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Mineral localities on the Mendip Hills, Somerset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Arthur W. G. Kingsbury
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Although the Mendip Hills, as a district, have from time to time received the attention of geologists, details of the mineral occurrences are, on the whole, remarkably scarce. Mining was formerly carried on on the Hills for many centuries, but mineralogy as a science had not been sufficiently developed at the time when the mines were most active, and little interest was taken in the minerals other than those suitable or required for commercial and industrial purposes. Even in later years, when, in the course of treating old refuse and tailings left by earlier miners and of various attempts to resuscitate the mining industry, much material must have been available for examination, little attention seems to have been paid to it, or to the numerous quarries that were opened in the Carboniferous Limestone.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 26 , Issue 174 , September 1941 , pp. 67 - 80
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1941

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