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Smithsonite from
Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Comments:Confirmed by EDAX
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:10200
Long-form Identifier:1:3:10200:7
GUID (UUID V4):628c78cb-ede5-4a64-84d8-d93a273382ab
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
17.6km (10.9 miles) South Tamar Consols (South Tamar Mine; Cowes Mine; incl. Cleave Mine; Birch Mine), Bere Alston Mines, Bere Ferrers, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
37.3km (23.2 miles) Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath and Par, Cornwall, England, UK
67.1km (41.7 miles) Perran St George Mine (Perran Great St George Mine; Great St George Mine; Perran St George United Mine), Perran St George and Droskyn Mines, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
93.9km (58.3 miles) Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Gems Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2DA England Telephone 01872 223 227 Fax 01872 262...green radiate fibrous xtls. GRF. Ml. £5.00 10 SMITHSONITE, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,...UVSW. ALLOPHANE, Hawks Wood Mine, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. SW green. Ml. £5.00 12 UVSW. ICELAND SPAR CALCITE...edges. D. C. £5.00 16 HEMIMORPHITE, Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. Rich covering of silvery grey micro...17 QUARTZ with minor PYRITE, Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall. A pretty specimen of short dear 12mm quartz with
Journal (issue)
LevantSectionof GeevorMine,Cornwall. Crystalsto 15 mm. EDITORIAL Digital Micro-Photography The UK Joumal ef Mi11esa11dMi11erals...SPONSORSHIP Peter J. Briscoe Tony Stubbins 9 GREYSTONE QUARRY, CORNWALL CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C....rendition. Other coloured fluorites from northern England arc also problematic, the famous blue fluorite...the specimen). or ditc and pharmacosiderite from Cornwall almost neYer photograph properly, perhaps due...which is possible using the technique. David Green UK Juurnal of Miucs & Minerals No. 24 -2- MICRO MINERALS
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
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
50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen,Scolland Radiating off while lo...1ourmaline.R1ch RF SPC. C.£8 0027 CHALCEDONY.Pentee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall.Pretty botryoidal encrustations...D SPC. C.£8 0028 CHLORITE after AXINITE,Aplile Quarry,Meldon,Devon.Unusual pseudomorphs of earthy brown...x1Is.Unusual RF SPC. C £10 0029 WAVELLITE,Highdown Quarry,Filleigh.Devon.Classic wavellite with radiating
Catalog/List
Number C311 ALBITE excellent coveraqe (Tintagel, Cornwall) lx2 of creamy f.1.50 coloured 2x2 f.3 crystals...with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2 ins. Pieces with...Chalcopyrite. (16 level, Sim.ms Lade, Geevor Mine ,Cornwall) size reflects the area of botryoidal surface... 2x2 f.2.50 vughs 4.80 in mass. (Meldon B.R Quarry collected same years ago 2X4· f.5.00 small cleavages...exposed veins on Microgranite. (Hingsten Dawn Quarry, Cornwall) f.4 2x2 f7 metallic (Pyrite like) No 2 Mine
Journal (issue)
apatitecrystal from Megilligar Rocks, Breage, Cornwall. Collectedby NickTalbott.Thephotois a combinationof...combinationof nineseparatedigitalimages. The UK Joumal of Mi11esand Minerals publishes articles of interest...EDITOR David I. Green EWALDITE FROM DOLYI-JIR QUARRY David Green • Neil Hubbard • Tom Cotterell ADVERTISING...Green DESIGN Julie Ballard 35 ELYITE FROM GREYSTONE QUARRY Richard de Nul The views and opinions Cll...Chambers 47 Born< REVlEWS 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTJSMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 25 -1- EDITORIAL
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project. De opgraving sites, de Howe quarry en de Red Canyon Ranch quarry, die op een boogscheut van Yellowstone...uit het late Jura (Morisson formatie). In de Howe quarry werden al twee bijna volledige Allosaurus skeletten...Minerals 05/4 Recent finds at the famous Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic Co, New Jersey – New Hampshire...schelpen Geonieuws 05/7 Elyiet (Greystone quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, UK) – Monaziet-(Ce) AGAB Minibul 05/7...François de Burtin – Nouvelles d’Autriche – Smithsonite Le bulletin du GEST N°133 Les Canadiens élaborent
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
Journal (issue)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite from...Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 Growth...COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy, The Natural...mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall (Fig. I), although not renowned for substantial...The supergene leaching of copper in south-west England has been recorded in numerous studies, although
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Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent ME3 8AT, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD: F.B. Atkins, Oxford, UK. RE. Bevins, Cardiff, U.K. RS...Braithwaite, Manchester, UK. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, UK. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, UK. RA. Howie, Matlock, U...U.K. R.J. King, Tewkesbury, UK. A. Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK. l.R Plimer, Parkville, Australia RE....Bromsgrove, UK. R.F. Symes, London, U.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia B. Young, Newcastle, UK. Aims...baryte. Nether Row Brow, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. M. Rothwell collection. Photograph by Mick Cooper
Journal (issue)
SMLS Journal No 167 Sept/Oct 2000 FIELD TRIP TO CORNWALL 12th to 15th May 2000 This year, for a change...Comish pilgrimage was focused on the Devon and Cornwall borders in the Tamar valley at Gunnislake, where...further afield. The story of the FOUR DRY DAYS in Cornwall is revealed through the pens of the volunteer...access arrangements had been made with the Duchy of Cornwall. The following were found: green (massive) fluorite...arranged with the kind permission of the Duchy of Cornwall, and we met up with the main group. Here we found
Journal (issue)
..................... 14 Greystones Quarry, Lawhitton, Cornwall by Nick Elton .............................................. 23 Malachite fromDyserth Quarry, .Clwyd, North Wales by W.A. Bolton .............Colin Sparrow for the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and the vitalising of its geological collections...organised by any geological or mineralogical group in the UK. If only I could get to even a fraction of these...fieldleaderduringthe Society's weeklongmeeting in Cornwall in 1980, when he agreed to lead the Society for
Journal (issue)
·>:~· .:t ~--~~ II I I ~ II I I I I I Cornwall Field Trip Journal 203 - September/October 2006...increasing pain from his knees. Before leaving the UK his surgeon, who had previously treated him some...trips this year took us to Derbyshire, USA/Canada, Cornwall and a return to Newhaven . Unfortunately the trip...-1LS Journal 203 Sept/Oct 2006 SMLS VISIT TO CORNWALL DURING MAY 2006 After a 3 year absence we thought...around the various mineral collecting sites of Cornwall. There follows an account of the week through
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t;>.,,.,. J..2. w ,·tf, SI' l'UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...of local knowledge, by the well known north-of-England collector Lindsay Greenbank. T The celebration
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Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. in era ls C TS -----2 EDITORIAL 3-----THE...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...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
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readily seen. At a beach site near St Agnes in Cornwall green staining can be seen where a quartz vein...Dumps from old mines, for example in south west England, are often rusty brown with iron oxides, and where...metals which occurred at Wheal Jane near Truro in Cornwall when pumping was stopped following its closure...Flints • Books • Accessories Tuperssuatsiaite, Aris Quarry, Near Windhoek, Namibia (6mm across) Specimen:...a tray of mineral specimens) were subdivide into UK only and worldwide, while a new photographic class
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all at bargain prices. Sites include ..... . Cornwall Wheal Mary Ann and neighbouring mine tips, near...Callington; Greystone Quarry, near Launceston; Restormel, near Bodmin; Hingston Down Quarry & Wheal Josiah...Barite) Machen quarry, near Newport (Calcite, Barite & Lead secondaries). Southeast England Warden Point...Bail Hill, Loan.head quarry, Wanlockhead, Auchenleck, Coatsgate quarry, Swinlees quarry, and several others...Sodbmy; Wick Quarry, near Wickwar; Whatley quarry, Somerset; Squilver and Callow Hill quarry, Shropshire
Journal (issue)
UK j I o mi minerals TS C nlm~ 2 EDITORIAL COVER: Vanadinite from the LeadhillsWanlockheadminingdistrict...specimen. 5 PEGMATITE MINERALS FROM CI-IYWOON QUARRY The UK Joumal efMines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Stephen Burchmore • David Green NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY 43 The views and opinions expressed in this Journal...ALGODONITE AND DOMEYKITE FROM NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Publication of information on a collecting site...Worbop, Nott~. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 26 -1- EDITORIAL
Journal (issue)
RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field of view 13 mm x 9 nun. Roy Starkey specimen...from Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation...Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES Valentinite
Journal (issue)
7839 COVER PHOTO: Liroconite from Wheal Garland, Cornwall. EDITORIAL The editorial of the first number...small village of Tregeseal, near Botallack in Cornwall. Prior to this he had been employed in the sampling...able field leader on a Society meeting in East Cornwall in 1980. He was highly respected by both professional...Department at the Geevor Tin Mine, at Pendeen, in Cornwall, and later with Consolidated Goldfields, in Scotland...Anglesite 1851 ex. Williams collection, Gwennap, Cornwall. 1241 "Cromfordite" Kingsbury specimen 1926
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society members have taken parties into the same quarry or mine to look at the same granite or rock face...dark limestone. Location: Old dump near Backdale Quarry, Calver. Peak Dist. (probably originates from nearby...November were devoted to minerals of Coldstones Quarry. Dave Green showed some very good photographic...draft an article for publication about Coldstones Quarry and its mineralisation. As Christmas approached...LionelBurchCB Five members and two guests met at the quarry offices at the appointed time, on a cloudy but
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the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...the heyday of geological research in northern England and it was not long before spectacular new ideas...site: Bedford Utd. Mine, Dean Quarry, Gravel Hill Mine, Greystone Quarry, Gunheath Claypit, Me/don Quarries
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surface and the are was obtained by open work, quarry fashion, here and at Black House. Also saw Crokes...suppose this abandoned spot, with its overgrown quarry and trial shaft, is a memorial to these endeavours...quarries at Gorsley: Greens Quarry (SO 677259) and Linton Parish Quarry (SO 677255), are still accessible... 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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