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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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this whats in them
Littleham Cove Nodules - Mineral Composition
Minerals recorded from the vanadiferous nodules include:
native silver;
the copper minerals -
native copper, algodonite, bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, covellite, digenite, djurleite and malachite, cuprite, azurite,
the nickel minerals -
maucherite, niccolite, rammelsbergite and skutterudite;
the cobalt minerals -
langisite, modderite and safflorite;
the uranium minerals -
coffinite, uraninite (pitchblende);
the vanadium minerals -
vanadian mica, montroseite, vanadian illite
the arsenic mineral -
freirinite;
the lead minerals -
clausthalite, galena and molybdomenite;
the zinc mineral -
sphalerite
the clay and micaceous minerals -
illite, smectite, chlorite, biotite,
the iron minerals -
pyrite, hematite,
the titanium minerals -
ilmenite, anatase,
the carbonate minerals;
dolomite, calcite,
Other minerals, unclassified here into type include -
algodonite, maucherite, arhbarite, domeykite, krutovite, parammmelsbergite, posnjakite, brochantite, ramelaconite, roscoelite, clausthalite,
The sources of information for the above are: Milodowski et al. (2002) and Edwards and Scrivener (1999). These also incorporate data from Harrison (1975); Durrance and George (1976) and Nancarrow (1985) and others.
mixture of everything it seems 
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about...so walked a little way along beach.
Suddenly notice these weird balls sticking out ground everywhere... all with this bleached circle in different colours all around...like these funny balls had bleached the surrounding rock.
I do like my gems etc but had never seen such things before. Almost like alien eggs. Visually could see bits of metals and other materials all mixed into these balls in the ground.
It became apparent are loads of them,some smashed open by waves and stumbling stones...the washing action of waves I'd imagine.
So I took some finger span details to record size on photos and few other photos etc.
So upon mobile signal...it turns out they are radioactive nodes...containing about everything that's sort after. It also turns out the nodes are way stronger in radiation than the ambient levels.
They should not be touched or handled or broken apart etc because it is dangerous.
I wonder if this is how its a nudest beach...so no chance of young people playing on contaminated sea shore. Which this clearly is in one form or other.
I do know the water is full of cow and human DNA there (which is why I don't swim) but the nodes thing kinda puts me off a bit sitting there long periods. As well a professor recommended not spend large period of time at location.
