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| simple equipment. Terry Moxon has been studying agate for the past forty years and is presently a part-time...Sciences, Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom. Agate is discussed on his website (www.agateworld.co.uk)...reveals a high spot; scale bar = 18 mm. Every agate is unique in its appearance, and the relationship...and agate collector. However, in my opinion, although this technique is not familiar to most agate enthusiasts...thin section. It is particularly exciting to view agate development that happened during events of tens |
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| yards on the left past the Post Office. It turned out to be one and half miles across a main road on the...sun shone you could crawl over the ground and pick out bright black anatase crystals as they sparkled. The...refused permission to enter the site ( It later turned out that we were trying to enter the wrong site!) •...high on a very steep wooded hillside. It turned out to be more tortuous and even wetter than the first...regret leaving my camera behind. As we made our way out of the mine we noticed very large stalagi tes and |
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| underground. A Great Family Day Out ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ How to get there -St. JAMES PARK □ VICTORIA WESTMINSTER...Details 27 Lower Meadow, Harlow, Essex CM18 7RD, England. Tel: (0279) 415844 THE SHOW BY COLLECTORS, FOR...COLLECTORS. ORGANISED BY: EARTH SCIENCE PROMOTIONS UK Journal of Mines and Minerals / The Only National...Telephone: (0637) 874216 Falcon 3St Stones ****** Mail Order Service Only 4 Rushbrook...Jewelleries - Necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches in agate,amethyst, garnets, lapis, malachite, quartz, etc |
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| 2. All clients whose deposits are received by 1 st April will receive a rebate of 1O per cent. We do...Devon by Steven A . Rust ... Some Observations on Mendip Minerals by Michael F. Brooke ... Three Yorkshire...Visit to Bwlch G las by D avid R. Neal Milltown Quarry, Derbyshire by Steven A . Rust .. Collecting Minerals...A few years ago when David Middleton and I were out collecting, we often used to meet other collectors...was not until June 1981 following a survey carried out at the first British Mineral & Gem Show, that the |
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| mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...“specimens with stories about their formation” – look out for these amongst the various lots. Trevor will...Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon... Ex N.Hubbard. SW.G12 Scorodite - Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall. T.Bridges. 1975. [SW 731 428]. SW...Barstow. SW.B1 Apatite on orthoclase - Colcerrow Quarry, Cornwall. Barstow green stock label. SW.D10 Sphalerite |
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| OF MENDIP " (with Dr. E. A. Baker)—Out of Print. " WOOKEY HOLE, ITS CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS "—Out u ... of CAVES OF MENDIP "—Out of Print. and uniform with this book : MENDIP : T H E GREAT CAVE OF WOOKEY...WOOKEY HOLE. MENDIP : CHEDDAR, ITS GORGE AND CAVES. The three books of the " Mendip " Series may be obtained...THE publication of this, the third book of the Mendip series, marked the completion of a task which I...accumulated in many years of underground work in Mendip. Since the first edition (1937) many things have |
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| 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...‘anomalous sequence’ of minerals found at the Mammoth-St. Antony Mine. The complexity of these formation processes...processes probably explains the rarity of Mendip-type Pb-Mn deposits. The collective importance of the |
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| & most established Wftolesalers Gemstones in the UK. Selling practically everything in ttie line of semi-precious...I CONTENTS Healing Gemstones pt 2 ......... 4 Mendip Miracle 11 Fos ii New ....... . 12 R.ock 'n'...composition: Si0 2 Hardness: 7. BOTSWANA AGATE Bocswana agate is sometimes called the "change stone" because...could be without it. Carrying a bit of Botswana agate in your pocket can help one cope easily with the...power of one's intuition. Botswana agate is helpful in Borswaua Agate Blue Tiger Eye B011e (Fossilised) |
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| THE GEOLOGICAL SETTING OF THE NODULES AT DULCOTE, SOMERSET* By R.R. HARDING, B.Sc., D.Phil., Institute...London SW7 2DE Nodules and geodes from the Mendip Hills in Somerset have been known to mineral collectors...years, but recently material of this kind from Dulcote, near Wells, has made a noticeable impact on the...due to the exploitation of a rich deposit in a quarry primarily worked for road and concrete aggregate...Geological Sketch Map of the Wells-Dulcote-Shepton Mallet area KEY England Road ~ ·:::t;::t:::ill~rISTOL |
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| images Front cover top Agate from Germany; bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title...Title page Agate from Russian Arctic coast. Distribution NBN International Estover Road Devon PL6 7PY ... UK Contents Introduction Names of agates What is an agate? Properties of agates Sources of agates...different geological environments. Since the mid-1900s, agate collecting has become very popular in Europe, North...America and the Middle East. There are thousands of agate-producing areas on Earth, and in the following pages |
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| were becoming involved in collecting and finding out about these materials. Group field trips to collect...our venue for monthly meetings from an unpopular out-of- town location to the Friends’ Meeting House in...premises where members could collectively carry out practical work. Equipment for cutting and polishing...of Southampton Mineral and Fossil Society we set out to broaden the aspirations of the group and everyone...their best advantage. Then I discovered I could go out and find beautiful crystals and pretty coloured stones |
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| read “Wolframite” or “Ferberite”. David pointed out that at one point the Fe:Mn ratio in wolframite samples...Islands in 2019 included a visit to the Hustoft Quarry. Colin Brough discovered a pocket of ~1 cm spheres...phosgenite, but the analysis showed no Cl. This ruled out phosgenite and pointed to anglesite (PbSO4) as the...something else. A JRS paper (vol.10, 2007) points out that although siderite has never been found at Pike...with this interpretation. A headline from recent UK mineral news was the re-examination of a museum specimen |
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| U.K. R.E. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. R.F. Symes, Sidmouth, U.K. A.D. Hart...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...Cu3Al4(PO4)2(OH)12·2H2o, from spoil at Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall Michael S. Rumsey and Gordon M. Cressey |
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| without notice. On The Cover Specimen of Bear Canyon agate, with chalcedony bands/ amethyst point from the...cutting performance for hard materials such as agate, petrified wood or jade. MK-303 Professional grade...designed for cutting rare and valuable materials (i.e. agate, quartz, petrified wood, jasper, jade, etc) when...of nodules that formed in vesicles in lava rock. Agate formation or genesis has been studied for over 200...(pre-internet) referred to “banded” agate (also known as “fortification agate”) as occurring when silica – SiO2 |
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| Vice Chaim1an The Dams. Caverswall, Stoke on Trent, ST! I 9ED Tel:01782 393838 COUNCIL MEMBERS Mrs. E. Hulse...P 8111111 The D ams, Caverswall, Stoke on Trent, ST! I 9ED Tel: 01782 393838 5 26, Waterloo Road, Burslem...614615 Collector's Den Mr AM Buck 5 Allison House, St. Andrews Rd, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 !HG Tel: 01491...Fairweather Crystal Imports Ltd MrBD\Vood Dulcote Quarry, Wells, Somerset, BA5 3PY Tel: 01749 675827 The Crystal...0191 377 9239 Gemrock Mr A & J E Roubieu-Mor/ow 74 St Paul's Close. Hounslow West, DV3 3DE Tel: 0181 570 |
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| 'JewellefUI ~ I ·11 I -- II .=-=- rns\.ones G andco\out e • Jewe\\e_f'i tu\\ ,n - - • I ii If11 I l...STREET HEATON NORRIS STOCKPORT, CHESHIRE SK4 l DJ, ENGLAND !:!' ._ ARE YOU QUALIFIED ? The possession of...SAINT DUNSTAN'S HOUSE CAREY LANE, LONDON, EC2V 8AB ENGLAND. In this issue News Views & Regular Features...by David Lees 18 Hopper Calcite Cyrstals from Dulcote by Michael F. Brooke .. . ... 22 Subterranean experience...PA YM E TS BY INTERNATIONAL MONEY ORDER VALUED IN ST~ RU NG. THE COST OF CHANG ING FROM OTHER CURRENCIES |
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| hav~ tmvelled half the world F.rorn E.GSt 'to W,e st and' North to South the Logo's been unfurled For...pandemic. However, as the invitation to submit went out and articles started to appear, it soon became apparent...increasingly ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath |
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| Images Front cover top Agate from Germany: bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title...page Agate from Russian Arctic coast. Distribution NBN International Estover Road Devon PL6 ?PY UK Contents...Introduction 4 Names of agates 6 What is an agate? 10 Properties of agates 44 Sources of agates...geological environments. Si nce the mid-1900s, agate collecting has become very popular in Europe, North...America and the M iddle East. There are thousands of agate-producing areas on Earth, and in the following pages |
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| collecting by our members, particularly within the UK? Our judges, Peter Moore and Jc1mes Langdon, did...three cabochons of crazy lace agate (Mexico), Dulcote agate (Somerset) and tiger's iron (Australia)....'slabs' of Moroccan agate, Afghan Japis lazuli and bloodstone. ·Toe other entries were 3 agate and jasper cabochons...Lesley Collins with her display from the North of England. John Burgess Class 3a. Display of Minerals or...trilobites. The latter are not easily found in the UK. Kath Hassan Class 6. A Creation A well-attended |
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| magazine, May 2017 ... 17 Plant fossil from the Somerset Coalfield ......................................Welcome to the 56th issue of Outcrop, and the 41 st year of our Society, which was fom1ed in Chichester...Friday of each month at 7.30pm (no meetings in July at St Stephen's Church, Angola Road, Worthing. Although...clients, and to train their drilling teams, both in the UK and overseas. He had a vast experience o[ problems...Worthing Herald site at www. worth ingherald. co. uk/news/v ideo-bl ue-p laque honours-founding-fath |
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| "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...William King) who was a strong believer in getting out to look at the natural world, and also bought Bob...mineral from New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical Magazine, 66 |
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| of Sale of Net Books and may not be resold in the UK below the net price given by the Publishers in their...quality so much that it is impossible to single out more than a few for particular attention. Quartz...Alpine occurrences 50 West Germany 55 Elba 56 England 56 Scotland 59 France 62 6 Occurrence: The Americas...all rock types and in most countries. CHALCEDONY Agate (light to dark colours in concentric bands, translucent)...translucent), fire agate (dark agate with play of colour similar to that in opal, opaque), moss agate (pale yellow |
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| mmtall fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals publishes...Worksop, Notts. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Minos & Minerals No. 29 -1- EDITORIAL...immeasurably to your enjoyment of mineralogy. David Green UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 29 -2- Frontispiece...century there were no working metal mines left in the UK and there seemed little prospect of any being de...considerable demand. I The world-class tin and tunn-st n deposit at Hemerdon Bal in Devon which contains |
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| avatlable in hard covers Cover photographs: Front: Agate with onyx centre: Usan. Angus Back. top: A coral...collector'sguide 1 28 A list of 111i11eral localities in England, f;f/ ales and Scotland 13 1 Bibliography and further...Gas bubble c:ivities or vesicle in basalt, 3 1 Agate from the Old R.ed Sandstone bvas of Scotland's Midl:ind...granite pegmatitc of Cairngorm. 44 n..ubisbw Granite Quarry. 45 Spoil heaps associated with the old tin mines...32. The marble quarry at Eigo! on the lsk of Skye. 99 33. Garnet from the Blue Quarry at Shapin Cumbria |
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| SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org .uk ***-***'lrl<-lrl<******7rl<'lrl<'lrl<**'lrl<**kl...membership. Anyone joining the Society after January 31 st pays half the appropriate annual subscription. MEETINGS...have ever seen in a museum) which were clearly laid out in the middle of the ground floor. Each cabinet followed...on and details of the individual classes are set out below. Class 1 Up to 7 tumbled stones or 3 polished...crazy lace agate) No. 33 - 3 cabochons (1 Scottish jasper, 1 Moroccan agate and 1 Dulcote agate) The judge |
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