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Marcasite from
Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7449
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7449:0
GUID (UUID V4):142f1320-3dde-426d-8841-49ba2e985cf9
Nearest other occurrences of Marcasite
5.2km (3.2 miles) Holmbush Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
9.9km (6.1 miles) Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK
12.3km (7.6 miles) Wheal Wrey, Wrey and Ludcott United Mines, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
13.7km (8.5 miles) Wheal Betsy (North Wheal Friendship; Prince Arthur Consols), Mary Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
14.8km (9.2 miles) Wheal Mary Ann, Menheniot, Cornwall, England, UK
18.8km (11.7 miles) Treburland Manganese deposits, Altarnun, Cornwall, England, UK
23.0km (14.3 miles) Herodsfoot Mine (North Herodsfoot Mine), Lanreath, Cornwall, England, UK
36.3km (22.5 miles) Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath and Par, Cornwall, England, UK
38.7km (24.0 miles) Tregardock Mine (Tregarget Mine), Treligga, St Teath, Cornwall, England, UK
51.3km (31.8 miles) South Terras Mine (Resugga & Tolgarrick Mine; Union Mine; Uranium Mine), St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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)
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...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...terminations. £16. 3) ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A group of intergrown silvery grey...£85. 8) BORNITE. Cooks Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Chalcopyrite matrix, the top of which is about...BOTALLACKITE. 130fm South Lode, Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. A scattering of sparkling green botaliockite...12) CALCITE on QUARTZ. Botallack Mine, St Just, Cornwall. Quartz matrix with areas showing small crude
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the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Beach Meldon apllte q. Fallowfield mine East Gunnislake Struan,Skye,Scot. Wh.Gorland Tresavean mine Bwlch...Bristol.Avon Okehampton,Devon Hexham,Northumbr. Cornwall Cutting on A863 St.Day,Comwall Gwennap,Comwall
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Acknowledgements 350 Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction...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... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce &
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Cornwall. R. J. Davis, M. H. Hey, and A. W. G. Kingsbury...specimens in the BM(NH), at Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. The variety agardite-(Nd), according to F. Permingeat...massive from a vein in a dolerite sill at Embleton quarry, near Cockermouth, Cumberland. A. W. G. Kingsbury...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
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NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine xls to 5mm...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity in
Journal (issue)
efforts. The number of paying admissions was again down on last year, which is probably a reflection on...during the year. I am therefore sad to be standing down as Chairman, because I have really enjoyed doing...******************** At this point all the committee stood down. Roger Kemplen (chairman), Colin Brough (secretary)...appropriate .. Nick Hawes and John Pearce were standing down from the committee and Allan Mortimer and Mike Savage...in groups of at least two vehicles since breaking down can be very dangerous. However, on occasion when
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oARSTDW Drakewalls House , Drakewalls , Gunnislake, Cornwall , England. TEL.NO. : Tavistock 832381 (STD 0822)...2x1-h<1t;-" , £13 .50p 5. ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Down , Calstock , Cornwall. Sha rp bright silvery crystals to...do 11 . ooTALLACKITE. Levant Mine , Pendeen , Cornwall. Small bright green well formed cryst als scattered...14. CASS ITERITE . Wheal Vottle , St. Agnes , Cornwall . oright brownish - black sharp crys tals to 5.... CASS IT ERITE . Wheal owles , ' St . Just,. Cornwall. A quantity of reddish- brown gr anules in an
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26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y... 2txlt". £6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown...lxl lT • £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised...granite matrix. 3Xlt". £2. lig~t AUTUNITE. Merrivale Quarry, D8rtmoor, Devon. micro crystals richly encrusting
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Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake B32381 (STD (022) V.A.T...arsenopyrite. 3x2~x1t", £13.00 . 5. Hingston Down Mine: nr. C~llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green micro crystallised...00 9. BAVLDoNITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich light green micro crystals and crystallised...1~x1", £2.25p. 10. BORNITE. Wheal Baspet, Illogan, Cornwall. Solid purply metallic heavy mass with a slight...£8.00 1S. CALCITE. Porthoustock Qry., Lizard, Cornwall. A large geode-like cavity in calcite/ altered
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...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...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I
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CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Orakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PLl8 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...£95. 2) APATITE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. A --v" shaped quartz/mica matrix showing about...colour. Scattered over these are hundreds of micro marcasite xls. 70x40x28mm. £35. 7) CASSITERITE.. West Sortridge...CASSITERITE. Robinsons Section, South Crafty Mine, Pool, Cornwall. An intergrown mass or black cassitcritc ,Is and...DfABOLEJTE, PARALAURIONITE and MENDI PITE. Mcrehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset. Black manganese matrix with
Journal (issue)
Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England ......................... Bill Pinch at the Tucson Show in 2008. Kent England photo. The Pinch Medal, established in Bill’s...of Lincoln: “A tree is best measured when it is down—and so it is with people.” Looking over Bill’s career... 1, The Old Coach Yard, East Coker, Somerset, England BA22 9HY Tucson USA Visit us at these international...exposure—immense rocks of an impure iron ore. Continuing down the south face, I discovered a very fine iron ore
Journal (issue)
lapidary society Competition 2011 Mining the Ocean Cornwall Field Trip ., Journal 232- July August 2011...to explain everything and an exceedingly verbose quarry manager but.that's another story. On the day in...even on motorway sections and tended to freewheel down even the slightest of inclines. Not a procedure...great colour and pattern. Terry also entered three UK cabochons of which the orbicular jasper, in particular...basalt heaved back from the Le Cheix "organ pipes" quarry by the Pearces. The one that caught the eye of
Journal (issue)
........ 7 Searching for Bournonite Micros in Cornwall .................................................................. 20 Pyrite Twins from Todd's Quarry, Northland, New Zealand .........................main working face and continuation of a smaller down dip face that is also paralleling the anticlinal...decline as we ran out of quality specimens in the down dip part of the anticline’s southern limb. We developed...advancing faces whether you are going across or down dip of the anticlinal limb but we believe, subject
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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
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Are NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...60x40x25mm. £22. 3) AURICHALCITE. Gre,ystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. Linionitic veinstone with patches of...£12. 8) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A nice clean specimen showing several lustrous... 10) CASSITERITE var "RUBY WOOD TIN". St Agnes, Cornwall. A small piece of matrix showing red to brown...£45. 11) CASSITERITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Typical very fine grained grey mass. (a) 8 0
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NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL l 8 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...stalactites. Where exposed there is a hollow tube ru1ming down the inside of each stalactite. A little scattering...CALCITE var ANGELS WINGS. Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A fine mass of calcite made up of very thin pale...£60. 20) CHALCEDONY. Trevaskis Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall. Five yellowish translucent worn1 like structures..."BLISTER COPPER". Cooks Kitchen Mine, Cambome, Cornwall. A nice clean crust of blister copper with good
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Pensance, Cornwall, England. V.A.T .No.132-78~ -67 CRDERING INFORMA.TION...£1.50. BElJDANTITE. Wheal -':arpenter, G"inear, Cornwall. Sparkling, light olive green micro ~rystals richly...3x2~". £4.50. CASSITERITE. Poldice Mine, G"ennap, Cornwall. Bright, sharp, black crystals to t" in size scattered...CHALCOPYRITE. Fowey Consols Mine, T~4ardreath, Cornwall. n extremely large bright brassy sphenoidal single...size. £8,75. CUPRITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. A pure bright deep red crystaline mass, with
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Also new: Dufrenoysite, Ferroactinolite From England: There is a seperate This catalogue Nitrobarite...\·1hi te sphere shaped nodule. (Newhaven,Sussex,England) 111 50p 2" El.00 311 fl.60 411 f).80 017 ANALClTE...white masses intergrown with Selenite. (Dorset, England) lxl 60p lx2 El.20 2x2 E2.40 2x4 EJ.80 4x4ins E7...rich grey fibres in quartz. (WhealProsper St Ewe, Cornwall) lxl f!.50 lx2 E3.00 026 BERTRANDITE Be/4 Si/2...Group. Rich green masses with Siderite.Unusual for England. (ScarboroughYorkshire) lxl f2 lx2 f4.50 2x2 f9
Journal (issue)
Carboniferous faunas and palaeogeography of the South West England region. By W. H. C. Ramsbottom. ... ... 144 Stratigraphy...deformation of Armorican structures in South East Cornwall. By A. N. Lane. ... 197 The composition of Cornish...... 205 New Isotopic age-determinations, S.W. England (Abstract). By R. R. Harding and J. R. Hawkes....the geochemistry of an area around Perranporth, Cornwall. By S. Henley. 210 The following paper was also...Carboniferous faunas and palaeogeography in the South West England region was given by Dr. W. H. C. Ramsbottom of
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formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- ·--- lx2 £6 ½x½£3...-�b Ag �b� 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2£1 2x3 £ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses...ANNITE Pure black mica plate new Analys is. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Mica paper avail'!�_____ _ ___Larv
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Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...under magnification. £8. 4. AMETHYST, St. Austell, Cornwall. 2.5x3x2.5cm. A single fairly pale dumpy xtl with...with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix...under magnification. £6. 9. ANGLESITE, Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. 3x l.9x2cm. A bright...£32. (am9) 2. ~ ~ I,. "POTATO STONE", Dulcote Quarry, Somerset. 4.5x4x2cm. A cut geode 4 12. ARAGONITE
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26, Tregoseal, St; Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL NO.: St Just 788880 (STD 0736) 0 V.A...~xltxlt". £2.50. 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Nr. Callington, Cornwall. Specimen A - Rich lime green...£22.00. 10. AZURITE. Ting Tar.g Mine, Gwannap, Cornwall. Rich, Bright blue small sparkling crystals and...Specimen B "- 2xlt-xl". 1:3.25. Hingston Qry. Nr. Calling~on, Cornwall. Select sharp silvery diamond shaped...CASSITERITE. Imperial Goonbarrow Claywork, Bugle, Cornwall. Lustrous, brownish black well formed twinned
 
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