Whitestone Quarry
Bovey Tracey, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK
Whitstone Quarry is a former quarry near Bovey Tracey – very limited information is available on the site.
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The further reading section here is perhaps a little bit of a misnomer, as I wrote the Mindat page.
I obtained a specimen labelled from this locale and did a bit of research on the site:
It came with two labels; both list the locale as ‘Whitstone Quarry’, one stating ‘Bovey Tracey’. There was no mindat page.
DevonRIGS listed a single line of info:
“Whitstone Quarry Bovey Tracey SX815792 Exposures of contact between Dartmoor Granite and shaly hornfels (Combe shale) SX87NW1”
The grid reference led me to 50.60046 -3.67578, on the grounds of “Whitestone Farm”, just north of Bovey Tracey. The National Library of Scotlands old maps service for the area shows Whitestone Quarry.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-450277.html
- https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.5&lat=50.60058&lon=-3.67565&layers=257&b=ESRIWorld&o=57
- http://www.devonrigs.org.uk/DevonRIGSSiteTable.pdf
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