 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR...into Carboniferous limestones throughout the Mendip Hills during the late Permian or Triassic period were...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...theory proves the long-held conjecture that the Mendip Mn deposits are of secondary origin (see for example |  | 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;...from a manganese pod at Merehead quarry, Somerset, England. Rumseyite is tetragonal, I4/mmm, a = 4.065(1)...110). K EY WORDS : rumseyite, Merehead quarry, Mendip Hills, layered lead oxychlorides, lead oxyhalides...have been investigating the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills with particular reference to the assemblages |  | 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;...(Merehead) quarry, near the village of Cranmore in Somerset, United Kingdom. It occurs as pale emerald green...uncharacterized lead oxychloride, in cavities inside a manganite and pyrolusite pod. The crystals are typically...lead magnesium oxychloride, Merehead quarry, Somerset, mineral nomenclature, Torr Works quarry, new |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Mendip Hills, Somerset. By ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY. [Read March 7, 1940.] the Mendip Hills, as...remarkably scarce. Mining was formerly carried on on the Hills for many centuries, but mineralogy as a science...together by J. W. Gough in his book 'The mines of Mendip', 1 but apart from a few general remarks on the...LM.A.4-309.] F 68 ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY ON Mendip. These specimens have fortunately been preserved...from the Mendip Hills',l in 1899, and 'New lead-copper minerals from the Mendip Hills (Somerset) ',~ in |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 I . ORBIS TREASU Republic of Ireland IRE250 UK £2.50 TREASUR HOW TO CONTINUE YOUR COLLECTION ...5673331 (24 hours, 7 days a week) or fax 0870 6060447 UK&REPUBLICOF IRELAND OF THE EARTH (Payment in E...issues sent direct to your door at no extra cost (UK only; £1.00 p&p for Republic of Ireland). For details...gemstones. Simply order by telephone or write to the UK address above Please state which tray you require...WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY FOUND IN THE HILLS OF SOMERSET, SOUTHWEST ENGLAND Mendipite is mainly grey, white |  | | Journal (volume) | | a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph courtesy...trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of the Russell...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 a...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite |  | Turner, R., Siidra, O. I., Rumsey, M. S., Krivovichev, S. V., Stanley, C. J., Spratt, J. (2012) Hereroite and vladkrivovichevite: two novel lead oxychlorides from the Kombat mine, Namibia. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (4) 883-890 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.4.05 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK [Received 23 November 2011; Accepted 28 February...Recent research on the Pb oxyhalides of the Mendip Hills, England, (Turner, 2006; Rumsey, 2008; Siidra et...oxychlorides crystallized, but our work in the Mendip Hills, where similar minerals are found, indicates...contain a mixture of hausmannite, jacobsite and manganite and there is no reason to suppose that this specimen |  | 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. RUMSEY3...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...Merehead (Torr Works) Quarry, near Cranmore, Somerset, England. Yeomanite is named in joint recognition of...have been investigating the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills with particular reference to the assemblages |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | former name of Merehead quarry), Cranmore, Somerset, England (Turner et al. 2012). Rumseyite is tetragonal...matrix of manganese oxides, typically a mixture of manganite and pyrolusite (Turner 2006). Rumseyite is translucent...mineralogy at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, England (Turner et al. 2012), who noticed it lurking in...has a keen interest in the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills (where Merehead quarry is located). He has authored...was born in May 1980 in Sutton (near Wimbledon), England, the eldest son of Anthony and Lynne Rumsey. His |  | | Catalog/List | | Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Te .No.:Gunnislake 832381 (STD 0822) V.A.T.No...copper. 4ix 3xi " , £13.00 . 35. CREDNERITE. Mendip Hills, Somerset. Bright black platy crystal masses embedded...1~·;}xt", £4. 50p each. 49. HYDROCERUSSITE. Mendip Hills, Somerset. Ric~ creamy-white platy crystalline mass...green banded Pseudomalachite. 3tx2~i", £13.00 58. MANGANITE. Ilfeld, Horz, Germany. Very choice bright blackish...scattered over and free standing on crystalline manganite matrix with a little creamy 8arytes in association |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | X . New lead-copper minerals from tl~e Mendip Hills (Somerset). By L. J. SP~C~R, M.A., Sc,D., F.G.S....here work ceased in 1893. Several references to Mendip minerals are contained in John WoodF 68 L ....working. To quote a few of his entries, he says : 'Mendip Green-Ore xams with the greatest difficulty in...Lead-Ores with the greatest freedom of any in England.' (Vol. 1, part 1, p. 208.) ' Lead-Ore, flakey...in a Vein in Greenhill, n e a r Charter-house, Mendip, Somersetshire. There was a considerable Vein of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wales, and Barytocalcite from Holwell, Mendip Hills, England C Alabaster Identification of Minerals Using...WALES, AND BARYTOCALCITE FROM HOLWELL, MENDIP HILLS, ENGLAND C. ALABASTER Department of Geology, Wills...Car~omferous Limestone quarry in the eastern Mendip Hills, Somerset. These occurrences are compared with similar...calcite (c)lined cavity in banded pyrolusite-manganite ore. Colemans Quarry; 1.4. Barite pseudomorph...Quarry [ST 724 454], at HolwelJ , near Frome, Somerset, situated on the northern flank of the Beacon |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heaton Norris STOCKPORT, • Cheshire SK4 1DJ. ENGLAND I ~ • • I • • •• • • • : • ! ! • : •...Lynn Corrie South View, Crouds Lane Long Sutton Somerset TAIO 9NR Tel: 045824588 Worldwide Mineral Specimens...striations, measures 1 x 0.2 mm. This may be manganite. FIGURE 4. Thomsonite crystals, to 15 x 3 mm...E. Smith: Cinnabar from the northern Pennines, England J. Parnell and P. Eakin: Thorium-bitumen mineralization...Phurcalite (flnisaite fl ) from Dartmoor, S W England, and Portugal D.I. Green: Scotlandite from Higher |  | | Catalog/List | | Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.~~.: st. Just 880 (STD an 677) V.A.T.No...mineral. 5x3" .£23. 00. 51. HYDROCERUSSITE. Mendip Hills, Somerset. A select, lustrous creamy platy crystalised...lustrous deep red Cuprite. 2-2-xltxl-2-". £2.50. MANGANITE. Hotazel Mine, Cape Province, South Africa. Select...to 4 mm. in size, thickly encrusting massive Manganite. 4-2-xltxl-2-". £7.25. MARCASITE. Parc Mine, Llanrwst |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystalline pyrolusite has been derived from manganite. The 'pod' is differentiated into a Mn-rich core...from similar MnFe replacement deposits in the Mendip hills (Spencer and Mountain, i923; Symes and Embrey...Rhaetic period occurs round Bristol, in the Mendip hills, and in South Wales (Hamilton, I965; Dewey, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Digenite Djur1eite Cornwallite Cornubite Erythrite Manganite Clinoclase Bismuth Liroconite Silver I I I...material from the Skip shaft dump. MANGANITE, MnO(OH) Although manganite is reported as being common at Botallack...The supergene leaching of copper in south-west England has been recorded in numerous studies, although...post-Armorican early Mesozoic period when south-west England was approximately 200300 miles from the equator...Re-discovery of stokesite crystals in Cornwall, England. Mineralogical Record, 8, 294-297. Couper, A.G |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | village of Cranmore in Somerset, U.K. Rickturnerite occurs in cavities inside a manganite and pyrolusite pod...[Pb2OF]Cl, is a new mineral from Merehead quarry, Somerset, England. Rumseyite occurs in a single cavity (~1.5...undifferentiated Mn oxides, typically a mixture of manganite and pyrolusite. Rumseyite is translucent pale...noted for his work on the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills and Kombat mine (Namibia), and in particular |  | | Journal (issue) | | NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...4TG Printed by Northern Litho Services, Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...with an iridescent tarnish." They also recorded manganite from the site. Subsequently reference was made...the Caldbeck Fells, the northern most group of hills in the English Lake District (Fig. 1). It is a small...the authors (beraunite, cacoxenite, dufrenite, manganite, 3 rockbridgeite and strengite) can be found |  | | Book | | COMPOSITION 29 31 31 31 31 MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...post-town in another. Chains of hills which divide counties, like the Malvern Hills, or Cairn Gorm in Scotland... : : : : Water Manganese Oxygen : : : MANGANITE { { Oxide of Copper : Carbonic acid MALACHITE...YELLOW -OCHRE. 20.00 s MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES. NOTE . When the name of a metal is |  | | 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...Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 301-311. Orr, P. J....Silurian Konservat-Lagerstatte of Herefordshire, UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series |  | | Journal (issue) | | Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten...localities: The H igher Pitts m ine, M endip H ills, Somerset, E n g la n d ..................................near to the village of Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, 25 km south of the city of Bristol...southern escarpment of the Mendip Hills plateau, with wide views out across the Somerset Levels (alluvial plains) |  | Siidra, O. I., Krivovichev, S. V., Turner, R. W., Rumsey, M. S., Spratt, J. (2013) Crystal chemistry of layered Pb oxychloride minerals with PbO-related structures: Part I. Crystal structure of hereroite, [Pb32O20(O,◻)](AsO4)2[(Si,As,V,Mo)O4]2Cl10. American Mineralogist, 98 (1) 248-255 doi:10.2138/am.2013.4241 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz, native copper, hausmannite, jacobsite, and manganite. The Kombat mine ore bodies contain primary Pb-Cu-Zn(-Ag)...manganese deposits at Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 70, 629–653. Turner...Rumsey, M.S. (2010) Mineral relationships in the Mendip Hills. Journal of the Russell Society, 13, 3–47. Turner...litharge-related oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset. Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 387–393. Welch, M |  | | Journal (issue) | | have to be 'pushed' to the public as here in the UK. 2. Vernadsky State Geological Museum. Jolyon was...and Jolyon also noticed a large collection of manganite specimens from Germany and a strange lump of a...walkJng, t;peMtng1 weekends rooming tho Lsko Dislrlci hills, get-ting to tmow t:ne llkes of Scafell Pfk.e 1...price of 50p each! At the start of the 1980s the UK had a couple of mineral publications, Gems Magazine...magazines there was no longer one purely for the UK. During one of our DMRG meetings, which no doubt |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...publishing his first work on the minerals of the Mendip Hills (Kingsbury 1935). he aspired to become a professional...Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine,nr Priddy,Somerset Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)'...remaining parts of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain...with the introduction of administn1tive regions. England suffered too, but on a much smaller scale. Change |  | | Journal (volume) | | non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Steve A. Rust 6 10 Manganite from Laverockbraes, Grandhome, Aberdeen Michael...Laverockbraes, a classic locality for well crystallised manganite, which now lies buried beneath the suburb of Grandhome...Mineralogy Publications, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. Starkey, R. and McMullen, M. (2017). Spodumene...DERBYSHIRE Steve A. RUST 130 Elliotts Drive, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 3NR The uncommon copper sulpharsenide enargite |
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