 | | Journal (issue) | | I t . NUMBER 17 • AUTUMN 1996 () F s s UK journal of mines & minerals CONTENTS number...L 10h11Pearce COVER:CERUSSITEfrom Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen...described in the next issue of this journal. The UK Joumal of Mines and Ali11erals publishes articles...ERAL E\ S \lick Wolfe 7 COPPER MI ES of the GREAT OR IE Rob lxer • 10h11DO'Uies EDITOR David I....CLASSIFIED ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 UK journal TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Ryton Typing |  | | Catalog/List | | calcite crystals to 2mm. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Black goethite...crystals. Collected 1980. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Stalactitic...above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. A group of colourless pyramidal quartz...quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals to 30mm (some...901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte crystals to |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS Minerals From North Wales The Trials and Tribulations of Mineral Identification...Membership Details 2 5 19 20 MINERALS I ROM NORTH WALES Mike Rothwell During the 1996 BMS Symposium, Richard...on the mineralogy of a few chosen sites in North Wales. The following is a short summary of the workshop...Wedding Cave Mine at Bwlchgwyng, Bryngwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain, and Great Orme Head at Llandudno. At Eclusham...sphalerite with quartz and galena can still be found on old lips of the eastern side of the road linking Minora |  | | Book | | A Mineralogy of Wales RfCHARD E. BEYfNS Ocpartmellf o[Geolngy, Nmin11a/Museum of\Valcs, Cardiff AMGUEDDFA...Colliery, Ponh, Mid Glamorgan. National Museum of Wales specimen 48.264.GR 175. ex Cymmer Welfare Library...CE 6 I CES IN WALES 9 30 127 138 6 INTRODUCTION The mineralogy of Wales is diverse. with over...reveal the presence of additional species new to Wales. and perhaps new to the British Isles. It is also...completely new to cience will be discovered in Wales. as techniques for analysing specimens become ever |  | | Journal (issue) | | America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................under new management “Iron in Wales” workshop at the National Museum of Wales ................ Handling “asbestiform”...Museum Update ........ Correction: “Prince of Wales Gold Mine” ............................................in North Wales; not in Tal-y-bont as originally intended but in the seaside town of Llandudno. This change...has attended an ASM weekend will tell you what a great experience they are. If you have never attended |  | | Journal (issue) | | Reopens .......................................... UK On-Shore Oil; The Gatwick Gusher ............................. More problems for the Boulby potash mine .............................................. NASA............................... .. Prince of Wales Gold Mine. How much trust do you put in a label?.......October. This popular annual event always provides a great day out and I hope that as many of you as possible...Society’s 2017 ASM Weekend to be held in north Wales. It promises to be a really good event and I would |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lists Available By Request IAN AND EMMA BRUCE The Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly...more detailed discussion of zeolite nomenclature. UK Journal of t.lincs & fllincral~ No. 19 -4- MINERAL |  | | Catalog/List | | Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872 262 232 (International...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite prisms...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...Barstow label.Attractive D SPC_ Ml to C.£5 0017 GALENA,Old Mill Ctose Mine.Derbyshire.Continuous druse of modified...Polished seciion.RF SPC. C.£8 0023 DUFTITE.Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumberland.V1v1d green druse of duflile |  | | Catalog/List | | MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...grey. 55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...micro red proustite and massive purple fluorite. Old label. 60x30x10mm. £35. 7) ARGENTITE after NATIVE...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing |  | | Catalog/List | | MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...grey. 55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...micro red proustite and massive purple fluorite. Old label. 60x30x10mm. £35. 7) ARGENTITE after NATIVE...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK .M ----- JOURNAL I OF N E & ----- s M 1· N E R A L S n \) II I/ i] NUMBER 15 • SPRING...number spring 15 1995 2 EDITORIAL COVER:The Great Opencast at ParysMountain. Only in this oil painting...TISPIECE CALCITE on HEMATITE Fred Bull 4 MI The UK Jouma/ of Mines and .Minerals publishes articles...value. Adding your own label adds to the value of an old time specimen by charting another chapter in its...specimen's documentation. L Often, when acquiring an old specimen, collectors are content to place it in their |  | | Book | | provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...Microsystems for rnicrophotographic advice. tvfBI owes a great debt to one other individual, without whom the entire...Lettsom's famous book, Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and lrela11d, published in 1858. Such was...intervening years, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland produced a series of supplementary...have changed over time. This is not to say that all old work is valueless: the observation of Hey (1973) |  | | Report (issue) | | geochemistry of parts of North-west England and North Wales Keyworth, Nottingham 1997 This volume has been...geochemistry of pa,ts of North-west England and North Wales. (Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey...stream sediment in North-west England and North Wales BGS MAIN OFFICES AND SALES DESKS The full range...Geological Survey carries out the geological survey of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter as an agency...Office in Wales GEOCHEMICAL ATLASES Room G19, Sir George Stapledon Building, University of Wales, Penglais |  | | Journal (issue) | | FRONT COVER: Vanadinite, probably from High Pim mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Orangybrown...and R.E. Starkey NOTES Botallackite from Dooneen mine, Allihies, County Cork, Republic of Ireland S. Moreton...botanical interest of mine spoil heaps - the lichen story 0. W Purvis 45 Cwmystwyth, Wales: 3500 years of...B.R. Marker 57 Mineralogical conservation in Great Britain - the governmental conservation agency approach...mid-part of this century, when there were still mine managers and miners to talk to, and when you could |  | | Journal (volume) | | 5–16 mineral deposition in a cavity in Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and Roy Starkey...development of a mineralised cavity at the Smallcleugh Mine in the North Pennine Orefield, where Trevor focused...17, and authored by Hamish Johnston, Heddle’s great-great-grandson. the full story of this doyen of Scottish...walking down from Copa Hill at Cwmystwyth mine in mid-wales. we had both been participants on one of the...justly proud, and a subject for which he had a great affection. He met his future wife Shelagh through |  | | Journal (volume) | | obtained from Llyn Du Bach Mine, Harlech, Merionethshire, Wales. National Museum of Wales Specimen No. NMW 2013...2) Trevor F. Bridges 6-12 Unusual fluorite from Old Towns Quarry, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham Trevor...Cambrian manganese ore bed, Harlech, Merionethshire, Wales Tom F. Cotterell 39-51 Franklinphilite in veinlets...Cambrian manganese ore bed, Harlech, Merionethshire, Wales Tom F. Cotterell and Neil Hubbard 51-59 Chernovite-(Y)...blobs’ in Leicestershire, the focus shifts to North Wales with articles on the complex and intriguing mineralogy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Holiday Inn, Swiss Cottage on 15/16 March was again a great success and many members met up and enjoyed the...the ragchew as well as the minerals. There was great interest in the BMS display and once again the Society...ANNUAL FIELD TRIPS - MAY 1986 North Wales Dave Middleton The North Wales meeting started with an irritating...away ill". So the party moved off to the Great Orme at Llandudno to do a fair amount of collecting between... The weather was much better, and members left Wales with a better impression of its scenery and minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | morning, comparing various samples with those of a mine he knows particularly well (which produces excellent...are old, late 18th/ early 19th century specimens, localised to town or village, perhaps to mine level...compare the parageneses of our old specimens with that of the new. A mine or quarry name indicates the...McDermott; Stephen Sara; K. Wheatley; and Sarah Whelan. Wales & West Branch: David Wellings; and Angela Zienko...was a Member ofthe Gemmological Association of Great Britain and in recent years had cutspecirnen stonesformanymembers |  | | Report (issue) | | AROLWG DAEAREGOL PRYDAIN Regional geochemistry of Wales and part of west-central England: stream water ...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1999. Regional geochemistry of Wales and part of west-central England: stream water....Geological Survey carries out the geological survey of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter as an agency...1979 (0 85272 064 5) Hebrides 1983 (0 85272 078 5) Great Glen 1987 (0 85272 085 8) Argyll 1990 (0 85272 190...255 9) North-west England and North Wales 1997 (0 85272 307 5) Wales: stream water 1999 (0 85272 363 6) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | isotope thermometer for cerussite, with applications at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia ERIK B. MELCHIORRE...Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales, CF1 3EB, UK 2 (Received September 21...determine the oxygen isotope fractionation between cerussite (PbCO3) and water over the temperature range 20...historical cerussite samples from the Bwlch-Glas Mine, Wales, UK, and the Pinnacles Mine, Broken Hill...fractionation curve. Similarly, earlier high temperature cerussite experiments are in agreement with our thermometer |  | | Catalog/List | | small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales lxl £5 lx2 £8 Parclho, Pariba,Brazil) ...Region, Agua Quen1a,Bal1ia, Brazil Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales A)£3 B) £5 3mm £4 5mm £6 lxl £6 lx2£15...micros gemmy yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE...Goldstrike Pit, Elko,Nevada. U.S.A Divino des Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½...Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture.Japan Venice Dome, Lousiana, U |  | | Journal (volume) | | Green 19 32 Richelsdorfite from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys: the first British occurrence Neil Hubbard...Tetrahedrite-group minerals from Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys David I. Green, Neil Hubbard and Andrew...and Andy Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David... 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...HYDROZINCITE 3 CERUSSITE 4 CALEDONITE 5 SWEETITE 6 CERUSSITE 7 WULFENITE 8 HEMIMORPHITE 9 CERUSSITE 10 CRONSTEDTITE...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland |  | | Book | | . •·., .. ' ~ -., Great Ormes Head . '· /RISH SEA ., ' '. ..... Prestatyn ::, ~i;....,..i...a major part of the Silurian outcrops of North Wales, an area of classic and, in the past, controversial... which is spectacularly exposed on the Great and Little Orme, and occurs along the resort-studded coast...1601) BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY England and Wales P. T. WARREN, D. PRICE, l\tl.J. C. NUTT and Geolo=~...0 11 884225 0 British Regional Geology North Wales, 3rd Edition, 1961, reprinted 1979. Bibliographicalreference |  | | Journal (issue) | | Society is :i society of :un:u cur and profc:••ioll:ll mine r:tlogist• which encourages the s tudy, recording... -~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli;...an informative read for ALL members both new and old. A 'o & . , _,l.()1 ... .:,,,c.r.;•?;;; :w,n-1u................................................ 'Wales & \:\lest.... . 10 ...............................the scene a little bit. 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