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Muscovite from
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Clinochlore1 photo of Muscovite associated with Clinochlore at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Muscovite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1497347
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1497347:5
GUID (UUID V4):4a4b984f-90b7-48e2-9616-16c8dce56285
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
2.1km (1.3 miles) Croft Gothal Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
5.3km (3.3 miles) Trencrom Hill, Trencrom, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
6.2km (3.9 miles) South Wheal Providence (South Wheal Speed), Carbis Bay, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
7.7km (4.8 miles) Megiliggar Rocks (Tremearne pegmatite), Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
8.0km (5.0 miles) Great Wheal Fortune, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
11.1km (6.9 miles) Rosemorran Mine (Rosevale Mine; Wheal Chance), Zennor, Cornwall, England, UK
13.2km (8.2 miles) Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
13.7km (8.5 miles) Bassett & Grylls Mine (Porkellis Mine; Porkellis Tin Mines; Wheal Jantar; Balwath Mine), Porkellis, Wendron, Cornwall, England, UK
13.9km (8.6 miles) South Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
14.8km (9.2 miles) Fatwork Mine, East Wheal Lovell (incl. Tregonebris Mine), Trewennack, Wendron, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aluminium arsenate mineral from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, UK I. E. GREY1,*, J. BETTERTON2...Museum, 78 High Street, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2LA, UK Mineral Sciences Dept., Natural History Museum of...arsenate mineral from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK. It occurs as tufts of... 11H2O, from the Penberthy Croft mine located in the parish of St, Hilary, Cornwall (50.1414°N, 5.4269°W)...aluminium arsenate minerals reported at Penberthy Croft mine are mansfieldite and liskeardite (Betterton
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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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UK JOURNAL M I N OF E S -----&----- M ·1 N E R A L S ISSUE N0.9 • SPRING - SUMMER 1991...EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0.5mm...collection. Photo: Mick Cooper. 3 CALCITE 4 The UK Joumol of Mi11es011dMinerals publishes articles of-interest...BAYLDONITE FROM PENBERTHY CROFT G. Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes... EDITORIAL LOOKING BACK In the course of its evolution the UK Joumol of Mints and Minerals has seen many small
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience in south-west England MONAZITE IN POLYMETALLIC CHLORITE-(TOURMALINE)-QUARTZ-(FLUORITE)CASSITERITE-SULPHIDE...CHRONOLOGY OF MAGMATIC HYDROTHERMAL MINERALISATION IN CORNWALL N.G. LEBOUTILLIER 1, R.K. SHAIL 1 AND C. JEWSON...hydrothermal mineralisation in Cornwall. Geoscience in south-west England, 10, 403-409. Monazite [(Ce,...hydrothermal lode systems of Cornwall than has been previously recognised. In situ and mine dump specimens analysed...the chronology of granite magmatism across SW England using U-Pb monazite and xenotime methods have not
Catalog/List
Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes Farm, Willand,Devon, England EX15 2QF Tel 01884 821563 Fax 01884 821724 e mail...co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Moss green acicular crystals covering entire...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Schreyer and Yoder (1961) found to consist of 'a 1 M muscovite and a 7 A phase (aluminous serpentine or septechlorite)'.... 47, P P . 2 4 0 - 2 4 1 Wroewolfeite in SW England T HE recently described copper sulphate hydroxide...found at two locations in S W England. These are D e v o n Friendship Mine, M a r y t a v y , D e v o n...n shire, a n d P e n b e r t h y Croft Mine, St. Hilary, C o r n wall. These mines were w o r k e d for...t h trending lead lode t h a t was worked in the mine a p a r t from the m a j o r east west copper lodes
Catalog/List
extra at standard post office rates. 1 PINITE (muscovite) after CORDIERITE an arrangement of these small...fibrous mass 5x3 Edwards, Balmat-Edwards Zinc District, St Lawrence Co., New York, USA. £7 6 MOHAWKITE a burnished...all over 4x4 surface. It's about lm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...Lizard Cornwall £10 15 BA YLDONITE green, small scale botryoidal 1cm x 8mm on 2.5xlcm Penberthy Croft Mine...Mine St Hilary Cornwall £6 - the type location 19 URBANITE . ( an iron rich Augite or Aegirine ) brown
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
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also the feldspar is full of minute Astrophyllite. St Peters Dome. El Paso county Colorado USA 5x4.5 £15...pink-orange cleavages in an area 8x8mm on 3x3cm feldspar St Hilaire Quebec Canada £6 10 BAYLDONITE green botryoidal...roughly half covering 3x2 surface Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall reference specimen £10 11 BAYLDONITE...micro crystals on one edge. La Finosa Mine (Fontana Rossa Mine) Corte, Corsica France £7 15 LAZULITE...LAZULITE dark blue areas up to 8mm across in muscovite and quartz matrix, from an altered quartzite. Lazulite
Journal (volume)
K. A. Dyer, Hoddlesden, Darwen, U.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. I.R. Plimer, Kensington Gardens, S...non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David Moulding...occurrence of euhedral schulenbergite at the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall John Betterton and Ian E. Grey 34–35
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Anatoly Zaitsev (b. 1963), Professor of Mineralogy at St. Petersburg State University for his contributions...2O, a new mineral from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, UK, with a structure based on...the Penberthy Croft mine in ~1.5 km from the village of Goldsithney, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England, U...U.K. (50.1414°N 5.4269°W). The mine is well known as a source of rare secondary CuPbFe arsenates and was...the characterization of minerals from the Penberthy Croft mine. Cotype specimens are deposited in the Museum
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
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
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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 (issue)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite...Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 ...COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy, The...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...beforehand. JULY/AUGUST 2008 1) ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. A shallow cavity in limonitic...40x45c30mm. £75. 2) ANGLESITE on CERUSSITE. Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia. A good six rayed stellate...colour. 70x50x40mm. £12. 7) BARYTOCALCITE. Lunehead Mine, Brough, Cumbria. A 50x30mm cavity in matrix lined...xls to 6mm. 60x50x30mm. £30. -• 8) BOLEITE. Amelia Mine, Baja, California, Mexico. Nice large thumbnail
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MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE, pure CHALCOCITE...pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...BITYITE Li and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U
Journal (issue)
I t . NUMBER 17 • AUTUMN 1996 () F s s UK journal of mines & minerals CONTENTS number...10h11Pearce COVER:CERUSSITEfrom Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen from...described in the next issue of this journal. The UK Joumal of Mines and Ali11erals publishes articles...CLASSIFIED ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 UK journal TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Ryton Typing...Institutional Sponsor: THE BRITISH MICROl\lOUNT UK Journal of Mines & l\lincrals No. 17 -1- SOCIETY
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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...Roscommon Cliff, St. Just-in-Peuwith: stokesite, 433 St. Day: cornubite, 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite...genthelvite, molybdenite, 921 Treore mine, St. Teath: beudantite, carminite, jamesonite, mimetite, scorodite
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No. Gunnislake 832381 (STD 0822) V.A...green crystals. 2ix2t". 3 ".s. ANTHOINITE. Bjordal Mine, Uganda. Specimen A - Rich whitish earthy masses...quartz. 2tx2xl". £3.25. 5. AZURITE; Copper queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co. Arizona, U.S.A. Choice, bright...cavities. 4x2xl-t'.'. £23.00. 6. AZURITE. Buckingham Mine, Doddington, Nether Stowey, Somerset. Small bright...2~x1~~1~". £3.25p. . BORNITE. Wheal Cock, st. Just, Cornwall. Very rich purply tarnished mass associated
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055............................ M: macaulayite to muscovite .......................... 321 vi Acknowledgements...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
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"ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...Castle, Tickow Lane Lead Mine, Earl Ferrers' Lead Mine, Mancetter Manganese Mine, the Great North Museum...site digs was started, the first being at Penberthy Croft Mine (2021). A real testament to the success...the original excavation of the Tickow Lane Lead Mine was one of these projects (see the 'Society Projects
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membership. Anyone joining the Society after January 31 st pays half the appropriate annual subscription. MEETINGS...dissolved and washed away. In some areas, e.g. in Cornwall, large quantities of very pure cassiterite can...North Africa, South Africa, Russia, Spain and Cornwall, but not North America where the granites have...introduced into Cornwall early in the 19th century, but unfortunately not in Haywards Heath in the 21 st century...sites in the North of England and some members have recently been in Wapping mine in Matlock - all locations
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BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 (STD 0736)...axis. £5.50. 3. APATITE. Botallack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous, creamy, well formed hexagonal...Limonitic matrix. 2x2xlt" .£2.75. ARGENTITE. Valenciana Mine, Guana,;uato, Me~ico,. Fine, bright, silvery grey... 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Select turquoise blue...etx 2lx2 w• £6.50. AXINITE. Botallack, 5t. Just, Cornwall~ 5harp, lustrous, clove brown crystals to 1 cm
 
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