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Breccia from
Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Breccia
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Breccia data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1318087
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1318087:4
GUID (UUID V4):3e1f90eb-d3ce-49dc-921b-23d10e608ab1
Nearest other occurrences of Breccia
50.3km (31.3 miles) Corbyn's Head, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England, UK
50.4km (31.3 miles) Wheal Remfry China Clay Pit, Fraddon, St Enoder, Cornwall, England, UK
52.5km (32.6 miles) Peppercombe, Parkham, Torridge, Devon, England, UK
63.4km (39.4 miles) Littleham Bay, Budleigh Salterton, East Devon, Devon, England, UK
72.8km (45.3 miles) Wheal Maid Decline, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...60x30x30mm. £28. 6) ARSENOPYRITE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Killas matrix with a 30mm chlorite/quartz...CASSITERITE and MOLYBDENITE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. A quartz veinstone showing a single 10mm...brochantite. 40x20x3mm. £9. 18)FELDSPAR. St Austell, Cornwall. An off white "Carlsbad Twin" xl showing almost...CRANDALITE. 15 Level, South Lode, Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall. A very pale transleucent sea green cubic part
Book
Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...It was during the latter that deposits were laid down, later to form the shales, slates and sandstones...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Acknowledgements 350 Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction...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 &
Report (issue)
l)11t where p<}ssible tl1e Olttcrops were lai(l down from observations in the field h}-r tl1e officers...supplied at the cost of drawing and colouring. CORNWALL. 15. NE., by H. Dewey; SE., by G. Barrow and H...Kaolinised Granite ••• Granite of Kit Hill and Gunnislake Elvans ••• ••• ••• • •• CHAPTER VI.-METAMORPHIC...-Bangor Cornish Slate-quarry ..' ••• ••• 31 ••• ••• ••• ... ,, 2.-Barracadoes Quarry, St. Stephen . . ....near Brentor ••• •• • 39 ••• ... ... ••• ,, 4.--Quarry near Ooryton Station . ••• 43 ,, 5.--Quart,y near
Catalog/List
- --q.,_u_artz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___::H_i_l_?fY Cornwall __________ _ _ _ _ __ _________ AGRELLITE Excellent...½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins S0p ALUMINITE Al SO/4 ALUMINOTSCHERMAKITE...- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...PbAgSbS lx2 S0p 2x2 £1 2x3 £I .SO Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses ANHYDRITE CaSO
Journal (issue)
Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England ......................... Bill Pinch at the Tucson Show in 2008. Kent England photo. The Pinch Medal, established in Bill’s...of Lincoln: “A tree is best measured when it is down—and so it is with people.” Looking over Bill’s career... 1, The Old Coach Yard, East Coker, Somerset, England BA22 9HY Tucson USA Visit us at these international...exposure—immense rocks of an impure iron ore. Continuing down the south face, I discovered a very fine iron ore
Journal (issue)
Chairman of the South-East Branch has had to step down due to personal circumstances. Peter deserves a...this. As you know, Dr. Norman Moles has stepped down from the Editor’s chair of the RS Journal. Many...nice crystals? There will be events held around the UK and across the world, but one which caught my attention...as you will no doubt be aware, some parts of the UK are richer, mineralogically, than others and therefore...I have suggested an overview of the whole of the UK. I will be focussing on the period from the mid-eighteenth
Catalog/List
formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- ·--- lx2 £6 ½x½£3...-�b Ag �b� 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2£1 2x3 £ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses...ANNITE Pure black mica plate new Analys is. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Mica paper avail'!�_____ _ ___Larv
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elvans and lamprophyres. Geoscience in South-West England, 13, 459-470. The TellusSW survey of 2013-4 consisted...LiDAR and eK. Rose Cottage, Church Hill, Calstock, Cornwall, PL18 9QQ, U.K. and Camborne School of Mines... INTRODUCTION Geological mapping in Devon and Cornwall and subsequent interpretation is often difficult...magnetic surveys were first flown in Devon and Cornwall in 1956 and 1957-9, respectively. Regional geochemical...of higher resolution public domain surveys in the UK: in the English Midlands, Isle of Wight and Northern
Report (issue)
and tin-bearing vein from Hemerdon deposit, Devon, UK. The tungsten is present in wolframite, the dark...www.MineralsUK.com Deposit type Skarn Vein/breccia/stockwork Porphyry Disseminated Stratabound Total...the Czech Republic through France and south-west England and into Spain and Portugal also has some important...typified by the Cornubian orefield in south-west England (see section on Britain). Tin, copper, lead-zinc...metagreywacke-slate belts e.g. Glenorchy (New Zealand). Breccia deposits Breccia zones consisting of rock fragments of
Report (volume)
: : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring the information up...been made of the published accounts of mining in Cornwall and Devon, and reference to the principal sources...The Ca.radon District, pp. 46-54. V. The East Cornwall a.nd Devon District, pp. 54---61. VI. The South...List of published six-inch Geological maps of Cornwall 63 APPENDIX : ... INDEX m t78JlU4l6 Wt 2455C-S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations Jens... Shail, Robin K., Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations,...Ore Geology Reviews Indium mineralisation in SW England: host parageneses AC CE P TE D and mineralogical...Cornubian batholith, SW England 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT The SW England ore region contains significant...Interestingly, we have no reason to believe that SW England is different to other regions with granite-related
Journal (issue)
219 SYMPOSIUM. The structure of South West England A general view of the structure of Cornubia. By.... 237 The Structures of Mid-Devon and North Cornwall. By E. C. Freshney and R. T. Taylor. ... ... ...Form and structure of the granites of South West England. By M. Stone. ... ... ... 253 ... ... En-echelon...formed structures between Port Isaac and Tintagel, Cornwall (Abstract). By D. M. Hobson. ... 264 Deformation...of the Gramscatho and Mylor Beds, Perranporth, Cornwall. By D. J. Sanderson. ... ... ... ... 266 Evidence
Catalog/List
Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...of ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall Pure black-brown cleavage Yakutia,Russia PRICES...A x A ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England FLUORESCENT Large brown well formed dodecahedral..._______ Ba Ca 00/3__________ Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins50p 1x2 £1 Pure hard white sphere shaped
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
Journal (issue)
....... 341 Triassic evaporites in south-west England (Abstract). By G. Warrington..................... Supra-batholithic volcanism of the south-west England granites. By M. E. Cosgrove and M. H. Elliott……………………………...geochemical data on rocks from the Lizard complex Cornwall. By P. A. Floyd………………………………………... 402 A preliminary...shelf (Abstract): by J.E. Wright Much of Devon and Cornwall comprises a massif of Palaeozoic and older rocks... So far, only two wells have been drilled in the UK part of the Celtic Sea and none in the South-West
Journal (issue)
Carboniferous faunas and palaeogeography of the South West England region. By W. H. C. Ramsbottom. ... ... 144 Stratigraphy...deformation of Armorican structures in South East Cornwall. By A. N. Lane. ... 197 The composition of Cornish...... 205 New Isotopic age-determinations, S.W. England (Abstract). By R. R. Harding and J. R. Hawkes....the geochemistry of an area around Perranporth, Cornwall. By S. Henley. 210 The following paper was also...Carboniferous faunas and palaeogeography in the South West England region was given by Dr. W. H. C. Ramsbottom of
Report (issue)
HOBSON INTRODUCTION Most of the south-west of England is formed of Upper Palaeozoic rocks, a section...Mesozoic sediments (Fig. 1 ). In southernmost Cornwall and Devon. the igneous and metamorphic complexes...one of the first to be established in south-west England, mainly due to the work of W. A. E. Ussher. Around...Devonian rocks could be traced across central Cornwall and south Devon. The succession which Ussher established...Lower Devonian rocks of South Devon and adjacent Cornwall occupy the core of an anticlinal structure, the
Catalog/List
Chee rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm £6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm £4 Colo urless to...near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l £3 l x2 £5 While crystals well covering...paper available. Rich grey crystalline mass. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larv ik, Norway Ix I £1.50 Ix I...pale grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2 £2 Loch Scridain Mull...Kelly Bray , Cornwall Francois Lake, Bri tish Columbi a Canada Holm bush Mine Cornwall £3 2x2 £5.00
Journal (issue)
acicular crystals 9 mm long on calcite. Fall Hill quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire. Collected 1979. Roy Starkey...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...Derbyshire, England 89 A. Dyer, 0..\1. Wilson and B. Young Milarite from Shap granite quarry, Cumbria
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline...ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite...½" £2 lxl £4 lx2 £6 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses CaS0.'4 lx2 £1
Journal (issue)
........ 7 Searching for Bournonite Micros in Cornwall .................................................................. 20 Pyrite Twins from Todd's Quarry, Northland, New Zealand .........................main working face and continuation of a smaller down dip face that is also paralleling the anticlinal...decline as we ran out of quality specimens in the down dip part of the anticline’s southern limb. We developed...advancing faces whether you are going across or down dip of the anticlinal limb but we believe, subject
Journal (issue)
........................... . Keeping Our Costs Down- Every Little Helps! .............................Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................a loss; especially to members in the north of England. On a more up-beat theme, there is positive news...to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry
Journal (issue)
Research into the geology and geomorphology of S. W. England Volume 5 Part 4 1983 Edited by G.M Power The...into the geology and geomorphology of South West England and the surrounding marine areas; to hold Annual...Annual Conferences at various places in South West England where those engaged in this research can meet formally...Line, Cornwall. M. STONE and M.C. GEORGE: Some phosphate minerals at the Megilligar Rocks, Cornwall. G.A...deposition of the Bude Formation (Westphalian), north Cornwall and north Devon. LS. ROXBURGH: Notes on the hydrogeology
Book (volume)
IE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF UTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume II LONDON HER MAJESTY ' S STATIONERY OFFICE...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South -West England Volume II By H...iv CHAPTER V . — Details OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 8. St. Austell district... .. .. 623 Kit Hill (p . 624); Gunnislake (p . 636 ) ; Calstock (p . 644 ); Luckett, Latchley and...figures of men working near the top right of the quarry face. (A .427) . . PLATE XI. A . - CASTLE-AN
 
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