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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Colour:colourless to cream-coloured
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Carminite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:486100
Long-form Identifier:1:3:486100:3
GUID (UUID V4):ca39660a-5ce3-4c06-95bf-c9f19e981f4a
Nearest other occurrences of Mimetite
10.1km (6.3 miles) Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK
12.4km (7.7 miles) Penhawger Mine, Menheniot, Cornwall, England, UK
14.5km (9.0 miles) Wheal Mary Ann, Menheniot, Cornwall, England, UK
36.1km (22.4 miles) Old Treburgett Mine, St Teath, Cornwall, England, UK
36.6km (22.8 miles) Pengenna Mine, St Kew, Cornwall, England, UK
36.7km (22.8 miles) Trewethen Mine, St Kew, Cornwall, England, UK
39.7km (24.7 miles) Treore Mine, St Endellion, Cornwall, England, UK
40.8km (25.3 miles) Trevinnick Mine, St Kew, Cornwall, England, UK
41.1km (25.5 miles) Wheal Boys (Trewetha Mine; Old Trewetha Mine), Port Isaac, St Endellion, Cornwall, England, UK
44.5km (27.6 miles) Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the occurrence of the rare mineral Carminite in Cornwall. By A~THUR RUSSELL. [Read November 17, 1908.]...beudantite/and accompanied by pyrolusite, clear crystals of mimetite, and an undetermined yellow, earthy mineral. I...which I fomld during 1906 at Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstoek, Cornwall,~ I noticed on one or two of...ibid., 1858, vol. eiii, pp. 346-347. 3 Hingston Down Consols mine commenced working about 1846, and was...time, it was re-opened about 1904 by the Clitters United Mines Co. Ltd., since which date it has produced
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Cornwall. R. J. Davis, M. H. Hey, and A. W. G. Kingsbury...v.), on mimetite in quartz on old specimens in the BM(NH), at Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. The variety...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
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...4) BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhome, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic matrix...6) CARMINITE and SCORODITE. Hingston Down Consols, Callington, Cornwall. Cavities in solid arsenopyrite...CASSITERITE. Great Flat Lode, Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Rich heavy chloritic veinstone with much intergrown
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
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
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic matrix...6) CARMINITE and SCORODITE. Hingston Down Consols, Callington, Cornwall. Cavities in solid arsenopyrite...CASSITERITE. Great Flat Lode, Dolcoath Mine, Cambome, Cornwall. Rich heavy chloritic veinstone with much intergrown
Catalog/List
OARS TOW DrLlkewa lls House , Drakewalls , Gunnislake, Cornwall; Engl a nd. TEL. ~U. : ORDERING Ta vi...CASSITERITE . Savath Chinoclay Work , Luxulyan , Cornwall . Oright sharp blpckish to da rk brown twinned...00 20. CASSITERITE . Greot Work Mine , Dreage , Cornwall. wel l formed lustrous dark brown crystols to...size partly coated with yellowish crystalli sed MIMETITE, and impl a nted on lime- gHmn crystalline DUFTITE... 00 24. CHALCANTHffiTE. Wh eal J a ne , Kes , Cornwall. Most unusual and beauti fu l sta l a ctitic masses
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
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
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St •. Just, Near pen~ance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 STD 0736) V.A.T... £5.50. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Specimen A - Rich crusts of sparkling lime green... -2-10'. I BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine Illogan, Cornwall. Select cluster of intergrown irridescently tarnish~d...lx-t".£6.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Specimen A - very rich purply tarnished mass...11. 18. CASSITERITE. Ding-Dong Mine, Madron, Cornwall. Rich, heavy, greyish brown mass with numerous
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
Book
}JINER.~LOGY AND MINING 1N THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENH.AM REEKS, F. W. RUDLER, .~SSISTANT CURATOR...ON MINERALOGY ~D MINING IN THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENHA.M REEKS, AND F. W. RODLER, • A$SISTANT...commercially useful ores in particular districts 01" mines, an(l those which oxhibit in a 1..emarkable degre...and an estimate of the jmportance of the copper mines of the cot1ntry may be formed from the following...in the year 1863 :-* ... N0. of • District. Mines. Copper Ore. Tons. Co1·nwall and Devon Northern
Book
"ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...was born on the 18th March 1923 in Leicester, England. He attended the City Boys School, Leicester, and...search of fine mineral specimens. The Cumbrian iron mines, the North Pennines, and the Caldbeck Fells in the...pat ing in the activities of the Peak District Mines Historical Society (with his great frie nd and coll
Book
At the same time, universities and schools of mines were engaged in building up vast and impressive...the cabinet formed by Oberbergrat (Director of Mines) K.A. Gerhard (1723-1821 ), and acquired by the...Hureaulite Strengite Galena (ps. after Pyromorphite) Mimetite (var. Campylite) Hedenbergite Olivine Andradite...Chalcosine Danburite, calcite Azurite Vanadinite Mimetite Excellent (German Moschellandsbergite Linnaeite...(Banska Stiavnica), Czechoslovakia 2 St Just, Cornwall, Great Britain 2 Freiberg, Saxony, GD R 3 Araca
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
apple-green crusts on quartz from Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, Cornwall, consist of an intimate mixture...Jahrb. Min., Abh., vol. 99, p. 113. Synonym of Mimetite. Chloroxyapatite. R. D. Morton, 1962. Norsk geol...New Mexico, and at the La Salle and Golden Cycle mines, Montrose County, California. Named for the first...German variant of lodatacamite, q.v. Jodmimetesit. mimetite, q.v. H. Wondratschek, t963. Original form of...crystals at the Sono, Hanawa, and other manganese mines in Japan; named from the locality at which it was
Book
MINERALOGY AND MINING IN THE | ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENHAM REEKS, F. W. RUDLER, AND CURATOR. ...September. - The Session of the Roy AL SCHOOL of MINEs and of SCIENCE applied to the ARTs commences early...ON MINERALOGY AND MINING IN THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENHAM REEKS, AND F. W. RUDLER, ASSISTANT CURATOR...commercially useful ores in particular districts or mines, and those which exhibit in a remarkable degree... The principal copper-producing districts are Cornwall, Devonshire (West of Dartmoor), Cumberland, Anglesey
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Illogan, Cornwall, in 1893, by John Charles Burrow (1852-1914). Courtesy of the Royal Cornwall Museum,...by such men are now very much of the past. The mines themselveshave long been inaccessible, and In the...quartz and other minerals for which the haematite mines [ofWest Cumberland] have become famous. It is by...by-ways of science and by taxonomists keen to track down important specimens. Many scholars have concerned...series on the development of museums in northern England, Messrs Crosthwaite, Todhunter and Hutton have
Book
Communications, Crofton, Maryland. Printed in the United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia...regarding the type of ABANDONED MINES Guest editorial: collecting in abandoned mines (by S. Voynick) 20: 178-180...minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G....ALMADEN Famous mineral localities: the Almaden mines, Ciudad Real, Spain (by J. W. Crawford) 19:297302...PENROSE J. Friends of Mineralogy-A farewell to Cornwall [Pennsylvania] (column) 11:119 AMERlCA Early American
Journal (volume)
Moreton 10-17 Geology and mineralogy of Pike Law Mines, Newbiggin, Teesdale, Co . Durham Trevor F. Bridges...Lead Mines, County Down, Northern Ireland Norman R. Moles 40-46 Buttgenbachite from Cornwall: a single-crystal...supergene minerals on the walls of mines are common. In several of the mines in the Nenthead area, Cumbria...(ej Moreton, 2007) occur in many of the Coniston mines. In Bwlchglas Mine in the Central Wales orefield...brochantite often occur in patches on the walls of copper mines and sometimes these show zonation of different minerals
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...mineral localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ....................the cracks also posed a major difficulty in some mines. Cracks . . . on the order of 20 or 30 cm . . ....P. Annan etal. (1988) Radar sounding in potash mines, Saskatchewan, Canada. Geo­ physics, 53, 1556-1564)...his address or city so that readers may track him down. In total, many more non-advertisers are plugged
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Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia; (lower, right) gold, Amazonas...written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America Van Nostrand Reinhold 115 Fifth...Chapman & Hall 2-6 Boundary Row London SE! 8HN, England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South...Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines Charles and Marcelle Weber Dan Behnke Demetrios...Lowell Joe Pfeifer Joel Yancy Julius Zweibel Kent England Lawrence Conklin Laszlo Horvath Luiz Menezes Les
Book (edition)
Red Clouo rrnn·a, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsurneb, Namibia, (lower, right) gold, Amazonas...written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America Van Nostrand Reinhold 115 Fifth...Chapman & Hall 2-6 Boundary Row London SEI 8HN, England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South...Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines cw Charles and Marcelle Weber DB Dan Behnke DE Demetrios...Pfeifer JY Joel Yancy JZ Julius Z weibel KE Kent England LC Lawrence Conklin LH Laszlo Horvath LM Luiz Menezes
Book (edition)
Mineralogy, Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota GEORGE ROBERT...permission of the publisher. Manufactured in the United States of America Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold...Henry and K. Lonsdale, Kynoch Press (Birmingham, England) three volumes, 1952-63. "Crystallography and Crystal...C. British Museum of Natural History, London, England Royal Ontario Museum , Toronto , Canada University...Virginia (byssolite). Also in Canada, Scotland, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and New Zealand (nephrite)
 
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