 | | Journal (issue) | | mineral & lapidary society SMLS Field Trip To Ireland Journal 210 - November/December 2007 SUSSEX...We plan to visit a range of quarries, mines and mine dumps. There is the possibility of underground collecting...collecting at two locations ( Nizna Slana - mercury mine and Vysna Boca - sulphosalts of Cu and Bi ). Signing...l FIELD TRIP TO IRELAND May 2007 Introduction. The decision to collect in Ireland in May 2007 was made...2007 field trip programme. SMLS had never been to Ireland and it seemed like a good idea at the time! In-house |  | | Journal (issue) | | NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM...societies, and topographic mineralogy in Britain and Ireland. We describe and illu trate (in four separate articles)...first two articles, "' hich describe Scotland and Ireland, appear here in issue 21, while the remainder will...aragonite is commonly found in caves and on the walls of mine levels. A considerable amount of research has been...many exciting new discoveries, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, where even now large tracts of land |  | | Journal (issue) | | and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall...mines. The area contains the type localities for botallackite and stokesite and is known for good specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...calcium and cobalt. It exhibits polymorphism with botallackite, clinoatacamite, and paratacamite. Pseudomorphs...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pennian Magnesian Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite...Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite from Bwlch mine, Deganwy, Conwy, Wales C; Ryback and J G. Francis... D.I. Green and G. Ry back Raspite from Carrock mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England: a first British...Neall and D.I. Green Vesignieite from Castletown mine, Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, a first Scottish...Faif~rull and.v. Hubbard 94 Botallackite, including good crystals, from Ireland R.S W Braithwaite and Jf |  | | Journal (issue) | | FRONT COVER: Vanadinite, probably from High Pim mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Orangybrown...Starkey NOTES Botallackite from Dooneen mine, Allihies, County Cork, Republic of Ireland S. Moreton and...and D. B. Johnson 40 The botanical interest of mine spoil heaps - the lichen story 0. W Purvis 45 ...mid-part of this century, when there were still mine managers and miners to talk to, and when you could...he replied. He told me that the mine up the valley was the Bodannon mine, and that there were a number |  | | Journal (issue) | | stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly...resembles the quartz in the tungsten veins at Carrock mine, being very coarse and greasy with few cavities...typically occur in granite pegmatites as a late stage hydrothermal alteration product of mjnerals such...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme. Report...Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland. John van Voorst, London . ix, 483pp. [facsimile |  | | Journal (issue) | | the slderite box epfmorph from lho Virtuous lady mine. Devon I am in the proces.s of reading Mick Cooper's...Bulgaria in 2006 , from the depths of the Druzbha mine near Madan. Also collected from Bulgaria, but from...(by Peter Moore) was a drill core, collected in Ireland, that presented an attractive cluster of dolomite...as cassiterite, were included from the Hemerdon Mine in Devon. Overall this made up a display of 14 specimens... getting deeper into a mine first of all relies on getting access to the mine, many of which are now |  | | Journal (issue) | | John Pearce pictured digging for minerals down a mine Pictures: KIR.STY-WIGGLESWORTH . 20453 oc YOU...Hall. where we shape and polish the: glistemng stage it. is being extended. We facets on wbeels which...collected within the last 2 months from Small Cleugh mine at Nenthead, a small lead mining village high up...and after about 400m you reach the dry part of the mine at Wellington Flats. After a rest you proceed through...and obtained work as a sampler at South Crafty Tin Mine. In 1972 he started his own dealing business and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...and S.M. Ingram 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R....Leppinf{toll and D.I. Green 36 Atacamite, botallackite and cumengeite from Abersoch. Gwynedd, Wales...I. Green Anilite, with botallackite and clinoatacamite, from Castletown mine, Lochgilphead, Scotland...Huhbm-d 3R Thaumasite from Hi gh Sedling mine, Weardale. County Durham, and from Shap, Cumbria, England |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | X-ray powder diffraction data for botallackite Werner Krausea兲 Henriette-Lott-Weg 8, D-50354 Huerth,...共Received 1 August 2005; accepted 8 September 2005兲 Botallackite, Cu2共OH兲3Cl, from the Botallack mining area...with 兵001其 共dominant兲, 兵100其, 兵010其, and 兵011其. Botallackite is biaxial positive, 2V = 70共2兲°, the optical...Diffraction Data. 关DOI: 10.1154/1.2104548兴 Key words: botallackite, microprobe analysis, optical data, X-ray powder...powder diffraction data I. INTRODUCTION Botallackite, Cu2共OH兲3Cl, is a rare secondary mineral in copper-bearing |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen from the collection of the County Museum...single crystal I 0 mm in length from Force Crag mine, Braithwaite, Cumbria (See Mineral News). Figure...Quartz crystal 40 mm"in length from South Crafty mine, Cornwall. Manchester Museum specimen purchased...crystals to 5 mm on pyromorphite. from Force Crag mine, Braithwaite, Cumbria. Figure 4. Synchysite rosettes...recently from St. Peters Mine near Allenheads, orchumberland. In the 1930's this mine produced some of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Manila Mine Downloaded by [New York University] at 00:58 20 June 2015 Cochise County, Arizona ROBERT...mm, from the Gallagher mine. T HE TOMBSTONE MINING DISTRICT in Cochise County, Arizona, is one of the...near its intersection with Highway 80 in Cochise County, Arizona (fig. 2). The mineral claims are typical...the area was made in 1857 Figure 3. The Manila mine shaft at the bottom of the photo and another shaft...and reportedly an expert with the blowpipe. The mine was initially known as Bronco but was later “relocated” |  | | Journal (issue) | | EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of...includes the type localities for stokesite and botallackite, and is famous for specimens of axinite, almandine...hematite, goethite and paratacamite. LOCATION Botallack Mine is situated north-west of St. Just and one mile...are situated at grid reference SW 363 336. The mine is reached by turning off the B3306 coast road in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Also, in many lowland counties of England the County Plans give details of proposed mineral extraction...2, the county of Shropshire was incorrectly referred to throughout as Salop. In the 1974 county reorganisations...indeed renamed Salop (the old Latin name for the county), but the name was changed back to Shropshire in...X-ray Spectrometer X-ray Cowrter Specimen and Stage Drive' INSTRUMENT A TION A schematic diagram of...the sample position. The gun, column and specimen stage are all under a high vacuum, this being necessary |  | | Journal (issue) | | CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C. Spence SADDLEBACK MINE Peter Briscoe • David McCallum • Paul Nicholson...Editorial Board. fEITKNECHTITE FROM BENALLT MANGANESE MINE Publication ofinformation on a collecting site...0952-2409 Tom Cotterell 49 NORTH DEVON UNITED MINE Mike Rumsey • Mike Savage 53 PIUNTING DY Ratcliff&...omwall, the mothballed , rkings of South Crofty Mine have prung to life and a new decline is being driven...being de eloped. Only the giant leadzinc mines in Ireland survived, and e\ en their future looked uncertain |  | | Book | | Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George SeYastopulo...& Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI 'Jo ~6...suggested at the proposal stage of MB! that focusing only on Britain and Ireland might be too restrictive...personally discovered new species to Britain and Ireland, and colleagues permitted me to record their unpublished...producers of b th tin and copp ·r. and. more recently. Ireland became a major player in world zinc produ.:tion |  | Renno, A. D., Franz, L., Witzke, T., Herzig, P. M. (2004) THE COEXISTENCE OF MELTS OF HYDROUS COPPER CHLORIDE, SULFIDE AND SILICATE COMPOSITIONS IN A MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE CUMULATE, TUBAF SEAMOUNT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 42 (1) 1-16 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.42.1.1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | – Feni volcanic island chain, northeast of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago (Fig. 1). The Bismarck...Guinea and includes the islands of New Britain, New Ireland – New Hanover, Bougainville and the Solomons. The...distance of more than 260 km northeast of New Ireland. The volcanic activity started about 3 Ma ago on...The thinning of the lithosphere under the New Ireland basin led to adiabatic decompression-induced melting...Cu2(OH)3Cl are atacamite (Parise & Hyde 1986), botallackite (Hawthorne 1985, Hawthorne & Groat 1985) and |  | | Journal (issue) | | ylite)on romanechite, 90 mmtall,fromthe DryGill Mine,CaldbeckFells,Cumbria.Thisspecimenwas sold to the...reproduced with permissionof RobLavinsky. UKJuurn.11 of Mine~ & Mincr~h No. 31 -3- specimens in the last decades...fluorite from Frazer's Hush. Specimens from Cambokecls Mine have more subtle colours but are no less spectacular...living memory. Redburn Mine furnished large ccrussite groups. Blackdene Mine was the source of remarkable...some excellent material in the process. St Peter's Mine was worked in the recent past by a group including |  | | Journal (volume) | | varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected in 1978. The lower spray...2007 PAPERS Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David...silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 Geology...at the Conlig-Whitespots Lead Mines, County Down, Northern Ireland Norman R. Moles 40-46 Buttgenbachite...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | group: R3) at an ACC dosage of 1 g/L, whereas botallackite (Cu2 (OH)3 Cl, space group: P21 /m) was the...atacamite (Cu2 (OH)3 Cl, space group: Pnma) and botallackite (Cu2 (OH)3 Cl, space group: P21 /m) for Cl−...copper removal. Besides calcite (CaCO3), both botallackite (Cu2(OH)3Cl, space group: P21/m) and paratacamite...(Cu2(OH)3Cl, space group: R3) were observed. Botallackite could be identified according to the strong...copper removal. Besides calcite (CaCO3 ), both botallackite (Cu2 (OH)3 Cl, space group: P21 /m) and paratacamite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lombaardite, a nerv mineral from the Zaaiplaats tin mine, central Transvaal; (Jnion S. Africa Dept. Mines...cassiterite-bearing pipe in granite intheZaalplaals tin mine, Potgietersrust district, Transvaal. The explosion...4, 342-346 (1950). A specimen from the Kamaresa mine, Lavrion (also Laurion, Laurium), Greece, in the...613+.001, gamma 1.623*.001, 2V 51 *1' (Universal Stage); beta and gamma by immersion method, alpha calculated;...Ilistrixite Paul Rlmorrn, Der "Histrixit" der Curtin-Davis-Mine in North-Dundas, nordwestTasmania:NeuesIahrb. Mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | paintings of antiquity. Key words: Atacamite, botallackite, claringbullite, clinoatacamite, copper, chloride...for the basic copper chloride minerals. Both botallackite and clinoatacamite are monoclinic whereas atacamite...composition Cu2Cl(OH)3. Mineral Class Space group botallackite atacamite paratacamite clinoatacamite monoclinic...the synthesis. The first phase to separate is botallackite, which rapidly recrystallises to atacamite....were orientated on a polished metal surface on the stage of an Olympus BHSM microscope equipped with 10 ´ |  | Audibert, N., Bertrand, P., Hensen, B. J., Kienast, J.-R., Ouzegane, Kh. (1993) Cordierite-K-feldspar-quartz-orthopyroxene symplectite from southern Algeria: new evidence for osumilite in high-grade metamorphic rocks. Mineralogical Magazine, 57 (387) 354-357 doi:10.1180/minmag.1993.057.387.20 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | water on primary sulphides. Botallackite was also recorded within the mine, but not in association with...It is likely that such conditions within Geevor mine would favour the formation of sodium-zippeite rather... W. G. (1858) Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, Van der Voorst, London (republished 1977, Lapidary...Society KEYWORDS: sodium-zippeite, zippeite, Geevor mine, Cornwall. Tregears, Little Treviscoe, St Austell...mineral assemblages developed. After this prograde stage, the terrane underwent decompression and cooling |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Terras Mine, St Stephen-in-Brannel. Earlier references to cobaltite at Dolcoath Mine, Wherry Mine and Botallack...Botallack Mine, now appear to be dubious and are likely describing skutterudite (Tindle, 2008). Cobaltite...Crofty Mine at Pool (Le Boutillier, 2003). Skutterudite is known from Botallack Mine; Levant Mine; Geevor...Geevor Mine; Wherry Mine, Penzance; Hawkes Point Mine, St Ives; Wheal Herland, Gwinear (associated, in a...Roscrow United Mine, Ponsanooth; Wheal Sparnon and Pednandrea Mine, Redruth; East Pool Mine, Illogan; Dolcoath |
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Stage mine, Knockmahon, Bonmahon, Waterford County, Munster, Ireland