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Kaolinite from
Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Kaolinite
Formula:Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kaolinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:16577
Long-form Identifier:1:3:16577:8
GUID (UUID V4):c398d9bb-865f-495f-88a3-8c15ff7e7898
Nearest other occurrences of Kaolinite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Boscaswell Downs Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.2 miles) Parknoweth Mine (Wheal Buzza; Truthwall Mine), Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
3.1km (1.9 miles) Lower Bostraze China Clay Pit, Tregeseal Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
4.0km (2.5 miles) Balleswidden Mine, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
6.2km (3.9 miles) Ding Dong Mine, Boskednan, Madron, Cornwall, England, UK
8.0km (5.0 miles) Zennor Consols (Carnelloe Consols), Zennor, Cornwall, England, UK
9.0km (5.6 miles) Rosemorran Mine (Rosevale Mine; Wheal Chance), Zennor, Cornwall, England, UK
10.9km (6.8 miles) Bedlam Green China Clay Works, Higher Trenowin, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
23.2km (14.4 miles) Cookworthy Quarry, Tregonning Hill, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
23.7km (14.7 miles) North Parbola Mine, Reawla, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Harvard's Mineralogical Tour of England June 23-July 4, 1984 WILLIAM C. METROPOLIS Harvard Mineralogical...sponsoring a mineralogist's tour of London and Cornwall. A group of eleven left Boston's Logan Airport... We visited the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square...world-famous and truly magnificent Crown Jewels of England. Unfortunately, photography is not permitted, so...rings consist of blue sap­ phires, with the Cross of St. George in rubies set on them, surrounded by diamonds
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Jones JONES , A. P. 1987. Field Meeting in west Cornwall , 30 May to 2 June , 1986. Proc. Geol. Ass. 98(1)...West Cornwall. Attention was concentrated on mineralisation in the granites, as seen at Geevor Tin Mines...Kingston-upon-Thames , Surrey , KT12EE. 1. INTRODUCTION mine workings were briefly picked over and yielded limited...dominated by arsenoA field meeting was held in west Cornwall primarily to examine areas of mineralisation associated...accommodation in The prior to the afternoon visit to St. Michael's Mount. Karenza Hotel , Carbis Bay, provided
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undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...and copper since the Bronze Age. Only the Geevor tin mine was still open in 1986, but the vigorous development...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...phonolite of Wolf Rock. Small outcrops of Pliocene St Erth Beds are described and there is a full account...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 Tel/Fax: Tavistock (0822) 832530 * * *...1995 li.-- AGARDITE. Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. Cavities in quartz/killas veinstone showing pale...£45. 2..J ALBITE. Lanterdan Quarry, Tintagel, Cornwall. A 100x90mm area, of thin kilias/slate matrix... 140x90x20mm. £18. 3. ANTIMONITE. Xikuangshan Mine, Hunan, China. A single lead grey lustrous xl 110x9x7mn...4. APATITE AND SIDERITE ON QUARTZ. Panasqueria Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portugal, An impressive display specimen
Catalog/List
02. Apatite (Var: Francolite). Geevor Mine, Pendeen, West Cornwall. An altered Chloritic matrix with...e/Native Bismuth. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, West Cornwall. A hilly and sculpted Chloritic matrix indurated...Lode West 420 fm level, South Croft Mine, Pool, Central Cornwall. An interesting and rare Cornish phenomena...* Axinite. Carn Vellan near Botallack, St Just, West Cornwall. Large, sharp, terminated clove-brown coloured...ra/Pyrnmnrphito/ramccitp Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, West Cornwall. A vuggy completely encrusted matrix
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personally and sEe my latest one-otf srecimens. Just give me a ring to make suYe I will be hsre. f,...fromme you can pay after you receive the minerals. -Just s~nd a list of ~he r.1i1:era1s _and pr1ce for each...Also new: Dufrenoysite, Ferroactinolite From England: There is a seperate This catalogue Nitrobarite...:.ic::2ousmasses Qn matrix (Pr::'.)~:I:'1 1:ir:2,St :!37'.Cel,Val d' ~osi:a rtaly) lxl 10p lx2 El.JO...crystal cection 1/2 i~s to l!~~ lcns i~ ral2 F~lspar St Hilaire, Ql!eb~cCanada lx2 ins GOp 2x2 ins El.20
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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 (article/letter/editorial)
997 TOPOGRAPHICAL I N D E X Penberthy Croft, St. Hilary: carminite, EUROPE Iceland (fsland) Bondolfur...Iceland: beudantite, 431 Pengenna (Trewethen) mine, St. Kew: pitchsbone, oligoclase, 587 Sellatur,...WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham: aph~hitalite(?), arsenopyrite(?), epsomite...Roscommon Cliff, St. Just-in-Peuwith: stokesite, 433 St. Day: cornubite, 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite...genthelvite, molybdenite, 921 Treore mine, St. Teath: beudantite, carminite, jamesonite, mimetite, scorodite
Catalog/List
ilatonite. 27-1}. Nr. :;eløton, - S-:,:_ Cornwall, edge. Top sui::::-.ace ~•~,., Hine, coverhg...•ncru ■ tat10111 ;;:,f tin_y i;u:,: ··' uar!·y, Ne~ St. c.Jn:oined orange-r Scotland,· up to 55cm, long...Antydrite(Chalcedonic J;e~lacecent). uJ'J'-r ;,n· St. ,.unrry, U.S,A, i:nhi.ned =· of la.yer lir,... b) aore Dodular xtla, 45 xZ?xZOam, .1:4,00, Cornwall, O!!- a) 45X46X-45all· z. Re! .no. 7oi,..19...Atacru:ii te. l:urra, matrix. Calcite). Gttvor Mine, Pendeen, on Cnlcitic Folnod. Tiny råoiatin6 sprays
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Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...clay workings have created a unique landscape around St Austell. Tin, copper, lead, zinc and other metals...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations Jens... Shail, Robin K., Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations,...Ore Geology Reviews Indium mineralisation in SW England: host parageneses AC CE P TE D and mineralogical...Cornubian batholith, SW England 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT The SW England ore region contains significant...mineral lodes associated with D the Carnmenellis and St Agnes granites, which are the districts that had
Catalog/List
(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST)...(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
apply to many of the other chinaclay pits in the St. Austell granite. A number of geologicalresearch...is currentlyin progress in the westernpart of the St. Austellgranite by a team froIn Imperial College(C...inclusionsand stableisotopesin the St. Austell area and elsewhere in south-west England. Both super- perature(Th...(Bristow, in press) but needsfurther clarificationin Kaolinite does not generallyform under saline the light...topaz. (in prep.) has shownthat kaolinitesfrom the St. Preliminary results of fluid inclusionstudies in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 SGG, UK ’ British Geological Survey, Exeter EX4 6BX, UK (Received May 25, 1992, accepted...Abstract-The metalliferous ore deposits of southwest England are associated with biotite-muscovite granites...Gunnisfake Mine :e-Mine Wheat Remfry i L Wheat Jane Mine \ South Crafty Mine / ‘Hemerdon W-Mine \ G&&arrow...geologic map of the Comubian batholith in southwest England, modified from et al. ( 1969) and WILLB-RICHARDSand...1988) and the Cornubian metalliferous-province, England ( HALLIDAY, 1980; DARBYSHIRE and SHEPHERD, 1985;
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Remfry in the Western Part of the St Austell Granite Pluton, Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . 51 P. Bowden Tourmalinization in Cornwall, England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Hydrothermal Activity in the St Just Mining District, Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . N.J. Jackson...Granitic Batholiths of South-west and Northern England and some Geothermal Analogues. . . . . . . . ....Mineralization and Fluid Inclusion Study of the Yod Nam Tim Mine, Southern Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite...D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66...COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy, The...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral
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.......... 209 Fluid inclusion studies in SW. England. By D. H. M. Alderton............................................................ 218 The Levant Mine carbona. By N.J. Jackson .........................geochemical division of the Namurian shales of Devon and Cornwall and its significance. By Stephen McCourt........suites in the post-Armorican formations of SW. England (Abstract). By M. E. Cosgrove......................... 254 Notes on some igneous rocks of West Cornwall. By R. T. Taylor and A. C. Wilson............
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There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009
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Some aspects of Engineering Geology in South West England Chairman's Introduction ... ... ... 356 Engineering...geology in reservoir construction in South West England. By J. L. Knill. ... ... ... 359 The influence...weathering on the layout of quarries in South West England. By W. R. Dearman and P. G. Fookes. ... ... ..... 372 Some examples of cliff failure in S.W. England. By H. M. de Freitas. ... ... ... ... 388 Geological...problems in the china clay industry of South West England. By M. J. Ripley. ... ... 405 The geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GeothermalEnergyProject,CamborneSchoolof Mines,Penryn,Cornwall TR10 9DU, UnitedKingdom AND NORMAN J. JACKSON...e of shalesand mineral commodity,however, is kaolinite, with an sandstones, which underliesthe peninsulaof...•8/80/o•5/1078-1aSa.00 1078 CORNUBIAN ORE FIELD, SW ENGLAND. PT. I ß 0 15 . ' .'. 30km 1079 'i•'•NORTH...Londonin 1807 and the Royal Geological Societyof Cornwall in 1814. The early transactions of these learned...whatis stillthe mostcomprehensive compilation of mine data for the province(Dines, 1956) and the geologicreviewsand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CASSITERITE MINERALIZED VEINS AT ROSEVALE MINE, ZENNOR, WEST CORNWALL S.C. DOMINY, G.S. CAMM, M.A. BUSSELL...Rosevale Mine, Zennor, west Cornwall. Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8, 374-378. The Rosevale Mine Main...Mining Co. Ltd., 16 Fairfield, Ludgvan, Penzance, Cornwall TR20 8ES. INTRODUCTION Abundant fractures with...characteristics are ubiquitous features of the south-west England orefield. The lodes are typically steeplydipping...with one of the widest being reported in Dolcoath Mine (Main Lode, 12 m wide; Dines, 1956). The lateral
Journal (issue)
Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and...non U.K. Page No. The Re-opening of Clogau Gold Mine 1966 J. Hodgkins 2 The Minerals of Trimouns, Ariege...For Your Bookshelf 31 The Minerals of Esgair Hir Mine S.A. Rust, J. S. Mason 35 Classified Advertisements... 47 FRONT COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection...Clogau Gold Mine 1966 John Hodgkins 36 Church Road, Altofts, Normanton, Yorkshire. The Clogau Mine is situated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
January 1994 CROSSCOURSES IN SOUTH CROFTY MINE, CORNWALL: FURTHER STUDIES OF PARAGENESIS AND STRUCTURE...Halls, C. Crosscourse veins in South Crofty Mine, Cornwall: further studies of paragenesis and structure...ing composite tin-bearing lodes at South Crofty Mine are cut by a series of crosscourse structures. These...veins. The main structure of this type within the mine is the Great Crosscourse which reaches some 100...2NG. R. C. Scrivener, British Geological Survey, St. Just, 30 Pennsylvania Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 6BX
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No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...has been published again with the same content but just the mineral part. It is called "The illustrated...----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd
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NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...overall. £45. 3. BARITE and MALACHITE. Shinkolobwe Mine, Shaba, Congo. A matrix partly covered in green...60x40x30mm. £20. (b) 4. CALCITE. WhealWrey, St Ive, Cornwall. An intergrown group of colourless transparent...Liskeard Cornwall). 70x50x40mm. £155. 5. CALCITE and DOLOMITE. 12 Level Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just...Just, Cornwall. A small intergrown group of pale yellowish nail head calcite xls to 5mm on a matrix of rhombic
 
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