 | | Journal (issue) | | ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...8ISHOPTON DIARY OF EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson...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 |  | Syed Hasan, Sharifah, Mohd Kusin, Faradiella, Jusop, Shamshuddin, Mohamat Yusuff, Ferdius (2018) Potential of Soil, Sludge and Sediment for Mineral Carbonation Process in Selinsing Gold Mine, Malaysia. Minerals, 8 (6) 257 doi:10.3390/min8060257 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | extracting metal ore for instance, from an open pit mine will typically emit high amounts of CO2 into...Peninsular Malaysia [43,44]. It is a 135 m deep open pit mine, occupying about 776 ha. The mine is situated...in the Central Gold Belt of the Malay deep open pit mine, occupying about 776 ha. The mine is situated...mine were pyrite (FeS 2), ultramafic rocks. The major minerals found in the gold mine were pyrite (FeS2 )...lower grade (SLG), lower grade (LG), high grade borrow pit (Figure 1). The [super lower grade (SLG), lower |  | | Journal (issue) | | IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. TWENTY YEARS IN MINERAL SCOTLAND David Green • Gordon Todd 28 EDITOR David I...MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM THE WELSH GOLDBELT John Mason • Ken Williamson |  | | Journal (issue) | | Stanley 51 Mica quarrying and processing in Scotland during the Second World War 71 R.P Mcintosh...Hubbard and D.J. Green 93 Otavite from Bishopton, Renfewshire, Scotland J Faif~rull and.v. Hubbard 94 Botallackite...grey-yellow to brown spherules from Wanlockhead, south Scotland, identified by Frenzel (J 875) as descloizite...NHM collections. Halotrichite was recorded from Scotland by Greg and Lettsom (1858) and has ~ince been...foreign, most probably from Katanga. G UN HEATH PIT, CORNWALL BM 1968,159 is registered as dark blue |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Reading, Berkshire, in 1970-1, a large cutting and borrow pit were excavated by Costain Ltd. into very fossiliferous...whole area was practically impossible. Another borrow pit to the east at SU 760690 was reported by John...before a detailed investigation could be made; this pit will no longer be referred to in this paper but is...not seen by the authors. The main cutting and borrow pit sections were continuous, giving a straightforward...735690; units 6-2 in the floor of the adjacent borrow pit south of the cutting (SU 737690) and units 2-1 |  | | Book (edition) | | Crystal Point Diamond Mine....... Montour Fossil Pit....................... Eastern Industries Quarry...Building |____ Parking Lot QuarrV- Roac* Cut or Borrow P'rt North ^ Mine X Collecting Site ]|(^ Small...Ammonites Crystal Point Diamond Mine Montour Fossil Pit Eastern Industries Quarry Carbondale Fossil Ferns...with samples of beautiful agate, jasper, galena, pyrite, quartz crystals and much more. There is something...folded terrain reveal cherts, sphalerite and galena. Borrow pits used for road fill often dig into fossiliferous |  | | Journal (issue) | | human burial was recovered from a trash or refuse pit in a context suggestive of cannibalism. A higher...and Sevon, 1977; Taylor, 1977). In an inactive borrow pit near the top of the Lock Haven type section,...granted permission for small groups to collect at the pit, but requests that they first stop at the house to...announce their presence. The rocks exposed in the borrow pit consist of light olive gray, sub-fissile to blocky...prominent sand wave about 15 feet above the floor of the pit. Fossils are most numerous in the shaly beds below |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | material posed the problem of locating a suitable borrow area. A f t e r a number of test pits had been...of the gob pile was selected as a borrow pit location. The borrow pit provided weathered glacial till to... and the disposal of accumulated debris. The borrow pit was opened, and cover material removed and stockpiled...industrial disk harrow. Cover material from the borrow pit was then placed on the recontoured refuse material...refuse material was relocated; (c) an on-site borrow pit providing nearly 30,500 m s of cover material |  | | Report (issue) | | monzonite and is being mined by conventional open pit methods. The ore is crushed, put on leachpads, and...beds. The ore is also mined by conventional open pit methods; gold is recovered in a 350 ton per day gravity/flotation...thick, contained coarsely crystalline quartz with pyrite, braunite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, malachite...feet. It contains massive bluewhite quartz with pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, and sphalerite (Gray, 1927...50 E and dipping 55 NW in augen gneiss contains pyrite, molybdenite, and lesser amounts of galena. Accessory |  | | Report (issue) | | identifying plant specimens from the Old Copper open pit geobotanical anomaly. Reviews of this manuscript...(Birch Still Road reduced zone) Old Copper open pit 72 Old Farm uranium-copper occurrence Tivoli Overlook...copper-uranium zone Muncy Valley cluster Jordan borrow pit (noncommercial) Klemic locality 12 McCauley prospect...anomaly, Old Copper open pit Stunted birch and hawthorn, Old Copper open pit 27. Unprospected uraniferous...in Figure 69 71. Phosphatic fish scale, Jordan borrow pit 181 186 72. Mini-adit, Klemic locality 12, |  | | Journal (issue) | | of copiapite in the UK as his subject. Only a few recorded specimens from the UK are known in theOA-...from ·the decomposition of sulphides, particularly pyrite, and are soluble in water hence are generally reported...coal measures. Mike has found specimens in vughy pyrite and quartz from the dumps of Wheal Jane. At the...not aware ofit and tend to undervalue decomposing pyrite specimens found in old dumps. He thinks that the...ignore those yellow decomposition products on old pyrite. After this presentation there was considerable |  | | Report (issue) | | east-southeastdipping quartz- and plagioclase-bearing dike cuts Borrow Pit plutonic body and is in turn cut by a dike of...of Powell Peak, and a pluton here called the Borrow Pit body 3.5 km northwest of Powell Peak. Light-gray...of Powell Peak Pluton and western exposures of Borrow Pit body. Hypidiomorphic granular. Plagioclase shows...alteration, and intrusive breccia originating from the Borrow Pit body affect the diorite of Topock (Kt), indicating...intruded by biotite granodiorite (Kcb) unit (Borrow Pit body) and abundant Tertiary dikes KYg Granite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Fig. 1, Table 1), the uppermost smalldisseminated pyrite grainsandminoramounts Marcellusis extremelyblackandcarbonaceous...barite, • -- siltstone,• = barite nodules, --• = pyrite, • -- limestone nodules,•} -- limestone nodules...sometimes associated with other barite types.In the borrow pit at locality 5, a marinefaunaoccursin a hard fine-grainedgray...PattersonCreek PattersonCreek Cumberland Cumberland Borrow pit near house W 39ø33'50 • N, 37ø41 '00" N, Cumberland...andVirginiaRoute 688, behindauto repair shop Borrow pit, west side of north-southroad, eastof KnobblyMountain |  | | Report (issue) | | sandstone. Occasional thin layers and masses of pyrite are also present with a few pyritized plant axes...ithographic, fractures often calcite filled, some pyrite. Limestone, gray, lithographic, contorted bedding...lower part, cavities numerous with crystals of pyrite, calcite, and quartz. Figure 11. Stop 1. guidebook... Leary: Pennsylvanian Flora, 1979 Stop 2: Borrow pit east side of US 67. Rock Island County, Illinois...Pleistocene exposed in this locality. strata are The borrow pit exposes strata of Pennsylvanian age that are |  | | Journal (issue) | | quartz, minor mica, chlorite, feldspar, and trace pyrite . Ancient stream channels , visible in the 20-foot-high...or aragonitic shells are quartz (in limestones}, pyrite (in clay shales}, and hematite (in ironston es...mineral}. The "c hloritized " fossils are found in a borrow pit at Nittany Mountain Campground, located on the...Jack Ficks, periodically removes shale from the pit for use in road paving and campsite found ations...the office before proceeding to the pit. Exposed in th e borrow pit are poorly fissile, yell owis h-g ray |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 558 ROCKS & MINERALS one well-mineralized borrow pit that we did not include, so the reader is referred...graphite, hematite, marcasite, opal, phlogopite, pyrite, quartz, rutile, talc, and uvite (Lupulescu et...11. A vein of very rusted material has lost its pyrite and enclosing calcite during weathering. This is...dolomite, goethite, manganese oxides, marcasite, pyrite, and quartz (Chamberlain and Walter 2016). Stevens...Diopside, fluorapatite, molybdenite, phlogopite, pyrite, and tremolite (Robinson and Alverson 1971). Town |  | | Journal (issue) | | Redstone cool ~-~ Re ds tone- li mestone · · ·· ~ -~ ~ Pit ts burgh sand stone 1---f-·-+---f::~::::::!:-:':'i...grains associated with galena, chalcopyrite, and pyrite in the Hares Valley area, Mapleton, Huntingdon...it is easily accessible. The locality is in a borrow pit used by local authorities for road fill and is...lOe~=::E::==c=::e=""l/:32 Mole kill County. The borrow pit is large, extending about 1 00 yards to the north...parts o f the quarry. The rock exposed in the borrow pit is the Middle Devonian Mahantango Formation, |  | | Report (volume) | | formation._______________________________________ Pyrite-rich rock_______________________________________________...abnormally decomposed by the breakdown of abundant pyrite. A short segment of the island crest that slopes...intrusive bodies, and along a few zones rich in pyrite, the rocks are altered to fine anhedral quartz...plagioclase, chlorite, fine anhedral quartz, leucoxene, pyrite, and iron oxide. The upper rock contains the same...altered rocks from the Amchitka formation containing pyrite crystals. In some restricted localities, particularly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | are: (1) the occurrenceof barite, sphalerite,and pyrite associated with synsedimentary collapsebrecciaswhich...and we interpret certain barite, sphalerite,and pyrite-hematiteoccurrences as having formed nearly contemporaneously...brecciasare closelyassQciated with the paleo- ite and pyrite in filled solutioncavitiesin the upperkarst terrain...limestone containing lent/Is of fine crystalline ape n pit dolom ite Collapse Odo, yellow weathering argillite...readily distinguishable tance from the breccia. Pyrite-marcasitemasses from similarly shapedand sized |  | | Report (issue) | | Ph, prehnite; Pr, piemontite; Pr, pyroxene; Py, pyrite; Q, quartz; S, stilpnomelane; Sm, smec tite; Sp...laminated. Laminated shale, hematite pseudomorphs after pyrite. ----_- —— ___ __ do __ —— . ____ .... Chert...part of the section. Quartz and minor calcite and pyrite are the most important secondary minerals. Quartz...occurs near the top of the section. Calcite and pyrite are mainly at midsection (table 1). AGE The Andrew...phyllosilicates again (minor), and rarely quartz, calcite, pyrite, or epidote. The filling of an amygdule may begin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at the M251M23 interchange (Merstham) and in a borrow pit below Gravelly Hill (Bletchingley), was described...tinged grey clay coloured by the finely disseminated pyrite contained in them . Small buff phosphatic nodule...with bands i n which the shells are rep lac.d by pyrite . Wh.n w.athered, these clays d.velop ferruginous...the Glauconi tic Mar l) in the Holborough No, 3 pit. near Paddlesworth Farm, Snodland, Kent. rostratum...side of the A23 ae B phosphatic nodules E;J pyrite nodules § a ~ 4a ferruginous streaks marlstone |  | | Report (issue) | | Stop 8: La Brot Borrow Pit Overview Site Details, Upper Pit Site Details, Lower Pit Discussion Economic... 6: Big Hollow Property Creek Owners Strip Pit 91 91 Location 91 General Stratigraphy 91 ...of the La Brot borrow 7.5-minute Quadrangle 54 plotted versus depth for the 55 pit in a portion of...the upper La Brot borrow pit 2-26 Sketch of exposure in the lower La Brot borrow pit 2-27 Location of...minerals include fluorite, cassiterite, magnetite, pyrite, 1981 Stallings, 1998). Stallings (1998) recognizes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | barite, galena, sphalerite, quartz; F. New Concord: pyrite; S. GEORGE W. ROBINSON A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum...County Alden, Spring Creek (42°54'15"N, 78°29'11"W): pyrite (nodules and fossil replacements in shale); S....quartz (black-stemmed scepters), calcite, dolomite, pyrite, “anthraxolite”; S. Figure 4 (above). Magnetite...hematite), hematite, quartz, goethite, sphalerite, pyrite, carbonate-rich apatite, iron-rich talc, calcite...celestine, gypsum, pyrite, marcasite; S. Montgomery County Cushing Stone quarry: sphalerite, pyrite, witherite |  | | Report (issue) | | gold-bearing veins. Sulfide mineralogy includes pyrite, arsenopyrite, realgar; minor galena, chalcopyrite... and disseminated pyrite. Propylitic alteration (calcite+chlorite+ epidote+pyrite) is zoned away from...with minor pyrite and traces of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Pyrite, abundant in...this zone. We will see these relationships in a borrow pit on the return trip. High REE (La >40 ppm), B...road is a borrow pit. Rhyolitic dikes cut andesites; both rhyolite and andesite contain pyrite that is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have ever seen. was collected recently from a borrow pit He also sawed and polished two brooches, about...KANSAS—Beautiful agates have been found in a gravel pit near Concordia, Cloud Co., Kansas. KENTUCKY — Bob...you this collection." MINNESOTA — Limonite after pyrite xis occurs as cubes in the slates outcropping on...sand and gravel pit near Franconia, Fairfax Co., Va., on Sat., Jan. 12, 1952. The pit is operated by the...carbonate as cerussite ; these were asociated with pyrite and the zinc minerais sphalerite and calamine. |
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