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Adamite from
Wheal Carpenter, Fraddam, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Adamite
Formula:Zn2(AsO4)(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Adamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Carpenter, Fraddam, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:115
Long-form Identifier:1:3:115:1
GUID (UUID V4):feb37492-d245-43c5-910e-2c7e1e4517e2
Nearest other occurrences of Adamite
4.2km (2.6 miles) Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
63.4km (39.4 miles) Pengenna Mine, St Kew, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St. Just Near Penzance, Cornwall, f , England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are promptly...best attention at all times. NOVEMBER 197 R 1. ADAMITE. Minas Ojuela, Mapimi, Mexico. Well formed and...£3. 2. ANDREWSITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Light brownish yellow spherical aggregates scattered...minor Cerussite. £4. 6. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crust of micro...^. — 11 8. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. 1" group of large sharp tarnished intergrown
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y...our best attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...botryoidal mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~... ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised coatings
Report (issue)
Total 100.00 99.79 100.00 (1) St. Day, Cornwall, England; after deduction of remnant Fe2 O3 , CaO,...olivenite, azurite, malachite, tsumebite, cuprian adamite, duftite, keyite, schulténite, philipsbornite...Distribution: In England, in Cornwall, from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary; at Wheal Carpenter, near Gwinear;...Gwinear; from Wheal Gorland, Gwennap; and at Wheal Alfred, Phillack; from many mines at Caldbeck Fells...Material: The Natural History Museum, London, England, 1921,433. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Reichenbachite from Cornwall and Portugal R. S. W. BRAITHWAITE Chemistry Department, University of Manchester...Manchester, M60 1QD, UK AND G. RYBACK 42, Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4EB, UK Abstract Infrared...number of specimens labelled 'pseudomalachite' from Cornwall, in particular from Old Gunnislake mine, are of...pseudomalachite, ludjibaite, infrared spectroscopy, Cornwall, Portugal. Introduction PSEUDOMALACHITE (Hausmann...pseudomalachite ('lunnite'), from an unspecified locality in Cornwall, was first analysed by Heddle (1855). Maskelyne
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fergusonite, 392 British Isles E~GLA~D i~D WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham:...ilvaite, 921 Wheal Betsy, Tremore, Lanivet: he]vine, scheelite, 921 Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear: beudantite...cornubite, cornwallite, 1 Wheal Clinton, Mylor, Falmouth: danalire, 921 Wheal Cock, St. Just-in- Penwith...scheelite, 921 Wheal Ding (part of Bodmin Wheal Mary): blende, he]vine, scheelite, 921 Wheal Gorland, Gwennap:...zeunerite, 430 Wheal Muttrell, Gwennap: cornubite, 1 Wheal Maudlin, Lanlivery: danalite, 921 Wheal Phoenix,
Journal (issue)
Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower...Ramsbeckite with schulenbergite from Cornwall and Cumbria, England D.J. Green. J Betterton, R. Bell and...Millerite and associated minerals from Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite... 88 \latrolite from Calton Hill. Derbyshire, England 89 A. Dyer, 0..\1. Wilson and B. Young Milarite...granite quarry, Cumbria, England, with a discussion of milarite occurrences in Cornwall and Devon 90 M M
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 (STD 0736) V.A...our best attention at all times. AUGUST 1977 1. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Very choice...". £90. DD. APATITE. Longdowns, Carnmenellis, Cornwall. Lustrous, transparent, bluish hexagonal crystals...£2.50, APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Wheal Cock, St; Just, Cornwall. Small, transparent, platy hexagonal...Flats. 5x4~x2". £23.00. BEUDANTITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Specimen A - Small, sharp, sparkling
Journal (issue)
Kingsbury (1906 - 1968) reproduced from UKJMM 5, of England. this contact offered a new and interesting field...raise its head For example, Kingsbuxy's record of Adamite from Sandbed Mine has been discredited, the next...SHA Membership - Ordinary £2.50; . Family £3.00~ UK institutional £3.50; Overseas International £7.00...field trips on the surface and underground across the UK and abroad and has organised an annual mineral show...General meeting: Prof. Heruy Cohen - Tin mining in Cornwall. North West Lapidary and Mineral Society has now
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...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm., 1991; XRD by Monica
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the minerals olivenite, cornubite, clinoclase, adamite, legrandite, euchroite, duftite, conichalcite,...Williams (1963) carried out solution experiments on adamite, Zn2AsOg(OH), legrandite (Zn2AsO4(OH).H20) and...from Tsumeb, Namibia, cornubite (BM 60682) from Cornwall, UK and euchroite (BM 14302) from Libethen, Czechoslovakia... USA, olivenite (NMW 24.3G.R2) from Wheal Gorland, Cornwall, UK, and schultenite (NMW 77.16G.M12) from...National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Legrandite and adamite from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Mexico, and clinoclase
Catalog/List
LC=LARGE CABINET(70-100mm) MUS=MUSEUM(lOOmm+) ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela,Mapimi,Durango,Mexico.Limonitic,gossan...specimen with plen t y of eye appeal. SC,£40. ADAMITE/CUPRO-ADAMITE/SMITHSONITE ++. Laurium,Greece. Large cav­...£30. SW. ALLUVIAL TIN. Rialton,St Columb,North Cornwall. A jar containing 400 gm of alluvial tin in the...xtls. MIN,£16. 57W. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter,Gwinear,Cornwall. Milky Quartz fragment richly coated... CALCITE. Whiskey Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Large,terminat ed ferruginous Quartz group overlain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Ca-content of a CaO:SiO~ hydrogel, 117 Adamite, England, xliv Age determination : lead isotope method...lithomarge, & bauxite from Antrim, xlvi Alabandine, Cornwall, 921 Albite, synthetic, kinetics of ordering in...pigeonite, 379; Sutherland, anal., opt., 848 Axinite: Cornwall, 921 Azurite: Co. Tipperary, 129; Cumberland,... 577 Bayldonite: Cornwall, 431; Cumberland, 428 Beaverite, Cumberland and Cornwall, formation from beudantite...X-ray, relation to eryptomelane, 334 Bertrandite, Cornwall, 921 Betafite(?), South Harris, spectr, anal.
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals...STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS FAMILY...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL...reality when he spotted a fluorite specimen from Wheal Mary Ann on eBay.Woody recognised the importance
Journal (volume)
2009 PAPERS The distribution and composition of adamite and zincolivenite in Britain and Ireland Richard... Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall Jens C. Ø. Andersen and David Moulding 10-14...composition intermediate between olivenite and adamite, at localities in Britain and Ireland and in particular...particular from the Penberthy Croft Mine in Cornwall. The following article illustrates and discusses...3-9 (2009). THE DISTRIBUTION AND COMPOSITION OF ADAMITE AND ZINCOLIVENITE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Richard
Catalog/List
LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...COLLECTION LABEL) 70x30 5 ACC No. 745. CUPRITE, WHEAL DAMSEL, GWENNAP. CRYSTALS TO 8MM ON GOSSAN Y UPPER...75x50 ACC No. 1036. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) WHEAL KITTY, ST. AGNES. COLLCI920’S. 25x20 ACC No. 1037...CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR, WHEAL COATES, ST. AGNES. (EXC.V.SMALE) 40X20 14 ACC...CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR WHEAL COATES. ST. AGNES. A SINGLE CRYSTAL. (EX SIR W.SARGEANT
Catalog/List
(Originalby Archie Miles) .,,: '~" -1- 1. ADAMITE,Mina Oujala,Mapimi,Durango,Mexico. Boxed speci...,1:.1• 75 • I 5. ARSENIANPYRITE. Wheal Nangllcs,Dlssoe,Cornwall. 19th C ~pccimrn. Matrix free,crystalline...45x25x20mm. tl5.00. 17. ARSENOPYRITE/CHALCOPYRITE. Wheal Jane,Kea,Cornvall. Chalcopyrltc rich matrix topped...22. AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,carnyorth,West Cornwall. Specimen A-lustrous, vaxy brovn,matrix !ree interforms...fluorescent. 75x50x35mm. L!0.00. 37. BAYLDONITE.Wheal Carpenter,Gvinear,Cornva11. Specimen carrles Arnold Fisher
Journal (issue)
UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue No 2 SPRING1987 EDITORIAL BOARD P. J. Briscoe D. M. Schofield...British localities confined to the Mendip Hills and Cornwall, this may be the first recorded Scottish occurence...minerals cyanotrichite and the cobalt rich variety of adamite. The identification in recent years of a large...Fe) 12 Sb4 S 13 MOLYBDATES wulfenite ARSENATES adamite .................................. Zn 2 (As0 4...(S0 4 ) 2 (OH) 6 Crystal 1I of olivenite and adamite fig 3 .f> ;□ I I I □· forms a ...D I l----------------
Catalog/List
Displays vell and is fluorescent. MUS,L85. 2. ADAMITE. Kameriza Mine,Laurium,Attica,Greece. Goethite...vith at least xlO lens. 5. ALLOP!IANE.Nev East Wheal Russell,Tavistock,Devon. Four specimens. Specimen...GILBERTITEon ORTHOCLASE.Megiliggar Rocks,Tremearne, Cornwall. Boxed MIN. Upper Gilbertite coated surface carrying...and mildly radioactive. SC,L8. --~26. AZURITE. Wheal Buller,Redruth,Cornvall? Pure Cuprite/Malachite...35. BAYLDOHIT!. Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornwall, Three rich 1pecimena. Specimen A-large vughy
Catalog/List
No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England Winster Derbyshire Pure fawn columnar masses grey...FLUORESCENl ½" £3 Ix! £6 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex. England 246 BARYfES Redhill, Surrey Pure hard white sphere...Quarry,Comwall 46 BASALUMINITE Weymouth,Dorset,England Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar with...ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England BAYLDONITE Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall 530 Rich white to faintly
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
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass...._ lx2£1.50 ___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE...ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive green... £4 lx2 £6 Ca SO/4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses lx2 80p 2x2 £1
Catalog/List
Sn O O1-l Cl ACANTHITE AgS ACTINOLITE Amphibole ADAMITE Zn AsO/4 AEGIRINE Pyroxene AEGIRINE Pyroxene AKAGANEITE...Chee rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm £6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm £4 Colo urless to...2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,Eng land Madagascar ½ x½ £2...near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l £3 l x2 £5 While crystals well covering...grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2 £2 Loch Scridain Mull Scotland
Catalog/List
__1_os__2_0_0_9� Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...entry for this list ANALCIME Dean Quarry, Lizard ,Cornwall Achmclvich, near Lochinvcr, Scotbnd 97 ACTINOLITE...Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98 88 Unusual rich yellow vitreous mass in...Lauvland, Frigstad, Evjc Norway 933 Hingston Quarry,Cornwall 16 Rich grey-white cleavages , some with minor...lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal 95 10 77
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce &...During this period, I was going back and forth to the UK and worldwide shows and projects, as well as keeping
 
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