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Amethyst from
Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:169796
Long-form Identifier:1:3:169796:4
GUID (UUID V4):896b4ac3-acd3-4bc3-828f-0063719fd9f7
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
7.0km (4.3 miles) Parson's Park Pit (Parc St Neot Pit), St Neot, Cornwall, England, UK
11.5km (7.1 miles) Shallow Water Mine, Blisland, Cornwall, England, UK
11.5km (7.1 miles) Hawks Tor China Clay Pit, Blisland, Cornwall, England, UK
19.8km (12.3 miles) Restormel Royal Iron Mine (Trinity Mine), Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
26.8km (16.6 miles) Willsworthy Mine, Sampford Spiney, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
26.8km (16.6 miles) North Mine (East Wheal Friendship), Devon United Mines, Peter Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
27.7km (17.2 miles) Bodelva Pit (Carvear China Clay Works), Bodelva, St Blaise, Cornwall, England, UK
28.7km (17.8 miles) Old Beam Mine (Great Beam Mine), Bugle, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
29.2km (18.2 miles) Goonbarrow China Clay Pit, Bugle, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
30.2km (18.7 miles) Lower Ninestones China Clay Pit, Carbean, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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Book
Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although
Catalog/List
is fluorescent. MUS,L85. 2. ADAMITE. Kameriza Mine,Laurium,Attica,Greece. Goethite fragment vith aggregates... SC,L6. 3, AGARDITE(CALCIAN).Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornvall ■ Tvo specimens. Specimen A-boxed...xtls and thin crusts. SC,L8. ~- AGARDITE-Y. Clara Mine,Rankachtal,BLack Forest,Germany. 3 boxed specimens...deeper blue. SC,L9. 6. ALSTONITE. Brownley Hill Mine,Nenthead,Cumbria. Six specimens. Specimen A-matrix...vhen found! L3 each. AHDBRSONITE.Peeth Lode,Geevor Mine,Pendeen,Cornva11. Dark brovn matrix fragment vith
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL
Journal (issue)
dissolved and washed away. In some areas, e.g. in Cornwall, large quantities of very pure cassiterite can...North Africa, South Africa, Russia, Spain and Cornwall, but not North America where the granites have...earlier. Reverbatory furnaces were introduced into Cornwall early in the 19th century, but unfortunately not...sites in the North of England and some members have recently been in Wapping mine in Matlock - all locations...******************** A FOLLOW-UP TO THE TREACLE MINE ARTICLE (In SMLS Journal 178 July/Aug 2002 p14)
Journal (issue)
and collect am­ ber. I take this new liberty of mine to say that amber continues to be found in Poland...these holidays for your enjoyment. 'Sam' Weller in Cornwall, Tony Holland in Scotand, will not only take you...was no longer supplying rough to clients in the United IGngdom because he was fed up ,with getting complaints...cutters, or cut the best rough them­ selves at the mine. This is because in the past they were often exploited...merchandise carries a money back guarantee payable In England by our U.K. representative, Bank cheque or International
Book
There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...growths of pure gold. through purple crystals of amethyst to huge masses of iron copper sulphide. Chosen...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and
Book
Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action...are older rocks on the Lizard peninsula, most of Cornwall consists of Devonian rocks, known locally as “killas’
Journal (issue)
Derelict Land Advisory Panel (Cornwall) Founder member of CUAAG (Cornwall Underground Access Advisory Group)...Johns Hall refurbished and re-opened. Moved to Cornwall 1981 Trewallard, St. Just then to Penzance. After...North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to S.E. England until moving...moving to Cornwall in 1981. Collecting minerals started in 1976-77, as an invalid he now had time to do...do this, in the North of England and Cornwall. Although having deep involvement in issues of conservation
Journal (issue)
to hold slabs and specimens, large and small Sole UK Distributors for . . GEMTEK LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT MK...(Abroad) Australian Prospector Finds Page Emerald Mine Huge Emerald Belt In India Page by N. Vlswanath...on page 44) superbly sets off a brilliant-cut amethyst so as to give maximum refraction, the piece being...rapidly. Extraction was restricted to twenty tons per mine per year and has 1.1ore recently been reduced still...ever seen was being produced here in the heart of England. The true Florentine 'pietra dura ' style was adopted
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Belgium, France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later
Journal (issue)
Blue Chisel Point Baryte Blades from Force Crag Mine, Cumbria: .......................... . 14 - 15...now have the prospect of a world-class tungsten mine being developed atHemerdon in Devon, a full-scale...fine mineral collection at Caerhays Castle in Cornwall , belonging to the Williams of Scorrier family...Tregudda 7 Long Row, Sheffield, Paul, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6UN SW Mr John Vaughan 9 George Street...collection contains numerous excellent pieces from the UK and abroad. On one occasion he was invited to exhibit
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I
Book
549’.074713541 C2011-902340-7 Published in the United States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published...Page 6: Mimetite (see page 139) Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x...cavities are some of the world’s finest crystals of amethyst, agate and a large family of silicate minerals...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular
Journal (issue)
the next AGM, to be held at the University of Cornwall Tremough campus, near Falmouth. Our friends in...J BUTCHER Mineralogical note: Veszelyite from Cornwall Recent an alysis of two unidentified specimens...has produced the first recorded veszelyite from Cornwall - 110 years after t he specimens were registered...as bei ng from St. Day, Cornwall, and the smaller is just labeled 'Cornwall'. The fact that both speci...Sutcliffe put on a display of material from Rampgill Mine with two specime ns of enormous interest (to me
Journal (issue)
as highly artistic and useful as R. O. Perry of Phoenix, Arizona, has, requires an extremely ingenious...the master designer and craftsman who worked in England around 1800 and set precedents of beauty and Twin...Most of the wood is gathered within 100 miles of Phoenix. He has made more than 200 collecting trips. This...not lower the standard. A certain retailer in Phoenix told me he went to Mr. Perry 10 years ago. "If...pieces from the front yard shop in Phoenix. The Biltmore hotel in Phoenix had quite a display at one time
Journal (volume)
The Sells Mining Company Engineers and Millmen United States Smelting Co. . :: 29 32 31 35 35 Geology...Superior to Expand By Letson Safety and Economy in Mine Ventilation . The Prosperting Spirit . Editorial...Low Eagle & Blue Effects U. S Coal Company's Mine near Kemmerer, Wyoming. Votes of Chloridizing...The Ray ( ' on . Reports Annual Report of Chino Mine The Mining Situation in Utah. Editorial Lehi- Tintic...P. O'Meara in Clover Montana Production 28 Mine and Smelter Building Construction Notes The Metals
 
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