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| Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent ME3 8AT, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD: F.B. Atkins, Oxford, UK. RE. Bevins, Cardiff, U.K. RS...Braithwaite, Manchester, UK. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, UK. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, UK. RA. Howie, Matlock, U...U.K. R.J. King, Tewkesbury, UK. A. Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK. l.R Plimer, Parkville, Australia RE....Bromsgrove, UK. R.F. Symes, London, U.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia B. Young, Newcastle, UK. Aims...edingtonite and associated minerals from Loanhead quarry, Beith, Strathclyde T.K. Meikle and J.G. Todd |
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| Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of Wales, the Hancock Museum (Newcastle Upon Tyne) and the...12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's...Barstow. SW.B1 Apatite on orthoclase - Colcerrow Quarry, Cornwall. Barstow green stock label. SW.D10 Sphalerite...Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 1976. [SW 722 220]. SW.Q4 Serpentine - County Bridge Quarry, Lizard...Holyer 197-. [SW 722 22]. SW.R8 Stilbite - Dean Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. E.Retallack 1975. [SW 804 203] |
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| .............................................. Wales & \.\lest 13 ......................... :................................ ........... South East, Wales & West 30 ........................................Towning; Sarah Tuft and, rejoining, Neil Henderson Wales & West Branch: Brian Cripps All members details...ONE! when I typed in 'mineral news' and checked the uk button. Gary is still searching for materia_l,,!9"pu...roads are just tracks. Trevor Bridges Sligachan Quarry, Isle of Skye. A recent very brief visit to Sligachan |
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| GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTH WALES COALFIELD PART I ON. THIRD EDITION 0 l_ 969 PLATE I (Fro11tispiece)...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the South ales Coalfield PART I THE...of the new Geological Survey Maps of the South Wales Coal-field. This great industrial district was one...Kitchin. The original Geological Survey of South Wales was unaccompanied by detailed explanatory Memoirs...treatise ''On the Formation of the Rocks in South Wales and South-Western England'', which forms part of |
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| ............................................. 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 |
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| ST29 ------ - .,_ _____ _j_______�------ • CAERPHILLY 248 249 261 & 2p3 --- 262 ST18 • I I I...hard-rock resources of the country around Caerphilly, South Wales Description of parts of 1 : 50 000 geological...rock resources in the Caerphilly-Pontypridd area and Swansea-Neath area of South Wales. Toe results and recommendations...assessment survey of the hard rock resources of the Caerphilly area in 1982. Toe work was financed by the Department...of some 400 km 2 of country in the Caerphilly area of South Wales, shown on the accompanying 1:50 000 |
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| and Mark Oddy South West Branch: Nick Richards Wales & West Branch: Derian and Georgina Jenkins, and...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...South East Branch mounted its usual display of 'Calcite and Calcareous Rocks' at the Reunion but rt on...witherite crystals in association with barytocalcite, calcite and baryte, some specimens in close association |
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| skills, created the displays for Hampstead Farm Quarry, The Mendips, and The Bristol Area. Jim was also...Promoting mineralogy and helping mineralogists in the UK and Ireland; Norman talked about how exhibits in...contacted many people and organisations across the UK). Jean-Claude writes: "My son and I are collectors... The BGS has been making geological maps of the UK for 175 years and this is the first time maps of...collecting images of geological interest from around the UK and further afield. Up to 50,000 of these images |
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| .......... "Geofest" at the National Museum of Wales ............... ......... ........ ....... The Festival..... ........... ...... W&W Branch and the South Wales RIGS project: An update ........ NW Branch activities................ Former miner honoured for building UK - Mexico links .................... Crystal Classics...his medical problems necessitated a return to the UK for treatment. Following this Jorn worked in the...Museum in Cardiff and was organised by the South Wales Geologists' Association. Talks on geology and paleontology |
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| -~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli;................................................ 'Wales & \:\lest.... . 10 ...............................identified, i.e. Fluorite Zone - Heights Mine and quarry. Baryte Zone - Settlingstones Mine. Virtually no...and Dolyhir were under scrutiny. 'A Mineralogy of Wales' by Richard Bevins was in great demand as people...added responsibility on that person. Peter Wallace Wales and West Annual dinner. We started off the years |
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| .... ......................................... Wales & West 8 ............ ........................................ North West Central, South East, Wales & West 25 .......................................society members have taken parties into the same quarry or mine to look at the same granite or rock face...dark limestone. Location: Old dump near Backdale Quarry, Calver. Peak Dist. (probably originates from nearby...we had to Talking of which, a small party from Wales and West came over recently and spent a morning |
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| ............................................. "Wales & West, South West 23 ............................how it appeared and Monica Price passed on the Calcite cut-out that accompanies this 40th edition. I have...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 |
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| CYANOTRICHITE Wedding Cave Mine, Coed-Poeth, Wrexham, Wales. cystals as crusts on matrix. (a) 40x25x25mm. £18... Dolgellau, Wales, pale pink erythrite. 70x30x1C:r.m. £8. 20. FLUORITE. Heights Quarry, Westgate, Weardale...GOETHITE AFTER PYRITE. Blangwynlais U. Quarry, Glamorgan, Wales. p of intergrown cubic xls of pyrite completely...Several sharp cubic xls to 12mm scattered over a calcite/limestone matrix. 50x50x30mm. £12. 27. NATIVE...KERMESITE AND STIBNITE. Bwlch Mine, Deganay, Conway, Wales. "A reddish crust on blades of metallic grey stibnite |
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| l.llr.::r.m o:1~. ~ fn ►•:, u, 1b.: .\~-nl h .~ UK =................................................. 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...Alderley Edge Mines (insurance fee) Minera, Llyn Clys Quarry Manchester Museum Llanrwst Mines, Dolyhir Thurstaston |
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| Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...xtl with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix...£4. 8. ANAT ASE, Cwmarthin Qmirry, Tanygrisiau, Wales. I 0.5x5x3.5cm. Ex. E. Bravais coll. A light grey...under magnification. £6. 9. ANGLESITE, Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. 3x l.9x2cm. A bright...£32. (am9) 2. ~ ~ I,. "POTATO STONE", Dulcote Quarry, Somerset. 4.5x4x2cm. A cut geode 4 12. ARAGONITE |
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| would be suffering hunger pangs). A native of South Wales, Gwyn's interest in minerals led him to make a series...Brittany and elsewhere. He was a founder member of the Wales and West Bran ch, formed at Cowbridge (S.Glamorgan)...years. He held the post of Field Secretary for Wales and West from 1990 through to 1999, and had an intimate...quarries of South Wales, building up excellent working relationships with the quarry management community...community. He was particularly fond of Machen Quarry, due to its geographical proximity to his home, and assembled |
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| •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Wales& ~St 20 ..........................................North of England and at the age of sixteen left the UK to live and study in Canada for seven years. Colin...NANDHRA. South West: Mrs CAMBRIDGE, Mrs S ELLAM. Wales & West: Dr C GIBBS. 2006 / / Annual General Meeting...For one of the leading mineralogical society in the UK to be at odds with the government department responsible...to thank Lynda Garfield and Dave Wellings of the Wales and West Branch for agreeing to be the tellers for |
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| Naylor; Kerry and Richard Powell and Kathleen White Wales & West Branch: R J Bowell; Nigel McGaw and Melville...Conference will be held in Broken Hill, New South Wales on 10-12th June, 2000. The venue for the Conference...to be mainly the removal of iron stains, clay, calcite and quartz to either clean or uncover minerals...with hammer, chisel and crowbar but the Lengenbach quarry, the star of the Binntal show, is strictly out...0800 917 8185 Scotland: Fiona Aitken 01786 479 593 Wales: Alun Taylor 02920 855 100 Northern Ireland: Helen |
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| MEMOIRS OF THE G.EOLOGICAL SURVEY. ENGLAND AND WALES. THE GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTH VV ALES COAL-FIELD....THE SCALE OF l INCH= 1 MILE (1 to 253440). South Wales, with parts of Cer1tral "\Vales and North Devon...rhombohedra of dolomite. The matrix is recrystallised calcite devoid of dolomite. E 7419. x 43 dia. 5. Oolite...of the new Geological Survey Maps of the South Wales Coal-field. This great industrial dist1�ict was...l{itchin. The original Geological Survey of South Wales was 11naccom panied by detailed explanatory Memoirs |
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| .native copper (by �orothy) from the Prince of Wales mine tips whilst they were looking for childrenite...site to visit, Hingston Down quarry near Gunnislake, Cornwall. Th is quarry prov ed extremely dangerous...with my harnmrerin g I hurried to the top of the quarry to rejoin the others. Richard had found some fluorite...molybdenite and Tony some scorodite. At the top of the quarry are the remains (well just an enormeous hole actually)...AVON AR EAS The Mendips rank along with some of the UK' s greatest mineral locations by vir tue of having |
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| 'lloCi::l}'C:C.T.-l!:00-,~Q:.1 " t:::c r:i ee !.!=:lJFo-.i::: UK on d ln!ond min =I pbotoi;r:,phs. Thr Jw ~:J So.:c:%)...completion of their "The Minerals of Barry Island". The Wales and West Branch announce their hosting of the 2009...to develop a journal for British collectors "The UK Journal of Mines and Minerals" - Issue No.3 featured...Society, perhaps the premier organisation in the UK for amateur and professional mineralogists, and had...work. Mick placed a standing advertisement in the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals "Wanted Mineral Collecting |
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| core of the collection at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. ~ow settled in Tewkesbury and curator...connelJite, a new variety from the Britannia mine, North Wales, and from the Botallack mine, Cornwall. Journal...Antiquarian Society, No.6. 175- J 82. Green, D .. 1986. UK wulfenite. CK Journal vf Mines and Minerals, No.1...up to 7 mm long, have been fuund at Springhill quarry , Peldar Tor, Whitwick, Leicestershire. They are...in quartL-chlorite veins associated with minor calcite, baryte and pyrolusite. This occurrence is unique |
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| OF PAPERS, BOOKS, THESES, ETC.,ON THE GEOLOGY OF WALES AND THE WELSH BORDERS, 1963-1964 DOUGLAS A. BASSXT...Bibliography and index of geology and allied sciences for Wales and the Welsh Borders, 1897-1958 (Cardiff, 196l)...Bibliography and index of geology and allied sciences for Wales and the Welsh Borders, 1536-1896 (Cardiff, 1963)...addressed to the Keeper of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. LIST OF PAPERS, BOOKS, ETC.-1963 ADAM...hydro electric project-Cardiganshire. Proc. S. Wales Inst. figrs., 78, 35-47, 5 figs. (incl. g. maps) |
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| Richard Bevins' s modem classic, "A Mineralogy of Wales" . (see Journal 131 p. 12). Until recently the mining...very early 1800's Merthyr was the largest town in Wales and its ironworks were the most important in the...particularly fine. The carboniferous limestone in Vaynor Quarry near Merthyr produces unusual forms of pyrite on...collectors point of view, Machen Quarry situated between Newport and Caerphilly only produced micro specimens...anglesite of exceptional size and quality for the UK. More recently the rare lead sulphite scotlandite |
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| tectonics of the S. Crop of the South Wales Coalfield between Machen and Bridgend J. C. Roberts 0 bservations...localities along the south and south east crop of the S. Wales Coalfield indicate the presence of a joint system...patterns are known to exist elsewhere in South Wales (Roberts, 1966, 1974) and a close relationship between...observations were confined to either working or disused quarry sites. An initial survey of potential exposure...further subdivided into stations, e.g. an average quarry would be sampled at 10-12 stations taking into |
Machen quarry, Machen, Caerphilly, Wales, UK