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Greisen from
Meldon Aplite Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Greisen
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Greisen data
Locality Data:Click here to view Meldon Aplite Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1093358
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1093358:5
GUID (UUID V4):b71dcda8-7190-4684-b663-b3c0d040a736
Nearest other occurrences of Greisen
25.9km (16.1 miles) ā“˜Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
28.2km (17.5 miles) ā“˜Kit Hill Mine (Kit Hill Consols), Kit Hill United Mines (incl. Kit Hill Great Consols), Callington, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
91.3km (56.7 miles) ā“˜Cligga Head, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRANITES AND SOME ASSOCIATED ROCKS FROM SOUTHWEST ENGLAND I. A. MILLER AND P. A. MOHR New isotopic age determinations...determinations on all the granites of southwest England are presented and discussed in relation to the...INTRODUCTION The Hercynian granites of southwest England have in part been the subject of potassiumargon...the period of the Hercynian orogeny in southwest England in relation to other parts of Britain and Europe...concordant with the tectonic grain of southwest England, and six major domes have risen froin it to form
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
niobium-tantalum and other rare-element minerals in the Meldon aplite, Devonshire OLEG VON KNORRING AND ERIC CONDLIFFE...A number of rare-element minerals from the Meldon aplite are described, e.g. native arsenic and antimony...columbite-tantalite series. THE Meldon aplite, near Okehampton, Devon (grid ref. SX 573 927), is a highly...north-west of the main Dartmoor granite (Worth, 1920). This lithium- and fluorine-rich aplite, together...1973, 1976) have given admirable accounts of the Meldon axinite, topaz, Li-A1 micas and lithian tourmaline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and Symes (1987)...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...gibbsite, etc. in fissure-fill in limestone, Woodleaze quarry, Tytherington, Avon (Alabaster, 1989a). Andersonite
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FLUORESCENT Ā½ x Ā½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins S0p ALUMINITE Al SO/4 ALUMINOTSCHERMAKITE...- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...PbAgSbS lx2 S0p 2x2 Ā£1 2x3 Ā£I .SO Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses ANHYDRITE CaSO...with Chrysotile, pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall MgFeSiO massive. Minas Gerias
Catalog/List
Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...501 A x A ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England FLUORESCENT Large brown well formed dodecahedral..._______ Ba Ca 00/3__________ Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins50p 1x2 Ā£1 Pure hard white sphere shaped...Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2Ā£l 11 felspar group____________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations Jens... Shail, Robin K., Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations,...Ore Geology Reviews Indium mineralisation in SW England: host parageneses AC CE P TE D and mineralogical...Cornubian batholith, SW England 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT The SW England ore region contains significant...sulphide lodes and sulphidebearing portions of greisen-bordered sheeted vein systems and quartz-tourmaline
Book
Igneous Rocks of South-West England THE GEOLOGICAL CONSERVATION REVIEW SERIES The comparatively small...and M. C. Gyopari S. Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd, C. S. Exley and M. T. Styles 6...Thames D. R. Bridgland Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd Department of Geology, University...study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued
Catalog/List
hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2Ā£I 2x2Ā£2.S0 Al SO/4...--- Ā· - Ā· Ā· Ā·Ā·Ā· _ 2x3 Ā£I .SO 2x2Ā£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 Ā£3 I x2 Ā£6 2x2 Ā£ 12 7 AN!lilTE...AXINJTE Very rich light brown massive with some Meldon Aplite Quany, lx240p 2x280 2x3 Ā£1.50 3x4 Ā£3 Ca Fe Al...rich white masses intergrown with Weymouth,Dorset,England JxJ 60p lx2 2x2 2x3 Ā£4 46 BASALUMINITE AISO/4 OH
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology I * South-West England r * FOURTH EDITION e ā–  - O ā€ ..y 1835 Geological...British Geological Survey Front cover: Bull Point, Devon (For full explanation see p. ix) NATURAL ENVIRONMENT...and Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologist, South-West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the...advances in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carboniferous...as oil companies turn their attention to the seas west of Britain, so attention is increasingly focused
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ium mica granite (Tre gonning), leucogranite and aplite. Lithium -mica gra nite is believed to have been...roof and the evidence for several genera tions of aplite-pegmatite bodies. Department of Geology. The University...finergrained than the typical granites of south-west England, but they do not recognise the Tregonning 155.../ -, '/ / I Godolphin Hil l, ,'/ I ā€¢ ā€¢ '-Quarry " :' / F/ , / -, Balwest. / ::::-==-,~= , / -...Tregonning-type granite and occasional bands of greisen. These rocks are exposed at the roof of the Tregonning
Catalog/List
CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) Ā£2.00 lx H Ā£3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 Ā£2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B Ā£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) Ā£4.50 163 GALENA Lead
Report (edition)
British Geological Survey Front cover: Bull Point, Devon (For full explanation see p. ix) ā€¢ā€¢ ll On 1...Mr. G .. Bisson (District Geologist, South--West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the...advances in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carbonifļæ½rous...as oil companies turn their attention to the seas west of Britain, so attention is increasingly focused...age-determinations of rocks of south-west . . . . . . . Facing England 1 112 List of Geological Survey
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
Journal (issue)
Science, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Devon. PROCEEDINGS OF THE USSHER SOCIETY VOLUME FOUR...Co., Kyrtonia Press, 115 High Street, Crediton, Devon CONTENTS CHAIRMAN'S REPORT......................formation of small-scale tectonic structures in south Devon (Abstract). By D.M. Hobson........................of the late Triassic - early Jurassic sequence in west Somerset. By G. Warrington.......................... 157 The Variscan granites of south-west England: a progress report. By J. R. Hawkes and J. Dangerfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
747--5I Lithium tourmalines from the Meldon aplite, Devonshire, England M. N. CHAUDHRY Department of Geology...composition is also discussed. THE Meldon aplite, Devonshire, is a soda-lithia aplite dyke about 6o to 8o ft in...three-quarters of a mile north-west of the main Dartmoor granite (Worth, 192o). The aplite has been cut and metasomatized...and associated or contemporaneously metasomatized aplite contains pink tourmaline (rubellite). Four samples...rubellite; the sample M2oo comes from a very late greisen-like vein composed chiefly of rubellite, lepidolite
Catalog/List
rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm Ā£6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm Ā£4 Colo urless to yellow...Ix ! Ā£4 l x2 Ā£8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,Eng land Madagascar Ā½ xĀ½ Ā£2.50 linsĀ£4 I xĀ½ Ā£4...near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l Ā£3 l x2 Ā£5 While crystals well covering...paper available. Rich grey crystalline mass. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larv ik, Norway Ix I Ā£1.50 Ix I...Chrysotile. pale grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I Ā£ I I x2 Ā£2 Loch Scridain
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES British Regional Geology South-West England (TH [RD EDITION) By E. A. Edmonds, M.Sc. M...world war, interest in the geology of south-west England has further inten ified. Much valuable work...done, and in 1962 the newly l"ormcd outh-we t England field unit of the Geological Survey began ix-inch...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologi t. South-We t England, editor). Private workers whose publications have...the countryside and natural history of south-west England. An EXHIBIT illustrating the geology and scenery
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) Ā» x H Ā£4 510 CHALCOCITE copper...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 Ā£2 - 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu ?e) ;'L...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) 54 x 54 Ā£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
Book
significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants Pass, OreQon...Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and n1ineral resources...resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 8 9- 3 paperback...ISBN 0-565 01046 8 hardback Printed in England by Balding+ Mansell UK Litnited CONTENTS ā€¢ Acknowledgements
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RICHARD ā€™ 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 Ā£2.00 lx 14 Ā£3.50 2 ...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 Ā£2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) S x Ā« Ā£2 219 MARICOPAITE Pb...Omphacite.An attractive Eclogite rock from (Nordfjord,.West Norway) ā€¢ 1x2 Ā£1.30 2x2 Ā£2.70 ā€¢ 2x4 Ā£6 112 CORUNDUM
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblages enclosed by rhyolites ro and granites, and greisen-, pegmatite-, quartz-type veins; and iii) cavities...Li-mica of (Å Å„astnĆ½ and RenĆ©, 2014); (D) Topaz greisen in the Hub stock at KrĆ”sno, Czech Republic (JarchovskĆ½...(JarchovskĆ½, 2006); (E) Quartz-muscovite-topaz greisen from the Vykmanov granite stock, Czech Republic (Å temprok...fluorine and low XOH (Figs. 4C and 5C), excepting aplite- -p pegmatite samples described by Neiva and...(2013) Li-mica granite of St. Austell, Cornwall, England 9 8-m ~15.55 Manning (1981a) 690ā€“730 Manning
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with the Cornubian Batholith of southwest England: Direct dating of cassiterite by in situ LA-ICPMS...Cornwall and Devon vein- and greisen-type copper and tin deposits of southwest England are spatially...granitic spine from the Isles of Scilly Granite in the west to the Dartmoor Granite in the east. The granitic...between ore ages and geographic relationship from west to east throughout the Cornubian Batholith. Incorporating...Cornwall . Devon . Cornubian . Cassiterite . Tin . Uā€“Pb . Geochronology . LA-ICPMS . England Introduction
Catalog/List
formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...Ā£6 I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. Ā£4 Devon .England Ā£2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- Ā·--- lx2 Ā£6 Ā½xĀ½Ā£3...-ļæ½b Ag ļæ½bļæ½ 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2Ā£1 2x3 Ā£ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses...ANNITE Pure black mica plate new Analys is. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Mica paper avail'!ļæ½_____ _ ___Larv
Journal (issue)
acicular crystals 9 mm long on calcite. Fall Hill quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire. Collected 1979. Roy Starkey...Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower...with schulenbergite from Cornwall and Cumbria, England D.J. Green. J Betterton, R. Bell and T /lieall...Millerite and associated minerals from Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite...Derbyshire, England 89 A. Dyer, 0..\1. Wilson and B. Young Milarite from Shap granite quarry, Cumbria
Journal (issue)
Research into the geology and geomorphology of S. W. England Volume 5 Part 4 1983 Edited by G.M Power The...into the geology and geomorphology of South West England and the surrounding marine areas; to hold Annual...Annual Conferences at various places in South West England where those engaged in this research can meet...University of Exeter, North Park Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QE Proceedings of the Ussher Society Volume...The Kyrtonia Press, 115 High Street, Crediton, Devon EXl73LG Set in Monophoto Times and Printed by Photolithography
 
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