 | | Book | | coals up to 120 HOt.\W€1,L S~li\LES FORMATION Cefn-y-fedw Sandstone Fo rm ati o n Coarse to fine-gra ined...ium-grained d olo m iLised caJcareous sandstones (Lh,yn-y-fran Sandstone Member) at the base BASEMfNT Bws Cl...parts of the unitary authorities of Denbighshire, Flintshire and v\lrexharn), and western parts of Cheshire...limestones and the Silesian sequences of both the Flintshire and the northern part of the Denbighshire coalfield'>...Coal Measures and barren Red ~1easures of the Flintshire Coalfield a nd the northern part of the Denbighshire |  | | Book | | A Mineralogy of Wales RfCHARD E. BEYfNS Ocpartmellf o[Geolngy, Nmin11a/Museum of\Valcs, Cardiff AMGUEDDFA...Colliery, Ponh, Mid Glamorgan. National Museum of Wales specimen 48.264.GR 175. ex Cymmer Welfare Library...CE 6 I CES IN WALES 9 30 127 138 6 INTRODUCTION The mineralogy of Wales is diverse. with over...reveal the presence of additional species new to Wales. and perhaps new to the British Isles. It is also...completely new to cience will be discovered in Wales. as techniques for analysing specimens become ever |  | | Catalog/List | | the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Ecton.Staffs. Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Trefelrig,Wales SlOay,Comwall Derbyshire Leadhllls,Scotl. Ecton...Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith,Scolland Rhlw.Uyn,Wales Rust,S. Rust.S. Rust.S. Rust.S. Rust,S. Rust.S |  | | Report (issue) | | occurring mineral substance consisting essentially of fluorite (calcium fluoride, CaF2) together with variable...minerals. The theoretical chemical composition of fluorite is 51.3 per cent calcium, 48. 7 per cent fluorine...crystal structure. Most fluorite, however, contains at least 99 per cent CaF2. Fluorite is relatively soft...sulphide, ZnS) has also been recovered in the past. Fluorite is found also as an accessory mineral in granites...mineralised region of South-West England, where fluorite is a fairly common mineral constituent of some |  | | Report (issue) | | geochemistry of parts of North-west England and North Wales Keyworth, Nottingham 1997 This volume has been...geochemistry of pa,ts of North-west England and North Wales. (Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey...stream sediment in North-west England and North Wales BGS MAIN OFFICES AND SALES DESKS The full range...Office in Wales GEOCHEMICAL ATLASES Room G19, Sir George Stapledon Building, University of Wales, Penglais...1996 (0 85272 255 9) North-west England and North Wales 1997 (0 85272 307 5) Printed and bound in England |  | Nichol, I., Thornton, I., Webb, J. S., Fletcher, W. K., Horsnail, R. F., Khaleelee, J., Taylor, D. (1970) Regional geochemical reconnaissance of the Denbighshire area. Report Vol. 2 (70/08) Institute of Geological Sciences | Report (issue) | | B Westminster, Blaen-y-nant and Belgrave vein extensions 29 C Pentre Halkyn 30 D Llantysilio Mountain...Cupola Works 37 D Wynne Hall Spelter Works 37 E Pant Furnace 37 REFERENCES 39 lV ILLUSTRATIONS...Distribution of the principal geological units in North Wales, also showing the distribution of Welsh and Northern...and zinc in stream sediments, Westminster, Blaen-y-nant, and Belgrave vein extensions. 25 Fig. 7....lead and zinc in stream sediments and soil, Pentre Halkyn. 26 Fig. 8. Distribution of lead and zinc in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS Minerals From North Wales The Trials and Tribulations of Mineral Identification...Membership Details 2 5 19 20 MINERALS I ROM NORTH WALES Mike Rothwell During the 1996 BMS Symposium, Richard...on the mineralogy of a few chosen sites in North Wales. The following is a short summary of the workshop...Wedding Cave Mine at Bwlchgwyng, Bryngwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain, and Great Orme Head at Llandudno. At...line at the junction of the limestone in the Nant y Ffrilh gorge. This site yields a very interesting |  | | Journal (issue) | | Veins of the Minera-Maeshafn District of North Wales, by J. R. Earp, Ph.D., l\LSc. III.-The Central Mendip...been wrought at surface on the left. The small quarry near the sky-line, centre, is in Longmyndian grits...pre-Carboniferous Rocks of West Shropshire and North Wales, vol. xxiii, and Ba.rytes and Witherite vol. ii...Sketch-map showing the relative positions of the Central Wales and West Shropshire Mining Regions · No. 14] ...which worked Foxhole Vein and Foxhole Branch and Quarry Vein, lies north of the East Grit sett. Dingle |  | | Report (issue) | | Arrospide, Alberto, 1976, Los Yacimientos no metaliferos y rocas de aplicacion de la region Patagonia-Comahue:...edition 1994: Argentina Ministerio de Economia y Obras y Servicios Publicos, Secretaría de Minería, p....Singhbhum Belt, Bihar, in Rao, G.V., Dasgupta, S.P., Pant, A., and Choudhuri, R., eds., Phosphorite: Geological...northeastern Rajasthan, in Rao, G.V., 13 Dasgupta, S.P., Pant, A., and Choudhuri, R., eds., Phosphorite: Geological...District, Gujarat, in Rao, G.V., Dasgupta, S.P., Pant, A., and Choudhuri, R., eds., Phosphorite: Geological |  | | Journal (issue) | | Russell Society www.russellsoc.org 1ie Russe/TSocfet-y The R ~ l Society is a society of.:un :i tcur:i.n...o !min cralot:"ic.:,;l sites :md m a1t rfa l. _ Y?,Pflca tion fonn ee l'ings Progranune ~ ancfi..Tefonnation...IG.Jloa Si!.t coft:l~cd .a.!14 ffl.lU'>Ulnc d b y c:.~ ,-. " " CS udn;: Asachno p hll~. 1ie :R:usselTSociety...o:!l ~;u.! fuf.1:~Sc::I~) ! .:>c:;.lG.;.!!::-••y ~ ~Jr ~~;!:,l::\C"""_.:;;.:U c :o:==.J • ~ l I=.~...would be suffering hunger pangs). A native of South Wales, Gwyn's interest in minerals led him to make a series |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................. Wales & West 9 ................................................... The porphyry-copper exposure in Coed y Brenin Alan Dyer 13 ....................................................... North West iVorthern Wales & West I Southern Russell Society Field Meetings...Campus of the University College of Wales Newport. Our friends in the Wales and West Branch have got together...Steven Mulley South West Branch:Christopher Sharp Wales & West Branch:Rhiannon Cottrell; Edward Penfold |  | | Journal (issue) | | Chatsworth estate. These can also be seen in vol.13 of the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals (UKJMM), which is devoted...Southern Europe pushed north caused uplift in Northern UK and East/West faulting in the limestone. The limestone...of barium, 20ppm lead and Sppm of zinc. Barite, fluorite and galena are therefore prevalent with some sphalerite...the shattered rock subsequently in-filled with fluorite and barite. This has now been completely worked...the mine. Nice and dry with plenty of room and fluorite on the walls right by the entrance, an encouraging |  | | Book (edition) | | Gold Occurrences in the UK A Gold Prospector's Guide LEE GARY PALMER MSc Published in the United...40 Archers Ave Irvine, Ayrshire KA11 2GB Scotland UK Content copyright© Lee Gary Palmer, 2019 The right...Contents Acknowledgements Notable Nuggets of the UK Preface Gold The Word The Element Origin Locations...Isle of Man Wales South Wales - South Glamorgan South Wales - Carmarthenshire South Wales - Pembrokeshire...Mid Wales - Powys Mid Wales - Ceredigion North Wales - Gwynedd North Wales - Anglesey North Wales - Conwy |  | | Journal (issue) | | TAYLOR. SouthWest: Mr J E HESKETH,Mrs M NUTE, Wales& West: Mr A CUTHBERTSON. CaldbeckFells In the autumn...has donated a wide range of items, covering both UK and world mineralogical topics, to the Society Library;...of a number of publications (Mineralogical Record, UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Lapis) and a variety...an unknown lump of mineral found in a limestone quarry on the Mendips in Somerset a few years ago. It...was found by way, that this mineral stopped the quarry stone crusher. It activated a safety mechanism |  | | Catalog/List | | mineralogical books and collector's accessories, The compar,y is called The Endsleigh Book Company and an advert...Carrock sharp sllver xtls(l2mm) Hachen, South wales. course E9 B)65x55 ES C)40x30.E3 vhlte crystal-...BAR!TE,Cold,tone• ~peclnen of t!ght crystals Quarry, Pateley Brldge,Yorkshlre. Attractlve Barlte lens...Brlght pale red on DOLOH!TE, Pant-y-gaseg, Anglesey, North Wales, 12 CHALCOPYRITE smal! bronze xtls...IS CINNABAR,Coldstones Smal! orange deposlts Quarry, Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshlre. coverlng some |  | | Book | | hystatite .................................... 262 Y: yarrowite to yugawaralite .........................provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...a'1thanum 36 57 VI Tungsten Li L'.h;um Lutc:tium Xe y Xenon Lu l/.3 11.agnesum 3 71 12 Yb Ytterbium...Negligence has also led to errors, with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci |  | | Book | | -;Lo11es a11cl sar1clsto11es i11c]t1ding Prenleg ,111cl Moel Hebog Sa11dstone 111e1nlJers IJ LE\VELYN VOLCA...i1dstone . Marcl1llyn F 011natio11 inclt1de Camedd y Filiast Member Black J1cmipelagic rnttd ·to11.es...photograph Snovvclon viewed from the south-west at Moel Hebog. Tl1e Snowdor1 district lies close to the...this sector of the basin which was sited across Wales during Lower Palaeozoic times. The lovve t Camb1ia11...1 :50 000 Geological Sheet 1 1 9 ( England and Wales) London: The Stationery Office 1 997 . LV |  | Stephenson, D., Bevins, R. E., Millward, D., Highton, A. J., Parsons, I., Stone, P., Wadsworth, W. J. (1999) Chapter 6: Wales and adjacent areas. In Caledonian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain (Geological Conservation Review Series - Geological Conservation Review No. 17. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. p.231-344. | Book (chapter) | | Survey, Edinburgh R.E. Bevins National Museum of Wales, Cardiff D. Mi award British Geological Survey,...British BG5 Geological ,835 Survey Chapter 6 Wales and adjacent areas Introduction INTRODUCTION...Bevins Geological setting In early Ordovician times Wales lay at a latitude of approximately 600 , in the...wide, which was to dominate the palaeogeography of Wales for over 100 million years. During mid-Ordovician...early as Caradoc times in this sector of Iapetus. Wales was a part of this microcontinent (Soper, 1986) | | | Report (issue) | | Mo N Nb Ni P Pb PYR REE S Si Sr Ta Th Ti U V VRM Y Zn Zr aggregate bauxite aluminum arsemic gold barium...Arrospide, Alberto, 1976, Los Yacimientos no metaliferos y rocas de aplicacion de la region PatagoniaComahue:...edition 1994: Argentina Ministerio de Economia y Obras y Servicios Publicos, Secretaría de Minería, p....Singhbhum Belt, Bihar, in Rao, G.V., Dasgupta, S.P., Pant, A., and Choudhuri, R., eds., Phosphorite: Geological...District, Uttar Pradesh, in Rao, G.V., Dasgupta, S.P., Pant, A., and Choudhuri, R., eds., Phosphorite: Geological |  | | Journal (volume) | | David I. Green 19 32 Richelsdorfite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys: the first British occurrence...33 38 Tetrahedrite-group minerals from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys David I. Green, Neil Hubbard... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...confirmed by XRD at Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales. It may be of interest to potential authors to note |  | | Journal (issue) | | and safety legislation has meant that the land or quarry owner/operator is no longer prepared to allow access...elimination of mineral coUecting as a field pursuit in the UK the collecting fraternity needs, not only to change...represent two thirds and one third respectively of the UK membership of the International Association of Collectors...Switzerland s 3 Germany I Netherlands 4 Greece 2 UK I IS Apologies have been sent to Horst. OMS MEMBERSHIP...existing members. On the new list of members his UK address is listed) 8 BMS Newsletter 55 INTERESTING |  | Scarlett, Nicola V. Y., Madsen, Ian C., Cranswick, Lachlan M. D., Lwin, Thaung, Groleau, Edward, Stephenson, Gregory, Aylmore, Mark, Agron-Olshina, Nicki (2002) Outcomes of the International Union of Crystallography Commission on Powder Diffraction Round Robin on Quantitative Phase Analysis: samples 2, 3, 4, synthetic bauxite, natural granodiorite and pharmaceuticals. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 35 (4). 383-400 doi:10.1107/s0021889802008798 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | natural granodiorite and pharmaceuticals Nicola V. Y. Scarlett,a* Ian C. Madsen,a Lachlan M. D. Cranswick...College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX, UK, cCSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Private...diffraction data. The ®rst sample in the trial Nicola V. Y. Scarlett et al. Quantitative phase analysis ...30.0 7.3 1.4 12.3 13.6 1.8 1.2 1.5 384 Nicola V. Y. Scarlett et al. Quantitative phase analysis ... 383±400 research papers Sample 2 Corundum Fluorite Zincite Brucite 21.27 22.53 19.94 36.26 20.9 |  | | Report (issue) | | Distribution of Carboniferous li1nestone in south Wales and south-west England showing variations in thickness...surrounding the 64 South Wales Coalfield Figure13 Carboniferous limestone in north Wales and Shropshire 66...outcrop and major limestone ,vorkings in England and Wales 87 Figure25 Chalk in England 89 Figure26 Chalk...Britain in 1979 11 6 Location and capacity of UK cement works grouped by geological age of local raw...quarries in south Wales 65 36 Properties of limestone from selected quarries in north Wales 67 37 Chemical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | INTERNATIONAL C O N F E R E N C E ON M I N E R A L O G Y AND MUSEUMS Over one hundred delegates from eighteen...England, a major lead-zinc area famous for its fluorite and witherite deposits. Stanley J . Dyl I I A...which are still accessible. T o quote one partici pant, " T h e Copper Country is user friendly!" The Red |  | | Report (issue) | | identifiable nonferrous metal mines and trials in Wales. Each monograph covers a county of major importance...who may have occasion to investigate the mines of Wales . Many of the smaller mines and trials have now...ANRWST 10 CAPfL c:&Ara ~ KTlWS•'KO[D OCDIII.IG•Y.. l>RUIDDION. SH 50 S1 CORWEN 0 JO ,r> 20...ORE OL ~ GOLO OCC\llla J,Sl96■ •a ■ OF WALES .... ---------------~- ---- THE MINES OF...INTRODUCTION This county has been one of the largest in Wales and includes most of the productive field, besides |
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