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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Arthurite
Formula:CuFe23+(AsO4)2(OH)2 · 4H2O
Comments:Thin apple-green crusts, alone or with pharmacosiderite or a hidalgoite-like mineral or both, on quartzose matrix
Colour:apple green
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Scorodite5 photos of Arthurite associated with Scorodite at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Arthurite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Olivenite2 photos of Arthurite associated with Olivenite at this locality.
Pharmacosiderite2 photos of Arthurite associated with Pharmacosiderite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arthurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (13 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1238
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1238:6
GUID (UUID V4):9d4a2555-77b8-4118-a6df-6e5e4c54b1b1
Nearest other occurrences of Arthurite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
42.8km (26.6 miles) Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
69.3km (43.0 miles) Cligga Head, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Report (issue)
CuFe3+ 2 (AsO4 , PO4 , SO4 )2 (O, OH)2 4H2 O Arthurite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version...5.598(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Hingston Down Consols mine, England. 4.28 (vvs), 4.81 (vvs), 6.97 (vvs)...[9.7] Total [100.0] [100.0] (1) Hingston Down Consols mine, England; H2 O by loss on ignition; after...microprobe, H2 O by difference. Mineral Group: Arthurite group. Occurrence: A rare secondary mineral in...Distribution: In England, in Cornwall, from the Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, the Gunheath china
Journal (issue)
aanbod van de maan d (scorodietkristallen van Cornwall, GB) . 20 .30 h : voordracht met dia's ove...chalcosideriet . Whea1 Phoenix, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England . Hoogte kristalgroep : 1 cm _ Tekening J...rozetten (3 mm ) Hemerdon Rail Mine, Hemerdon , Cornwall . Verz . en fot o W . van den Ber g Het mineraal...*"MINERALEN ZOEKEN IN ZUIDWEST-ENGELAND, DEEL 1 : WEST-CORNWALL verscheen in het vorige nummer van Geonieuws9(9)...Geonieuws9(9), 172-185 (1984) . " Fig . 2 0 Oost-Cornwall en West-Devo n Part - Legend a r,oor F'1t1mnut h
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1964 SOCIETY No. 266 Arthurite, a new copper-iron arsenate f r o m Cornwall B y R. J. D A v i s a n...crusts on several specimens from Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, Cornwall, proved to consist of a new...with both. The new mineral, for which the name arthurite is proposed, for Sir Arthur Russell and Mr. Arthur...sp. gr. 3-2 (calc. 3-07). Under the microscope arthurite is pale olive-green and very finely granular;...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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the type-material from the Hingston Down Consols Mine, Calstock, Cornwall, at least up to d z A. No evidence...pharmacosiderite, intimately associated with the Cornish arthurite, was detected, although an extremely thin surficial...majority of the deposits, and the occurrence of arthurite at Potrerillos probably derives from the minor...The cell-contents of arthurite redetermined I N the original description of arthurite (Davis and Hey, 1964)...column E) cleared up the discrepancy: the Hingston Down Consols mine material contains 2. 4 % P and 1.3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGAZINE, DECEMBER I969, VOL. 37, NO. 2 8 8 Arthurite from Potrerillos, Atacama Province, Chile THE...felicitously named arsenate of copper and iron, arthurite (Davis and Hey, I964), has been confirmed from...Mortimer, and Clark, I968; Sillitoe, I969). The arthurite-bearing specimen was collected in I966 from a...to malachite, goethite, and minor cuprite. The arthurite occurs as very thin (o'I-O'5 mm) and sporadic...the type-material from the Hingston Down Consols Mine, Calstock, Cornwall, at least up to d z A. No evidence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals – Raman spectroscopy of the arthurite group species arthurite and whitmoreite Ray L. Frost, L. Duong...minerals – Raman spectroscopy of the arthurite group species arthurite and whitmoreite. – N. Jb. Miner. Mh...Stuttgart. Abstract: Two members of the arthurite mineral group, arthurite and whitmoreite A(Fe3 + )2(XO4)2(O...themselves to analysis by Raman spectroscopy. For arthurite Cu(Fe 3 + )2(AsO4,PO4,SO 4)2(O,OH)2 · 4(H2O),...compositions in the lattice. Introduction The mineral arthurite CuFe3 + 2(AsO4,PO 4,SO4)2(O,OH)2 · 4H 2O is a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
plagionite, hcteromorphite, 442. British Isles ENGLAND Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, jarosite, 941 . Cumberland...Worldham, tlampshire; Pegwell Bay attd Upnor, Kent. Cornwall Bosahan quarry, Falmoath, biotite, 21o. Dean quarry...Drakewalls mine, Gunnislake, posnjakite, 740. Hingston Down Consols" mine, arthurite, 52o. Lee Moor, muscovite... Gribun, Mull, plumbogummite group, 935. Lecht mines, Tomintoul, Banffshire, lithiophorite, 618. Leverburgh...heterogenite (schulzenite), 943. Potrerillos, Atacama, arthurite, djurleRe, 519. Remolinos Nuevo, Atacama, delafossite
Journal (issue)
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
Book
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MaNoenrNo Arthurite R. J. Davrs eNo M. H. Hov, Arthurite, a new copper-iron arsenatefrom Cornwall. Mi'neral... The mineral occurs at the Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, Cornwall, as thin apple-green crusts...a CHBrs-CHzIr mixture of S.Gr.3.2. Optically, arthurite is pale olive-green with no marked pleochroism
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
Journal (issue)
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... AZURITE Collected on a SMLS trip to the north of England in 1998 from Eagle Crag mine. A site memorable...an oil drum through a cascading stream, a climb down an electron ladder before passing along an adit...in 1996 from Lanterdan quarry, Tintagel , North Cornwall (sagenite habit, a lattice like collection of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distribution of Fe ~ and Mg between, 923. Analcime, Cornwall, cryst., I47; New Zealand, anal., opt., X-ray...Arsenolamprite, Chile, anal., X-ray, 732. Arthurite, Chile, 519; Cornwall, anal., 52o. Asahine, Kanto Mts., Japan...Starting materials for silicate studies, 198. Bikita mines, Rhodesia, montebrasite, 414. Bimbowrie, South Australia...meteorites, 649. Biotite, Cornwall, weathering, chemical, and M6ssbauer study, 21o; Cornwall and Aberdeen, anal...feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.), KNORRING (O. VON)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Horního Slavkova první výskyt v České republice Arthurite from Huber stock in Krásno near Horní Slavkov...2570-7337 Abstract A rare copper-iron arsenate arthurite, monoclinic CuFe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)2·4H2O was found...occurrence of this mineral in the Czech Republic. Arthurite occurs there as apple-green radial aggregates...activity of Cu, Fe and As in supergene fluids. Arthurite is monoclinic, space group P21/c with following...2(1)° and V 539.1(6) Å3. Chemical analyses of arthurite correspond to the empirical formula (Cu1.05Zn0
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...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...Lode. SW.43 Botallackite - Levant Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 368 346]. 130 fathom level, South Lode. Ex
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...of vanished crystals, probably A very long walk down a wooded track leads to the dumps in a barite. beautiful...decided to try our luck at Stowes Shaft, Linkinhorn, Cornwall. We were looking for the green botryoidal crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
limits of the instrument. UNK6 Cu-Fe phosphate (arthurite group) – CuFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2 . 4H2O UNK6 occurs...of crystal structure for UNK6 (P analogue of arthurite – Keller – Hess 1978). The refined unit-cell parameters...UNK6 (Table 14) are closer to phosphates of the arthurite group than to analogous arsenates. This relation...2005). Chemical composition of minerals of the arthurite group can be expressed by a general formula AB2(TO4)2(OH...3H2O (Pilkington et al. 1979) is a member of the arthurite group with dominant Zn-Al-P. Fig. 30 Aggregates
Book
South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis, M.H. Hey & A.W.G. Kingsbury (1965)...& 339. Arthurite (Holotype) BM 1964,00074 & 75 Hingston Down Consols mine, Ca/stock, Cornwall, England...BM 1982,00005 Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England A.M. Clark, E.E. Fejer, G. Cressey & P.C. Tandy... Bakerite (Cotype) BM 86511 Borax Consolidated mines, San Bernardino Co., California, U.S.A. W.B. Giles...BM 1990,00025 Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall, England C.J. Stanley, G.C. Jones, A.D. Hart, P. Keller
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
Book
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
Journal (issue)
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
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)
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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