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Copper from
Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:4275
Long-form Identifier:1:3:4275:8
GUID (UUID V4):7f3569a1-eab5-45f3-9b6c-f3cc7665eca3
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
6.0km (3.7 miles) Hartfield Moss, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
10.1km (6.3 miles) Gleniffer Hills, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
11.7km (7.3 miles) Neilston, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
13.3km (8.3 miles) Boyleston Quarry, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
31.4km (19.5 miles) Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
64.0km (39.8 miles) Meadowfoot Smelter slag locality, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
94.2km (58.5 miles) Glenfarg, Ochil Hills, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
95.2km (59.1 miles) Rhuba a'Mhill, Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Port Glasgow Loanhead quany WoolGill Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow...Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton...KlrlScotland Scotland Beith.Scotland Leadhllls,ScoU. Beith.Scotland...Scotland Wanlockhead,Scot. Beith,ScoUand Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith,Scolland Rhlw.Uyn,Wales
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...SPECIAL ISSUE The first of t\vo special editions of the UK ]oumal of 1\lli11es [.,,.Minerals celebrating t\venty
Journal (issue)
Strontianite, Strontian mines, Highland Region, Scotland. 100 mm x 55 mm. From an old collection. Specimen...SOCIETY CONTENTS VOLUME 4, PART 2, 1992 Supergene copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall...on native silver from the Clyde Plateau Lavas, Scotland T.K. Meikle 67 Conference Reports 71 Book...Russell Soc ., 4( 2) , 45- 53 ( /992) . SUPERGENE COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL...Isles. This assemblage differs from the secondary copper mineral assemblages observed in material from the
Journal (issue)
mineralogy of the Clyde Plateau Lavas, Scotland. Part 1: Boyleston Quarry T.K. Meikle The secondary mineralogy...mineralogy of the Clyde Plateau Lavas , Scotland . Part 2: Loanhead Quarry T.K. Meikle Car\:mnatian connellite...connellite , a new variety, from the Britannia Mine , North Wales, and from the Botallack Mine, Cornwall A.M...Leicester, a Wales and West Branch based in Cardiff, a North East Branch based in Newcastle upon Tyne and a South...correct locality (p. 1) is: ... old dump in the north-east corner of the field, about 200 m east of Leechpool
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Report (issue)
No. 67 Baryte and copper mineralisation in the Renfrewshire Hills, central Scotland 1 I I I 1 I INSTITUTE...Programme Baryte and copper mineralisation in the Renfrewshire Hills, central Scotland Report No. 67 I...Llanrwst, North Wales 23 Disseminated sulphide mineralisation at Garbh Achadh, Argyllshire, Scotland 24...Geochemical drainage survey of central Argyll, Scotland 51 A reconnaissance geochemical survey of Anglesey...mineralisation in Dalradian schist near Aberfeldy, Scotland; Preliminary report Investigation of polymetallic
Journal (issue)
Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent ME3 8AT, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD: F.B. Atkins, Oxford, UK. RE. Bevins, Cardiff, U.K. RS...Braithwaite, Manchester, UK. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, UK. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, UK. RA. Howie, Matlock, U...U.K. R.J. King, Tewkesbury, UK. A. Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK. l.R Plimer, Parkville, Australia RE....Bromsgrove, UK. R.F. Symes, London, U.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia B. Young, Newcastle, UK. Aims...Early development of mineralogy in Edinburgh, Scotland A. Livingstone 13 Supergene U-Pb-Cu mineralisation
Journal (issue)
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...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEO.LOGICAL SURVEY, SCOTLAND. SPECIAL REPORTS ON TI1E ~!INER.AL RESOURCES OF GREAT llltITAIN...XI. IRON ORES (continued). THE lRON ORES OF SCOTLAND. BY 111. MACGREGOR, B.So. ; G. W. LEE, D.Sc.;...under which the industry bas hitherto existed in Scotland has been taken into account. 1'o many iron-masters... CHAPTER II. BEDDED ORES OF CARBONIFEROUS AGE Ayrshire, by G. V. WILSON 17 Introduction Limestone Coal...Raasay Ironstone Raasay Othe:r districts by G. of Scotland w. LEE 196 196 196 201 V CHAPTER VII. P
Journal (issue)
Havcrslock Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS Minerals From North Wales The Trials and Tribulations of Mineral Identification...Membership Details 2 5 19 20 MINERALS I ROM NORTH WALES Mike Rothwell During the 1996 BMS Symposium...workshop on the mineralogy of a few chosen sites in North Wales. The following is a short summary of the workshop...Lead and Zinc ores in the Carboniferous rocks of North Wales. B. Smith. Memoirs of the Geological Survey...Newsletter 50; 2 for landfill. The nearby Pant Quarry (OS GR 198.702), owned by Wimpcy, still produces
Report (volume)
XXIV.-CANNEL COALS, LIGNITE AND MINERAL OIL IN SCOTLAND. BY W. GIBSON, D.Sc.; FROM CONTRIBUTIONS BY ...ga!!., mining for cannel coal has declined in Scotland of recent years. During the war, however, much...i1r. E. 1\1. Anderson describes the can.nels of Ayrshire, Dr. Lee those of Fife, and Dr. Gibson those of...Coalfield, and Mr. J. E. Richey gave aasistance in Ayrshire. "\Ve are greatly indebted also to many mine managers...or Productive Coal :Measures - - 18 18 18 5. Ayrshire Coalfield by E. ~I. ANDERSON - - 25 - 25 - 27
Catalog/List
Reference [SO 875 618]. Post Code is WR9 0AH. From the north, leave the M5 at junction 5 and follow the A38 southwards...worked initially in the Midlands, but in 1981 moved north to take up an opportunity on Tyneside at International...12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's...Barstow. SW.B1 Apatite on orthoclase - Colcerrow Quarry, Cornwall. Barstow green stock label. SW.D10 Sphalerite...Ex R.Barstow. Barstow green stock label. SW.G20 Copper - Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall. C19th. [SW
Journal (issue)
B60 2AH Secretary Shirley Adrian An Fe6ran North Connell Argyll PA37 IRD Membership Secretary Pearl...1966 and held several senior posts in Europe and the UK before retiring in November 1998. In 1981 he was...on. Jn-1984 Mike gave a talk on "Minerals of the North Wales Coast" reminding us all of things which "used...with other members, put on a "Workshop" display of North Wales Minerals, and in 1998 he was elected as Chainnan...museums and articles for publications such as lhe UK Journal of Mines and Minerals. A quick scan of lhe
Journal (issue)
NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...orthoclase & chlosite. Mag. = x 8.5. Reilly quarry, Renfrewshire. 1998 Kemp Meikle. Journal of the...half way up Wet Swine Gill, some lkm to the ESE. North of the Grainsgill griesen very similar pharmacosiderite-bearing...on the minerals of Westmorland and Cumberland. North West Naturalist, 23 (for 1948) 136-154. Eastwood...(2003). SECONDARY MINERALS FROM THE CWMAVON VALLEY COPPER SMELTING SLAGS, GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES. Stephen
Journal (issue)
the agreed £600 sponsorship had been paid to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, a new Catalogue of...future. However Bob Reekie of the Royal Museum of Scotland stepped into the breach and lengthened his proposed...Britain nowadays): unusual copper and vanadium minerals from Judkins quarry, Nuneaton; beautiful anatase...Hendre Quarry, Glyn Ceiriog; and exotic zinc hydroxides and other species from Milltown quarry, Ashover...No. 19: Coatsgate Quarry, !Mattock, Dumfries & Galloway NT 065 053 Coategate Quarry is a working roadstone
Book
Namurian Clackmannan Group Passage Formati,,n Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member Troon Vc)lcanic Member basal......... -- -- . . NS • Ki1birnie • • • Beith •1 • • I • •/ ........ . • • / • • 50...Measures Middle Coal Measures Lower Coal Measures Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member (! Clyde Plateau Volcanic...000 Geological Sheet 22W and part of Sheet 21E (Scotland) Hydrogenlog;y N S R()bins �u;neotts -rocks D...��u-n,ey, Sheet 22\V and pa1·t of Sheet 2 1 E (Scotland) i\11,thar S K l\.1onro, BSc, Pl1D, CGeol B,ritisli
Journal (issue)
the permission of the author. -3- Sussex Goes North Once More Despite the well-known and bountiful mineralogical...evening; he stayed in the area rather than travel back north just to return south the next morning. -5- On...SOUTHERN SCOTLAND May 17 - 241997 This will be the first organised fteldtrip to Southern Scotland, usually...accommodation early. We have some good contacts in Scotland: Gordon Todd just south of Glasgow, David Andersen...contacts in the two principal mineral museums in Scotland: the Royal Scottish museum in Edinburgh and the
Journal (issue)
ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...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
Catalog/List
Silver Silver Sulphur Gold Sulphur Sulphur Graohite Copper coated with tenorite Gold Sulphur Gold Localitv...Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland Zambia Austria Ecton Hill, Staffs Cloqau Wales...Coooer Sulphur Gold Graphite Copper Manqanese Copper Elaterite Sulphur Copper & Cuprite Gold Gold Silver...Silver Coooer Jet Gold Sulphur Copper Gold SULPHIDES No 36F 17H 45A 458 728 36H 14C 8V 100D 1138 113G 88C...Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific
Report (issue)
Oil-shaleresourcesof Scotland • •• 1 IL FIELD WORK:—Potash-bearingRocks in North Wales. CopperandArsenic...Great Britain. Lead andZinc in Scotland. Bauxitic Fireclay in Scotland. Revisionofparts of BanffshireandAberdeenshire...V. PALEONTOLOGICALWORK :— Englandand-Wales ... Scotland Da • • • • • •41 • • • • • 32 34 • #...geologicalcharacter of the ground in Belgium and the North ofFranceandadetailedaccountof existingwater-supplies...thePasde Calais. Searchforpotash-bearingrocks in North Wales. Visitingandreportingonborings for oil byMessrs
Report (volume)
Oil-shaleresourcesof Scotland • •• 1 IL FIELD WORK:—Potash-bearingRocks in North Wales. CopperandArsenic...Great Britain. Lead andZinc in Scotland. Bauxitic Fireclay in Scotland. Revisionofparts of BanffshireandAberdeenshire...V. PALEONTOLOGICALWORK :— Englandand-Wales ... Scotland Da • • • • • •41 • • • • • 32 34 • #...geologicalcharacter of the ground in Belgium and the North ofFranceandadetailedaccountof existingwater-supplies...thePasde Calais. Searchforpotash-bearingrocks in North Wales. Visitingandreportingonborings for oil byMessrs
Journal (issue)
underground - virtually under the hotel! Various copper secondaries were found, including torbernite and...from Devon Great Consols. Originally producing copper, it was also worked for arsenic and the remains...and fluorapatite, along with francolite and some copper secondaries. Roger found a vug containing fluorapatite...we found libethenite, pseudomalachite and other copper secondaries. After a short stay we headed back...with the main group. Here we found childrenite, copper sulphides and pyrite etc. Austin found a piece
Catalog/List
5mm£3 Hannover Cove.St Agncs, Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture... Brosso Minc,lvrca.ltaly lxl £5 Boghill Road Quarry, Glengonnley, County Antrim, Yaknl Mine,Bigndic...lxl £5 1.5cm £7.50 lx2 £10 Kilchrisl, SJ..-ye, Scotland lx2 £6 2x2 £12 lx2 £7 2x2 £15 3cm £20 lxl...£10 OH Claims, Gila County, Arizona U.S.A Haury Quarry, Black Forest, Germany Ayama Bolivia ½x½£1.50...Amarilla, Atacama,Chile Tube £4 Loch Scridain Mull Scotland Ix! £1. 50 lx2 £3 2x2 £6 Gilgit, Pakistan
Book
E.GSt 'to W,e st and' North to South the Logo's been unfurled For North is North and E,a.st is East both...Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS Foreword...crystal group - Ramsbeck, Meschede, Sauerland, North Rhine - Westphalia , Germany . Photo: John Hall...and gradually extended to the Lake District and Scotland. Later on, SMLS organised many overseas field...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society
Journal (volume)
Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...overgrowths of white botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection;...photograph. Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES
 
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