| Locality type: | Quarry |
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| Species: | Chrysotile |
| Formula: | Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Chrysotile data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Gwendreath Quarry, Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 3440 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:3440:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 02488b8e-825a-44b2-8d79-658a2c1b18a6 |
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| 0.5km (0.3 miles) | ⓘEastern Cliff, Kennack Cove (Kennack Sands), Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 0.7km (0.4 miles) | ⓘThorny Cliff, Kennack Cove (Kennack Sands), Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.1km (1.3 miles) | ⓘEnys Head, Ruan Minor, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 5.1km (3.2 miles) | ⓘCountybridge Quarry, Goonhilly Downs, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 5.9km (3.7 miles) | ⓘPentreath Beach, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 6.8km (4.2 miles) | ⓘThe Rill, Mullion, Cornwall, England, UK |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from that of the rest of Lizard district is very Cornwall. The great plutonic masses of the Lizard are mainly...ultra-basic composition, while those of other parts of Cornwall and Devon are highly acid granites. The country...not unlike those of the Palseozoic sequence in Cornwall in composition but distinguished by their intensely...promontories that form the extreme southern portions of Cornwall and Devon does this group emerge to form dry land...Archsean. The older Palseozoic rocks of South-west Cornwall have in general a north-east to east-north-east |  | Lacinska, Alicja M., Styles, Michael T., Bateman, Keith, Wagner, Doris, Hall, Matthew R., Gowing, Charles, Brown, Paul D. (2016) Acid-dissolution of antigorite, chrysotile and lizardite for ex situ carbon capture and storage by mineralisation. Chemical Geology, 437. 153-169 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.05.015 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | com/locate/chemgeo Acid-dissolution of antigorite, chrysotile and lizardite for ex situ carbon capture and...1T (≈68%) b chrysotile (≈70%) b poorly-ordered lizardite 2H1 (≈80%) b nanotubular chrysotile (≈85%). It...rejected as potential feedstock material whereas any chrysotile, non-aluminous, widely spaced lizardite and/or...Schulze et al., 2004; Wolf et al., 2004); or chrysotile (Rozalen and Huertas, 2013; Ryu et al., 2011)...monoclinic “M” polytypes) (Fig. 1a); tubular chrysotile (Fig. 1b); wave-like antigorite (Fig. 1c) (Wicks |  | | 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 |  | | Report (edition) | | clistauce. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. ENGLAND AND WALES. EXPLANATION OF SHEET 359. THE GEOLOGY...32, and in his classic Report on the Geology of Cornwall ., Devon and West Somerset. The district has now...supplied at the cost of drawing and colouring. CORNWALL. 75 NE., SE., by J. B. HILL; lodes by D. A. Mac...the Lizard Reefs The Polpeor Dykes ... ... The Kennack Dykes .. . ... Metamorphism of the Dolerite Dykes..... ... Distribution of the Kennack Gneisses ... Relations of the Kennack Gneisses to the older Rocks |
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