 | | Catalog/List | | Apatite (Var: Francolite). Geevor Mine, Pendeen, West Cornwall. An altered Chloritic matrix with overforming...Arsenopyrite/Chlorite/Native Bismuth. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, West Cornwall. A hilly and sculpted Chloritic...Native Bismuth. 80X60X30mm. £8.00 04. Asphaltum. Providence Lode West 420 fm level, South Croft Mine, Pool...Pool, Central Cornwall. An interesting and rare Cornish phenomena. A Chloritised Granite matrix slab...* Axinite. Carn Vellan near Botallack, St Just, West Cornwall. Large, sharp, terminated clove-brown coloured |  | | Catalog/List | | SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST)...(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of |  | | Book | | 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...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work |  | | Catalog/List | | • I 5. ARSENIANPYRITE. Wheal Nangllcs,Dlssoe,Cornwall. 19th C ~pccimrn. Matrix free,crystalline fragment...22. AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,carnyorth,West Cornwall. Specimen A-lustrous, vaxy brovn,matrix !ree interforms...BAYLDONIT!!. 41. Penberthy crofts Hine,st Hilary,West Cornwall. Tron stained Quartz fragment covered on...30x30x!Omm. 16.25. Penberthy Crofts Mine,St llllary,Wcst Cornwall, Spcclmcn carries an Arnold Fisher label...Bayldonlte. Also miner 110.00. Pcnberthy Crofts Hine,St llilary, vith patches of bright gr~cn aggrcgHlmetlte |  | | Catalog/List | | will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele University, Oxford, Harrogate and...clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment...prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE. Ichinokawa...APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous...LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with upper surface |  | | Book | | A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C. ASSOCIATE TRURO:...F.R.S., THB ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL, AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS, (WHOSE OBSERVATIONS |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK Journal of mes ·and .Minerals Issue SprJng 1989 , No ...6 Pr:f ee ~3.95 ·- • r .. Arnold...Minerals Higher Bal-Levant Trewellard Cottage, Lower Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736)...(0736) 788305 Calcite (Cornwall) UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue t, No 6 SPRING1989 EDITORIAL...EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Merritt Cassiterite from Whiteworks Carharrick, Cornwall R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking 22 Mining Methods |  | | Catalog/List | | MUS,£30. SW. ALLUVIAL TIN. Rialton,St Columb,North Cornwall. A jar containing 400 gm of alluvial tin...6W. SW. 9W. ALSTONITE. Jug Vein,Brownley Hill Mine,Nenth ead,Cumbria. Barite-rich matrix fragment topped...colln. TN,£20. 14W. 1sw. 16. 17W. -2- Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,N.:imib!a. Ex Cyril Quc!t coll<'r.11011. Thin...on rear. SC,£20. 18W. APATITE. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Beira-Beixa,Portugal.Gemmy, grey-blue...MIN,£25. 20W. APATITE on QUARTZ. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Portugal. Mill |  | | Book | | some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in England. These clifis arc dark in colour, being composed...mining areas in the world. Here are to be found Levant, whose workings were pushed out a mile under the...bed of the Atlantic; Botallack, another submarine mine incorporating an unusual diagonal shaft; Geevor...history. The centre of this industry was the town of St. Just, whose grey terraces of miners' cottages still...abroad which emigrants from this little comer of Cornwall enriched with theiruniqueskillsandknowled MONOGRAPHS |  | | Book | | Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Barry Gamble Alison Hodge First...Alison Hodge. 2 Clarence Place. Penzance, Cornwall TRI 8 2QA. UK info@alison-hodge.co.uk WVAVal sonhod gepubl...BDP - Book Development and Production. Penzance. Cornwall Printed in China Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North...features but also include areas containing open mine shafts, ruined buildings and high cliffs. Please...Introduction 4 About this Book 6 St Just Mining District 8 Levant Mit ie a. Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West |  | | Book | | History No. 1 CYRIL NOALL LEVANT THE MINE BENEATH THE SEA '1! EVANT MINE, SITUATED ON THE CLIFFS A...associated with collieries. Levant was always a difficult and dangerous mine to work. High temperatures...installed in 1857. This contraption remained in use at Levant long after it had been superseded elsewhere; but... but for the mine itself; whose deeper workings thereafter had to be abandoned. Levant ceased work in...in 1930 but today the mine has taken on a new lease of life; and it may not be long before it again resumes |  | | Catalog/List | | Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...packaging for the specimens in your collection then just call us. Folding card specimen trays (measurements...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...terminations. £110 13 14 PYROMORPHITE (4cm 4cm x 3cm) St. Salvy, Tam, France Grass green crystal groups of...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed |  | | Book | | Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE |  | | Book | | by Alison Hodge, 2 Clarence Place, Penzance, Cornwall TRI8 2QA, www.alison-hodge.co.uk, info@alison-hodge...Cornish minerals. Thanks also to Michael Merry of Cornwall Devon Mineral Specimens (www. cornwalldevonmineralspecimens...taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...page: Connelite and botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org |  | | Catalog/List | | RICH ,0 W. W'TllW 2, Tregescal, st. Just, NOuI Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.No.: St.Just 880 (STD 073...encrusting 8asalt matrix. 3tx2Jxl,,"". £3.25. 3. AOULARIA. st. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland. select, lustrous...ix~x~". £3.50. G. APATITE. Colcerrow Qry. Luxulyan, Cornwall. select, trahsparent pale blue colour zoned single...in lewth•• BOp. each. 7. APOPHVLLITE. Bay State Mine, Keweenaw Pen., Michigan, U.S.A. Lustrous, bright...zixZ-txlt". 1:4.• 50: 10. ARGENTITE. Valenciana Mine: Guanajuato, Mexico. Specimen A - Fine, sharp, silvery |  | | Book | | There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...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...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 |  | | Catalog/List | | BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677) ...2txH-xi". £1.25. _ 2. ANDRADITE. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devon. Specimen A - Lustrous, sharp...Andradite. ltJMine, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada. A well formed translucent...Arsenopyrite. l-txlxl". £4.50. 7. ATACAMITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Specimen A - A ltxl"...Limonit ic Gossan. 2xlxl". £1.50. 8. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine, Co. Gllway, Eire. Bright blue well formed crystals |  | | Report (issue) | | Wampewo pegmatite, Uganda. (2) Restormel mine, Cornwall, England; by electron microprobe, H2 O by difference...primary bismuth minerals. Association: Congo). Bismutite (Restormel mine, Cornwall, England); bismutotantalite...From the Restormel mine, near Lostwithiel; at Wheal Owles and the Levant mine, St. Just; Phoenix mines,...and in the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England. From a dump on the Roter Berg, Schneeberg...Westgrenite [= bismutomicrolite] and waylandite, two new bismuth minerals from Uganda. Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Paper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Harvard's Mineralogical Tour of England June 23-July 4, 1984 WILLIAM C. METROPOLIS Harvard Mineralogical...sponsoring a mineralogist's tour of London and Cornwall. A group of eleven left Boston's Logan Airport... We visited the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square...world-famous and truly magnificent Crown Jewels of England. Unfortunately, photography is not permitted, so...rings consist of blue sap phires, with the Cross of St. George in rubies set on them, surrounded by diamonds |  | | Catalog/List | | Mineral Dealer <£ Mine Agent Barn Cottage, Lower Boscaswell, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain...inspection and personal selection. If you are in Cornwall do visit, you will be welcome. Established clients...SAM WELLER MBE BSc Cover Picture "Wh. Edward, St. Just” (Original by Arnold Fisher) Sam Weller Minerals...£5-50. 'Z ‘_ 2£x2x1", £4.25. ALMANDINE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia. Very largei ,matrixfree... 2-Jx2xJ", £14.00. 10. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia, Several large,creamy |  | | Book | | Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...Scheelite . 190. Wolfram . XV Genus 2. OXIDE. 206. Bismuth ochre. Genus 3. SULPHIDE. 207. Bismuthine. Genus...Berthierite . ORDER XV . Bismuth . Genus 1. NATIVE BISMUTH . 205. Bismuth . Genus 4. SULPHIDE. 228...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...on Kergiliack estate near Pen a. Coberard ; at a mine near the head of Borrowdale, near Lometer, rearis | | | Book | | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...in any form or by any elite and botallack.Jte, Levant Ac mowledgements •,..~," SJe:: ~ . ... _..·~~...r_0 'f_'--"t S:r•a!e. or S age of the opal from St Austell is cred1te o Greenside Minerals (www.greenside... Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow |  | | Report (volume) | | : : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...has been made to describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring...information up to date Mr. Dewey has visite.d everv active mine and rnanv of those recentlv abandoned • • • or of...historic importance. Our thanks are due to t,he present mine managers for their courtesy and assistance. :Full...been made of the published accounts of mining in Cornwall and Devon, and reference to the principal sources |  | | Catalog/List | | W• B8R STOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEl\ING INFOftMATION Mail...2txlt". £4. 6. AZUhITE. Wheal Gor13nd, St. Day, Cornwall. Deep blue masses intergrovm and impregnating...association. 2!-x2". £1.25. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich apple green crystaline crust on...granite. 2tx2t". £1. BARYTDCALCITE.Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Alston, Cumberland. Well formed sheaves of pale...Erythrite. 2xltxH". £3.5C. . 11. BOhNITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An unusual specimen showing botryoidal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALISATION IN G.K. ROLLINSON 1, N. LE BOUTILLIER CORNWALL – A AND NEW DISCOVERY AT PORTHTOWAN R. SELLY...mineralisation in Cornwall – A new discovery at Porthtowan. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 176–187...Although cobalt mineralisation has been noted in Cornwall and Devon in the mining literature, there are...cobalt mineralisation discovered at Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the vicinity of old workings which are part...in Cornwall. 1 Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 |
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