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| .......... "Geofest" at the National Museum of Wales ............... ......... ........ ....... The Festival..... ........... ...... W&W Branch and the South Wales RIGS project: An update ........ NW Branch activities................ Former miner honoured for building UK - Mexico links .................... Crystal Classics............................. Trial at Brandy Gill Mine ... ..............................................Posnjakite, connellite and other minerals from Crinnis Mine, Cornwall Meeting & Field Trip Reports ........ |
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| This Issue Introduction Great to see the New South Wales collaborative effort on an article (Woodlawn). And...get in touch with one of the following: New South Wales: George Laking – bglaking@tech2u.com.au New Zealand:...Arsenates and Other Rare Minerals from the Cap Garonne Mine (France), Georges Favreau My Summer 2014 Collecting.......................18 Minerals of the Woodlawn Mine in the Southern Tablelands of NSW ................One example, that of a pyromorphite from the South Mine, is shown below. – Contributed by Steve Sorrell |
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| .............................................. Wales & \.\lest 13 ......................... :................................ ........... South East, Wales & West 30 ........................................Kenneth Hopes and Angie Smith South East Branch: Clive and Lyn Minker South West Branch: Anthony Aldworth;...Towning; Sarah Tuft and, rejoining, Neil Henderson Wales & West Branch: Brian Cripps All members details...ONE! when I typed in 'mineral news' and checked the uk button. Gary is still searching for materia_l,,!9"pu |
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| and Mark Oddy South West Branch: Nick Richards Wales & West Branch: Derian and Georgina Jenkins, and...(litters Mine, Cornwall. In March 2000, whilst on a mineral collecting trip to Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Cornwall...valley on the Devon side in Bedford United mines, a mine no more than a mile away, but have been unable to...mineral collecting and resource conservation in the UK. If we are to find a mutually acceptable way forward...mineral collecting and resource conservation in the UK. ,. ' / 1 1 J ( · Don't delay, register today |
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| extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...Atacama Desert to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993. "RPG," Artigas, Uruguay...collection that he donated to the Neto and Ed Swoboda to mine University of Arizona RRUFF Project. Another was................ 248 72001 Wulfenite Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona |
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| l.llr.::r.m o:1~. ~ fn ►•:, u, 1b.: .\~-nl h .~ UK =................................................. Wales & West.... . 12 ..................................thank you to Lynda Garfield who has stepped down as Wales & West secretary for a much earned break. Her contributions...each day Possible sites include: Great Orme Copper Mine (entrance fee) Alderley Edge Mines (insurance fee)...THOMPSON Mr John VANSTON South East: Mr Les LANHAM Wales & West: Mrs EVANS Northern: Miss CARTER-PIKE News |
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| ................................... Foss Baryte Mine - Request for Information and Specimens ..........Society AGM weekend in 2015 will be organised by the Wales and West Branch. It’s bound to be a great experience...nice crystals? There will be events held around the UK and across the world, but one which caught my attention...as you will no doubt be aware, some parts of the UK are richer, mineralogically, than others and therefore...I have suggested an overview of the whole of the UK. I will be focussing on the period from the mid-eighteenth |
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| the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: • 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...the Australian Museum, established in New South Wales in 1829. The Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston... Tasmania (1859), Queensland (1868), New South Wales (1875), South Australia (1882) and Western Australia |
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| Figure 1. Location of the Tsumeb mine, in northern Namibia, southern Africa, prepared by William Besse...University London] at 05:49 05 July 2016 Figure 2. The mine headframe at Tsumeb. Malcolm Southwood photo. Dolomite...photo. F or most mineral enthusiasts the Tsumeb mine, in northern Namibia (fig. 1), needs no introduction...azurite, cerussite, dioptase, mimetite, and smithsonite, to name but a few. The Tsumeb mine operated...but much of the specimen material was recovered by mine workers against the wishes of management and often |
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| Tinto in Spain and Parys Mountain on Anglesey, Wales. Illustration 2 shows a typical VMS quarry in the...minerals such as wulfenite, mimetite, phosgenite and cerussite (Figure 7). Deeper still, at 1350 to 1500m, a...Namibia: the three mineralization zones. 7. Cerussite from Tsumeb 2nd level 8. Leiteite from Tsumb...began. The photograph shows the entrance to the mine with Lyn working. Mineralisation seemed scarce...of some specimens collected. Aragonite cluster Clive Minker 2019 SUSSEX MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW Saturday |
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| Reopens .......................................... UK On-Shore Oil; The Gatwick Gusher ............................. More problems for the Boulby potash mine .............................................. NASA............................... .. Prince of Wales Gold Mine. How much trust do you put in a label?.......Society’s 2017 ASM Weekend to be held in north Wales. It promises to be a really good event and I would...drawn both to recent incidents at the Boulby potash mine in Yorkshire and to a recent trend in requirements |
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| .............................................. Wales & West 13 ...... .............................................................................. Wales & West I South West 25 ...........................Sutcliffe put on a display of material from Rampgill Mine with two specime ns of enormous interest (to me...the 'old man' was working this part of Rampgill Mine well before I thought they had got that far! After...longer interested in their collection of a seri es of UK first day covers; 86 issues from the period July |
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| ANOTHER CHALLENGE SMLS BARBECUE 2021 CONONISH GOLD MINE ZOOM LINKS DATES FOR YOUR DIARY MINERAL QUIZ 3 –...cross of strontianite crystals (Sr), and a tiny cerussite crystal (Pb) mounted on the end of a brush bristle...replying that their fluorite is from the West Pastures Mine, or perhaps from Permian Mississippi Valley-type...Photo 1 Black Opal cabochon (30 x40mm) Lady Luck mine, Yowah Opal Field, Queensland, Australia This was...case I damage it. Terry worked his Lady Luck Opal mine in Yowah, which at the time was barely recognised |
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| America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................under new management “Iron in Wales” workshop at the National Museum of Wales ................ Handling “asbestiform”...Museum Update ........ Correction: “Prince of Wales Gold Mine” ............................................incorporates the AGM. This will be held this year in North Wales; not in Tal-y-bont as originally intended but in...equipment (in addition to hammers and chisels) on to mine dumps. In the short reports section you will find |
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| SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org;uk -**"""***11-1<*""'**"""*"""-tt**tt******"""*---·...the production of an article on the subject for the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals (UKJMM) after Mick Cooper's...untimely death. It involved him travelling around the UK to interview Richard's work colleagues, his various...cassiterites, a tin ingot and a Geevor mine share certificate all from Geevor Mine, one of the two mines where Dick...to becoming the number one mineral dealer in the UK. Also the incredible range of skills that Dick had |
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| ...................................... Florence Mine on You Tube ...................................................................................... UK Mining Snippets ...................................this issue you will find – among other things: - UK Mining Snippets – a collection of news items about...actual or proposed commercial activities across the UK. Some of these are positive and show projects proceeding...surprised at the level of interest and activity in UK mining. I should point out that these are just plums |
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| collecting by our members, particularly within the UK? Our judges, Peter Moore and Jc1mes Langdon, did...trilobites. The latter are not easily found in the UK. Kath Hassan Class 6. A Creation A well-attended...with manganese ore at the Benallt Mine on the Lleyn Peninsula in Wales entered by Richard Tayler and a...green brochantite from the Hafan Mine at Nant-y-Moch in the Central Wales ore field entered by Peter Hay...showing the geological areas. 'Calcites' from South Wales, Somerset, India, France, China, Peru, Bulgaria |
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| SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org .uk ***-***'lrl<-lrl<******7rl<'lrl<'lrl<**'lrl<**kl...the slderite box epfmorph from lho Virtuous lady mine. Devon I am in the proces.s of reading Mick Cooper's...Bulgaria in 2006 , from the depths of the Druzbha mine near Madan. Also collected from Bulgaria, but from...classic Machen barytes and Taffs Well calcites from Wales, hemimorphite from Longstone Edge, Derbyshire, analcime...as cassiterite, were included from the Hemerdon Mine in Devon. Overall this made up a display of 14 specimens |
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| c5anvw,((e,vMintrafs Mineral Dealer & Mine gent Levant Gallery Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance...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...Minerals 35 37 FRONT COVER Caledonite. Red Gill Mine., Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Largest crystal 1.25...SUMMER 1987 Micro Minerals from a trial level in Wales Grid Ref:- SH 657194 By: D. A. Saich 'Peacehaven' |
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| minerals from La Marsiliana in Tuscany. Meanwhile Clive Cornwall finds some unexpected gems while eating...Cononish Gold Mine in Uncertainty at Scotland's Only Operating Gold Mine. While Clive was crafting his...with tables covered with microscopes and boxes of mine and a buzz of conversation and enjoyment. It was...the weekend? PB The pyromorphites from Frank Mills Mine in Devon. And a fluorite from SaintPeray Ardeche...dissolvingthe ironstone. In BMSNewsletter l l 7 Clive Cornwall highlightedthat over 70 n 1•nr; -i)l3 were |
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| from a hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Cu ore deposit (Red Gill mine, England). Association: Galena, sphalerite, tennantite...(Tsumeb, Namibia); cerussite, leadhillite, susannite, caledonite, quartz (Red Gill mine, England). Distribution:...From the Lucky Cuss mine, Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. In the Red Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria...From Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Name: For Clive Sedric Queit, mineral dealer of Tsumeb, Namibia |
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| Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry...at Easter to join the Northern Mine Research Society for a week of mine exploration, sight-seeing and...Micromount Society 101h anniversary edition of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals in 1991 , and was a |
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| SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org .uk 1rlrl<1rlrl<*********'lrlrl<************1rlrl<*************...one up, heavy isn't it? That's from a quarry in Wales- I carried it-for miles. -Oh yes, we have field...specimens without damaging ·the crystals. Aouli This mine, which is near the town of Midelt, was worked for...country did not have the finance to keep it going. The mine produced 500,000 tonnes of lead metal during its...reserves still exist underground. We approached the mine along a dirt-track at the bottom of a spectacular |
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| behalf of the Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria................ 51 Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P....Manchester, will be providing updates on new finds in the UK (see Vol. 1, 1). Dr Bruce Cairncross, from the Rand...well-crystallised globular crusts at the Mt Oxide mine, Queensland (Day and Beyer, 1996). ROCKBRIDGEITE...typelocality);Hagendorf Sud, Bavar:ia, and the Gold Quarry Mine, Nevada. At Wycheproof, meurigite occurs as yellow |
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| ............................................. "Wales & West, South West 23 ............................topic after a note was forwarded to us from the Wales and West Branch. As far as the Society is concerned...Sara Chambers and Tim Brookes; Bernie Millington Wales & West Branch: Wayne Jones Subscriptions for 2002...went out collecting over the dumps at Hartsop Hall mine in the Lake district, looking primarily for wulfenite...the dumps or if it is an actual specimen from this mine I don't know?, I do know that I haven't found any |
