 | | 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 (issue) | | Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Telephone: 0736 - 788286 PROBABLY THE FINEST...CATALOGUE GENEROUS TRADES AND COLLECTION PURCHASES UK Journal of Mines and Minerals IssueNo3 SUMMER1987...SUBSCRIPTIONS are payable in local currency, or direct to the UK in Sterling. Barite from Silverwood Colliery ARTICLES...Lane, Blaxton, Nr. Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Telephone: (0302) 770248 5 21 S. Uttley Mineral...orthoclase from Wheal Coates, St. Agnes 30 M.P.Cooper Present day collecting at Cligga Head, Cornwall 33 L |  | | Book | | GeologicalSurvey. 1:50 000 Sheet 346 Newquay (England and Wales). © NERC 2014 All rights reserved Copyright...Generalised sequence of mineralisation in south-west England 14 5 Constituent mines of the Great Perran Iron...7 Stratigraphy of the Beacon Cottage Farm. and St Agnes Beacon outliers 20 8 Sequential development of...and Cenozoic deposits are present locally around St Agnes, in the west. The regional strike in the district... Watergate Bay Drt -1, Towan Head 90 1 St Agnes Formation (Cenozoic) :J 380 MawganPorth N |  | | Catalog/List | | W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...botryoidal mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~... ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised coatings...2tx2t". £1. AUTUNITE. South Terras Mine, st. Stephens, Cornwall. Light yellowish green platy crystals richly |  | | Report (issue) | | marketed at the 2013 Denver Show, these specimens have pyrite-spotted scorodite crystals which although sharp...they show sharp, lustrous scorodite crystals, not pyrite-spotted but rather, refreshingly, glassy and clean...things more desirable than specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, an exceptionally...red-orange color: Vanadinite, 5.5 cm, from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona. Mineral...centuries old, of clinoclase from Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England—a mine which produced the world’s |  | | Catalog/List | | Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...terminations. £110 13 14 PYROMORPHITE (4cm 4cm x 3cm) St. Salvy, Tam, France Grass green crystal groups of...pyromorphite to 3mm on a brown gossanous matrix £68 15 PYRITE ON ENARGITE (5cm x 5cm x 4cm) Quiruilico Libertat...5mm intergrown with well-formed pyritahedrons of pyrite. Nice combination. £70 16 AZURITE (7cm x 6cm x...a pretty intergrown group. £40 21 ZINKENITE ON PYRITE (5cm x 5cm X 4cm) Sa Jose, Oruro, Bolivia A pretty |  | | Catalog/List | | LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...COLLECTION LABEL) 70x30 5 ACC No. 745. CUPRITE, WHEAL DAMSEL, GWENNAP. CRYSTALS TO 8MM ON GOSSAN Y UPPER...ACC No. 1036. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) WHEAL KITTY, ST. AGNES. COLLCI920’S. 25x20 ACC No. 1037. CASSITERITE...CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR, WHEAL COATES, ST. AGNES. (EXC.V.SMALE) 40X20 14 ACC No. 1025...15 ACC No. 1034. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) ST. AGNES. A POLISHED PEBBLE, COLL Cl920. (EX MIKE MERRY |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | referred mainly to fossils, formed by calcite and pyrite, it also included pseudomorphs in the “mineral...crystals Wheal Coates, in St. are the best in the world, and have the characteristic Agnes, Cornwall (Great...with garnet also found in the Merehead quarry in England, and in are found in which pseudomorphs of diamond...Australia (Sheard, 1990). Iron oxide pseudomorphs after pyrite or marcasite Oxidation of metal sulphides is a...and a lot of acid, 2 moles of acid per mole of pyrite. One type of pseudomorph known for a long time |  | | Book | | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...r_0 'f_'--"t S:r•a!e. or S age of the opal from St Austell is cred1te o Greenside Minerals (www.greenside...14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious |  | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...90x45x35mm. £95. 3) ARAGONITE. Reedy Cliff, St Endelion, Cornwall. O f f white spikey aragonite xls to 5mm...£145. 7) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. Nice group of about eight chunky cog wheel xls...CASSITERITE and SCHORL. Egloshellen Mine, St Stephens, Cornwall. Black sparkling cassiterite xls to 2mm... 10) CASSITERITE after ORTHOCLASE. Wheal Coates, St Agnes, Cornwall. Part of a high replacement cassiterite |  | | Book | | There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 |  | | Journal (issue) | | INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines | | | 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...botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside Minerals (www.greensideminerals...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...to See Cornish Minerals 112 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers |  | | Catalog/List | | Minerals Endslelgh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TA1 2DA, England Tel: (0872)223227 NEWS AND INFORMATION...Vh!tc Collectlon. g~ne.Stubby crystals llest, Wheal Jane, Kea, cornvall. A llttle plece of hlstory nov...nov thls vlth good colour.50x40.El5 41 AHETHYST, Wheal Unlty, Gvennap, Cornvall. Threc vugs of c;mall but...IIPATITE, Heg!Jlggar Rocks, Tremearne, Breage, Cornwall. superb ge::Hny transparent pale blue crystal...clove brovn coloured sharp matr !x,60x55. [4 St Just, Cornwall. edged crystals (20x20) set In 45 IIZURITE |  | | Book (edition) | | iv INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...were once bustling with industry. Sans Levant Mine, St. Just. The small engine house nearer the camera houses...Marth, Castle-an-Dinas, Hingston Down, Kit Hill, St Agnes and Tregonning. These were intruded as molten...It is here that the richest mining districts of Cornwall are found. During a late cooling stage of the |  | | Book (edition) | | Photography by Peter Stanier and oe Levant Mine, St Just. The small engine house on the left houses the...Skip Shaft P.S. The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and...winding, and crushing ores. Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...Marth, Castle-an-Dinas, Hingston Down, Kit Hill, St Agnes and Tregonning. These were intruded as molten...It is here that the richest mining districts of Cornwall are found. During a late cooling stage of the |  | | Catalog/List | | 50x30x30mm. £15. 16. CASSITERITE. Wheal Prosper, Lanivet, Cornwall. The upper surface of an altered killas...17. CASSITERITE AFTER ORTHOCLASE. Wheal Coates, St-Agnes, Cornwall. About half a complete xl showing... CHALCOCITE. Crenver & Abraham Mine, Crowan, Cornwall, A mass of black chalcocite showing several areas...CHALCOPHYLLITE. Marke Valley Mine, Linkinhome, Cornwall, Light reddish brown limonitic gossan with areas...80x50x40mm. £15. 22. CHALCOTRICHITE. Wheal Unity, Gwennap, Cornwall. A flat piece of limonitic gossan showing |  | | Journal (issue) | | found during the present study but galena, blende, pyrite and probable chalcopyrite have been found in limestones...and flaggy stones in the stream beds, along with pyrite and also probably chalcopyrite. These two latter...hands and The author discovered galena, blende, pyrite and probable chalcopyrite in 1956 when searching...common, followed in order of abundance by blende and pyrite and the probable chalcopyrite . Mineralogy Mineralized...Mineralized ferruginous Red Sandstone) Pyrite (New readily a vivid 117 The minerals may in part be |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | first discovered in the British Isles (14 from Cornwall; 2 from Somerset; 1 from Cheshire; 2 from Scotland;...H. G. M A C P H E R S O N from England (75 of which are from Cornwall); 28 from Ireland; and 10 from...Thus, of the 130 species, 64 are from England (48 from Cornwall); 35 from Scotland; 19 from Ireland; and...regional lists as, for example, for SW England, Pennines and northern England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc...enquiries. The late R. W. Barstow, mineral dealer in Cornwall, was most helpful in some matters. REFERENCES |  | | Catalog/List | | RD W. BJIRSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ...1973 1. bP~TITE. Tregarden Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Specimen aSmall, bright sharp greenish blue modified...10. BhYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Specimen ~ - Rich crusts thickly coating...l~xl!". £1.25. 11. N"TIVE BISMUTH. Botallack Mine, St. Just, CormTal1. Rich, bright metallic cleavages...outline. 2xl". £1. BORNITE. Trenwith Mine, st. Ives, Cornwall. An interesting intergrowth of Bornite forming |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (1966) were uraninite, hematite, chap copyrite, pyrite, native bismuth and minor niccolite, 1611ingite...and new to Britain. The 'eulytine' reported from Cornwall (Collins, 1881) has been re-investigated recently...Restorreel mine, Lostwithiel, and from Wheal Coates, St. Agnes, both in Cornwall, have been shown to be free from...Minerals in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 2, 32. Foshag, W. F. (1924)Am. Mineral. 9, 30-1 |  | | Journal (issue) | | of mi nes UK & minerals summer 1997 number 2----------EDITORIAL Dtlf.!idGreen COVER: Chalcodte...Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. The UK Journal ofM;nts...Nom1an Thomson 17 SPONSORSHIP James Catmur ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM Roger Penhallurick 33 The views and opinions...Ryton SL, Work$op, Notes. S80 ZAY Tel (01909) 476906 UK journal of mines & minerals No. 18 Sponsors: SUSSEX...SOCIETY PEAK DISTRICT MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SO�IETY UK Journal of Mines & �linerals No. 18 -1- EDITORIAL |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | south shaft at South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Cornwall. R. J. Davis, M. H. Hey, and A. W...on old specimens in the BM(NH), at Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. The variety agardite-(Nd), according...near the roof of the Tregonning granite, Rinsey, Cornwall. C. S. Exley and M. Stone (x964), in 'Present...some aspects of the geology of Cornwall and Devon' (Roy. geol. Soe. Cornwall), pp. I44-5, Anglesite (var...anglesite in uraniferous hydrocarbon at Wheal Speed, Cornwall, contain co-precipitated radium. Other localities |  | | Book | | Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...clay workings have created a unique landscape around St Austell. Tin, copper, lead, zinc and other metals...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action |  | | Book | | NING SITES ID CORNWALL and SOUTHWEST DEVON By Barry Atkinson MlNilNG SITES JIN ... ISBN No. 185 022 044 I Typeset and printed by St. George Printing Works Ltd, Commercial Centre, Wilson...Wilson Way, Pool Industrial Estate, Redruth, Cornwall iv .. •. Abbreviations Name of Mine - alternative.......................................... ix St. Just - St. Ives ........................................... 35 St. Day - Chacewater .................................................... 37 St. Agnes - Perranponh |
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