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GUEST EDITORIAL: THE BRITISH MICROMOUNT SOCIETY 1981-1991
Mick Wolfe

HARMOTOME FROM PEN-Y-CLUN
Doug Morgan • Roy Starkey

JUDKINS QUARRY
Frank Ince • Roy Starkey • Jim Wooldridge
MILLTOWN QUARRY
Steve Rust
MICROMINERALS FROM IRELAND
George Ryback • Stephen Moreton
STE-MARIE AUX- MINES 1991
Mick Cooper • David Green • Simon Howell
SGURR NAM BOC
John & Pam Pearce
HENDRE QUARRY
Roy Starkey • Neil Hubbard • Mike Bayley
MICROMOUNTS
Mick Cooper
A TRIP TO ENGLAND
Charles Pennypacker - Mick Cooper
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
Geoffrey Tresise
BMS REFERENCE COLLECTION
Mick Cooper
MINERAL NEWS

Front cover of UKJMM No. 10.  Baryte: 105 x 47 mm crystal on dolomite. Frizington, Cumbria. Liverpool Museum collection (1980.802.EE). Photo: Mick Cooper.

60 pages, 11colour.


Harmotome from Pen-y-Clun Mine, Llanidloes, Dyfed, Wales

Doug Morgan
Roy E. Starkey

The occurrence of the rare barium zeolite harmotome at Pen-y-Clun Mine is thought to be only the third locality for the mineral in Wales.

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The Geology and Mineralogy of Judkins Quarry Warwickshire

Frank Ince
Roy E. Starkey
Jim Wooldridge

In addition to the rare British species mottramite and vanadinite, Judkins Quarry also yields some interesting and extraordinary forms of lead and copper sulphides.

Chalcopyrite.  Photo: Mick Cooper

Chalcopyrite: tarnished replacements of acicular chalcopyrite to 10 mm. Roy Starkey specimen. Photo: Mick Cooper.

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The Minerals of Milltown Quarry, Ashover Derbyshire

Steven A. Rust

Milltown Quarry is the type locality for sweetite and ashoverite - two of the four known naturally occurring polymorphs of zinc hydroxide, all four of which occur here.

Litharge.  Photo: Mick Cooper

Litharge pseudomorphs to 1.5 mm. Photo: Mick Cooper.

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Micromineral from Ireland
Part 1: the South-West (Munster)

Stephen Moreton


The Republic of Ireland has a richly varied geology, is well endowed with mineral resources, and has been a source of fine mineral specimens for two centuries or more.

Chalcomenite.  Photo: Mick Cooper

Chalcomenite: Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry. Largest spray is ca. 0.5 mm across. Collected by R. Barstow. George Ryeback specimen. Photo: Mick Cooper.

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28th Mineral and Fossils Show
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 1991

Mick Cooper
David Green
Simon Howell

Held each year on the first weekend in July, France's premier mineral show, at Ste-Marie-aux-Mines in the Voges Mountains of Alsace, is Europe's most cosmopolitan mineralogical event.

Rhodochrosite. Photo: Mick Cooper

Rhodochrosite: 22 mm. Chacao, Peru. Barras Gauthier Minéraux. Photo: Mick Cooper

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The Re-discovery of Sgurr Nam Boc Isle of Skye, Scotland

John and Pam Pearce

Re-discovery of one of Heddle's zeolite sites at Sgurr nam Boc confirmed that, although access to the site is difficult, high quality specimens are still available.

Stilbite. Photo: John Hall

Stilbite 40 mm. Photo: John Hall


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Mineralization at Hendre Quarry, Glyn Ceiriog, Clwyd, Wales

Roy E. Starkey
Neil Hubbard
Mike P. Bayley

Hendre quarry was first visited by the authors in 1984 in search of pectolite and apophyllite, following a lead from a museum specimen. This search was unsuccessful, but instead yielded and interesting suite of minerals including anatase, apatite, brookite, rutile, monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y).

Anatase. Photo: Mick Cooper.

Anatase: sceptre crystal 1.5 mm long. Neil Hubbard specimen. Photo: Mick Cooper.

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