 | | 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...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although |  | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...60x30x30mm. £28. 6) ARSENOPYRITE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Killas matrix with a 30mm chlorite/quartz...£125. 10) CASSITERITE and MOLYBDENITE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. A quartz veinstone showing...with about a dozen 1-2mm patches of silvery molybdenite. 70x50x20mm. £30. 11) CASSITERITE. Tanganika...brochantite. 40x20x3mm. £9. 18)FELDSPAR. St Austell, Cornwall. An off white "Carlsbad Twin" xl showing almost |  | | Journal (issue) | | INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines |  | | 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...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall: Callington to Calstock Rocks of Cornwall Precious Metals and Semi-precious...technical this will increase your appreciation Cornwall, Inevitably, language, but (pax ranges it |  | | Catalog/List | | the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Beach Meldon apllte q. Fallowfield mine East Gunnislake Struan,Skye,Scot. Wh.Gorland Tresavean mine Bwlch...Bristol.Avon Okehampton,Devon Hexham,Northumbr. Cornwall Cutting on A863 St.Day,Comwall Gwennap,Comwall |  | | Book | | permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Acknowledgements 350 Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce & |  | | Catalog/List | | - --q.,_u_artz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___::H_i_l_?fY Cornwall __________ _ _ _ _ __ _________ AGRELLITE Excellent...½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins S0p ALUMINITE Al SO/4 ALUMINOTSCHERMAKITE...- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...PbAgSbS lx2 S0p 2x2 £1 2x3 £I .SO Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses ANHYDRITE CaSO |  | | Book | | 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...It was during the latter that deposits were laid down, later to form the shales, slates and sandstones...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action |  | | Catalog/List | | 50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen,Scolland Radiating off while lo...1ourmaline.R1ch RF SPC. C.£8 0027 CHALCEDONY.Pentee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall.Pretty botryoidal encrustations...D SPC. C.£8 0028 CHLORITE after AXINITE,Aplile Quarry,Meldon,Devon.Unusual pseudomorphs of earthy brown...x1Is.Unusual RF SPC. C £10 0029 WAVELLITE,Highdown Quarry,Filleigh.Devon.Classic wavellite with radiating |  | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Orakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PLl8 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...£95. 2) APATITE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. A --v" shaped quartz/mica matrix showing about...CASSITERITE. Robinsons Section, South Crafty Mine, Pool, Cornwall. An intergrown mass or black cassitcritc ,Is and...DfABOLEJTE, PARALAURIONITE and MENDI PITE. Mcrehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset. Black manganese matrix with...70x40x30mm. £48. I-n NATIVE COPPER. Mullion. Lizard. Cornwall. A nice tarnished thin sheet of native copper |  | | Catalog/List | | NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...£30. 3) BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Quartz veinstone, the upper surface showing tiny...5) BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Dark green crusts and coatings of bayldonite...and CHALCOPYRITE. Fowey Consols, Tywardreath, Cornwall. A thin white quartz veinlet divides the specimen...£45. 9) CASSITERITE. Trevaunance Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. A quartz cassiterite matrix showing several lustrous | | | Book | | Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious...physical properties of minerals (pages I I 0- 1 I). Cornwall, for its size, has one of the most diverse ranges...1n museum collections such as hose of the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro and the aural His ory Museum ...spectacular examples of this are exposed in North Cornwall. It was during this period of mountainbuilding |  | | Catalog/List | | NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...50x30x25mm. £12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group of pale blue needly...70x40x30mm. £65. 9) CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendecn, Cornwall. An "onion layer" type of matrix showing rings...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group of eight intergrown prismitic...CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen matrix showing black cassiterite | | | Catalog/List | | NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...50x30x25mm. £ 12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group ofpale blue needly...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group ofeight intergrown prismitic...CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen matrix showing black cassiterite...CASSITERITE and SCHORL. Goonbarrow Clay Pit, Bugle, Cornwall. A good solid mass of black/brown cassiterite |  | | Catalog/List | | formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- ·--- lx2 £6 ½x½£3...-�b Ag �b� 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2£1 2x3 £ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses...ANNITE Pure black mica plate new Analys is. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Mica paper avail'!�_____ _ ___Larv |  | | Catalog/List | | NICK _CARRUTH ‘Copse Cottage© ~ Drakewalls , Gunnislake — .— — t to Tel/Fax: Tavi stock (01822) 832530...ALBITE AND RUTILE. Lanterdan Quarr y, Tintagel, Cornwall. A 50x50mm area of slate matrix showing many sharp...l oes es ay a aera APATITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Calli ngton, Cornwall. Crystallized quartz covered...matrix. 60x40x30mm. £16. 13. Hingston Down‘ Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A quartz lined cavity in veinstone...BEUDANTITE. CALCITE ON FLUORITE. Wheal wWrey, St Ive, Cornwall. An intergrown crust of . Colourless prismatic |  | | Catalog/List | | 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y... 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...lxl lT • £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised...granite matrix. 3Xlt". £2. lig~t AUTUNITE. Merrivale Quarry, D8rtmoor, Devon. micro crystals richly encrusting |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I |  | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...70x25x20mm. £18. 4) BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic...6) CARMINITE and SCORODITE. Hingston Down Consols, Callington, Cornwall. Cavities in solid arsenopyrite...CASSITERITE. Great Flat Lode, Dolcoath Mine, Cambome, Cornwall. Rich heavy chloritic veinstone with much intergrown | | | Catalog/List | | CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...70x25x20mm. £18. 4) BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhome, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic...6) CARMINITE and SCORODITE. Hingston Down Consols, Callington, Cornwall. Cavities in solid arsenopyrite...CASSITERITE. Great Flat Lode, Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Rich heavy chloritic veinstone with much intergrown |  | | Catalog/List | | Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...of ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall Pure black-brown cleavage Yakutia,Russia PRICES...A x A ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England FLUORESCENT Large brown well formed dodecahedral..._______ Ba Ca 00/3__________ Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins50p 1x2 £1 Pure hard white sphere shaped |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England ......................... Bill Pinch at the Tucson Show in 2008. Kent England photo. The Pinch Medal, established in Bill’s...of Lincoln: “A tree is best measured when it is down—and so it is with people.” Looking over Bill’s career... 1, The Old Coach Yard, East Coker, Somerset, England BA22 9HY Tucson USA Visit us at these international...exposure—immense rocks of an impure iron ore. Continuing down the south face, I discovered a very fine iron ore |  | | Journal (issue) | | Chairman of the South-East Branch has had to step down due to personal circumstances. Peter deserves a...this. As you know, Dr. Norman Moles has stepped down from the Editor’s chair of the RS Journal. Many...nice crystals? There will be events held around the UK and across the world, but one which caught my attention...as you will no doubt be aware, some parts of the UK are richer, mineralogically, than others and therefore...I have suggested an overview of the whole of the UK. I will be focussing on the period from the mid-eighteenth |  | | Catalog/List | | mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon...SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW.18 Botallackite...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi Lode...Lode. SW.43 Botallackite - Levant Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 368 346]. 130 fathom level, South Lode. Ex |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........ 7 Searching for Bournonite Micros in Cornwall .................................................................. 20 Pyrite Twins from Todd's Quarry, Northland, New Zealand .........................main working face and continuation of a smaller down dip face that is also paralleling the anticlinal...decline as we ran out of quality specimens in the down dip part of the anticline’s southern limb. We developed...advancing faces whether you are going across or down dip of the anticlinal limb but we believe, subject |
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Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK