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| UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. ARSENTSUMEBITE FROM DOLYHIR QUARRY Neil Hubbard • David Green • Tom Cotterell...Cox • Ron Cleevely 31 PARALSTONITE FROM DOLYI-IIR QUARRY Tom Cotterell CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean...FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges 55 ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| The Llandovery Folly Sandstone near Presteigne, Powys, contains disseminated thorium mineralization. The...thorium, thorite, thorianite, bitumen, Silurian, Wales. Introduction THORIUM mineralization is reported...reported from Llandovery sandstones near Presteigne, Powys, in the Welsh Basin. The mineralization occurs throughout...throughout a 2 km long outcrop which spans the Wales England border. The thorium occurs as thorite and...inlier of early Silurian rocks along the fault at Old Radnor, 5 km to the south west, exposes underlying Longmyndian |
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| ■■ CRYPTOMELANE Moel Llyrnant, Arenig, Gwynedd, Wales Rich black massivt: to botryoidal with some matrix...Benallt Mine. Lleyn Wales '-J ' Dark brown veinlets, quite rich with calcite or quartz. Very rare for GB...massive with quartz or red mica Ix I £4 I x2 £6 2x2 £ IO Mn 0 Si0 1136 ■ BROOKITE Prenteg Wales Orange brown...brown small plaly crystal sections on quartz or rock. ½" £3 Ix ½ £5 Ix I £8 372 ■ BYTOWNITE Eycott Cumbria...2x3 £6 Feldspar -- 127 ■■ EWALDITE Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys.Wales Single palt: yellow micro |
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| RUTILE brownish reticulated c1ystals laying flat on Quartz, one x half inch area. Rooisand Gamsberg Namibia£...BARYTES and QUARTZ translucent pale brown cleavage, possibly with xl faces an a I x l quartz attachment...12. QUARTZ after Aragonite greyish hexagonal c1ystals about 3 to 5mm in a Ix I area on I x2 quartz. Kando...attractive small group about l x2 inches ( Coldstones Quarry, Yorkshire) £7 19. ANAPAITE pale green micro...Hoydalen Torda! Telemark Norway 3x2.5 £17. The quartz is giving the "letters" and the background is a |
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| 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 |
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| 113-120 (1989) The Longmyndian Rocks of the Old Radnor Inlier, Welsh Borderland N. H. WOODCOCK Department...presumed Precambrian sedimentary rocks of the Old Radnor Inlier. The Strinds Formation comprises fine-...Stratigraphy Wales Precambrian Church Stretton Fault 1. GEOLOGICAL SETTING The Old Radnor area exposes...(1900) first recognized the similarity between the Old Radnor rocks and part of the Longmyndian sequence in...type Longmyndian (Pauley 1986, in press) and the Old Radnor area (Woodcock 1988) has prompted a new look |
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| Summer (1973) Field Meeting in Central Wales 31August to 7 September 1973 Organising Directors: J. W...Murchison 'first observed a passage downwards from the Old Red Sandstone into these (Silurian) older formations'...(1976) have demonstrated, in the Ludlow rocks of Radnor Forest, the relationship between palaeocurrents...Devonian the area lay near the northern limit of the Old Red Sandstone molasse basin in which 66 J. W..../ 1:><,:':':::': :) '. 0. D , , , r- u'l / Old Red Sandstone , Dawntonian -~ D ~ DIIJJ Lud |
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| 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 |
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| small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg No 1 quarry, Kaisersthul, Germany £4 11 LAVOISIERITE rich...included with sand Erfoud Morocco 5x4cm £18 31 QUARTZ clear double terminated crystal about 8mm long...,Brown crystalline coating on three faces of a Quartz crystal. Landsverk Evje South Norway 7x2cm £12...HARMOTOME, clear micro crystals on 1x2 cm Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor Powys £5 54 HEMIMORPHITE good covering of...covered with lightly ferruginous orange brown quartz crystals, Attractive. Tlet Ighroud Morocco 7x5cm |
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| Vou LXXIV FOR 1918. 1. On the GEOLOGY of tile OLD R.~DNOIt DISTRICT, with special ~'eference to an....................................... II. The Old Radnor Inlier ........................................(Longmyndian) Rocks. (b) The Position of the Old Radnor Rocks in ~he Longmyndian Series. (c) The Woolhope...mapped. 8 T h e ) - r e g a r d e d t h e rocks of Old R a d n o r H i l l as a l t e r e d M a y H i l...e d b y t h e lim(~stone a t N a s h Scar a n d Old R a d n o r , when c o m p a r e d with t h e n o |
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| Geology of the Pedwardine district, Herefordshire and Powys HELEN E. BOYNTON 1 AND C. H. HOLLAND 2 * 2 1 7...7 The Fairway, Oadby, Leicester LE2 2HH, UK Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland...extending westwards across the Welsh border into Powys. The district is almost surrounded by others previously...(1884) drew the same conclusions. Additionally, in a quarry in Brampton Bryan Park, he found `an exposure of...assigned the Longmyndian rocks of Brampton Bryan, Old Radnor and Huntley to the uppermost Wentnorian division |
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| lx2 £6 2x2 £10 34 ■ ANDRADITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Pale beige fine grained mass with reddish bands...Ix! £5 lx2 £10 38 BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Rich brown mass with approx 5 % Cymrite .minor matrix...BANNISTERITE Benallt Mine. Lleyn, Wales Dark brown veinlets throughtout calcite/ quartz matrix. Very rare for GB...Marcel ,Piedmont, Italy Dark grey massive with quartz or red mica lxl £4 lx2£6 2x2£10 MnOSiO - ·--- ---...wave Jxl £4 442 ■■ CARYOPILITE Bemallt Mine, Lleyn Wales thin felty brown vens in Calcite Mn Mg OHSiO ½" |
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| l.llr.::r.m o:1~. ~ fn ►•:, u, 1b.: .\~-nl h .~ UK =...an informative read for ALL members both new and old. S,..O.CmDuccb r:ct.~ ,1 .lt, \1-"";,o .r)"., 1)................................................. Wales & West.... . 12 ..................................a new member who went on an invite to his first quarry and was so interested he joined the society and...thank you to Lynda Garfield who has stepped down as Wales & West secretary for a much earned break. Her contributions |
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| Hereford. The party drove first to Lowe's Hill Quarry, Bartestree, and examined the section of the Bartestree...Foley of Stoke Edithby whose kind permission the old quarries in Wenlock Limestone were examined. These...Cockshoot where a quarry in Aymestry Limestone was seen and the fine view over the Old Red Sandstone country...ridge is caused by a minor fault. At Woolhope an old quarry in Woolhope Limestone, north of the church, was...where some time was spent examining sections in the old quarries. Leaving Scutterdine the drive was continued |
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| ............................................. Wales & West 9 ............................................................... North West iVorthern Wales & West I Southern Russell Society Field Meetings...Campus of the University College of Wales Newport. Our friends in the Wales and West Branch have got together...Steven Mulley South West Branch:Christopher Sharp Wales & West Branch:Rhiannon Cottrell; Edward Penfold...locations. Principally there are quantities of quartz, smoky quartz, cassiterite, amethyst, fluorite, autunite |
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| .............................................. 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...first was severely corroded fluorite in one of the quartz epimorphs from the Bounder End Cross Vein area...Pennines. Rashleigh died in 1811, so it means the 'old man' was working this part of Rampgill Mine well |
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| specific topics, anecdotes of collecting in the “good old days” or whatever. Fire up those e-mails, sharpen...is a great way to meet new people, catch up with old friends or to acquire a few new specimens all within...Mineralogy at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, in Cardiff, where I have worked for thirteen years... Many interesting mineral species, some new to Wales or the British Isles, have been identified and through...leading a fieldtrip to some long forgotten mine in Wales. I joined the Russell Society fifteen years ago |
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| strata crop out in the UK in the West Midlands of England, the Welsh Border- land, Wales, the Lake District...the local succession. Much of central and north Wales has thick sequences of Wenlock rocks, with the Denbigh—...PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL SETTING The Wenlock deposits of the UK were laid down in several major sedimentary basins...500 .River Rawthey Torver- Ashgill O Arcow Quarry .. ........ 400. ~o~~,/ 4e / Ty Mawr // //...Penstrowed El Eaton Track Quarries Eteo e-, Wren's Quarry Qury / Longville–Stanway Nest Road Section Burrington |
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| 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...specimens were collected from a Varlamoffite bearing quartz vein exposed in the side of a 10-foot deep winze...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 |
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| bags being deposited on garage floors all over the UK. It was an altogether memorable trip - socially,...Society. Professor Bob Howie was major figure in UK geology and well known to many members. He will be...Curator: Mineralogy Specialist at National Museum Wales, has agreed to have his name put forward for the...field trip to Nant-yr-Eira Mine, Hafren Forest, Powys, Wales. The collection includes several images of minerals...Event". The annual Maisemore event organised by the Wales & West branch and the Cheltenham Mineral and Geological |
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| (14th November). These are perhaps the best of the UK shows and well worth a day of your time (other mineral...things you can sometimes find in the drawers of old pieces of furniture. There is also information on...developments in terms of new mining enterprises in the UK. Hopefully the continuing up-turn (albeit slow) in...in the Niagara Falls district. He returned to the UK in the 1930s where he met Doris Holden. They were...Price, M.T. 2012. The Norman Thomson Collection. UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, 33, 21-34) which publicised |
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| ................................................ UK Mining Snippets ...................................this issue you will find – among other things: - UK Mining Snippets – a collection of news items about...actual or proposed commercial activities across the UK. Some of these are positive and show projects proceeding...surprised at the level of interest and activity in UK mining. I should point out that these are just plums...and in educating others who might have come across old labels. Perhaps some of you have unidentified label |
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| 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...mineral) and granite is a mixture of the minerals quartz, orthoclase feldspar and mica. Attractive polished |
