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Amethyst from
Wheal Uny, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Uny, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:521
Long-form Identifier:1:3:521:8
GUID (UUID V4):6ff333c6-a3f5-434f-8e5f-3b4c203e1e8b
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
1.1km (0.7 miles) Wheal Buller, Wheal Buller and Beauchamp, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Pednandrea Mine (Pedn-an-Drea Mine), Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Wheal Grambler (East Wheal Sparnon), St Aubyn United Mines (Grambler and St Aubyn Mines), St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
2.3km (1.4 miles) East Pool Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
2.4km (1.5 miles) Cathedral Mine, Busveal, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
3.4km (2.1 miles) Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
8.0km (5.0 miles) Garlidna Mine, Garlidna United Mines, Porkellis, Wendron, Cornwall, England, UK
10.6km (6.6 miles) Seal Hole Mine, St Agnes Consols (Polberro Consols), St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
24.3km (15.1 miles) Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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Catalog/List
BINDHEIMITE AND CERUSSITE. Trevinnick Mine, St Kew, Cornwall. A good solid mass of yellow bindheimite with..."FRANCOLITE". Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Chilsworthy, Cornwall. A 40x30mm area of granite matrix covered in pinkish...60x40x20mm. £12. CASSITERITE. Turnavore Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. Rich specimen showing a 60x30mm area of matrix...CASSITERITE "Sea Worn". St Michaels Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, An interesting sea worn specimen showing sharp...level, Tryphena Lode, Pendarves Mine, Camborne,- Cornwall. Shallow cavity in quartz hematite veinstone showing
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Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although
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There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...growths of pure gold. through purple crystals of amethyst to huge masses of iron copper sulphide. Chosen...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and
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for East Cornish localities ; to Mr. Garby of Redruth , to Mr. Mitchell of Truro, to Mr. Lavin of Pen...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...protect iron from oxidation. LOCALITIES. — England. Cornwall; near Tuckingmill, Cam borne, and in a granite...7 Hydrogen 12.6 Carbon 101.3 LOCALITIES. - Cornwall. At Wheals Unity and Jewel, in Gwennap, and
Catalog/List
green,prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE...FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten Down Quarry,Calstock,Cornwall. 2 specimens. Specimen A-matrix fragment richly...ARSENOPYRITE(CHLORITOID), Penlee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall. Quartz fragment encrusted and veined with silvery
Journal (issue)
Lagerbestand zu günstigen Preisen bei: Bergkristall, Amethyst, Nußgeoden, Uhrplatten, großen und kleinen Achatscheiben...Trommelsteine: Splitter und rund poliert, Achat, Amethyst, Grünquarz, Rosenquarz, Citrin, Tigerauge. Rohsteine:...Malachit, Tigerauge, Amethyst, Zoisit. Geschliffene Edelsteine: Opal, Amethyst, Turmalin, Aquamarin,...und Geologie von Cornwall 13 Stefan Weiß, München Der Bergbaubezirk Cambome-Redruth Grenville Uruted...Crofty Mines Wheal Gorland und Wheal Uruty Consolidated and United Mines (Gwennap) Wheal Jane Mines 16
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS· ·OF ·-1}RE-·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -: ,. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. - -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F PRACTICAL GEOLOGY• of...6d. A Compl1 �) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake ENGLAND .i Di��rct) Dewon;}; ' ....' .. -: Torquay NEW...by Joseph Ca1�·n e, a11d the geological map of Cornwall of 1 832 by D1'. H . S. Boase, are deserving of...ILLUSTRATI ONS. ... ... Fig. 1 .-Map of South-Western Cornwall Fig. 2.-Diagrarnmatic Section across the St. Erth
Journal (issue)
finds at Gunheath China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall by Nick Elton ........................ 31 A tin...Such wa P rr. information, particularly about Cornwall, you would have been wise to ask Peter Colley...collections, a11d is used by many museums i11 tlze UK. (Ed.) North-West Branch · November Meeting: Basic...Further deposits in Ireland, Germany, Poland and the UK were described, making this a truly absorbing lecture...Ancient M ining This lecture by Adam Sharpe of Cornwall Archaeological Unit was given on 14 May 1996.
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
 
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