Red Gill Mine

Peter J. Briscoe

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.

Tucson

Don Edwards

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

Peter J. Briscoe

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.

UK Wulfenite

David I. Green

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.

Hilton Mine

Alan Winrow

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 of Strontian

Alan Winrow

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.

Minerals of the China Clay Pits

Maurice Grigg

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.