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EDITORIAL: MINERAL CONFERENCE SOUTH CROFT SHARE ISSUE |
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BORATE NODULES FROM BOULBY MINE |
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BOOK REVIEWS
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AGATES FROM ARDOWNIE QUARRY
Simon Ingram |
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MINERAL NOTES |
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SUSSEX GOES SOUTH |
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THE MINERALS OF THE CHINA CLAY PITS
Stefan Weiss |
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MINERAL NEWS
John Pearce |
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ST-MARIE-AUX-MINES 94
D I Green - P Briscoe - J Spence |
48 pages, 7 colour.
Some of the finest known specimens of the minerals boracite and hilgardite-10
have been collected from borate nodules in Zechstein evaporites at Boulby
Mine.
A pure mass of euhedral aquarmarine-blue boracite crystals representative
of the finest specimens from the recent find. Specimen in the Max D. Freier
collection, 65 x 40 mm, with individual crystals to about 3 mm.
Hey's Mineral Index: Mineral species, varieties and synonyms
by Andrew M Clark (1993)
David I. Green
A Mineralogy of Wales
by Richard E Bevins (1994)
Mike Rothwell
Pigs and Ingots
by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schone (1993)
David I. Green
Phosphate Minerals of Victoria
by WD Birch and DA Henry (1993)
Jean Spence
British Geological Museums
by John R Nudds (1994)
David I Green
This recent discovery is undoubtedly the most important Scottish agate find
of this century. In addition to an abundance of agates of exceptional size
and quality, geodes lined with lustrous crystals of amethyst and smoky quartz
are not uncommon.
Agate from Ardownie Quarry.