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Rhodochrosite from
Meldon Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Rhodochrosite
Formula:MnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodochrosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Meldon Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13669
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13669:7
GUID (UUID V4):0e97d5ed-2554-474a-8e4f-c657ab50f9c7
Nearest other occurrences of Rhodochrosite
17.0km (10.6 miles) Quither Mine, Milton Abbot, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
17.5km (10.9 miles) Chillaton and Hogstor Mine, Milton Abbot, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
28.2km (17.5 miles) Scanniclift Manganese Mine, Doddiscombsleigh, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK
33.5km (20.8 miles) Lidcott Mine, Laneast, Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK
35.4km (22.0 miles) Treburland Manganese deposits, Altarnun, Cornwall, England, UK
52.2km (32.4 miles) Trebarwith Strand, Trebarwith, Tintagel, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite...pharmacosiderite, plumbojarosite, seorodite, 430 Devon Bedford United mines, Tavistock: eornubite, 2 Ford...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...Sticklepath, Okehampton: scheelite, lxxviii, 921 Red-a-yen Brook mine, Meldon, Okehampton: helvine, 1511ingite...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban
Book
^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers A Collector’s...MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON Truro LTD... MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has Hine. fnaxt*...Lizard .. North and Central Cornwall East Cornwall Devon 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 MAPS 36 39 APPENDIX...experienced collector who is unfamiliar with Cornwall and Devon should find helpful. There has been no attempt to
Catalog/List
1600 hours each day at 7, Condor Way, Burgess Hill, West Sussex Tel: 01444 233958 (Pre-view on Saturday March... £1 A3 A3 £1 £3 A3 A3 A3 A3 £1 £1 £1 £1.50 West Caradon Cornwall Wheal Jane, Cornwall Greystones...(Cook) Herodsfoot Cornwall Bournonite Bedford Mine Devon Arsenoovrite Colorado USA Enaraite Minas Gerais...Xtl & Wheal Busy Chlorite (Fisher) Belstone Qy, Devon Arsenopyrite & Garnet Colarado, USA Covellite &...Plymouth Maerdv Coal Tios, S. Wales Walkam Unted Mine, Devon Siberia A? A7 A8 A8 A8 A8 A8 £3 £2 £2 £1 £1 £1
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around OKEHAMPTON ( Explanation of One-inch...Beche. His 'Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset' (1839) was the first memoir of the...other early Geological Survey maps of south-west England, are undated, but it is believed that they were...(1956), 'The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England'. The district formed part of the area in which...geophysical methods. In 1962 the newly formed South-West England field unit, successively under Dr. F. B. A.
Catalog/List
rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm £6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm £4 Colo urless to yellow...Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,Eng land Madagascar ½ x½ £2.50 lins£4 I x½ £4...near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l £3 l x2 £5 While crystals well covering...paper available. Rich grey crystalline mass. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larv ik, Norway Ix I £1.50 Ix I...Chrysotile. pale grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2 £2 Loch Scridain
Catalog/List
S. CASSITERlTE. 'Tavistock United, Tavistock, Devon. r,:rt of a sh0de stone found on the sd showing...Paris Label. 70x30x l 5mm. £65. 15. NATIVE COPPER. West Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall. A matrix of pale...80x40x20mm. £35. 24. NATIVE LEAD. Hopes Nose, Torquay, Devon. A small piece of typical Hopes Nose matrix with...£165. /31. MILLERITE. Brookwood Mine, Ashburton, Devon. QuartzJchalcopyrite matrix with small cavities...£28. 34. MONAZITE, RUTILE and ALBITE. Lanterdan Quarry, Tintagel, Cornwall. A single Imm dark yellow monazite
Catalog/List
EOCKS AHD MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE...Cu Al AsO SO/4 small green plates in and on rock (West Caradon Mine,Cornwall) » x H £4 510 CHALCOCITE copper...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 - 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu ?e) ;'L...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) 54 x 54 £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...CORKITE Pb Fe PO/4 SO/4 This is a rare mineral for England, deep yellow radiations in goethite (Iron Crag
Catalog/List
some with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2 ins. Pieces...lem C319 BUSTAMITE excellent rich near Okehampton, Devon) lxl 60p lx2 fl.20 C320 CALAVERITE Au Te/2...stock, 2x2 f.2.50 vughs 4.80 in mass. (Meldon B.R Quarry collected same years ago 2X4· f.5.00 small...2.50 coverage Mine, small crystals of brown Devon) copper coloured mm size spots on Quartz parts...of exposed veins on Microgranite. (Hingsten Dawn Quarry, Cornwall) f.4 2x2 f7 metallic (Pyrite like) No
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
991 Rhodonite from Meldon, Okehampton, Devonshire By W. R. DEARMAN Department of Geology, University...in Lower Carboniferous rocks in the Railway Quarry at Meldon. One of these is zoned outwards from rhodonite...Measures (Lower Carboniferous) in the Meldon Railway Quarry near Okehampton, but it is not clear from the description...these was encountered in the 950 South Bay of the quarry (Dearman, 1959) in 1951 and had been quarried through...the restricted occurrence of rhodonite with rhodochrosite and bustamite in the basal bed of the Calcareous
Catalog/List
No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal
Catalog/List
CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...CORKITE Pb Fe PO/4 SO/4 This is a rare mineral for England, deep yellow radiations in goethite (Iron Crag...metallic fibrous on' 2cm white dolomite. ' (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) £4.50 163 GALENA Lead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1961 No. 255 Beryllium minerals in Cornwall and Devon: helvine, genthelvite, and danalite. By ARTHUR W...former, three occurrences in Cornwall and one in Devon, and of the latter, one occurrence in Cornwall,...helv~ne, genthelvite, and danalite ~n Cornwall and Devon. The two large specimens of danalite in the British...number of localities and areas ill Cornwall and Devon where these minerals might be discovered; it also... Helvine from Recl-a-ven Brook mine, Meldon, Okehan~pton, Devon. This locality1 is situated about 89mile
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive... £4 lx2 £6 Ca SO/4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses lx2 80p 2x2 £1
Catalog/List
I Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...£5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite..._--~(~OI_~·-·· · -·- ·· ···ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule. Ixlins80p..._ _P_b_so_,_4____ 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich while to faintly,bluemasses lx2~0p ________
Journal (issue)
world-class tungsten mine being developed atHemerdon in Devon, a full-scale gold operation atTyndrum , and confused...difficult, or ferry heavy bags and kit back up steep quarry roads . As we approach the end of the first decade...- just ask anyone who was on the Breedon Cloud Quarry trip on 15 May (see the account in this newsletter)...Stillanhay, Churchgate, Knowle Lane, Drewsteignton, Devon. EX6 6QX. Tel07531912834 Broom Cottage, New Street...SW Mr John Vaughan 9 George Street, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 1LP Tel 01395 269882 SW Mr Adam White 18
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
other are the only manganese deposits in the west of England which are known to lie on the contact of igneous...mentioned in his List of minerals found in Cornwall and Devon, with notes supplementary to the author's 'Handbook'...evidently traverse the calc-silicate rock as at Meldon in Devonshire. The hard silicate manganese ore...manganese was originally deposited as the carbonate rhodochrosite and it is obvious that the present assemblage...origin or alteration products. In some of the west of England deposits which have not been subjected to metamorphism
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
both common and rare species such as calcite, rhodochrosite, spessartine, magnetite, willemite, franklinite...occurs in compact masses with kutnohorite, rhodochrosite, quartz, and minor sulfides (Dunn 1976). Rhodonite...Anderson County, South Carolina. Rhodonite and rhodochrosite occur in incompletely oxidized parts of the...of massive rhodonite, often associated with rhodochrosite, quartz, and sulfides, include mines in the...Bow County, Montana, where it occurred with rhodochrosite, quartz, minor sulfides, and helvite (Jenkins
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin and copp...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his...Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)' Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon PottsGillmine...St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth
Catalog/List
RICHARD ’ BYWAYS, , COBHAM ENGLAND MINERALS T AY L E R C L 0 00 E 2 0 B U R S T E A D P h one SURREY...OH good blue micro crystals on rock (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) 14 X 14 £2.00 lx 14 £3.50 2 ...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) S x « £2 219 MARICOPAITE Pb...Omphacite.An attractive Eclogite rock from (Nordfjord,.West Norway) • 1x2 £1.30 2x2 £2.70 • 2x4 £6 112 CORUNDUM
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite...½" £2 lxl £4 lx2 £6 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses CaS0.'4 lx2 £1
Catalog/List
hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2£I 2x2£2.S0 Al SO/4...--- · - · · ··· _ 2x3 £I .SO 2x2£1 Staffordshire England lx2 S0p Rich white to faintly blue masses 23 Al'\HYDRITE... _ . Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry. Tvedalcn near Ix I £3 I x2 £6 2x2 £ 12 7 AN!lilTE...AXINJTE Very rich light brown massive with some Meldon Aplite Quany, lx240p 2x280 2x3 £1.50 3x4 £3 Ca...rich white masses intergrown with Weymouth,Dorset,England JxJ 60p lx2 2x2 2x3 £4 46 BASALUMINITE AISO/4 OH
Book
John Hall Printed by Action Press, Burgess Hill, West Sussex Summer2022 TO A VERY SPECIAL SUSSEX MINERAL...Critchley 48 52 Julie d'Ablaing (nee Pearce) 54 Trevor Devon 58 Catherine Foley 60 Don Ford 66 David and late...increasingly ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath
Catalog/List
formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...£6 I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- ·--- lx2 £6 ½x½£3...-�b Ag �b� 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2£1 2x3 £ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses...ANNITE Pure black mica plate new Analys is. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Mica paper avail'!�_____ _ ___Larv
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAL.� ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Boscastle...However, memoirs have been published describing the Okehampton district to the east (1968) and the coastal geology...Formation., 16; Meldon Shale and Quartzite Foitnation, 16; Fire Beacon Chert Formation, 17; Meldon Chert Formation...Formation, 19; Meldon Shale and Quartzite Formation, 21; Fire Beacon Chert Formation� 21; Meldon Chert Formation...t\ 10540).. B. �Ieldon Chert Formatio11, Wreys Quarry, Stowford. Working out o.f a lenticular lin1esto11c
Catalog/List
AGARDITE (Ce) r ...fe green micro's Mine, Wolf;_n, West Germany) 'h ins f.3. 60 6 ALBITE rich orange red...in green Omphacite. An attractive Eclogite rock.(West Coast of Norway) lx2 90p 2x2 ll,80 2x4 t3.70 218...sphere shaped botryoidal nodule,(Newhaven Sussex. England) 1" -10p 2"90p 3" !1.40 4" !3,30 13 ALUNITE pure... /' pale blue-gny ~;ssi\·c. (Staffordshire England) :::-::1 !:;1 2x4 tt.20 2;-;2 60µ e2S ANTARCTICITE...Grey-white crystals with terminations.(Sheppey Kent,England) lxl cm !1.80 43 BARYTES orange brownto fawn attractively
 
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