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Covellite from
Old Mine, Great Orme, Llandudno, Conwy, Wales, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Old Mine, Great Orme, Llandudno, Conwy, Wales, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:619912
Long-form Identifier:1:3:619912:8
GUID (UUID V4):b276ca84-3f2e-45d8-b276-7553b018c8d8
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
33.7km (20.9 miles) ⓘParys Mountain Mines, Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, UK
56.1km (34.8 miles) ⓘCoed-y-Brenin deposit, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
63.8km (39.6 miles) ⓘClogau St Davids Mine (Clogau Mine; St David's Mine), Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
64.7km (40.2 miles) ⓘTrial level, Vigra Mine, Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
89.5km (55.6 miles) ⓘDylife Mine (Pen Dylife Mine; Esgairgaled Mine; Llechwedd Ddu Mine; Blaen Twymyn Mine), Dylife, Machynlleth, Powys, Wales, UK
90.3km (56.1 miles) ⓘDyfngwm mine, Penegoes, Powys, Wales, UK
91.8km (57.1 miles) ⓘEsgair Hir & Esgair Fraith mines (Cambrian Mine; Cardigan Consolidated Mine; Welsh Potosi Mine; Kylon Potosi Mine), Tal-y-bont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
93.9km (58.4 miles) ⓘEaglebrook Mine, Tal-y-bont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
98.6km (61.3 miles) ⓘLlechwedd Helyg Mine (Willow Bank Mine), Pen-bont Rhydybeddau, Trefeirig, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
References
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Book
A Mineralogy of Wales RfCHARD E. BEYfNS Ocpartmellf o[Geolngy, Nmin11a/Museum of\Valcs, Cardiff AMGUEDDFA...Colliery, Ponh, Mid Glamorgan. National Museum of Wales specimen 48.264.GR 175. ex Cymmer Welfare Library...CE 6 I CES IN WALES 9 30 127 138 6 INTRODUCTION The mineralogy of Wales is diverse. with over...reveal the presence of additional species new to Wales. and perhaps new to the British Isles. It is also...completely new to cience will be discovered in Wales. as techniques for analysing specimens become ever
Report (issue)
geochemistry of parts of North-west England and North Wales Keyworth, Nottingham 1997 This volume has been...geochemistry of pa,ts of North-west England and North Wales. (Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey...stream sediment in North-west England and North Wales BGS MAIN OFFICES AND SALES DESKS The full range...Geological Survey carries out the geological survey of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter as an agency...Office in Wales GEOCHEMICAL ATLASES Room G19, Sir George Stapledon Building, University of Wales, Penglais
Journal (issue)
UK .M ----- JOURNAL I OF N E & ----- s M 1· N E R A L S n \) II I/ i] NUMBER 15 ‱ SPRING...number spring 15 1995 2 EDITORIAL COVER:The Great Opencast at ParysMountain. Only in this oil painting...TISPIECE CALCITE on HEMATITE Fred Bull 4 MI The UK Jouma/ of Mines and .Minerals publishes articles...value. Adding your own label adds to the value of an old time specimen by charting another chapter in its...specimen's documentation. L Often, when acquiring an old specimen, collectors are content to place it in their
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Reopens .......................................... UK On-Shore Oil; The Gatwick Gusher ............................. More problems for the Boulby potash mine .............................................. NASA............................... .. Prince of Wales Gold Mine. How much trust do you put in a label?.......October. This popular annual event always provides a great day out and I hope that as many of you as possible...Society’s 2017 ASM Weekend to be held in north Wales. It promises to be a really good event and I would
Book
provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...Microsystems for rnicrophotographic advice. tvfBI owes a great debt to one other individual, without whom the entire...Lettsom's famous book, Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and lrela11d, published in 1858. Such was...intervening years, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland produced a series of supplementary...have changed over time. This is not to say that all old work is valueless: the observation of Hey (1973)
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America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................under new management “Iron in Wales” workshop at the National Museum of Wales ................ Handling “asbestiform”...Museum Update ........ Correction: “Prince of Wales Gold Mine” ............................................in North Wales; not in Tal-y-bont as originally intended but in the seaside town of Llandudno. This change...has attended an ASM weekend will tell you what a great experience they are. If you have never attended
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.............................................. Wales & \.\lest 13 ......................... :................................ ........... South East, Wales & West 30 ........................................the membership secretary, co-ordinating the new, old and wayward members, the treasurer, accounting for...Lapidary Society - here again I was delighted to meet old friends and members. They told me that they find...President Obituaries Robert Bowers. It was with great sadness that we heard of the sudden death last Summer
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Holiday Inn, Swiss Cottage on 15/16 March was again a great success and many members met up and enjoyed the...the ragchew as well as the minerals. There was great interest in the BMS display and once again the Society...ANNUAL FIELD TRIPS - MAY 1986 North Wales Dave Middleton The North Wales meeting started with an irritating...away ill". So the party moved off to the Great Orme at Llandudno to do a fair amount of collecting between... The weather was much better, and members left Wales with a better impression of its scenery and minerals
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FRONT COVER: Vanadinite, probably from High Pim mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Orangybrown...and R.E. Starkey NOTES Botallackite from Dooneen mine, Allihies, County Cork, Republic of Ireland S. Moreton...botanical interest of mine spoil heaps - the lichen story 0. W Purvis 45 Cwmystwyth, Wales: 3500 years of...B.R. Marker 57 Mineralogical conservation in Great Britain - the governmental conservation agency approach...mid-part of this century, when there were still mine managers and miners to talk to, and when you could
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GEOCHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL HAYLE ESTUARY, CORNWALL, UK RECORD OF HISTORICAL MINING, G.K. ROLLINSON1, D...record of historical mining, Hayle Estuary, Cornwall, UK. Geoscience in south-west England, 11, 326-337. The...within the polymetallic Cornubian orefield, Cornwall UK, has locally caused significant contamination of...mining on the southwest Hayle Estuary, Cornwall, UK, was evaluated by examining the sediment geochemistry...zircon, stannite, wolframite, plumbogummite, covellite, bornite and ilmenite. In addition, man made slag
Journal (volume)
with minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK...2012 PAPERS Geology and mineralisation at Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria Brian Young 3-18 A geochemical...mineral assemblage of the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK using a stability field model Trevor F. Bridges,...species at the Benallt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen LlĆ·n, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell 29-40 Tungsten...experience of an underground tour of the Florence Mine in Cumbria. With the closure of Florence, it is
Report (issue)
chrysocolla and covellite. The third group are secondary sulphides, such as chalcocite and covellite, formed...Chalcocite Cu 2S 79.9 Cuprite Cu20 88.8 Covellite CuS 66.4 Bornite Malachite Azurite CusfeS4... Principa l ore minerals include chalcocite, covellite, bornite and native gold with minor amounts of...sediment-hosted copper deposits. At the El lndio mine in Chile massive sulphide ve ins ca n be over 10...Copperbelt, in-situ leaching is being conducted from old underground workings. Processing Open-pit mining
Report (issue)
is increasing both because of renewed activity in old mining camps and because of Utahns and tourists who...mineral localities, with the minerals found at each mine or locality. Most mining districts and mineral localities...whole, along with those for which the specific area (mine, for instance) is not known. Other minerals, however...chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper, covellite, cuprite, jasper, limonite, malachite, molybdenite...powellite, pyrite. Black Rock mine - specular hematite. Galena mine - galena. Iron Mountain Pass deposits
Book
5500–500 bc W I L L I A M O ’B R I E N 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom...registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries # William O’Brien...978–0–19–960565–1 Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Links to third party websites...Mitterberg in Austria, Kargaly in Russia, the Great Orme in Wales, and those examples in Cyprus from where...region is examined, as is the survival of early mine archaeology in different geological settings. Survey
Journal (issue)
Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...barite and tennantite. Dolyhir quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, October 2004. Collection: Neil Hubbard...Tim Neall Mud-filled fluorite vugs in Greenlaws mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Stephen Moreton Gearksutite...te from the Westphalian coal measures of South Wales, u.K. Stephen Plant and David Evans NOTES The composition...Andy G. Tindle Cotunnite from Penrhyn Du Mine, Gwynedd, Wales Neil Hubbard and David I. Green An update
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
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No 3. "Henwoodite", West Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne Specimen: 118 x 85 x 65mm Watercolour commissioned...Historical Society. COVER:BLUE JOHN FLUORITE, Blue John Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire, polished slab 7 x I 0cm...Bob King Collection (KI052), National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (83.41 G.M4242). Photo: Mick Cooper. 2...TRI T MI E HISTORIC L SOCIETY 3-----------BL The UK Jouma/ of 1Jfi11es a11dMinerals publishes articles...Trnmwa f useum, Crich, Derbyshire. Good.luck Mine - This mine, in the ia Gellia, Middletonby-\\ irksworth
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plumbogummite with yellow pyromorphite. Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. R.J. King Collection (ex...(ex. Harwood Collection), National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (NMW 83.41G.M.7821). Specimen height 42 mm...cavity lined with green malachite. Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection...mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria: Part 3 Roughton Gill Mine Trevor F. Bridges, David Green, Michael S. Rumsey...Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S. Rumsey, George Ryback and Richard
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UK j I o mi minerals TS C nlm~ 2 EDITORIAL COVER: Vanadinite from the LeadhillsWanlockheadminingdistrict... 5 PEGMATITE MINERALS FROM CI-IYWOON QUARRY The UK Joumal efMines a11dMinerals publishes articles of...Worbop, Nott~. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 26 -1- EDITORIAL...these mark the event out as one of the best in the UK This year the society instigated a mineral competition...display containing fluorite from Comish localities, Wales and northern England. There was a particularly nice
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of the Gallagher Vanadium Property and Manila Mine Downloaded by [New York University] at 00:58 20...scepter, field of view 3 mm, from the Gallagher mine. T HE TOMBSTONE MINING DISTRICT in Cochise County...including the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and some great mineral occurrences. An extraordinary array of secondary...the area was made in 1857 Figure 3. The Manila mine shaft at the bottom of the photo and another shaft...and reportedly an expert with the blowpipe. The mine was initially known as Bronco but was later “relocated”
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85740. Front cover: COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick...The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industry” by C. P. Connolly in McClure’s...sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful...crystallized species, unusual associations, or individual mine localities. Similarly, the popular journals are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
55–86 Mineralization of the South Pennine Orefield, UK—A Review T.D. Ford1 & N.E. Worley2* 1 Department... Leicester LE1 7RH, UK 23, Gloucester Avenue, Nuthall, Nottingham, NG16 1AL, UK *Correspondence: noel...Pennine Orefield and the Halkyn–Minera Orefield of NE Wales. Received 29 January 2015; accepted 14 January 2016...technically challenging or no longer available because of mine closures. This, in combination with some additional...comparisons are made with other MVT orefields in the UK. Tectono-stratigraphic setting and burial history
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THE OLD WORLD NEW' WORLD MEETS TO BRING BEST IN MINERALS www.fabre-minerals.com Jordi Fabre - Barcelona...Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...Spence FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,·ri.11l·ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL
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ns, Department of Geo logy, Na tional Muse um of Wales, Cat hays Park , Card iff C FI 3NP, Wa les, U .K...Barium feldspar rocks from Broken Hill , New South Wales I. Plimer Alumohydrocalcite from the Bristol District...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
 
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