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| | Book | | undifferentiated
Head
Raised Beach
Solid formations
Pliocene
St Erth Beds
Devonian
M ylor Slates
Gramscatho Beds...(Elvan)
Carboniferous
Aplite
Biotite-granite
Lithium-mica-granite
Lamprophyre
Devonian and ?Carboniferous...copper since the Bronze Age. Only the
Geevor tin mine was still open in 1986, but the vigorous
development...geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the
minerals and granite, were published around...dominated by the Land's End
Granite. This and the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite were
emplaced during the | 👁 Image
| | Book | | John Corin
evant
A Champion Cornish Mine
by
John Corin
Edited and expanded
by
Peter Joseph
With contributions... Penryn, Cornwall TRIO SAA
Typeset by Peninsula Projects
c/o PO Box 62, Cambome, Cornwall TR14 7ZN
...
The Comish Mine logo is the Trade Mark™ of the Trevithick Society
DEDICATION
IN MEMORIAM
Ronnie Alford...West
And with grateful appreciation to all of the Levant volunteers, past and present.
Introduction
The...Trevithick Society first published John Corin's Levant: A Champion Cornish Mi11e
in 1992. Since then it | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST)
Levant Laboratory,
Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE
SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST)...(MINERALOGIST)
Levant Laboratory,
Pendeen, Nr. Penzance,
Cornwall, TR19 7LE
Tel: (01736) 788286
COLLECTION...5x2x5/8", £8.75
A/4.
ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...formation.
2x1.5x1.25", £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 | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | |
Apatite (Var: Francolite). Geevor Mine, Pendeen, West Cornwall. An altered Chloritic matrix with overforming...e/Native Bismuth. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, West Cornwall. A hilly and sculpted Chloritic
matrix indurated...Lode West 420 fm level, South Croft Mine, Pool, Central Cornwall. An interesting and
rare Cornish phenomena...phenomena. A Chloritised Granite matrix slab carrying a 100X28mm display face completely encrusted
m...*
Axinite. Carn Vellan near Botallack, St Just, West Cornwall. Large, sharp, terminated clove-brown coloured | 👁 Image
| | Book | | some of the most spectacular
coastal scenery in England. These clifis arc
dark in colour, being composed...greenstonc; but
bdow them, and inland, lies the dominant
granite of the Penwith peninsula. The contact area between...mining
areas in the world. Here are to be found
Levant, whose workings were pushed out a
mile under the...bed of the Atlantic; Botallack, another submarine mine incorporating
an unusual diagonal shaft; Geevor...history. The centre
of this industry was the town of St. Just,
whose grey terraces of miners' cottages still | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | •
I 5.
ARSENIANPYRITE. Wheal Nangllcs,Dlssoe,Cornwall.
19th C ~pccimrn.
Matrix free,crystalline
fragment...22.
AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,carnyorth,West
Cornwall. Specimen A-lustrous,
vaxy brovn,matrix
!ree interforms...BAYLDONIT!!.
41.
Penberthy crofts
Hine,st Hilary,West
Cornwall.
Tron
stained
Quartz fragment covered on...30x30x!Omm. 16.25.
Penberthy Crofts Mine,St llllary,Wcst
Cornwall,
Spcclmcn
carries
an Arnold Fisher label...Bayldonlte.
Also miner
110.00.
Pcnberthy Crofts Hine,St llilary,
vith patches of bright gr~cn aggrcgHlmetlte | 👁 Image
| | 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...never the less be only just to mention
Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work | 👁 Image
| | Other Paper | | The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
World Heritage Site
Appendices to the World Heritage Site...Site Management Plan
2013-2018
The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
World Heritage Site
Appendices...
The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Cornwall and West
Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and recording events within the Site
8.6
The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West
Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele
University, Oxford, Harrogate and...clear,tabular
MIN,118.
10.
ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr
HG Weller label.
Quartz fragment...prismatic
xtls.MIN,111.
11.
ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St
with silvery
grey,massive
12.
ANTIHONITE. Ichinokawa...APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall.
Choice,very
rich specimen. Ferruginous...
APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St
Austell,Cornwa11.
Granite
fragment with upper surface
of milky | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | SAM WELLER(MINERALOGIST)
Levant Laboratory,
Pendeen, Nr. Penzance,
Cornwall,TR19 7LE
Te!. No. (0736788286)...List
1.
ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall.
Thia
rich specimen wa.s sel! collected...3x3x2", .L5.25.
ACTI.IOLITS. 3otallack
Cliffs ,St .Just, ''est Corn·.1all.
19th C. label.
11x1x1" lustrous...
9.
ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall.
Three l&rge,Yery fine
examplea.
Specicen 'A'...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall.
An open,
Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix | 👁 Image
| | Book | | History
No. 1
CYRIL NOALL
LEVANT
THE MINE BENEATH THE SEA
'1!
EVANT MINE, SITUATED ON THE CLIFFS A...associated with collieries.
Levant was always a difficult and dangerous mine to
work. High temperatures...installed in 1857. This contraption remained in
use at Levant long after it had been superseded
elsewhere; but... but
for the mine itself; whose deeper workings thereafter
had to be abandoned. Levant ceased work in...in 1930
but today the mine has taken on a new lease of life;
and it may not be long before it again resumes | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Discordant calc-silicate bodies from the St. Just
aureole, Cornwall
D. H. M. ALDERTON
Department of Geology...Geology, The University, Keele, Staffs. ST5 5BG, England
AND
N. J. JACKSON
Institute of Applied Geology,...are described from the St. Just part of the Land's End
granite aureole, Cornwall. It is suggested that...could well be related to the intrusion of the
granite and the earliest phases of ore mineralization....basaltic hornfelses adjacent to
the Land's End granite have often been cited as
examples of large-scale | 👁 Image
| | Book | | Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth
Cornish Mines:
St Just to Redruth
Barry Gamble
Alison Hodge
First...Alison Hodge. 2 Clarence Place.
Penzance, Cornwall TRI 8 2QA. UK
info@alison-hodge.co.uk
WVAVal sonhod gepubl...BDP - Book Development and Production.
Penzance. Cornwall
Printed in China
Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North...features but also include
areas containing open mine shafts, ruined
buildings and high cliffs. Please...Introduction 4
About this Book 6
St Just Mining District 8
Levant Mit ie a. Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | UK Journal
of
mes ·and .Minerals
Issue
SprJng 1989 ,
No ...6
Pr:f ee ~3.95
·-
•
r
..
Arnold...Minerals
Higher Bal-Levant
Trewellard Cottage,
Lower Trewellard,
Penzance,
Cornwall.
TR19 7SU
Tel: (0736)...(0736) 788305
Calcite (Cornwall)
UK Journal of
Mines and Minerals
Issue
t,
No 6
SPRING1989
EDITORIAL...EUROPE
SOUTH AFRICA
The History of Ystrad Einion Mine
J & A Wolters.
Leeuwendaal 2,
3273 XD Westmaas...Merritt
Cassiterite from Whiteworks
Carharrick, Cornwall
R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking
22
Mining Methods | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | pumping-engine house at Salisbury Shaft, Marke Valley Mine, on the north side of Caradon Hill (Photograph by...headgear and mill buildings at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, near St Just in Penwith (Photograph by Bob Acton,...house in Cornwall, built for the great 100-inch engine at Phillpott's Shaft, East Wheal Rose, near St Newlyn...Vere Jones, 1997) Back cover, inset: Trevaunance Mine, St Agnes: the house for a SO-inch pumping engine...PUBLICATIONS Landfall, Penpol, Devoran, Truro, Cornwall TR3 6NW Telephone Truro (01872) 862581 Copyright | 👁 Image
| | Book | | There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some
3500 years where the intrusion of huge
masses of granitic...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions
describe the crystallographic...t).
e
•
lr\ V: 1
~t~'
'I
~
l
Minerals of
Cornwall
and Devon
Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es
Grants...Embrey. P. G.
Minerals of Cornwall and Devon.
1. Mines and mineral resources;--England
--Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources
--England--1Cornwall
J. Title IL Symes. R. F.
549.9423'5
QE262.D45
ISBN 0-56 5-009 | 👁 Image
| | Book | | NING
SITES
ID
CORNWALL
and
SOUTHWEST
DEVON
By
Barry Atkinson
MlNilNG SITES
JIN | 👁 Image
| | Other Paper | | ‘CORNWALL MINING’– A MULTI-AGENCY APPROACH TO
PRESERVING MINERAL DIVERSITY
KEVIN L. WALSH
Oxford University...Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK
Abstract. The Mining Landscape of Cornwall and South Devon (“Cornwall Mining”), in SW...SW England was declared
a World Heritage Site in 2006. The impressive mineral diversity of Cornwall, 466...batholith, and its alteration and
weathering products. Cornwall is a popular tourist area in Britain. Tourists...resources, are a growing part of this industry. Geevor mine and Wheal
Martyn kaolin pit are two of many sites | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | A HAND-BOOK TO THE MINEKALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. PART II. A. AGNESITE. Accretion. Increase by...bismuth, if the following analysis of a specimen from St. Agnes The range of composition in specimens from...ochre. procure a specimen for examination. A Loc. St. Agnes, at Huel Coates. similar mineral is said to...serves : Haughton ob- S. -" The granites of Cornwall and ALBITE. Devon, which have been frequently...complete analysis of a specimen from the West of England is published, but the composition generally ranges | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | A
HANDBOOK
TO THE
MINERALOGY
CORNWALL AND DEVON
TRUR
:
PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS,
BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET.
HANDBOOK
MINERALOGY
OF
CORNWALL AND DEVON,
WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION
OF CORNWALL AND DEVON;
SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY;
OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL,
AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C.
ASSOCIATE
TRURO:...F.R.S.,
THB
ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL,
AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS,
(WHOSE OBSERVATIONS | 👁 Image
| | 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...page: Connelite and botallackite, Levant
The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal
Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn-
wallmuseum.org | 👁 Image
| | Book | | MEMOIRS· ·OF ·-1}RE-·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -:
,.
ENGLAND AND
WALES.
..
- -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA
SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F
PRACTICAL GEOLOGY•
of...6d.
A Compl1
�) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake
ENGLAND .i
Di��rct)
Dewon;};
' ....'
.. -:
Torquay
NEW...p1lblished i n 1 822 bJ.. Di,. John
Fo1·bes, the map of St. Just Pa1·ish issued in the same year by
Joseph Ca1�·n...Ca1�·n e, a11d the geological map of Cornwall of 1 832 by
D1'. H . S. Boase, are deserving of special mention | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | UK Journal of
Mines and Minerals
Issue
No 2
SPRING1987
EDITORIAL BOARD
P. J. Briscoe
D. M. Schofield...Rust
21
Bakewell Rock Swap
Allan Winrow
23
Levant Mine
Trevor Wolloxall
24
Smallcleugh, Melanterite...Melanterite
Steve Uttley
27
Micro Minerals from Dyfngwm Mine
S. &D. Rust
28
Mineral News
Keith Hammond
32...need
more articles now. for issue No. 3 and not just large articles
but small snippets of information...section has been
included, whats new, recent finds/mine closures/new mines
etc.
. . . . . . . . . . . . | 👁 Image
| | Book | | Scenes at Surface (Bradford Barton, 1968)
Mining in Cornwall 1850-1960 (Moorland, 1980-1) 2 Volumes
ISBN 0...Regional Survey of the Mining Districts
I The St Just and St Ives Mining Districts
II The Marazion District...District
III The Wheal Vor or Breage District
IV The St Erth, Gwinear and Crowan Districts
V The Wendron...Prospects for the Future
I Levant to South Condurrow
II Tolgus Tunnel to Lambriggan
III St Austell-Par Mines to...to Trebartha-Lemarne
147
163
181
Mine Index
191
LIST OF GRAPHS AND MAPS
Fig.l. Diagram Showing | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | forthcoming from Mr KE Beer of
the South-West England field staff, and from the Mineral Statistics and...tin, 1970-72
31
IDustration
Map of south-west England showing locations of tin deposits
Vl
6
Summary...between Land's End and Dartmoor in south-west England. In mid-1973
three underground mines were in operation...after purchase of
the mine by St Piran Mines Limited. In I 972 total domestic mine pro
duction was greatly...produced by companies engaged in the
treatinent of old mine tailings and sands. In addition; nearly 5,000 tonnes |
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