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Galena from
Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:5483
Long-form Identifier:1:3:5483:6
GUID (UUID V4):3114c8f1-0d2d-4b17-af5e-f1a43684e707
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
0.4km (0.2 miles) Penlee Beach, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Wherry Mine, Wherrytown, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
4.8km (3.0 miles) West Wheal Darlington, Long Rock, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
5.1km (3.2 miles) St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) Wheal Jewell, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Trebarvah Mine, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall, England, UK
7.7km (4.8 miles) Wheal Prosper, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
8.9km (5.5 miles) Trevarthian Downs Mine (Trevarthen Mine), St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
9.5km (5.9 miles) Wheal Friendship, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
9.8km (6.1 miles) Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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(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...420 fm level, South Croft Mine, Pool, Central Cornwall. An interesting and rare Cornish phenomena. A...Axinite. Carn Vellan near Botallack, St Just, West Cornwall. Large, sharp, terminated clove-brown coloured...ra/Pyrnmnrphito/ramccitp Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, West Cornwall. A vuggy completely encrusted matrix carrying
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BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are... 2txlt". £6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown... ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised coatings...granite matrix. 3Xlt". £2. lig~t AUTUNITE. Merrivale Quarry, D8rtmoor, Devon. micro crystals richly encrusting
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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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B8RSTOW 26, ~egeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEhING INFCRMATION Mail orders are...lcanthiteo lxi". £1- 3. ANALCIME. Dene Quarry, st. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. A group of large, lustrous, snow-white...specimen. ItxFxlt". £4.50. 6. lIRSENOPThITE. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Corm~alL a lxlt" cavity in massive white...£2. 16. CaSSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. h mass of light brown fine grained Cassiterite...ChSSITThITE. Goss Noor L.lluvial Flats, st. Columb, Cornwall. A rounded pebble of coarse dark brown crystaline
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geology .of the country around Penzance ' . i\i�i / ---�-----✓- \ \ // •• ,- ---...C-�. --·.J;:;{ GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION IN THE PENZANCE DISTRICT Superficial deposits (Drift) Quaternary... Geology of the country around Penzance The district around Penzance (Sheets 351 and 358) has been exploited...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
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50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...SPC. C.£:15 0004 GALENA & ANGLESITE,Leadhills,Scotland.Bleb of massive blocky galena associated with lustrous...13mm forming xtl groups associated with modified galena cubes to 18mm.Assoc1aled with a litt:0 rrnrior...greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen,Scolland Radiating off while lo...Barstow label.Attractive D SPC_ Ml to C.£5 0017 GALENA,Old Mill Ctose Mine.Derbyshire.Continuous druse
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NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine xls to 5mm...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity in
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STOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOFlMATION Mail orders are...FRANCOLITE. Fowey ';onsols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Small, sharp, ttansparent hexagonal crystals...BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crusts covering Quartz gossan...BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Cro~ts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Transparent, well formed, mi£!Q crystals scattered...SSITERITE. Wheal Rock, Nr. Bugle, Hensbarrow Moor, Cornwall. Pure, dark brovm cellular mass, with numerous
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BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just Near Penzance, Cornwall, f , England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...£3. 2. ANDREWSITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Light brownish yellow spherical aggregates scattered...£4. 6. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crust of micro crystals covering...^. — 11 8. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. 1" group of large sharp tarnished intergrown...£3- 9. BORNITE. South Caradon Mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall. A rich solid mass of tarnished Bornite intergrown
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BARSTOVJ <'.6, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cormlall, England. Tel. NO.l st. Just 880 (STD 073 677)...7. ARSENOPYRITE. New Rosewarne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich, bright, silvery mass composed of numerous...3xlixl-t". £It.50. _ 8. ARS~~OPYF,ITE. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall. Bright, silvery, sharp tVlinned cryst-...£1.75. BEll TITE. lihea 1 .;arpenter, GWlnear, Cornwall. R.ich rusts of micro pale olive green crystals... £5.50. CASSITE1i.ITE. Poldi e Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Small, bright, brmmish black sharp crystals mostly
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BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOhMA.TION Mail orders are... 10. BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mlne, Lanreath, Cornwall. Specimen A Bright, metallic grey, twinned crystals...CARMINITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, reddish crystaline masses intergroviU with...48. 16. CASSITERITE. East Pool Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Dark brown, lustrous crystals, thickly embedded...variety "WOOD TIN". West Ylheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Kich, light brown, concentric bands in a Quartzose
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_j Byways, 2o·Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...Piedmont, Italy 849 ■ OPAL Carlaze Pit St Austell Cornwall Dark grey massive with quartz Rich, jelly-like...CORUNDUM Kibayai, Tanzania 381 ■■ SCHEELITE Penlee Quarry, Newlyn,Comwall Large pale pink single crystal,...··-···--·-· -·-- - - -·--· 865 ■ KAOLINITE Bugle, Cornwall 278 ■■ TINAKSITE Charo River, Aidan massif Yakutin...1a1u<:o~inTI_SiO 1048 ■■ LABUNTSOVITE · Mn ··Aris quarry, n~n; Wlndh~-~k.-Nnmlbi~- - --- - · · 61 ■■ VALENTINITE
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Ludlamite on lxl inch matrix (Wheal Jane, Kea Cornwall) £10 b) a piece with a pale green micro and a...Rosa Mine,ltambacuri, Minas Gerias, Brazil £12 GALENA octahedral grey crystals from 2 to 8mm scattered...over about an inch area lx2 £6 (Boulby,Cleveland England) CORUNDUM large hexagonal pale pink single crystal...inch rock, Also a Weloganite crystal. (Francon Quarry,Quebec, Canada) £20 n NATIVE GOLD, five 1mm spots...(Levant Mine Cornwall) £12 TRIPLITE rich brown masses in pegmatite 3xl .5 Porthleven Cornwall) £15 CLINOCLASE
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
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NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PLI8 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2005 1. ALLOPHANE.* Hawks Wood Mine, North Hill, Cornwall. A nice rippled crust of pale yellow allophane...25x15x15mm. £6. 4. AMETHYST/SMOKEY QUARTZ. St Austell, Cornwall. A composite xl, 60x50x30mm, showing multi terminations...Skinners Engine Shaft Dump, Clitters Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. A matrix composed mainly of cellular apatite...70x30x50mm. £175. 10. NATIVE BISMUTH. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall. Greenstone matrix with quartz covering
Journal (issue)
Identification A Very Serious Problem An Appeal from Cornwall Collective Use of the Society’s Knowledge The...excellent ruby red micro sphalerite with quartz and galena can still be found on old lips of the eastern side...nearby Wedding Cave Mine (OS GR SJ 265.541) there is galena mineralisation in quartzite rock along a fault...Newsletter 50; 2 for landfill. The nearby Pant Quarry (OS GR 198.702), owned by Wimpcy, still produces...quartz, chalcopyrite, smithsonite, sphalerite, galena Pyrite Special Reports on the Mineral Resources
Catalog/List
Gems Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2DA England Telephone 01872 223 227 Fax 01872 262...UVSW. ALLOPHANE, Hawks Wood Mine, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. SW green. Ml. £5.00 12 UVSW. ICELAND SPAR CALCITE...C. £5.00 16 HEMIMORPHITE, Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. Rich covering of silvery grey micro xtls...17 QUARTZ with minor PYRITE, Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall. A pretty specimen of short dear 12mm quartz with...Trevinnick Mine, nr Port Isaac, St Endellion, Cornwall. Orangy limonitic quartz is scattered with tiny
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Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action...are older rocks on the Lizard peninsula, most of Cornwall consists of Devonian rocks, known locally as “killas’
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WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s sel! collected in 1972...1-tx1t-", .f.2.00. 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix...ose,Sithney,Cornwall. Rich scatter of lustrous, terminated,bladed crystals over nasty Galena/Limonite matrix
WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s sel! collected in 1972...1-tx1t-", .f.2.00. 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix...ose,Sithney,Cornwall. Rich scatter of lustrous, terminated,bladed crystals over nasty Galena/Limonite matrix
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Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS...Mount’s Bay - The Lizard .. North and Central Cornwall East Cornwall Devon 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 MAPS
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quite good covering of yellow micro crystals on galena large Ix half inch £8 Schwarzenberg Saxony (Type...radiations, about 1mm size. (Gunheath Pit, St Austell, Cornwall) Ix half £5 35. TARBUTTITE good coverage of small...siderite & pyrite , small 2x2 inch Wheal Jane Cornwall £7 37. WOEHLERITE yellow-orange areas in 2cm syenite...round edge of greenish conglomerate, Relistian Cornwall large lx2 £15 nice small piece 39. CASSITERITE... with previous collectors label. Hingston Quarry Cornwall £7 .50 40. CASSITERITE rich brown masses in
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N TRA comer , OP THE Royal Geological Society CORNWALL . INSTITUTED FEBRUARY 11th , 1814. VOLUME THE...Peru .” President of the Board of Agriculture. PENZANCE : SOLD AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE SOCIETY . 1878...and Zirkel on Crystalline Rocks Stratigraphy of Cornwall Geological Time The Evolution Hypothesis . ...Position and Relations of the Sedimentary Rocks Cornwall . . 12 . • Changes of Level on the Cornish Coasts...Henwood's Works . ix . M .Moissenet on the Lodes of Cornwall Elie de Beaumont's Theories ix . xiv . Report
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Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain. Telephone: Penzance Penzance (Day) (Everiing)...opening in June of our new retail premises in Penzance (\.•;nolesale remains in Pendeen) has lead to...prismatic ARTHURITE.Hingston Downe Consol Callington,Cornwall. Ricb cover of bright green colou.red cryetalline...Hemimorphite. 2~1; 11 ,~3.00. 21. ~UTUNITE. Merryvale Quarry,Princetown,Devon. Very rich cover of small yel...J\ZURITE/M>'.LACHITE. Penberthy Crofts 1 St "Hil.Cornwall. \,'ell crystallised, brightblue, small xtls with
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LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...FLETCHER SPECIMEN) 80x70 2 BISMUTHINITE XSTLS. PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE, TWO XSTLS TO 3MM IN BISMUTHINITE/QUARTZMATRIX...ACC No. 826. MOLYBDENITE & NATIVE BISMUTH, PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE. A 20 MM AREA OF MOLYBDENITE AND...CERUSSITE, PENTIREGLAZE MINE, PENTIREGLAZE, NORTH CORNWALL. WHITE JACKSTRAW XSTLS ON BLACK GOSS ANY MATRIX...TOURMALINEMATRIX. 180x 130 QUARTZ CRYSTALS. GREYSTONES QUARRY, LEZANT. WHITEfTRANSPARENT PRISMATIC XSTLS. ENCRUSTING
 
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