 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | P P 517-518 Morinite from Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall N. J. Elton Tregears, Little...Austell, Cornwall PL26 7QL, UK J.J. Hooper 48 St Julitta, Luxulyan, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 5ED, UK L. Coggon...Coggon 2 Anjardyn Place, Tywardreath, Par, Cornwall PL24 2PJ, UK MORINITE, NaCa2A12(PO4)2(OH)F4.2H20, is...prismatic crystals with amblygonite, wardite, wavellite, apatite and cassiterite. Morinite is also known...the Hensbarrow section of Gunheath China Clay Pit, near St Austell, Cornwall (NGR SX 005571). Identification |  | | 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) | | Geoscience in south-west England FIELD EXCURSION TO STUDY ASPECTS OF THE ST. AUSTELL GRANITE AND ITS...south-west England, 10, 370-372. Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3SE... and secondly to look at some aspects of the china clay industry, especially restoration and waste treatment...Pegmatite Quarry, Great Wheal Prosper China Clay Pit and Gunheath China Clay Pit were visited before lunch, which...the restoration and revegetation of some of the china clay waste tips. However, the time was spent profitably |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Variscite and metavariscite from Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall VARISCITE, A1PO4.2H20, was first...reported in Cornwall by Barstow (1982), who found specimens in the Hensbarrow china clay works, about...incorporated within Gunheath Pit (NGR SX 005571). Variscite is uncommon at Gunheath Pit, typically occurring...on a n~umber of other specimens collected from Gunheath during 1984 and 1987. Most have characteristics...to those quoted by Roberts et al. (1990). At Gunheath Pit, variscite and metavariscite typically occur |  | | Catalog/List | | ecimens as half phosphatic geodes from the Hiocene clay vith lmm,yellow-green,tabular xtls in aggregates...FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...hexagonal xtls. LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten Down Quarry,Calstock,Cornwall. 2 specimens. Specimen A-matrix fragment richly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vol. XXlX On the occurrence of turquoise in Cornwall. By SIR ARTHUR RVSSELL, Bart. W i t h a chemical...specimens at the Gunheath china-clay pit, St. Austell (six-inch ordnance map, Cornwall, 41 SE., 1908),...Bunny mine. Traversing almost the full length of the pit is a very remarkable lode having a north-east and...exposed t h a n at present (1951), the working of the pit having caused the upper portion to crumble away ;...however, it is a striking object owing to the china-clay ground on either side of it having been washed |  | | Report (issue) | | Association: Montebrasite, apatite, augelite, wardite, wavellite, cassiterite. Distribution: From Montebras, Creuse...Bavaria, Germany. In the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England. From the Viitaniemi pegmatite |  | | Report (issue) | | montgomeryite, millisite, wardite, apatite, wavellite. Distribution: From the Cyrilov pegmatite, Velké...Czech Republic. In the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England. At Rochefort-en-Terre |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...David I. Green ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe WAVELLITE David Green • Tom Cotterell • Ian Jones David...from the clay pits in Cornwall and some nice green balls from Ireland, but where else? Wavellite became...locality and on William Wavell, the man after whom wavellite was named. Ron Cleevely had made an extensive |  | | Journal (issue) | | cracks (Fig. 1), selenite gypsum was found in the clay and a fair number of hard slabs of teredo-bored...in the cliffs. There was much evidence of London Clay all along the beach and three of the group were...also sunk! Because of the vast quantities of London Clay along the beach, many of the fossils still needed...to interpret tectonic movements within southern England in the context of global tectonic movements. It...contained a single mineral species, e.g. anatase, wavellite, cuprite, wulfenite, hemimorphite, pyrite, torbemite |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...English China Clay Group Ltd. This later enabled me to obtain an annual pass into the working clay pits...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 & |  | | Journal (issue) | | ZEOLITE If you look in Fleischer it indicates that WAVELLITE - A'3(PO4h(OH,F)3.5H2O - is basically an aluminium...acicular needles of wavellite set against pale blue turquoise from Gunheath China Clay Pit near St Austell...Austell in Cornwall. These and the distinctive green spheres of radiating crystals from Arkansas in USA, form...form the limited base for my knowledge of wavellite. Wavelite from High Down Quarry, Filleigh. Hemispheres...in wavellite was greatly increased by an excellent and beautifully illustrated article in the UK Journal |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 28 Some recent finds at Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall by Nick Elton ................Such wa P rr. information, particularly about Cornwall, you would have been wise to ask Peter Colley...collections, a11d is used by many museums i11 tlze UK. (Ed.) North-West Branch · November Meeting: Basic...Further deposits in Ireland, Germany, Poland and the UK were described, making this a truly absorbing lecture...Ancient M ining This lecture by Adam Sharpe of Cornwall Archaeological Unit was given on 14 May 1996. |  | | Journal (issue) | | , Sheppey barite, Hemerdon scorodite, China Clay Pit wavellite, turquoise, cacoxenite and variscite and...galena from Madan with a Gunheath China Clay Pit cacoxenite! Day 2 Elatsite Open Pit (a porphyry copper deposit)...Chelopech Gold mine. Elatzite is a working open pit and the mine geologist Zlati Vassilev accompanied...field trip to Siberia in 1992) to take us into the pit to a level which was not being worked . Initially...chalcopyrite crystals. When we looked at these back in the UK under short-wave UV we found the green fluorite fluoresced |  | | Journal (issue) | | dissolved and washed away. In some areas, e.g. in Cornwall, large quantities of very pure cassiterite can...North Africa, South Africa, Russia, Spain and Cornwall, but not North America where the granites have...earlier. Reverbatory furnaces were introduced into Cornwall early in the 19th century, but unfortunately not...return to Weardale, and other sites in the North of England and some members have recently been in Wapping...which also has a treacle mine - a clay pit with very sticky red clay and nearby is a pub called The Treacle |  | | Journal (issue) | | Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite and florencite-(Ce) from Gunheath china clay pit. St Austell...Austell. Cornwall N.J. Elton alld M.J.£. Grigg 81 Epistilbite from the Isle of Skye. Scotland D.l....Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop and R.A. Fairbairn 97 A further...widenmannite in Cornwall, England N.J. Elton and 1.1. Hooper 98 Diaboleite from Gunver Head, Cornwall, England...rauenthalite or phaunouxite, from Ivy Tor mine, Devon, England R.S. W Braithwaite, M.G.H. Merry and B. Jackson |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral Field Notes from Cornwall - Hallenbeagle Mine Field Notes from Cornwall - Wheal Charlotte The Munich...Sussex Branch Micromount Study Evening - West Cornwall Branch News - Branch Meetings for 20 I 0 Other... Flat 3, Over Garage, Paynters Lane, Illogan, Cornwall. TRl6 4DJ MEMBERS- CHANGE OF DETAILS John Pearce...to receive your remittance. (£7 Single; £9 Family (UK); £9 and £11 Overseas. ) You have paid - thank you...hopefully loud enough for Sheila to hear it in Cornwall! After the meal, David Binns (BMS Membership Secretary) |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower, Swansea, south...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............ 14 Greystones Quarry, Lawhitton, Cornwall by Nick Elton ..................................Colin Sparrow for the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and the vitalising of its geological collections...organised by any geological or mineralogical group in the UK. If only I could get to even a fraction of these...left school at 14 years of age to work in the china clay industry, an occupation which lasted for 48 years...fieldleaderduringthe Society's weeklongmeeting in Cornwall in 1980, when he agreed to lead the Society for |  | | Book | | ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...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...needles growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ...Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate to have a trip |  | | Journal (issue) | | SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.0119.uk ....................................... ················...new members out. When combined with a week in Cornwall, a day on a Kent coal tip for carboniferous plant...Sussex. One of the main reasons for returning to the UK, John told me at this year's BBQ, was so that he...**** SMLS FIELD TRIP TO CORNWALL Chichester Guest House, Newquay, Cornwall 17th to 24th May 2003 SMLS...in a coastal strip for about 4 miles from Cape Cornwall north to Pendeen, which includes the well known |  | | Book | | important part of Society activities. Localities from Cornwall to Cumbria were visited – at a time when attitudes...travelled the British Isles, searching on beaches, in china clay pits and stone quarries, and even down mines...on his caving experiences in various parts of England and illustrated it with a splendid set of colour...talk by Chris Pollard on “Mineral Collecting in Cornwall”. There was also an illustrated talk and demonstration...Holidays. There were two long weekend field trips to Cornwall, the first in April for which a minibus was hired |  | | Journal (issue) | | muscovite, and albite from Hu Ya, Ping Wu, Sichuan, China. The crystals tend to be coated with a thin waxy...import major selections of mineral specimens from China. He has been designing and selling trimmers for...well as a number of solution cavities filled with clay or sandy sediment. The vugs generally contain quartz...in the middle of Roscommon Cliff at St. Just, Cornwall. "The middle" being approximately halfway between...matrix. This year also provided new material from China. This was the year of glued scheelite and cassiterite |  | | Journal (issue) | | pleasure to so many. He took many groups into the China Clay Pits and guided them around . the vast white...sceptred black quartzes from the Treviscoe China Clay pit At one stage he had small groups of children...specimen of tourmaline and libethenite from Gunheath China Clay Pit The applause which greeted his award reflected...contributions. In 1990 he mounted the main exhibit of China Clay minerals and photographs at the Sussex Mineral...chapel. Maurice had worked for 48 years in the China Clay industry, apart from an interruption in the Royal |  | | Journal (issue) | | Derelict Land Advisory Panel (Cornwall) Founder member of CUAAG (Cornwall Underground Access Advisory Group)...Johns Hall refurbished and re-opened. Moved to Cornwall 1981 Trewallard, St. Just then to Penzance. After...North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to S.E. England until moving...moving to Cornwall in 1981. Collecting minerals started in 1976-77, as an invalid he now had time to do...do this, in the North of England and Cornwall. Although having deep involvement in issues of conservation |
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Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK