 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Mendip Hills, UK Mike S. Rumsey The Mendip Hills is a relatively small area in SW England near the...before the end of the 181h Century, which in the UK was just about the time when the disciplines of mineralogy...study. One of the only collections in the UK that covers the Mendip Hills when it was actively being mined...Map of the Mendip Hills area, indicating the regions geographical position within the UK and the exact...exact position of Merehead (Torr Works) Quarry, which is the most mineral diverse locality in the region |  | Turner, R. W., Siidra, O. I., Rumsey, M. S., Polekhovsky, Y. S., Kretser, Y. L., Krivovichev, S. V., Spratt, J., Stanley, C. J. (2015) Yeomanite, Pb2O(OH)Cl, a new chain-structured Pb oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 79 (5) 1203-1211 doi:10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.14 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chain-structured Pb oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England R. W. TURNER1,*, O. I. SIIDRA2, M. S....Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Mineral Deposits, St Petersburg State...assemblage at Merehead (Torr Works) Quarry, near Cranmore, Somerset, England. Yeomanite is named in joint...her company, Foster Yeoman, who operated Merehead Quarry for aggregate until 2006. The mineral is normally |  | Rumsey, M. S., Krivovichev, S. V., Siidra, O. I., Kirk, C. A., Stanley, C. J., Spratt, J. (2012) Rickturnerite, Pb7O4[Mg(OH)4](OH)Cl3, a complex new lead oxychloride mineral. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (1) 59-73 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.1.59 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Crystallography, St Petersburg State...University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK [Received 30 March 2011; Accepted 6 December 2011;...new mineral from Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, near the village of Cranmore in Somerset, United Kingdom...oxychloride, Merehead quarry, Somerset, mineral nomenclature, Torr Works quarry, new structure type. Introduction...exposed on a belt M. S. RUMSEY ET AL. (Merehead) quarry (51º12’N 2º25’W) (Fig. 1). Associated minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locality for hydrocerussite is the Higher Pitts mine, Mendip Hills, in the United Kingdom (Burr 1996). The mineral...crystals with individuals to 1.4 cm, Torr Works quarry, Mendip Hills, England. The Arkenstone specimen and photo...formed as alteration products around nodules of mendipite. Spencer (1923, p. 32) noted that hydrocerussite...hydrocerussite was collected more than 150 years earlier at Mendip Hills before it was officially described from Långban...(1665–1728) collection as follows: [From] Harty-Liberty, Mendip, two of these consist entirely of large (4 cm) |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, East Cranmore, Somerset, England. 2.880 (100), 2.802...87 1.66 100.00 (1) Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, East Cranmore, Somerset, England; average of 20 EDS...Association: Mendipite. Distribution: At the Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, East Cranmore, Somerset, England. Name:...her company, Foster Yeoman, which operated the quarry until 2006, for her personal interest in mineral...Type Material: Natural History Museum, London, England (BM 2013,5) and in the collections of the National |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralized Mn deposits at Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track...Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR ACT Mississippi Valley type galena deposits emplaced into...into Carboniferous limestones throughout the Mendip Hills during the late Permian or Triassic period...formation processes probably explains the rarity of Mendip-type Pb-Mn deposits. The collective importance...mereheadite, Mn deposits, oxychloride, Somerset, Mendip, Merehead, England. Introduction T HIS paper presents |  | Siidra, Oleg I., Nekrasova, Diana O., Turner, Rick, Zaitsev, Anatoly N., Chukanov, Nikita V., Polekhovsky, Yury S., Spratt, John, Rumsey, Mike S. (2018) Somersetite, Pb8O(OH)4(CO3)5, a new complex hydrocerussite-related mineral from the Mendip Hills, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (5) 1211-1224 doi:10.1180/minmag.2017.081.087 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Complex Hydrocerussite-Related 3 Mineral from the Mendip Hills 4 5 6 Oleg I. Siidra1*, Diana O. Nekrasova1...Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK 12 3 Department of Mineralogy, St. Petersburg...Petersburg, Russia 14 4 15 Road, London SW7 5BD, UK 16 5 Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics...Russia 19 7 20 Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Mineral and Planetary Sciences Division, Earth Sciences...somersetite, has been found at Torr Works (“Merehead Quarry”) in Somerset, 29 England, United Kingdom. Somersetite |  | Turner, R. W., Siidra, O. I., Krivovichev, S. V., Stanley, C. J., Spratt, J. (2012) Rumseyite, [Pb2OF]Cl, the first naturally occurring fluoroxychloride mineral with the parent crystal structure for layered lead oxychlorides. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (5) 1247-1255 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.5.11 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0DD, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK [Received 21 March 2012; Accepted 10 August 2012;...‘hydrocerussite’ from a manganese pod at Merehead quarry, Somerset, England. Rumseyite is tetragonal, I4/mmm, a =...BM1970,110). K EY WORDS : rumseyite, Merehead quarry, Mendip Hills, layered lead oxychlorides, lead oxyhalides...we have been investigating the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills with particular reference to the assemblages |  | | Report (issue) | | 6661(6) X-ray Powder Pattern: Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England. 2.930 (100), 3.785 (48), 2.825 (43),...8 0.6 1.4 0.7 1.5 98.5 (1) Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England; wet chemical analysis, CO2 and H2O by...oxychloride mineral. Association: Cerussite, blixite, mendipite (typically intergrown with mereheadite); symesite...Distribution: Merehead Quarry (Torr Works), near Cranmore, Somerset, England. Reported from the Clara...locality, Merehead Quarry, England. Type Material: Natural History Museum, London, England (BM 1965,285 and |  | | Report (issue) | | one miniature) of babingtonite from the Roncari quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut. Yes...1960s the late Ron Bentley used to work the Roncari quarry extensively for specimens (it produced world-class...Babingtonite on prehnite, 2.7 cm, from the Roncari quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut. Edwards...Embrey on the Torr Works (or Merehead) quarry, in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, England. The little limestone...limestone quarry, worked for road ballast since the 1950s, is known mineralogically for its suite of rare |  | | Journal (volume) | | 2006 from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...twinned trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of...CONTENTS Volume 13, 2010 PAPERS The minerals of the Mendip Hills and their relationships Rick Turner and Michael...look at the work that we have been doing in the Mendip Hills (reported in this issue of the Journal) in...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 574 ROCKS & MINERALS Minerals of Northern England (Symes and Young 2008) book launch. Roy Starkey...him to explore the geology and minerals of the Mendip Hills, an area that became of intense interest...known as “Red X” and “Yellow Y”) from Merehead quarry, took up much of his time. Eventually, with the...Merehead quarry in particular, was honored by the naming of a pink oxychloride from the Torr Works (formerly...(formerly Merehead quarry) as symesite in 2000 (Welch et al. 2000). In addition to his research and curatorial |  | | Book | | "ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...was born on the 18th March 1923 in Leicester, England. He attended the City Boys School, Leicester, and...mineral from New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical Magazine, 66...Silurian Konservat-Lagerstatte of Herefordshire, UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...minerals. MB/ does not simply report on published works, but also takes one further step in reporting many...publishing his first work on the minerals of the Mendip Hills (Kingsbury 1935). he aspired to become a...Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine,nr Priddy,Somerset Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)'...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, UK, with a structure based on polyoxometalate clusters...village of Goldsithney, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England, U.K. (50.1414°N 5.4269°W). The mine is well known...the pegmatite from a blast pile at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld...sulfosalts accumulations in dolostone of the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland. This well-known...the knowledge of the mineralogy of the Lengenbach quarry. The holotype specimen of ralphcannonite is deposited |  | | Journal (issue) | | some very interesting material from Merehead Quarry in Somerset including large and spectacular pink mangano-calcite...and several pieces of the striated oxychloride, mendipite for which the Mendips are famous. A walk across...cavansite on white stilbite, both from the Wagholi quarry in Maharastra, India. ·· Another mineral of particular...'hydrocerussite' from a manganese pod at Merehead quarry, Somerset, England. Rumseyite · is tetragonal, I4/mmm, a...until 1986. His contribution was outstanding. Our UK field trips have been one of our highlights and these |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................................... New Find at Torr Wor.ks Rick Turner 16 ...........................he relocated to the North of England and at the age of sixteen left the UK to live and study in Canada...Canada for seven years. Colin returned to England, this time the south east region, and then relocated to Cornwall...collecting minerals around 1976, both in the North of England and especially in Cornwall. Colin ColinSparrowreceivingthe...For one of the leading mineralogical society in the UK to be at odds with the government department responsible |  | | Journal (volume) | | non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David...herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals, from Chywoon Quarry, in Cornwall. There are, however, four other Cornish...mandarinoite, the rare iron selenite. Back in England, but at the northern end of the realm on this occasion |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dumps from old mines, for example in south west England, are often rusty brown with iron oxides, and where...Flints • Books • Accessories Tuperssuatsiaite, Aris Quarry, Near Windhoek, Namibia (6mm across) Specimen:...a tray of mineral specimens) were subdivide into UK only and worldwide, while a new photographic class...SINGLE MINERAL OR ROCK SPECIMEN COLLECTED IN THE UK. There were 7 entries in this class. First place...green arthurite and scorodite from Hingston Down quarry. Cornwall. This was a good specimen of two rare |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral assemblage at Merehead (Torr Works) Quarry. near C ranmore. Somerset, Eng land. Yeomanite is named...company, Foster Yeo ma n. who o perated Merehead Quarry fo r aggregate until 2006. The minera l is no rmally...lustre. Invariably intimate ly associated with mendipite, yeomani te appears to be fo rmed of sma ll, twisted...rope-like fibres g row ing from the end of columnar mendipite masses, forming loose mats and strands resembling...chain-structured Pb oxychloride from Merehead Q uarry, Somerset, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 79, _I 203-12 11 |  | | 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...white botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green...photograph. Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES |  | | Book | | resemble kidneys. Hematite, Frizington, Cumbria, England « 6 x 9 x 5 cm Ye 4m Quartz (smoky variety),...ABOVE: Medallion, William Smith and Charles Eaton (England, c. 1834-70), lead and copper alloy, 6x 4.5 cm...Serra Pelada, Par4, Brazil. Europe: Hope’s Nose, England; Transylvania, Romania. Africa: Ashanti, Ghana;...cigarette cases were being made in Russia, France and England. Russian cases of that period exhibited floral...Mexico; Corocoro, Bolivia. Europe: Cornwall, England; Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Asia: Yekaterinburg |  | | Journal (issue) | | with high temperatures, but they are unusual for the UK and are therefore worth a comment. As responsible...unusual for the temperature at the bottom of a quarry to be 15 degrees Centigrade higher than the outside...under these conditions the bottom of our local quarry is a pretty fair approximation of the Sahara in...you can. Get them out of the sun, and out of the quarry. In the meantime, loosen their clothing and lie...seen any truly serious cases of heatstroke in the UK, the potential is there and I have seen many minor |  | | Journal (issue) | | him to explore the geology and minerals of the Mendip Hills, an area which became of intense interest...endless analysis of two unknown phases from Merehead Quarry, took up much of his time. Eventually, with the...Embrey ("Mendipite and other rare oxychloride minerals from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England," Mineralogical...Merehead quarry in particular, was honored by the naming of a pink oxychloride from the Torr Works (formerly...(formerly Merehead quarry) as symesite in 2000. In addition to his research and curatorial activities, Bob |
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