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Quartz from
Holmbush Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Siderite9 photos of Quartz associated with Siderite at this locality.
Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite6 photos of Quartz associated with Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite at this locality.
Pyrite4 photos of Quartz associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite4 photos of Quartz associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Galena4 photos of Quartz associated with Galena at this locality.
Sphalerite3 photos of Quartz associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Fluorite3 photos of Quartz associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Wolframite Group1 photo of Quartz associated with Wolframite Group at this locality.
Arsenopyrite1 photo of Quartz associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Cassiterite1 photo of Quartz associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Holmbush Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9343
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9343:9
GUID (UUID V4):5865e0c5-e3eb-48b3-bcc0-1b8af8dff82d
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.3km (0.2 miles) East Holmbush mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Kelly Bray Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Redmoor Mine (East Cornwall United Mines), Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Wheal Florence (Mary and Florence Consols; Florence and Tonkin United Mine), Callington Consols, Callington, Cornwall, England, UK
1.8km (1.1 miles) Kit Hill Mine (Kit Hill Consols), Kit Hill United Mines (incl. Kit Hill Great Consols), Callington, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Kit Hill Wheal Mary (Wheal Tonkin), Wheal Florence (Mary and Florence Consols; Florence and Tonkin United Mine), Callington Consols, Callington, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Pride of the East Mine (West Redmoor Mine; Blogsters Mine), South Hill, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) South Kit Hill Mine (Cornwall Great Consols), Kit Hill United Mines (incl. Kit Hill Great Consols), Callington, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Lady Ashburton Mine, Callington Consols, Callington, Cornwall, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Wheal Tom, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book
The Mines of Calstock & Callington by Ann Eade Flop Jack Engine House - Winsor. The illustrations...KIT HILL AUREOLE A Callington Museum Production The Mines of Calstock & Callington by Ann Eade The...illustrations are taken from KIT HILL AUREOLE A Callington Museum Production 1//j-• Y/.///////,:,//,/;1//1/...House-Holmbush, as it is to-day at Winsor, Kelly Bray 2 The Mines of Calstock and Callington The mining...the western end, lies between the R.Tamar and Callington. In size it is approximately 5 miles from East
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Collins in his "Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon." I t will be most convenient to take...some stepes above the 60fins. level at Penhalls Mine, in October last. Small needles of bismuthine are...found in vugh8 in a rich tin lode, consisting of quartz, cassiterite, chlorite, iron pyrites, and a little...--While looking over the rubbish heap at Bosworgey mine, in St. Erth, Mr. T. B. Provis observed some curious...first time that this mineral has been found in Cornwall. 74 C. L~ NEv-l~ FOSTER, ox F/u~r-spwr.--Though
Report (issue)
responsible for tl1e mineral lodes taken £1..om olcl mine-planR, l)11t where p<}ssible tl1e Olttcrops were...supplied at the cost of drawing and colouring. CORNWALL. 15. NE., by H. Dewey; SE., by G. Barrow and H...Minverite (Protero base) ••• • •• ••• ••• ••• ••• Quartz-diabase ••• • •• ••• ••• Picrites ••• ••• ••• •••...••• Mining ••• Output of Minerals ••• Index of Mines ••• Building Stone Polyphant-stone ••• ••• ••• Slates...14.-Wheal .Arthur. Sections ..• 93 ••• , , 15.-Cornwall Great Consols. Longitudinal Section .•• • • •
Journal (issue)
Identification A Very Serious Problem An Appeal from Cornwall Collective Use of the Society’s Knowledge The...chose Eclusham Mountain Wedding Cave Mine at Bwlchgwyng, Bryngwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain, and Great Orme...Mountain excellent ruby red micro sphalerite with quartz and galena can still be found on old lips of the...Llangollen (OS GR SJ 255.503). At nearby Wedding Cave Mine (OS GR SJ 265.541) there is galena mineralisation...from Minera/Bwlcligwyn MINERA Common Sphalerite, quartz, calcite, cerrusite Less Common Hemimorphite
Report (volume)
VOI.1. XXI.-LEAD, SILVER-LEAD AND ZINC O1-tES OF CORNWALL, DEVON AND 8O1\fERSET. BY HENRY DEWEY. PUBLISHED...of lead, zinc and silver in the south-west of England. The early history of the industry is obscure and...in considerable amounts from a large number of mines widely scattered through Comwall, Devon, and Somerset...as compared with n1ining for tin and copper the mines of this group are of secondary importance in the...particulars of the older and abandoned mines, and by personaJ visits the mines still ,vorking have been exa.m
Report (volume)
: : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...is reason to believe that many of the famous old mines are practically exhausted, and copper-ores have...tungsten ores. · Much has been written about these mines, though the infor1nation is often not of a very...important mines or groups of mines have received special attention, but as the number of mines which produced...has been made to describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring
Journal (issue)
orders scription of stocks, but particularly BRITISH MINES, at net prices. meet with the utmost punctuality...SHAREDEALER, 11, ROYAL EXCHANGE, E.C, Bankers: Bank of England. , R. T. A. MUNDY, STOCK AND SHAREDEALER, 38...years’ experience in Cornwall and London. Business transacted in all the leading mines, and those difficult..., have BUSINESS in the following :— Australian United....£ 84 to£ 3% | Great Laxey..........£18 to£ 18%...Chiverton. (£5 paid). 5 West Frances, £44. 50 Holmbush and Kelly 30 Caldbeck Feils, 32s, 70 Wheal Grenville
Book (volume)
IE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF UTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume II LONDON HER MAJESTY ' S STATIONERY OFFICE...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South -West England Volume II By H... ... iv CHAPTER V . — Details OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 8. St. Austell...St. Neot (p. 608 ); Menheniot (p . 615). 11. Callington and Tavistock district . . .. .. .. 623 ...Okehampton district . . .. .. . Mines in the granite (p. 750); Mines in the Culm Measures (p. 751); Newton
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...second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and...entries. It includes valid mineral species (eg. quartz), series names (eg stilbite) and group names (eg...freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue numbers
Book (volume)
The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 0 iz 0 1-rj VOLUME II Assistant Director's...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume II By ...published 1956 Second impression 1969 Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...OF PLATES V CHAPTER V.-DETAILS OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 509 8. St. Austell...589); St. Neot (p. 608); Menheniot (p. 615). 11. Callington and Tavistock district . . 623 Kit Hill (p. 624);
Book (edition)
iv INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and...mined over the centuries. Today, only one large tin mine is at work, but the winning of tin is known from...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...schooners returning with coal for the engines on the mines. Mineral railways to ports on the coast were part...depressed the price of copper and then tin, hundreds of mines were hastily abandoned or ‘knacked’ and many of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations Jens... Shail, Robin K., Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations,...Ore Geology Reviews Indium mineralisation in SW England: host parageneses AC CE P TE D and mineralogical...Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Tremough, Penryn, TR10 9FE, United Kingdom * Corresponding...Cornubian batholith, SW England 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT The SW England ore region contains significant
Report (volume)
notable quantity in Britain outside · Devon and Cornwall, and there they are produced chiefly as a by-product...these circu1nsta.nces a detailed account of the mines in all their operations would be out of p lace,...given as will enable the reitder to ident ify the mines 1~nd the lodes from which arsenic is obt.ained,...antimony a-re practica-lly confined to a. fev;, mine-, iu Cornwall and to two localities in Scotland at one...was paid by 1\-Ir. Dewey .to every active mine in England ond Wa.les from which · arsenic or antimony
Book (volume)
COUNCIL The METALLIFEROUS MINING GION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume II 1956 2017 reprint BRITISH GEOLOGICALSURVEY...The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME II H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical...metalliferous mining region of the south-west England. Economic Environmental Science Centre Keyworth...London SW7 5BD Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 4090 www.bgs.ac. uk www. geologyshop. corn ... 111 CONTENTS PAGE......... CHAPTER V-DETAILS iv V OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET ............
Book (edition)
See Photography by Peter Stanier and oe Levant Mine, St Just. The small engine house on the left houses...Skip Shaft P.S. The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and...typical view of Cornish i mining. Marke Valley Mine. P.S. innovations in machinery, particularly the...winding, and crushing ores. Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...schooners returning with coal for the engines on the mines. Mineral railways to ports on the coast were part
Book
ISLES Series Editor: E. R. R. GREEN Southern England, by Kenneth Hudson The East Midlands, by David...The canal mines 129 EIGHT Devon Great Consols mine SIX NINE TEN 43 The East Cornwall Mineral Railway...Railway i 178 The Hingston Down mines 192 •• 204 ELEVEN The coming of the South Western .. TWELVE...Notes .. Acknowledgements APPENDIX ONE 279 283 Mine outputs APPENDIX TWO Tavistock Canal tonnages... .. .. .. 56 Section of South Tamar or Hooe Mine .. . . .. 63 Three-masted schooner Eleanor
Report (issue)
increasing interest in the mineral resources of the United Kingdom has led the Committee to undertake the...forthcoming from Mr KE Beer of the South-West England field staff, and from the Mineral Statistics and...British Steel Corporation; the Cornish Chamber of Mines; London Tin Corporation; the Cornish Tin Smelting...1953-72 19 2. United Kingdom: Production of tin-in-concentrate, 1851-1972 25 3. United Kingdom: Production...4. United Kingdom: Imports of tin-in-concentrate and primary refined tin, 1963-72 26 5. United Kingdom:
Book
GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPAL MINERAL LOCALITIES IN THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. BY K TOWNSHEND...to show their distribution th paghout the whole United Kingdom . A list B 2 iy PREFACE . of Cornish...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...Catalogue of the several localities in Ireland where Mines or metalliferous indications have hitherto been
Catalog/List
_j Byways, 2o·Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...calcite or matrix 935 ■ MILLOSEVICHITE Scholler Mine, Kladno, Czech Republic. Rich yellow-grey spongy...-·-·-- !'lo_9_ _ _ _ _ 285 ■■ NATIVE GOLD La Farolla mine, Copiapo, Chile one or two spots on 2cm matrix _£7_..._ _ _ _ __ ~ - / ~ : i E.RTRANDITE ____ .Gclc~~~Mine, G~~e~~;i~;Val~d~~~;: srazitcolourless micro crystals...BRAUNITE Praborna Mine, St Marcel ,Piedmont, Italy 849 ■ OPAL Carlaze Pit St Austell Cornwall Dark grey massive
Book
Scenes at Surface (Bradford Barton, 1968) Mining in Cornwall 1850-1960 (Moorland, 1980-1) 2 Volumes ISBN 0...Lambriggan III St Austell-Par Mines to Trebartha-Lemarne 147 163 181 Mine Index 191 LIST OF GRAPHS...Showing the Output of Metallic Tin and Copper from Cornwall, Estimated from the Public Sales of Ore 35 Fig...Situations of the Principal Mining Districts in Cornwall and South Devon 50 Fig.3. Sketch Map Showing...Districts in Cornwall and South Devon 146 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Output of Individual Mines 36 Table
Catalog/List
Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...BRITISH MINERALS I. showing a red agate with a quartz druse inside the cavity. Great example. £4. AGATE...A). 3.8x3x0.5cm. A lovely slice showing a filled quartz middle and peachtbrown radiating rings rather reminiscent...colours than A. £5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll...under magnification. £8. 4. AMETHYST, St. Austell, Cornwall. 2.5x3x2.5cm. A single fairly pale dumpy xtl with
Catalog/List
Gems Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2DA England Telephone 01872 223 227 Fax 01872 262...C. £6.00 3 CASSITERITE, Toerdal, Norway MA in quartz. GRF. Ml. £6 00 4 NATIVE SILVER, Ccpiapo, Atacama...Atacama, Chile. SiNer cementing granular quartz. XR. GRF. STN. £6.00 5 BOG IRON (limonite), Unlocated...Lezant, Cornwall. R. GRF. Ml. £8.00 LAZULITE in QUARTZ, Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland. Mo in quartz. RWb...white quartz. D. SC. £10.00 15 ARSENOPYRITE, Hue! Neotune, Perranuthnoe, nr Marazion, Cornwall. Almost
Journal (issue)
... . 11 Minerals from Driggith and Sand bed Mines: .................................................Blue Chisel Point Baryte Blades from Force Crag Mine, Cumbria: .......................... . 14 - 15...long known for rutile, ilmenite and hyaline smoky quartz. The relative lack of rainfall this year has resulted...now have the prospect of a world-class tungsten mine being developed atHemerdon in Devon, a full-scale...fine mineral collection at Caerhays Castle in Cornwall , belonging to the Williams of Scorrier family
Journal (issue)
GOETHITE Collected in 1982 from Wheal Edward, Cornwall. As newcomers to minerals we thought goethite...AGARDITE(Y) Collected in 1987 from Marke Valley mine, Cornwall. Identified by David Green and photographed...Fascinated by the other minerals present. Any ideas? QUARTZ Collected on the SMLS trip to northern Spain in...including quartz and hydrocarbons. CITRINEon FLUORITE Collected about 15 years ago from Yew Tree mine in Weardale...Collected on a SMLS trip to the north of England in 1998 from Eagle Crag mine. A site memorable for a 3 mile walk
 
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