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Quartz from
Marazion Beach, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cassiterite4 photos of Quartz associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Tourmaline3 photos of Quartz associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Chlorite Group1 photo of Quartz associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marazion Beach, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1585937
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1585937:6
GUID (UUID V4):e278786a-9bb2-4780-b13f-65bb9f56692f
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.8km (0.5 miles) St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wheal Virgin, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wheal Darlington (Bog Mine; incl. East Wheal Darlington), Marazion Marsh, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) West Wheal Darlington, Long Rock, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
1.7km (1.1 miles) Gwallon Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
1.8km (1.1 miles) Tolvadden Mine, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Wheal Bolton, Crowlas, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Rospeath Mine, Crowlas, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
2.3km (1.4 miles) Wheal Prosper, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
2.3km (1.5 miles) Wheal Fortune (West Wheal Fortune; Great Wheal Fortune), Truthwall, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Dale Foster CollectionIdentified by Dale Foster: Visual Identification
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with the Cornubian Batholith of southwest England: Direct dating of cassiterite by in situ LA-ICPMS...Abstract The Cornwall and Devon vein- and greisen-type copper and tin deposits of southwest England are spatially...Keywords Cornwall . Devon . Cornubian . Cassiterite . Tin . U–Pb . Geochronology . LA-ICPMS . England Introduction...tin and copper deposits of Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of England, have been a valuable commodity...2016). The aforementioned geochronology studies in Cornwall and Devon focused on dating the granitic host
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jones JONES , A. P. 1987. Field Meeting in west Cornwall , 30 May to 2 June , 1986. Proc. Geol. Ass. 98(1)...mineralogical and petrological interest in West Cornwall. Attention was concentrated on mineralisation...dominated by arsenoA field meeting was held in west Cornwall primarily to examine areas of mineralisation associated...associated with the pyrite. A lunch stop was made in Marazion (SW 517306) granites. Locations are indicated...base for The same neap tides meant crossing from Marazion to the party which conssted of 18 members. There
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...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS Felspar...Mount’s Bay - The Lizard .. North and Central Cornwall East Cornwall Devon 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 MAPS
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 Tel/Fax: |"’avistock (0822) 832530 * * *... Atacama Desert, Chile. Red cellular hematitic quartz matrix richly covered and intergrown with sharp... £45. 6. BERYL AND CASSITERITE. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. Colourless hexagonal prismatic xls...£60. •-* 10. Penbertriy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Areas of red to brown CARMINITE.. Penberthy carminite...xls and small hollow epimorphs after mimetite on quartz gossan matrix.. 60x40x30mm. £18. 11. CASSITERITE
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...£12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group of pale blue needly aurichalcite...70x40x30mm. £65. 9) CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendecn, Cornwall. An "onion layer" type of matrix showing rings...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group of eight intergrown prismitic... 11) CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen matrix showing
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group ofpale blue needly aurichalcite...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group ofeight intergrown prismitic... 11) CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen matrix showing...CASSITERITE and SCHORL. Goonbarrow Clay Pit, Bugle, Cornwall. A good solid mass of black/brown cassiterite
Book
during their travels up and down, and along, the beach, and if this disguise can be partially scratched...\lirtually no equipment, the pebble hunter in Cornwall can embark on a pastime that is healthy and relaxing...Europe. 4 - Ii A LI T TLE OF GEOLOGY I N Cornwall, as elsewhere, there are three main types of rocks...contains an excess of silica, shown by the presence of quartz crystals, it is an acid rock and is generally light...sedimentary rocks, and these are the most common type in Cornwall. As the name implies, these were laid down as
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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
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are known by a variety of terms, such as pebbles, beach-stones, shingle, gravel, drift, When aggregated...on the desert surface, on the particles ocean beach, in the throats of volcanoes, in the crevices of...pebbles also are not common. Spherical about the quartz of size ing of their particles in schists, etc...Fig. 2). ness are not rare in some localities. Quartz pebbles, w hen r rounded to their limit, generally...5). Pebbles formed of rock through which quartz veins run are modified by these veins, and as the
Book (edition)
ANTIQUITIES, MINING, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF UXzmm Cornwall SECOND EDITION. To which is added, for the...him from a resolution he had formed on quitting Cornwall, that of abandoning a science which can never...fertility ful, lands, 23. Dispensary, 25. Cornwall, 26. Royal Geological Society of Its Cabinet... 40. List of Indigeat nous Plants of Western Cornwall, EXCURSION 41, tyc. I. (Page 45) TO SAINT...celebrated water Market Jew, 47. Its origin Marazion, and Charter, 47. Chapel Rock, AS.— Arrival
Book (edition)
ANTIQUITIES, MINING, MINERALOGY, AND GEOLOGY OF WESTERN CORNWALL. A TO A WHICH IS NEW EDITION. ADDED, FOR...PRESIDENTS, AND MEMBERS OF d&oto&ical ^ocietr of Cornwall, THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, AS A HUMBLE, YET...him from a resolution he had formed on quitting Cornwall, that of abandoning a science which can never...Penzance a Coinage Town, 25. Dispensary, 25. CORNWALL, 26. Meeting Public ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...Davy, 40. LIST OF INDIGENOUS PLANTS OF WESTERN CORNWALL, 41, $c. place of Sir EXCURSION I. (Page 45)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Review Fluid Processes of Wolframite-Quartz Vein Systems: Progresses and Challenges Pei Ni...Zhang, K.-H.; Gao, Y. Fluid Processes of Wolframite-Quartz Vein Systems: Progresses and Challenges. Minerals...doi.org/10.3390/min12020237 Abstract: Wolframite-quartz vein-type tungsten deposits constitute the world’s...past few decades, extensive studies on wolframite-quartz vein-type tungsten deposits have been conducted...distribution and fluid characteristics of these wolframite-quartz vein-type tungsten deposits is still lacking. In
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Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious...physical properties of minerals (pages I I 0- 1 I). Cornwall, for its size, has one of the most diverse ranges...1n museum collections such as hose of the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro and the aural His ory Museum ...and can be found as outcrop, as pebbles on the beach , or as micro-specimens in non-protected mine dumps
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A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C. ASSOCIATE TRURO:...F.R.S., THB ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL, AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS, (WHOSE OBSERVATIONS
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Sydney Toronto Astronaut House, Feltham, Middlesex, England Copyright ISBN • • © The Hamlyn Publishing... By far the most common of these come from the quartz-chalcedony-agate family. Amethyst, cairngorm, carnelian...Last century with almost anvone who could get to a beach. Much that can be said about rocks and minerals...instance, is too soft to last any length of time on a beach which is almost certain to consist largely of flint...flint. And the list of minerals other than quartz varieties which are to be found as pebbles in any quantity
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055................................... 428 8: babel quartz to bytownite .............................. 66...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned
Journal (volume)
indd 1 9/25/2011 9:52:09 AM © COPYRIGHT 2011 CORNWALL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY No part of this volume...Publisher: Cornwall Archaeological Society Printing and binding by 4Word Ltd, Bristol, England Design and...9:52:09 AM Contents Marking 50 Years OF the Cornwall Archaeological Society How it all began? A personal...Archaeology In Cornwall: Recording, Conserving and Reconstructing The Past Archaeology in Cornwall The changing...changing archaeological scene in Cornwall, 1985-2010 NICHOLAS JOHNSON 29 Recording the past From Checklists
Report (issue)
... e western • I ,. Front cover: Cape Cornwall looking south-west from Porth Ledden towards the...10 10 Submerged coast lines around south-west England 11 11 Seismic profile showing a series of tidal...1:250 000 geological and geophysical maps of the UK Continen:al Shelf. These have been compiled from...wide continental shelf to the west and soutJ:1 of England (Figure 2). This shelf slopes very gt�ntly sotlth-westwards...It is divideUK waters, con-1 51 N 1 O" W 9° w 8"W ..' ·-
 
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