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Melanterite from
Holmbush Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Melanterite
Formula:Fe2+(H2O)6SO4 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite1 photo of Melanterite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Melanterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Holmbush Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:484978
Long-form Identifier:1:3:484978:0
GUID (UUID V4):c75f16bc-e963-429d-9b84-965367832903
Nearest other occurrences of Melanterite
28.8km (17.9 miles) Meldon Mine, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
28.9km (18.0 miles) Wheal Maudlin (Wheal Mawdlin; Wheal Magdalen), Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
31.8km (19.8 miles) Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath and Par, Cornwall, England, UK
54.4km (33.8 miles) Hartland Quay, Hartland, Torridge, Devon, England, UK
58.4km (36.3 miles) Duchy Peru Mine, Perran Iron Lode (Great Perran Iron Lode), Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
62.7km (39.0 miles) Venn Quarry, Landkey, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
67.9km (42.2 miles) United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
68.1km (42.3 miles) Wheal Concord, East Treskerby Mine, Skinners Bottom, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
69.1km (42.9 miles) Wheal Coates, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
70.1km (43.6 miles) Ting Tang Mine, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
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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
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GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPAL MINERAL LOCALITIES IN THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. BY K TOWNSHEND...to show their distribution th paghout the whole United Kingdom . A list B 2 iy PREFACE . of Cornish...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...Catalogue of the several localities in Ireland where Mines or metalliferous indications have hitherto been
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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...second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and...freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue numbers...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of
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IE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF UTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume II LONDON HER MAJESTY ' S STATIONERY OFFICE...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South -West England Volume II By H... ... iv CHAPTER V . — Details OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 8. St. Austell...St. Neot (p. 608 ); Menheniot (p . 615). 11. Callington and Tavistock district . . .. .. .. 623 ...Okehampton district . . .. .. . Mines in the granite (p. 750); Mines in the Culm Measures (p. 751); Newton
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The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 0 iz 0 1-rj VOLUME II Assistant Director's...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume II By ...published 1956 Second impression 1969 Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...OF PLATES V CHAPTER V.-DETAILS OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 509 8. St. Austell...589); St. Neot (p. 608); Menheniot (p. 615). 11. Callington and Tavistock district . . 623 Kit Hill (p. 624);
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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
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and sub -species) which have been met with in the United Kingdom ; their characters, uses, crystalline forms...Statistical and other useful information relative to mines, or the minerals and ores extracted from them ,...characteristic crystalline forms, met with in the United Kingdom . Exclusive of calcareous spar (whose almost...Francis of London . A list of most of the Cornish mines referred to is, for the sake of convenience, given...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society
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COUNCIL The METALLIFEROUS MINING GION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume II 1956 2017 reprint BRITISH GEOLOGICALSURVEY...The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME II H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical...metalliferous mining region of the south-west England. Economic Environmental Science Centre Keyworth...London SW7 5BD Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 4090 www.bgs.ac. uk www. geologyshop. corn ... 111 CONTENTS PAGE......... CHAPTER V-DETAILS iv V OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET ............
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., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. in era ls C TS -----2 EDITORIAL 3-----THE...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL T...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene
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of mi nes UK & minerals summer 1997 number 2----------EDITORIAL Dtlf.!idGreen COVER: Chalcodte...Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. The UK Journal ofM;nts...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...Nom1an Thomson 17 SPONSORSHIP James Catmur ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM Roger Penhallurick 33 The views and opinions...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED
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Glencairn, Chapel Road, Indian Queens, St. Columb, Cornwall TR9 6QT. John Pearce -4 - � ---------- 1...Another speciality is fluorite, although all the mines are now closed. Peter has lived in the south of...prospector's group exploring the potential of new "old mines ; w� ha ? four members; Maxine, John Stevens, Jolyon...took off over the moors to explore Wellhope lead mine and found barite, witherite, sphalerite and harmotone...The remainder of the group went into Brownley Hill mine and collected on the flats finding sphalerite, dolo_mite
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A SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL, INCLUDING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE MINING DISTRICTS AND THE...of “Caradon Mines,” “Mining in the East,” “Hydro-Metallurgical Processes,” “Campiglia Mines,” &c. With...With Geological Map of Cornwall, AND NUMEROUS STEEL PLATEs, ILLUSTRATIVE of INFLUENCE of ROCK ForMATIONS...ON SCENERY. REPRINTED FROM THE “GAZETTEER OF CORNWALL.” LONDON : OFFICE of “THE MINING Journal,” 26...ºx Foº: PREFACE. During my present visit to England, my father, Mr. Robert Symons of Truro, pressed
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readily seen. At a beach site near St Agnes in Cornwall green staining can be seen where a quartz vein...environmental implications for old and abandoned mines where pyrite may still remain in situ. -8- SMLS...continuing all the time. Dumps from old mines, for example in south west England, are often rusty brown with iron...draining through the dump. The walls of abandoned mines can sometimes be coated with secondary minerals...chalcanthite, and crusts of iron sulphates such as melanterite, FeSO4. ?H2O. As mentioned previously, the ability
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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...Survey, Edinburgh and Keyworth; Cambome School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn; Department of Earth...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...mineralogists and mineral collectors. Although the mines (and some museums) may have closed, and the teaching
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Society is :i society of :un:u cur and profc:••ioll:ll mine r:tlogist• which encourages the s tudy, recording... -~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli;...Force Polish Air Force Remnants. John arrived in England at RAF Manston around April 1940, where he joined... Fluorite Zone - Heights Mine and quarry. Baryte Zone - Settlingstones Mine. Virtually no fluorite or...or baryte - Smallcleugh Mine. Fluorite and baryte together - Hilton Mine. The displays looked quite good
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The Metalliferous MiningRegion of South-West England VOLUME I Assistant Director' s copy LIBRARY...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AN D WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume I By H...Second impression with amendme111s /969 PrinlCd in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...This account of the mining geology of south-west England summarizes the .iological information gained during...south-west of England was the first to be published, and his ' Report on the eology of Cornwall, Devon and
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//. /�- MEMOIRS OF THE GEOIJOGIC!L SURVEY. ENGLAND AND WALES . BXPLANATION OF SHEETS 318 AND 333....there a03 indications in parts of the South of England not, concerned in - the Wealden disturbance. ...the Holaster sitbglobosus Zone in the South of England. More resistent than the Chalk Marl beneath it...tougher than the rest, and more or less firmly united into '' 1"ock­ bands,'' are met with, but nothing...every section. Near Brighton, as in other parts of England, the Marsupites Zone is divisible into two subzones
 
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