| | 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 | | | Catalog/List | NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006 1) ABHURITE. SS Cheerful, off St Ives, Cornwall. Cavity in blister formed on a tin ingot from...90x40x40mm max. £18. 3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An intergrown group oflight brownish white...8) BINDHEIMITE on JAMESONITE. Bodannon Mine, Endellion, Cornwall. A flattish mass of jamesonite with the...£35. 11) CASSITERITE. Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall. Part of a rounded beach pebble showing areas | | | Journal (issue) | BMS branch meeting BMS SE Branch Meeting Cononish Mine - Scolgold Resources Update More Mining News - South...0BS Flat 3, Over Garage, Paynters Lane, lllogan, Cornwall. TR 16 4DJ A SHORT NOTE FROM THE MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY...@btintemet.com Jeremy Hooper- re-joined -48 St. Julitta, Luxulyan, Cornwall, PL30 SEO. 07909 898170 jeremy.hooperg...display. Roy Starkey will be talking on " Herodsfoot Mine and Boumonite", and on Saturday afternoon there...thought up on a field trip many years ago:- Ode to Cornwall 'Twixt prian, peach and capel and mundic glints | | | Catalog/List | Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean...Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The | | | Journal (issue) | Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1�):9-11 Definition o·f a mineral...Nickel, E. 1(2):27 Minerals from. t� Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and...Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell,...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...Great Australia Mine. Day, B. and . Beyer, B. 1(1):23-28 Part 2 - The Mount Cobalt Mine. Day, B. and Beyer | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 997 TOPOGRAPHICAL I N D E X Penberthy Croft, St. Hilary: carminite, EUROPE Iceland (fsland) Bondolfur...Iceland: beudantite, 431 Pengenna (Trewethen) mine, St. Kew: pitchsbone, oligoclase, 587 Sellatur,...WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham: aph~hitalite(?), arsenopyrite(?), epsomite...sulphate(?), gypsum, halite, ilsemannite(?), lepidocrocite, molybdenite(?), pyrite, sulphur, tachhydrite(...Roscommon Cliff, St. Just-in-Peuwith: stokesite, 433 St. Day: cornubite, 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite | | | Journal (issue) | LevantSectionof GeevorMine,Cornwall. Crystalsto 15 mm. EDITORIAL Digital Micro-Photography The UK Joumal ef Mi11esa11dMi11erals...J. Briscoe Tony Stubbins 9 GREYSTONE QUARRY, CORNWALL CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C. Spence Nick...imaees in the article on fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Weardale, in the last edition of this journal....from northern England arc also problematic, the famous blue fluorite from Florence Mine in west Cumbria...the specimen). or ditc and pharmacosiderite from Cornwall almost neYer photograph properly, perhaps due | | | Journal (volume) | u.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...characteristic trigonal sym metry, from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, described by Bridges et...botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green photograph | | | 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... 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...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned | | | Catalog/List | Shortite Trona, Vashegyite,Xenotime,Pyrophyllite,Lepidocrocite,Abhurite,Manasseite,Zaj acite,Vlasovite, Foittite..._S)_O_H_C_l_ _ _ _ _ _on tin ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives, Com\~'!!_!!,_~gl~nd____ 2 AEGIRINE Very rich...20 Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H___...- --q.,_u_artz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___::H_i_l_?fY Cornwall __________ _ _ _ _ __ _________ AGRELLITE Excellent...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | | Book | Group field trips to collect minerals at quarries, mine spoil tips and coastal exposures became an important...important part of Society activities. Localities from Cornwall to Cumbria were visited – at a time when attitudes...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 (article/letter/editorial) | first discovered in the British Isles (14 from Cornwall; 2 from Somerset; 1 from Cheshire; 2 from Scotland;...H. G. M A C P H E R S O N from England (75 of which are from Cornwall); 28 from Ireland; and 10 from...Thus, of the 130 species, 64 are from England (48 from Cornwall); 35 from Scotland; 19 from Ireland; and...regional lists as, for example, for SW England, Pennines and northern England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc...enquiries. The late R. W. Barstow, mineral dealer in Cornwall, was most helpful in some matters. REFERENCES | | | Catalog/List | CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting | | | Catalog/List | No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban | | | Catalog/List | I Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...brown chips, probably mixed with Goethite and Lepidocrocite. 3mm £3 FcO OH Cl -10 -• • ALBERTITE near Dingwall...5cm £4 no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine | | | 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....___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...brown chips, probably mixed with Gocthite and Lepidocrocite. Small yellowish green crystals on :natrix, | | | Catalog/List | New Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall,Bahianite,Bismutite, Celestite with Sulphur,Cubanite...SnO OH Cl ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. Engl.and__ .. _ _ - •· Ix2ins Very. rich~...cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland | | | Catalog/List | fcATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL No 96 2005\ Phone 01932 862340...South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 88 Unusual rich yellow vitreous...cleavage Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue...mass Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO 2x2 £12 lx2 £6 Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U,S_A ANCYLITE Cc Rich pinkish...ANDALUSITE Ultcvis,Norlh Sweden ALLANITE Ce Dastnas Mine Sweden J 009 variety VTR.IDCNE (Mangan rich variety) | | | Catalog/List | brown chi ps, probably mixed with goethite and Lepidocrocite. Pure black-brown cleavage Mount Ste Hilaire... x i £5 Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero...SIZES SS Chee rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm £6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm £4 Colo...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon...near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l £3 l x2 £5 While crystals well covering | | | Book | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...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 | | | Journal (issue) | Page Feature Articles: The Minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania... 3 f. Haupt, R. Bottrill & S. Sorrell...District, Queensland Part 1 - The Great Australia Mine ........... 23 B. Day & B. Beyer Other Items: Editorial...your collection: Cape Grim zeolites, Sir Dominic Mine azur ites or Whim Creek wulfenites, to mention...No I, June 1995 'Ifte Minerals of the. Magnet Mine 'Tasmania John Haupt 3 Highland Boulevard Ringwood...Rivulet Road Allens Rivulet Tasmania 7150 The Magnet mine is a notable Tasmanian locality for a range of mineral | | | Journal (issue) | publication will die! If you find youself in Cornwall this year the St. Aubyn mineral collection is well worth...9234136 C Mr Pete Seymour 7 Carew Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3TP Tel 01872 262078 SE WW SE Change of...he was joined by his parents. Upon returning to England he was employed by A.C.Dunn of Rugby and seconded...Ocean; Chris reminded delegates that we actively mine millions of tonnes of sand and gravel aggregates...significant sources of metals, but the technology to mine them economically did not exist and they became | | | Catalog/List | about 2 or 3 mmon calcite. 'l'ype & only location.(St Hilaire, Quebec) 1 x ½ to lxl f5.50 103 CH~RCHITE...crystals on dar~ matrix. (not radioactive) (Leonie Mine, huerbach, Oberpfal Genany) Sto 10mmf3 l/2in;; ES...Silicate pinkish massiv~ with black Allanite (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhytt2n Vastm~~l2nd,Sw2deri) Cu/2 Se 039...(Ti Nb 0 rich black nasses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lxl E2.50 lx2 ins...PO/~ • yellowish plates on mauvEUssingit~ (UmDa Mine, Reuda, Kola Peninsula • Russia) (6a pure plate | | | Catalog/List | COBlIAM 0 7 ) 1 '1411-.A[ S l . ! 1 1 . 1 1 Y s . ENGLAND 0 9 3 2 86 2 3 4 0 ,1 1" rm orEh5i1SJ1l,:;ttt7üi...section 1/2 ins t o l i n s long I n pale Felspar St Hilaire, Quebec Canada 1x2 i n s 60p 2 x 2 ins £1...crystalline mass with Fluorescent (LW) areas o f Sodalite (St Hilaire, Quebec, Canada) lx1 £1 i n s 1 x 2 ins £2...black masses i n green A c t i n o l i t e (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan Sweden) lx1 £1.10 010ALMANDINE F...white sphere shaped nodulé. (Newhaven, Sussex,England) 1" 50p 2 " £1.00 3" £1.60 4 " £3.80 013 ALUNITE | | | Journal (volume) | and Andy Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...localities such as Tynagh Mine in Co. Galway and Pendarves Mine in Cornwall (Figs 1 and 2) serves as a...largest remaining mineral galleries in northern England. Strontianite was discovered by chance while volunteers |
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Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK