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EDITORIAL
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RED GILL MINE
Peter Briscoe |
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TUCSON SHOW |
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FALLOWFIELD MINE
Peter Briscoe |
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UK WULFENITE
David Green |
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HILTON MINE
Alan Winrow |
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MINES OF STRONTIAN
Alan Winrow |
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MINERALS OF THE CHINA CLAY
PITS
Maurice Grigg |
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LLANRWST MINES |
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JOHN RUSKIN
Alan Winrow |
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DISEASES OF SPECIAL OCCUPATIONS
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CHENITE
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LONDON MINERAL SHOW
D. Hoyle |
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IT RAINS TURQUOISE
Eric Otty |
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DEAN QUARRY
J. & A.Wolters |
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HOOVER AND DE RE METALLICA
Eric Otty |
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HEIGHTS AND THE GREEN HOLE
Peter Briscoe |
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ANCESTRY AND ALUM
Eric Otty |
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HALITE FROM SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Steve Uttley |
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DALRADIAN GOLD
David McCallum |
59 pages, b&w
Red Gill Mine has long been famous for the quality of its linarite, leadhillite and caledonite specimens. Other secondary minerals occur, and following a collecting trip in 1985, elyite can be added to this list.
It was some 30 years ago that the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society held the first of what was to become its annual show at the Pima County showground on the city outskirts. The society's show committee at that time surely could not have imagined the potential of the monster to which it was giving birth.
Fallowfield Mine, situated two miles north of Hexham, has a long and in some respects, unique history. Its existence is believed to date from Roman times, although the earliest documentary evidence is dated 1811, when a petition against Sir John Fenwick was lodged by the then mine owner, John Errington. Sir John Fenwick's pretext for acquistion being that it belonged to the King, presumably because a significant proportion of its output was silver.
Wulfenite, (lead molybdate) was first described in 1785 by Franz Xavier Von Wulfen from its occurrence at the Bleiberg-Kreuth lead zinc mines in Carinthia. The species was subsequently named in his honour by Haudinger.
The Hilton Mine lies at the head of Scordale Valley, approximately 5.5 miles north-east of the town of Appleby, and was developed to exploit the eastward continuations of the Murton Fell and Mason's Hole Veins, both of which have been heavily worked at the Murton Mine, on the opposite side of the valley.
The mines around the village of Strontian are second in importance only to the Leadhills mines, but were greatly overshadowed, with a recorded output of only 40% of that of the latter. However, they are very ancient workings, and are, of course, famous as the type locality for the mineral strontianite.
The china clay pits over the last 50 years have always produced quite a lot of different minerals. I will endeavour to show the different pits and the minerals associated with them.