 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Reichenbachite from Cornwall and Portugal R. S. W. BRAITHWAITE Chemistry Department, University of Manchester...Manchester, M60 1QD, UK AND G. RYBACK 42, Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4EB, UK Abstract Infrared...is a rapid method of distinguishing between pseudomalachite and its polymorphs reichenbachite and ludjibaite...specimens labelled 'pseudomalachite' from Cornwall, in particular from Old Gunnislake mine, are of reichenbachite...Reichenbachite has also been identified with pseudomalachite from Miguel Vacas mine, Vila Vigosa, Evora, Portugal. |  | | Book | | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Introduction 4 About this Book 9 Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith:...to Port Gaverne Liskeard: Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45...45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious Metals and Semi-precious Stones 85 Mineral Gallery...a posler (or Lovm's shop, Penzance: liroconilc, Wheal Garland, Sl Day the early I 800s to supply their | | | Book | | 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...taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...Liskeard: Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall: Callington to Calstock Rocks of Cornwall Precious Metals |  | | Report (issue) | | 92.93(1)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Potts Gill mine, England. 4.72 (10), 2.562 (10), 2.489 (10), 2.688 (9)...43 [100.00] [96.94] 100.00 (1) Wheal Carpenter, Cornwall, England; by microchemical methods, H2 O by...olivenite, liroconite, chenevixite, clinoclase, pseudomalachite, bayldonite, parnauite, tyrolite, azurite,...chrysocolla, quartz. Distribution: In England, from Cornwall, at Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear; Wheals Gorland...Muttrell, Gwennap; Wheal Phoenix, Linkinhorne; and a number of other mines; in the Bedford United mines, Tavistock |  | | 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...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins |  | | Catalog/List | | mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi |  | | Catalog/List | | Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes Farm, Willand,Devon, England EX15 2QF Tel 01884 821563 Fax 01884 821724 e mail...co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...PYROMORPHITE (3.5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Moss green acicular crystals covering...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky |  | | Catalog/List | | yellowish-green coarsely fibrous in matrix, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian Scotland large I x2 size £ 14 6. CHALCOPYRITE...mineral) Agnew Mine, Leinster Western Australia £ 15 itvf: u-uth·d ! 8. PSEUDOMALACHITE excelleat rich...to about half inch size over 2x2 area. Ciampino Mine Alban Hills Italy £ 15 17. SAL AMMONIAC glassy crystals...area on lxl.5 inch matrix Republic SOLD Scholller Mine, Kladno, Czech 18. APATITE -FLUORAPATITE- double...sparse, red-brown coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12 29. SPHALERITE lustrous |  | | Report (issue) | | 66.54 3.77 Total 99.47 99.09 100.00 (1) Mercedes mine, Coquimbo, Chile. (2) L’ubietová, Slovakia. (3)...oxidized zone of copper deposits. Association: Pseudomalachite, malachite, azurite, chrysocolla, iron oxides...(Libethen, near Neusohl), Slovakia. In England, good crystals at Wheal Phoenix, mines around Calstock, Illogan...elsewhere in Cornwall. Around Nizhni Tagil, Ural Mountains, Russia. In Portugal, at the Miguel Vacas mine, near...near Alcoutim. Very large crystals from the Rokana mine, near Kitwe, and at Chingola, Zambia. At Kakanda |  | | Catalog/List | | Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...- --q.,_u_artz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___::H_i_l_?fY Cornwall __________ _ _ _ _ __ _________ AGRELLITE Excellent...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey botryoidal on New East Wheal Russell...½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar |  | | Catalog/List | | Also new: Dufrenoysite, Ferroactinolite From England: There is a seperate This catalogue Nitrobarite...\·1hi te sphere shaped nodule. (Newhaven,Sussex,England) 111 50p 2" El.00 311 fl.60 411 f).80 017 ANALClTE...white masses intergrown with Selenite. (Dorset, England) lxl 60p lx2 El.20 2x2 E2.40 2x4 EJ.80 4x4ins E7...rich grey fibres in quartz. (WhealProsper St Ewe, Cornwall) lxl f!.50 lx2 E3.00 026 BERTRANDITE Be/4 Si/2...Group. Rich green masses with Siderite.Unusual for England. (ScarboroughYorkshire) lxl f2 lx2 f4.50 2x2 f9 |  | | Catalog/List | | Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone...ROSE QUARTZ & SMOKY QUARTZ (4cm x 4cm 2cm) Piftorra Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brasil A very pretty specimen |  | | Catalog/List | | Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific...Pacific Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The |  | | Catalog/List | | (MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well formed, dodecahedral...ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large dodecahedral crystals, interformed |  | | Journal (issue) | | incompletely characterised mineral from Penberthy Croft Mine .. 16 Meeting & Field Trip Reports .............hosting next years event, on the south coast of England, so put the date (11-13 April) in your diary and...perhaps, leading a fieldtrip to some long forgotten mine in Wales. I joined the Russell Society fifteen years...the heavy metallic ‘rocks’ that could be found on mine dumps in Mid-Wales during walking trips. My parents...to come. The number of mineralogy curators in the UK can now be counted on two hands, but more worryingly |  | | Catalog/List | | MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE, pure CHALCOCITE...pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U |  | | Journal (issue) | | 83816-2043 Montgomery at the "Little Green Monster" Mine Fairfield, Utah 1937 A 96 page treatise based upon...rocks of various horizontal sizes • Patented by United States Wydar Co. Inc. P. 0. Box 25283 Portland•...on May 23. Nearly a dozen speakers will include mine geologists and managers from operations in both...in the middle of Roscommon Cliff at St. Just, Cornwall. "The middle" being approximately halfway between..." They would enjoy lots of material from Elmwood Mine in Carthage, Tennessee. !hat is hug; golden scalenohedra |  | | Catalog/List | | CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting |  | | Catalog/List | | _1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive |  | | Catalog/List | | I Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...5cm £4 no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine...£7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with |  | | Catalog/List | | fcATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL No 96 2005\ Phone 01932 862340...South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 88 Unusual rich yellow vitreous...cleavage Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue...mass Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO 2x2 £12 lx2 £6 Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U,S_A ANCYLITE Cc Rich pinkish...ANDALUSITE Ultcvis,Norlh Sweden ALLANITE Ce Dastnas Mine Sweden J 009 variety VTR.IDCNE (Mangan rich variety) |  | | Catalog/List | | clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment...green,prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE...APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...Aragonite to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece. 3 specimens. Specimens A and B. |  | | Catalog/List | | New Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall,Bahianite,Bismutite, Celestite with Sulphur,Cubanite...OH Cl ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. Engl.and__ .. _ _ - •· Ix2ins Very. rich~ ;a~...cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland |  | | Journal (issue) | | timer's report 1/3/10 Rare minerals at the Sweet Home mine, Park County, CO 8 Platinum and related minerals...Sailauf im spessart (Teil 2) 39 Due Stiepelmann'sche Mine in Namibia (vervalsingen !) 40-57 Das Tujetsch (CH)...Cornwalliet Rik Dillen Cornwalliet van Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall, UK. Foto en verzameling Rik Dillen Deze...atjes op bayldoniet. Penberthy Croft Mine, St.Hilary, Cornwall, Groot-Brittannië. Veldbreedte 9mm. Foto...ornwallite1_capgaronne.html Geonieuws 30(4), april 2005 85 Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Saint-Day omstreeks 1905. vaak |  | | Catalog/List | | No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban |
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