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Cerussite from
Wesley Mine, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cerussite
Formula:PbCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cerussite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wesley Mine, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15343
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15343:6
GUID (UUID V4):dc8244c6-d0f0-4ff9-9da5-8ede96f02c0c
Nearest other occurrences of Cerussite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Coombe Farm Quarry, Henbury, Bristol, England, UK
16.7km (10.4 miles) Chipping Sodbury Quarry (Hampstead Farm Quarry), Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
17.9km (11.1 miles) Clevedon Beach, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
22.5km (14.0 miles) Blackdown Hill, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
23.7km (14.7 miles) Sandford Hill Quarry, Winscombe and Sandford, North Somerset, England, UK
25.6km (15.9 miles) Batts Coombe Quarry, Cheddar, Sedgemoor, Somerset, England, UK
29.3km (18.2 miles) Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
35.8km (22.2 miles) Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
36.5km (22.7 miles) Colemans Quarry, Nunney, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
36.8km (22.9 miles) Cwm Leyshon Quarry, Draethen, Caerphilly, Wales, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
5 x 2 mm) of zeunerite on drusy quartz. The sample was collected ill situ on the 300 foot leve l, C1igga...South Wales I. Plimer Alumohydrocalcite from the Bristol District C. Alabaster The secondary mineralogy...variety, from the Britannia Mine , North Wales, and from the Botallack Mine, Cornwall A.M. Pollard, R.G...Williams, R.E. Bevins and S. Turgoose 23 The Wesley Mine; a further occurrence of manganese oxide-hosted...the Bristol District C. Alabaster 29 1 5 11 15 NOTES Birnessite from Penberthy Croft Mine , Cornwall-
Journal (issue)
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...with the PDMHS Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications
Journal (volume)
Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0DD, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK [Received 21 March 2012; Accepted 10 August 2012;...mineral species which is associated with calcite, cerussite, diaboleite, hydrocerussite and undifferentiated...a manganese pod at Merehead quarry, Somerset, England. Rumseyite is tetragonal, I4/mmm, a = 4.065(1)...110(12)(006). The crystal structure of rumseyite is based on alternating [OFPb2] and Cl layers. Rumseyite is related
Report (issue)
alamosite, shattuckite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, wickenburgite (Artillery Peaks, Arizona, USA)...Merehead quarry, Wesley mine, and at Higher Pitts Farm, Priddy, Somerset, and at Westbury-on-Trym, Avon, England...New Mexico; in Arizona, at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., and from a Pb{Cu prospect near...Geol. 3, 141{151. (3) Glasser, F.P. (1967) New data on kentrolite and melanotekite: ternary phase relations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pb oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England R. W. TURNER1,*, O. I. SIIDRA2, M. S. RUMSEY3,...Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Mineral Deposits, St Petersburg State...(Torr Works) Quarry, near Cranmore, Somerset, England. Yeomanite is named in joint recognition of Mrs...Society mine in Namibia, the Mammoth St. Antony mine in Tiger, Arizona and the Kunibert mine in Rhine-Westphalia
Journal (volume)
contributors can be found at the back of this issue, on the Society website (www.russellsoc.org) or obtained...silica gel. Collected on a Russell Society field trip in June 2006 from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead...Orefield Trevor F. Bridges 61-65 A report on Westernhope Old Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite...Långban in Sweden, the Kombat Mine in Namibia, and the Mammoth St. Anthony Mine in Tiger, Arizona. • Production
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...perhaps more significant occurrences of species already on record. (A mineral should not normally appear in...form, still remains the only general reference work on British Isles minerals. Its age limits its usefulness...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as
Journal (issue)
., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...SS x SSmm with smokey quartz and mica, one of two on a large specimen bought by John Ruskin from Bryce...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...of the Editorial Board. Publication of information on a collecting site does not imply access is available...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL
Journal (issue)
from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 Growth of acanthite on native silver...first editor of its Journal, and acknowledged expert on the topographical mineralogy of Britain and the conservation...and development of that institution, and remaining on the staff for over 30 years. The teaching collection...of the establishment. When the time came to pass on the editorship, the Society was fortunate in choosing...significant to report, it is worth the effort to place it on permanent record. This Journal would like to see
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Abstract Parkinsonite, ideally (Pb,Mo, D)sOsC12...from the Merehead Quarry, Craumore, Somerset, England. It occurs as compact clusters or patches of red...mendipite, diaboleite, chloroxiphite, wulfenite, cerussite and hydrocerussite. Discrete crystals were not...Reginald F. D. Parkinson, mineral collector of Somerset, UK, who first found the mineral. KEVWOROS:parkinsonite...Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, in the south west of England [lat. 51~ long. 2~ It is named after Reginald F
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
products of lead-containing artefacts. The effect of CO2 on the system is also described. K EVw ORD S : lead...does fiedlerite) but has also been reported from a mine in the Sierra Gorda, Chile, and as a corrosion product...results of this study, incorporating observations on the corrosion of lead in seawater and related naturally... for the latter species, this conclusion is made on the basis of synthetic experiments at that temperature...Hills, England (Spencer and Mountain, 1923; Symes and Embrey, 1977; Alabaster, 1989), the Tiger Mine, Arizona
Journal (volume)
contributors can be found at the back of this issue, on the Society website (www.russellsoc.org) or obtained...cubes (to 15 mm) with minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph...2012 PAPERS Geology and mineralisation at Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria Brian Young 3-18 A geochemical...mineral assemblage of the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK using a stability field model Trevor F. Bridges,...of type mineral species at the Benallt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Crystallography, St Petersburg State...University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK [Received 30 March 2011; Accepted 6 December 2011;...interwoven minute fibrous crystals with mereheadite, cerussite, calcite, aragonite, mimetite, hydrocerussite...1.79, CuO 0.14, Cl 6.62 wt.%; H2O was calculated on the basis of structural considerations as 2.27 wt...totalling 97.02 wt.%. A charge-balanced formula, based on 12 anions, is Pb7.16Mg0.81Cu0.03Cl3.40H4.60O8.60
Book
I"t\TEREST Co,zfi·onting catastrophe: nell'perspecrh·es on n:iwra d's sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...appreciate the importance ofh:l\'ing many specimens on display. The next issue to surface during the writing...deserves a book on its own. All I ha,·e been able to do in 1\1[8/ is flag and comment on affected species...details. With a contract signed. the pressure was on to tum my list into a book. Little did I know what
Report (issue)
9922(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Merehead quarry, England. 2.983 (100), 2.816 (78), 1.989 (75), 1.658 (51)...88.4 4.4 1.0 Total [99.8] (1) Merehead quarry, England; by electron microprobe, average of six analyses...diaboleite, cerussite, paralaurionite, wulfenite, calcite, manganese oxides (Merehead quarry, England). Distribution:...Cranmore, and from the Wesley mine, Didsbury, near Bristol, Somerset, England. Name: For Reginald F.D...collector and dealer, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, who first found the mineral. Type Material: The
Journal (volume)
Mg-calcite Calcite var. manganocalcite Celestine Cerussite Cesarolite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Chloroxiphite... X X X X X X X X X Stancombe Lane Wesley Mine Westbury-sub-Mendip Whatley Quarry Wick Quarry X...X X X X X X X * X Harptree Higher Pitts Farm + Mine Holcombe Quarry Lambs Leer Caverns + Quarry X X
Catalog/List
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Report (issue)
White. Luster: Pearly to silky on cleavages; resinous to adamantine on fractures. Optical Class: Biaxial...00 (1) Mendip Hills, England; corresponds to Pb3.14 Cl2 O2.15 . (2) Kunibert mine, near Brilon, Germany...manganese oxide ores (Somerset, England). Association: Hydrocerussite, cerussite, malachite, pyromorphite,...diaboleite, parkinsonite (Somerset, England). Distribution: In England, from the Higher Pitts Farm, the...the Priddy Hill Farm, the Wesley mine, and near Churchill, Mendip Hills, and in the Merehead quarry, near
Report (issue)
Twinning: Almost all crystals are twinned by contact on {100}. Physical Properties: Cleavage: {001}, perfect...phosgenite (Laurium, Greece); leadhillite, matlockite, cerussite, hydrocerussite, diaboleite, wherryite (Tiger... Harz Mountains, Germany. From the Argent Pb–Ag mine, about 100 km east of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South...at Daymer Bay, Padstow, Cornwall, and at the Wesley mine, near Higher Pitts, Mendip Hills, and the Merehead...Mallet, Somerset, England. Exceptional crystals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co.,
Journal (issue)
Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten...'Continued on p. 319 COVER: PYROMORPHITE crystal group, 6 cm tall, from the Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg...cases with fluorescent or incandescent lighting, on/off switches, adjustable plate-glass shelves, sliding...” He also makes thumbnail cases. The workmanship on these is very nice, and Tom can add some traditional
Report (issue)
Pyramidally-terminated prismatic crystals, to 1 cm, tabular on {100} and elongated along [010]. May be striated...Color: Colorless, white. Luster: Adamantine, pearly on {100}. Optical Class: Biaxial (–). Orientation: X...Occurrence: Produced by the action of saline water on lead-bearing slag. In the oxidized zone of lead-bearing...Paralaurionite, penfieldite, fiedlerite, phosgenite, cerussite, anglesite. Distribution: Probably more widespread...and the Wesley mine, near Higher Pitts, Somerset, England. From the Nant-y-Cagl (Eaglebrook) mine, Ceulanymaesmawr
Journal (issue)
COVER: Millerite, acicular crystals up to 7 mm long, on crystalljsed siderite. Ferndale , Rhondda Fach, Mid...Naden 63 Mineralogy of Snelston mine, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite... Wood 85 Zeolite occurrences in basaltic dykes on the Western Isles of Scotland A. Dyer. O. Wilson...Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop and R.A. Fairbairn 97 A further...Cornwall, England N.J. Elton and 1.1. Hooper 98 Diaboleite from Gunver Head, Cornwall, England R.S. W
Journal (issue)
FRONT COVER: Millerite, acicular crystals 9 mm long on calcite. Fall Hill quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire. Collected... Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower, Swansea, south Wales...with schulenbergite from Cornwall and Cumbria, England D.J. Green. J Betterton, R. Bell and T /lieall...Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite from Bwlch mine, Deganwy, Conwy... 88 \latrolite from Calton Hill. Derbyshire, England 89 A. Dyer, 0..\1. Wilson and B. Young Milarite
Report (edition)
Back cover photograph: Pink tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry...Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology ( 1816) was the first textbook on American mineralogy (Mitchell...lists. Neil Wintringham contributed much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other...also provided useful suggestions and information on localities. Robert Johnston prepared the maps for...photograph used on the front cover, and John Poisson provided the photograph used on the back cover.
 
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