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Garnet Group from
Meldon Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Garnet Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:X3Z2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Garnet Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Meldon Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:19031
Long-form Identifier:1:3:19031:2
GUID (UUID V4):d5258850-9476-4131-b515-bc4ae69f5935
Nearest other occurrences of Garnet Group
0.7km (0.5 miles) Meldon Mine, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Wheal Forest, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Meldon Reservoir, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
6.7km (4.2 miles) Belstone Consols (Mid-Devon Copper Mine), Belstone, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
8.3km (5.2 miles) Ramsley Mine (Fursdon Mine), South Tawton, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
30.1km (18.7 miles) Wheal Primrose, Callington, Cornwall, England, UK
31.8km (19.8 miles) Ware Weir, Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK
56.5km (35.1 miles) Terrace Hill Quarry, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
56.9km (35.3 miles) Wheal Maudlin (Wheal Mawdlin; Wheal Magdalen), Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
74.9km (46.5 miles) South Terras Mine (Resugga & Tolgarrick Mine; Union Mine; Uranium Mine), St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar ALMANDINE lins £4 garnet group Crystal...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins S0p ALUMINITE Al SO/4 ALUMINOTSCHERMAKITE...- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...£10 lx2£10 lx2 £1 r- - • AMAZONITE Felspar Group 16 Ix½ £5 2x2 £1.20 MICROCLINE .Green crystal...PbAgSbS lx2 S0p 2x2 £1 2x3 £I .SO Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses ANHYDRITE CaSO
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ANDRADITE garnet group ♦ ANGLES ITE Pb SO/4 ANHYDIUTE Ca SO/4 AN KERITE-KUTNAIIORITE Dolom ite group ANN ITE...Mica AN ORTHITE Fe ldspar ANORTHOCLASE Felspar Group ANTHOPH YLLITE Amphibole 2cm £8 3cm £ 15 Near...rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm £6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm £4 Colo urless to yellow...Mapimi. Mexico A LLOPHANE ALSi O A LMANDINE garnet group ♦ A LSTONITE Ba C a CO/3 A LUJ\UNITE Al SO/4...Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,Eng land Madagascar ½ x½ £2.50 lins£4 I x½ £4
Catalog/List
Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...501 A x A ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England FLUORESCENT Large brown well formed dodecahedral...Madagascar 1 ins £4 ALMANDINE 1 Crystal I inch across garnet group__________ 1 x '/2 £4 pure grey masses with..._______ Ba Ca 00/3__________ Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins50p 1x2 £1 Pure hard white sphere shaped
Catalog/List
. 348 RHODIZITE (K Cs)Al (B,Be) 0 pale yellow, garnet shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar)...BELOVITE Ce (Sr Ce Na Ca)P0/4 One of the Apatite group. , yellowish areas in USSINGITE (Alluaiv Lovozero...CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3
Catalog/List
EOCKS AHD MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE...£20 348 RHODIZITE (X Cs)Al (B,Be) 0 pale yellow, garnet shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar)...Cu Al AsO SO/4 small green plates in and on rock (West Caradon Mine,Cornwall) » x H £4 510 CHALCOCITE copper...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 - 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu ?e) ;'L...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) 54 x 54 £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3
Catalog/List
No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...solid grain-like red-brown (mass like a massive garnet-paper ! Pure greenish-brown mass lxl £2 lx2 £4...THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...Feldspar group pure pale brown cleavages. Rich black masses in matrix 2x3 £9 Fclspar Group lxl £1.50
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive...grained solid grainlikc red-brown (mnss liken massive garnet-paper I lxl £2 lx2 £4 2x2 £8 Gamet 6x6111111 £3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1961 No. 255 Beryllium minerals in Cornwall and Devon: helvine, genthelvite, and danalite. By ARTHUR W...former, three occurrences in Cornwall and one in Devon, and of the latter, one occurrence in Cornwall,...provided by two old specimens previously labelled as garnet. Partial chemical analyses for the helvine, genthelvite...three minerals are discussed. g ] ~ H E helvine group of minerals, (Mn,Fe,Zn)dBe3Si301~S, comprises J[_...with a review and discussion of the whole hclvine group, has been given by Glass, Jahns, and Stevens) As
Catalog/List
hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2£I 2x2£2.S0 Al SO/4...--- · - · · ··· _ 2x3 £I .SO 2x2£1 Staffordshire England lx2 S0p Rich white to faintly blue masses 23 Al'\HYDRITE... _ . Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry. Tvedalcn near Ix I £3 I x2 £6 2x2 £ 12 7 AN!lilTE...18 ANORTHITE ..J:.e.l_dspar 2x2£2 2x3 £4 Felspar group pun: pale brown cleavages. Ula, near Larvik, South...Brazil Rich b·iue ~~ massive 54 APATITE Felspar group 2>c3 £7.S0 Ix2 £2.SO 2x2 Holmbush Mine. Kelly Bray
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite...solid grain-like red-brown (mass like a massive garnet-paper I AISiO lxl £2 lx2 £4 2x2 £8 Gamet lx2 80p
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055.............................. 529 G: gadolinite group to gyrolite ......................... 226 X: xanthiosite...production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin and copp...further 154 species are unconfirmed. If all the group, series, variety and discredited species names are...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his
Catalog/List
formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...£6 I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...dodecahedral Madagascar I ins£4 garnet group Crystal I inch across ALSTONITE pure grey masses with possible...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- ·--- lx2 £6 ½x½£3...-�b Ag �b� 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2£1 2x3 £ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses
Catalog/List
RICHARD ’ BYWAYS, , COBHAM ENGLAND MINERALS T AY L E R C L 0 00 E 2 0 B U R S T E A D P h one SURREY...£3 348 RHODIZITE (K Cs)Al (B,Be) 0 pale yellow, garnet shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar)...OH good blue micro crystals on rock (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) 14 X 14 £2.00 lx 14 £3.50 2 ...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) S x « £2 219 MARICOPAITE Pb
Catalog/List
New Minerals in this list Acanthite, Axinite from Devon,Celsian from Wales,Clinozoisite,Colemanite crystals...1cm £6 ✓ on a ship wreck in 1885 Ives, Comwall, England ABHURITE SnO OH DESCRIPTON Pyroxene Na Fe...ALSiO ALMANDINE garnet group AlS0/4 Al S0/4 ✓ New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon .England Madagascar Railway...nearCreston . Wyoming ,U S. A Newhavcn Sussex. England I x2 £6 ½x½ £2.50 I ins £4 lx2 £2.20 IX½ £5...Rich white to faintly blue masses Staffordshire England 25 ANKERITE-KlJTNAHORITE Rich fawn massive. xrayed
Catalog/List
fcATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL No 96 2005\ Phone 01932 862340...Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue micro...France ALLOPllANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 52 501 Rich pinkish mass in dark grey homfels...£5 2x2£16 2x3£2 5 garnet group lxl£4 lx2£8 1048 ALUMJNITE Newhavcn Sussex, England Pure hard white sphere...good small grey crystal group PbSO/4 1cm £4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue
Catalog/List
COBlIAM 0 7 ) 1 '1411-.A[ S l . ! 1 1 . 1 1 Y s . ENGLAND 0 9 3 2 86 2 3 4 0 ,1 1" rm orEh5i1SJ1l,:;ttt7üi...Number 5 9 001'ACTINOLITE Amphibole Group. 002AEGIRINE Pyroxene Group 034AEGIRINE rich black fine Dark...crystal-sections i n pale Talc. (Kyle of Lochalsh by Loch Duich West Scotland) 1x2 70p ins 2 x 2 ins £1.50 Elongated...Russia) 5mm£1.80 l c m £3 007 ALBITE . Feldspar Group. grey crystalline masses showing areas o f blue...Omphacite.An attractive Eclogite rock from (Nordfjord, West Norway) 1x2 £1.20 2 x 2 £2.50 2 x 4 £6 012 ALUMINITE
Catalog/List
Amphibole Group. Dark green crystal sections in pale Tale. (Kyle of Lochalsh by Loch Duich West Scotland)...richer masses in matrix lxl f.3 006 ALBITEFeldspar Group. rich orange red masses with darker Hornblende(Kragero...(Newhaven,Sussex,England) 1" 50p 2". fl.00 3" El.GO 4" E3.80 • 017 ANALCITE. Zeolite Group White crystals...Scotland) lxl 60p lx2 El.30 008 ANDESINE Feldspar group grey, slightly crystalline masses in matrix (Mullaghderg...lxl El lx2 E2 025 ANKERITE-KUTNAHORITE (Dolomite Group) rich fawnmassive. Xrayed meial. (Sjogruvan Mine
Catalog/List
Also new: Dufrenoysite, Ferroactinolite From England: There is a seperate This catalogue Nitrobarite...pale ., . Ta:~. (Kyle of Lochalsh by Loch Duich West Scctland) lx2 70p ins 2x2 ins f.1.50 003 }J:!nGXATITE...rich2r ~s~ses in ~~trix lxl f] 006 .i\LDITSF~ld~p?.r Group. rich ora:i<}e:r:eJr::~scs with darker ;1ornble1...(Newhaven,Sussex,England) 111 50p 2" El.00 311 fl.60 411 f).80 017 ANALClTE. Zeolite Group White crystals...white masses intergrown with Selenite. (Dorset, England) lxl 60p lx2 El.20 2x2 E2.40 2x4 EJ.80 4x4ins E7
Catalog/List
__1_os__2_0_0_9� Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...squares arc new entry for this list ANALCIME Dean Quarry, Lizard ,Cornwall Achmclvich, near Lochinvcr, Scotbnd...ANATASE Lauvland, Frigstad, Evjc Norway 933 Hingston Quarry,Cornwall 16 Rich grey-white cleavages , some with...Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal with possible...solid gram-like red-brown (mass like a massive garnet-paper! ' lxl £2 lx2£4 2x2£8 Gamet £5 ---------
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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...previous largest find. The hoard was reported to the West Somerset coroner and the coins were transferred...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
Book
copyright holder is strictly forbidden. Published in England by Dragon’s World Ltd, Limpsfield and London All...Rubinstein Typeset by Bookworm Typesetting, Manchester, England Printed in Singapore Contents Introduction 7...rocks contain large crystals, often of the feldspar group and are known as porphyries. The individual crystals...are the home of a number of interesting minerals. Garnet, staurolite and andalusite are typical minerals...minerals change. A number of silicate minerals such as garnet and epidote and some sulphides giving metallic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Locality α-quartz (qtz) SiO 2 Builth Wells, Wales, UK Opal-A SiO 2·nH 2O Arkaroola, South Australia, Australia...Grossular (grs) Andradite (adr) Ideal composition Garnet group Ca 3Cr2(SiO 4)3 Ca 3(Zr,Ti)2(Al,Fe,Si) 3 O12...Olivine group Mg 2SiO4 Fe2 SiO4 Co2 SiO4 MgCaSiO 4 Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Crestmore Quarry, CA,...γ-forsterite ( γ-fo) γ-fayalite (γ-fa) Silicate spinel group Mg 2SiO4 Fe2SiO4 synthetic synthetic Zircon (zrn)... Chondrodite (chn) Humite group Mg(OH,F) 2 .2Mg2 SiO4 Limecrest Quarry, Newton, NJ, U.S.A Kyanite
Book (edition)
ROCK-FORMING MINERALS The Silica Group The Felspar Group The Felspathoid Group 73 - ' - - - . - - ...Amphibole Group The Pyroxene Group The Olivine Group The Mica Group The Scapolite Group The Garnet Group The...Tourmaline Group The Epidote Group The Phosphate and Fluoride Group The Iron-Ore Group The Spinel Group The...Zircon Group The Titanic Acid Group The Carbonate Group The Zeolite Group The Chlorite Group - . -...OCCURRENCE Ij dykes of the North of England and the dolerite West 13 of Scotland. Veins are produced
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Germany 7 i 1. Elements Copper. 42 mm. Cornwall, UK Copper Cu CUBIC • • • • • Properties: C light...dendritic aggregates occurred in the Hope's Nose, Devon. UK. A unique find of leaves up to 100 mm (4 in) was...cm across come from Redruth and St Just, Cornwall, UK. Crystals over 20 mm ("fo in) across occurred in...from the Botallack mine near St. Just, Cornwall. UK. Aggregates of thick acicular crystals up to 30 mm...Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan from Cam Brea, Cornwall, England, L'K. Crystals up to 30 mm ("/><, in) come from
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7 1. Elements Copper Copper, 42 mm, Cornwall, UK Cu CUBIC e e e e e Properties: C - light pink...dendritic aggregates occurred in the Hope's Nose, Devon, UK. A unjque find of leaves up to 100 mm (4 in) was...cm across come from Redruth and St Just, Cornwall, UK. Crystals over 20 mm (21/n in) across occurred in...mine Chalcocite, 17 mm x, Cornwall, UK near St. Just, Cornwall, UK. Aggregates of thick acicular crystals...kazgan. Kazakhstan from Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK. Crystals up to 30 mm ( n/16 in) come from L1kasi
 
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