraninite, zircon, columbite, large, opaque beryls, microlite...during the Appalachian mountain-' building of New England, it crystallized after that event, and has not...dikes. The best known of these is the Old Silver Mine, situated approximately three kilometers east of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | obtainedOruro, Las Pas and Potosi. At the Araca tin mine beautiful Qlear cassiterite was obtained, and at...stated that he had noted the same on crystals of uraninite. Mr. Hoadley took issue that the octahedral (111)...formation of the irnportant magnetite deposits at Cornwall, French Creek, and other localities in the state...meeting followed. On March 24, 1925, Dr. E. T. Wherry spoke on "Volume Isomorphism in Minerals." The |  | | Report (chapter) | | building and decorative stones of Cornwall, UK COLIN M. BRISTOW Cornwall Geoconservation Group, Ty Gwyn...46 Chatsworth Way, Carlyon Bay, St Austell, Cornwall, UK (e-mail: mail@colinbristow.com) Abstract: Arising...varied suites of igneous and sedimentary rocks, Cornwall has a rich variety of building and decorative...such as elvan and sandrock, do not occur outside Cornwall, so local stone provides much character to the...used in some of the finest stone buildings in Cornwall, such as St Austell church tower, Antony House |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals. Adam Hilger, Limited, London, N.W.l, England, has recently issuedBulletin No. 2, on SpectrumAnalysis...PharmaceuticalApplications of Spectrum Analysis. Dr. Edgar T. Wherry of the Btrreau of Chemistry and Soils, Department... At the Fanny Gouge mine near Burnsville, N.C., specimens of gurnmite, uraninite, cyrtolite, garnet,...uranophane were collected on the dumps, At the McKinney mine near Crabtree creek specimens of muscovite, euxenite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rickard Wager, Durham Colleges in the University of England. William Albert Waldschmidt, Argo Oil Corporation...countries: canada 4, and one each from Netherlands, England, south Africa, and Australia. The accompanying...'u11llJ'i,T"1"l,lll?ii,".'" New Braden observations Mine, on euchroite chile, combined from with Libethen...r-ray study of chalcosiderite lrom Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall, and turquoise from Campbell County, Virginia...Stanford University, California Euhedral crystals of uraninite from one of the pegmatites at this locality are |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Genesis of the Cornubian Batholith (South-West England): the example of the Carnmenellis Pluton byB. CHAROY...of the well-known mining history of South-West England and the clear relationship between economic mineralization...location of the Cammenellis pluton in South-West England. C1H: Cligga Head; SMM: St Michael Mount; LC: Lamorna...the biotite-muscovite granites from South-West England (data from Exley & Stone, 1966). Downloaded from...Land's End pluton (Lamorna Cove, St Ives, Cape Cornwall) were also collected but, because of weathering |  | | Report (volume) | | material, traces of copper, and some pyrite. Uraninite and possibly another black form of uranium oxide...Mauch Chunk, Pa., was described at an early date by Wherry (1912). In 1948, F. A. McKeown found an occurrence...areas. Testing of water from springs, wells and mine drainage mighb give more conclusive results. Direct...age that constitute the Reading Prong of the New England province contain occurrences of uranium and thorium...Piedmont provinces and the Reading Prong of the New England province form its southern and eastern boundaries |
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