 | | Book | | A. W. G. Kingsbury LONDON BUTTERWORTHS ■ ENGLAND Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd London: S8 Kingsway...Conservancy, 1970 ISBN 0 40S 70002 5 Printed in England at the Pitman Press, Bath ) I 281495 Contents...Introduction 7 11 Descriptions: Cornwall 17 Devon 39 Dorset 89 Gloucestershire 197 Somerset...but mankind in general. Today in south-western England the geologist can examine the strata that fired...important geological sites in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Gloucester. By treating each |  | | Book | | Post-free for Seven Stamps. THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH DEVON ; being the substance of a Lecture delivered before...also contains notices of other portions of North Devon , which are less known to the majority of tourists...COMPOSITION 29 31 31 31 31 MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...Report on the mineral deposits of Cornwall and Devon, published by the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall |  | | Journal (issue) | | ---Page 13. The Russell Society at the Bakewell Rock Exchange -----------------------------Page 16. Articles:...17. Update of the mineral occurrences at Judkins Quarry ------------------Page 19. Mineralogy in the News...--------------------------------------------------------Page 21. UK Mining Round-up --------------------------------...---------------------------Page 35. Coldstones Quarry (NB) --------------------------------------------------------Page...---------------Page 36. Chipping Sodbury Quarry (SB) ------------------------------------------------Page |  | | Book | | of Collecting Minerals Gold from Hope's Nose, Devon. 23 x 15 mm. Image© Jeff Scovil. David Lloyd First...permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on the 24...Construction Ltd in Paignton, Devon, had a heart attack. I was asked to go to Devon and help run the small works...uncle was one of the main building contractors in Devon for S. N. W. Homes, a division of the English China |  | | Book | | ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers A Collector’s...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 Hine. fnaxt*...Lizard .. North and Central Cornwall East Cornwall Devon 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 MAPS 36 39 APPENDIX...experienced collector who is unfamiliar with Cornwall and Devon should find helpful. There has been no attempt to |  | | Catalog/List | | xl face. Nutfield Surrey £4 12. QUARTZ after Aragonite greyish hexagonal c1ystals about 3 to 5mm in a...attractive small group about l x2 inches ( Coldstones Quarry, Yorkshire) £7 19. ANAPAITE pale green micro...Canada £7.50 27. ERYTHRlTE pinkish crust on 8111111 rock, in glass tube with Natural History Museum( London...over 3x2 surface. Location interest. Coatsgate quarry Dumfries Scotland £ 12 32. STILBITE good small...colour Afghanistan £16 b) l x2 £7.50 49. HAUSMANNITE black octahedral crystals, with octahedral stepped facaes |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................... Rock, Fossil and Mineral Shows 2002 44 ................any material collected would be decided by the quarry owners and the sub-committee. We need to start...attending, particularly those from the North of England, will be available to assist where possible. Please...also occur on the south coast of Ulva and at a quarry near Tiroran. Various exposures along the southern...evening for members. A total of 10 squeezed into the 'rock-room' and subsequently spread out around the house |  | | Book | | carbonate-stalactites-stalagmites-curtains-eccentric formations-aragonite-gypsum-ice and sand formations-cave deposits-conclusions...District-Mendips- South Devon -South Wales-North Wales-other areas of· England-SCOTLAND-IRELAND: gene...ShropshireHereford- Glouceste,~- Somerset - Wiltshire - Devon Dorset-Kent WALES. Denbigh and Flint-Caernarvon...Limerick-Tipperary- Waterford-Cork CAVES IN DETAIL, ENGLAND. Co. Select bibliography and list of Museums housing...Organisations: Northern, Mendip , South Wales, Devon XVIII. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND RESCUE Vlll CONTENTS |  | | Catalog/List | | platy crystals in 5x2.5 inch matrix, with minor black ~:> Aegirine. (Khibiny Massif Kola, Russia) A...massive q:.iartz about a 2x3 surface. £20 (Haigerach, Black Forest ,Germany) 9. EPIDOTE good display piece...Region , Mali £ 18 MAGNETITE excellent lustrous black octahedral crystals on matrix, about 8mm size, with...Bolivia small 2x3 £ 16 11. ROMANCHEITE solid grey-black mass with part botryoidal surface. Previously this...B) 2.5 x2 £ 15 20. VIVIANITE attractive spray of black looking crystals about one inch high and more or |  | | Catalog/List | | Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...xtl with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix...fine example. £6. 7. ANATASE, Virtuos Lady mine, Devon. l.4xl.5xlcm. A MM with a micro xtl of sparkly anatase...under magnification. £6. 9. ANGLESITE, Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. 3x l.9x2cm. A bright...Dulcote Quarry, Somerset. 4.5x4x2cm. A cut geode 4 12. ARAGONITE, Hopes Nose, Torquay, S. Devon. 6.5x4x2cm |  | | Catalog/List | | Tombstone, Arizona, U.S.A. Unattractive rarity. Iron-black, rather vitreous A/8. dissemination in dirty Dolomitic-gangue... Scotland, a small glass phial containing, jet-black, pure crystalline, rather obsidian-like, fragments...golden-yellow nodule, A/20. ANALCIME. Enderby Quarry. Leicestershire. This specimen is more interesting...2.5x2x1.25", £4.00 1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to...75x1", £7.50. 2. ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin and copp...considerable time the project felt like a never ending black hole. In many different ways you all helped to pull...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his...Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)' Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon PottsGillmine,Caldbeck |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...the heyday of geological research in northern England and it was not long before spectacular new ideas...site: Bedford Utd. Mine, Dean Quarry, Gravel Hill Mine, Greystone Quarry, Gunheath Claypit, Me/don Quarries |  | | Journal (volume) | | June 2006 from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...twinned trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite...deposits, such as Higher Pitts Farm and Merehead Quarry, are in fact related, and the discovery of parallels...untoward incident, I might add) and on many occasions, quarry companies have called us in when something interesting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralized Mn deposits at Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England R. TURNER* The Drey, Allington Track...Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, UK ABSTR ACT Mississippi Valley type galena deposits emplaced into...deposits, oxychloride, Somerset, Mendip, Merehead, England. Introduction T HIS paper presents a new theory...formation of the mineralized Mn deposits at Merehead Quarry which accounts for all the features of the deposit... creating a major disconformity visible in the quarry today. The disconformity represents a gap in stratigraphy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Visean Clifton Down Limestone, Bristol area, SW England A. Kirkham KIRKHAM, A. 2005. Thrombolitic-Ortonella...Visean Clifton Down Limestone, Bristol area, SW England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 116... Rickling Green, Saffron Walden, Essex CBll 3YB, UK (e-mail: kirkhama@compuserve. com) 1. INTRODUCTION...221~234. Limestone (CDL), of the Bristol area, SW England (Fig. I). The term 'Clifton Down Limestone' was...thrombol itic localities in the Bristol region . SW England. Having accumulated on the southern flank of an |  | | Journal (issue) | | world-class tungsten mine being developed atHemerdon in Devon, a full-scale gold operation atTyndrum , and confused...difficult, or ferry heavy bags and kit back up steep quarry roads . As we approach the end of the first decade...- just ask anyone who was on the Breedon Cloud Quarry trip on 15 May (see the account in this newsletter)...Stillanhay, Churchgate, Knowle Lane, Drewsteignton, Devon. EX6 6QX. Tel07531912834 Broom Cottage, New Street...SW Mr John Vaughan 9 George Street, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 1LP Tel 01395 269882 SW Mr Adam White 18 |  | | Journal (issue) | | area, Cheshire, England R . S. W. Braith waite 91 Fluorite at Hampstead Farm quarry, Chipping Sodbury...109 NOTES Tyuyamunite from St Just, Cornwall , England NJ. Elton and J.J. Hooper 114 Barytocalcite and...witherite from Rorrington mine, Chirbury, Salop, England R.E. Starkey, N. Hubbard and B. Young 115 Witherite...Cumbria, England R . Bunting 118 Vivianite from South Humberside and Yorkshire , England M.E. Smith...121 Cinnabar from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England T. ,veall and M. Lepping ton 123 Analyses of |  | | Journal (issue) | | NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...4TG Printed by Northern Litho Services, Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...orthoclase & chlosite. Mag. = x 8.5. Reilly quarry, Renfrewshire. 1998 Kemp Meikle. Journal of the...mantles of scree that obscure much of the in situ rock. It is now difficult to see most of the veins in...extensive blanket of thin peaty soil obscures the rock head. An outline geological map accompanying the |  | | Book | | classification of the Chalk, including the term ‘Chalk Rock’ in the Chiltern Hills and London Basin, and recognized...horizon subsequently called the ‘Spurious Chalk Rock’ on the Isle of Wight. (Photograph supplied by Mrs...volcanic episodes, famous fossil sites, and sedimentary rock sections used internationally as comparative standards...purchased from: NHBS Ltd, 2-3 Wills Road, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5XN. www.nhbs.com Published titles in the...and M.C. Gyopari Igneous Rocks of South-West England PA. Floyd, C.S. Exley and M.T. Styles Quaternary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gold on Calcite . Hope's Nose, near Torquay, Devon, England. The dendritic composite is approximately I...Cornwall I.A. Lawrence 81 NOTE Cinnabar from Machen Quarry, Machen, South Wales T.F. Bridges 85 Book Reviews...' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...11 km Sma. quarry (dsused) I • Sma. rock eXpoSU'e FIGURE 1. Sketch map showing...recovered either from float or from locally quarried rock used in the land reclamation as there is a reasonable...the present study have been recovered from loose rock embedded in the line of old access tracks leading |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Britain. The lower horizon overlies the Courceyan Black Rock Limestone (mid-ramp facies) and is separated...first major cycle terminates at the top of the Black Rock Limestone, at what had been previously considered...claim that a major nonsequence separated the Black Rock Limestone and the Gully Oolite in southwest Britain...from the ‘below storm wave-base facies’ of the Black Rock Limestone to the shoreface and foreshore facies...calcites, have been discovered separating the Black Rock Limestone Group from the Gully Oolite at Portishead |  | | Journal (issue) | | J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...deerite, howieite, and zussmanite at the Laytonville quarry in Mendocino County, California. He brought the...of Sciences and Technology Manchester, M60 1QD England The Phalaborwa Complex, situated in Northeastern...under datolite in the hydrothermally altered wall rock of the open cavity in the upper part of the Main...parts it forms a thin film directly on the wall rock and under the zeolites. MINERALOGY Only the secondary |  | | Catalog/List | | 2~1; 11 ,~3.00. 21. ~UTUNITE. Merryvale Quarry,Princetown,Devon. Very rich cover of small yellowishgreen·coloured...minor matrix. 1¼,x111 ,E6.25. CHALCEDONY. Penlee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall. Quartz/Cb.alcedonic hyb~id with...trigonal form xtls impls..nted on and between. j et-black, lustrous, crystalline \Blende,and partially overcoated...alterations to Bornite,formed on a gmall 'Country Rock' matrix~ Ex~ Williams Collectione 5~5",æ23.00. 70...prismatic xtls i~ew on vuggy 79. OOLOMITE. Black Rock,Arkansas,U.S.A. Choice,lustroue pink rioh sharp |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zoned elbaite crystal (7.3 cm) from the Dunton quarry, Newry, Oxford County, Maine. Maine Mineral & Gem...concentric zoning from Minerva No. 1 mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. Jim Gebel specimen. 26 ...separated by 180 degrees from the Ben Hogan quarry, Black Rock, Lawrence County, Arkansas. Terry Huizing... Bill and Anne Cook specimen. County Durham, England. The Carlsbad twin of orthoclase is another well-known...described as cyclic twins. Members of the aragonite group—aragonite, cerussite, strontianite, and with28 |
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