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Reichenbachite from
Old Gunnislake Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Reichenbachite
Formula:Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz2 photos of Reichenbachite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Torbernite1 photo of Reichenbachite associated with Torbernite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Reichenbachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Old Gunnislake Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9480
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9480:1
GUID (UUID V4):58832a15-d507-4c8a-82f6-e3945cbf7e92
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
shows in Tucson, Denver, Munich and Ste-Marie-aux-Mines Tel.: 949-494-5155 • www.kristalle.com • Email:...tgressman@comcast.net Famous Mineral Localities: The Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota ....Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England .......................red hematite inclusions, 4.5 cm, from the Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Don...FineMineral.com AQUAMARINE ON MUSCOVITE Chumuru Mine, Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern
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...between pseudomalachite and its polymorphs reichenbachite and ludjibaite. This technique, backed by X-ray...'pseudomalachite' from Cornwall, in particular from Old Gunnislake mine, are of reichenbachite, thus identified...British Isles. Reichenbachite has also been identified with pseudomalachite from Miguel Vacas mine, Vila Vigosa
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...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins
Report (issue)
Reichenbachite Cu5 (PO4 )2 (OH)4 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...near Bensheim, Hesse. At the Old Gunnislake mine, Calstock, Cornwall, England. From L’ubietová, near Baňská...(Libethen, near Neusohl), Slovakia. At the Miguel Vacas mine, Vila Viçosa, near Estremoz, Portugal. From Brown’s...(OH)2 , a new member of the lazulite group, and reichenbachite, Cu5 (PO4 )2 (OH)4 , a polymorph of pseudomalachite
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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar
Catalog/List
South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- ·--- lx2 £6 ½x½£3
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
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
Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...of ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall Pure black-brown cleavage... Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________
Catalog/List
x i £5 Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero...Chee rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm £6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm £4 Colo urless to...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon...near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l £3 l x2 £5 While crystals well covering...£ 16 2x3 £25 l x l £3 San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales l x2 £1.5 0 6x6mm £3
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...Survey, Edinburgh and Keyworth; Cambome School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn; Department of Earth...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...mineralogists and mineral collectors. Although the mines (and some museums) may have closed, and the teaching
Catalog/List
Attractive blue masses in and on pink BÅRYTES.(BlairLogie Mine, n~ar Stirling, Scotland) lxl El. 50 202 COPPER...other Cu minerals on matrix. (30'level Gold Hill Mine Utah USA) lem E4 309 PLANCHEITE Cu/8 Si/8 0/22 pure...OH green micro crystals on matrix. (Levant Hine Cornwall) lx li El.SO lxl E2.50 518 CHEP.EVIXITE / KAOLIN...mass on matrix (WhealGerland, Cornwall) lxl El.60 lx2 E3.00 561 REICHENBACHITE Cu P0/4 OH green veinlets...veinlets and coatings on Quartz. (OldGunnislakeHine,Cornwall) I 1 '1S E4.50 062 BORNITE Cu/5 FeS/4 quite rlch
Catalog/List
pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7
Catalog/List
RICHARD ’ BYWAYS, , COBHAM ENGLAND MINERALS T AY L E R C L 0 00 E 2 0 B U R S T E A D P h one SURREY...TORBERNITE Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5
Catalog/List
COBlIAM 0 7 ) 1 '1411-.A[ S l . ! 1 1 . 1 1 Y s . ENGLAND 0 9 3 2 86 2 3 4 0 ,1 1" rm orEh5i1SJ1l,:;ttt7üi...black masses i n green A c t i n o l i t e (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan Sweden) lx1 £1.10 010ALMANDINE F...white sphere shaped nodulé. (Newhaven, Sussex,England) 1" 50p 2 " £1.00 3" £1.60 4 " £3.80 013 ALUNITE...Muscovite red micaeous masses on matrix (Praborna Mine,St Marcel, Val d ' Aosta I t a l y ) lx1 70p 1 x...grey, f a i n t l y blue masses (Staffordshire, England) 1x2 40p 2 x 2 80p 2 x 4 £1.50 L9 25.11KERITE-KUTNAHORITE
Catalog/List
C L O S E OBHAM S U R R E Y Phone C o b h a m ENGLAND K T 11 2 N L 0 9 3 2 862340 C a t a l o g u e N...SILICATE) black masses i n Actinolite. (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan,Sweden) lx1 £ 1 . 1 0 218ALMANDINE...sphere shaped botryoidal nodule.(Newhaven Sussex. England) 1 " 50p 2 " £1.00 3" £1.60 4 " £3.80 013 ALUNITE...023ANHYDRITE pure pale grey—blue massive.(Staffordshire England) 1x2 40p 2 x 2 80p 2 x 4 £1.50 025AHRERITE-RUTNAHORITE...025AHRERITE-RUTNAHORITE rich fawn massive.(Sjogruvan Mine, Grythyttan Sweden).Looks rarer but i s only a dolomite.lxl
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...freibergite) or persons (e.g. haiiyne), they may have old Greek origins (e.g. epidote), less often Latin (e...journal (minrecordite), etc. Some names are of very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz...authors' effort. We took into consideration famous old, often now exhausted localities, wellknown in literature...fantastic, highly appreciated specimens from such old finds still circulate. However, mm,t of our interest
 
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