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Bismutite from
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismutite
Formula:(BiO)2CO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
SEM-WDS
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz11 photos of Bismutite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Chlorite Group5 photos of Bismutite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Brochantite4 photos of Bismutite associated with Brochantite at this locality.
Bismuth3 photos of Bismutite associated with Bismuth at this locality.
Cassiterite2 photos of Bismutite associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Goethite2 photos of Bismutite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Atelestite2 photos of Bismutite associated with Atelestite at this locality.
Anglesite2 photos of Bismutite associated with Anglesite at this locality.
Erythrite2 photos of Bismutite associated with Erythrite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite2 photos of Bismutite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismutite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (10 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2092
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2092:3
GUID (UUID V4):89f1f5be-b05e-4881-88d4-4d7096bb3827
Nearest other occurrences of Bismutite
1.7km (1.0 miles) Halamanning Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Tregurtha Downs Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
13.9km (8.6 miles) South Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
15.5km (9.6 miles) Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
18.7km (11.6 miles) Levant Mine, Trewellard, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
18.9km (11.7 miles) Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
19.3km (12.0 miles) Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
22.8km (14.2 miles) Wheal Coates, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
44.6km (27.7 miles) Wheal Remfry China Clay Pit, Fraddon, St Enoder, Cornwall, England, UK
51.9km (32.2 miles) Cornubia Mine (Roche Rock Mine; Cost-all-Lost Mine), Carbis, Roche, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal
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
Journal (issue)
Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11 lllit/...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,·ri.11l·ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL...whittling-away of the old minesites throughout the UK: foremost in the list of threats arc the use of sites
Journal (issue)
Identification A Very Serious Problem An Appeal from Cornwall Collective Use of the Society’s Knowledge The...chose Eclusham Mountain Wedding Cave Mine at Bwlchgwyng, Bryngwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain, and Great Orme...Llangollen (OS GR SJ 255.503). At nearby Wedding Cave Mine (OS GR SJ 265.541) there is galena mineralisation...of the Geological Survey. HMSO 1921 Bryn Gwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain (OS GR SJ 194.697) was one of...magnificent specimens of blue fluorite. Unfortunately the mine shaft has been capped and the site levelled by the
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Report (issue)
Bismutite Bi2 O2 (CO3 ) c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point...686–13.697 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Marropino mine, Zambezia, Mozambique. 2.953 (100), 2.737 (41),...France. In England, from Wheal Owles, Wheal Coates, the South Crofty mine, the Penberthy Croft mine, and others...others in Cornwall, and at Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. From Beresovsk, near Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk),...other places in Bolivia. In the USA, at the Harding mine, Dixon, Taos Co., New Mexico; in the Trout Creek
Journal (volume)
K. R.E. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. R.F. Symes, Sidmouth, U.K. A.D...with minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK...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 (issue)
membership. Anyone joining the Society after January 31 st pays half the appropriate annual subscription. MEETINGS...dissolved and washed away. In some areas, e.g. in Cornwall, large quantities of very pure cassiterite can...North Africa, South Africa, Russia, Spain and Cornwall, but not North America where the granites have...introduced into Cornwall early in the 19th century, but unfortunately not in Haywards Heath in the 21 st century...sites in the North of England and some members have recently been in Wapping mine in Matlock - all locations
Catalog/List
MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE, pure CHALCOCITE...pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U
Journal (issue)
UK .M ----- JOURNAL I OF N E & ----- s M 1· N E R A L S n \) II I/ i] NUMBER 15 • SPRING...Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. Telephone (01872) 223 227 for copy prints of...TISPIECE CALCITE on HEMATITE Fred Bull 4 MI The UK Jouma/ of Mines and .Minerals publishes articles...Stephm lloreto11 5 MINERALIZATION of the LLANR\\ST OREFIELD Ra11dolphHaggerty ------------- 11 -------------...G AND PRI TI ·a BY Ryton Typing Service, 29 Ryton St., Worksop, , Otts. S 0 2 Y -------------46 ------------CLASSIFIED
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... I made it a stipulation that e:ich en~ in rn:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...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
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...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...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
Journal (issue)
Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon, England. EX15 2QF Telephone / Fax 01884 821563 Only Road...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Rycon lyping Service, 29 Rycon St., Worksop. Nom. S80 ZAY -+5 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEl\lENTS...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly
Journal (issue)
..... 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...of individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting
Catalog/List
No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban
Catalog/List
I Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...5cm £4 no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine...Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible
Catalog/List
Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall,Bahianite,Bismutite, Celestite with Sulphur,Cubanite crystals...SnO OH Cl ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. Engl.and__ .. _ _ - •· Ix2ins Very. rich~...cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland
Journal (issue)
field trip to the North of England. This included a visit to the Diana Maria Mine in Weardale, as well as...of mining fraud of yesteryear at the Red Dragon Mine in Wales. A wonderfully entertaining talk involving...sulphide (13) 33 - Toxic element which is abundant in Cornwall [chemical symbol] (2) 35 - An amphibole which...Cryptocrystalline form of silica, abundant in SE England (5) 28 - Island famous for its gemstone deposits...mineral whose British occurrences include Penberthy Croft and several localities in the Caldbeck Fells
Catalog/List
pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...1x1 £2 1x2 £4 298 BISMUTITE Bi CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7
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...UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ f...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5
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....___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive
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...company. Audrey and I were married on 16 March 1963 in St Werburgh's Church, Bristol. After our honeymoon we...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited
Journal (issue)
IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...Woodcockshayes Farm, Halberton Road, Willand Devon, England EX15 2QF. Telephone: 01884 821563; Fax: 01884 821724...821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm withort...Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles...SPECIAL ISSUE The first of t\vo special editions of the UK ]oumal of 1\lli11es [.,,.Minerals celebrating t\venty
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...section 1/2 ins t o l i n s long I n pale Felspar St Hilaire, Quebec Canada 1x2 i n s 60p 2 x 2 ins £1...crystalline mass with Fluorescent (LW) areas o f Sodalite (St Hilaire, Quebec, Canada) lx1 £1 i n s 1 x 2 ins £2...black masses i n green A c t i n o l i t e (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan Sweden) lx1 £1.10 010ALMANDINE F...white sphere shaped nodulé. (Newhaven, Sussex,England) 1" 50p 2 " £1.00 3" £1.60 4 " £3.80 013 ALUNITE
 
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