 | | Book | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | ecimens as half phosphatic geodes from the Hiocene clay vith lmm,yellow-green,tabular xtls in aggregates...FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...hexagonal xtls. LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten Down Quarry,Calstock,Cornwall. 2 specimens. Specimen A-matrix fragment richly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralisation in the Hensbarrow topaz granite, Cornwall, England Received: 9 April 1996 / Accepted: 12 November...the Hensbarrow topaz granite stock (St. Austell, Cornwall) are used to constrain the composition of fluids...magmatic fluids. In quartz-topaz rocks from the New England Batholith, Australia, solid inclusions in topaz...apophyses of the Hercynian batholith of Southwest England (Hill and Manning 1987). The stock contains abundant...open cast mining for kaolinite in the Gunheath china clay pit (Fig. 1) and have a well characterised |  | | Journal (issue) | | Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite and florencite-(Ce) from Gunheath china clay pit. St Austell...Austell. Cornwall N.J. Elton alld M.J.£. Grigg 81 Epistilbite from the Isle of Skye. Scotland D.l....Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop and R.A. Fairbairn 97 A further...widenmannite in Cornwall, England N.J. Elton and 1.1. Hooper 98 Diaboleite from Gunver Head, Cornwall, England...rauenthalite or phaunouxite, from Ivy Tor mine, Devon, England R.S. W Braithwaite, M.G.H. Merry and B. Jackson |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 28 Some recent finds at Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall by Nick Elton ................Such wa P rr. information, particularly about Cornwall, you would have been wise to ask Peter Colley...collections, a11d is used by many museums i11 tlze UK. (Ed.) North-West Branch · November Meeting: Basic...Further deposits in Ireland, Germany, Poland and the UK were described, making this a truly absorbing lecture...Ancient M ining This lecture by Adam Sharpe of Cornwall Archaeological Unit was given on 14 May 1996. |  | | 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) | | ............ 14 Greystones Quarry, Lawhitton, Cornwall by Nick Elton ..................................Colin Sparrow for the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and the vitalising of its geological collections...organised by any geological or mineralogical group in the UK. If only I could get to even a fraction of these...left school at 14 years of age to work in the china clay industry, an occupation which lasted for 48 years...fieldleaderduringthe Society's weeklongmeeting in Cornwall in 1980, when he agreed to lead the Society for |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...English China Clay Group Ltd. This later enabled me to obtain an annual pass into the working clay pits...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 & |  | | Book | | ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath...needles growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ...Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate to have a trip |  | | Journal (issue) | | Isle of Man, Caldbeck Fells, etc. the North Cornwall Lead and Antimony Mines, Dartmoor Mines, etc....Taff's Well, Machen, Dulcote, Merehead, Croft, Gunheath, Coldstones, Greystones, Hampstead Farm, etc....contained several excellent photographs taken in Melbur China Claypit, and in Wakebridge Mine in Derbyshire, and...synchesite-Ce and some good blue anatase. From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper...of copiapite in the UK as his subject. Only a few recorded specimens from the UK are known in theOA- |  | | Journal (issue) | | Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, Shoots and Leaves Truss, Lynne (2003) Eats...expanded to become one of the largest barite mines in England. Production rose to over 20,000 tons per year in...March 27th at Ladock Community Hall, near Truro, Cornwall. Some of you will remember the very successful...mineral collection of an elderly collector from mid-Cornwall who wishes to remain anonymous, and many also...collectors, particularly from the clay pits and mines of Cornwall and Devon, but also from Cumbria-which |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..................... 37 Minerals in Northern England Yorks.Geol.Soc/Northern Branch Meeting report by...This is certainly a place to visit if you are in Cornwall so make a note of it in your diaries. Get well...Musewn in Penzance. The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall have been successful in securing £92,000 from...exhibition of mineral specimens from N orthern England to be exhibited in a gallery at the H ancock M...distinguished speaker travels a long w ay, in this case, Cornwall, to give a talk to our Branch, one of the nightmare |  | | Journal (issue) | | au China: 20 cm lange Malachit-Stalaktiten. Shilu Mine, Yangchun Co., Yangjiang, Guangdong, China. Escaut...Mobil: 0152-53301879) Neu aus China: Lirokonit und Ana/elm Auch China ist von den Corona-Einschrankungen...ist ja nicht unbedingt etwas Ungewohnliches fiir China, doch selbst nach i.iber vier Monaten weil3 man...Dezember 2020 - fi.ir die beste wurden schon in China 10.000 US-Dollar gefordert. Als Fundort ist nur...auf die fri.ihesten Funde, Lirokonit: Neu aus China! Gilt als beste Stufe des Fundes vom Dezember 2021 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1966 and held several senior posts in Europe and the UK before retiring in November 1998. In 1981 he was...more field meetings than any other society in the UK, has no formal written Fieldwork Code covering visits... twinning common. I also have some of the 'wall' of the clay-filled vugh in which these crystal grew. These crystals...are similarly banded but mostly less than 2mm. The clay in the vugh was a reddish-yellow colour. For any...them because they had been 'washed' out from the clay. Has anyone else discovered these or similar crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | hours collecting together, almost entirely in Cornwall. Nick had a 'gift' for locating areas of mineralogical...took an interest in Tremearne near Porthleven in Cornwall, and discovered what I think are some of the best...best apatites (amongst other things) in the UK. He also collected superb specimens on the Lizard peninsula...George Ryback, Journal Editor Insurance The first UK RIGS Conference The Society has renewed its Public...against any claim for accident or loss. The First UK RIGS Conference was held at University College, Worcester |  | | Book | | northwest of the first, he collected good specimens of schorl and of ilmenite, the latter as unaltered and partially...rutile and iron oxides, and they are associated with schorl, quartz and cassiterite (Cairncross and Bahmann...chisel-shaped terminations, usually with some brown clay staining. ILVAITE UNITED STATES and CANADA IDAHO...lesser specimens, from the boron workings of the Bar Pit (Grant and Wilson, 2001; Moroshkin and Frishman,...underground mine in 1924, then became a giant open-pit operation in the late 1950s (Puffer, 1975;Bancroft |  | | Book | | permission of Dr Rob Chapman, bottom © The Royal Cornwall Museum; p. 4 top With kind permission of Alan...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...below are some of the coins that were minted in the UK from the Anglo-Saxon period right up until decimalisation...denarius coin. The penny was first introduced to England in AD 785 by king Offa of Mercia, and it was eventually |
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Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK