 | | Journal (issue) | | frondl:lite anJ other phosphates from Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton...notabl), fluorite, quartz, galena, sphalerite, baryte, 'N itherite, alstonite and barytocalcite. The...by the abundance of barium minerals, including baryte and witherite, with apprec iable concentrations...Large tonnages of baryte and witherite have also been raised. Mining for fluorite and baryte continues today...with covellite, anglesite and ceru ss ite in a baryte-galena matrix, have been found at Closehouse Mine |  | | Book | | English China Clay Group Ltd. This later enabled me to obtain an annual pass into the working clay pits. The...several hours looking around this rather large open pit working, we settled on a strong quartz vein showing...showing traces of wolfram in the centre of the open pit. After a short while we broke out a very vughy area...argentite with proustite and native arsenic from Germany. No precise locations were given for the latter...liroconite and also picked out a Mount Wellington Mine baryte on chalcopyrite, and an attractive, redtipped quartz |  | | Journal (issue) | | wavellite entry. John also won second place for a baryte rose on calcite from his second home in Sheppey...the more well known Rogerly fluorite and Machen baryte. A great display and a worthy winner but not without...on the Lleyn Peninsula in Wales. An example of a baryte spray with associated selenite was submitted by...look like stained glass. Other entries were of baryte from Sidmouth in Devon, thomsonite from the Faeroe... -9- SMLS Journal 239 Sept/Oct 2012 Sheppey baryte roses. A well deserved winner. Her display also |  | | Catalog/List | | 45mm with good terminations. With a little pinkish baryte matrix. 60x45x50mm. £58. 12) CERUSSITE. Penberthy...Brassington, Derbyshire. A 60x20mm area on cellular baryte matrix shows intergrown masses of light brown hemimorphite...protruding from nicely contrasting pale yellowish clay. All in massive magnetite matrix. 50x30x30mm. £65... ACANTHITE and ERYTHRITE. Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Quartz matrix with cavities at either end showing...£125. 46) TURQUOISE and VARLAMOFFITE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Pale blue turquoise and |  | | Catalog/List | | showing dark azure blue micro xls. 60x40x30mm. £8. 8) BARYTE. Frizington, Cumberland. A nice group ofseveral...£85. -12) CASSITERITE. Old Beam Mine, Goonbarrow Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. An approx. 10mm intergrown... £175. 25) DJURLEITE on GYPSUM. St Ives Brick Pit, St Ives Road, Leicester. A few small b.lack spherical...collection. 80x55x25mm. £ 10. 30) HYDROCARBON in BARYTE. Earl Ferrers Mine, Staunton Harrold, Leicestershire...Leicestershire. A mass of pinkish to brown banded baryte in which is inbedded a jet black 15x8mm part nodule |  | | Catalog/List | | Rex Cook dealer label. SW.1N1 Opal - West Carclaze Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. J.A.Jones 1978. SW.2C3 Kaolinite...Kaolinite after orthoclase "pig's egg" - Melbur China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. M.Grigg. 1989. [SW 925...2D1 Cassiterite var. "Wood Tin" - Lee Moor China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. SX.2F1 Stibnite - Trewetha...56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 NY.A5 Baryte - Silverband Mine, Appleby, Cumbria. [NY 703 317]...11x11x9cm 10x8x5 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 NY.N17 Baryte - Settlingstones Mine, Haydon Bridge, Northumberland |  | | Book | | Meschede, Sauerland, North Rhine - Westphalia , Germany . Photo: John Hall SMLS MEMBERS' FAVOURITES This...needles growing on galena (10 x 8 mm) Senghenydd Pit, South Wales. Photo: John Hall -3- ..."wish list". Whether the Siderite is epimorphing Baryte or Anhydrite is still being debated but they are...beautiful specimen is from a collection now in Germany, and I acquired it during the long months of Covid...beautifully arranged along a blade of iron oxide coated baryte Photo 16 Pyromorphite 4 x 2 x 2.5 cm This and No |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ann , Sheppey barite, Hemerdon scorodite, China Clay Pit wavellite, turquoise, cacoxenite and variscite...Madan with a Gunheath China Clay Pit cacoxenite! Day 2 Elatsite Open Pit (a porphyry copper deposit)...Chelopech Gold mine. Elatzite is a working open pit and the mine geologist Zlati Vassilev accompanied...field trip to Siberia in 1992) to take us into the pit to a level which was not being worked . Initially...our hotel in Sofia. Day 3 Kremikovtsi Open Pit (Fig. 7) The pit is not working at the moment, but mining |  | | Catalog/List | | xls to 7mm. 80x50x40mm. £95. 6) BARYTE. Aysgarth, Yorkshire. Baryte matrix showing several sharp spear...side. 70x50x30mm. £45. 22) GALENA, FLUORITE and BARYTE. Crich Quarry, Crich, Derbyshire. About a dozen...fluorite xls to 5mm and several balls of platey creamy baryte to 15mm, all on veinstone matrix. The galena has...50x30x20mm. £95. • "4. • 44) TOPAZ. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Cavities in veinstone matrix |  | | Journal (issue) | | goyazite and florencite-(Ce) from Gunheath china clay pit. St Austell. Cornwall N.J. Elton alld M.J.£. Grigg...and technical discussions in the following fields: Clay Minerals, Applied Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Metamorphic...Mineral Physics. The Clay Minerals Group promotes the advancement of clay science and clay technology as applied...of applications Quartz Fluorite Halite Calcite Baryte Garnet Pyroxene Gold mineralisation, sedimentary...Red), Lead, Fluor, green Spar"; (b) "In a Stone-pit on the south side of Birchwood-moor Houses ... I |  | | Journal (issue) | | resting upon 150rnrn of yellow clay. This passed down into blue-grey mottled clay with lumps of coal about...about 0.4m thick. It seems that these clay bands acted as a barrier to the iron-Dearing solutions. The exposure...1780s refers to rights to dig cinders, iron-ore and clay (Gloucester Records Office 04212/Tl). In the 19th...prominent cliff feature. This face exhibits traces of baryte mineralization with minor amounts of galena and...7185) are many large boulders of prominently banded baryte and dolomitic conglomerate up to 1m across, derived |  | | Journal (issue) | | volcanic rocks of the Eifel mountains in northwest Germany resulted in yet more boxes and bags being deposited...Pilkington Derbyshire, Durham , Egypt, Ffestiniog , Germany, Goat Collection. Harry Critchley photo. Island...aragonite, argentite, asbestos, augite, azurite, baryte, beryl, bismuth, 'black copper', bloodstone, blue...a 5-case display featuring Derbyshire minerals, baryte and calcite, the Mineralogy of West Cumberland...Localities included Goonbarrow Clay Pit, Old Beam Mine, Gunheath Clay Pit, Greystones Qu arry, Dean Quarry |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...... 28 Some recent finds at Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall by Nick Elton ............mining engineer. Further deposits in Ireland, Germany, Poland and the UK were described, making this...ineffectually at a huge granite boulder in Goonbarrow Pit with my hardened steel chisel and designer lump hammer...wealth of veins here carry abundant barium minerals, baryte, and witherite, together with some fluorite, galena...supergene minerals includes hemimorphite, cerussite, baryte, cinnabar, aurichalcice and rosasice. During the |  | | Journal (issue) | | a charming 15mm high calcite from Ramsbeck in Germany which cost no more than £1 a couple of years ago...Scotland Fig.6 Torbernite (5mm FOV) Blackpool China Clay Pit, Trewoon, St. Austell, Cornwall -5- SMLS Journal...and torbemite (see fig.6) from Blackpool China Clay Pit, St. Austell. John answered an array of questions...moving up through faults to form mineral veins. Baryte was apparently deposited before, during and after...2013 sized) with pale broWIJ crystals to 1cm of baryte (tested later giving a green flame test and no |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Interstratified chlorite + vermiculite or smectite) In clay fraction of Keuper mudstone at WilkesIcy, near Audlem...with rosasite, serpierite, and adamite, Putts Gill baryte mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria (NHM specimen, collected...chalcosiderite in kaolinised granite at Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall (Ince, 1986). Cyrilovite...veins in kaolinised granite at Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall; analysis shows substantial...stannoidite, etc., in granite from Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall; XRD, optical, and electron |  | | Catalog/List | | £85 SI. LEUCOPHOSPHATE (6cm x 4cm x 2cm) Gunheath Pit, St. Austell. Cornwall M icrocrystal l ine crust...cerrusite to 6mm on a gossanous galena matrix. £8 104. BARYTE ( 1 7cm x 1 4cm x 10cm) Frizington Mine, Cumbria...with bright blue crystals of baryte to 3cm totally covering a hematite/ baryte matrix. (Very nice display)...CHALCOSIDERITE & DUFRENITE (7cm x 4cm x 3cm) Grmheath Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall A very rich example with...1hiJ loeali1y Old dcyrolle or Pms label !155 138. BARYTE (6cm x Scm x 3cm) Fr1:mg10,,, Cumbria, U.K Complexly |  | | Catalog/List | | yellow to light brown colour. 25xl 5x20mm. £20. 5) BARYTE and DOLOMITE. Frizington, Cumberland. A double...intergrown about 80 very pale bluish to hematite pink baryte xls to 25nm1. About a dozen mostly around the edges... £ 125. 47) WAVELLITE and TURQUOISE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. A 40x40mm area of flat |  | | Journal (issue) | | cuprian adamite, as minute spherules on quartz or baryte (e.g. specimens in British Micromount Society Reference...material from the type local ity, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany (e.g. BM 828) except that the "South Tenas" 56...distinctive ferroan carpholite from Wippra, Harz, Germany (e.g. BM 48207 and 4820R, acquired in 1874). Further...greyish, translucent, randomly oriented crystals of baryte up to I cm long. Locally there is white opaque...opaque porcellanous kaolinite between the baryte crystals. The specimen is broken into several pieces, the |  | | Journal (issue) | | United Mines, Linkinhorne, and Gunheath China Clay Pit, St. Austell. We are also aware that chalcosiderite...on the 2002 North West branch visit to Gunheath pit has identified suspected Waylandite. The specimens...10-foot deep winze in the Wheat Bunny section of the pit. When dug into, the vein contained considerable Varlomofite...in association with barytocalcite, calcite and baryte, some specimens in close association with , well...amazonite, turquoise, fluorite and which the material baryte. Juchem's topic was 'Amethyst from Alto Uruguay |  | | Journal (volume) | | limestone hosted but the orebody is dominated by baryte and the inert nature of this mineral has allowed...crystals associated with corroded galena, PbS, baryte, BaSO4, and minor amounts of other minerals such...the main gangue minerals are carbonate free, e.g. baryte and fluorite, or in cavities completely enclosed...extent and sometimes showing relict crystal faces. Baryte is commonly associated with the galena, both as...anglesite crystal, 30 mm long, on corroded galena and baryte. J. Tennant-Jones Collection, (BM. 1964, R11933) |  | | Journal (issue) | | hunting. Elvire picked up a small but very nice baryte from Jordi Fabre, a very pleasant and well known...customs post on the border between France and Germany. Our evening strolls seemed to be somewhat of a...Colin and Andrew included a very nice vanadinite on baryte from Mibladen. After picking up a range of Indian...which also has a treacle mine - a clay pit with very sticky red clay and nearby is a pub called The Treacle...something else in view of the adherent qualities of the clay. This reminds me of a story in our family of my |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............ 24 Further geological travels in Germany (and France) by Steve McLean ....................(Zambia), Arizona, etc. g. Minerals such as calcite, baryte, fluorite, quartz, British wulfenite, British antimony...Trevor Bridges 'Further geological travels in Germany (and France)' by Steve McLean. 14 January 1997...Northern Ireland took us into the former East Germany where a similar basalt e:ll.."Posure also has an...as a floor beneath. Relatively impervious green clay wayboards (volcanic ash horizons) also form the |  | | Catalog/List | | quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals to 30mm (some...901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte crystals...underside. 90/105 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte crystals to 10mm...coated with green malachite. 89/046A Chalcocite and baryte. Judkins (Tuttle Hill) Quarry, Nuneaton, Warwickshire...chalcocite crystals and small spherules of pinkish baryte and minor calcite. 93/073 Cuprite, native copper |  | | Catalog/List | | minor albite. £75. 18. QUARTZ PSEUDOMORPH AFTER BARYTE WITH SPHALERITE (18cm x 10cm x 6cm) Force Crag...surgery quartz tabular (c.5 x 2cm) pseudomorphs after baryte, large coverage, sitting on crystallised brown...written label on back of the specimen. £55 40. BARYTE (7.5 x 5.5cm x 1.5cm) Frizington Mine, Cumbria...terminated tabular grey-green with transparent tipped baryte 7cm from tip to tip, with small tabular crystal...crystals of fluorite sitting on flat matrix. £65 45. BARYTE & CALCITE (4cm x 6cm x 5cm) Pallaflat Mine, Cumbria |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Animas, Atocha, Bolivia, stannite, 1045. Ankerite, Germany, thermal decomposition of, 138. An]~ole, Uganda...feldspars, 914. Barwell meteorite, anal., 101. Baryte, etching of, 750. Basalt, electrolysis of, 1104...Rosia (Siena), Italy, 1037. Belnhausen, Darmstadt, Germany, ankerite, 138. Benallt mine, Caernarvon~hire...Mexico, thermal decomposition, 976. Blaclcpool clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, tourmaline, 1078. Blithfield... barian sanidine, 914. Elgersburg, Thuringia, Germany, pyrolusite pseudomorphous after manganite, 274 |
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