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Brucite from
Pentreath Beach, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Brucite
Formula:Mg(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Serpentine Subgroupⓘ2 photos of Brucite associated with Serpentine Subgroup at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brucite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pentreath Beach, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:843823
Long-form Identifier:1:3:843823:2
GUID (UUID V4):45a978b2-5bc6-42fe-af91-231f690da870
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION WITHIN THE LIZARD COMPLEX, SOUTH CORNWALL: CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF SERPENTINISATION...mineralisation within the Lizard complex, south Cornwall: constraints on the timing of serpentinisation...Exeter, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3SE. INTRODUCTION The Lizard complex of south Cornwall (Figure 1) comprises...lizardite-chrysotile stability field, some Fe partitions into brucite (Moody, 1976). Serpentine minerals may also occur...localities (e.g. Kynance Cove [SW 685 133], north Pentreath [SW 692 129]). It occurs as pods and screens in
Catalog/List
TALC pure pink massive about 2x2.5 Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall £5 6 STICHTITE rich deep pink mass...pure white botryoidal nodule 4x3 Newhaven Sussex England £7 • 40 BARYTES golden brown cleavage piece 8x5x2...California USA £12 -"' .__... .. , . • i4:~- 65 BRUCITE pure yellow to colourless crystalline mass Kharan...Moel Llyfant mine, Gwynedd North Wales £ 15 90 BRUCITE colourless cleavages in grey-green Antigorite,...edges and looks like selenite 3x2.5 Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall £8 91 VOLKOVSKITE orange cleavage plate
Catalog/List
Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019. £18 14 BRUCITE a good small rich piece of colourless bladed mass...selenite in a sandwich) about 3x2 cm Pentreath Beach , Lizard Cornwall £10 15 BA YLDONITE green, small scale...8mm on 2.5xlcm Penberthy Croft Mine St Hilary Cornwall £6 - the type location 19 URBANITE . ( an iron...crystals all over the top surface 6x3 Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall £28 (photo left) 35 QUARTZ a 2.5 cm...after Barytes. Wheal : Mary Ann Sett, Menheniot Cornwall l 3x7 £60 55 SUZUKIITE fairly microscopic green
Catalog/List
covering 3x2 surface Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall reference specimen £10 11 BAYLDONITE smaller piece...unusually good deep yellow colour. Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall 4x6cm £18 40 PRINCIV ALLEITE one very...Lake, Mono County, California USA £8 -~ -·.- 66 BRUCITE pure yellow to colourless crystalline mass _ _...collection, with his label. Wheal Ballon St Just Cornwall £30 10x7 87 HEMATITE kidney ore. Good botryoidal...x2 Carrock Mine Caldbeck Fells Cumbria £7 90 BRUCITE colourless cleavages in grey-green Antigorite,
Catalog/List
Liskeardite on one side Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary Cornwall £10 2 31 HlLGARDITE and BORACITE , deep pink...matrix 6x6cm Spain no other info but collected in Cornwall ( the shipwreck on the lizard) !! £20 45 BREWSTERITE...deep yellow colour. Cliff fall at Pentreath Beach, Lizard Cornwall 4x6cm £18 -.; ~ __ _-__ J 7; PRINC~...8x3cm Mono Lake, Mono County, California USA £8 81 BRUCITE pure yellow to colourless crystalline mass ~·•----'"---~...collection, with his label. Wheal Ballon St Just Cornwall £20 10x7 92 WOLFRAM black cleavage/crystal section
Catalog/List
Yorkshire KCa4[BsOsOHJ1[B(OH)3]2Cl • 41-hO £ 1 2 3 1 BRUCITE a good small rich piece of colourless bladed mass...in a sandwich) about 3x2 cm PentTeath Beach , Lizard Cornwall £10 33 P URPURITE-1 -IETEROSITE attractive...and reddish quartz banded, fault at Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall 6x5 £7 143 BIOTITE SCHIST solid black...minor delicate red iron staining. Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall 6x5cm £8 ,. 182 TOURMALINlSED GRANITE...crystalline black tourmaline 6x5.5cm Nanjizal Bay Cornwall £7 9
Catalog/List
thin hexagonal platy. Croft Gothal, St Hilary Cornwall £10 10 FRESNOlTE a few very small yellow spots...creamy crystals over 7x6cm surface Pentreath Beach, Lizard Cornwall £25 29 LA VENDULAN, very micro, blue...a little quartz 6x3cm Gunheath Pit St Austell Cornwall £15 item B) 3xlcm £5 39 COVELLITE blue areas on...1cm Esterri, Lerida Spain 2.5x3cm Mount £5 54 BRUCITE a good small rich piece of colourless bladed mass...antigorite ,(looks like selenite) about lx2 cm Pentreath £7;' 55 BOTR YOGEN small orange crystals on Botryogen
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
Catalog/List
1 2NL email richard.tayler@minerals.freeserve.co. uk (note-- postage extra) Catalogue No 121 Phone 01932...7x7 mmCigana Mine, Galileia Minas Gerais £36 4 BRUCITE clear silvery cleavages about 1 to 2mm thick sandwiched...Selenite. A new discovery for Cornwall. Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall lx2 inch £15 b) piece in lxl plastic...two thin red bands (near Lizard Village, Lizard Cornwall) small 2x4 inch £7 PURBECK "marble" cut and polished...vein in the middle and on the outside St Austell Cornwall large 3x2 inch £6 SPESSARTINE garnet, fine grained
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Lizard and Meneage (Explanation...32, and 1n his classic Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset. The ?istrict has now... Hornblende-schists . .. Distribution, 45 ; Landewednack, 45 ; Cadgwith, 46 ; inland districts, 47 ;...type, 51 ; Ogo Dour, 51 ; special characters of Landewednack and Traboe schists, 52 ; possible break in the...XVIII. Pliocene Deposits ... Pliocene deposits of Cornwall, St. Erth, St. Agnes, 165 ; Crousa Down gravels
Report (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Lizard and Meneage (Explanation...32, and 1n his classic Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset. The ?istrict has now... Hornblende-schists . .. Distribution, 45 ; Landewednack, 45 ; Cadgwith, 46 ; inland districts, 47 ;...type, 51 ; Ogo Dour, 51 ; special characters of Landewednack and Traboe schists, 52 ; possible break in the...XVIII. Pliocene Deposits ... Pliocene deposits of Cornwall, St. Erth, St. Agnes, 165 ; Crousa Down gravels
Catalog/List
over 2x2.5 matrix Penberthy Croft Mine St Hilary Cornwall £7 I 53 HARMOTOME, clear micro crystals on 1x2...Valley, North Italy £20 B) smaller piece £10 71 BRUCITE inside like a sandwich - colourless platylike selenite...is pale blue green Antigorite,.... Pentreath Beach, Lizard Cornwall 5x3 and about 6mm thick £18 72 CHROMITE...and brown masses 7x5cm Treburland Mine, Bodmin Cornwall £12 88 NATIVE GOLD one or two visible spots on...quartz 2.5 xl.5cm Wheal Penrose, near Porthleven Cornwall £5 102 SMITHSONITE pale brown botryoidal on matrix
Report (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Lizard and Meneage (Explanation...32, and 1n his cl�ss1c Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West So-merset. The district has now...Hornblende-schists . .. . .. Distribution, 45; Landewednack, 45 ; Cadgwith, 46 ; inland districts ,. 47...type, 51 ; Ogo Dour, 51 ; special characters of Landewednack and Traboe schists, 5 2 ; possible break in... ... ... 1 5.-Map showing rocks exposed in the beach at the west side ... ... ... ... ... of Kennack
Catalog/List
VESUVIANITE , KAMMERERITE mixture inch £30 (Pentreath beach Lizard Cornwall) mauve mass in matrix. nearly purpurite...nice green micros on I cm quartz Wheal Gorland Cornwall £2 CELESTITE translucent 3mm xls on Celestite...l Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTl 1 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...- -£4-- -- - - ------- £ -1 2 -- --- �-� 348 ■ BRUCITE 93 2 IJ!l!i SIDERITE l3etws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales...lxl £12 ½" £4 541 ■ APATITE Levant Mine West Cornwall (carbonate fluor-apalilc) 3em Glass tube filled
Report (edition)
Scotland: by G. V. "\lfilson with contributions III. England arid \'vales: by J. Phemister IV. References Figures...formation of serpentines with artistic value, or of brucite-w.arble, which is an important prospective source...Fig. 1). The English and Welsh examples are from Cornwall or Anglesey as the case may be. In the following...Creagan (37) and also on Bolfracks Hill (55). In England at the Lizard; (see Section III) and in 11ifales...see Portsoy in Scotland (96) and the Lizard in England. Bastite is a name given to large shimrne1·y crystals
Journal (issue)
collecting by our members, particularly within the UK? Our judges, Peter Moore and Jc1mes Langdon, did...plates of brucite in serpentine collected on Pentreath Beach on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall by Richard...magnesium hydroxide mineral has been reported from Cornwall. Mark Oddy Class 2a. One Mineral or Rock Specimen...Lesley Collins with her display from the North of England. John Burgess Class 3a. Display of Minerals or...trilobites. The latter are not easily found in the UK. Kath Hassan Class 6. A Creation A well-attended
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive green... £4 lx2 £6 Ca SO/4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses lx2 80p 2x2 £1...- 502 ANTIGORITE County Bridge Quarry.Lizard ,Cornwall mixture with Chrysotilc, pale grey-green massive
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
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...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 &...During this period, I was going back and forth to the UK and worldwide shows and projects, as well as keeping
 
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