 | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ffiDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...3. 4. 1/ 5· 6. 8. 9. 10. ALTAITE. smuggler Mine, Balarat, Boulder Cty., Colorado, U.S.A. Rich metallic... Itxi". £2. ANALCIME. Dene Quarry, st. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Large sno\1-white intergrown crystals...2txlt". £8. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Rich crust of rhombic crystals thickly covering...ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Cornwall. A Itxl" cavity in massive pure Arsenopyrite lined |  | Darnley, A. G., Smith, G. H., Chandler, T. R. D., Dance, D. F., Preece, E. R. (1960) Ages of uraninite from two British localities. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 32 (251) 654-658 doi:10.1180/minmag.1960.032.251.07 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | November 1960.] Summary. Uraninite from Geevor Mine, Cornwall, has been analysed by the complete lead...accepted. Similar studies of uranium from Tyndrum Mine, Perthshire, give an age of 230-_'8 million years...Uraniuite from Geevor mine, Cornwall.1 Uraninite at Geevor Mine, Pendeen, near St. Just, occurs in small...Initial concentration was made by James tables at the mine and the material was further purified by superpanner...derived from them are given in table I. TABLE I. Geevor uraninite. Lead-isotope proportions in Chem. anal |  | | Catalog/List | | W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown...• £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised |  | | 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... ’’fe, -'A Sr A6Nfl^ fe'Pk :. g,TRURO <4 J -St AUS FELL S’ LAND'S EHdG HOUMTSS. HEL5TOW PENZANCEJH...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...and copper since the Bronze Age. Only the Geevor tin mine was still open in 1986, but the vigorous development...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...phonolite of Wolf Rock. Small outcrops of Pliocene St Erth Beds are described and there is a full account...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE |  | | 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...BDP - Book Development and Production. Penzance. Cornwall Printed in China Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North...features but also include areas containing open mine shafts, ruined buildings and high cliffs. Please...Introduction 4 About this Book 6 St Just Mining District 8 Levant Mit ie a. Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1081 Four new uranium-lead ages from Cornwall By R. P. C. POCKLEY,B.Sc., Dip.Ed., D.Phil. Department...1963] Summary. Four new isotopic U/Pb ages from Cornwall are reported. The Pb~~ ~a8 and Pb~~ 2~5 ages for...South Tetras mine 225 • 5 million years (Myr.), Redruth Area 124 :b 4 Myr., Wheal Owles mine 58• Myr., and...periods of mineralization affected south-west England at about 290 Myr. and 225 Myr., and that a final...south-west England. One other isotopic U - T h - P b age determination for south-west England had been | | | 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 | | W• B8R STOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEl\ING INFOftMATION Mail...2txlt". £4. 6. AZUhITE. Wheal Gor13nd, St. Day, Cornwall. Deep blue masses intergrovm and impregnating...association. 2!-x2". £1.25. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich apple green crystaline crust on...granite. 2tx2t". £1. BARYTDCALCITE.Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Alston, Cumberland. Well formed sheaves of pale...2xltxH". £3.5C. . 11. BOhNITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An unusual specimen showing botryoidal |  | | Book (edition) | | iv INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and...mined over the centuries. Today, only one large tin mine is at work, but the winning of tin is known from...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...were once bustling with industry. Sans Levant Mine, St. Just. The small engine house nearer the camera houses...connection with investigation of the old Levant Mine. April 1970. GEOLOGY CORNWALL’S mineral wealth |  | | Book (edition) | | Photography by Peter Stanier and oe Levant Mine, St Just. The small engine house on the left houses the...Skip Shaft P.S. The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and...typical view of Cornish i mining. Marke Valley Mine. P.S. innovations in machinery, particularly the...winding, and crushing ores. Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...Marth, Castle-an-Dinas, Hingston Down, Kit Hill, St Agnes and Tregonning. These were intruded as molten |  | | Book | | stretch of high, rugged cliffs extends northwards to Pendeen lighthouse, a distance of about five miles, embracing...some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in England. These clifis arc dark in colour, being composed...Botallack, another submarine mine incorporating an unusual diagonal shaft; Geevor, still in active production...production, its busy headgear very prominent in the Pendeen landscape; Wheal Owles, haunted by the memory of...history. The centre of this industry was the town of St. Just, whose grey terraces of miners' cottages still |  | | Catalog/List | | Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent Levanl Gallery, Lower Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain...premises in Penzance (\.•;nolesale remains in Pendeen) has lead to the •sale of one of our store properties...Gift Wrap parcele and encloee your greetinge card! Just in caee you are a 'back page non reader', HAPPYCHRIS'DlAS...- ✓...,· -~Xc ,d, 12. APATITE.Panesquira xtls Mine,Beira i3eixa,PortugaL (to about 1ri in size) .....prismatic ARTHURITE.Hingston Downe Consol Callington,Cornwall. Ricb cover of bright green colou.red cryetalline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EarlyandMain StageOre Mineralization in Southwest Cornwall A. N. H^i•i•m^¾ Scottish Universities Research...K-Ar and Rb-Sr agesof The 2asU-"-øøPb ages from pitchblende/coffinite/ micasand feldsparsintimatelyassociated...The quartz yieldsfluid inRb-Sr wholerockagesfor the St. Austellgraniteand clusiontemperaturesof Th (homogenization...S. W. CORNWALL r'• Basement Rocks ,,,. . . • Granite Cupolas • • •r•gn(•t•-•--•'• "•- St. Agnes...granite porphyry stocks, such as Cligga Head and St. Michael's Mount (Fig. 1) (Hall, 1974). The grei |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vol. 55, 1960, pp. 383-386 REJUVENATION OF PITCHBLENDE ORE IN HERCYNIAN DEPOSITS C. F. DAVIDSON ABSTRACT...majority of instances,geochronologicalstudies on pitchblende samplesfrom the Hercynian granites of Western...Hercynian granites of Western Europe, in southwest England,in France, Spainand Portugal,in the Vosgesand the...Saxon-BohemianErzgebirge, there are many occurrencesof pitchblende,someof them supportingimportantmines. As a generalization...Examplesare in the E-W lodes of Cornwall, at Wheal Trenwith, Wheal Providence,Geevor and elsewhere. These veins |  | | Catalog/List | | Dealer & Mine Agent , J I 1 Levant Gallery, Lower Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great...(HINERALS), Levant Gallery,Boscaswell, Pendeen,Penzance,Cornwall. Great 13ritain. TiillMS OF BUSINB:3S...00. 4. tack! ..) 1·}x1" Lode ,Geevor Mine ,Pendeen. 'd. Cornwall. Pretty, ~ association,smaller specimen...wgø matrix 2•i.z2x1i-• , ..23. 00. Geevor liine, l> ndeen, \-1.Cornwall. Luetrowa trauparent,light-brown...L'Etoile Vith some alachite f)olomiteftlalachite . Mine ,Karnbove ,l·~atanga. alteration,implanted motrix |  | | Catalog/List | | We((enj\linera(s Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2D A. Telephone:...00. ADULARIA/SCHORL. Whiskey Lode,Geevor Mine.Pendeen,West Cornwall, Pale creamy-pink coloured.rhombic...5x2-Jx1-J", £8.50. ALLOPHANE/LINARITE. Maid of Sunshine Mine,Cochise Co..Arizona.U.S.A. Highly attractive and... 1-£xl£x1", £8.00. 5- ALSTONITE. Fallowfields Mine,Nr.Hexham,Northumbria. A 2x£" channel developed...APATITE/ORTHOCLASE. Hegiligger Rocks .Tremearne ,Cornwall. Most attractive, thin crystalline Orthoclase-plate |  | | Book | | Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...clay workings have created a unique landscape around St Austell. Tin, copper, lead, zinc and other metals...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action |  | | Catalog/List | | West ·cornwall. , . TeL No. ( 07~6) 788286 .• MOVEOF PREMISESCL:SARANCE SALE, . " , .Mo-st.·-of...already know that the Jewellery Workshop;· in Pendeen Village, which. for the past 5 yea~s has accommodated...is necessitated to ass·~mble and ··maintain the mine~al sto.cks, you are adviscd to telephone anQ. ·...• O ADULARIA/QUARTZ. Tintagel, Good ~ well Cornwall. s ..S,}L Good cxamplc ALLEMONITE.Trobsko,C...crcamy _ARGENTI:F'EROUSGALENA/BLENDE.Chiverton, CornwalL 21. ARGENTITE.ifoldava,C.S.~,R. xtl's 22. |  | | Journal (issue) | | t;>.,,.,. J..2. w ,·tf, SI' l'UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...of local knowledge, by the well known north-of-England collector Lindsay Greenbank. T The celebration |  | | 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...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work |  | | 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...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Simpsonite and stibiotantalite from Benson pegmatite mine, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia : by Dr. 0. yon Knorring...Bismutoferrite from South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall: by Mr. A. W. G. Kingsbury. 3....from Cornwall: b y Mr. R. P. C. Pockley. 2. Additional uranium-lead ages from South-West England: by Mr...uraniferous vein material occurring in south-west England. The fo|]owing results have been calculated from...Uraninite Pitchblende-coffinite Pitchblende Pitchblende-coifinite South Crofty, Cornwall Geevor, Cornwall |
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