| | 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 | | | Catalog/List | ecimens as half phosphatic geodes from the Hiocene clay vith lmm,yellow-green,tabular xtls in aggregates...FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...hexagonal xtls. LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten Down Quarry,Calstock,Cornwall. 2 specimens. Specimen A-matrix fragment richly | | | Journal (issue) | RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field of view 13 mm x 9 nun. Roy Starkey specimen...anJ other phosphates from Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation...Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES Valentinite | | | Journal (issue) | Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite and florencite-(Ce) from Gunheath china clay pit. St Austell...Austell. Cornwall N.J. Elton alld M.J.£. Grigg 81 Epistilbite from the Isle of Skye. Scotland D.l....Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop and R.A. Fairbairn 97 A further...widenmannite in Cornwall, England N.J. Elton and 1.1. Hooper 98 Diaboleite from Gunver Head, Cornwall, England...rauenthalite or phaunouxite, from Ivy Tor mine, Devon, England R.S. W Braithwaite, M.G.H. Merry and B. Jackson | | | Report (issue) | deposits. Association: Chrysocolla, dioptase, malachite, conichalcite, tenorite. Distribution: From Mindouli...Namibia. In England, at the Driggith mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria; the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell...Austell, Cornwall; and the Engine vein, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. In the USA, in Arizona, from the Table | | | Journal (issue) | .. 28 Some recent finds at Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall by Nick Elton ................Such wa P rr. information, particularly about Cornwall, you would have been wise to ask Peter Colley...collections, a11d is used by many museums i11 tlze UK. (Ed.) North-West Branch · November Meeting: Basic...Further deposits in Ireland, Germany, Poland and the UK were described, making this a truly absorbing lecture...Ancient M ining This lecture by Adam Sharpe of Cornwall Archaeological Unit was given on 14 May 1996. | | | Journal (issue) | ............ 14 Greystones Quarry, Lawhitton, Cornwall by Nick Elton ........................................................................... 23 Malachite fromDyserth Quarry, .Clwyd, North Wales by W.A...Colin Sparrow for the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and the vitalising of its geological collections...organised by any geological or mineralogical group in the UK. If only I could get to even a fraction of these...left school at 14 years of age to work in the china clay industry, an occupation which lasted for 48 years | | | Book | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...English China Clay Group Ltd. This later enabled me to obtain an annual pass into the working clay pits...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce & | | | Journal (issue) | resting upon 150rnrn of yellow clay. This passed down into blue-grey mottled clay with lumps of coal about...about 0.4m thick. It seems that these clay bands acted as a barrier to the iron-Dearing solutions. The exposure...1780s refers to rights to dig cinders, iron-ore and clay (Gloucester Records Office 04212/Tl). In the 19th... cyanotrichite from Cornwall R.E. STARKEY starkey, R.E. 1986. . Cyanotrichite from Cornwall. J. RusseLL Soa...from Cornwall is reported; it has been found in situ in a tin-rich stockwork in Lanivet, Cornwall, associated | | | Journal (issue) | cracks (Fig. 1), selenite gypsum was found in the clay and a fair number of hard slabs of teredo-bored...in the cliffs. There was much evidence of London Clay all along the beach and three of the group were...also sunk! Because of the vast quantities of London Clay along the beach, many of the fossils still needed...to interpret tectonic movements within southern England in the context of global tectonic movements. It...wavellite associated with turquoise from Gunheath China Clay pit. The wulfenites not only differed in colour | | | Journal (issue) | Mary Ann , Sheppey barite, Hemerdon scorodite, China Clay Pit wavellite, turquoise, cacoxenite and variscite...galena from Madan with a Gunheath China Clay Pit cacoxenite! Day 2 Elatsite Open Pit (a porphyry copper deposit)...Chelopech Gold mine. Elatzite is a working open pit and the mine geologist Zlati Vassilev accompanied...field trip to Siberia in 1992) to take us into the pit to a level which was not being worked . Initially...chalcopyrite crystals. When we looked at these back in the UK under short-wave UV we found the green fluorite fluoresced | | | Journal (issue) | SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.0119.uk ....................................... ················...new members out. When combined with a week in Cornwall, a day on a Kent coal tip for carboniferous plant...Sussex. One of the main reasons for returning to the UK, John told me at this year's BBQ, was so that he...**** SMLS FIELD TRIP TO CORNWALL Chichester Guest House, Newquay, Cornwall 17th to 24th May 2003 SMLS...in a coastal strip for about 4 miles from Cape Cornwall north to Pendeen, which includes the well known | | | Journal (issue) | 3 - ,.� The 1994 Spring Fieldtrip Devon and Cornwall l L� - l 7 th April Driving across wild moorland...prepared to collect. Holmbush mine dumps, Kelly Bray, Cornwall were our first'target, but they proved quite elusive...Maurice Grigg who led our party into the Gunheath China Clay Pit, which was working again. Maurice was very...to collect, but he took us around the back of the pit to the region of the old Bunny mine, where we could...decided to try our luck at Stowes Shaft, Linkinhorn, Cornwall. We were looking for the green botryoidal crystals | | | Book | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I | | | Journal (issue) | muscovite, and albite from Hu Ya, Ping Wu, Sichuan, China. The crystals tend to be coated with a thin waxy...import major selections of mineral specimens from China. He has been designing and selling trimmers for...well as a number of solution cavities filled with clay or sandy sediment. The vugs generally contain quartz...offered azurite and malachite from Bou Beker-azurite crystals OK, but not fantastic, malachite as green needles...Wow! Fantastic clean blue azurite and bright malachite, no black or murk.')' stuff and pieces exceeded | | | Journal (issue) | Derelict Land Advisory Panel (Cornwall) Founder member of CUAAG (Cornwall Underground Access Advisory Group)...Johns Hall refurbished and re-opened. Moved to Cornwall 1981 Trewallard, St. Just then to Penzance. After...North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to S.E. England until moving...moving to Cornwall in 1981. Collecting minerals started in 1976-77, as an invalid he now had time to do...do this, in the North of England and Cornwall. Although having deep involvement in issues of conservation | | | Catalog/List | GILBERTITEon ORTHOCLASE.Megiliggar Rocks,Tremearne, Cornwall. Boxed MIN. Upper Gilbertite coated surface carrying... Wheal Buller,Redruth,Cornvall? Pure Cuprite/Malachite chunk vith large convoluted vugh in display face...vith royal-blue micro xtls. Minor Cerussite and Malachite also present. LC,.E.10. Specimen B-boxed. Side...crystalline masses vith interstitial dull-green Malachite. LC,.E.12. Specimen B-small matrix fragment vith...vith very dark blue to almost black 3mmxtls. Malachite surrounds vugh. SC,LlO. 29. AZURITE. Bisbee,cochise | | | Book | important part of Society activities. Localities from Cornwall to Cumbria were visited – at a time when attitudes...travelled the British Isles, searching on beaches, in china clay pits and stone quarries, and even down mines...on his caving experiences in various parts of England and illustrated it with a splendid set of colour...– pyrite, galena, fluorite, quartz, hematite, malachite, sphalerite, calcite and also using a UV lamp...talk by Chris Pollard on “Mineral Collecting in Cornwall”. There was also an illustrated talk and demonstration | | | 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...there were surely good specimen from the clay pits in Cornwall and some nice green balls from Ireland,...information and a full review in the next UKJMM. UK Journal vf Mines & Minerals No. 28 -2- Frontispiece...Carruth: Copse Cottage, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall Ron Cleevely: High Croft, Gunswell Lane, South | | | Journal (issue) | Isle of Man, Caldbeck Fells, etc. the North Cornwall Lead and Antimony Mines, Dartmoor Mines, etc....Taff's Well, Machen, Dulcote, Merehead, Croft, Gunheath, Coldstones, Greystones, Hampstead Farm, etc....contained several excellent photographs taken in Melbur China Claypit, and in Wakebridge Mine in Derbyshire, and...synchesite-Ce and some good blue anatase. From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper...of copiapite in the UK as his subject. Only a few recorded specimens from the UK are known in theOA- | | | Journal (issue) | ..................... 37 Minerals in Northern England Yorks.Geol.Soc/Northern Branch Meeting report by...This is certainly a place to visit if you are in Cornwall so make a note of it in your diaries. Get well...Musewn in Penzance. The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall have been successful in securing £92,000 from...exhibition of mineral specimens from N orthern England to be exhibited in a gallery at the H ancock M...distinguished speaker travels a long w ay, in this case, Cornwall, to give a talk to our Branch, one of the nightmare | | | Journal (issue) | Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow 3...a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being about 8 years old at the time. Three years...Book Co. Endsleigh House,50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA or phone (0872)223227 PAUL LOWE MINERALS...MINERALS Endsleigh House, 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA Gerrlmologists Crystals & Gemstones...). RUSSELLITE FROM BUCKBARROW BECK, CUMBRIA, ENGLAND B. YOUNG British Geological Survey, Windsor Court | | | Book | ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath...needles growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ...Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate to have a trip | | | Journal (issue) | Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, Shoots and Leaves Truss, Lynne (2003) Eats...expanded to become one of the largest barite mines in England. Production rose to over 20,000 tons per year in...attacked yielded excellent massive chalcocite, malachite and azurite. The sounds of hammering accompanying...March 27th at Ladock Community Hall, near Truro, Cornwall. Some of you will remember the very successful...mineral collection of an elderly collector from mid-Cornwall who wishes to remain anonymous, and many also |
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