 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Mendip Hills, Somerset. By ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY. [Read March 7, 1940.] the Mendip Hills,...together by J. W. Gough in his book 'The mines of Mendip', 1 but apart from a few general remarks on the...LM.A.4-309.] F 68 ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY ON Mendip. These specimens have fortunately been preserved...interesting localities in the area, Higher Pitts farm, near Priddy. Apart from these, the only other full...from the Mendip Hills',l in 1899, and 'New lead-copper minerals from the Mendip Hills (Somerset) ',~ in |  | | Journal (volume) | | from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of the...CONTENTS Volume 13, 2010 PAPERS The minerals of the Mendip Hills and their relationships Rick Turner and Michael...Trevor F. Bridges 61-65 A report on Westernhope Old Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges Journal...look at the work that we have been doing in the Mendip Hills (reported in this issue of the Journal) in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR...emplaced into Carboniferous limestones throughout the Mendip Hills during the late Permian or Triassic period...Antony Mine. The complexity of these formation processes probably explains the rarity of Mendip-type Pb-Mn...mereheadite, Mn deposits, oxychloride, Somerset, Mendip, Merehead, England. Introduction T HIS paper presents...contents consisted of galena and calcite (or calcite-baryte) veinstuff embedded in manganate mineral layers | | | Journal (volume) | | Anglesite Apophyllite Aragonite Ardennite Azurite Baryte Barytocalcite Bindheimite Blixite Braunite Brucite...Mn-oxide suite Mn pod contents Slag Minerals Chewton Mendip Chewton Warren “Churchill” X X X X 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 T * X X X T X X X X X “Priddy” Priddy Hill Farm Rodney Pitts (Chewton) Rowberrow Sandford Hill...* X X X X X X X X X X X * X Harptree Higher Pitts Farm + Mine Holcombe Quarry Lambs Leer Caverns + Quarry |  | | Book | | —Swildon’s Hole Site 34 — Hunter's Hole Site 35 — Priddy dry valley Site 36 — Bishop's Lot swallet and closed...Conservancy Council. Born and brought up at Chewton Mendip, where my family live, Ihave always been fascinated...and improvement work carried out by the NCC. Many Mendip localities were described by geologists working...position to undertake frequent routine maintenance of Mendip sites and it would be most helpful if schools,...maintaining and improving the field facilities in east Mendip (or elsewhere) should be addressed to the Geology |  | | 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...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Greigite. As a secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 I . ORBIS TREASU Republic of Ireland IRE250 UK £2.50 TREASUR HOW TO CONTINUE YOUR COLLECTION ...5673331 (24 hours, 7 days a week) or fax 0870 6060447 UK&REPUBLICOF IRELAND OF THE EARTH (Payment in E...issues sent direct to your door at no extra cost (UK only; £1.00 p&p for Republic of Ireland). For details...gemstones. Simply order by telephone or write to the UK address above Please state which tray you require...of the most important of these are as follows: baryte (barium sulphate); fluorite (calcium fluoride); |  | | Journal (issue) | | ., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS |  | | Journal (issue) | | this year we offer two concessions :1. Despite higher costs, we are holding the price exactly the same...Clare 9 12 Collecting Angles1te from the Hilton Mine by Steven A . Rust Francohte from C ornwall & Devon...Devon by Steven A . Rust ... Some Observations on Mendip Minerals by Michael F. Brooke ... Three Yorkshire...E I ( 198 1/92) No. I July/Aug 198 1 Fluorite La Mine de Lacan Bo n a ll M oor Min e ra ls 28 pp. , 3...No. 2 Sept/O ct I 9 Pha rm acoside rite Red Gill Mine ral Whea l G o rla nd Mille rite 32p p .. 25 illu |  | | Journal (issue) | | Anniversary Dinner Meadowfoot Smelter Minerals Make It Mine: Sir Arthur Russell Journal 298 July August 2022...10 copies of Roy Starkey’s latest book Making It Mine: Sir Arthur Russell; for SMLS members to save the...that provides a much shorter wavelength and thus a higher resolution image. A SEM scans a small area of the...background matrix contained Ba, S and O, consistent with baryte, which is well known from this location. The lighter...with this interpretation. A headline from recent UK mineral news was the re-examination of a museum specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northern segment of Merehead Quarry, near Cranmore, Somerset, exposed a large, complex manganese- and iron-rich...and closely resemble those from the near-by Higher Pitts mine (Spencer, 1923); preliminary descriptions...assemblage o f apophyllite, datolite, calcite, and baryte. Observation of the exact relationships was hampered...goethite, and contain white aggregates of platy baryte crystals up to 2 cm across. The botryoidal surface...south-west England, and the first reported from Somerset. Datolite has been found at the Ramsley mine, Devon |  | | Journal (issue) | | from many working mines and ancient but untouched mine dumps. The metalliferous mining industry is now...office at South Crofty Mine, and later on, in the same capacity at Geevor Mine. In 1978, Richard and his...died. We were far undergound in a disused Cornish mine, and although he was very weak due to this illness...illness and the exertion required getting through the mine, followed by two hours hard work with hammer and...position in the Surveyor's Department at the Geevor Tin Mine, at Pendeen, in Cornwall, and later with Consolidated |  | | 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...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Naden 63 Mineralogy of Snelston mine, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite...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...rauenthalite or phaunouxite, from Ivy Tor mine, Devon, England R.S. W Braithwaite, M.G.H. Merry and B....Jackson 100 Stalactitic galena in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England: another 17th century reference S. |  | | 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) | | and closely resemble those from the near-by Higher Pitts mine (Spencer, 1923); preliminary descriptions...assemblage o f apophyllite, datolite, calcite, and baryte. Observation of the exact relationships was hampered...goethite, and contain white aggregates of platy baryte crystals up to 2 cm across. The botryoidal surface...south-west England, and the first reported from Somerset. Datolite has been found at the Ramsley mine, Devon...Devon, apophyllite in the Levant mine, Cornwall, and both occur in the aplite quarry at Meldon, Devon. Both |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...at Easter to join the Northern Mine Research Society for a week of mine exploration, sight-seeing and |  | | Book | | "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...was started, the first being at Penberthy Croft Mine (2021). A real testament to the success of the Russell...the original excavation of the Tickow Lane Lead Mine was one of these projects (see the 'Society Projects |  | | Journal (issue) | | FRONT COVER: Vanadinite, probably from High Pim mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Orangybrown...sphalerite in Leicestershire, England R.J. King 15 Lead-zi nc-copper-arsenic-baryte mineralization from Clevedon...Bristol, England R.A. lxer, R.A. D. Pat/rick and R.E. Starkey NOTES Botallackite from Dooneen mine, Allihies...Cinnabar from Stancombe quarry, near Bristol, England N. Zachariades CONSERVING BRITA[N S MINERALOGICAL...and D. B. Johnson 40 The botanical interest of mine spoil heaps - the lichen story 0. W Purvis 45 |  | | 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...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pyromorphite crystals on plumbogummite, from Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. National Museum of Wales...myne (ore) from Mr. Foley's land at Aston' and 'mine in stock at the Black House'. The iron ores of...extremity near Clifford's Mesne (Fig. 1), called Mine Wood on the 1841 Tythe map. The latter also names...near the village (Nat. Grid. ref. SO 702 237) as Mine Wood and l~ine Ground. Arable land (SO 706 233)... near Woodgate (Fig. 1), is at present known as Mine Field, it being said locally that iron-ore was quarried |  | | Book | | A. W. G. Kingsbury LONDON BUTTERWORTHS ■ ENGLAND Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd London: S8 Kingsway...Conservancy, 1970 ISBN 0 40S 70002 5 Printed in England at the Pitman Press, Bath ) I 281495 Contents... Devon 39 Dorset 89 Gloucestershire 197 Somerset 217 A Provisional Rough Guide to the British...but mankind in general. Today in south-western England the geologist can examine the strata that fired...sites in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Gloucester. By treating each site individually |  | | Book | | the Black Cat imprint Little, Brown and Company (UK) Limited Brettenham House Lancaster Place London...characteristic rosettes of wavellite from Barnstaple, England, showing a fibrous radiating structure. Opposite:...The spellings of names follow CIM; thus pyrite, baryte and sylvine replace the older pyrites, barytes...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange |  | | Report (issue) | | W. T. Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, Kimber¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite...(M. Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition...Aluminocopiapite NMNH 93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976) Island...the Jarosite American Mineralogist, 12:424-426. Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada Copiapite Tus¬ See reference...20:277-286. Petruk, Larderello, (A. Pelloux, 1921) Mine, Kimberley, South Africa. Mineralogical W. 94172 |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...publishing his first work on the minerals of the Mendip Hills (Kingsbury 1935). he aspired to become a...Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine,nr Priddy,Somerset Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)'...meneghinile Pengenna mine,St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria...CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth mine,Grassinglon, Yorkshire Severallocalities in theLakeDistrictandComw melacinnabar |
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