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Albite from
Chywoon Quarry, Mabe, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chywoon Quarry, Mabe, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360161
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360161:7
GUID (UUID V4):76c2925f-5760-4109-b98c-848b223b85e1
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Longdowns, Stithians, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Halvosso Quarry (Halvasso Quarry; Kessel Downs Quarry), Mabe, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Higher Spargo quarry, Mabe, Cornwall, England, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Wheal Friendship, Wheal Andrew, Mount Wellington Mine (Wheal Magpie), Cusgarne, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
7.7km (4.8 miles) Wheal Maid, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
10.5km (6.5 miles) South Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
12.6km (7.8 miles) Polkernogo, St Keverne, Cornwall, England, UK
13.1km (8.1 miles) Wheal Vor (Great Wheal Vor), Carleen, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
13.5km (8.4 miles) Wheal Metal, Carnmeal Downs, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
14.5km (9.0 miles) Lushington Cove, Porthtowan, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
UK j I o mi minerals TS C nlm~ 2 EDITORIAL COVER: Vanadinite from the LeadhillsWanlockheadminingdistrict...specimen. 5 PEGMATITE MINERALS FROM CI-IYWOON QUARRY The UK Joumal efMines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Stephen Burchmore • David Green NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY 43 The views and opinions expressed in this Journal...ALGODONITE AND DOMEYKITE FROM NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Publication of information on a collecting site...Worbop, Nott~. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 26 -1- EDITORIAL
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David...euhedral schulenbergite at the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall John Betterton and Ian E. Grey 34–35 PAPERS...herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals, from Chywoon Quarry, in Cornwall. There are, however, four other Cornish
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine xls to 5mm...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity in
Journal (issue)
Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Media, (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...Proustite (1.0mm) with barite and tennantite. Dolyhir quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, October 2004. Collection:...Part 2, 2005 PAPERS The mineralogy of Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire Frank Ince The occurrence...including koninckite and planerite from Grouse Lodge quarry, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick Stephen Moreton and
Journal (issue)
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...building stones used originally came from a local quarry which is now filled in with rubbish, or a overgrown...conference there was an interesting display of the local quarry stones available from the S Wales area (Dave Wille...was attended by some 150 delegates from around the UK, including some from as far as Scotland. An excellent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK 3 Mineralogy and Petrology Group, British Geological...Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK (Received November 29, 1999; accepted in revised form...Carnmenellis granite (Cornwall, England), and the Skiddaw granite (Lake District, England). Fluid inclusion...sericitization is from the Carnmenellis granite, Cornwall, SW England. This rock is a peraluminous, coarse-grained...The sample studied (CA9404c) comes from the Chywoon Quarry, located in the Type I granite. The alteration
Report (chapter)
building and decorative stones of Cornwall, UK COLIN M. BRISTOW Cornwall Geoconservation Group, Ty Gwyn...46 Chatsworth Way, Carlyon Bay, St Austell, Cornwall, UK (e-mail: mail@colinbristow.com) Abstract: Arising...varied suites of igneous and sedimentary rocks, Cornwall has a rich variety of building and decorative...such as elvan and sandrock, do not occur outside Cornwall, so local stone provides much character to the...eastern part of the Carnmenellis Granite (mainly in Mabe parish), in the St Austell Granite (Luxulyan, Carn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the origin of the Cornubian batholith, southwest England JAMES A. STIMAC Earth and Environmental Sciences...granites of the Cornubian batholith, southwest England. The most common enclave type is layered, rich...regions of relatively thin crust such as southwest England. KEYWORDS:enclaves, magma mixing, S-type granite...evidence of the processes batholith of southwest England (Ghosh, 1928; controlling or influencing their...lithologies of the Cornubian batholith, southwest England (geology modified from Dangerfield and Hawkes,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Genesis of the Cornubian Batholith (South-West England): the example of the Carnmenellis Pluton byB. CHAROY...of the well-known mining history of South-West England and the clear relationship between economic mineralization...feldspar and the occurrence of the lithium-mica-albite-topaz granite varieties: types D and E of Exley...location of the Cammenellis pluton in South-West England. C1H: Cligga Head; SMM: St Michael Mount; LC: Lamorna...the biotite-muscovite granites from South-West England (data from Exley & Stone, 1966). Downloaded from
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...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...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I
Journal (issue)
apatitecrystal from Megilligar Rocks, Breage, Cornwall. Collectedby NickTalbott.Thephotois a combinationof...combinationof nineseparatedigitalimages. The UK Joumal of Mi11esand Minerals publishes articles of interest...EDITOR David I. Green EWALDITE FROM DOLYI-JIR QUARRY David Green • Neil Hubbard • Tom Cotterell ADVERTISING...DESIGN Julie Ballard 35 ELYITE FROM GREYSTONE QUARRY Richard de Nul The views and opinions Cll.'Presscd...Chambers 47 Born< REVlEWS 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTJSMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 25 -1- EDITORIAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
smaller bodies of S-type granite in southwestern England. These late-Variscan granites comprise two-mica...granites of the Cornubian Peninsula of southwestern England provide one of the best examples of these rocks... such as the Sn+Cu+W province of southwestern England, the Sn+U mineralization of the Erzgebirge, and...three crustal seismic reflectors in southwestern England. The first, the nature of which is unknown, occurs...in 1976 away from that belt at 205 Rosemanowas Quarry (our locality GPE13, Fig. 1) to test this, and
Book
GEOLOGY OF ,,, ,,. F .. THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL Cornwall is renowned for its spectacular rocky coastline...seventeenth century. This book reviews the importance of Cornwall in the development of geological thought in Britain...of notable scientific interest. The Geology of· Cornwall is a companion volume to The Geology of Devon...org/details/geologyofcornwal0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY Edited by E.B. Selwood...Liskeard High: E.B. Se/wood The Structure of East Cornwall: K. P Isaac Culn1 Basin: JR. Andrews The Boscastle-Tintagel-
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo...numerous crystal pockets, associated with small albite crystals; the platy, flattened-rhombohedral ilmenite
Book
inclusions in quartz of granite at St. Austel, Cornwall. Magnified 200 (6) Group diameters. Fluid inclusion...(c~) in quartz of granite from Ding Dong Mine, Cornwall. Magnified 2000 diameters. The number they are...Vol. (2) On the Rocks of the Mining Districts of Cornwall. See also ALLPORT. J. G. S., Vol. 413. , p. Brussels...aggregate of orthoelase or microcline and The laminae albite or oligoclase. orthoclase, are parallel to the...that group series of forms intermediate between albite and anorthite the physical characters, of which
Book (volume)
XVI.—Hisrory Age of igneous rocks Granite of Cornwall Elvans Groby syenite and Mount "Sorel 228 229...strata ; é : : depression - CuapreR In England . In Anglesey . é . - 356] Gneiss . : 357...strata in England and elsewhere. 3. The appearances of regular structure in the mines of England, Germany...so populous, and of so diversified an aspect as England, necessarily produced a very intimate knowledge...Royal Society, in 1683, a map of the soils of England. 3. Mining.— Miners in every period must have been
Report (issue)
potash is assigned to orthoclase and all the soda to albite. Analyses of rocks rich in divine are found which...orthoclase, and the same amount of Na»O to 8 per cent of albite. (JOMPLETENESS. 25 MINOR CONSTITUENTS. Assuming...precise details, such as distances in general, quarry names, etc. If these are desired, reference must...ornose, so called from the ornoite (basic hornblende-albite rock) of Cedevstrom, is also represented chiefly...KaO in orthoclase. s=the molecules of albite, or of Na2O in albite. t=the molecules of anorthite, or of
 
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