 | | Journal (volume) | | Central Wales Orefield Tom Cotterell 15-25 NOTE The composition of volborthite from Newhurst Quarry, Leicestershire...part of the Central Wales Orefield. There are notes on volborthite from Newhurst Quarry, Leicestershire,...Croft Mine and Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall; Dolyhir Quarry, Powys; Ecton Hill, Staffordshire; Potts Gill,...Tynagh Mine, High Longrigg Mine, Ecton Hill and Dolyhir Quarry tend to cluster toward the copper-rich end...Tindle, 2008 for a full list). DOLYHIR QUARRY, POWYS Dolyhir Quarry is located in the Welsh Borderlands |  | | 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...adopted almost exclusively. Thus Wales is divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into...confusing suite of counties surrounding Cardiff in Wales, which are simply referred to as Glamorgan. The |  | | Journal (issue) | | Thephotois a combinationof nineseparatedigitalimages. The UK Joumal of Mi11esand Minerals publishes articles of...EDITOR David I. Green EWALDITE FROM DOLYI-JIR QUARRY David Green • Neil Hubbard • Tom Cotterell ADVERTISING...DESIGN Julie Ballard 35 ELYITE FROM GREYSTONE QUARRY Richard de Nul The views and opinions Cll.'Presscd...Chambers 47 Born< REVlEWS 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTJSMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 25 -1- EDITORIAL...to be a genuinely rare mineral. This issue of the UK]oumal efMines and Minerals concentrates on rare minerals |  | | Journal (volume) | | Green 19 32 Richelsdorfite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys: the first British occurrence Neil...Tetrahedrite-group minerals from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys David I. Green, Neil Hubbard and Andrew... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...is noted on specimens from the two-hundred-year-old Joseph Dawson collection, which is preserved at Cliffe |  | | Journal (issue) | | .............................................. Wales & West 13 ...... .............................................................................. Wales & West I South West 25 ...........................this t ime. Com parison of the larger specimen to old St. Day area specimens indicates that the material...Pennines. Rashleigh died in 1811, so it means the 'old man' was working this part of Rampgill Mine well...longer interested in their collection of a seri es of UK first day covers; 86 issues from the period July |  | | Journal (issue) | | an informative read for ALL members both new and old . Your contributions are always welcome. ·uut tk...and one member suggested that this could be in the UK or EU. COST A location with on-site accommodation...were identified: geological/mining walks, museums (UK or EU) and member's collections. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS...at other minerals that have been important in the UK and then the important minerals we have to import...mainly for lead, copper and iron, but some gold in Wales. However, our minerals became really important in |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Mark Oddy South West Branch: Nick Richards Wales & West Branch: Derian and Georgina Jenkins, and...Jersey then moved to the North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to...mineral collecting and resource conservation in the UK. If we are to find a mutually acceptable way forward...mineral collecting and resource conservation in the UK. ,. ' / 1 1 J ( · Don't delay, register today...last August has left the future of the limestone quarry which supplied the works uncertain. At present |  | | Book | | provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...have changed over time. This is not to say that all old work is valueless: the observation of Hey (1973)...(1973) is still valid that there arc 150-ycar-old unulyscs as accurate as any made today. Other exclusions...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci...tellurob:smu'Ji::eC!ogau andVigramines,nr Oolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales t!.e'.don ra:::ayqJarry,nr o~eha'Tlp'.:i. , Dev:i:i |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................. 'Wales & West, South West 28 ...... .....................the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...awarded an honorary doctorate of science by his old college at the astonishingly early age of 36. He...site: Bedford Utd. Mine, Dean Quarry, Gravel Hill Mine, Greystone Quarry, Gunheath Claypit, Me/don Quarries |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................. . Chart topping rocks: Top 100 UK "Geosites" named ............................ Mineral...standing in my garage staring wistfully at a muddy old rucksack and my hammer hand begins to twitch. Yes...there and start poking around in quarries and on old mine tips. The "field trips and events" insert at...aims the recording of new and interesting items of UK topographic mineralogy. If you think your group may...Weekend") which will be hosted this year by the Wales & West Branch at Coleford in Gloucestershire from |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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)...0JR Tel 01590 643817 s Mr Khalid Ghourbandi 20 Old Pound Close, lsleworth, Middlesex, TW7 SAL Tel 020...Road, London, SE24 0AD SE Mr Dave Lloyd No.1 The Old Coach Yard, East Croker, Somerset, BA22 9HY. Tel...interests. He took up caving and exploration of old mines and it was through caving in Yorkshire that |  | | Journal (volume) | | future Issues: Nicholas Schaffer, 30 Britten Grove, Old Farm Park, Milton Keynes, MK7 8HR EDITORIAL BOARD:...Green. BACK COVER: Ewaldite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales. 1.7mm. Julie Ballard collection...jarosite from Brynycastell Mine, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell 65-67 Clinoptilolite and heulandite...Leadhills-Wanlockhead district, and at Whitwell quarry in Derbyshire. By studying its paragenesis, the...djurleite, erythrite, gersdorffite, kottigite, lanarkite, lavendulan, olivenite, mawbyite, parnauite, philipsburgite |  | | Journal (volume) | | non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...Cadair Idris, North Wales. Field of view 20 mm across. National Museum of Wales specimen (NMW 2016.13G...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David...Ordovician pillow basalts from Cadair Idris, North Wales John S. Mason 42–50 Journal of the Russell Society...herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals, from Chywoon Quarry, in Cornwall. There are, however, four other Cornish |  | | Book | | Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake District and...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...growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ...Nangiles.) Because of the environment, the walls of the old workings were encrusted with chalcanthite (copper |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...0mm) with barite and tennantite. Dolyhir quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, October 2004. Collection: Neil...Part 2, 2005 PAPERS The mineralogy of Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire Frank Ince The occurrence...including koninckite and planerite from Grouse Lodge quarry, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick Stephen Moreton and...te from the Westphalian coal measures of South Wales, u.K. Stephen Plant and David Evans NOTES The composition |  | | Journal (volume) | | an alkaline syenite pegmatite at Allt a’ Mhullin Quarry, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland Stephen Moreton ...Bwlch Mawr, Clynnog-Fawr, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell and Michael S. Rumsey 17–23 Ganophyllite-group...the manganese mines at Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales, including the first British occurrences of eggletonite...Bennalt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales: a first British occurrence Alan Dyer, David I....a Roman lead smelter near Llancynfelyn, Central Wales John S. Mason 32–35 The mineralogy of Pim Hill |  | | Journal (issue) | | fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals publishes articles of...Worksop, Notts. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Minos & Minerals No. 29 -1- EDITORIAL...immeasurably to your enjoyment of mineralogy. David Green UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 29 -2- Frontispiece...century there were no working metal mines left in the UK and there seemed little prospect of any being de...veryfewcrystalline specimens knownfromCononishMine. UK Journal ofMi11c, & Mim·rab Nn. 29 -4- Figure3 |
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