 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 38, P. 2 5 3 Tobermorite from Castle Hill near Kilbirnie, Ayrshire VUGS of a few inches across were...age, that is part of Castle Hill, z miles west-south-west of Kilbirnie in Ayrshire. This is a known locality...locality for pectolite and prehnite. The contents of one vug revealed a white-pink mass with small acicular...some controversy as to the age of these plugs in Ayrshire, and radiometric dating is planned for the near |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Garnock Valley, situated in the northern division of Ayrshire called Cunningham, is bounded on the W. and N...the range of hills which begin a little to the north of Ardrossan and stretch in a northerly direction...by the Lochliboside and Beith hills. Between Kilbirnie and Beith the valley continues in a N.E. direction...Lochwinnoch, Johnstone, and Paisley, the col at Kilbirnie Loch being 9 4 ft. above sea-level. In the N.E...and just where the bridge of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway is being built on the south side of the |  | | Catalog/List | | - 1600 hours each day at 7, Condor Way, Burgess Hill, West Sussex Tel: 01444 233958 (Pre-view on Saturday...Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland Zambia...Zambia Austria Ecton Hill, Staffs Cloqau Wales (Barstow) Ow A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 Price £38 £10 500...Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific...(Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie Prospect, Co Mayo Copiapo, Chile New Cliffe Hill, Leicester Whitby |  | | Journal (volume) | | Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David I. Green 91 95... 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...Dawson collection, which is preserved at Cliffe Castle, Keighley, West Yorkshire. Museums, especially... have had a tough time in recent years. Cliffe Castle has an eclectic display which includes one of the |  | | Book (volume) | | V f--i- ftbmlisk t nau-Dunrobin Castle (rohpir ' in Sutherland. ! //fs/sMJ /w/wra, jsprni4...Inverness-shire. Northumberland. Islands of Scotland. Nottinghamshire. Rutlandshire. Hebrides or...cf Sky. Mull. Westmoreland. Yorkshire. WALES, North and Anglesey Lothian. Fifeshire. Lancashire....Montgomeryshire. Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire. SCOTLAND. Aberdeenshire or Mar. Isles. Lewis. Staffa...Forfarshire. Argyleshire or Invcrary. Towns Ayrshire. Index land. to Towns and Places. Bana'shire |  | | Book | | Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman...Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb |  | Horton, Travis W., Becker, J.A., Craw, Dave, Koons, P.O., Chamberlain, C.Page (2001) Hydrothermal arsenic enrichment in an active mountain belt: Southern Alps, New Zealand. Chemical Geology, 177 (3) 323-339 doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(00)00416-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metamorphism of Torlesse greywackes to pumpellyite–prehnite facies occurred during the Cretaceous Rangitata...subduction along the Kermadec Trench east of the North Island to transpression along the Alpine Fault to...Mesozoic fault rocks are lithified and cemented by prehnite and pumpellyite, whereas active fault rocks occur...Alpine–Wairau Fault ŽMarlborough Strike Slip Zone.; qs Castle Hill Basin ŽOutboard Zone.. T.W. Horton et al.r...the As-poor veins from the Outboard region ŽCastle Hill Basin., and strike slip regions ŽAwatere and Wairau |  | | Journal (issue) | | of Great Britain, 21 Ely Place, London, EC1N 6TD, UK. T: +44 (0) 20 7404 3334 F: +44 (0) 20 7404 8843...Raman Spectroscopy of Ancient Beads from Devín Castle near Bratislava and of Four Intaglios from other...Czech Republic; Brian Jackson, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; Stefanos Karampelas, Gübelin Gem Lab...-the-journal.aspx. 21 Ely Place London EC1N 6TD UK t: +44 (0)20 7404 3334 f: +44 (0)20 7404 8843 e:...image would be used. Midlands – Georgina E. Kettle North East – Mark W. Houghton South East – Veronica Wetten |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of successively-lower strata, until at Bavelaw Castle we come down upon the Upper Old Red, and, not much...characterises all the Pre-Devonian rocks in the south of Scotland. In the quarries and the natural sections to be...Silurian Rocks. This is the case close to Bavelaw Castle. The conglomerates (here, as elsewhere) are full...way across the hills. This is the rock of Black Hill, which, by the way, may really be of the nature...land ice flowed from the mountains lying to the north-west of the Forth basin, thence up the Clyde, over |  | | Book | | Survey 1 :50 000 Series Sheet 15E :Leadhills (Scotland) Author J D Floyd TI1e National Grid and other...lead m ines. TI is now in the care of H istoric Scotland [NS 8694 1315) (Z 00400; Photograph Contributors....urvey, 1:50 000 Seri es Sheet 15£ Leadhills (Scotland). 62pp. Copy11ght in materials derived from the...Geo logical Survey, Keyworth, e-mai l ipr@ bgs .ac .uk. You may quote ex-tracts of area.sonable length...Natural Environment Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 tEU ~ 01793-411500 |  | | Book | | GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN The aim of this book is to provide...comprehensive introduction to the geology of south-west Scotland. The wideness of the area covered enables the... GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN JUDITH A. LAWSON and JAMES D...LAWSON DA YID & CHARLES NEWTON ABBOT LONDON NORTH POMFRET ( VT) VANCOUVER MID LO Tl·-i IAN DISTRICT...United States of America by David & Charles Inc North Pomfret Vermont 05053 USA Published in Canada by |  | | Book | | GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN The aim of this book is to provide...comprehensive introduction to the geology of south-west Scotland. The wideness of the area covered enables the... GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN JUDITH A. LAWSON and JAMES D...LAWSON DA YID & CHARLES NEWTON ABBOT LONDON NORTH POMFRET ( VT) VANCOUVER MID LO Tl·-i IAN DISTRICT...United States of America by David & Charles Inc North Pomfret Vermont 05053 USA Published in Canada by |  | | Report (edition) | | appeared in Mineral News. Photos of the Crocker Hill locality in Paris were acquired through a grant...accompanied by scale bars graduated in feet and miles. North is toward the top of the page in all cases. The... Sinking a shaft at the Black Hawk Mine in Blue Hill during the mid I 960' s. Maine Geological Survey...in Calais --yielded 10 a rare find of sharp prehnite crystals on crusts of quartz crystals. In 1987...fo und during the 1989 mining operation by Sugar Hill Minerals . Harvard University specimen. Ph oto by |  | | Journal (issue) | | buying since most Hungarian prices were around 50% of UK prices. The theme for the show was FLUORITE and John...in the beautiful Matthias church, high up .on Castle hill in Buda. A beautiful setting which some of our...hotel. On the Tuesday we went out on a fieldtrip north of Lake Balaton to Uzsa quarry. We were led by Professor...the evening of the competition -13 - OFF TO SCOTLAND Phil Bampton has been an associate member of SMLS...minerals and he wrote recently about his exploits in Scotland: Having shamelessly raided back copies of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles...ROOSEVELTITE FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges 55 ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS...collector who works at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon had amassed a considerable volume of information...information and a full review in the next UKJMM. UK Journal vf Mines & Minerals No. 28 -2- Frontispiece |  | | Book | | * , - North Wales -- - Shropshire . - * South Staffordshire. Warwickshire North Staffordshire...- - - - - - Steatite, Chlorite, &c. - Prehnite, Apophyllite, &c. -- - Zeolites - 176 to 180...scale in limestone are at Llandudno in North Wales and Ecton in North Staffordshire. They are commonly associated...Hawkestone, Shropshire. Presented by Lord Viscount Hill. 73. Cupriferous Sandstone (green carbonate). From...a Quartz Breccia, at Rattlinghope, near Bishops Castle, Shropshire. MICA (hearagonal arseniate). 108 |  | | Book (volume) | | largest of its kind found in the United States. North Carolina is a source of true emeralds and outstanding...arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North America. Its wealth of tourmalines, morganites,...from Mount Apatite. There are many quarries on this hill but most collectors, unaware of this fact, simply...Hampshire Dennis Durgin, Hebron, Maine Hugh Durgin, Blue Hill, Maine John Ebner, Manasquan, New Jersey Ellen Faller... New Orleans, Louisiana Mark Feinglos, Durham, North Carolina Philip Foster, Dover, New Hampshire Carl |  | | Journal (issue) | | seeking to develop a major mine deep beneath the North Yorkshire Moors near Whitby for the purpose of extracting...process, as the Woodsmith Mine is within 1.h e North Yorkshire Moors ational Park. There have also been...shafts bei11g sunk to the polyhalite seam below tire North Yorkshire Moors. Tltey show all to well, how much...Greenore Gold are drilling at Straiton, South Ayrshire In many place around the world. palaeontologists...the fos ii record are rela11vely sparse. South Ayrshire may not strike you as being in gold country, but |  | | Book | | super£cial geology of a wide area of Southern Scotland which is extren1ely rich in geological interest...McL. D. Duff... GARLETON Hu.LS AND TRAPRAIN LAW: NORTH BERWICK: DUNBAll: IO G. P. Black ARTHUR'S SEAT:...Borthwick V 126 134 144 . Vl CONTENTS THE NORTH EsK INLIER: W. Mykura ... T HE PENTLAND Hn,1s:...facing page 16 SALISBURY CRAGS 33 TANTALLON CASTLE 80 S1ccAR PoINT 97 EILDON Hn.LS 112 MIDDLETON...drainage basin or the other. The form taken by a hill where a steep-sided crag of resistant rock has protected |  | | Report (issue) | | Massachusetts and New Hampshire. High-grade and low-grade (prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and......... Robert H. Moench and Robert E. Zartman Prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism in central Aroostook...no. 9, p. 3-8. Ludlamite from the Palermo Mine, North Groton, New Hampshire: Am. Mineralogist, v. 34,...(and Vilks, I.) Pseudomorphes after datolite, prehnite and apophyllite from East Granby, Connecticut:...Cambrian sedimentary rocks. The Quincy Granite and Blue Hill Granite Porphyry were injected into the horizontal |  | | Book (volume) | | south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate...river to include AI) ⎯agate. GALVA, N, at Bishop Hill, area⎯agate, jasper. JEFFERSON COUNTY MT. VERNON...good quality material, especially along the Smoky Hill River in Gove, Logan, Trego, and Wallace counties...mi., in Cretaceous outcrops (banks) of the Smoky Hill R., in lignite beds⎯Amber. The old collection area...LOGAN COUNTY ELKADER, up and downstream of the Smoky Hill R., weathered out of chalk bluffs⎯moss agate. McPHERSON |  | | Book (volume) | | south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate...river to include AI) ⎯agate. GALVA, N, at Bishop Hill, area⎯agate, jasper. JEFFERSON COUNTY MT. VERNON...good quality material, especially along the Smoky Hill River in Gove, Logan, Trego, and Wallace counties...mi., in Cretaceous outcrops (banks) of the Smoky Hill R., in lignite beds⎯Amber. The old collection area...LOGAN COUNTY ELKADER, up and downstream of the Smoky Hill R., weathered out of chalk bluffs⎯moss agate. McPHERSON |  | | Book | | wonderful fossil insect imprint recently discovered in North Attleboro. How I wish I had GPS and a digital camera...at Boston College. In a similar formation in North Carolina, enough was found recently to warrant opening... Newburyport East 7. Berlin 8. Williamstown 9. North Adams 10. Rowe 11. Heath 12. Colrain 13. Bernardston...) Billerica Wilmington Reading Salem Marblehead North Canaan Pittsfield West Pittsfield East Peru Worthington...67. Maynard 68. Concord 69. IAxington 70. Boston North 71. Lynn 12. Marblehead South 73. state Line 74 |  | | Journal (issue) | | .............................................. north west ;::::::::::::::ili~-~~;:,;i·d~~~;;J-~fili~-i~:·di:;;~·......................................... the first uk rigs conference a ustin lockwood 3 5 ..............sensing. Leslie Dunlap's talk on the 'Minerals of the North of England', held on Sunday, 6 December 1998 showed...a recently blasted area to hunt for pectolite, prehnite and zeolites. These form on joint planes in the...place on a small dump situated about 800 metres north of the road. Working in an area approx 4 x 4 x 1m |  | | Journal (issue) | | write direct to the U.K. Distributors: MICROFLAME (UK} LTD., VINCE$ ROAD, DISS, NORFOLK C ft editor...Road, Malvern, Worcs, Kindly mention Gem Craft in UK. when replying Telephone 068 45 3959 to advertisements...V. Collins Jewellery Supplies P.O. BOX 312, 4 NORTH PLACE, MITCHAM, SURREY POLYESTER JEWELLERY We supply...Wembley Central from Euston or Broad Street or Wembley Hill from Marylebone. 122 GEM CRAFT eimrr W0HLl) In...Expo. STONECRAFT High Road North Finchley London N1 2 ONL Tel: 01-445-2922 UK DISTRIBUTORS FOR ULTRA-VIOLET |
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