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Galena from
Castell Carn Dochan, Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, Wales, UK


Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Gold2 photos of Galena associated with Gold at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Galena associated with Quartz at this locality.
Anglesite1 photo of Galena associated with Anglesite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Castell Carn Dochan, Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:39285
Long-form Identifier:1:3:39285:9
GUID (UUID V4):451054cd-d6bb-48ed-92bb-df42827b07e2
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
11.1km (6.9 miles) Princess Marina Mine (Bedd-y-Coedwr Mine; Beddcoedwr Mine), Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
11.2km (6.9 miles) Cwmheisian East Mine, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
11.4km (7.1 miles) Cwmheisian West Mine, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
11.5km (7.2 miles) Gwynfynydd Mine (Gwyn Mine; Morgan Mine; Mount Morgan Mine; British Gold Fields), Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
12.1km (7.5 miles) Tyddyn Gwladys Mine, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
13.2km (8.2 miles) Prince Edward Mine (Moel Croesau), Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
15.0km (9.3 miles) Cefn Coch Mine (incl. Berthlwyd Mine; New California Mine), Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
16.0km (10.0 miles) Caegwernog Mine, Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
16.8km (10.5 miles) Red Dragon Mine, Mawddwy, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
17.9km (11.1 miles) Moel Ispri, Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (volume)
112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...confirmed by XRD at Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales. It may be of interest to potential authors to note...from remote workings at Clargillhead in Cumbria. Galena from the area around Clargillhead has an unusually...metallogeny in Wales. A detailed analysis of deformed pre-Acadian lodes in north Wales, copiously illustrated
Journal (issue)
Reopens .......................................... UK On-Shore Oil; The Gatwick Gusher ................................................... .. Prince of Wales Gold Mine. How much trust do you put in a label...Society’s 2017 ASM Weekend to be held in north Wales. It promises to be a really good event and I would...led this year – to opencast coal sites in South Wales – have only attracted enough members to fill a small...collieries. The Carboniferous Coal Measures of South Wales are no exception and provide interest for mineralogists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
T H E GEOLOGY OF THE DOLGELLET GOLD-BELT, NOETH WALES. By ARTHUR E. ANDREW, M.SC, F.G.S. (Continued from...belief of Readwin (31, p. 1) that gold was worked in Wales during the reign of Charles I. The facts on which...Royalists; Bushell could not have imported the gold into Wales, for he was hemmed in by the Parliamentary Downloaded...gold-mining in Wales only led to ridicule from the investing public. In 1847 the North Wales Silver, Lead...the gold discoveries of California and Australia, Wales in 1853 experienced a boom of the usual description
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ore controls at the Clogau mine, Dolgellau, north Wales, United Kingdom S. C. Dominy*1,2,3 and I. M. Platten4...Robert Robinson Avenue, Oxford OX4 4GA, England, UK 2 *Corresponding author, email sdominy@snowdengroup...the Clogau mine, Dolgellau, UK 1 Gold-belt location and setting in Wales. The gold-belt lies on the E...fluviatile sequence preserved in SE Wales and inferred to be present over N Wales Silurian – turbidites and mudstones...Cambrian-early Devonian fill of 14 km in north Wales was inferred by Soper and Woodcock (2003). Basin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1985 Metallogenesis in the Harlech Dome, North Wales: A fluid inclusion interpretation T. J. Shepherd...mineralisation in the Harlech Dome area, North Wales, gives support to the concept of two distinct metallogenic...important mines. Prince Edward (SH 746387), Castell Carn Dochan (SH 848307). Within the Gold-belt the veins...pyrrhotite dominant assemblage or a sphalerite-galena dominant assemblage. Though no single vein shows...paragenesis, there is a trend towards more sphalerite-galena dominant assemblages in the north east. It was
Book
A Mineralogy of Wales RfCHARD E. BEYfNS Ocpartmellf o[Geolngy, Nmin11a/Museum of\Valcs, Cardiff AMGUEDDFA...encrusted with galena. from Cymmer Colliery, Ponh, Mid Glamorgan. National Museum of Wales specimen 48.264...CE 6 I CES IN WALES 9 30 127 138 6 INTRODUCTION The mineralogy of Wales is diverse. with over...reveal the presence of additional species new to Wales. and perhaps new to the British Isles. It is also...completely new to cience will be discovered in Wales. as techniques for analysing specimens become ever
Book (edition)
Gold Occurrences in the UK A Gold Prospector's Guide LEE GARY PALMER MSc Published in the United...40 Archers Ave Irvine, Ayrshire KA11 2GB Scotland UK Content copyright© Lee Gary Palmer, 2019 The right...Contents Acknowledgements Notable Nuggets of the UK Preface Gold The Word The Element Origin Locations...Isle of Man Wales South Wales - South Glamorgan South Wales - Carmarthenshire South Wales - Pembrokeshire...Mid Wales - Powys Mid Wales - Ceredigion North Wales - Gwynedd North Wales - Anglesey North Wales - Conwy
Journal (issue)
(1968) Inesite from the Broken Hill Lode, New South Wales, Australia. American Mineralogist, 53, 1614-1634...and calcite crystals, in addition to beautiful galena, sphalerite, and barite specimens. Neal P faff...Bill Pinch on a specimen consisting of massive galena, sphalerite and quartz. While the published description...specimens showing numerous combinations of quartz, galena, sphalerite, siderite and fluorite. Many of the...needles to 0.2 mm in length in altered pegmatite with galena. Natron —colorless, transparent masses to 4 cm
Journal (volume)
FAIRLEY , Surveyor of Mines, Member of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, &c. , &c. ILLUSTRATED WITH...metallic mining districts of Cornwall and Devon, of Wales, Shropshire, and the Isle of Man , of the Midland...Somerset Wales and the Borders -- South Wales . Gloucestershire and East 40 Somersetshire. North Wales Midland...introduced into a reverberatory furnace with regulus of galena, they not only provided sufficient fuel for the...of the Midland and the Northern counties and of Wales, the depth being inconsiderable compared with that
Book (edition)
SHROPSHIRE CHESHIRE ; Lmap MINES oF THE (Coe oes WALES CARDIGANSHIRE AND Nooo M&RIONETHSHIRE ; : ANGLESRA...absence of marine Tertiary deposits in New South Wales, and the occurrence of a more complete series of...similar occurrences are reported in both New South Wales and Queensland. Small quantities of gold were formerly...the Colonies of Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and in Tasmania. tin-production of these Colonies...and quartz with, occasionally, pyrites, blende, galena, millerite, or hatchettine, the two last being
Journal (issue)
Caradon. West Frances. Wheal Seton. Wheal Uny. South Carn Brea. Frank Mills. Trelyon Consols. Wheal Owles...Grenville, £3113d East Lovell, £934. . 50 East Carn Brea, 8s. 50 Port 15 Frank Mills. 0 Bryn Gwiog... W. Crofty, 27s 9d 50 Prince of Wales, 23s 9 100 Princess Wales, 3s 9d WiIUbutLbdia*« 50 25 50 25...Darren, 33s. 9d, Taquaril, 13s, 6d. W. Prince of Wales, 6s West Godolphin, 20s, Wh. Grenville, 34s 6d Wheal...ATTHEW GREENE, STOCK BL SL E.C. Prince of Wales, Henrietta. West Tolgus. AND SHAREDEALER, 1,
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Hope, Nelson and Wellington , Albion , Prince of Wales, Buninyong Freehold , and others we could mention...Allottees, Liabilities of, 109 Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, 293 Alloys of Manganese , 233 Beehive Association...Creek , 44, 293 Great Extended Gold Mining Company, Carn . gham , 166 Great Extended Gold Mining Company...Examination fo Minerals from , 93 Bank of New South Wales, 93 Bank Share List, 20 , 35, 55,75 , 95, 115, 134...12, 46, 87, 107, Britannia Quartz Mining Company, Carn . 206 , 407 gham , 166, 344 Claim , Marking Out
 
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