 | | Journal (issue) | | Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11 lllit/...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,·ri.11l·ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL...whittling-away of the old minesites throughout the UK: foremost in the list of threats arc the use of sites |  | | 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...Pyromorphites, Mont St Hilaire, Kola-Peninsula, Greenland, Franklin, Crestmore, Cornwall, Chuquicamata, Langban...sections, namely 140 Bntish, including Devon and Cornwall starting on page 1, and 120 World Species, starting...Wendsleydale,York ■ hlre. xtls.E4 Cllff,Botallack,St Just,Cornvall.Dlsplay xtls up to 10-.60x40.El0 16 |  | | 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... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...70x30x40mm. £8. 2) AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...collection, 60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity |  | | Catalog/List | | Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes Farm, Willand,Devon, England EX15 2QF Tel 01884 821563 Fax 01884 821724 e mail...co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Moss green acicular crystals covering entire...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky |  | | Catalog/List | | Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean...Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The |  | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...beforehand. JULY/AUGUST 2008 1) ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. A shallow cavity in limonitic...40x45c30mm. £75. 2) ANGLESITE on CERUSSITE. Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia. A good six rayed stellate...colour. 70x50x40mm. £12. 7) BARYTOCALCITE. Lunehead Mine, Brough, Cumbria. A 50x30mm cavity in matrix lined...xls to 6mm. 60x50x30mm. £30. -• 8) BOLEITE. Amelia Mine, Baja, California, Mexico. Nice large thumbnail |  | | Book | | by Alison Hodge, 2 Clarence Place, Penzance, Cornwall TRI8 2QA, www.alison-hodge.co.uk, info@alison-hodge...Cornish minerals. Thanks also to Michael Merry of Cornwall Devon Mineral Specimens (www. cornwalldevonmineralspecimens...taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside Minerals (www.greensideminerals...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org | | | Book | | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...r_0 'f_'--"t S:r•a!e. or S age of the opal from St Austell is cred1te o Greenside Minerals (www.greenside... Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious |  | | Catalog/List | | refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill |  | | Journal (volume) | | K. A. Dyer, Hoddlesden, Darwen, U.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. I.R. Plimer, Kensington Gardens, S...non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David Moulding...occurrence of euhedral schulenbergite at the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall John Betterton and Ian E. Grey 34–35 |  | | Catalog/List | | JACKS1Tu\WCERRUSITE (10cm x 3cm x 2cm) Pcntir,· Gla:c Mine. Pol:catl,, Corm1·0/I Ex I Brrtcl! Collect/011 ...6. IIEMIMORPmn: (Scm x Scm x 1cm) Roughttn GIii Mine. Cumbria, U.K E."Cccplionlll celestite crystal...details). 8. SMOKY QUARTZ (8cm x 8cm x 2cm) Macaco Mine, Sao Geraldo Do Baixio, Minas Gerai·s, Brazil A...LIROCONITE (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Wheat Garland Mine, St. Day, Cornwall Green/blue liroconite crystals to 5mm infilling...AND APATITE (3cm x 2cm x 2cm) St. Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall Pale blue/green apatite crystal |  | | Journal (issue) | | Round-up - Friends of Killhope Day School ; Hilton Mine; Anglesey Geopark; South Crofly update; Scotgold;...mineral Field Notes from Cornwall - Hallenbeagle Mine Field Notes from Cornwall - Wheal Charlotte The Munich...Sussex Branch Micromount Study Evening - West Cornwall Branch News - Branch Meetings for 20 I 0 Other... Flat 3, Over Garage, Paynters Lane, Illogan, Cornwall. TRl6 4DJ MEMBERS- CHANGE OF DETAILS John Pearce...to receive your remittance. (£7 Single; £9 Family (UK); £9 and £11 Overseas. ) You have paid - thank you |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kingsbury (1906 - 1968) reproduced from UKJMM 5, of England. this contact offered a new and interesting field...Neumann which he claimed were from Bedford United Mine. The x-ray results (powder photographs) showed one...Upper Brandy Gill, now known as Brandy Gill Lead Mine. Over succeeding years, he forwarded specimens purportedly...Lindgrenite, descloizite etc., from Brandy Gill Lead Mine. Lindgrenite has been searched for by many collectors...example, Kingsbuxy's record of Adamite from Sandbed Mine has been discredited, the next record from this |  | | Journal (issue) | | Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon, England. EX15 2QF Telephone / Fax 01884 821563 Only Road...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Rycon lyping Service, 29 Rycon St., Worksop. Nom. S80 ZAY -+5 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEl\lENTS...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly |  | | 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... I made it a stipulation that e:ich en~ in rn:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...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 (issue) | | Fersman Museum. This museum was first opened in St. Petersburg as far back as 1716. In 1934 it was moved...have to be 'pushed' to the public as here in the UK. 2. Vernadsky State Geological Museum. Jolyon was...specimen was detailed down to the levels in each mine. Apart from the malachites there is now a standard...of Spain, also some pyromorphites from Bwlch Glas mine, Talybont in Wales and Anglesite from Parys mountain...minerals at the November meeting from La Encontrada Mine, may like to modify the location details which I |  | | Catalog/List | | _S)_O_H_C_l_ _ _ _ _ _on tin ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives, Com\~'!!_!!,_~gl~nd____ 2 AEGIRINE Very rich...20 Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H___...- --q.,_u_artz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___::H_i_l_?fY Cornwall __________ _ _ _ _ __ _________ AGRELLITE Excellent...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey |  | | Journal (issue) | | of mi nes UK & minerals summer 1997 number 2----------EDITORIAL Dtlf.!idGreen COVER: Chalcodte...Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. The UK Journal ofM;nts...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...Nom1an Thomson 17 SPONSORSHIP James Catmur ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM Roger Penhallurick 33 The views and opinions...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED |  | | Journal (issue) | | TRIP TO THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY Saturday February 21 st 2009 We rendez-vous'd at Warden on the Isle of Sheppey...to interpret tectonic movements within southern England in the context of global tectonic movements. It...pyramids of cuprite alongside the needles of chalcotrichite. Also to compare the clear and green radiating...reflections. 102 LIBETHENITE Gunheath CLP, St.Austell, Cornwall Elongated prismatic crystals that could easily...triangles. 103 OLIVENITE Wheal Gorland, St.Day, Cornwall Two specimens with very different crystal habits |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...of individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other |  | | Journal (issue) | | situ on the 300 foot leve l, C1igga H ead Min e, Cornwall , in 1980. Roy Starkey photo and specimen . JOURNAL...variety, from the Britannia Mine , North Wales, and from the Botallack Mine, Cornwall A.M. Pollard, R.G. Thomas...Williams, R.E. Bevins and S. Turgoose 23 The Wesley Mine; a further occurrence of manganese oxide-hosted...5 11 15 NOTES Birnessite from Penberthy Croft Mine , Cornwall- a second English occurrence 1. Betterton...silver from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria M. Wirth Rosasite from West Pasture Mine, Weardale , Co |  | | Catalog/List | | New Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall,Bahianite,Bismutite, Celestite with Sulphur,Cubanite...SnO OH Cl ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. Engl.and__ .. _ _ - •· Ix2ins Very. rich~...cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland |  | | Journal (issue) | | No 4. Bournonite, Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath Specimen: 55 x 70 x 55mm Watercolour commissioned for...for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. UKjourna! & 1ninera!s of mines CONTENTS number14 autumn1994 2...magnesite plates, a 24 x 18mm specimen from Boulby Mine, Cleveland (seearticle in this issue). David I....SOUTH CROFTY MINE ------------- 4 BORATE NODULES from BOULBY MINE DI Green· MD Freier 8 The UK Journal...-----MINERAL -------------37 -EWS ------------ST-MARIE-AUX-r 11 ES 94 DI Green• P Briscoe· J Spence |
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Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK