 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Mendip Hills, UK Mike S. Rumsey The Mendip Hills is a relatively small area in SW England near the...(Fig.1) that is characterised by rolling limestone hills, farmland and a wealth of karstic features including...before the end of the 181h Century, which in the UK was just about the time when the disciplines of mineralogy...One of the only collections in the UK that covers the Mendip Hills when it was actively being mined is...Map of the Mendip Hills area, indicating the regions geographical position within the UK and the exact |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Magazine, June 2008, Vol. 72(3), pp. 793–798 Chloroxiphite Pb3CuO2(OH)2Cl2: structure refinement and description...Wiltshire, UK 3 Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK [Received...2008] ABSTR ACT The crystal structure of chloroxiphite, Pb3CuO2(OH)2Cl2, from Merehead Quarry (monoclinic...is convenient to describe the structure of chloroxiphite in terms of oxocentred OPb4 tetrahedra. The...[O2Pb3]2+ double chains. The difference between chloroxiphite and other natural oxyhalides is the presence |  | Rumsey, M. S., Krivovichev, S. V., Siidra, O. I., Kirk, C. A., Stanley, C. J., Spratt, J. (2012) Rickturnerite, Pb7O4[Mg(OH)4](OH)Cl3, a complex new lead oxychloride mineral. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (1) 59-73 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.1.59 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Crystallography, St Petersburg State...University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK [Received 30 March 2011; Accepted 6 December 2011;...(Merehead) quarry, near the village of Cranmore in Somerset, United Kingdom. It occurs as pale emerald green...supercell reflections. K EY WORDS : rickturnerite, chloroxiphite, oxocentred tetrahedra, new mineral species...lead magnesium oxychloride, Merehead quarry, Somerset, mineral nomenclature, Torr Works quarry, new |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR...into Carboniferous limestones throughout the Mendip Hills during the late Permian or Triassic period were...formation processes probably explains the rarity of Mendip-type Pb-Mn deposits. The collective importance...mereheadite, Mn deposits, oxychloride, Somerset, Mendip, Merehead, England. Introduction T HIS paper presents...theory proves the long-held conjecture that the Mendip Mn deposits are of secondary origin (see for example |  | | Report (issue) | | Chloroxiphite Pb3 CuO2 Cl2 (OH)2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...693(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Higher Pitts Farm, England. (ICDD 8-112). 2.86 (100), 10.3 (80), 3.84 (80)...Total 100.18 99.75 100.00 (1–2) Higher Pitts Farm, England; H2 O by loss on ignition. (3) Pb3 CuO2 Cl2 (OH)2... cerussite, hydrocerussite. Distribution: In England, at the Higher Pitts Farm, near Priddy, and in...the Merehead quarry, near Shepton Mallet, Mendip Hills, Somerset. Name: From the Greek for green and blade |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | X . New lead-copper minerals from tl~e Mendip Hills (Somerset). By L. J. SP~C~R, M.A., Sc,D., F.G.S....here work ceased in 1893. Several references to Mendip minerals are contained in John WoodF 68 L ....working. To quote a few of his entries, he says : 'Mendip Green-Ore xams with the greatest difficulty in...Lead-Ores with the greatest freedom of any in England.' (Vol. 1, part 1, p. 208.) ' Lead-Ore, flakey...in a Vein in Greenhill, n e a r Charter-house, Mendip, Somersetshire. There was a considerable Vein of |  | Symes, R. F., Cressey, G., Griddle, A. J., Stanley, C. J., Francis, J. G., Jones, G. C. (1994) Parkinsonite, (Pb,Mo,□)8O8Cl2, a new mineral from Merehead Quarry, Somerset. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (390) 59-68 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.390.06 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VI)808C12, a new mineral from Merehead Quarry, Somerset R. F. SYMES, G. CRESSEY,A. J. GRIDDLE,C. J. STANLEY...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Abstract Parkinsonite, ideally (Pb,Mo, D)sOsC12...mineral from the Merehead Quarry, Craumore, Somerset, England. It occurs as compact clusters or patches...Associated minerals are mendipite, diaboleite, chloroxiphite, wulfenite, cerussite and hydrocerussite. Discrete...Reginald F. D. Parkinson, mineral collector of Somerset, UK, who first found the mineral. KEVWOROS:parkinsonite |  | Alun Humphreys, D., Thomas, John H., Williams, Peter A., Symes, Robert F. (1980) The chemical stability of mendipite, diaboleïte, chloroxiphite, and cumengéite, and their relationships to other secondary lead(II) minerals. Mineralogical Magazine, 43 (331) 901-904 doi:10.1180/minmag.1980.043.331.13 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chemical stability of mendipite, diaboleite, chloroxiphite, and cumeng6ite, and their relationships to...Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD xiphite assemblage. Chloroxiphite, mendipite, and diaboleite were all originally...originally described from deposits in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England (Spencer and Mountain, I923), and from...recently been recorded (Symes and Embrey, I977). Chloroxiphite is known only from this area. The occurrence...mendipite, Pb302C12, diaboleite, PbaCuC12(OH)4, chloroxiphite, PbaCuC1202(OH)2, and cumeng6ite, Pb19Cu24CI#2(OH)44 |  | Turner, R., Siidra, O. I., Rumsey, M. S., Krivovichev, S. V., Stanley, C. J., Spratt, J. (2012) Hereroite and vladkrivovichevite: two novel lead oxychlorides from the Kombat mine, Namibia. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (4) 883-890 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.4.05 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK [Received 23 November 2011; Accepted 28 February...Recent research on the Pb oxyhalides of the Mendip Hills, England, (Turner, 2006; Rumsey, 2008; Siidra et...oxychlorides crystallized, but our work in the Mendip Hills, where similar minerals are found, indicates...considered to be related compositionally to chloroxiphite, Pb 3 CuO 2 (OH) 2 Cl 2 (Spencer and Mountain |  | Turner, R. W., Siidra, O. I., Rumsey, M. S., Polekhovsky, Y. S., Kretser, Y. L., Krivovichev, S. V., Spratt, J., Stanley, C. J. (2015) Yeomanite, Pb2O(OH)Cl, a new chain-structured Pb oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 79 (5) 1203-1211 doi:10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.14 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chain-structured Pb oxychloride from Merehead Quarry, Somerset, England R. W. TURNER1,*, O. I. SIIDRA2, M. S. RUMSEY3...Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Mineral Deposits, St Petersburg State...Merehead (Torr Works) Quarry, near Cranmore, Somerset, England. Yeomanite is named in joint recognition of...have been investigating the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills with particular reference to the assemblages |  | | Journal (volume) | | a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph courtesy...trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of the Russell...CONTENTS Volume 13, 2010 PAPERS The minerals of the Mendip Hills and their relationships Rick Turner and Michael...look at the work that we have been doing in the Mendip Hills (reported in this issue of the Journal) in a...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite |  | | Report (issue) | | 79 Total 99.75 [100.00] 100.00 (1) Mendip Hills, England; corresponds to Pb3.14 Cl2 O2.15 . (2) Kunibert...Occurrence: In nodules in manganese oxide ores (Somerset, England). Association: Hydrocerussite, cerussite...calcite, chloroxiphite, diaboleite, parkinsonite (Somerset, England). Distribution: In England, from the...near Churchill, Mendip Hills, and in the Merehead quarry, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset. In the Kunibert...For the occurrence in the Mendip [Myne-deepes, Old English] Hills, England. Type Material: Swedish |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Mendip Hills, Somerset. By ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY. [Read March 7, 1940.] the Mendip Hills, as...remarkably scarce. Mining was formerly carried on on the Hills for many centuries, but mineralogy as a science...together by J. W. Gough in his book 'The mines of Mendip', 1 but apart from a few general remarks on the...LM.A.4-309.] F 68 ARTHUR W. G. KINGSBURY ON Mendip. These specimens have fortunately been preserved...from the Mendip Hills',l in 1899, and 'New lead-copper minerals from the Mendip Hills (Somerset) ',~ in |  | | Report (issue) | | 5.84 2.59 Total 99.56 99.76 100.00 (1) Mendip Hills, England; corresponding to Pb2.10Cul.06CI2.00(OH)4...Occurrence: In oxidized manganese ores (Mendip Hills, England); a secondary mineral in deeply oxidized...Association: Chloroxiphite, hydrocerussite, mendipite, cerussite (Mendip Hills, England); boleite, wherryite...Arizona, USA). Distribution: In England, at the Higher Pitts Farm, Mendip Hills, and the Merehead quarry, near...near Shepton Mallet, Somerset; at Padstow Consols, Padstow, Cornwall. In Germany, from the Christian-Levin |  | | Report (issue) | | 5.84 2.59 Total 99.56 99.76 100.00 (1) Mendip Hills, England; corresponding to Pb2.10 Cu1.06 Cl2.00 (OH)4...Occurrence: In oxidized manganese ores (Mendip Hills, England); a secondary mineral in deeply oxidized...Association: Chloroxiphite, hydrocerussite, mendipite, cerussite (Mendip Hills, England); boleite, wherryite...Arizona, USA). Distribution: In England, at the Higher Pitts Farm, Mendip Hills, and the Merehead quarry, near...near Shepton Mallet, Somerset; at Padstow Consols, Padstow, Cornwall. In Germany, from the Christian-Levin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VOL. 4I, PP. 357-6I The structure of chloroxiphite, Pb3CuO (OH) C12* J. J. Ftr~,mY Department of...atoms in square planar, Cu(OH)4, coordination. CHLOROXIPHITE was first described by Spencer and M o u n t...o f chloroxiphite used in the present study were from the type locality o f Mendip Hills, Somerset, England...I T E 359 TABLE I. Atomic parameters for chloroxiphite (standard deviations apply to the right-most...Cu Pb O OH el FIG. I. A projection of chloroxiphite on (oIo). group. Lead in similar seven-fold |  | Siidra, Oleg I., Nekrasova, Diana O., Turner, Rick, Zaitsev, Anatoly N., Chukanov, Nikita V., Polekhovsky, Yury S., Spratt, John, Rumsey, Mike S. (2018) Somersetite, Pb8O(OH)4(CO3)5, a new complex hydrocerussite-related mineral from the Mendip Hills, England. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (5) 1211-1224 doi:10.1180/minmag.2017.081.087 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hydrocerussite-Related 3 Mineral from the Mendip Hills 4 5 6 Oleg I. Siidra1*, Diana O. Nekrasova1...Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK 12 3 Department of Mineralogy, St. Petersburg...Petersburg, Russia 14 4 15 Road, London SW7 5BD, UK 16 5 Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics...Russia 19 7 20 Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Mineral and Planetary Sciences Division, Earth Sciences...found at Torr Works (“Merehead Quarry”) in Somerset, 29 England, United Kingdom. Somersetite is green or |  | | Report (issue) | | Works (or Merehead) quarry, in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, England. The little limestone quarry, worked...of rare oxychloride species (e.g. mendipite, chloroxiphite, diaboleite, blixite), as well as crednerite...thought to have been exhausted—check them out. Chloroxiphite in mendipite with diaboleite and crednerite...the Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Christopher J. Stefano Fine Minerals...the Torr Works (Merehead) quarry, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Christopher J. Stefano Fine Minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SUB-CLASS: HYDROXYHALIDES. R":CL:O:OH:1:2:2:2. ChloroxiPhite. L . J . SrnNcBn and E. D. I'IouNrarN: New lead-copperminerals...lead-copperminerals from the Nlendip Hills, Somerset, Min. Mag.,2O, (I02) 67-92,(1923);this mineral pp...Piercingcrystalsof mendipite from Higher Pitts, Mendip Hills. E. T. W. DrscussroN: A well definedspecies...6.412. OccutnrNcn : Intimately admixed with chloroxiphite. Drscussron: Distinctnessseemsprobable,but relationshipto...(25/4):6.80. OccunqnNcn: Fairly common in the Mendip Hills, although not previously recorded from there |  | Turner, R. W., Siidra, O. I., Krivovichev, S. V., Stanley, C. J., Spratt, J. (2012) Rumseyite, [Pb2OF]Cl, the first naturally occurring fluoroxychloride mineral with the parent crystal structure for layered lead oxychlorides. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (5) 1247-1255 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.5.11 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0DD, UK Department of Crystallography, Geological Faculty...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK [Received 21 March 2012; Accepted 10 August 2012;...from a manganese pod at Merehead quarry, Somerset, England. Rumseyite is tetragonal, I4/mmm, a = 4.065(1)...110). K EY WORDS : rumseyite, Merehead quarry, Mendip Hills, layered lead oxychlorides, lead oxyhalides...have been investigating the mineralogy of the Mendip Hills with particular reference to the assemblages |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 I . ORBIS TREASU Republic of Ireland IRE250 UK £2.50 TREASUR HOW TO CONTINUE YOUR COLLECTION ...5673331 (24 hours, 7 days a week) or fax 0870 6060447 UK&REPUBLICOF IRELAND OF THE EARTH (Payment in E...issues sent direct to your door at no extra cost (UK only; £1.00 p&p for Republic of Ireland). For details...gemstones. Simply order by telephone or write to the UK address above Please state which tray you require...WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY FOUND IN THE HILLS OF SOMERSET, SOUTHWEST ENGLAND Mendipite is mainly grey, white |  | | Journal (issue) | | Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten...localities: The H igher Pitts m ine, M endip H ills, Somerset, E n g la n d ..................................ine is the type locality fo r the minerals chloroxiphite and diaboleite, and has also produced some o...near to the village of Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, 25 km south of the city of Bristol |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heaton Norris STOCKPORT, • Cheshire SK4 1DJ. ENGLAND I ~ • • I • • •• • • • : • ! ! • : •...Lynn Corrie South View, Crouds Lane Long Sutton Somerset TAIO 9NR Tel: 045824588 Worldwide Mineral Specimens...E. Smith: Cinnabar from the northern Pennines, England J. Parnell and P. Eakin: Thorium-bitumen mineralization...Phurcalite (flnisaite fl ) from Dartmoor, S W England, and Portugal D.I. Green: Scotlandite from Higher...mineral from Wheal Basset, Redruth, Cornwall, England Associate membership of the Society (receiving |  | | Book | | Chewton Mendip, where my family live, Ihave always been fascinated by the natural history of the hills Iknow...this work will go a long way to safeguarding these hills for the future. In particular Iapplaud the authors’...and improvement work carried out by the NCC. Many Mendip localities were described by geologists working...position to undertake frequent routine maintenance of Mendip sites and it would be most helpful if schools,...maintaining and improving the field facilities in east Mendip (or elsewhere) should be addressed to the Geology |  | | Catalog/List | | £24 Somerset. 14 LINARITE Penberthy Crofts, St Hilary, Cornwall. 79x34x20mm 15 CHLOROXIPHITE& MENDIPITE...MENDIPITE, Mendip Hills, Somerset. 60x37x17mm £32 £32 18 BOTALLACKITE 19 CASSITERfTE Mina la Viloca |
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Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK