 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Mendip Hills, Somerset. By ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY. [Read March 7, 1940.] the Mendip Hills,...together by J. W. Gough in his book 'The mines of Mendip', 1 but apart from a few general remarks on the...LM.A.4-309.] F 68 ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY ON Mendip. These specimens have fortunately been preserved...interesting localities in the area, Higher Pitts farm, near Priddy. Apart from these, the only other full...from the Mendip Hills',l in 1899, and 'New lead-copper minerals from the Mendip Hills (Somerset) ',~ in |  | | Journal (volume) | | from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of the...CONTENTS Volume 13, 2010 PAPERS The minerals of the Mendip Hills and their relationships Rick Turner and Michael...Trevor F. Bridges 61-65 A report on Westernhope Old Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges Journal...look at the work that we have been doing in the Mendip Hills (reported in this issue of the Journal) in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | X . New lead-copper minerals from tl~e Mendip Hills (Somerset). By L. J. SP~C~R, M.A., Sc,D., F.G.S....at the St. Cuthbert's Lead Works (i mile ESE. of Priddy) up to the year 1908, since when all work has ceased...for iron and manganese ores at Higher Pitts farm (1 mile SSE. of Priddy); here work ceased in 1893. Several...Several references to Mendip minerals are contained in John WoodF 68 L . J . S P ~ C E a AND E. D....working. To quote a few of his entries, he says : 'Mendip Green-Ore xams with the greatest difficulty in |  | | Report (issue) | | 100.00 (1) Mendip Hills, England; corresponds to Pb3.14 Cl2 O2.15 . (2) Kunibert mine, near Brilon...oxide ores (Somerset, England). Association: Hydrocerussite, cerussite, malachite, pyromorphite, calcite...parkinsonite (Somerset, England). Distribution: In England, from the Higher Pitts Farm, the Priddy Hill Farm...Farm, the Wesley mine, and near Churchill, Mendip Hills, and in the Merehead quarry, near Shepton Mallet...Mallet, Somerset. In the Kunibert mine, near Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. At Långban, Värmland |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Mendip Hills, UK Mike S. Rumsey The Mendip Hills is a relatively small area in SW England near the...before the end of the 181h Century, which in the UK was just about the time when the disciplines of mineralogy...study. One of the only collections in the UK that covers the Mendip Hills when it was actively being mined...Map of the Mendip Hills area, indicating the regions geographical position within the UK and the exact...Attempt towards a Natural History of the fossils of England" (Fig. 2). At this time it should be noted that |  | | Journal (issue) | | Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten...mineral localities: The H igher Pitts m ine, M endip H ills, Somerset, E n g la n d ....................on p. 319 COVER: PYROMORPHITE crystal group, 6 cm tall, from the Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Idaho. James...discovered at M erehead quarry, the H igher Pitts m ine at Priddy was the main source o f specimens o f this |  | | 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...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of |  | | Journal (issue) | | ., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 I . ORBIS TREASU Republic of Ireland IRE250 UK £2.50 TREASUR HOW TO CONTINUE YOUR COLLECTION ...5673331 (24 hours, 7 days a week) or fax 0870 6060447 UK&REPUBLICOF IRELAND OF THE EARTH (Payment in E...issues sent direct to your door at no extra cost (UK only; £1.00 p&p for Republic of Ireland). For details...gemstones. Simply order by telephone or write to the UK address above Please state which tray you require...these is at the Wagon Wheel Gap baryte and fluorite mine in Creede (Colorado), where it forms in association |  | | Journal (issue) | | this year we offer two concessions :1. Despite higher costs, we are holding the price exactly the same...Clare 9 12 Collecting Angles1te from the Hilton Mine by Steven A . Rust Francohte from C ornwall & Devon...Devon by Steven A . Rust ... Some Observations on Mendip Minerals by Michael F. Brooke ... Three Yorkshire...E I ( 198 1/92) No. I July/Aug 198 1 Fluorite La Mine de Lacan Bo n a ll M oor Min e ra ls 28 pp. , 3...No. 2 Sept/O ct I 9 Pha rm acoside rite Red Gill Mine ral Whea l G o rla nd Mille rite 32p p .. 25 illu |  | | Journal (issue) | | variety, from the Britannia Mine , North Wales, and from the Botallack Mine, Cornwall A.M. Pollard, R.G...Williams, R.E. Bevins and S. Turgoose 23 The Wesley Mine; a further occurrence of manganese oxide-hosted...Croft Mine , Cornwall- a second English occurrence 1. Betterton Native silver from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck...Fells, Cumbria M. Wirth Rosasite from West Pasture Mine, Weardale , Co. Durham B. Young and J.G. Francis...relationship to sulfide mineralization. At the Pinnacles Mine, 16 km south west of Broken Hill , the Pinnacles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR...emplaced into Carboniferous limestones throughout the Mendip Hills during the late Permian or Triassic period...Antony Mine. The complexity of these formation processes probably explains the rarity of Mendip-type Pb-Mn...mereheadite, Mn deposits, oxychloride, Somerset, Mendip, Merehead, England. Introduction T HIS paper presents...theory proves the long-held conjecture that the Mendip Mn deposits are of secondary origin (see for example |  | | Journal (issue) | | Re-discovery of Stokesite Crystals in Cornwall, England..................................................Rare Oxychloride Minerals from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England..................................298...Symes and P. G. Embrey Fluorite from the Font Sante Mine, Esterel, Var, France.............................d C rescen t, Don M ills, O ntario M 3 C 1 N 8 England: Dr. R .S . H ark er, 3 6 -3 8 O xfo rd St., L...more astonishing that the minerals from the Rogers mine in Madoc, Ontario show such extraordinary similarity |  | | Journal (issue) | | Anniversary Dinner Meadowfoot Smelter Minerals Make It Mine: Sir Arthur Russell Journal 298 July August 2022...10 copies of Roy Starkey’s latest book Making It Mine: Sir Arthur Russell; for SMLS members to save the...that provides a much shorter wavelength and thus a higher resolution image. A SEM scans a small area of the...and P and their hexagonal form helped point to pyromorphite, a species that had not been reported from Anglezarke...with this interpretation. A headline from recent UK mineral news was the re-examination of a museum specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gill, Cumberland, and of leadhillite at Drumruck mine, K irkcudbrightshire. By ARTHUR RUSSELL. [Read November...to be wulfenite and which he had found on an old mine dump near Carrock Fell, Troutbeck, Cumberland. One...localities, 2 namely, Higher Pitts mine, Mendip Hills, Somersetshire, and Lauchentyre mine, Gatehouse of Fleet...yellowish-green, tapering prismatic crystals of pyromorphite; or rests directly on drusy-faced, 1 j. G. Goodchild...wolfram-scheelite mine was worked, while half a mile to the north is Dry Gill mine, the well-known locality |  | | Book (edition) | | 4% GOUGH, John Wiedhofft TITLE The mines of Mendip LOCATION & STOCK No 115746 3347b6 2 il (HY...RETURN TSN. 198% Hpas3 4.3 THE MINES OF MENDIP Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with...org/details/minesofmendip0000jwgo THE MINES MENDIP OF by J. W. GOUGH, M.A., D.Litt Revised edition...OTHER DEBTS) I OWED MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THE MENDIP COUNTRY PREFACE oO TO SECOND EDITION forty...evidence that the Romans also dug for lead at Priddy. This has been confirmed by excavations carried |  | | Catalog/List | | Austrian collection 8 . BREWSTERITExx - Whi tesmi th Mine, Strcn tiar, Argy llshire, Scotland.· Hundreds of...- Stoneyccmbe Quarry, Kingskerswell, Cornwall, England. Intergra,m reddish large flatrhanbohedral xls...bi-terminated 651 00 7 - 7 P" f) 18. FORNACITE- Shebaz Mine, Ola Khun, Anarak, I::::-an. Small (Mvt-size) bright...Sizes r-M-SMIN- Fran 3,00 to OOID xx - Ollie Johnson Mine, Kittitas Co., Washington, USA. B.cilliant micro...32~ 12,50; B. 51 X 28 X 48 25. IRANITE - Shebaz Mine, Cha Khun, Anarak, Iran. 7 Excellent rich specinens |  | | Journal (volume) | | Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...characteristic trigonal sym metry, from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, described by Bridges et...botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green photograph |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...publishing his first work on the minerals of the Mendip Hills (Kingsbury 1935). he aspired to become a...Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine,nr Priddy,Somerset Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)'...meneghinile Pengenna mine,St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria...CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth mine,Grassinglon, Yorkshire Severallocalities in theLakeDistrictandComw melacinnabar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................a loss; especially to members in the north of England. On a more up-beat theme, there is positive news...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | guides and organises field excursions both in the UK and abroad. Subscriptions are renewed annually on...opportunity to sit on the train Geodiversity Charter for England supported by the reading the GA Magazine in its...building stone industry in detailed advertisement in the UK. There is a booking this issue of the GA form included...Page 8 Evening Lecture: Unusual minerals in the Mendip Hills June, 2015 By: Mike Rumsey, Senior Curator...interests in rare minerals, mineral associations and UK geodiversity. Since 2003, he has been trying to sort |  | | Journal (issue) | | California; Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona;...Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor...aquamarine (right), 5.1 inches, from the Pioniera mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Freilich Collection. ♦ 4 |  | | Journal (issue) | | from many working mines and ancient but untouched mine dumps. The metalliferous mining industry is now...office at South Crofty Mine, and later on, in the same capacity at Geevor Mine. In 1978, Richard and his...died. We were far undergound in a disused Cornish mine, and although he was very weak due to this illness...illness and the exertion required getting through the mine, followed by two hours hard work with hammer and...position in the Surveyor's Department at the Geevor Tin Mine, at Pendeen, in Cornwall, and later with Consolidated |  | | Book | | "ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...Castle, Tickow Lane Lead Mine, Earl Ferrers' Lead Mine, Mancetter Manganese Mine, the Great North Museum...was started, the first being at Penberthy Croft Mine (2021). A real testament to the success of the Russell...the original excavation of the Tickow Lane Lead Mine was one of these projects (see the 'Society Projects |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...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 |
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