 | | 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 |  | | Book | | 2010 by Alison Hodge, 2 Clarence Place, Penzance, Cornwall TRI8 2QA, www.alison-hodge.co.uk, info@alison-hodge...Cornish minerals. Thanks also to Michael Merry of Cornwall Devon Mineral Specimens (www. cornwalldevonmineralspecimens...photographs taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...originated by BDP — Book Development & Production, Penzance, Comwall Printed in China Title page: Connelite...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EarlyandMain StageOre Mineralization in Southwest Cornwall A. N. H^i•i•m^¾ Scottish Universities Research...K-Ar and Rb-Sr agesof The 2asU-"-øøPb ages from pitchblende/coffinite/ micasand feldsparsintimatelyassociated...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 |  | | Journal (volume) | | N TRA comer , OP THE Royal Geological Society CORNWALL . INSTITUTED FEBRUARY 11th , 1814. VOLUME THE...Peru .” President of the Board of Agriculture. PENZANCE : SOLD AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE SOCIETY . 1878...and Zirkel on Crystalline Rocks Stratigraphy of Cornwall Geological Time The Evolution Hypothesis . ...Position and Relations of the Sedimentary Rocks Cornwall . . 12 . • Changes of Level on the Cornish Coasts...Henwood's Works . ix . M .Moissenet on the Lodes of Cornwall Elie de Beaumont's Theories ix . xiv . Report |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Curtisite.(Wright,Allen).... .. Beidellite. (Larsen,Wherry) . .. Cyanotrichite(Palache,Vassar) 213 Bendig...minerals 195 and Frankenfield, J. S. .. 218 Pyrite, Cornwall, Pa. . . 252 Fluotaramite.(Morozewicz)..... 2lI...Strain structure in qlu;fitz.. 67,206 Kensington mica mine, Md., mineralsfrom. (Shannon) 35 Kimura, K 137 219...Uranium minerals f55 28 seeshannon,E. v. 167 and Wherry, E. T. Laumontite, Oregon.(McClellan) 287 .. ....minerals . . Magnetoplumbite. (Aminofi) Mahopac mine, Brewster, N.Y., minerals of (Gillson) Mallard's |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society... 195. Brookite . Uran - ochre ( Zippeite). Pitchblende. Chalcolite (Uranite ). Autunnite. ORDER XVII...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...on Kergiliack estate near Pen a. Coberard ; at a mine near the head of Borrowdale, near Lometer, rearis...in the Isle of Man. Scotland . At Craigman coal -mine, near New Cumnock in Ayrshire, massive and columnar |  | | Book (edition) | | iv INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and...mined over the centuries. Today, only one large tin mine is at work, but the winning of tin is known from...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...county were once bustling with industry. Sans Levant Mine, St. Just. The small engine house nearer the camera...connection with investigation of the old Levant Mine. April 1970. GEOLOGY CORNWALL’S mineral wealth |  | | Book (edition) | | See Photography by Peter Stanier and oe Levant Mine, St Just. The small engine house on the left houses...Skip Shaft P.S. The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and...typical view of Cornish i mining. Marke Valley Mine. P.S. innovations in machinery, particularly the...winding, and crushing ores. Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...It is here that the richest mining districts of Cornwall are found. During a late cooling stage of the |  | | 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...aragonite. Pitchblende UO,,UO3,(H,O), (Uraninite in part, nasturan).The colloform or massive pitchblende seems...above). Uraninite occurs in pegmatites while pitchblende occurs in metalliferous veins with sulfids. (Maskelynite) |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The display included several fine specimens of pitchblende and native silver, and included one of the first...few minutes upon the recovery of radium from pitchblende and showed pictures of the various stages in...Glen Riddle, Delaware County, Pa. Dr. Edgar T' Wherry presented a r6sum6 of the annual meetings of the...some difficulty was experienced in transporting mine timbers and other equipment. Later in the season |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Davidson, Geological Survey of Great Britain, London, England. Gordon Leslie Davis, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...Kathleen Lonsdale, University College, London, England. Charles E. Michener, The International Nickel...death two fellows: F. N. Ashcroft, of London, England, and E. L. Bruce, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada...veins contain also pitchblende, calcite, and specularite. Oxidation products of pitchblende are locally abundant...mylonization; and all the late minerals, excepting pitchblende and calcite, may be products of recrystallization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Davidson, Geological Survey of Great Britain, London, England. Gordon Leslie Davis, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...Kathleen Lonsdale, University College, London, England. Charles E. Michener, The International Nickel...death two fellows: F. N. Ashcroft, of London, England, and E. L. Bruce, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada...veins contain also pitchblende, calcite, and specularite. Oxidation products of pitchblende are locally abundant...mylonization; and all the late minerals, excepting pitchblende and calcite, may be products of recrystallization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | districts, TL~nsvaal. Named from the Amosa asbestos mine, this word being formed of the initial letters of...agglegates in a mixed fiiable ore from the Mammoth mine, Tintic district, Uhdl. This tbrmula is deduced...From ~$~, to increase. Bariohitohoookite. E.T. Wherry, 1916. Prec. U.S. Nat. Museum, vol. li, p. 88....Collbran and his son A. H. Collbran, of the Saan mine. Cornetite. H. I~uttgenbach, 1916. Lea Mindraux...orthorhombic crystals in l'I~toiledu Congo copper mine, Ka~anga, Belgian Congo. Named after the Belgian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in U. S. National Museum (Merrill, Moodey, and Wherry) [book reviewl. ll2 235 Gemstones, collection...NIennell, E. P.. . . I\,Ierrill, G. P. (and Moodey and Wherry) Handbook of collections of gems in U. S. National...Miiiler, F. P. .. . 134 Phosgenite from the Terrible Mine, Colo. (Waldschmidt) 31 238 P i c r a t e s(...n ) . . . . . . Pinger, A. W. (See Palache) Pitchblende, Ont. (Knight). Pipernoid tufis (Zambonini) Plagioclase...c h ) . . . . 18'211 Wells,R C...... 17,97,112 Wherry, ts. T.. . . 7 t-,231 book reviels. 113 Apatite |  | | 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...as well as pericline parting. IIRANINITE AND PITCHBLENDE AUSTINF. ROGERS Stanford University, California |  | | Book | | Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bluish-green,monoclinic crystals in the Arakawa mine, Japan. Named from the locality. Differs from Veszelyite...yellow, orthorhombic crystals and crusts on pitchblende from Katanga. Named after Antoine Henri Becquerel...Bismutosmaltite. 1920, vol. 10, p. 495. E . T . Wherry, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., Variant of Bismutosmaltine...mineral with the composition Cu4AgS, from the Cocinera mine, Ramos, San Luis Potosi, )Iexico. ~Abstr., v. 181...Parabayldonite. [Abstr., v. 2oa. ] Oupropyrito. (~E. T. Wherry, Journ. Washington Aead. Sci., 1920, vol. 10, p |
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