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Amethyst from
Land's End, Sennen, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Headland
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Land's End, Sennen, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1334280
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1334280:9
GUID (UUID V4):e1a2966f-a640-4132-93cf-3579041eb04f
Localities for Amethyst in this Region
Nanjizal Bay (Nangisel Cove), Land's End, Sennen, Cornwall, England, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
5.7km (3.5 miles) ā“˜Bosorne Mine, Cot Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
5.9km (3.7 miles) ā“˜Wheal Bellan (Wheal Bellon), Cot Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
6.0km (3.7 miles) ā“˜Bollawal Mine, Carn Gloose, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
6.2km (3.8 miles) ā“˜Little Bounds Mine, St Just Amalgamated Mines (incl. Wheal Penzance), St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
6.9km (4.3 miles) ā“˜Wheal Call (Wheal Cole; Wheal Coal), Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
7.0km (4.3 miles) ā“˜Wheal Castle, Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) ā“˜Balleswidden Mine, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
7.2km (4.5 miles) ā“˜Wheal Grouse, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
7.3km (4.6 miles) ā“˜Wheal Drea, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
7.5km (4.6 miles) ā“˜Lower Bostraze China Clay Pit, Tregeseal Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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Report (edition)
ASSOCIATION GUIDES Noo 19 West Cornwall by A. HALL ITINERARY Introduction I. Land's End Peninsula II. Mount's...incorporation in any furtl,er edition. West Cornwall by A. HALL INTRODUCTION has long been one of...distribution of the major rock units is shown in Fig. 1. CORNWALL Iā€¢ā€¢+Ā·j Granite 3 D Devonian sediments filffm...10 20 kilometres Fig. I. Outline map of West Cornwall, showing the areas covered by the five itineraries...sedimentary rocks occupy the largest part of west Cornwall. The Devonian rocks are shales and sandstones
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undoubtedly invest in a proper geological hammer, with one end like a fine pick and the other square-headed. The...\lirtually no equipment, the pebble hunter in Cornwall can embark on a pastime that is healthy and relaxing...Europe. 4 - Ii A LI T TLE OF GEOLOGY I N Cornwall, as elsewhere, there are three main types of rocks...and is found for example around Lamorna in the Land's End. When polished it makes a fine ornamental building...sedimentary rocks, and these are the most common type in Cornwall. As the name implies, these were laid down as
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THE LAND'S END BY THE SAME AUTHOR NATURALIST IN LA PLATA IDLE DAYS IN PATAGONIA THE PURPLE LAND...IVES Frontispiece THE LAND'S END | A NATURALIST'S IMPRESSIONS WEST CORNWALL IN BY W. H. HUDSON...CHAPTER I. II. WINTERING GULLS AT IN WEST CORNWALL ST. IVES . . III. CORNWALL'S CONNEMARA IV...XVIII. . i CASTLES BY THE SEA THE XVII. . THE END OF ALL THE LAND : XIII. XVI. . . . . . ...SPRING IN ITS GLORY PILGRIMS AT THE LAND'S INDEX . . END . . 240 .261 ABOUT a fourth part
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Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...encumbered . The copious list of synonyms at the end of the volume will, however, render this work adapted...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLANDā€” (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE
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AMETHYST IN THE SEA By JOE ROTHSTEIN Lapidary and Gem Society of New York Downloaded by [Purdue University...Libraries] at 08:11 10 August 2017 Hotel Paris, 725 West End Ave., New York 25, N. Y. Nova Scotia in the Maritimesā€”the...fat "Guide to New York State" and the many "New England Journeys", but it hadn't been much of a preparation...the car over a narrow dirt road to a virtual land's end. Leaving the car topside, we climbed down to...headed for the cliffs. On the way I found a few amethyst points not amounting to much and some mediocre
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Summer Field Meeting in west Cornwall 15- 20 September 1974 Report by the Directors: A. HALL and N ....JA CKSON . 1975. Summer Field Meeting in west Cornwall, 15-20 September 1974. Proc. Geol. Ass .. 86 (I)...petrological and mineralogical interest in west Cornwall. In addition to visits to the granites and their...collection of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Department of Geol ogy , King's College, Strand...INTRODUCTION The Summer Field Meeting was held in west Cornwall to see the igneous and metamorphic rock s of the
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by Alison Hodge, 2 Clarence Place, Penzance, Cornwall TRI8 2QA, www.alison-hodge.co.uk, info@alison-hodge...Cornish minerals. Thanks also to Michael Merry of Cornwall Devon Mineral Specimens (www. cornwalldevonmineralspecimens...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall: Callington to Calstock Rocks of Cornwall Precious Metals and Semi-precious...technical this will increase your appreciation Cornwall, Inevitably, language, but (pax ranges it
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MEMOIRSĀ· Ā·OF Ā·-1}RE-Ā·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -: ,. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. - -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...THE GE.O LOG yĀ·ļæ½ ., ., ' OF TIIE ā€¢, \ - END ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ , ,.,r.' ' ,. ' \ .. .. -ļæ½-. ā€¢ ...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F PRACTICAL GEOLOGYā€¢ of...6d. A Compl1 ļæ½) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake ENGLAND .i Diļæ½ļæ½rct) Dewon;}; ' ....' .. -: Torquay NEW...BASJNGSTOI(.E (Colour printed) ā€¢ā€¢ $51 & 858. LAND'S END DlSTRIOT ā€¢ā€¢ 1 6 ā€¢ā€¢ 298. SALISļæ½URY (OdlO'ur prin
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the sake of convenience, given separately at the end, and their locality expressed, by stating the nearest...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. ā€” Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...protect iron from oxidation. LOCALITIES. ā€” England. Cornwall; near Tuckingmill, Cam borne, and in a granite...7 Hydrogen 12.6 Carbon 101.3 LOCALITIES. - Cornwall. At Wheals Unity and Jewel, in Gwennap, and
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Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. UKjourna! & 1ninera!s of mines CONTENTS...NODULES from BOULBY MINE DI GreenĀ· MD Freier 8 The UK Journal of Mines 011d Minerals publishes articles...ā€¢lick Cooper has tirelessly devoted himself to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals for several years in...period~ve have seen publications dealing with Cornwall and Devon, the Lake District, the Caldbeck Fells...classic minerals and their localities south-west England; characterising new mineral species, and the challenges
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Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; 'ā€™i 'ā– -ā–  ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collectorā€™s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has...A6Nfl^ fe'Pk :. g,TRURO <4 J -St AUS FELL Sā€™ LAND'S EHdG HOUMTSS. HEL5TOW PENZANCEJH ^ntE'UZARD ...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS
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.... i CYassiterite, " Sparable Tin," from Cornwall. By R. H. SOLLY,~r F.GoS. [Read November llth...Sparable Tin have been raised from various mines in Cornwall ; a description of this variety may therefore...contain. The name " Sparable T i n " is peculiar to Cornwall, and has been given to this variety of Cassiterito...deduce a law by the aid of such material. With this end in view I have brought together descriptions of the...the various specimens of the Sparable Tin of Cornwall. LITERATURE. 1814. 1822. 1823. 1852. 1856. 1855
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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 ā€˜ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action...are older rocks on the Lizard peninsula, most of Cornwall consists of Devonian rocks, known locally as ā€œkillasā€™
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Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious...collections. I About this Book Fluorite on amethyst. Wheal Jane, near Truro (le(t) . Bornitc, Corn...physical properties of minerals (pages I I 0- 1 I). Cornwall, for its size, has one of the most diverse ranges...1n museum collections such as hose of the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro and the aural His ory Museum
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There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...growths of pure gold. through purple crystals of amethyst to huge masses of iron copper sulphide. Chosen...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e ā€¢ ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and
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precise weight categories finally takes place at the end of the various sorting operations. Hand sieving used...it is small at one end and large at the other. The rolls are inclined so that the end with the wide gap...lowest. Diamonds are fed, in single line, to the top end of the rolls, and as they pass down the rolls under...without j a m m i n g or flooding. At the output end of the track, the diamonds are dropped one-at-a-time...at the start of the screw feeder and one at its end. J. Gemm., 1977, XV 8 421 T h e operation of
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LA9 6AD Tel:(01539) 724988 Fax: (01539) 734761 UK journal of mtnes & minerals CONTENTS number...show, p. I 0. Photo David Green. 3-----------The UK Joumal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles of...Tel (01909) 476906 46 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -1- EDITORIAL...of a mineral. MineralogicalMagazi11e59, 767-768. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -Z- "" (' ...recent addition to the Manchester Museum Collection. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -3- MINERAL
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SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.0119.uk ....................................... Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·...experlonce of its members tn rock, minor:al, gemstone end fossil <::01lectlng and their cutting, polishing...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
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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
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collector'sguide 1 28 A list of 111i11eral localities in England, f;f/ ales and Scotland 13 1 Bibliography and further...Spoil heaps associated with the old tin mines of Cornwall, 52 A crinoidal limestone from the Peak District...Agate pebbles from the easr coast bc.:achesof England. 116 .io. A beach on the Lleyn Peninsula, North...Mull to the agates of Fife, from the turquoise of Cornwall to the 'Blue John' of Derbyshire, Britain is a...110w thl.'.British Isles. England also has its interesting areas. Cornwall with its barren moorland cenery
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Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11 lllit/, co,uribwions by...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,Ā·ri.11lĀ·ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...Ā·otlĀ·d co till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of PlĀ·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & MimĀ·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL...whittling-away of the old minesites throughout the UK: foremost in the list of threats arc the use of sites
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GeothermalEnergyProject,CamborneSchoolof Mines,PenrynTR109DU, Cornwall,Urā€¢itedKingdom DAVID A. C. MANNING, Departmentof...ore field, in the northwesternpart of the Lands End pluton,andin the south-centralpart of the Carnmenellispluton...sistingof cassiteriteandrutile. The cassiteriteoccurs End and Dartmoor plutons.The Haytor iron ore de- in severaldistinct...sepaequigranularvarients characterizethe northern end ration of the fluid into high-salinity (more than...crack-seal growth,openfrom these lodes in the eastern end of the ore field. spacefillingin vaporphase,dissolution
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...\fi11eralsof Britai11and /re/a11d(.\IBI)is a summary of the end Ā·a,Ā·ours of many mineralogists. both amateur and...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
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Halite 59 Bloodstone 89 Gypsum - 90 50 51 Amethyst 87 Aurichalcite 49 Smoky quartz Citrine 86...wrong but his approach was revolutionary, and by the end of the eighteenth century the foundations of mineralogy...druses are in particular a rich source of agate and amethyst. Another rich source of minerals is the pegmatite...dop-stick, a wooden stick about 5 inches long to the end of which the stone is cemented with a special wax...facets are then ground on by inserting the other end of the dop-stick in the appropriate hole in a template
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permission of Dr Rob Chapman, bottom Ā© The Royal Cornwall Museum; p. 4 top With kind permission of Alan...business - and in any case, they will generally end up in the hands of someone who values heritage above...gold and gemstones, and to the meadows of middle England to look for buried historical treasure. You will...1980s, when over 50,000 people were involved in the UK alone. Today there are around 30,000 detectorists...prosperity. Finds usually date from towards the end of the Roman empire, when enemies were closing in
 
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