 | | Catalog/List | | (MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of...invested in pearly-white tabular xtls and pale-brown Quartz, with a single terminated, Beryl xtl upstanding |  | | Catalog/List | | cheaper examples. Please ask for details). 8. SMOKY QUARTZ (8cm x 8cm x 2cm) Macaco Mine, Sao Geraldo...Minas Gerai·s, Brazil A highly unusual, tabular smoky quartz crystal forming a 'square' looking crystal aggregate...Garland Mine, St. Day, Cornwall Green/blue liroconite crystals to 5mm infilling a gossanous quartz matrix....AND APATITE (3cm x 2cm x 2cm) St. Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall Pale blue/green apatite crystal...x 3cm x I cm) Wheat Phoenix Mine, linkinhorne, Cornwall Ball-like aggregates ofdark green chalcosiderite |  | | Catalog/List | | MUS,£30. SW. ALLUVIAL TIN. Rialton,St Columb,North Cornwall. A jar containing 400 gm of alluvial tin... 20W. APATITE on QUARTZ. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Portugal. MillQuartz xtls with several gemmy...19W. 21W. 22W. 23. 24W. 25W. 26. APATITE on QUARTZ. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Portugal. Ex Paul...Paul Desautels colln. 3 Large.prismatic Quartz var Rock xtls �ith pale green,gemmy Apatite xtls to 10mm...aggregates in Quartz. Rare. SC,£4. ARGENTITE. Harmsarvet,Dalarna,Sweden. Milky Quartz fragment veined |  | | Catalog/List | | Cottage, Lower Boscaswell, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain. Telephone: Penzance (0736) 788286...inspection and personal selection. If you are in Cornwall do visit, you will be welcome. Established clients...SAM WELLER MBE BSc Cover Picture "Wh. Edward, St. Just” (Original by Arnold Fisher) Sam Weller Minerals...£15-00. 14. APATITE. Old Bal Lode,Levant Mine,Trewellard,W.Cornwall. Choice old-time specimen,not similar...Geevor Francolites. Druzy.stalactitic, Ferruginous-Quartz matrix,encrusted in sparkling.water-clear.sharp |  | | Journal (issue) | | Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. in era ls C TS -----2 EDITORIAL 3-----THE...TOPAZ, Siberia. A crystal SS x SSmm with smokey quartz and mica, one of two on a large specimen bought...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...'ID PRI:'.Tl�G BY Ryton Typing Service, 29 Ryton St., ------48 ------ Worksop, Notts. S80 2AY Tel...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL |  | | Journal (issue) | | Daniel! Road • Truro Cornwall • 111 2DA Tel: (0872) 223227 Гнаlcopyrite with Quartz St. Аgги"в, Corп wall...wall. Sрeгirнcvг: 70 х t30 .r 45»гт UK Journal of Mines and I b i e r a l s Issue No 8 A U T U M N 1...p. (UK) Non UK £16.50 Equiv for 3 issues inc. р & р. USA $30 for 3 issues inc. p & p. Note: Non UK prices...TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Ryton Typing Service, 29 Ryton St. , Worksop, Notts. S802AY Tel. (0909) 476906 Steve...Easter 1990 As reported in the last issue of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, (No. 7 p.8), the British |  | | Journal (issue) | | telephone fir·st. Trewellard Cottage, Lower Trewellard, Pendeen, Penzance, Cornwall. TRl9 7SU Tel: 0736...Lane, Blaxton, Nr. Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Telephone: (0302) 770248 ADVERTISING Forde � ...seen among these beautiful mou ntains to the greate st advantage: I allude to the rising of the sun . Having...line . as it is not possible for two to go abrea st, the width of the path never exceeding two feet....centuries. as there we expected to reap a goodly harve st. My compan ion found that climbing the very steep |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals Higher Bal-Levant Trewellard Cottage, Lower Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736)...(0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue No 5 SUMMER1988 CONTENTS EDITORIAL...COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection Photograph...section of the Harlech Dome in northwest Wales. The quartz veins are only significantly mineralised where...investment could be found so the site was abandoned, just as the workings began to reveal signs of gold bearing |  | | Journal (issue) | | & GEMSTONES (Penzance), Trewellard Rd. Pendeen, Penzance NORGEMS. 4 Front St., Sandbach, Cheshire. PORTSOY...LTO., 3 Tyne St. North Shields SCOTROCKS PARTNERS, 48 Park Rd., Glasgow C.4. 120 Rose St. Lane South,...Annual subscription (six copies) £1 post free In the UK. Overseas $3.25 (US) or £1.25 Our front cover: ...exploita tion of the non-ferrous metal ores in Cornwall. By 1850 we were the world's largest producers...look at gold and silver also. The areas include Cornwall, Wales, the Pennines and parts of Scotland.· The |  | | Book | | 1 THE SOUTH WEST 2 WALES 3 IRELAND 4 NORTHERN ENGLAND 6 8 10 5 FROM TWEED TO THAMES II 14 6 MINERALS...area, there is a remarkable variety to be found. Cornwall and Devon alone can boast around 300 species,...pegma tite minerals) are most likely to crop up. Cornwall, North Ireland and many parts of Scotland are...pebble beaches of the south and east coasts of England are well known, as are the many around the coast...coastline. THE 1 SOUTH WEST The south-west of England certainly offers the widest variety of mineral |  | | 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...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work |  | | Journal (issue) | | J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park............... 89 by B. & J. Muntyan Anatase on quartz from Ouray County, Colorado .....................according to my memory, the appraised value was still just an educated guess. The two-story house including...call from the owner of an old dairy-farm that had just shut down after 70 years in operation. I quickly...assemblage. It even boasts a molybdenite crystal on smoky quartz from Manhattan Island! Unquestionably the best |  | | Journal (issue) | | •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Wales& ~St 20 ................................................he relocated to the North of England and at the age of sixteen left the UK to live and study in Canada...Colin returned to England, this time the south east region, and then relocated to Cornwall in 1981. :J ...around 1976, both in the North of England and especially in Cornwall. Colin ColinSparrowreceivingthe RussellMedalfrom...West Cornwall. He had lived in this region for the last 25 years, a few of these at Trewellard, St. Just |  | | Book | | natural, cultured and imitation Alexander E. Fam Quartz Michael O'Donoghue In preparation Amber H. Fraquet...Darragh Topaz D. B. Hoover Butterworths Gem Books Quartz Michael O'Donoghue Butterworths London Boston...of Sale of Net Books and may not be resold in the UK below the net price given by the Publishers in their...O'Donoghue, Michael Quanz.-(Butterworths gem books) I. Quartz I. Title 553.8'7 QE391.Q2 ISBN 0-408-01462-8 Library...O'Donoghue, Michael Quartz (Bunerworths gem books) Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Quartz. I. Title. II |  | | Book | | Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...XI. Silex and Silicates. Genus 1. SILICA, 43. Quartz, &c. 44. Opal, &c. 77. Mesolite, &c. 78. Faröelite...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...vein has Plumbago, of a fair quality, has also just been found by the Rev. W. Cumming, at Beary in the...cannot be expressed by a chemical formula, it has no just claim to be considered a simple mineral. ( See |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | and gemstones are traced by their geographical England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland occurrence. detail...permission of Mr E. A. Jobbins. The crystal forms of quartz, topaz and fluorite are given after R. P. Greg...AND PORTENTS 7 ROUND THE BRITISH ISLES PART I, ENGLAND AND WALES ROUND THE BRITISH ISLES PART 2, SCOTLAND...clammy clay is rubbed off—the dark gleam of . smoky quartz, or perhaps the blue-green of a beryl? I remember...vaguely termed ‘a commercial scale’; St. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall is out of bounds to all gem-hunters; |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Hawkins, who was later to become my wife. I was just 17 years old when we first met. At this time my...company. Audrey and I were married on 16 March 1963 in St Werburgh's Church, Bristol. After our honeymoon we...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | FRO NT COVER: Richard W . Thomssen Gold from the St. Josefs mine, Verespatak, Romania (left) Associate...Slovak M ining Museum Collection 15 cm STIBNITE & QUARTZ Kremnica, Czechoslovakia Slovak M ining Museum...green tour maline, schorl, sekaninaite and smoky quartz from Dolni Borv; corundum from Pokojovice; lepidolite...i c a l e x h ib its Slovakian National Museum St ib n i t e 16 cm; Kremnica, Czechoslovakia Slovakian...collection include hessite crystals (up to 2 cm) on quartz crystals with gold from Bote§, Romania; a proustite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London, England Richard C. Erd US. Geological Survey Menlo Park...Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An unusual quartz crystal from Zaire ..............................Tanzania; petrified wood; “blue john” fluorite from England; and perhaps even a nice agate slab or fossil....FM-TGMS Symposium Attn: Henry Truebe, Chairman c/o St Joe American Corporation 2002 North Forbes Blvd....symposium chairmen: James A. McGlasson 7387 S. Flower St. Littleton, CO 80123 (303) 972-0376 Devices contrived |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gramaccioli Re-discovery of Stokesite Crystals in Cornwall, England.............................................Oxychloride Minerals from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England..................................298 by R. F. Symes...ills, O ntario M 3 C 1 N 8 England: Dr. R .S . H ark er, 3 6 -3 8 O xfo rd St., L eice ster L E 1 5X W...W South Africa: H o rst W indisch, 3 0 van W ou w St., G ro en klo o f, Pretoria the Mineralogical Record...an industrial scale. There is a special law for quartz deposits which requires a concession for mining |  | | Journal (issue) | | Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Libethenite (Zambia), v.10/#1 Hydroxylherderite Quartz & Pyrite (WA), (Brazil), Bookson U.S. Hydroboracite...LeadhillsWanlockhead (England) v.14/#1 Celestite (IN), v.13/#4 Diamond (CO), Quartz Derbyshire (England), (MT), Jeanbandyite... $12 v.10/#3 Taewha mine (Korea) Japan Twins (Quartz), Bancroft (Ont.), Franklin $12 v.12/#1 Iceland...Arsenopyrite (Ont.) Author’s Guide $12 Hopes Nose (England), etc. $12 v.l8/#2 Elk Creek (SD), Teyler’s Museum |  | | Journal (issue) | | Editors Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London. England Richard C. Erd Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Reacor...1985 Frank Mayo donated $500,000 for 2 new wing (just completed, formally opening in November). Tht museum...more information, contact: Ron Bentley 6 Claremont St., Enfield, CT. 06082 (203) 741-0374 Board of Directors...fossils which were unique and which represented “just the beginning of our collection. We have discovered...3000-gram turquoise vase. There is a water-clear quartz carving standing 31 cm tall. In a cabinet on the |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055................................... 428 8: babel quartz to bytownite .............................. 66...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin... I made it a stipulation that e:ich en~ in rn:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of |  | | Book (edition) | | Gold Occurrences in the UK A Gold Prospector's Guide LEE GARY PALMER MSc Published in the United...40 Archers Ave Irvine, Ayrshire KA11 2GB Scotland UK Content copyright© Lee Gary Palmer, 2019 The right...Nuggets of the UK Preface Gold The Word The Element Origin Locations Information Maps England South West...West England - Cornwall South West England - Devon South West England - Somerset South East England - Essex...Essex South East England - Kent South East England - Bedfordshire South East England - Suffolk English |
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