 | | Book | | (SALTMARSH AND ESTUARINE) RIVERTERRACE DEPOSITS HEAD DEPOSITS (PERCHED ANDVALLEY) RAISEDMARINEDEPOSITS...GeologicalSurvey. 1:50 000 Sheet 346 Newquay (England and Wales). © NERC 2014 All rights reserved Copyright...Generalised sequence of mineralisation in south-west England 14 5 Constituent mines of the Great Perran Iron...Sheeted veins with greisen borders, Cligga Head 12 Gravel Hill Mine at the western extremity of the Great... .li regurnan . Watergate Bay Drt -1, Towan Head 90 1 St Agnes Formation (Cenozoic) :J 380 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK TS C 2 COVER.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 | | 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 (issue) | | shipped from Cardiff in the 1660's and the Pare mine south of Llantrisant was worked from the 1500's...period of production in the mid l 700 ' s. Llangan mine near Cowbridge was producing ore as recently as...Measures was the main ore worked along with a little goethite. By the very early 1800's Merthyr was the largest...important in the world. After about 1850 hematite and goethite were the chief ores. After describing the mining...anglesite of exceptional size and quality for the UK. More recently the rare lead sulphite scotlandite |  | | Catalog/List | | mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi |  | | 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...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...to Carnon Downs North Coast: Porthtowan to Perranporth The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Austell; | | | Book | | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Introduction 4 About this Book 9 Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith:...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006 1) ABHURITE. SS Cheerful, off St Ives, Cornwall. Cavity in blister formed on a tin ingot from...90x40x40mm max. £18. 3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An intergrown group oflight brownish white...8) BINDHEIMITE on JAMESONITE. Bodannon Mine, Endellion, Cornwall. A flattish mass of jamesonite with the...matrix with several semi-transparent blocky nail head calcite xls to 25mm. These have internal inclusions |  | | 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...WHERE. Beaches Cliffs and Caves. River Beds etc. Mine Dumps Quarries St. Just - Botallack - Pendeen Camborne |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dealer & Mine gent Levant Gallery Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Telephone:...CATALOGUE GENEROUS TRADES AND COLLECTION PURCHASES UK Journal of Mines and Minerals IssueNo3 SUMMER1987...SUBSCRIPTIONS are payable in local currency, or direct to the UK in Sterling. Barite from Silverwood Colliery ARTICLES...Lane, Blaxton, Nr. Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Telephone: (0302) 770248 5 21 S. Uttley Mineral...30 M.P.Cooper Present day collecting at Cligga Head, Cornwall 33 L. Chick BACK ISSUES For Your Bookshelf |  | | 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...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 |  | | 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 (issue) | | Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow 3...D .H .M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES...N. Hubbard 35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper...visit underground in a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being about 8 years old at...to visit every mine in Great Britain and Ireland, and to go into every metalliferous mine in the British |  | | Catalog/List | | BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Tl!JL .1\10.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677)... 7. ANALCIME. Dean qry. St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Well fDrmed, snow white, crystals and crystaline... 43. NATIVE COPPER. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Rich, dark. coppery, h3Ckly crystalised...2-t;-x2xl-!:-". £4.50. CoRNWALLITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall-. Rich, deep.green, slightly botr~oidal...C - As Specimen A - 2xlt". £1.25. CRoCOITE. Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tas~enio, ~ustralia. Choice, bright, orangev |  | | Journal (issue) | | mmtall fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals publishes...CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C. Spence SADDLEBACK MINE Peter Briscoe • David McCallum • Paul Nicholson...Editorial Board. fEITKNECHTITE FROM BENALLT MANGANESE MINE Publication ofinformation on a collecting site...0952-2409 Tom Cotterell 49 NORTH DEVON UNITED MINE Mike Rumsey • Mike Savage 53 PIUNTING DY Ratcliff&...Worksop, Notts. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Minos & Minerals No. 29 -1- EDITORIAL |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL. NO.: st. Just 880 (STD 073 677) 'V...4. 5. 6. APATITE. Longdowns, Carnmenellis, Cornwall. A well formed mostly transparent pale bluish... 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. -2BARYTES. Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, westmoreland. ~ single glassy transparent...Granite. ltxltxlt"- £2.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne Cornwall. A pure, purply, tarnished metallic mass...workings of the Mine. 2xltxlt". £1.50. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Select, lustrous |  | | Book | | GEOLOGY OF ,,, ,,. F .. THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL Cornwall is renowned for its spectacular rocky coastline...seventeenth century. This book reviews the importance of Cornwall in the development of geological thought in Britain...of notable scientific interest. The Geology of· Cornwall is a companion volume to The Geology of Devon...org/details/geologyofcornwal0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY Edited by E.B. Selwood...Liskeard High: E.B. Se/wood The Structure of East Cornwall: K. P Isaac Culn1 Basin: JR. Andrews The Boscastle-Tintagel- |  | | Catalog/List | | Levant Gallery, Boscaswell, Pendeen, Penzancc, Cornwall. Great Britain . •I TER1'iSOF BUSINESS Mail orders...inclusions and a 1'½x1-z;: velvety, botryoidal 11 Goethite overe;rowth.4x2ix2 ,.Z12 00, 5. ANDRADITE. Belstone...bric;ht and colourful on,plcasingly,luycred Limonitic Mine ,Attica,Grcece. cryst.q,J J :i nP. 1nnRR. Colourful...nrf"e, bright ra.hi nc,t o 19. BARYTES. Hilton Mine,Wcstmorland. blad ed xtls. 3·2x2{x1-il-",~8, 00...to.bular 3. 20. BARYTES. United Mines,St.Day,Cornwall.(Ex.Christie Collection). little Cornish classic |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | Levant Gallery_ Joscaswell, Pendeen. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Dritain. .. 7882b(. (STD Code 0736) ...with red cavity. 2. 3. ALSTONITE, Fallowfields Mine,Hexham,Northumberland. Sharp,creamy,small spikey...ANALCHlE/CALCI'fE.. Dean Quarry, St, Keverne, Cornwall. to i'' in size,intergrown with sharp golde~-coloured...00. 11 length) ;'cross". ANGLESITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Tsumeb 1 0tavi,S.W.Africa. Choice,gemmy,flattened...APATITE var FRANCOLITE- Wh.Pendarves,Camborne,Cornwall. Sparkling crust of transparent,tiny hexagonal |  | | Catalog/List | | st. Just, 26, Tregeseal, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD U73 677) V.A...Burraton Coombe qry., St. Stephen-by-Saltash, Cornwall. Pure, metallic grey masses, with a slightly pitted...thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite crystals |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOFlMATION Mail orders are promptly...APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Fowey ';onsols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Small, sharp, ttansparent hexagonal...50. 9. BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crusts covering Quartz... -2- 10. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Cro~ts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Transparent, well formed, mi£!Q crystals...SSITERITE. Wheal Rock, Nr. Bugle, Hensbarrow Moor, Cornwall. Pure, dark brovm cellular mass, with numerous |  | | Catalog/List | | BARSTOW Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ~=, TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD 073 677)...Calcite. 2xl". £4.50. 4. NATIVE ARSENIC. Bidi Mine, Borneo. Choice, silvery grey, pure solid mass showing...display. 4x~x2". £28.00. ATACAMITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Pure, bright green, botryoidal...Specimen B - Itxlxi". £2.50. AZURITE. Henderson Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A. Bright blue, botryoidal...~x2txli". £13.00. AZURITE. South Caradon Mine, st. Cleer, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue, lustrous mass associated |  | | Catalog/List | | (MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well formed, dodecahedral...ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large dodecahedral crystals, interformed |
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