 | | Book | | Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Barry Gamble Alison Hodge First...Alison Hodge. 2 Clarence Place. Penzance, Cornwall TRI 8 2QA. UK info@alison-hodge.co.uk WVAVal sonhod gepubl...Production. Penzance. Cornwall Printed in China Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North Wheal Basset. Cambome-Redruth...Acknowledgements I would like to thank Paul Richards, of Brea, for checking the text and making useful suggestions...Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West Wheal Owles and Wheal Edward 18, Cape Cornwall Mine 21 Boswedden |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | THE CORNWALL & DEVON MINING DIRECTORY : CLASSIFIED IN DISTRICTS ; 1 With their Produce, number of...; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS . rusuh g Ndalhs1870.Cornwall Gfo . gogy ENTERED AT STATIONERS: HALL ... THE desire for a new edition of the CORNWALL AND DEVON MINING DIRECTORY having been often expressed... J. W. Hayle, Cornwall, April, 1870. INDEX . CORNISH THOSE MARKED THUS MINES . HAVE CEASED WORKING...Boscean . . . . . . 95 . . . Boswedden and Wheal Castle 94 4 4 4 Botallack and Carnyorth United |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Building a Mineral Collection Cornwall Part Ill and Field Trip to Cornwall Journal 221 - September October...-3- SMLS Journal 221 SepUOct 2009 MINERALS OF CORNWALL - Part 111 by David Aubrey-Jones This talk by...continuation of a series on the renowned minerals of Cornwall which he began in 2007. Part I concentrated on...concentrated on the famous copper minerals found in the mines of the Gwen nap area. Part Ill began where he left...which can be read up in Number 19 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, co-authored by David. This |  | | Book (edition) | | STATISTICS OF , AND OBSERVATIONS UPON THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON . ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND GROUND...the Statistics of, and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall, published by me in 1859, have emboldened...to sustain legitimate mining enterprises, in Cornwall and Devon, to make an appeal for the public support...realized prices of the numerous Mines, not only in the county of Cornwall, but in the adjoining county of... Satisfied that an accurate knowledge of these Mines can only be attained by ground plans of the great |  | | Report (issue) | | Sheet 352 of the ne,v series one-inch 1nap of England and Wales. . The orig:inal geological st1rvey ...III.--1 he Ca111borne tnining district ,vith Carn Brea in the distance . . . ... ... PIJATE IV.--Su11ny...stages of ... ... ... the process . . . PLATE VII.-Carn Brea. Granite tor ,vith stratiforrn ... ... ... v,reathering...Nortl1 Pc>ol ... 1 2.--- Section from Bt1ller and Basset - lJ11iteci to \\T l1ettl 'l'olcrt1s ... ... ....Section of tl1e l\Iain Ijocle of Dolcoath a11d Crtr11 Brea l\Ii11es ... ... ... ... ... ... . . .. 2().-\V |  | | Journal (volume) | | 17. 270 Section on Line of West Chiverton and Wheal Chiverton Main Lodes 18. Transverse Section at...VALE IRON COMPANY, 351. ASSOCIATION , Miners, of Cornwall and Devon, Proceedings of, 157. AUSTRIAN ENGINEERS'...358. CANADA, Review of Mining in , 39, 109. CAPE CORNWALL CONSOLIDATED TIN AND COPPER MINING COMPANY, 167... UNITED SILVER-LEAD MINES COMPANY, 234. 176, 238, 300, 360. CHIVERTON MINES, The, 269. CLARKE, Mr... 236. Progress of Iron Trade in , 353 . COAL MINES, The Rating of, by Mr. Hedley, 15. COAL, Drying |  | | Journal (volume) | | SMELTING MAGAZINE . The System of Selling Tin-Ore in Cornwall. In our last number we referred, under a local...local heading, to the system pursued in Cornwall of selling black - tin by private contract. We stated that...smelters a patronage in the hands of the pursers of mines---was “wholly indefensible, and must sooner or later...January, 1862. THE SYSTEM OF SELLING TIN-ORE IN CORNWALL. 7 we need scarcely point out to any man of...coinage " system . Formerly all tin raised in Cornwall had to be “coined ” by the There were four officers |  | | Journal (volume) | | GRUNER AND LAN . (Abstracted from the Annales des Mines, 5th Series, Vol. xx, p. 515.) GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS...cost, of the rich oxidised ores of the north of England, and of readily exporting the products obtained...iron works were situated morein the south-east of England-in the counties of Kert, Sussex, and Surrey - and...the Millstone Grit of the centre and north of England. Only, in the district we are speaking of, this...of outcrop of the Lower shales, that the first mines were opened, and the principal Welsh works constructed |  | | Catalog/List | | Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...many 19th century classics from Devon, Cornwall and Northern England If you do not find what you want on...MARCASITE (5cm x 5.5cm x 4cm) GeevorMine, Pendecn, Cornwall, U.K Rounded crystab of lustrous marcasite sitting...dolomite crystab prettily sprinkled with lustrous hematite crystals forming tan-like platey aggregates Very...£245 79 FLUORITE (6cm x 6cm x 8cm) Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall, U.K A large matrix free specimen of watery |  | | Journal (volume) | | Agents and others. BY W. FAIRLEY , Surveyor of Mines, Member of the South Wales Institute of Engineers...Work, XI. - Probabilities of Accidents in & c. Mines. VI. - Specific Gravity, Weight, and XII .- Sundries...every kind of business in the Stocks and Shares of Mines, Ironworks and other Industrial Com panies, are...particular undertaking. With respect to Stock in Mines and Ironworks, Harris and Co. have made arrangements...operation. In the metallic mining districts of Cornwall and Devon, of Wales, Shropshire, and the Isle |  | | Journal (volume) | | resources of the country. Very little is known in England of these coal-fields, and some account of the most...year : The mineral fuel at present obtained from mines in Hungary is partly brown coal and partly stone...geological origin. The latter, does not, as in England, belong to the older or palæozoic formations, but...manner of the French and Belgian mines than of ordinary English coal mines. There are many shafts, and wherever...also the railway from the mines to river. The coal is brought out of the mines at the lowest adit, being |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, St •. Just, Near pen~ance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 STD 0736) V.A.T...matrix. 3x2-txl-t". £5.50. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Specimen A - Rich crusts of sparkling...I-txt". £1.50. -2-10'. I BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine Illogan, Cornwall. Select cluster of intergrown irridescently...lx-t".£6.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Specimen A - very rich purply tarnished mass...some having a reddish tint due to inclusions of Hematite, thickly encrusting and free standing on matrix |  | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...3) A PAT I T E . St Michaels Mount, Marazion, Cornwall. A 15x3mm pale greenish blue hexagonal apatite... 4) ARAGONITE. West Mary Ann Mine, Menheniot, Cornwall. A nice clean white floss ferri like mass of aragonite...and MIMETITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Rich cellular quartz veinstone matrix showing...well. 30x15x30mm. £65. 10) CALCITE. Wheal Wrey, St Ive, Cornwall. Flat area on chalcedony matrix showing |  | | Book | | Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has... DARTMOOR ®"’ Unless athcnoise stated ,(tw. -mines ne^uxy §¥?'• • TAVISTOCK BCDMI1 /s^° pnsduced...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS |  | | Catalog/List | | BARSTCM 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ... £6. 5. M\SENOPYRITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Sharp, silvery grey, complex twinned crystals...platy crystals sea ttered on and in a reddish Hematite/Quartz matrix. 3~-x2xlt". £3. 7. aUTUNITE. Joachimsthal... 9. hXINITE. Roscommon Cliff, Nr. St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous, sharp, clove brown crystals to 5 mm...Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Pale gree:, lustrous micro-crystals encrusting Hematite/Quartz matrix. ;. |  | | Journal (issue) | | identification card that secures the privileges of many mines, quarries, clubs, societies, museums, libraries...HOADLEY (OBITUARY NOTICE) ............ 144 IRON MINES NEAR BILBAO, SPAIN ...............................was from the Bage Mine, Cromford, D erbyshire, England, and it, too, was tagged but by another collector...showing some azurities from the world famous copper mines of Bisbee, Ariz. No collection could be worth while...crystallized barite from Frizington, Cumberland, England. Another collector secured a very good crystallized |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: St. Just 880 V.A.T.No.: 132-7852-67...ARTHURITE. Hingston Do"m Mine, Nr. '::a"llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green coloured crystaline crust covering...2xl~"xl". £4-.50. AXINITE. Botallack, st. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A - Bright, clove brown sharp terminated...yello\ol Gwnmite. l*xl-}xl-i;". £3.25. NhTIVE BISMUTH. Wheal Sparnon, Bedruth, Cornv~ll. Very rich, bright metallic... £8. Ci~SSITEhITE. \Ilheal Kitty, st. CornwalL Select, lustrous, blackish, sharp tHinned crystals |  | | Catalog/List | | Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnisloke, Cornwall, England. Tel.Nb. Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V.A...3xl-txl".£5.50p. 7. AXINITE.Botallack Head, st. Just, Cornwall. Select bri~ht sharp clove brown well terminated... 2 12. BoTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Specimen A: Light green lustrous formed crystals...in size richly scattered on chalcocite/quartz/hematite veinstuff with thin light blue micro crystallised...formed crystsls to 2 mm in size scattered -:In hematite m3trix. 14"'<1", £4.5Op 13. BoULANGERITE. Mina |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm., 1991; XRD by Monica |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL. NO.: st. Just 880 (STD 073 677) 'V...4. 5. 6. APATITE. Longdowns, Carnmenellis, Cornwall. A well formed mostly transparent pale bluish...ltxltxlt"- £2.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne Cornwall. A pure, purply, tarnished metallic mass with...2xltxlt". £1.50. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Select, lustrous, light green, bladed crystals... ' . . BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. Metallic grey slightly tarnfshed tabular crystal |  | | Catalog/List | | ,!.h. 50 Oamell Road. Tru ro. Cornwall TR I 2DA, England Telrphone UK (O 21223227 Paul Lowe Minerals...Minerals Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 20A, England Tel: (0872)223227 NEWS AND INFORMATION...Kola-Peninsula, Greenland, Franklin, Crestmore, Cornwall, Chuquicamata, Langban, Poona. Radioactives, and...sections, namely 140 Bntish, including Devon and Cornwall starting on page 1, and 120 World Species, starting...El0 16 AZURITE & HALACHlTE,Unlted alnes,Gvennap,Cornwall. specl ■ en.Gossany but rlch ln both speciea.50x50 |  | | Book | | Statistical and other useful information relative to mines, or the minerals and ores extracted from them ,...Francis of London . A list of most of the Cornish mines referred to is, for the sake of convenience, given...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...NATIVE GOLD. 116. Gold . 124. Magnetite. 123. Hematite (specular iron ). Genus 3. OXIDE IN COMBINATION...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry |  | | Journal (volume) | | from, 101. Aluminium, Manufacture of, by M. N. Basset, 348. The Production and Ap plication of, by Dr...Bavaria, Statistics relating to the produce of the Mines of, 363. Belgium, Imports and Exports of Steel and...Califobnian Dialogue, A, 27. Marvel, A, 84. Cardinham Wheal Rose SilverLead Mining Company, 96. Cast-Iron, Effecting...by Mr. de Tiegomain, 223. Clifford Amalgamated Mines, An alysis of a Hot Spring in, by Prof. W. A. Miller...Miller, 197. On the Thermal Water of the, Cornwall, by Warington Smyth, 193. INDEX. Coal, Applying |
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