 | | Book | | MINING IN SHROPSHIRE Richard K Morriss p 67. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust p 64. All other photographs...exploration and study of disused mines in Shropshire and Wales. Since that time, the Club has expanded its interest... CONTENTS Introduction ix Map xi Minerals xiii Llanymynech Metal Mines Adrian Pearce 1 Oswestry & Shrewsbury...Limestone Mines David Adams 43 Forest of Wyre & Clee Hill Coalfields Nigel Chapman, Robert Evans, David Poyner...mine that confirms people's expectations, Blist's Hill Red Clay Mine. To many people, mining means coal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | known being his account of London and his 'Tour in Wales'. Up to the present, Pennant's sole claim to the...Flintshire, an account which appeared in ' A Tour in Wales' in 1778, and which was republished with some additions...galena, pyromorphite. Azurite, copper, cuprite, malachite. Haematite, limonite. TTVTTT (in\A The classification...ore' ~ (botryoidal chalcopyrite), i~Iamil]ated malachite was known as ' enamelled copper ore'; and a mass...certainly from the ~[endips. Several specimens of malachite, ]~belled Staffordshire, are probably from Ecton |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | known being his account of London and his ' Tour in Wales '. Up to the present, Pennant's sole claim to the...Flintshire, an account which appeared i n ' A Tour in Wales' in 1778, and which was republished with some additions...galena, pyromorphite. Azurite, copper, cuprite, malachite. Haernatite, limonite. The classification was...ore' ~ (botryoidal chalcopyrite), i~Iamil]ated malachite was known as ' enamelled copper o r e ' ; and...certainly from the ~[endips. Several specimens of malachite, ]~belled Staffordshire, are probably from Ecton |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | soon be learnt that such conspicuous minerals as malachite and azurite, which accompanied the native metal...in Anglesea and various places in Wales, at Alderley Edge, Llanymynech (Salop) and Coniston. The workings...hammers found were encrusted with patches of malachite. Smelting was done on the spot, vitrified copper...in the old workings were certainly Roman. At Llanymynech on the borders of Shropshire similar ore has...barytes in Derbyshire. The cavern at Ogof on Llanymynech Hill is the entrance to a Roman adit. At Coniston |  | | Report (volume) | | Britain Volume XXX COPPER ORES OF TlIE MIDLANDS, WALES, THE LAKE DISTRICT AND THE ISLE OF M~i\N. BY HENRr·...exploitation. The mines are scattered over the Midlands, Wales and the North of England. Most of them have been...of gold in the ore of many of the lodes in North Wales may encourage further exploitation. JOHN S. FLETT... IV.--MINES WORKED IN THE LODES AND VEINS Oli' WALES AND ITS BORDERS :-Introduction, pp. pp. 32-39 ;...of 'Man 79 COPPER ORES OF THE MIDLANDS, WALES, THE LAKE DISTRICT, AND THE ISLE OF MAN. CHAPTER |  | | Book | | WORCESTERSHIRE 70 70 YORKSHIRE MINERAL LOCALITIES IN WALES . ANGLESEA 72 72 72 72 . BRECKNOCKSHIRE CAERMARTHENSHIRE...MANGANITE { { Oxide of Copper : Carbonic acid MALACHITE 62:55 27.24 10:21 INTRODUCTION . 20 Iron...20.00 s MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES. NOTE . When the name of a metal is put in capital...Baryte. stone and Marls. Chessylite. Galena. Malachite. Towanite. Middlewich. New Red Sandstone and Marls...with Porphyry Dykes. Argentite. Copper. Cuprite. Malachite . Pechuran . 9 99 Torberite . ( Huel Briggan |  | | Book | | provided by: Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff); British Geological Survey, Edinburgh...tellurob:smu'Ji::eC!ogau andVigramines,nr Oolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales t!.e'.don ra:::ayqJarry,nr o~eha'Tlp'.:i. , Dev:i:i...United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain. The offshore teITitorics...but two). but these. along with many others in Wales, were swept awa) with the introduction of administn1tive...followed by Strathclyde. Scotland (13 species . Sca,n Hill. near Lame, Co. Antrim, Ireland, is the indi,·idual |  | | Journal (issue) | | 31 A new site for fluorite in the Mendips: Nyland Hill by Sue Cowdry ....................................McDermott; Stephen Sara; K. Wheatley; and Sarah Whelan. Wales & West Branch: David Wellings; and Angela Zienko...move back to Worcestershire, setting up home in Fem hill Heath. Always one to relish a new challenge ,Jim...had the same range of mineral, galena, calcite, malachite and goethite, all found during the last twelve...yielded the same assemblage of minerals. The malachite was in the form of tiny sprays and flattened plates |  | | Book | | JOURNAL OF A TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES AND PART OF SHROPSHIRE;... Arthur Aikin m Digitized by Google...by Google JOURNAL OF A TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES AND PART OF SHROPSHIRE; - 1 * WITH OBSERVATION'S...ks dlpes, fuggefted to the idea of a tour into Wales upon fomething of a fimilar plan j and I have...which are fcattered fo profufely through North Wales. eafy, by increafing the to have enlarged the...chapter on the wool- len manufactures of Nordi Wales, I am indebted to a friend, whofe pcrfbnal ac- |  | | Book | | 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. Malachite. Chessylite. Liroconite. Tamarite . Clinoclase...as at New Bridge, near Merthyr Tydvil in South Wales ; at Newcastle, & c. The annual weight of coal raised...168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. Malachite. Chessylite. Liroconite. Tamarite. Clinoclase...as at New Bridge, near Merthyr Tydvil in South Wales ; at Newcastle, & c. The annual weight of coal... It occurs plentifully in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, where, as at the Bonville Court Collieries, a very |  | | Report (issue) | | surveys in the Berwyn Dome and adjacent areas, North Wales Geochemistry D. C. Cooper, BSc, PhD Geophysics...surveys in the Berwyn Dome and adjacent areas, North Wales • I I I I I 11 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I...volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation at Benglog, North Wales 64 37 Compilation of stratabound mineralisation...surveys in the Berwyn Dome and adjacent areas, North Wales 71 A regional geochemical soil investigation of...survey of the Preseli Hills, south-west Dyfed, Wales 39 40 41 42 Copper-bearing intrusive rocks at |  | | Report (issue) | | Net. .. 11 '. PREFACE. Iu North and Central Wales lead and zinc mmmg has been most successfully prosecuted...with the ores of the Silurian rocks of Central Wales, while a third will be devoted to the consideration...the ores in the pre-Carboniferous rocks of North Wales; these are now in the press and will shortly be...ZINC ORES IN THE CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS OF NORTH WALES. CHAP'l'ER I. INTRODUC'l'ION. HISTORICAL DATA. ...Minera Mine, and also the old mine on Lla.nymynech Hill, where Iloman coins have been found in the old workings |  | | Book | | BERWYN HILLS (North By th? Late THOnflS (Edited by Wales). HENRY COPE, CHARLES B. LIVERPOOL C. TlNLING...ROCKS OF THE BERWYN HILLS (North By th* Lat* Wales). THO/V1S HENRY COPE, fEdited by CHARLES B....AND PYEOCLASTIC ROCKS OF THE BERWYN HILLS (North Wales). By the Late THOMAS HENRY COPE, F-.G.S. (Edited...dissected. large portion of the Central of Wales, consisting principally of Ordovician sediments...corner of wild II. A considerable comparatively Wales. PREVIOUS LITERATURE. amount of work has been |  | | Book (edition) | | rather brittle. ; gr. 1.—1.6. at Haughmond Hill, Shropshire in Cornwall. ; in mineral 6. ...cinder a does. Caermarthenshire Brecknock, Birch-hill Pembroke, Sp. half 61 MINERALS. NON-METALLIC...Wigan, Lancashire Bituminous Sp. 78. ; Clee Hill, Shropshire. Shale. See Shale, Newcastle. Cl...yields easily of by grey Blue. Copper. Malachite. green; metallic gold. by transmitted light...the knife, blackens, blowpipe; borax. Llanymynech Hill, Shropshire. Sp. 26. Black Copper. friable |  | | Book | | other hand, anhybecomes gypsum, red copper ore malachite, by addition of new into cyanite, drite Or the...iron glance into brown iron ore, azurite into malachite, augite into green-earth. Many other matter. ...iron in the place of the carbonate two pyrites malachite, as at Chessy, in place of the calc spar after...pure green emerald, and some varieties of green malachite. (6.) Apple-green is green with a little greyish...Thomson, from a single specimen found at Brownley hill in Cumberland, is probably an accidental mixture |
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