 | | Journal (issue) | | interest were: Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally...always interested in elyite as Pam found the first UK specimen on Meadowfoot Smelter Wanlockhead in 1981...with a crude hexagonal outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill. Pale-green...crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute terminations...lead copper arsenate. This was the first recorded UK locality. As always, a superb collection of interesting |  | | Journal (issue) | | lapidary society Competition 2011 Mining the Ocean Cornwall Field Trip ., Journal 232- July August 2011...(monazite) sands; metals in sea water (low concentrations), shallow water evaporates (halite, Mg salts,...the beach, but also from the sea floor in 100m of water 35km off shore. The diamond coast stretches for...(off the Californian coast) venting at 350°C in water at a depth of 2,600m. Since that time many black...oxidising, sulphate and magnesium bearing fluids in sea water are heated by sub-seafloor magmatic intrusives and |  | | Catalog/List | | 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...Polished seciion.RF SPC. C.£8 0023 DUFTITE.Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumberland.V1v1d green druse of duflile...Barstow label. RF or D. C £10 0030 CHABAZITE,Ramsley Mine,Sticklepath,Devon Scintilating druss of chabazite |  | | Catalog/List | | mass. small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales lxl £5 lx2 £8 Parclho, Pariba,Brazil)...and siderile crystals. A) one xl b) 2 or 3 xls water-worn brown nodule. A pincer deposit. The Type Location...Parnmirim Region, Agua Quen1a,Bal1ia, Brazil Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales A)£3 B) £5 3mm £4 5mm £6 lxl £6...micros gemmy yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE...Goldstrike Pit, Elko,Nevada. U.S.A Divino des Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½ |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL |  | | Book | | Gazetteer section of Sites of Geological interest in England, Wales and Scotland compiled by Peter R Rodgers...instance spent a large part of its history under water) the complexity of this approach is likely to overwhelm...rocks are worn down and transported by weather and water to form sedimentary layers; how seas flooding over...viscous than treacle which is more viscous than water.) A highly viscous magma will tend to remain close...those of the sinking ocean crust. The presence of water may lower the temperature of melting. Andesite is |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK .M ----- JOURNAL I OF N E & ----- s M 1· N E R A L S n \) II I/ i] NUMBER 15 • SPRING...Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. Telephone (01872) 223 227 for copy prints of...TISPIECE CALCITE on HEMATITE Fred Bull 4 MI The UK Jouma/ of Mines and .Minerals publishes articles...N'(Olbl L'K Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 15 -2- UK Journal of Mines & 1'.lincrals No. 15 -J- .......rescue dig on the spoil heap of the Alva silver mine near Stirling. Remarkable specimens of dendritic |  | | Report (issue) | | cm high calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic...cm high calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic...Calcite .60 Terry Huizing Calcite Crystals in Amethyst Vugs: Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ..........distortion. Habit Tabular, equant, prismatic, acicular, shallow to steep rhombohedral, uncommonly pseudocubic ...Germany Fig. 885, Fig. 886, Fig. 887: Derbyshire, England Fig. 888. Fig. 889. · Fig. 888: Harz Mtns., |  | | Book | | Department of Geology at the University of Keele, UK, for the loan of many specimens used for photography... GLOSSARY Collecting minerals on old mine spoil heaps, North Yorkshire, UK Glossary AEOLIAN: A term usually...HYPABYSSAL: Igneous rocks which have crystallized at shallow depth, often in relatively small bodies. INTERSTITIAL:...by fluids circulating in the crust. METEORIC WATER: Water entering the rocks from above, including atmospheric...molluscan shell. ZEOLITES: Silicate minerals which have water of crystallization Geological time-scale ERAS |  | | Book | | forms. The word derives from the Latin ‘minera’ = 'mine’. Mineralogy is the science dealing with minerals...penetration twin of gypsum. Minerals 15 Geode of amethyst from Brazil, with well developed crystals Large...hardness, expressed as the resistance to grinding in water (according to A. Rosiwal). It shows the tremendous...its weight to that of an equal amount (volume) of water. A mineral of specific gravity 2-6 (quartz) is,...therefore, 2-6 times as heavy as the same volume of water. The specific gravity of minerals, rocks and ores |  | | Book | | shine, and above all to sparkle. That’s how we see water, after all: a shiny pool, ripples glittering across...first and still our most basic need—the need for water—that taught us to seek and to value that which glitters...deposits laid down on the Earth’s surface by wind, water, or ice. Metamorphic rocks are formed when the mineralogical...lazurite (above), opal, quartz varieties such as amethyst, and more. Phyllosilicates This group includes...kunzite (above), enstatite, diposide, and others. Amethyst rough Double-chain inosilicates Double-chain |  | | Journal (issue) | | Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. гA" j o и r i a l г1f'nines & В г n e r a l...'I'd 1(0909) 476906 5 4 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 12 —1 — E DITO...Treolar and the High Raise vein, in the Nentsberry mine at Alston, Cumbria in January 1931, will depend...own collections." It is not a joke. lick Cooper UK Journal of иines & Minerals No. 12 —2— Buder. I5ß...Molybdenite occurs in a number of localities throughout the UK, but the outstanding reference is that of Heddle |  | | Catalog/List | | _j Byways, 2o·Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...calcite or matrix 935 ■ MILLOSEVICHITE Scholler Mine, Kladno, Czech Republic. Rich yellow-grey spongy...-·-·-- !'lo_9_ _ _ _ _ 285 ■■ NATIVE GOLD La Farolla mine, Copiapo, Chile one or two spots on 2cm matrix _£7_..._ _ _ _ __ ~ - / ~ : i E.RTRANDITE ____ .Gclc~~~Mine, G~~e~~;i~;Val~d~~~;: srazitcolourless micro crystals...BRAUNITE Praborna Mine, St Marcel ,Piedmont, Italy 849 ■ OPAL Carlaze Pit St Austell Cornwall Dark grey massive |  | | Journal (issue) | | No 3. "Henwoodite", West Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne Specimen: 118 x 85 x 65mm Watercolour commissioned...commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. MINERALS PEAK of rhe DISTRICT A joint publication of Rockbottom...Historical Society. COVER:BLUE JOHN FLUORITE, Blue John Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire, polished slab 7 x I 0cm...TRI T MI E HISTORIC L SOCIETY 3-----------BL The UK Jouma/ of 1Jfi11es a11dMinerals publishes articles...Trnmwa f useum, Crich, Derbyshire. Good.luck Mine - This mine, in the ia Gellia, Middletonby-\\ irksworth |  | | | | Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra, drifted as far as England and explain why the seascapes of the painter J...earthquakes send seismic waves through water, and when these reach shallow coastal shelves they can be strong...animal burrows enlarge cracks, letting in still more water. With enough unmelted snow, glaciers develop, gouging...adds to the weathering process, turning running water into a saw that cuts though strata. Once Weathering...in stern coastlines, chemical reorganization. Water is the chief agent of change. As rain, it gathers |  | | Journal (volume) | | 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...euhedral schulenbergite at the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall John Betterton and Ian E. Grey 34–35 PAPERS...rite series minerals, from Chywoon Quarry, in Cornwall. There are, however, four other Cornish localities |  | | Book | | Peregrina (“the Pilgrim”), was given to Queen Mary of England in the 1550s, as an engagement present. It was...deposits laid down on the Earth’s surface by wind, water, or ice. Metamorphic rocks are formed when the mineralogical...lazurite (above), opal, quartz varieties such as amethyst, and more. Phyllosilicates This group includes...kunzite (above), enstatite, diposide, and others. Amethyst rough Double-chain inosilicates Double-chain...the density of a substance relative to that of water, and determines how dense a gemstone is. It is measured |  | | Journal (issue) | | Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario ...........Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, Los Angeles. England: Roger...Rubellite Tourmaline on Albite from the Itatiaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Rubellite crystal measures...The Mineralogical Record, March-April, 1982 Amethyst from the Thunder Bay Region, Ontario by Donald...The most recent amethyst boom began with the opening of the Thun der Bay amethyst mine in 1967, and in |  | | Book | | for Atomic Energy 18 The Mines and Minerals of Cornwall 19 An Incombustible Fabric and a Stone That...devotes space to explaining why one stone lead-zinc mine in Kansas can make a man invulnerable and another...feldspar rock of the wall of the now unworked Etta mine are “logs” of spodumene, crystals of natural lithium...generally arrange them according Cumberland, England. to color and luster. (Emil Javorsky) The color...two varieties of quartz, water-clear rock crystal and deep purple amethyst, chemical analyses reveal |  | | Book | | metamorphic rocks, such as the cliffs of Kynance Cove, England (below). Hydrothermal minerals that are neither...One type of sediment is deposited as grains by water or wind, in layers known as bedding; another is...settings created by human activity, such as roadcuts, mine dumps, and quarries. Good examples are also found...Sedimentary rocks are produced by the movement of water or wind. There are two groups: detrital, which result...England’s south coast (below), which are produced by water-deposited chemicals or from organic remains. Here |  | | Journal (issue) | | epimorph Lady’s slipper After barite, Virtuous Lady Mine Fig. 5 Copper after aragonite Fig..2 Goethite...conditions e.g contact with the atmosphere, rain or mine water, while further down is increasing low oxygen...section of the diagram as water is not stable at the top right hand side where water is oxidised to oxygen...oxygen or the bottom left where water is reduced to hydrogen Table 2 shows the pH- Eh dagram for copper....western Australia. There is also evidence that water was present by this time. Archaean rocks associated |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal with oblique termination found at the Bumpus mine in Albany, Maine by John Rogers. ----r JANUARY... New Arrivals | i \ I /MINERAL® 'SUPPLIER Jx AMETHYST CRYSTAL GEODES, Chihuahua, Mexico. Many choice...choice complete geode halves containing choice amethyst crystals of medium purple color on agate. These have...Prices vary according to the size and color of the amethyst. Single halves of 3 to 3 Vi" diameter S4.00 to...price plus all return of same. These may contain amethyst, smoky quartz, goethite, calcite or other minerals |  | | Book | | Faulder Mary Orchard at The Indexing Specialists (UK) Ltd, Jane Parker Americanizer Reprints Production...near to a granite batholith it may be possible to mine for tin, copper, lead, zinc, and other minerals...@ In Britain, a batholith exists under much of Cornwall and reaches out under the sea to the Scilly Isles...Sea area, are often found on the east coast of England. 35 Larvikit @ Syenite that is found mainly...southern Scotland and stretches into the north of England, A sill, in contrast, follows the rock structures |  | | Report (issue) | | picture of a highway restaurant at Sibley. (ii) AMETHYST DEPOSITS OF ONTARIO by M.A. Vos Geological Guidebook...purpose of this guidebook is to give an account of amethyst, describing its properties, lore, uses as a gemstone...purple coloured robes. Ontario has recently1 chosen amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, to be the official...of the clear crystal referred to in names like Amethyst Bay in Thunder Bay or Quartz Lake in Maria Township...Ontario place names: agate is used eleven times; amethyst is used five times; flint is used nine times; |  | | Journal (volume) | | information: contents Issue 1 MINERALS '• Pyrite PY UK and Ireland: 0870 890 2730 Australia: (03) 9872 4000...265 4304 • Or visit the De Agostini website at: UK: AUS: SA: NZ: Rose quartz RO Ruby RU www.deagostini...deagostini.co.nz Missed a copy? Ring Customer Services UK: 0870 870 2575 Australia: (03) 9872 4000 New Zealand:...Precious and semi-precious stones © 2007 De Agostini UK Ltd, 1-2 samples supplied with this issue This...toy. After handling, wash hands with plenty of water. Avoid contact with mouth. If swallowed, seek medical |
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