 | | Journal (issue) | | UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. ARSENTSUMEBITE FROM DOLYHIR QUARRY Neil Hubbard • David Green • Tom Cotterell...Cox • Ron Cleevely 31 PARALSTONITE FROM DOLYI-IIR QUARRY Tom Cotterell CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean...FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges 55 ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD |  | | Journal (volume) | | Green 19 32 Richelsdorfite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys: the first British occurrence Neil...Tetrahedrite-group minerals from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys David I. Green, Neil Hubbard and Andrew... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...is noted on specimens from the two-hundred-year-old Joseph Dawson collection, which is preserved at Cliffe |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................................................ UK Mining Snippets ...................................this issue you will find – among other things: - UK Mining Snippets – a collection of news items about...actual or proposed commercial activities across the UK. Some of these are positive and show projects proceeding...surprised at the level of interest and activity in UK mining. I should point out that these are just plums...and in educating others who might have come across old labels. Perhaps some of you have unidentified label |  | | Catalog/List | | fine grained mass like a massive garnet-paper I Old stock lxl £2 lx2 £4 2x2 £8 :.. ~- 867 ■ ANNABERGITE...Ix! £5 lx2 £8 1 ■ BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales rich brown mass with red-grey HEMATITE BaNnAISiO...Zcolite Ix! £4 lx2 £8 2x2£16 26) ■ MAGADIITE Aris Quarry, near Windhoek,Namibia / White micro snow-flakes...SiO 220 ■ MENDIPITE ✓~ CaAISiOC0/3 Merehend Quarry, Mendips Somerset Very rich white to pinkish faintly...fluorescence lxl£3 lx2£5 FLUORESCEN'. ■ SCHEELITE Penlee Quarry, Newlyn,Cornwall creamy spots in chlorite. Fluorescent |  | | Book | | provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...have changed over time. This is not to say that all old work is valueless: the observation of Hey (1973)...(1973) is still valid that there arc 150-ycar-old unulyscs as accurate as any made today. Other exclusions...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci...tellurob:smu'Ji::eC!ogau andVigramines,nr Oolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales t!.e'.don ra:::ayqJarry,nr o~eha'Tlp'.:i. , Dev:i:i |  | | Journal (issue) | | 15 mm. EDITORIAL Digital Micro-Photography The UK Joumal ef Mi11esa11dMi11erals publishes articles...SPONSORSHIP Peter J. Briscoe Tony Stubbins 9 GREYSTONE QUARRY, CORNWALL CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C....channels. SUPERGENE LEAD MINERALISATION IN CENTRAL WALES John Mason 47 APATITE FROM TI-IE COAL MEASURES...which is possible using the technique. David Green UK Juurnal of Miucs & Minerals No. 24 -2- MICRO MINERALS...Azurite crystals 2.5 mm tall from DolyhirQuarry,Powys,Wales.This imageis a manually combinedcompositeof |  | | Journal (issue) | | quarries in Slovakia can be confusing particularly with old specimens. Some place names can be in German, others...geology of Slovakia is as varied and complex as the UK, it is like a bigger version of the West Country...Vechec-lom Quarry 8 Novoveska Huta. 14. Siatorska Bukovinka 2. Herl'any 3. Maglovec-lom Quarry 9. Dobsina...Presovsky Kraj (andesite quarry with xenoliths). • This was a working quarry with bulldozers on a level...purchased sledgehammers) into. We walked down into the quarry past a jointed, columnar formation, very reminiscent |  | | Journal (issue) | | Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry... Mike was co-author of an article about Hendre Quarry which was published in the British Micromount Society...Society 101h anniversary edition of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals in 1991 , and was a regul ar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mr Tim Hayton North Lodge Farm, Longcliff Hill, Old Dalby, Melton Mowbray, LE14 3LP Tel 01664 822684...Place, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 4QZ Tel 02920 513901 WW Mr Roger Le Voir The Old Mill, Fairmile...Alan Thorogood Lower House, Pentre-Bach, Brecon, Powys, LD3 8UB Tel 01874 638884 Mr Robert Tripp 1 Ridgley...6UD Tel 01462 632554 C Mr Roger Harding 2 The Old Boiler House, Newman Road, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10...and expertise was considerable having visited many old and classic sites over a period of more than 30 years |  | | Journal (volume) | | Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...overgrowths of white botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection;...photograph. Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES |  | | Catalog/List | | Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2 £7 2x2 £12...brown chips, probably mixed with Goethite and Lepidocrocite. 3mm £3 FeO"OH Cl 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South...ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...lx2 £5 2x2 £10 .« ANDRADITE Benallt Minc,Lleyn ,Wales Andradite is orange brown with pale pink, Cclsian...with minor calcite or matrix ½" £4 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate |  | | Catalog/List | | brown chips, probably mixed with Gocthite and Lepidocrocite. Small yellowish green crystals on :natrix,...------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...6x6111111 £3 PbAg SbS 44 ANDRADITE Bcnallt Minc,Llcyn. Wales 1036 ALSTONITE Fnllowlielcl Mine, Northumberland...rich variety) ½ x ½ £5 Ni AsO H/20 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...£3 lx2 £6 2x2 £12 --·- ---749 APATITE Hingston Quarry, Cornwall two or three micro crystals on small |  | | Catalog/List | | brown chips, probably mixed with Goethite and Lepidocrocite. 3mm £3 FcO OH Cl -10 -• • ALBERTITE near Dingwall...£5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...3x4 £8 Feldspar 44 ANDRADITE Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales Andradite is orange brown with pale pink, Cclsian...with minor calcite or matrix ½"£4 7 ANNITE Snga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...size £4 Fe As S 531 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,Englnnd Rich silvery masses with Chaleopyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | difficult, or ferry heavy bags and kit back up steep quarry roads . As we approach the end of the first decade...- just ask anyone who was on the Breedon Cloud Quarry trip on 15 May (see the account in this newsletter)...0JR Tel 01590 643817 s Mr Khalid Ghourbandi 20 Old Pound Close, lsleworth, Middlesex, TW7 SAL Tel 020...Road, London, SE24 0AD SE Mr Dave Lloyd No.1 The Old Coach Yard, East Croker, Somerset, BA22 9HY. Tel...interests. He took up caving and exploration of old mines and it was through caving in Yorkshire that |  | | Book | | for free. The possibility of a trip to Portland quarry was also discussed – Mrs Cowie suggested that more...look into the chances of a subsidized outing to a quarry such as Portland and to arrange a trip to Barton-on-Sea...meantime, he would write to Mr Linham at Perry Field quarry on Portland and also circulate the member- ship...Museum, Charmouth, Shelford Sandpit, Malden quarry, Alton quarry, the Forest of Dean, the Wessex Impex factory...factory in Winchester, Radstock and Batscombe quarry near Cheddar plus Parkinson’s mineral dealership |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 409 Arenig, facies analysis, western Lleyn, North Wales, 81221 Arenigian quartzites, 86 135 Arenobulimina...Province, Western Cordillera, USA, 85 341 - Model, Powys, Wales, 87 170 Basingstoke, Hampshire, 87 101 Bastite...X Chemi cal variation meta-doleri tes, No rth Wales, 87 395 Chemistry and petrogra phy, Malvern Hills...88 150 - - - Form ation, 88 151 - - Workh ouse Quarry, 85 191 Chirodota , 84 39 - carpenteri, 84 35 -...Dayieeras, 85 29 Dean Grove, Oxfordshire, 84 156 Dean Quarry, Cornwall, 86101 Debden Water, 87 288 Decalcification |  | | Journal (issue) | | Naylor; Kerry and Richard Powell and Kathleen White Wales & West Branch: R J Bowell; Nigel McGaw and Melville...consisting of calcium fluoride and to reserve the old miners' term fluorspar to denote commercial products...Conference will be held in Broken Hill, New South Wales on 10-12th June, 2000. The venue for the Conference...with hammer, chisel and crowbar but the Lengenbach quarry, the star of the Binntal show, is strictly out...team at work. Trevor Bridges New Occurance of Lepidocrocite from Louchentyre Copper Mine, Dumfreisshire |  | | Journal (volume) | | future Issues: Nicholas Schaffer, 30 Britten Grove, Old Farm Park, Milton Keynes, MK7 8HR EDITORIAL BOARD:...Green. BACK COVER: Ewaldite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales. 1.7mm. Julie Ballard collection...jarosite from Brynycastell Mine, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell 65-67 Clinoptilolite and heulandite...Leadhills-Wanlockhead district, and at Whitwell quarry in Derbyshire. By studying its paragenesis, the...mine. A crosscut driven from near the site of the old lead mine opened into a rich vein, which was followed |  | | Book | | Saint-Hilaire pluton 36 Geology of the Poudrette quarry Miarolitic cavities in nepheline syenite Sodalite...progressed well through repeated visits to the operating quarry and collaborations with visiting professionals...chiseling away at the quarry walls. Intrigued, they later ventured into the quarry and discovered what...the search continues; their latest visit to the quarry took place in July 2018. Additions were made to... This small unassuming hill with a dusty stone quarry on its north flank, which some enthusiastic collectors |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the... and large ilmenite masses could be seen on the old dumps. In 1975-1976, Brunet collected sharp, black...exposure very near, indeed on the property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before...com/a_/besLhtml, 2006). VIRGTho"IA Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two |
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