 | | 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) | | 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) | | RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field of view 13 mm x 9 nun. Roy Starkey specimen...anJ other phosphates from Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation...Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES Valentinite |  | | Report (issue) | | Namibia. In England, at the Driggith mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria; the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell...Austell, Cornwall; and the Engine vein, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. In the USA, in Arizona, from the Table...Table Mountain mine, Galiuro Mountains, and the Azurite mine, Tortolita Mountains, Pinal Co.; in the Bighorn |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | .. 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) | | 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...with Moroccan material offered azurite and malachite from Bou Beker-azurite crystals OK, but not fantastic...flakes, but the color! Wow! Fantastic clean blue azurite and bright malachite, no black or murk.')' stuff |  | | 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 |  | | 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...wavellite associated with turquoise from Gunheath China Clay pit. The wulfenites not only differed in colour |  | | Journal (issue) | | resting upon 150rnrn of yellow clay. This passed down into blue-grey mottled clay with lumps of coal about...about 0.4m thick. It seems that these clay bands acted as a barrier to the iron-Dearing solutions. The exposure...1780s refers to rights to dig cinders, iron-ore and clay (Gloucester Records Office 04212/Tl). In the 19th... cyanotrichite from Cornwall R.E. STARKEY starkey, R.E. 1986. . Cyanotrichite from Cornwall. J. RusseLL Soa...from Cornwall is reported; it has been found in situ in a tin-rich stockwork in Lanivet, Cornwall, associated |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | GILBERTITEon ORTHOCLASE.Megiliggar Rocks,Tremearne, Cornwall. Boxed MIN. Upper Gilbertite coated surface carrying...Fluorescent and mildly radioactive. SC,L8. --~26. AZURITE. Wheal Buller,Redruth,Cornvall? Pure Cuprite/Malachite...and so it is offered at .E.150. BOXEDSC. 27. AZURITE. Daymer Bay,Padstov,Cornva11. Tvo specimens. Specimen...royal-blue xtls.Cerussite also present. SC,.E.8. 20. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine,County Galvay,Eire. Tvo specimens...3mmxtls. Malachite surrounds vugh. SC,LlO. 29. AZURITE. Bisbee,cochise County,Arizona,USA. Royal-blue |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055............................ 421 A: abhurite to azurite ......................................... 18 R:...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 3 - ,.� The 1994 Spring Fieldtrip Devon and Cornwall l L� - l 7 th April Driving across wild moorland...prepared to collect. Holmbush mine dumps, Kelly Bray, Cornwall were our first'target, but they proved quite elusive...Maurice Grigg who led our party into the Gunheath China Clay Pit, which was working again. Maurice was very...to collect, but he took us around the back of the pit to the region of the old Bunny mine, where we could...decided to try our luck at Stowes Shaft, Linkinhorn, Cornwall. We were looking for the green botryoidal crystals |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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...there were surely good specimen from the clay pits in Cornwall and some nice green balls from Ireland,...information and a full review in the next UKJMM. UK Journal vf Mines & Minerals No. 28 -2- Frontispiece...Carruth: Copse Cottage, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall Ron Cleevely: High Croft, Gunswell Lane, South |  | | 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) | | Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, Shoots and Leaves Truss, Lynne (2003) Eats...present in one of the adits. All members collected azurite and other copper minerals fr~m the dumps. . ·.·...expanded to become one of the largest barite mines in England. Production rose to over 20,000 tons per year in...Huglith After an enjoyable morning collecting azurite and other coppers on the dump at Westcott mine...yielded excellent massive chalcocite, malachite and azurite. The sounds of hammering accompanying the dissolution |  | | Journal (issue) | | Isle of Man, Caldbeck Fells, etc. the North Cornwall Lead and Antimony Mines, Dartmoor Mines, etc....Taff's Well, Machen, Dulcote, Merehead, Croft, Gunheath, Coldstones, Greystones, Hampstead Farm, etc....contained several excellent photographs taken in Melbur China Claypit, and in Wakebridge Mine in Derbyshire, and...synchesite-Ce and some good blue anatase. From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper...of copiapite in the UK as his subject. Only a few recorded specimens from the UK are known in theOA- |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1966 and held several senior posts in Europe and the UK before retiring in November 1998. In 1981 he was...more field meetings than any other society in the UK, has no formal written Fieldwork Code covering visits... twinning common. I also have some of the 'wall' of the clay-filled vugh in which these crystal grew. These crystals...are similarly banded but mostly less than 2mm. The clay in the vugh was a reddish-yellow colour. For any...them because they had been 'washed' out from the clay. Has anyone else discovered these or similar crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..................... 37 Minerals in Northern England Yorks.Geol.Soc/Northern Branch Meeting report by...This is certainly a place to visit if you are in Cornwall so make a note of it in your diaries. Get well...Musewn in Penzance. The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall have been successful in securing £92,000 from...exhibition of mineral specimens from N orthern England to be exhibited in a gallery at the H ancock M...distinguished speaker travels a long w ay, in this case, Cornwall, to give a talk to our Branch, one of the nightmare |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow 3...a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being about 8 years old at the time. Three years...Book Co. Endsleigh House,50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA or phone (0872)223227 PAUL LOWE MINERALS...MINERALS Endsleigh House, 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2DA Gerrlmologists Crystals & Gemstones...). RUSSELLITE FROM BUCKBARROW BECK, CUMBRIA, ENGLAND B. 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