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Tourmaline from
Ting Tang Mine, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ting Tang Mine, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:624636
Long-form Identifier:1:3:624636:5
GUID (UUID V4):0fbf4e65-a06e-440b-bc66-feb057498fc7
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
0.5km (0.3 miles) Wheal Moyle, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Treviskey Mine, East Tresavean Mine (Treviskey United Mines), Tresavean Mine, Lanner, Lanner, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Whiteworks, United Downs, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.7km (1.0 miles) Wheal Comford (Wheal Comfort; Bell Veor Mine), West Tresavean Mine (Bell and Lanner Mine), Tresavean Mine, Lanner, Lanner, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.2 miles) Wheal Maid Decline, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.2 miles) Wheal Maid, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Trethellan Mine, Tresavean Mine, Lanner, Lanner, Cornwall, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
2.5km (1.6 miles) Poldice Mine, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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
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...series names (eg stilbite) and group names (eg tourmaline). A few variental (eg beryl var. emerald) and...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y...attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown...• £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised
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
Journal (issue)
Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon, England. EX15 2QF Telephone / Fax 01884 821563 Only Road...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...1/ick ll'oij'e NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe 18 TI G TANG MI E /tJ11Broce• Daoin Aubre_v-Jo11es SPONSORSHIP...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly
Book
0 e. means, without the prior permission in wri ting :'. of the copyright owner. Enquiries should be...Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Introduction 4 About this Book 9 Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith:...Camborne- Redruth: Troon to Treleigh Gwennap: Carharrack to Camon D owns N orth Coast: Por1htowan to Perranpor1h...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...perched on a white matrix. Very impressive. £295 3 TOURMALINE (variety schorl) ON ALBITE (4cm x 4cm x 3cm)...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone
Book
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...& c. Genus 4. SILICATES WITH FlroRIDES . IIL Tourmaline. 112. Datholite. 113. Arinite. ORDER XHI. Alumina...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
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
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Journal (issue)
mineral & lapidary society "' Field Trips to Cornwall and Wales Geotourism to the Auvergne , France...probably surprises no one. Almost anything from Cornwall will also sell as long as the price is reasonable...site when we were offered the chance to become the UK agent for Mineralogical Record - thank you Mr Lowe...well-known British mine, but which one? I didn't want to pick a Cornish or Weardale mine - I wanted to show...So, how about "Greenside Minerals"? The Greenside Mine lies on the fell-side high above the village of
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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
Journal (issue)
fieldtrips. Wherever you were in quarries or on mine tips you only needed to glance up and there was...local area. Tony Lee's fluorite from West Pastures mine in Weardale was also worthy of note, with translucent...masterly account of some of the classic minerals from Cornwall and Devon. To an audience of 120 visitors he gave...this area: ladies' slippers from the Virtuous Lady Mine; cogwheel bournonite from Herodsfoot; dendritic...recently collected specimen cache from the Ting Tang mine, Gwennap at the SMLS show. These included fine
Journal (issue)
America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................Update ........ Correction: “Prince of Wales Gold Mine” ........................................... 18...equipment (in addition to hammers and chisels) on to mine dumps. In the short reports section you will find...updates (still lots of activity in various parts of the UK) and an addition to the list of “creative things...minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local
Report (issue)
Sheet 352 of the ne,v series one-inch 1nap of England and Wales. . The orig:inal geological st1rvey ...1nispickel. (c) Dolcoath , 475-fathom level. 1,ough tourmaline peach , finely brecciated , and cernented by.... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 36.-Pedn an J)rea Mine . . . ... ... ... :1 7. -Porkellis United 1\ii i11es...larger of these are the Red River, so called from the mine ,vasbi11gs which discolour it, and the stream th...Palreozoic formations of Cornwall. In the original Geological St1rvey map of Cornwall, De la Beche separated
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
nice selection of minerals from the Royal Restormel Mine and Wheal Mary Ann including amethyst, fluorite...Moughton Mine, Austwick, Yorkshire. Lesley also entered galena and fluorite from Merryfield Mine in the...crystals from Alizona, a linarite from Grand Reef Mine, Alizona and two perovskite crystals from Powderhom...stones were amethyst, aquamarine and watermelon tourmaline. Peter cut and polished these stones on a Raytech...the faces, mentioning that the 32 facets of the tourmaline were very expertly cut. The three stones entered
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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...chlorite, feldspar, garnet, mica, olivine, pyroxene, tourmaline, wolframite and zeolite and, as noted above,...familiar Mineral Group to me, as was the tourmaline group. TOURMALINE GROUP Trigonal boro-silicates, including:...feldspar from the famous locality of Wheal Coates in Cornwall, which I subsequently accessioned under my catalogue
Book
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...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I
Book
SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...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
Journal (issue)
................................... Foss Baryte Mine - Request for Information and Specimens ..........nice crystals? There will be events held around the UK and across the world, but one which caught my attention...as you will no doubt be aware, some parts of the UK are richer, mineralogically, than others and therefore...I have suggested an overview of the whole of the UK. I will be focussing on the period from the mid-eighteenth...was born on 4th August 1942 in Middlesbrough, England, the day on which Middlesbrough Railway Station
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effects of this collision were felt in southern England 25 million years ago causing the beds to buckle...lguanodon) this is the only Ankylosaur skull found in the UK and Alan has since donated it to the Natural History...only in situ Quillworts (a form of.Club Moss) in the UK showing two dominant rows of Quillworts with the...which are new species and some families new to the UK that even experts have been surprised by the numbers...Barremian in age. Around 120-125 m.y.a southern England lay in mid latitudes and the climate was much warmer
Catalog/List
50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...Polished seciion.RF SPC. C.£8 0023 DUFTITE.Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumberland.V1v1d green druse of duflile...Barstow label. RF or D. C £10 0030 CHABAZITE,Ramsley Mine,Sticklepath,Devon Scintilating druss of chabazite
Catalog/List
BARSTCM 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ...2xltxl". £6. 5. M\SENOPYRITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Sharp, silvery grey, complex twinned crystals...matrix in association. Itxlt". £4. 8. AUTUNITE. Mine La Faye, Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France. Yellowish... 9. hXINITE. Roscommon Cliff, Nr. St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous, sharp, clove brown crystals to 5 mm...Beudantite - £6. lit. BOT: LkCKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Pale gree:, lustrous micro-crystals encrusting
Journal (volume)
TRANSACTIONS OF THE Royal Geological Society CORNWALL ; INSTITUTED FEBRUARY 11th , 1814. VOLUME THE...PRINTER, PENZANCE ROYAL Geological Society OF CORNWALL . PATRON . Her Most Gracious Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA... CONTENTS. I. On the Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon . By William Jory Henwood , F .R .S...p. 445 V . Statisticalnotices of the Mines in Cornwall and Devon . By William Jory Henwood, F .R .S...J. H . 1. - On the Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon . BY WILLIAM JORY HENWOOD , F .G .S
 
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