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Olivenite from
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Olivenite
Formula:Cu2(AsO4)(OH)
Comments:Note it may be that some Olivenite's are rare Zincolivenite, only analysis will determine whether there one or the other.
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
SEM-EDS
Raman Spectroscopy
Analysis Reference:NHM London XRD, SEM-EDS, RAMAN Mineral Analytik
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pharmacosiderite15 photos of Olivenite associated with Pharmacosiderite at this locality.
Goethite14 photos of Olivenite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Quartz8 photos of Olivenite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pseudomalachite6 photos of Olivenite associated with Pseudomalachite at this locality.
Philipsburgite4 photos of Olivenite associated with Philipsburgite at this locality.
Bayldonite4 photos of Olivenite associated with Bayldonite at this locality.
Cornwallite3 photos of Olivenite associated with Cornwallite at this locality.
Scorodite2 photos of Olivenite associated with Scorodite at this locality.
Alunite Group1 photo of Olivenite associated with Alunite Group at this locality.
Clinochlore1 photo of Olivenite associated with Clinochlore at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Olivenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (56 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8210
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8210:5
GUID (UUID V4):a352f23d-ea40-4b7b-828c-5bf32ef09bb5
Nearest other occurrences of Olivenite
2.1km (1.3 miles) Wheal Prosper, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Croft Gothal Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
5.8km (3.6 miles) Wheal Herland (Old Herland Mine; Manor Mine; North Wheal Herland), Rosewarne and Herland United Mines (Rosewarne and Herland Mine; incl. Wheal Fancy; Wheal Pleasure), Gwinear, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
10.9km (6.8 miles) Wheal Pendarves, Killivose, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
14.1km (8.7 miles) Tincroft Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
14.9km (9.2 miles) Carn Brea Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
16.4km (10.2 miles) Wheal Buller, Wheal Buller and Beauchamp, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
17.6km (10.9 miles) Pednandrea Mine (Pedn-an-Drea Mine), Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
18.6km (11.5 miles) Cathedral Mine, Busveal, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
19.2km (11.9 miles) Ting Tang Mine, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal
Journal (issue)
Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11 lllit/...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,·ri.11l·ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL...whittling-away of the old minesites throughout the UK: foremost in the list of threats arc the use of sites
Catalog/List
,!.h. 50 Oamell Road. Tru ro. Cornwall TR I 2DA, England Telrphone UK (O 21223227 Paul Lowe Minerals...Minerals Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 20A, England Tel: (0872)223227 NEWS AND INFORMATION...Pyromorphites, Mont St Hilaire, Kola-Peninsula, Greenland, Franklin, Crestmore, Cornwall, Chuquicamata, Langban...sections, namely 140 Bntish, including Devon and Cornwall starting on page 1, and 120 World Species, starting...Wendsleydale,York ■ hlre. xtls.E4 Cllff,Botallack,St Just,Cornvall.Dlsplay xtls up to 10-.60x40.El0 16
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Saskatchewan Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...minerals such as the highly collectible species olivenite (Berry 1951). As a continuation of our treatment...secondary minerals, a specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at...(Cook 2002), has been selected for this issue. Olivenite occurs in a range of colors from virtually black...from 4.4 to 4.5, and its Mohs hardness is 3. Olivenite is pseudo-orthorhombic and has a twinned monoclinic
Journal (volume)
K. A. Dyer, Hoddleston, Darwin, U.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, U.K. R.A. Howie...caledonite crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection...mm from the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection...Tindle 3-9 Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall Jens C. Ø. Andersen and David Moulding...collected by Sir Kingsley Dunham from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE
Journal (issue)
UK JOURNAL M I N OF E S -----&----- M ·1 N E R A L S ISSUE N0.9 • SPRING - SUMMER 1991...EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0.5mm...collection. Photo: Mick Cooper. 3 CALCITE 4 The UK Joumol of Mi11es011dMinerals publishes articles of-interest...BAYLDONITE FROM PENBERTHY CROFT G. Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes... EDITORIAL LOOKING BACK In the course of its evolution the UK Joumol of Mints and Minerals has seen many small
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...APATITE (var FRANCOLITE) Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A flattish quartz hematite vei.nstone...2mm. 80x40x20nun. £45. 3) AZURITE. Girralambone Mine, Canbelego Co., New SouthWales, Australia. Quartz...well. 150xl !0xl20nm1. £175. 4) BARITE. Bridford Mine, Christow, Devon. A single ternunated semi-transparent...l 00xl 60nun. £645. 6) BARYTOCALCITE. (Blaegill Mine) Alston Moor, Cumberland. A 50x40nm1 cavity in massive
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chalcophyllite Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall, England S ome minerals, such as tsumebite and leadhillite...tamarite, for specimens from Wheal Tamar, Devon, England. Chalcophyllite occurs in a range of colors from...exceptional crystals to 2 cm are known from Cornwall, England (Corbett 1973). The crystals are flattened...have been noted (Piazza 1931). At Wheal Gorland, England, a specimen exhibiting partial replacement of the...reported from the now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine.
Report (issue)
100.00 34.56 31.26 35.36 27.45 (1) Emma Louisa mine, Chile. (2) Bolivia; average of seven analyses....mineral deposits; a post-mine Association: Alumopharmacosiderite, olivenite, schlossmacherite, mansfieldite...mansfieldite, quartz (Emma Louisa mine, Chile); mansfieldite, quartz, barite, goethite (Bolivia); liroconite...liroconite, clinoclase, olivenite (Wheal Gorland, England); posnjakite, scorodite, metazeunerite, cassiterite...Maid, England); malachite, azurite, olivenite, mansfieldite, pharmacosiderite (Cap Garonne mine, France)
Catalog/List
Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes Farm, Willand,Devon, England EX15 2QF Tel 01884 821563 Fax 01884 821724 e mail...co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Moss green acicular crystals covering entire...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the northern part of the Lake District and from Cornwall. By A1~T~v~ W. G. KINGSBURY, F.G.S. Dept. of Mineralogy...and eleven of beudantitc [PbFeaAsOaSO4(OH)r] in Cornwall and Cumberland, with an account of the Mteration...been recorded. Hingston Downs Consols mine, 1 Calstoek, Cornwall, was for m a n y years the only known...at Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, and at Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, have been recorded, 2 and it is probable...West of England. The first recorded British occurrence of beudantite was at Penberthy Croft mine, 3 since
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...taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside Minerals (www.greensideminerals...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org
Report (issue)
Namibia). Association: Beudantite–corkite, adamite–olivenite, duftite, bayldonite, carminite, mimetite, hidalgoite...coronadite, goethite (Broken Hill, Australia); olivenite, duftite (Tsumeb, Namibia). Distribution: In Australia...Eureka mine, Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah, USA. From the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall...Cornwall, England. Name: Honoring Dr. E. Ralph Segnit (1923–1999), mineralogist and petrologist, University
Journal (issue)
membership. Anyone joining the Society after January 31 st pays half the appropriate annual subscription. MEETINGS...shipped from Cardiff in the 1660's and the Pare mine south of Llantrisant was worked from the 1500's...period of production in the mid l 700 ' s. Llangan mine near Cowbridge was producing ore as recently as...anglesite of exceptional size and quality for the UK. More recently the rare lead sulphite scotlandite...outside the north of England with typical pyramidal crystals to 6mm. Nearby at M\.vyndy mine small balls of
Report (issue)
95 Total 100.00 99.79 100.00 (1) St. Day, Cornwall, England; after deduction of remnant Fe2 O3 ,...polymetallic deposits. Association: Mimetite, olivenite, azurite, malachite, tsumebite, cuprian adamite... Distribution: In England, in Cornwall, from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary; at Wheal Carpenter...In the Tynagh mine, near Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland. In France, at the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet...the Mt. Malvern mine, near Clarendon, South Australia. In the USA, from the Killie mine, Spruce Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Reichenbachite from Cornwall and Portugal R. S. W. BRAITHWAITE Chemistry Department, University of Manchester...Manchester, M60 1QD, UK AND G. RYBACK 42, Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4EB, UK Abstract Infrared...labelled 'pseudomalachite' from Cornwall, in particular from Old Gunnislake mine, are of reichenbachite, thus...identified with pseudomalachite from Miguel Vacas mine, Vila Vigosa, Evora, Portugal. Identification of...pseudomalachite, ludjibaite, infrared spectroscopy, Cornwall, Portugal. Introduction PSEUDOMALACHITE (Hausmann
Report (issue)
of some hydrothermal base-metal Association: Olivenite, mottramite, azurite, malachite, wulfenite, calcite...bayldonite, beudantite, mimetite, cerussite (Cap Garonne mine, France). Distribution: Many minor localities. Abundant...Zambia. At the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France...France. In the Virneberg mine, near Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. From Beresovsk, near...In England, at Brandy Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, and in the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 I) ALBITE. Lanterdan Quarry, Tintagel, Cornwall. About 200 off white/yellowish xls to 4mm covering...BINDHEIM1TE and CERUSSITE. Trevinnick Mine, Endellion, Cornwall. A 20x20x80mm vein of yellowish brown...80x80x30mm. £35. 6) BIOTJTE. Trelavour Downs, Roche, Cornwall. A good clean intergrown mass of large platey...BI.SM OTiUNn'E and SIDERITE. South Crofry Mine, Pool, Cornwall. Iron stained quartz veinstone with cavities
Catalog/List
50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...Polished seciion.RF SPC. C.£8 0023 DUFTITE.Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumberland.V1v1d green druse of duflile...Barstow label. RF or D. C £10 0030 CHABAZITE,Ramsley Mine,Sticklepath,Devon Scintilating druss of chabazite
Catalog/List
Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...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...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006 1) ABHURITE. SS Cheerful, off St Ives, Cornwall. Cavity in blister formed on a tin ingot from...90x40x40mm max. £18. 3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An intergrown group oflight brownish white...8) BINDHEIMITE on JAMESONITE. Bodannon Mine, Endellion, Cornwall. A flattish mass of jamesonite with the...£35. 11) CASSITERITE. Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall. Part of a rounded beach pebble showing areas
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...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...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...3) ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A group of intergrown silvery grey bladed xis...60x30x30mm approx. £48. 4) ARSENOPYRITE. Old Anderton Mine, Tavistock, Devon. A solid mass of slightly iron...arsenopyrite. 80x50x40mm. £15. 5) ARSENOPYRITE. South Mine, Devon United Mines, Mary Tavy, Devon. Good very...2 0 m m . £8. 6) BARYTOCALCITE. Nentsbury Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. A nice small radiating mass
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...70x30x40mm. £8. 2) AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...collection, 60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity
 
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