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Microcline from
Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:864552
Long-form Identifier:1:3:864552:4
GUID (UUID V4):9daae4e1-7fb3-4894-b6af-94583e746c6f
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
26.4km (16.4 miles) Penhale Mine, Penhale and Trecarne United Mine (Caradon United Mines), Common Moor, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
34.0km (21.1 miles) Chywoon Quarry, Mabe, Cornwall, England, UK
42.8km (26.6 miles) Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK
56.3km (35.0 miles) North Mine (East Wheal Friendship), Devon United Mines, Peter Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
titanite, pyrochlore, zircon, topaz, albite, microcline. Distribution: Well-studied material from: Miass...Grotta del Guerrino. In the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England. From near Salak North
Journal (issue)
resting upon 150rnrn of yellow clay. This passed down into blue-grey mottled clay with lumps of coal about...about 0.4m thick. It seems that these clay bands acted as a barrier to the iron-Dearing solutions. The exposure...1780s refers to rights to dig cinders, iron-ore and clay (Gloucester Records Office 04212/Tl). In the 19th... cyanotrichite from Cornwall R.E. STARKEY starkey, R.E. 1986. . Cyanotrichite from Cornwall. J. RusseLL Soa...from Cornwall is reported; it has been found in situ in a tin-rich stockwork in Lanivet, Cornwall, associated
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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
Journal (issue)
Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, Shoots and Leaves Truss, Lynne (2003) Eats...expanded to become one of the largest barite mines in England. Production rose to over 20,000 tons per year in...March 27th at Ladock Community Hall, near Truro, Cornwall. Some of you will remember the very successful...mineral collection of an elderly collector from mid-Cornwall who wishes to remain anonymous, and many also...collectors, particularly from the clay pits and mines of Cornwall and Devon, but also from Cumbria-which
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ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath...needles growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ...Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate to have a trip
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consists of ilmenite. magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain...chisel-shaped terminations, usually with some brown clay staining. ILVAITE UNITED STATES and CANADA IDAHO...lesser specimens, from the boron workings of the Bar Pit (Grant and Wilson, 2001; Moroshkin and Frishman,...underground mine in 1924, then became a giant open-pit operation in the late 1950s (Puffer, 1975;Bancroft...probably predate slightly, the 1992 find. ASIA CHINA Fengjiashan mine near Daye, Daye district, Hubei
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is that David, while at University, represented England in the sport of 'winks', which apparently was taken...early teens when on family holidays to Devon and Cornwall, here he encouraged and coerced all the family...5551 The site of South Caradon mine at St. Cleer Cornwall, has been declared by English Nature as a 5551...objective seems to be mainly the removal of iron stains, clay, calcite and quartz to either clean or uncover minerals...to have overlain the granites of southwestern England but which are not preserved in situ, they are not
Journal (volume)
Ireland Norman R. Moles 40-46 Buttgenbachite from Cornwall: a single-crystal X-ray study Peter Leverett,...Symplesite and parasymplesite from Cumbria and Cornwall, England. lournal of the Russell Society, 8( 1), 16-17...iron-bearing sulpharsenides from the North of England. Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 389-395. Moreton,...possibility of significant amounts of aluminosilicate clay minerals being present in this sample. Whilst these...Hushes are one of the best sites in the north of England to see the remains of ancient opencast working
 
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