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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Old Mine, Great Orme, Llandudno, Conwy, Wales, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:18348
Long-form Identifier:1:3:18348:2
GUID (UUID V4):f0abafa0-4f2b-4944-9078-91d5ee11b3ed
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
23.7km (14.7 miles) Penrhyn Slate Quarry, Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
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
60.7km (37.7 miles) Cae Mawr Mine, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
63.4km (39.4 miles) Craig Rhiwarth Mine (Ochrycraig; North Llangynog), Llangynog, Powys, Wales, UK
64.7km (40.2 miles) Trial level, Vigra Mine, Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
89.5km (55.6 miles) Ystrad Einion Mine (Dolgoch Mine), Furnace, Ysgubor-y-coed, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
89.9km (55.8 miles) Penycrocben, Penegoes, Powys, Wales, UK
90.1km (56.0 miles) Cythfartha 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
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Catalog/List
calcite crystals to 2mm. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Black goethite...crystals. Collected 1980. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Stalactitic...above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. A group of colourless pyramidal quartz...quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals to 30mm (some...901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte crystals to
Catalog/List
Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872 262 232 (International...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite prisms...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...Barstow label.Attractive D SPC_ Ml to C.£5 0017 GALENA,Old Mill Ctose Mine.Derbyshire.Continuous druse of modified...Polished seciion.RF SPC. C.£8 0023 DUFTITE.Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumberland.V1v1d green druse of duflile
Journal (issue)
I t . NUMBER 17 • AUTUMN 1996 () F s s UK journal of mines & minerals CONTENTS number...L 10h11Pearce COVER:CERUSSITEfrom Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen...described in the next issue of this journal. The UK Joumal of Mines and Ali11erals publishes articles...ERAL E\ S \lick Wolfe 7 COPPER MI ES of the GREAT OR IE Rob lxer • 10h11DO'Uies EDITOR David I....CLASSIFIED ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 UK journal TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Ryton Typing
Catalog/List
MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...grey. 55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...micro red proustite and massive purple fluorite. Old label. 60x30x10mm. £35. 7) ARGENTITE after NATIVE...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing
Catalog/List
MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...grey. 55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...micro red proustite and massive purple fluorite. Old label. 60x30x10mm. £35. 7) ARGENTITE after NATIVE...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing
Journal (issue)
Lists Available By Request IAN AND EMMA BRUCE The Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly...more detailed discussion of zeolite nomenclature. UK Journal of t.lincs & fllincral~ No. 19 -4- MINERAL
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK B. Barreiro NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory,...Geological Survey, Nicker Hill, Keyworth NG12 5GG, UK Introduction In the last 30 years, studies of Irish...part of the Avalonian terrane of North America and Wales (Pickering et al. 1988; Soper 1988). Kennan et al...Carboniferous fluvial sedimentary rocks, known as the Old Red Sandstone facies. These were deposited in fault-bounded...chronostratigraphic term used in Ireland and the UK, which approximately corresponds to the Tournasian
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)
Journal (issue)
Highland Region, Scotland. 100 mm x 55 mm. From an old collection. Specimen and photo: John Hall. JOURNAL...and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...core of the collection at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. ~ow settled in Tewkesbury and curator...Richard and his co-editor Peter Williams put in a great deal of unstinting effort to produce the Journal...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
OF THE EARTH - SOCIETY - MEMBERS' FINDS FROM THE UK. LOCAL SOCIETIES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS. ADMISSION...Assistant Kccpcr of Geology at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff and Head of the Mineralogy/Petrology...known minerals found in the area. of the south Wales coalfield such as Milkrite needles and the brilliantly...the north coast and the mines around the Great Orme at Llandudno where copper has been extracted since 1500BC...Sphalerite from Trelogan mine with Fluorite which is a relatively rare species in Wales. Many superb specimens
Report (issue)
AROLWG DAEAREGOL PRYDAIN Regional geochemistry of Wales and part of west-central England: stream water ...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1999. Regional geochemistry of Wales and part of west-central England: stream water....Geological Survey carries out the geological survey of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter as an agency...1979 (0 85272 064 5) Hebrides 1983 (0 85272 078 5) Great Glen 1987 (0 85272 085 8) Argyll 1990 (0 85272 190...255 9) North-west England and North Wales 1997 (0 85272 307 5) Wales: stream water 1999 (0 85272 363 6)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have...secondary copper assemblages from the Black Pine mine in the Phillipsburg area of Granite County (Waisman...and Gibbs 1983; Anthony et al. 1995). At the 79 mine in Gila County, olivenite occurs as small, olive-green...brochantite and anglesite (Keith 1972). At the Grandview mine, Coconino County, small prismatic olivenite crystals
Book
Shellbeans Monks Corner Great Sampford Saffron Walden Essex CB10 2RW Tel: Great Sampford 488 Digitized...Bougainville copper mine, AND M1 4 td oe 3 om. Papua New Guinea — the fourth largest copper mine in the world...Aylesbury, Bucks HPI7 9AJ, UK. Set in 9 point Times roman and printed in Great Britain by C. I. Thomas...Morwellham Recreation Company Limited, page 15; Mount Isa Mine, page 8 (lower); Royal Institution of Cornwall,...the first mine to expl oit low-grade porphyry copper ore. It grew from a small underground mine working
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
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of Great Britain Volume XXX COPPER ORES OF TlIE MIDLANDS, WALES, THE LAKE DISTRICT AND...exploitation. The mines are scattered over the Midlands, Wales and the North of England. Most of them have been...this information. Our thanks are due to numerous mine managers for assistance while visiting their mines...owe a debt of gratitude for the great aid he supplied in localizing old workings and for placing at our...of gold in the ore of many of the lodes in North Wales may encourage further exploitation. JOHN S. FLETT
Journal (volume)
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
Journal (issue)
.............................................. 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
Journal (issue)
morning, comparing various samples with those of a mine he knows particularly well (which produces excellent...are old, late 18th/ early 19th century specimens, localised to town or village, perhaps to mine level...compare the parageneses of our old specimens with that of the new. A mine or quarry name indicates the...McDermott; Stephen Sara; K. Wheatley; and Sarah Whelan. Wales & West Branch: David Wellings; and Angela Zienko...was a Member ofthe Gemmological Association of Great Britain and in recent years had cutspecirnen stonesformanymembers
Journal (issue)
Society is :i society of :un:u cur and profc:••ioll:ll mine r:tlogist• which encourages the s tudy, recording... -~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli;...an informative read for ALL members both new and old. A 'o & . , _,l.()1 ... .:,,,c.r.;•?;;; :w,n-1u................................................ 'Wales & \:\lest.... . 10 ...............................the scene a little bit. Picture a typical quaint old European village, complete with narrow streets and
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)
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
Catalog/List
to include n comprehensive rnnge of new world nnd old classic specimens. We hope thnt you will find something...JACKS1Tu\WCERRUSITE (10cm x 3cm x 2cm) Pcntir,· Gla:c Mine. Pol:catl,, Corm1·0/I Ex I Brrtcl! Collect/011 ...pyromorphite to 1cm, richly covering a qu3rtz matrix, Old time specimen. Brighi dctp 'nispbcrry· red grossulor...6. IIEMIMORPmn: (Scm x Scm x 1cm) Roughttn GIii Mine. Cumbria, U.K E."Cccplionlll celestite crystal...lovely lustre. nnd unusunlly are undamaged. A nice old classic specimen with a polished edge on 1he base
 
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