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Adularia from
Wherry Mine, Wherrytown, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:K Feldspar var: Adularia
Formula:KAlSi3O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Adularia data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wherry Mine, Wherrytown, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:895046
Long-form Identifier:1:3:895046:8
GUID (UUID V4):4f9d0f7e-a465-4aeb-a5bd-de822f22afff
Nearest other occurrences of Adularia
10.0km (6.2 miles) ⓘCroft Gothal Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
10.8km (6.7 miles) ⓘGeevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
10.9km (6.8 miles) ⓘWheal Drea, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
11.6km (7.2 miles) ⓘStamps and Jowl Zawn (Roscommon Cliff), Cliff outcrops, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
11.8km (7.3 miles) ⓘWheal Castle, Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
12.5km (7.8 miles) ⓘGreat Work Mine (incl. Leeds Mine), Godolphin Cross, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
22.6km (14.0 miles) ⓘSouth Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
31.1km (19.3 miles) ⓘLower Treluswell, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England, UK
34.4km (21.4 miles) ⓘDean Quarry, St Keverne, Cornwall, England, UK
81.3km (50.5 miles) ⓘDelabole Slate Quarry, St Teath, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOCIETY June, 1949 Vol. XXVIII The Wherry mine, Penzance, its history and its mineral productions...standing at Wherry Town on the south-western end I Fofthethevisitor esplanade at Penzance looks seaward...by water, there existed many years ago a rich tin mine, unique in the boldness of its conception, romantic...during the hey-day of its career, this remarkable mine was examined by a very competent observer in the...John Hawkins (1761 ?-1841), F.R.S., of Trewithen, Cornwall, and Bignor Park, Sussex, and it is to him that
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
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:... JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink...AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine xls to 5mm...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity in
Book
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE
Report (issue)
LOCALITIES: Bucks County: Rushland; Lebanon County: Cornwall? Philadelphia: Fairmount Park. . H ; MICA GROUP...The following analysis of "chrome ore" from Wood's mine by Garrett (1852: 45) lies may be taken as an example...regarding Pennsylvania minerals: to Dr. Edgar T. Wherry for much data, and a critical examination... where they 4 may form hydrothermal Edgar T. Wherry and Samuel G. Gordon, An arrangement veins. Quite...and Chester Counties, at Wood's mine, the Line Pit, and Scott's mine. At a number of lite, ; localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EarlyandMain StageOre Mineralization in Southwest Cornwall A. N. H^i•i•m^¾ Scottish Universities Research...Introduction 752 ORE MINER/ILIZ/ITION TIMING: S. W. CORNWALL r'• Basement Rocks ,,,. . . • Granite Cupolas...replacementat the granite margin (in the Geevor mine). The K-feld- orange-pink swarms(Hall, 1971) andcommonly... ORE TABLE MINERALIZATION TIMING: S. W. 755 CORNWALL RboSr Data for Muscovitesand K-Feldspars from...which plots slightly low and has a high S. W. CORNWALL 757 tematicsin minerals from the Land's End
Book
There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...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...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tabusome Franklin minerals . .122, 34O _ lation oI. (Wherry) and Palache,c. Beryllium It9 Ameletite. (Marshall)...Apophyllite(analysis). 340 Beryllium ores of New England. Arandisite.(Partridge) 274 . . 120 (Gedney).....Adirondack feldspars, mineralogy oI. (Barth). Adularia (crystallographic data) 163 242 584 THE AMERICAN...[Book review]. . . . China clay deposits, Cornwall, England. (VanHorn)... . . . .. Chlorophoenicite CIay.... . 167 Gedney,E. K. Beryllium oresin l2O New England. Mineralogy of New Engl a n d p e g m a t i t e
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Davidson, Geological Survey of Great Britain, London, England. Gordon Leslie Davis, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...Kathleen Lonsdale, University College, London, England. Charles E. Michener, The International Nickel...death two fellows: F. N. Ashcroft, of London, England, and E. L. Bruce, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada...:itlH::HHgo, rrinois Adularia has been generally believed to be monoclinic. Sections of adularia from several...clockwise; in (1r0) and (T10) it is anticlockwise. Adularia from st. Gotthard and ravetschtal, switzerland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Davidson, Geological Survey of Great Britain, London, England. Gordon Leslie Davis, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...Kathleen Lonsdale, University College, London, England. Charles E. Michener, The International Nickel...death two fellows: F. N. Ashcroft, of London, England, and E. L. Bruce, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada...:itlH::HHgo, rrinois Adularia has been generally believed to be monoclinic. Sections of adularia from several...clockwise; in (1r0) and (T10) it is anticlockwise. Adularia from st. Gotthard and ravetschtal, switzerland
Journal (volume)
TRANSACTIONS OF THE Royal Geological Society OF CORNWALL . INSTITUTED FEBRUARY 11th , 1814 . VOLUME THE...STREET , 1818 . P19London W /hillip 7.10 A WHERRY MINE ,M OUNT'S C ORNWALL .BAY MAMAY MAMW Ronat...ROYAL HIGHNESS The Prince Regent , DUKE OF CORNWALL, PATRON OF THE SOCIETY, THIS FIRST VOLUME...advancement of the mining resources of the County Cornwall ; for the benefits which such an of In stitution...Cabinet. In the construction of a geological map of Cornwall , the Society has made considerable progress,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Lewis 1907), finely disseminated copper sulfides (Wherry 1909), and native copper as occasional large masses...copper ore mineral at the famous Bristol Copper mine was chalcocite (Jones 2001), often found as superb...to 2.5 cm. Figure 13 (right). Orthoclase (var. adularia), 3 mm across, on datolite with hematite. Volume...complete rings. Similar “rings” occur at the Schuyler mine in North Arlington, New Jersey (Jack Troy, pers...cm high. Hancock, Michigan, and the Isle Royale mine, Houghton, Michigan. Malachite also formed individual
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
surfacegeologyand undergroundworkingsof the White Caps mine,madeby Messrs.O. McCraneyand J. L. Dynan,were of...discoveredby John C. Humphreyon April Fool Hill. An old mine about4 milessouth of the presenttown of Manhattanhad...discoveryof rich ore in the lower levelsof the White Caps mine led to another boom,which, thoughshort lived, led...aplite, about 1,5oo feet northeastof the White Caps mine, and two small massesof a much altered aplitic...MANHATTAN, NEVADA. 7 the northeast of the White Caps mine and numeroussmaller massesand dikes occur throughoutthe
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...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of
Report (Issue volume)
of the localities. Magnetite deposits of the "Cornwall type" are included because of their economic significance...the most important type of deposit has been the Cornwall-type magnetite group (type N), with a production...of this value is from the Cornwall mine, but the ore body of the Grace mine near Morgantown appears to...lead-zinc 110,000 Sandstone copper-uranium 10,000 Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent...Friedensville zinc mine in type F is clearly the third largest mine in the state after Cornwall and Morgantown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
feldsppr. The crystals of chesterlite show the adularia habit, that is, the side pinacoid (010) is lacking...Colorless scalenohedra. . .Rand, 1867 . . Benge and Wherry, 1908 ....Dana, 1850 Pyrite. ....Carpenter,1828...and columbite found in them. Scott's rose quartz mine Iies 4 niles south of Custer, the rose quartz forming...number of recent trips to Robeson, Birdsboro, Jones mine, Falls of French Creek, and Frankford. He reported
Book
A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C. ASSOCIATE TRURO:...F.R.S., THB ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL, AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS, (WHOSE OBSERVATIONS
Book
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...on Kergiliack estate near Pen a. Coberard ; at a mine near the head of Borrowdale, near Lometer, rearis...in the Isle of Man. Scotland . At Craigman coal -mine, near New Cumnock in Ayrshire, massive and columnar...protect iron from oxidation. LOCALITIES. — England. Cornwall; near Tuckingmill, Cam borne, and in a granite
Journal (issue)
..................... 37 Minerals in Northern England Yorks.Geol.Soc/Northern Branch Meeting report by...morning, comparing various samples with those of a mine he knows particularly well (which produces excellent...specimens, localised to town or village, perhaps to mine level but virtually never giving any more detail...parageneses of our old specimens with that of the new. A mine or quarry name indicates the position of the locality...This is certainly a place to visit if you are in Cornwall so make a note of it in your diaries. Get well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Electrum is highly concentrated in the finest quartz–adularia colloform micro-bands, which fill joints with...deposited in open space on the surfaces of some quartz–adularia bands, due to a condensation of gaseous phase...fluids. We found that the electrum-rich quartz–adularia micro-banding is enriched (in descending order)...Colloform-banded textures . Epithermal gold . Vein adularia . Vein quartz . Bulgaria . Khan Krum deposit ...serious mineralogical interest for a long time. Wherry (1914) introduced the term “metacolloid,” while
Report (Issue volume)
......... 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value................................................. 19 54. Flint fire clay processed at the mine: value 32 18. Other clay mined: average value...ton.... 19 55. Other fire clay processed at the mine: value 32 19. Shale mined: average value per ton.... . 21 59. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: average value per ton.........................
Journal (issue)
Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11 lllit/, co,uribwions...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,¡ri.11l¡ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl¡nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim¡r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL...whittling-away of the old minesites throughout the UK: foremost in the list of threats arc the use of sites
Report (volume)
prospect____________________,.____ 136 Buckeye prospect Wall mine _______________________________ Maris mine_ __ _...Four mine___________ __________________ Mayflower mine _____________________________ Riley Fraction mi...mine______________-___________ Jumping Jack mine.-__________________________ Golden Crater mine_______...No. 9 mine_________ __________________ Stray Dog mine __________________ _________ Little Grey mine__...mine_____________________________ Thanksgiving mine _..__________________________ Deposits in limestone.__
Journal (volume)
N TRA comer , OP THE Royal Geological Society CORNWALL . INSTITUTED FEBRUARY 11th , 1814. VOLUME THE...Peru .” President of the Board of Agriculture. PENZANCE : SOLD AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE SOCIETY . 1878...and Zirkel on Crystalline Rocks Stratigraphy of Cornwall Geological Time The Evolution Hypothesis . ...Position and Relations of the Sedimentary Rocks Cornwall . . 12 . • Changes of Level on the Cornish Coasts...Henwood's Works . ix . M .Moissenet on the Lodes of Cornwall Elie de Beaumont's Theories ix . xiv . Report
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens from West Australia; Juneau, Alaska; Cornwall, England; Homestake,South Dakota; Porcupine,Ontario;...Wright and Larsenø haveshown 4A term proposed by Wherry (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV., x9x4, p. xx:•)and...localities,notably in specimens from the Talisman Mine, Karangahake,New Zealand. In these specimens the...cryptocrystallineaggregatesof quartz, chalcedony, and adularia of varying grain. Gel depositionmay alternate...structure in quartz and adularia occursin someof the material from the United Eastern Mine, Oatman, Arizona
 
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