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Scolecite from
Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Scolecite
Formula:CaAl2Si3O10 · 3H2O
Comments:Wilson et al. (2008): "No XRD was carried out on this sample but calcium was shown to be present by chemical testing. The sample is in Plymouth Museum. Mindat, and Golley and Williams (1995), list scolecite at Dean Quarry but without a defining reference."
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Scolecite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9882
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9882:3
GUID (UUID V4):b4d62823-381c-450d-9f31-326d85ac4704
Nearest other occurrences of Scolecite
13.9km (8.6 miles) ā“˜Henscarth Rock (Henscarth), Mullion, 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
Catalog/List
_j Byways, 2oĀ·Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...Praborna Mine, St Marcel ,Piedmont, Italy 849 ā–  OPAL Carlaze Pit St Austell Cornwall Dark grey massive...CORUNDUM Kibayai, Tanzania 381 ā– ā–  SCHEELITE Penlee Quarry, Newlyn,Comwall Large pale pink single crystal...ā–  HEĀ°ffLANDirE.. Haz.ard Section,Botallack Mine, St Just,Comwa1137s Ā· ā–  ā€¢iĀ°SENEGAi:iTEĀ·--Ā·Ā·--KoĀ·~;ondicko...Ā·Ā·-Ā·Ā·Ā·--Ā·-Ā· -Ā·-- - - -Ā·--Ā· 865 ā–  KAOLINITE Bugle, Cornwall 278 ā– ā–  TINAKSITE Charo River, Aidan massif Yakutin
Catalog/List
RICHARD W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOhMA.TION Mail...at all times. AUGUST 1974 1. 2. AEGIRINE. Mont st. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Numerous, lustra us black...Fluorite in association. 3x3'1. Ā£5.40. 4. APATITE. st. Gotthard, Switzerland. Lustrous, semi-transparent... 10. BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mlne, Lanreath, Cornwall. Specimen A Bright, metallic grey, twinned crystals... 14. CARMINITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, reddish crystaline masses intergroviU
Book
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...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLANDā€” (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE
Journal (volume)
u.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury... 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...white botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green...photograph. Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES
Journal (issue)
Carving was heavily promoted by Carl FabergĆ© in St Petersburg: the Russian royal family being strong...village cafĆ© much to the bemusement of three passing UK bikers who stopped for coffee. As with other mineral...Natrolite framework (NAT): natrolite, mesolite, scolecite. ļ‚· Chains of single connected 4-membered rings...levyneā€“offretite ā†’ analcime ā†’thomsoniteā€“mesolite-scoleciteā†’ chabazite ā†’ calcite. Many of these zeolites...Nick Hawes, Chabazite, mesolite, calcite, Hustoft Quarry, Lambreidi, Faroe Islands. Page 68, Nick Hawes
Catalog/List
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,
Catalog/List
Endsleigh House, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2DA England email Paul.A.Lowe@BTinternet.com Tel....+44 (0)1872 262 232 CORNWALL Monthly Collector's Special Selection May 1997 Cornwall and Devon ------...------------------------------- 1) PREHNITE,Dean Quarry.St Keveme,Comwall.Rounded apple green prehnite spheral...aggregate.Reference miniature.MI.Ā£4 22) APOPHYLLITE & SCOLECITE,Poona,Bombay,India. Attractive rose pink blocky...blocky apophillites with a radiating spray of scolecite, in an exposed basalt vugh. G.D. M. Ā£18 Ā· Ā·- -'--
Catalog/List
(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", Ā£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...golden-yellow nodule, A/20. ANALCIME. Enderby Quarry. Leicestershire. This specimen is more interesting
Journal (issue)
........... Mine water remediation project in Cornwall ........................................... Even.................... . Chart topping rocks: Top 100 UK "Geosites" named ............................ Mineral...aims the recording of new and interesting items of UK topographic mineralogy. If you think your group may...comfort. The amount of water blowing around over the UK is vanishingly small compared to the amounts of water...the Wales and West Branch in the Royal Forest of Dean. The theme is 'Historic Mineral Collections and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
*Williams, Mrs. Frank D., 24 Dean St., Taunton, Mass. *Willig, II. L., 140Vine St., Lancaster,Pa. *Wilson...Lucian M., 522 5th Ave. at 44th St., New York City. Tndac,Peter,157Wells St., Peekskill,N. Y. PROCEEDINGSOF...garnets which he had previously reported from Kinkles Quarry, Bedford; N. Y. in which Mr. Shannon pointed out...question had come from Arizona and not from the Kinkle Quarry. The meeting then adjourned. HmsnRr P. Wmtrocx...several specimens from the Wynnewood Road Station quarry, Haverford township, Delaware County. The first
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...Bristol.Avon Okehampton,Devon Hexham,Northumbr. Cornwall Cutting on A863 St.Day,Comwall Gwennap,Comwall...Trinafour.ScoU. Lochan-na-Lalrigh Loanhead quarry Loanhead quarry Hopeful vein Hopeful vein Ralk's vein Fethaland
Journal (issue)
the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. ā€¢ The Mineralogical Society is hosting...for 'the Survey' involved mapping in the Forest of Dean and, with W C C Rose, a wartime investigation of...the heyday of geological research in northern England and it was not long before spectacular new ideas
Journal (issue)
participation more besides. at Gem and Mineral Fairs in the UK. Further details from Sri Lanka Now, however, we...1999. displaying was mainly from the north of England - fluorite, calcites, barytes, witherites, campylites...load! Barbara Sutcliffe NAMHO Convention Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire Friday 24th to Monday 27th September...at the Whitemead Leisure Park, Parkend, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, and 224 delegates, speakers and...rain. This is not the first time that the Forest of Dean has played host to NAMHO, back in 1994 an activity
Journal (issue)
July/Aug 2009 SMLS TRIP TO SLOVAKIA -11 th ā€¢ to 21 st ā€¢ July 2008 Introduction Over the past 18 years SMLS...geology of Slovakia is as varied and complex as the UK, it is like a bigger version of the West Country...Vechec-lom Quarry 8 Novoveska Huta. 14. Siatorska Bukovinka 2. Herl'any 3. Maglovec-lom Quarry 9. Dobsina...Presovsky Kraj (andesite quarry with xenoliths). ā€¢ This was a working quarry with bulldozers on a level...purchased sledgehammers) into. We walked down into the quarry past a jointed, columnar formation, very reminiscent
Book
the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were powdered and analyzed...heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite...DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have the same...same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with different...STILBITE ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE
Book
the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were powdered and analyzed...heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite...DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have the same...same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with different...STILBITE ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE
Catalog/List
fcATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL No 96 2005\ Phone 01932 862340...ALLOPllANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 52 501 Rich pinkish mass in dark grey homfels....2x3 Ā£10 lx2 Ā£3 2x2 Ā£8 2x3 Ā£12 ANDESINE Boulouris, St Raphael, France ALMANDINE Fauske Norway 236 60 Sharp...lxlĀ£4 lx2Ā£8 1048 ALUMJNITE Newhavcn Sussex, England Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule_ lx2Ā£1 2x2...group PbSO/4 1cm Ā£4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses 2x2Ā£1 lx2 50p
Book
Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite ........................ Thomsonite... . . . ...Klaproth (1803) Laumontite: Werner (in Karsten 1808) Scolecite: Gehlen and Fuchs (1813) Mesolite: Fuchs and Gehlen...Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite Natrolite Na16(All~i240so) Fdd2 a = 18.29 b =...19.13 C= 6.58(A) Na16(All~i240so)' Mesolite Scolecite NaI6CaI6(AI4sSi72024o) . 64H 20 Fdd2 a = 18.41...proposed the name tetranatrolite for a mineral from Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, which had been described eleven
Journal (issue)
green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno Carriere...Almanac, World of Stones, the Picking Table, the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Mineral Up, and Tomasz... Arizona (two), Mexico, Brazil, Northern England, Cornwall and Devon, Ste-Marie-aux-Mines, East and West...2015 Fran Allegra (1957-2015) Fran graduated from St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio, in 1974, then...es known, dated at 4.57 billion years old. James St. John photo. Figure 4. A slice of the Imilac pallasite
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...ā– ā–  ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline...ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite...lx2 Ā£5 2x2 Ā£12 Al Mn SiO 236 ANDESINE Boulouris, St Raphael, France White phenocrysts at least 5mm size
Journal (issue)
professiona l mineralogists wh ich cncour.1i;,-s tlw st udy. recortlini; and conscnĀ·:ition ofmin logical...'lloCi::l}'C:C.T.-l!:00-,~Q:.1 " t:::c r:i ee !.!=:lJFo-.i::: UK on d ln!ond min =I pbotoi;r:,phs. Thr Jw ~:J So.:c:%)...(Alan Dyer) Book Launch:"Minerals of Northern England" (Roy Starkey) DVD Launch:"Minerals of Barry Island"...reports on the launch of "Minerals of N orthern England" by Bob Symes and Brian Young and we should also...Phillip "Mick" Cooper was born in Nottingham, England on October I I, 1946. After completing his education
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL Ā·_-2_0_0_6__, -Ā· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive green...Gnmct lx2 Ā£3 2x2 Ā£6 2x3 Ā£10 236 ANDESINE Boulouris, St Raphael, France 1111 ALMANDINE Eptelnnd, Evje-lvelnnd
Report (Issue volume)
bookshops: HALIFAX i 735 Barrington Street MONTREAL 1182 St. Catherine Street West OITAWA 171 Slater Street...104 e INDEX TO MINERALS Cover-Labradorite from St. Paul Island, Labrador. Mineral specimens illustrated...the original occurrence. Socialite from Princess Quarry at Bancroft, Ontario at one time had a considerable...Permission should be sought before entering a mine, quarry or other private property; in active mining areas...Petitcodiac 9. Hillsborough Area 10. St. Stephen Area 11. St. George 12. St. John 13. Markhamville 14. Grand
Catalog/List
nodule that formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______...I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. Ā£4 Devon .England Ā£2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhavcn Sussex, England Al S0/4 ------ -------- ----- Ā·--- lx2 Ā£6 Ā½xĀ½Ā£3...Brinany. France AI SiO Ā£1.20 2 36 ANDESINE Boulouris, St Raphael. France lx2 Ā£1.50 2x2Ā£3 2x3Ā£5 White phenocrysts...-ļæ½b Ag ļæ½bļæ½ 2 3 ANHYDRITE Ix2 50p Staffordshire England 2x2Ā£1 2x3 Ā£ 1.50 Ri ch white 10 faintly blue masses
 
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