 | | Journal (volume) | | Frank Ince 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3SQ EDITORIAL BOARD R.E. Bevins, Cardiff...Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, LE12 8QQ. Printed by: Acorn Print Media, Quorn House, North Road, Loughborough...Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 1LE. Published by: The Russell Society. Registered Charity No. 803308. Copyright:...23-25 PAPERS Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S. Rumsey, George...the mineralogy of the area around Markfield, Leicestershire Francis Ince 32-44 A review of the mineralogy |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other organisations |  | | Catalog/List | | .. • JANUA.RY/FEBUARY 2009 l) ANALClME. Dean Quarry, The Lizard, Cornwall. Thin piece ofmatrix showing...matrix. 40x40x!Smm. £9. 7) AZURITE. Cannington Park Quarry, Bridgewater, Somerset. A few cavities to 8mm in...£65. .. . I0) CALCITE in SEPTIA. Measham, Leicestershire. Both halves of a septarian nodule nicely broken...side x 15mm. £95. 22) CUPRITE. Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire. Green copper stained matrix...BARYTE. Earl Ferrers Mine, Staunton Harrold, Leicestershire. A mass of pinkish to brown banded baryte in |  | | Journal (issue) | | UK j I o mi minerals TS C nlm~ 2 EDITORIAL COVER: Vanadinite from the LeadhillsWanlockheadminingdistrict...specimen. 5 PEGMATITE MINERALS FROM CI-IYWOON QUARRY The UK Joumal efMines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Stephen Burchmore • David Green NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY 43 The views and opinions expressed in this... ALGODONITE AND DOMEYKITE FROM NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Publication of information on a collecting site...Worbop, Nott~. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 26 -1- EDITORIAL |  | | Catalog/List | | 92/089 Analcime with calcite. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Analcime pseudomorphs after laumontite...92/088 Calcite and analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Calcite-analcime pseudomorphs after...92/095 Calcite and analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Single crystal of laumontite pseudomorphed...and analcime. 89/039 Calcite. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Large white calcite crystal with later...93/142 Calcite with analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Two white calcite crystals to 25mm |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........... “Encouraging” initial results from North Pennine drilling project ....... Scottish Gold exhibition...and Papers A new location for vésignéite in Leicestershire....................................... . Vitamins...weekend in 2015 will be organised by the Wales and West Branch. It’s bound to be a great experience – watch...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................incorporates the AGM. This will be held this year in North Wales; not in Tal-y-bont as originally intended...updates (still lots of activity in various parts of the UK) and an addition to the list of “creative things...minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local museum...countless field trips to sites of interest around England and Wales and although membership numbers have |  | | Book | | "ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...Lead Mine, Mancetter Manganese Mine, the Great North Museum, the Devonshire Mineral Collection; and special...by Trevor Bridges. This was followed by the South-West Branch in 1986, formed by a group of Cornish collectors...collectors along with Colin Sparrow and the Wales & West Branch, also in 1986, by Bob King who had moved |  | | 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...Trinafour.ScoU. Lochan-na-Lalrigh Loanhead quarry Loanhead quarry Hopeful vein Hopeful vein Ralk's vein Fethaland...averockBraes Meadowfootslag Hagdalequarry Hagdale quarry Ardalanlsh Bay Ecton Hill.staffs Tavistock,Devon |  | | Journal (volume) | | Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...Printed by: Q3 Digital/Litho, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 1LE Published by: The Russell Society...white botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green |  | | Journal (issue) | | l.llr.::r.m o:1~. ~ fn ►•:, u, 1b.: .\~-nl h .~ UK =.......................................... Wales & West.... . 12 .........................................toes. We have a fast approaching AGM held by the North West Branch and it looks to be a great week end with...a new member who went on an invite to his first quarry and was so interested he joined the society and...to Lynda Garfield who has stepped down as Wales & West secretary for a much earned break. Her contributions |  | | Book | | Bath for Leicester University Press Distributed in North America by Humanities Press Inc., New York SBN... D. 4 . 41 The Dioritic Rocks of South Leicestershire . . . .41 Camptonite Sills of Warwickshire...in the Oilfields . . . . .97 Details of the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfields . 98 Possible...Mineralization of the Igneous Rocks of Southwest Leicestershire 114 V 149252 CONTENTS vi D. E. F. G. ...117 .123 .132 8 THE BURIED FLOOR OF EASTERN ENGLAND by P. E. Kent.138 9 PERMIAN AND TRIASSIC FORMATIONS |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................................................ UK Mining Snippets ...................................this issue you will find – among other things: - UK Mining Snippets – a collection of news items about...actual or proposed commercial activities across the UK. Some of these are positive and show projects proceeding...surprised at the level of interest and activity in UK mining. I should point out that these are just plums...Society events farther afield. Pam lived in Burgess Hill, West Sussex for over 50 years, and in spite of her |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..........................................South West ......................................................................................... Wales & West 13 ...... .................................................................................. .North West 23 ............................................................................ Wales & West I South West 25 .........................................campus, near Falmouth. Our friends in the South-West have prepared the expected attractive list of field |  | | Journal (volume) | | Frank Ince 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3SQ. EDITORIAL BOARD R.E. Bevins, Cardiff...non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...Hubbard, 30 Thirlmere Road, Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, LE12 8QQ. Printed by: Flexpress Ltd, 8 Coal...12, p. 43 for details). Penryn Granite Company’s quarry at Halvosso, Longdowns, Cornwall. Jim Knight Collection;...LUV (middle) and SUV (bottom). East Face, Croft Quarry, Croft, Leics. Frank Ince specimen and photo (FI-1485; |  | | Journal (issue) | | and one member suggested that this could be in the UK or EU. COST A location with on-site accommodation...were identified: geological/mining walks, museums (UK or EU) and member's collections. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS...Cornish and other fluorites; Wheal Wrey calcites, the north Cornwall sulpho-salts including endellionite (the...the Earl Ferrers' mine in Dimminsdale in North Leicestershire. I was disappointed and surprised . A further...on to explain what the minerals in the north-east of England (the Northern Pennine Orefield) have been |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Media, (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...Proustite (1.0mm) with barite and tennantite. Dolyhir quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, October 2004. Collection:...PAPERS The mineralogy of Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire Frank Ince The occurrence and formation...including koninckite and planerite from Grouse Lodge quarry, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick Stephen Moreton and |  | | Book | | Survey 1:50000 Series Sheet 141 Loughborough (England and Wales) Authors JN Carney K A1nbrose A Brandon...Survey, 1:50 000 Series Sheet 141 Loughborough (England and Wales). 92pp. © NERC copyright 2001 Keyworth...and nu1nerous civil engineering consultants and quarry companies. The cooperation of landowners and tenat1ts...planation for Sheet 14 J Loughborough. Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA 'B' 0131-6671000 e-mai...Natural Environment Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN21EU 'B' 01793-411500 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mr F.K. Werner, 12 Maninshaw Lane, Groby, Leicestershire LE6 OBJ, U.K. Advertising: Details of advertising...of Snelston mine, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England P.S. Jackman 75 Calcian goyazite and florencite-(Ce)...Coronadite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, England B. Young, EX Hyslop and R.A. Fairbairn 97 A further...Cornwall, England N.J. Elton and 1.1. Hooper 98 Diaboleite from Gunver Head, Cornwall, England R.S. W...rauenthalite or phaunouxite, from Ivy Tor mine, Devon, England R.S. W Braithwaite, M.G.H. Merry and B. Jackson |  | | Book | | Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci...Cheesewring quarry, Cornwall (Foord et al. 1985); a study oflithium minerals from Meldon aplitc quarry, Devon...remaining parts of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...................................... 'Wczles& West.... . 11 ......................................... SouthWest: Mr J E HESKETH,Mrs M NUTE, Wales& West: Mr A CUTHBERTSON. CaldbeckFells In the autumn...has donated a wide range of items, covering both UK and world mineralogical topics, to the Society Library;...of a number of publications (Mineralogical Record, UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Lapis) and a variety...an unknown lump of mineral found in a limestone quarry on the Mendips in Somerset a few years ago. It |  | | Journal (issue) | | Financial support from Messrs. Bardon Hill Quarries Ltd. of Coalville Leicestershire towards the publication...healthy sponsorship by the Bardon Hill Quarries Ltd. of Coalville in Leicestershire. The company has generously...Glasshouse (Fig. 1). In the same geological formation west of Newent millerite is reported, although no specimens...except for micaceous sandstone exposed near the south-west corner, the ground is heavy marl and seemingly very...House source almost certainly refers to fields just north of the farmhouse which are marked as Ore Piece and |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................................ "Wales & West, South West 23 ......................................................................................North West 24 ............................................would be to run two symposia a year, one for the North and one for the South of the country. A suitable...any material collected would be decided by the quarry owners and the sub-committee. We need to start...after a note was forwarded to us from the Wales and West Branch. As far as the Society is concerned, the |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...................................... Wales & West 9 .............................................................................. North West iVorthern Wales & West I Southern Russell Society Field...to be biased, but I have to congratulate the North West branch on giving me such a hard time trying to...College of Wales Newport. Our friends in the Wales and West Branch have got together a good programme of talks...Burgess; and Steven Mulley South West Branch:Christopher Sharp Wales & West Branch:Rhiannon Cottrell; Edward |  | | Book (edition) | | Gold Occurrences in the UK A Gold Prospector's Guide LEE GARY PALMER MSc Published in the United...40 Archers Ave Irvine, Ayrshire KA11 2GB Scotland UK Content copyright© Lee Gary Palmer, 2019 The right...of the UK Preface Gold The Word The Element Origin Locations Information Maps England South West England...Cornwall South West England - Devon South West England - Somerset South East England - Essex South East...East England - Kent South East England - Bedfordshire South East England - Suffolk English Midlands - |
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