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Mimetite from
St Endellion, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Civil Parish
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view St Endellion, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:784833
Long-form Identifier:1:3:784833:9
GUID (UUID V4):1ae8d506-3388-4784-8439-1111c812f767
Localities for Mimetite in this Region
Wheal Boys (Trewetha Mine; Old Trewetha Mine), Port Isaac, St Endellion, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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
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...00 16 HEMIMORPHITE, Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. Rich covering of silvery grey micro xtls. GRF...17 QUARTZ with minor PYRITE, Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall. A pretty specimen of short dear 12mm quartz with...CERUSSITE, Trevinnick Mine, nr Port Isaac, St Endellion, Cornwall. Orangy limonitic quartz is scattered with
Report (issue)
valentinite, anglesite, cerussite, smithsonite, mimetite. Distribution: Large crystals at Djebel Nador...Oujda, Morocco. In England, from the Bodannon mine and at Portquin Beach, St. Endellion; in the Trevinnick...Trevinnick mine, St. Kew; at the Treore mine, St. Teath; and from Wheal Leigh, Pillaton, Cornwall. At LaÌŠngban
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n'egesoaal., ot. JU'st, ~ '8 Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. V.A.T. No.132-7852-67 <0O, .' ORDER ING...u.v. light. 2ixltxl~", £7.75. 8. NATIVE ARSENIC, St. Andreasberg, Harz, Germany. Choice, ricl" grey metallic... -2- AF,SENOPYRITE. United Mines, Gwennap, Cornwall. Bright, sharp, silvery crystals to 5 rom. in...x2t". £22. 13. AZUHITE. Ting-Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue, crystaline masses intergrown...75. 15. BISMUTHINITE. East Pool Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Rich, silvery metallic, bladed crystals thickly~gregated
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CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...90x45x35mm. £95. 3) ARAGONITE. Reedy Cliff, St Endelion, Cornwall. O f f white spikey aragonite xls to 5mm...£145. 7) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. Nice group of about eight chunky cog wheel xls...CASSITERITE and SCHORL. Egloshellen Mine, St Stephens, Cornwall. Black sparkling cassiterite xls to 2mm...CASSITERITE after ORTHOCLASE. Wheal Coates, St Agnes, Cornwall. Part of a high replacement cassiterite after
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BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.~O.: St. Just 7B8880 (STD 0736)...variety FRANCOLITE. Clitters Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich crusts of sparkling micro crystals covering...display. 4tx4". £6.50. AXINITE. Botailack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A -Lustrous sharp clove brown crystals...£8.00. BAYLDoNITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, apple green, cellular masses and...2-txlfxlt-". £8.00. BOURNONITE. Wheal Boys, st. Endellion, Cornwall. Lustrous silvery grey well formed tabular
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CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...(var FRANCOLITE) Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A flattish quartz hematite vei.nstone. The...BISMUTHINITE and FLUORITE. South Crofty Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. A nice thumbnail showing several purple cubic... 10) BOULANGERITE. Rose Tresungers Mine, St Endellion, Cornwall. A 40x20nm1 area ofveinstone showing fine...£45. 11) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A nice showy specimen with about 100 blocky cog
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STD 073 677> S-c. J:lS"t, Penzance, Cormlall, England • ------_. -.- ~"Just V.A.T.No.: 132-7852-67...2tx2"::dt", £2.5"0. ~LCITE. Botallack Mine, st. Just~ Cornwall. Unusual, creamy coloured, modified crystals...parent doubly terminated pale lime green coloured Mimetite crystals to 4 mm. in size, scattered on the matrix...25. CHnLCOClTE. Cooks Kit hen Mine, "::amborne, Cornwall. Choice, platy hexagonaJ. cryst;als to ";"" in...2~x2xlt". £7. CUPhITE. Phoenix 4ine, Liru{inhorne, Cornwall. Bright, deep red well formed crystals to 2 mm
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::DW~ 25, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0735)...3x3xl". £11.00. AZURITE. Ting-Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Small bright blue crystals thickly encrusting...£23.00. CASSITERITE. Cligga Mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Large, lustrous, light brown composite sharp..."WOOD TIN". Metal Lode, Gt. Wheal Vor, Breage, Cornwall. Very rich light brown banded and rounded masses...50. 25. CHALCEDO,y. Trev~skus Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall. Select, waxy, creamy coloured tubose ramifying
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will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele University, Oxford, Harrogate and...L6. 3, AGARDITE(CALCIAN).Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornvall â–  Tvo specimens. Specimen A-boxed...GILBERTITEon ORTHOCLASE.Megiliggar Rocks,Tremearne, Cornwall. Boxed MIN. Upper Gilbertite coated surface carrying...t48. 35. BAYLDOHIT!. Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornwall, Three rich 1pecimena. Specimen A-large vughy... BAYLDOHITE/MIKETITE, Wheal Carpenter,Gvinear,Cornwall, Large limonitic Quartz gossan fragment coated
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50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Telephone or Fax 01872 223 227 (UK Time 8am -9pm) FLUORITE...Relatively unweathered & matrix free Good RF Ml £6 41 MIMETITE,Dnggeth Open Cut.Caldbeck Fells.Cumbna Milky quartz...micro xtlline quarz druse studded with leaf green mimetite xtls to 2mm Modest coverage Good RF Ml.£3 42 SMOKY...of straw yellow monoclinic elongated prisms of mimetite to 8mm forming pretty xtl groups with unidentified...£15 214 FLUORITE,B Sublevel East,Wheal Jane,Kea,Cornwall Ex Alfie White colln Two interlocking modified
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CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tav.istock (01822) 832530 email:...RY/FEBUARY 2009 l) ANALClME. Dean Quarry, The Lizard, Cornwall. Thin piece ofmatrix showing about 12 intergfOwn...35x30x8mm. £12. 3) ARAGONITE. Reedy Cliff, St Endellion,. Cornwall. Cellular gossan matrix intergrown with...CASSITERITE. Old Beam Mine, Goonbarrow Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. An approx. 10mm intergrown crust of dark...CHALCOPHYLLITE. Old Gunnislake Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Veinstone matrix witl1 a scattering of micro
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...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
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W• BAR STOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOFlMATION Mail...FRANCOLITE. Fowey ';onsols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Small, sharp, ttansparent hexagonal crystals... 9. BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crusts covering Quartz...10. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Cro~ts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Transparent, well formed, mi£!Q crystals...SSITERITE. Wheal Rock, Nr. Bugle, Hensbarrow Moor, Cornwall. Pure, dark brovm cellular mass, with numerous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm., 1991; XRD by Monica
Catalog/List
8ARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0736)...6. 7. 8. APATITE. Great Work Mine, 8reage, Cornwall. Small sharp transparent colourless to very pale...ARSENOPVRITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Specimen A - well " .•. ·formed silvery crystals...t-xt". £6.50. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall •. Small, lustrous, green bladed crystals scattered...Res~ronquet Creek Streamworks, Carnon Valley, Cornwall. An extremely rich ~eavy mass of brownish black
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...substantiation of the natural monoclinic dimorph of mimetite ............................. 307 by Y. Dai Columns...15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the Natural History M useum...See the article in this issue on the minerals of Cornwall. Copyright 1993 © by the Mineraiogicai Record...Pendeen West Cornwall, England Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England, have proved
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will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele University, Oxford, Harrogate and...prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE. Ichinokawa...FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with upper surface...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper
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(Var: Francolite). Geevor Mine, Pendeen, West Cornwall. An altered Chloritic matrix with overforming...e/Native Bismuth. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, West Cornwall. A hilly and sculpted Chloritic matrix indurated...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
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(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of...1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well
Journal (issue)
t;>.,,.,. J..2. w ,·tf, SI' l'UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...of local knowledge, by the well known north-of-England collector Lindsay Greenbank. T The celebration
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Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland...Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean...Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...Herodsfoot, Cornwall Barstow) St Endellion Cornwall (Broadstone) Hinoston Down, Cornwall Judkins Qy,
Journal (issue)
November 1991 Chairman Mick Wolfe 16 Collington St. Hesston, Notts NG9 1/PJ Secretary Shirley Adrian...the agreed £600 sponsorship had been paid to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, a new Catalogue of...(1044), an iron arsenate, from South Terras in Cornwall. It looks like pale yellow liverwort and is much...bayldonite (1057) pseudomorphing or rather epimorphing mimetite. His phosgenite (1062) shows the typical morphology;...from North Goonbarrow in Cornwall (1071). From the Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall he has produced more green
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...company. Audrey and I were married on 16 March 1963 in St Werburgh's Church, Bristol. After our honeymoon we...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 &
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specimens; • Minerals collected on SMLS field trips in the UK and overseas; • Zeolites with interesting shapes...to 6). This mineral collection was assembled in Cornwall by several generations of the Williams family...best and rarest mineral specimens ever found in Cornwall. The collection was started in the late 1700s...it was among the 2 or 3 finest collections in Cornwall. Originally housed in the Williams' family homes...irreplaceable specimens. There were 15 specimens from Cornwall including cassiterite x2, chalcocite x2, chalcophyllite
 
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