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Azurite from
Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite3 photos of Azurite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Tyrolite2 photos of Azurite associated with Tyrolite at this locality.
Zincolivenite1 photo of Azurite associated with Zincolivenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20256
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20256:5
GUID (UUID V4):7f92cd1f-b752-4682-a2b9-dde0a205be1c
Nearest other occurrences of Azurite
35.1km (21.8 miles) Nant Paradwys, Rhayader, Powys, Wales, UK
35.3km (21.9 miles) Rhiwnant Mine, Rhayader, Powys, Wales, UK
35.7km (22.2 miles) Nant-y-Car Mine, Rhayader, Powys, Wales, UK
43.3km (26.9 miles) Santley Mine, Hope-Shelve District, Shropshire, England, UK
45.1km (28.0 miles) Cothercott Mine, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, England, UK
45.6km (28.3 miles) Wilderley Mine, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, England, UK
46.1km (28.7 miles) Westcott Mine, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, England, UK
46.7km (29.0 miles) Cwmystwyth Mine, Cwmystwyth, Upper Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
47.0km (29.2 miles) Huglith Vein, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, England, UK
48.3km (30.0 miles) Wrentnall Mine, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (volume)
Green 19 32 Richelsdorfite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys: the first British occurrence Neil...Tetrahedrite-group minerals from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys David I. Green, Neil Hubbard and Andrew... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...is noted on specimens from the two-hundred-year-old Joseph Dawson collection, which is preserved at Cliffe
Journal (issue)
UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. ARSENTSUMEBITE FROM DOLYHIR QUARRY Neil Hubbard • David Green • Tom Cotterell...Cox • Ron Cleevely 31 PARALSTONITE FROM DOLYI-IIR QUARRY Tom Cotterell CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean...FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges 55 ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD
Catalog/List
■■ CRYPTOMELANE Moel Llyrnant, Arenig, Gwynedd, Wales Rich black massivt: to botryoidal with some matrix...crystals. Location interest. ½" £3 lxl£5 lx2£8 65 ■ AZURITE Toussit Morocco Good blue crystalline coating on...· lf22 ■■ BANNISTERITE - ·· Benallt Mine. Lleyn Wales '-J ' Dark brown veinlets, quite rich with calcite...x2 £6 2x2 £ IO Mn 0 Si0 1136 ■ BROOKITE Prenteg Wales Orange brown small plaly crystal sections on quartz...2x3 £6 Feldspar -- 127 ■■ EWALDITE Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys.Wales Single palt: yellow micro
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...adopted almost exclusively. Thus Wales is divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into...confusing suite of counties surrounding Cardiff in Wales, which are simply referred to as Glamorgan. The
Journal (volume)
Central Wales Orefield Tom Cotterell 15-25 NOTE The composition of volborthite from Newhurst Quarry, Leicestershire...part of the Central Wales Orefield. There are notes on volborthite from Newhurst Quarry, Leicestershire,...Croft Mine and Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall; Dolyhir Quarry, Powys; Ecton Hill, Staffordshire; Potts Gill,...Tynagh Mine, High Longrigg Mine, Ecton Hill and Dolyhir Quarry tend to cluster toward the copper-rich end...Tindle, 2008 for a full list). DOLYHIR QUARRY, POWYS Dolyhir Quarry is located in the Welsh Borderlands
Catalog/List
lx2 £6 2x2 £10 34 ■ ANDRADITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Pale beige fine grained mass with reddish bands...Ix! £5 lx2 £10 38 BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Rich brown mass with approx 5 % Cymrite .minor matrix...Na Al SiO 22 BANNISTERITE Benallt Mine. Lleyn, Wales Dark brown veinlets throughtout calcite/ quartz...wave Jxl £4 442 ■■ CARYOPILITE Bemallt Mine, Lleyn Wales thin felty brown vens in Calcite Mn Mg OHSiO ½"...-- -- - ... 860 ■ CELSIAN Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales Rich white crystalline mass, with some black Romancheite
Journal (issue)
............................................. "Wales & West, South West 23 ............................any material collected would be decided by the quarry owners and the sub-committee. We need to start...topic after a note was forwarded to us from the Wales and West Branch. As far as the Society is concerned...Sara Chambers and Tim Brookes; Bernie Millington Wales & West Branch: Wayne Jones Subscriptions for 2002...activities, including displays for both young and old and we ran a quiz game with prizes, for the many
Report (issue)
(Lavrion); azurite, tyrolite (Dolyhir quarry); philipsburgite, zálesíite (Potts Gill mine); azurite, duftite...Croft mine and Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall; at Dolyhir quarry, Powys; at Ecton Hill, Staffordshire; at Potts
Journal (issue)
bags being deposited on garage floors all over the UK. It was an altogether memorable trip - socially,...Society. Professor Bob Howie was major figure in UK geology and well known to many members. He will be...Curator: Mineralogy Specialist at National Museum Wales, has agreed to have his name put forward for the...field trip to Nant-yr-Eira Mine, Hafren Forest, Powys, Wales. The collection includes several images of minerals...Event". The annual Maisemore event organised by the Wales & West branch and the Cheltenham Mineral and Geological
Journal (issue)
............................................. 'Wales & West, South West 28 ...... .....................the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...awarded an honorary doctorate of science by his old college at the astonishingly early age of 36. He...site: Bedford Utd. Mine, Dean Quarry, Gravel Hill Mine, Greystone Quarry, Gunheath Claypit, Me/don Quarries
Journal (issue)
l.llr.::r.m o:1~. ~ fn ►•:, u, 1b.: .\~-nl h .~ UK =...an informative read for ALL members both new and old. S,..O.CmDuccb r:ct.~ ,1 .lt, \1-"";,o .r)"., 1)................................................. Wales & West.... . 12 ..................................a new member who went on an invite to his first quarry and was so interested he joined the society and...thank you to Lynda Garfield who has stepped down as Wales & West secretary for a much earned break. Her contributions
Journal (issue)
specific topics, anecdotes of collecting in the “good old days” or whatever. Fire up those e-mails, sharpen...is a great way to meet new people, catch up with old friends or to acquire a few new specimens all within...Mineralogy at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, in Cardiff, where I have worked for thirteen years... Many interesting mineral species, some new to Wales or the British Isles, have been identified and through...leading a fieldtrip to some long forgotten mine in Wales. I joined the Russell Society fifteen years ago
Journal (issue)
an informative read for ALL members both new and old . Your contributions are always welcome. ·uut tk...and one member suggested that this could be in the UK or EU. COST A location with on-site accommodation...were identified: geological/mining walks, museums (UK or EU) and member's collections. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS...at other minerals that have been important in the UK and then the important minerals we have to import...mainly for lead, copper and iron, but some gold in Wales. However, our minerals became really important in
Book
......................... 421 A: abhurite to azurite ......................................... 18 R:...provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...have changed over time. This is not to say that all old work is valueless: the observation of Hey (1973)...(1973) is still valid that there arc 150-ycar-old unulyscs as accurate as any made today. Other exclusions...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci
Journal (issue)
(14th November). These are perhaps the best of the UK shows and well worth a day of your time (other mineral...things you can sometimes find in the drawers of old pieces of furniture. There is also information on...developments in terms of new mining enterprises in the UK. Hopefully the continuing up-turn (albeit slow) in...in the Niagara Falls district. He returned to the UK in the 1930s where he met Doris Holden. They were...Price, M.T. 2012. The Norman Thomson Collection. UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, 33, 21-34) which publicised
Journal (issue)
and Mark Oddy South West Branch: Nick Richards Wales & West Branch: Derian and Georgina Jenkins, and...Jersey then moved to the North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to...mineral collecting and resource conservation in the UK. If we are to find a mutually acceptable way forward...mineral collecting and resource conservation in the UK. ,. ' / 1 1 J ( · Don't delay, register today...last August has left the future of the limestone quarry which supplied the works uncertain. At present
Journal (issue)
............................................. Wales & West 9 ............................................................... North West iVorthern Wales & West I Southern Russell Society Field Meetings...Campus of the University College of Wales Newport. Our friends in the Wales and West Branch have got together...Steven Mulley South West Branch:Christopher Sharp Wales & West Branch:Rhiannon Cottrell; Edward Penfold...website - just follow the links. Or contact the Wales and West secretary - Lynda Garfield, lyndagarfield@tesco
Journal (issue)
quarries in Slovakia can be confusing particularly with old specimens. Some place names can be in German, others...geology of Slovakia is as varied and complex as the UK, it is like a bigger version of the West Country...Vechec-lom Quarry 8 Novoveska Huta. 14. Siatorska Bukovinka 2. Herl'any 3. Maglovec-lom Quarry 9. Dobsina...Presovsky Kraj (andesite quarry with xenoliths). • This was a working quarry with bulldozers on a level...purchased sledgehammers) into. We walked down into the quarry past a jointed, columnar formation, very reminiscent
Journal (issue)
SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org .uk ***-***'lrl<-lrl<******7rl<'lrl<'lrl<**'lrl<**kl...recognlse specimens n whfcil some of llle famous old mineral dealers were Involved It was al.so oxcellenl...classic Machen barytes and Taffs Well calcites from Wales, hemimorphite from Longstone Edge, Derbyshire, analcime...coral from the Wenlock Series rocks at Dolyhir Quarry in Wales. A spectacular specimen, a full 18 inches...discovered at one location in the U.K. (Dolyhir Quarry in Powys). The nearest other location is on the
Journal (issue)
America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................under new management “Iron in Wales” workshop at the National Museum of Wales ................ Handling “asbestiform”...History Museum Update ........ Correction: “Prince of Wales Gold Mine” .......................................incorporates the AGM. This will be held this year in North Wales; not in Tal-y-bont as originally intended but in...updates (still lots of activity in various parts of the UK) and an addition to the list of “creative things
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..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other organisations
Journal (issue)
-~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli;...an informative read for ALL members both new and old. A 'o & . , _,l.()1 ... .:,,,c.r.;•?;;; :w,n-1u................................................ 'Wales & \:\lest.... . 10 ...............................the scene a little bit. Picture a typical quaint old European village, complete with narrow streets and...identified, i.e. Fluorite Zone - Heights Mine and quarry. Baryte Zone - Settlingstones Mine. Virtually no
Journal (issue)
.............................................. Wales & West 13 ...... .............................................................................. Wales & West I South West 25 ...........................this t ime. Com parison of the larger specimen to old St. Day area specimens indicates that the material...Pennines. Rashleigh died in 1811, so it means the 'old man' was working this part of Rampgill Mine well...longer interested in their collection of a seri es of UK first day covers; 86 issues from the period July
Journal (issue)
-&dto ♦ ~J,0-\1:x:,fQ,.:,t,-.q;n; •milcbc;cd Old.....-riallr'D>\C'G -------·-------------ltqilbll...an informative read for ALL members both new and old . ·-- ..__......_._ .. .,. ... w..,_ .. ..,._...TAYLOR. SouthWest: Mr J E HESKETH,Mrs M NUTE, Wales& West: Mr A CUTHBERTSON. CaldbeckFells In the autumn...has donated a wide range of items, covering both UK and world mineralogical topics, to the Society Library;...of a number of publications (Mineralogical Record, UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Lapis) and a variety
Journal (issue)
an informative read for ALL members both new and old. .1 ., c..~\b•L.. H3bt;-,; ~"'~ " -~ {., •(_,....with high temperatures, but they are unusual for the UK and are therefore worth a comment. As responsible...unusual for the temperature at the bottom of a quarry to be 15 degrees Centigrade higher than the outside...under these conditions the bottom of our local quarry is a pretty fair approximation of the Sahara in...you can. Get them out of the sun, and out of the quarry. In the meantime, loosen their clothing and lie
 
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