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Fluorite from
Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Colour:colourless, pale violet or greenish
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1097322
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1097322:8
GUID (UUID V4):88d9ba43-a872-4e74-a4c2-2c6e227b9c72
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Old Gunnislake Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.3km (1.4 miles) Wheal Maria, Devon Great Consols, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
2.5km (1.6 miles) Calstock Consols (Wheal Calstock; Calstock & Danescombe Consols; Danescombe Valley Mine; Tamar Consolidated Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.7km (1.6 miles) East Gunnislake Mine (in part: South Bedford and East Gunnislake Mine), Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.7km (1.7 miles) Wheal Josiah, Devon Great Consols, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
2.8km (1.7 miles) Ding Dong Mine, Bedford United Mine, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
2.8km (1.8 miles) Hawkmoor Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
3.0km (1.9 miles) New Consols (New Great Consols; New Wheal Martha; Great Wheal Martha; Wheal Martha), Luckett, Callington, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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)
at South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Cornwall. R. J. Davis, M. H. Hey, and A. W. G. Kingsbury...specimens in the BM(NH), at Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. The variety agardite-(Nd), according to F. Permingeat...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
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shows in Tucson, Denver, Munich and Ste-Marie-aux-Mines Tel.: 949-494-5155 • www.kristalle.com • Email:...Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England ......................... Bill Pinch at the Tucson Show in 2008. Kent England photo. The Pinch Medal, established in Bill’s...the Russian (then Soviet) government, visiting mines in the Urals and Siberia, to discuss how to market...of Lincoln: “A tree is best measured when it is down—and so it is with people.” Looking over Bill’s career
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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...second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and...freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue numbers...0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines and
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permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Belgium, France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154... Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later
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GOETHITE Collected in 1982 from Wheal Edward, Cornwall. As newcomers to minerals we thought goethite...AGARDITE(Y) Collected in 1987 from Marke Valley mine, Cornwall. Identified by David Green and photographed by...H. Museum. The stars are created by twinning. FLUORITE Collected in 1985 from Meldon Aplite quarry,...including quartz and hydrocarbons. CITRINEon FLUORITE Collected about 15 years ago from Yew Tree mine... AZURITE Collected on a SMLS trip to the north of England in 1998 from Eagle Crag mine. A site memorable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arthurite, a new copper-iron arsenate f r o m Cornwall B y R. J. D A v i s a n d M. H. HEY D e p a r...crusts on several specimens from Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, Cornwall, proved to consist of a new...r o m I t i n g s t o n D o w n Consols m i n e , Calstock, Cornwall, g a v e a p o w d e r p h o t o...a n y samples contained more or less quartz or fluorite from the matrix. Trial and error showed that if...crusts on several specimens from Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, Cornwall, proved to consist of a new
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic matrix...Associated with schorl, chlorite and a little purple fluorite. (Collected June 1981). 50x15x30mm. £35. 5) BERYL...6) CARMINITE and SCORODITE. Hingston Down Consols, Callington, Cornwall. Cavities in solid arsenopyrite
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...4) BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhome, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic matrix...Associated with schorl, chlorite and a little purple fluorite. (Collected June 1981). 50x15x30mm. £35. 5) BERYL...6) CARMINITE and SCORODITE. Hingston Down Consols, Callington, Cornwall. Cavities in solid arsenopyrite
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself... Lot 324 – Fluorite on quartz – Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite...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...SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW.18 Botallackite...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi Lode
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...Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and n1ineral...n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 8 9- 3
Catalog/List
OARS TOW DrLlkewa lls House , Drakewalls , Gunnislake, Cornwall; Engl a nd. TEL. ~U. : ORDERING Ta vi...or crystLlls to 1" in size covering ca lcit e/fluorite matrix. Nice displ m/.speci mEm , &tx4tx~ " ,...CASSITERITE . Savath Chinoclay Work , Luxulyan , Cornwall . Oright sharp blpckish to da rk brown twinned...00 20. CASSITERITE . Greot Work Mine , Dreage , Cornwall. wel l formed lustrous dark brown crystols to... 00 24. CHALCANTHffiTE. Wh eal J a ne , Kes , Cornwall. Most unusual and beauti fu l sta l a ctitic masses
Journal (issue)
·>:~· .:t ~--~~ II I I ~ II I I I I I Cornwall Field Trip Journal 203 - September/October 2006...persuaded me to buy it. It was indeed difficult to put down . ..... I would have thought that the recently published...our 200th issue of the SMLS journal in Issue 55 of Down To Earth. The article is included in this issue...slow steady pace with no deadlines. (Peter slowing down - you must be joking!!) However, by the time he...identifying seven boxes of minerals he had dropped down earlier in the week for SMLS tombotas, sales and
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- --Dra kowalls Hous e, Drakewalls , Gunnislake, Cornwall England . - ---- TEL . ~O . : Tavistoc k...f1UOY TI N. Pedn- an- Drea Vi ne , Redr6.Jth , Cornwall. Sharp lustrous re ddisil c r ysta ls to 4 mm...CASS ITERITE. Olue? Hills ~'i ne , St . Ag ne&, Cornwall. nich dark brown cryst a lline? mass with srro...CHALCoTR ICHITE. Phoenix I"i ne , Li nki nhorne , Cornwall. Oright rod needly crys t a l s r i ch l y cov...of mica schist rrotrix. 2x 1'} ", £4.75p 48 . FLUORITE. Comrroc k 6Ql s I"ine , Wea r da le , Co. Durha
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
Journal (issue)
3 - ,.� The 1994 Spring Fieldtrip Devon and Cornwall l L� - l 7 th April Driving across wild moorland...of the old lead/silver mine, built a little way down from the road in the valley of the river Tavy. Closer...prepared to collect. Holmbush mine dumps, Kelly Bray, Cornwall were our first'target, but they proved quite elusive...apatite crystals cementing small pieces of green fluorite, some of which had leached away leaving voids...also found large lumps of massive yellow/green fluorite and some smaller specimens of massive galena.
Book (volume)
COUNCIL The METALLIFEROUS MINING GION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume II 1956 2017 reprint BRITISH GEOLOGICALSURVEY...The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME II H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical...metalliferous mining region of the south-west England. Economic Environmental Science Centre Keyworth...London SW7 5BD Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 4090 www.bgs.ac. uk www. geologyshop. corn ... 111 CONTENTS PAGE......... CHAPTER V-DETAILS iv V OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET ............
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the publication will die! If you find youself in Cornwall this year the St. Aubyn mineral collection is...winter will be fading in our memories. As I sit down to write this piece however I have just come back...9234136 C Mr Pete Seymour 7 Carew Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3TP Tel 01872 262078 SE WW SE Change of...he was joined by his parents. Upon returning to England he was employed by A.C.Dunn of Rugby and seconded... In June we had a three page feature article in Down to Earth , and a slightly shorter version of this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scheelitein veins cutting ribbon rock (lepidolite-fluorite-magnetite) in tactites. The name is presumabiy...arsenatefrom Cornwall. Mi'neral Mag. 33, 937-941 (1964). The mineral occurs at the Hingston Down Consols mine...mine, Calstock, Cornwall, as thin apple-green crusts usually intimately mixed with pharmacosiderite or an
Journal (issue)
Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower...Ramsbeckite with schulenbergite from Cornwall and Cumbria, England D.J. Green. J Betterton, R. Bell and...Millerite and associated minerals from Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite... 88 \latrolite from Calton Hill. Derbyshire, England 89 A. Dyer, 0..\1. Wilson and B. Young Milarite...granite quarry, Cumbria, England, with a discussion of milarite occurrences in Cornwall and Devon 90 M M
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adopted was this: almost every reference was tracked down and personally checked by the author. From the data...original specimens (mainly Scottish) were tracked down and checked with modern analytical methods. A number...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
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St •. Just, Near pen~ance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 STD 0736) V.A.T...aQgregated on a matrix of cellular i~tergrown cubic Fluorite crystals. 2ixltxl-t". £4.75; Specimen B - A lustrous...terminated crystal lying flat on intergrown cubic Fluorite crystals with several smaller Barytes crystals... £5.50. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Specimen A - Rich crusts of sparkling lime green... -2-10'. I BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine Illogan, Cornwall. Select cluster of intergrown irridescently tarnish~d
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sowed the ~eds of future pla.ns - o minerologie-af down Built on foundations firm and strong wi1h standards...hav,e earned medals of pure gold . To mountai.ns, mines and qu,a r,ries and even golden sands Prepared with...ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...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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to Sussex alone; one honorary member hails from Cornwall and is an expert on the China Clay pits, whilst...a period of nine years (reported in the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Issue 10 1991 ), which sometimes...contain the best zeolite specimens to be found in the UK, one of which is now in the Oxford University Museum...in the Mineral Museums and the Paris School of Mines. In 1992 10 members toured across Russia, staying...with the major display being mounted by the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. Also two presentations will be
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neighbours: wavellite (Filleigh) and arthurite (Hingston Down consols) donated by Richard Barstow and a ludlamite...Jane) donated by Paul Lowe; whilst two cabinets down is an interesting quartz pseudomorph after scheelite...Glencairn, Chapel Road, Indian Queens, St. Columb, Cornwall TR9 6QT. John Pearce -4 - � ---------- 1...they were laid down in a shallower sea. Some of the Jurassic limes tones were laid down in a very deep...fascinating region. Another speciality is fluorite, although all the mines are now closed. Peter has lived in
 
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