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  • England
    • Cornwall
      • Chacewater
Collins, J. H. (1871) A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon. Heard and Sons, Truro.
      • Gwinear-Gwithian
        • Gwithian
Camm, Simon (1995) Gold in the Counties of Cornwall & Devon. Cornish Hillside Publications, St. Austell, Cornwall.
      • Kenwyn
        • Newbridge
Dines, H. G. (1956) The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England (1st ed.) Vol. 1. Geological Survey of Great Britain, London.
      • Ladock
Hawkins, C., and Paris, J.A. (1818): Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 1, 235-236.
      • Lanlivery
Golley, Peter, Williams, Richard (1995) Cornish Mineral Reference Manual. Endsleigh Book Co., Truro. 71pp.
P,D, Trebilcock collection.
      • Newquay
A.K. Hamilton Jenkin: Annotations to Ordnance Survey map, scale 1:10,000, sheet 39NE.
      • Perranzabuloe
        • Perranporth
          • Perran St George and Droskyn Mines
Golley, Peter, Williams, Richard (1995) Cornish Mineral Reference Manual. Endsleigh Book Co., Truro. 71pp.
      • Redruth
Camm, Simon (1995) Gold in the Counties of Cornwall & Devon. Cornish Hillside Publications, St. Austell, Cornwall.
Rudler, F. W. (1905) A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Isles - Mostly selected from the Ludlam Collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology. 253pp.
Collins, J. H. (1871) A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon. Heard and Sons, Truro.
Hall, Townshend M. (1868) The Mineralogist's Directory: or, a guide to the Principal Mineral Localities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Edward Stanford, London.
      • Sancreed
Camm, Simon (1995) Gold in the Counties of Cornwall & Devon. Cornish Hillside Publications, St. Austell, Cornwall.
      • St Day
Golley, Peter, Williams, Richard (1995) Cornish Mineral Reference Manual. Endsleigh Book Co., Truro. 71pp.
      • St Endellion
Clayton, R.E., and Spiro, B: (2000): Mineralium Deposita 35, 315-331.
Golley, Peter, Williams, Richard (1995) Cornish Mineral Reference Manual. Endsleigh Book Co., Truro. 71pp.
      • St Ewe
A.K. Hamilton Jenkin: Annotations to Ordnance Survey map, scale 1:10,000, sheet 59NW
      • St Just
Golley, Peter, Williams, Richard (1995) Cornish Mineral Reference Manual. Endsleigh Book Co., Truro. 71pp.
Bowell, R. J. (1992) Gold from Botallack mine, St. Just, Cornwall. Mineralogical Magazine, 56 (382) 123-124 doi:10.1180/minmag.1992.056.382.19
      • St Martin-in-Meneage
Camm, Simon (1995) Gold in the Counties of Cornwall & Devon. Cornish Hillside Publications, St. Austell, Cornwall.
      • St Stephen-in-Brannel
        • Crow Hill
Collins, J. H. (1871) A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon. Heard and Sons, Truro.
        • Downderry
Rudler, F. W. (1905) A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Isles - Mostly selected from the Ludlam Collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology. 253pp.
    • County Durham
      • Healeyfield
Norman Wilson collection
    • Cumbria
      • Allerdale
        • Above Derwent
          • Coledale
[var. Electrum] Solferino, G. F., Westwood, N. T., Eskdale, A., & Johnson, S. C. (2021). Characterising As–Bi–Co–Cu-bearing minerals at Scar Crags and Dale Head North, Lake District, UK. Mineralogical Magazine, 85(2), 197-214.
          • Newlands Valley
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
        • Bassenthwaite
        • Caldbeck
Green, D.I., Rumsey, M.S., Bridges, T.F., Thomson, N. (2009) A Review of the mineralisation at Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Journal of the Russell Society, 12. 35-47
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Young, B. (1987) Glossary of the minerals of the Lake District and adjoining areas. British Geological Survey, Newcastle upon Tyne. 104pp.
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (xxxx) (MS2) Notes on the occurrence of gold in the Lake District.
          • Roughton Gill
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Young, B. (1987) Glossary of the minerals of the Lake District and adjoining areas. British Geological Survey, Newcastle upon Tyne. 104pp.
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (xxxx) (MS2) Notes on the occurrence of gold in the Lake District.
Bridges, T.F., Green, D.I., Rumsey, M.S., Leppington, C.M. (2008) A review of the mineralisation at Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Journal of the Russell Society, 11. 29-47
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Young, B. (1987) Glossary of the minerals of the Lake District and adjoining areas. British Geological Survey, Newcastle upon Tyne. 104pp.
Sweet, J.M. (1960) British Gold from the Bouglise collection. Mineralogical Magazine, 32(248), 420-421.
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (xxxx) (MS2) Notes on the occurrence of gold in the Lake District.
Bridges, Trevor F., Green, David, Rumsey, Michael S., Leppington, C. Michael (2011) A review of the mineralisation of the Roughton Gill mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria: Part 3 Roughton Gill Mine. Journal of the Russell Society, 14. 3-23
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Young, B. (1987) Glossary of the minerals of the Lake District and adjoining areas. British Geological Survey, Newcastle upon Tyne. 104pp.
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (xxxx) (MS2) Notes on the occurrence of gold in the Lake District.
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (xxxx) (MS2) Notes on the occurrence of gold in the Lake District.
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Adams, John (1988) Mines of the Lake District Fells (1st ed.) Dalesman Books, Clapham, Lancaster.
        • Embleton
        • Keswick
          • Catbells
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
        • St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Stanley, Christopher J., Cooper, Michael P. (1991) Famous Mineral Localities: Pyromorphite-Group Minerals from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. The Mineralogical Record, 22 (2) 105-121
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Calvert, John (1853) The Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Ireland - and a General Outline of the Gold Regions of the World with a Treatise on the Geology of Gold. Chapman and Hall, London.
      • Eden
        • Mungrisdale
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Hartley, J. (1984) A list of minerals associated with the ore deposits of the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association, 10 (3) 22-39
Shaw, W. T. (1972) Mining in the Lake Counties (2nd ed.) Dalesman Books, Clapham, Lancaster.
Dewey, Henry, Dines, H. G. (1923) Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain Vol. 1, Tungsten and Manganese Ores (3rd ed.) Geological Survey of Great Britain
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (xxxx) (MS2) Notes on the occurrence of gold in the Lake District.
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Shaw, W. T. (1972) Mining in the Lake Counties (2nd ed.) Dalesman Books, Clapham, Lancaster.
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (xxxx) (MS2) Notes on the occurrence of gold in the Lake District.
        • Patterdale
          • Hartsop
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
      • South Lakeland
        • Coniston
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
        • Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Stanley, C. J., Criddle, A. J. (1979) Mineralization at Seathwaite Tam, near Coniston, English Lake District: The first occurrence of wittichenite in Great Britain. Mineralogical Magazine, 43 (325) 103-107 doi:10.1180/minmag.1979.043.325.06
    • Derbyshire
      • Derbyshire Dales District
        • Blackwell in the Peak
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
    • Devon
      • East Devon
        • Budleigh Salterton
Technical Report TR-02-09 (March 2002) Alteration of uraniferous and native copper concretions in the Permian mudrocks of south Devon, United Kingdom - A E Milodowski et al
      • North Devon
de la Beche, H.T. (1839): Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset. Longmans (London), 648 pp.
Rudler, F. W. (1905) A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Isles - Mostly selected from the Ludlam Collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology. 253pp.
Phillips, William (1823) An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy (3rd ed.)
      • South Hams
      • Teignbridge
        • Buckfastleigh
Bernie Millington Collection
      • Torbay
        • Torquay
Simon, Grigore, Kesler, Stephen E., Essene, Eric J. (1997) Phase relations among selenides, tellurides, and oxides; II, Applications to selenide-bearing ore deposits. Economic Geology, 92 (4) 468-484 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.92.4.468
Stanley, C. J., Criddle, A. J., Lloyd, D. (1990) Precious and base metal selenide mineralization at Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon. Mineralogical Magazine, 54 (376) 485-493 doi:10.1180/minmag.1990.054.376.13
Embrey, Peter G., Symes, Robert F. (1987) Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. British Museum (Natural History) and the Mineralogical Record, Inc., London and Tucson, AZ.
Russell (1929)
      • West Devon
        • North Tawton
De La Beche, H.T. (1839): Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset. HMSO Publications (London), p. 239.
        • Whitchurch
Min Mag 21:116-205
    • Gloucestershire
      • Forest of Dean
Palmer, Lee Gary (2019) Gold Occurrences in the UK - A Gold Prospector's Guide (1st ed.) Gold Productions, Irvine.
    • Leicestershire
      • North West Leicestershire
        • Bardon
Aggregate Industries
        • Whitwick
Have seen ref to gold here - but unable to quote it (yet)
    • Worcestershire
      • Malvern Hills
Palmer, Lee Gary (2019) Gold Occurrences in the UK - A Gold Prospector's Guide (1st ed.) Gold Productions, Irvine.
Palmer, Lee Gary (2019) Gold Occurrences in the UK - A Gold Prospector's Guide (1st ed.) Gold Productions, Irvine.
  • Northern Ireland
    • Co. Tyrone
      • Omagh
Birtel, S., Wunderlich, I., & Gutzmer, J. (2013). Tracking ore mineral characteristics from mine to concentrate: The fate of electrum at the Cavanacaw gold deposit, Northern Ireland. In 12th SGA Biennial Meeting, August (pp. 12-15).
Chapman, R J et alia, "The Application of Microchemical Analysis of Alluvial Gold Grains" Economic Geology
December 2000
v. 95
no. 8
p. 1753-1773
Chapman, R J et alia, "The Application of Microchemical Analysis of Alluvial Gold Grains" Economic Geology
December 2000
v. 95
no. 8
[var. Electrum] Economic Geology Vol. 95, 2000, pp. 1389–1416
  • Scotland
    • Argyll and Bute
      • Glen Orchy
[var. Electrum] Fermor 2011: Ore Deposits in an Evolving Earth
    • Dumfries and Galloway
      • Carsphairn
Dawson, J., Floyd, J. D., Philip, P. R., Burley, A. J., Allsop, J. M., Bennett, J. R. P., Marsden, G. R., Leake, R. C., Brown, M. J. (1977) A mineral reconnaissance survey of the Doon-Glenkens area, south-west Scotland. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report 18. Institute of Geological Sciences
      • Newton Stewart
[var. Electrum] Power, M.R., Pirrie, D., Jedwab, J., Stanley, C.J. (2004) Platinum-group element mineralization in an As-rich magmatic sulphide system, Talnotry, southwest Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine: 68(2): 395-411.
    • East Ayrshire
      • Galston
Dagmara Lesiow
    • Highland
      • Caol and Mallaig
        • Isle of Rum
[var. Electrum] Power, M.R., Pirrie, D., Andersen, J.C.O., and Butcher, A.R. (2000): Mineralium Deposita 35, 762-775.
[var. Electrum] Power, M.R., Pirrie, D., Andersen, J.C.O., and Butcher, A.R. (2000): Mineralium Deposita 35, 762-775.
      • Strathpeffer and Lochalsh
        • Wester Ross
          • Glenelg
            • Ratagain Intrusion
[var. Electrum] David H. M. Alderton (1986) Hessite and Electrum from the Ratagain Intrusion, North-West Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine 50:179-179.
[var. Electrum] David H. M. Alderton (1986) Hessite and Electrum from the Ratagain Intrusion, North-West Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine 50:179-179.
      • Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh
        • Lochalsh
          • Dornie
            • Carr Brae
Render, Paul (n.d.) Paul Render Collection.
    • North Ayrshire
      • Great Cumbrae
Parnell, J., Still, J., Spinks, S., & Bellis, D. (2016). Gold in Devono-Carboniferous red beds of northern Britain. Journal of the Geological Society, 173(2), 245-248.
    • Perth and Kinross
      • Aberfeldy
Chapman, Robert, Taija Torvela, and Lucia Savastano. (2023) "Insights into Regional Metallogeny from Detailed Compositional Studies of Alluvial Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland" Minerals 13, no. 2: 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13020140
Ixer, R. A. F., Pattrick, R. A. D., & Stanley, C. J. (1997). Geology, mineralogy and genesis of gold mineralization at Calliachar-Urlar Burn, Scotland. 0371-7453, 106, B99-B108.
      • Comrie
Chapman, Robert, Taija Torvela, and Lucia Savastano. (2023) "Insights into Regional Metallogeny from Detailed Compositional Studies of Alluvial Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland" Minerals 13, no. 2: 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13020140
      • Glen Quaich (Glen Coich)
F. Rutley: "Elements of Mineralogy", 12th Ed. (1900)
Chapman, Robert, Taija Torvela, and Lucia Savastano. (2023) "Insights into Regional Metallogeny from Detailed Compositional Studies of Alluvial Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland" Minerals 13, no. 2: 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13020140
Chapman, Robert, Taija Torvela, and Lucia Savastano. (2023) "Insights into Regional Metallogeny from Detailed Compositional Studies of Alluvial Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland" Minerals 13, no. 2: 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13020140
      • Loch Tay
[var. Electrum] Corkhill, C., Ixer, R. A., Mason, J. S., Irving, D., & Pattrick, R. A. (2010). Polymetallic auriferous vein mineralization near Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 46(1), 23-30.
      • Meall nan Oighreag
Pattrick, R.A.D. (1984) Sulphide mineralogy of the Tomnadashan copper deposit and the Corrie Buie lead veins, south Loch Tayside, Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine, vol. 48, nΒ° 346, p. 85-91.
Chapman, Robert, Taija Torvela, and Lucia Savastano. (2023) "Insights into Regional Metallogeny from Detailed Compositional Studies of Alluvial Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland" Minerals 13, no. 2: 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13020140
Jackson, B. (2005): Gold mineralisation in the Central Ochil Hills, Perthsire, Scotland, UK. Applied Earth Science 114, 53-64.
Chapman, R.J.
Shaw, M.H.
Leake, R.C.
    • Scottish Borders
      • Duns
        • Hoardweel farm
Abdulkadir, A.M., Cunningham, J.K., Beard, A.D. (2019) Constraining the source of the alluvial gold from the Whiteadder River drainage, SE Scotland. Conference: 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits.
Shaw, M.H., Fortey, N.J., Gibberd, A.J., Rollin, K.E. (1995) Gold exploration in the Duns area, Southern Uplands. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report 138. British Geological Survey: 37.
    • Shetland Islands
      • Unst
5th International Platinum Symposium Bulletin of The Geological Society of Finland Number 61, Part 1,1989,1-64
    • South Lanarkshire
London Natural History Museum specimen
    • Stirling
      • Tyndrum
[var. Electrum] Livingstone, 2002, p.110.
Mason, Anita (1976) The World of Rocks and Minerals. Larousse & Co., Inc., New York.
    • Carmarthenshire
      • Pumpsaint
    • Ceredigion
      • Ceulanymaesmawr
        • Tal-y-bont
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
      • Llangynfelyn
        • Tre-Taliesin
      • Trefeirig
        • Pen-bont Rhydybeddau
    • Gwynedd
      • Barmouth
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
      • Brithdir and Llanfachreth
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
      • Ganllwyd
[var. Electrum] R. E. Bevins (1988) Sixth Supplementary List of British Isles Minerals (Welsh). Mineralogical Magazine 52:121-124
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
Mineralogical Magazine 1884 6 : 108-108
P.M. Allen, A.A. Jackson: "Geological Excursions in the Harlech Dome", BGS, 1985
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
      • Llanelltyd
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
Bevins, R.E. (1988) Sixth Supplementary List of British Isles Minerals (Welsh). Mineralogical Magazine 52:121-124.
Kingsbury, A.W.G. (1965) Tellurbismuth and meneghinite, two minerals new to Britain. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 35 (270) 424-426 doi:10.1180/minmag.1965.035.270.19
Andrew (1910) The Dolgelly gold-belt, Geol. Mag., 210.
Maclaren (1908) Gold
Rudler, F. W. (1905) A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Isles - Mostly selected from the Ludlam Collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology. 253pp.
Phillips and Louis (1896) A treatise on ore-deposits, 293.
Henwood, W.J. (1871): Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 8(1), 635-642
Smyth, W. (1866) Mining and Smelting Magazine, 1866, vol. 1, 359.
its geological occurrence and geographical distribution, 129.
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
Goldmining in Western Merioneth, T. A. Morrison (undated)
      • Llanuwchllyn
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
      • Trawsfynydd
Mason, J. S., Williamson, K. W. (2001) Filiform Pyrite from the Prince Edward Mine, Dolgellau Gold-Belt, Gwynedd. UK Journal of Mines and Minerals 21, 37-38
    • Isle of Anglesey
      • Amlwch
    • Pembrokeshire
      • Wiston
Norton, Gillian, Cooper, D.C., Davies, Jeremy, Cornwell, J.D. (2000) Evidence for gold mineralisation in the Lower Palaeozoic and Precambrian rocks of south-west Wales. Minerals Programme Publication 5. Department of Trade and Industry
Norton, Gillian, Cooper, D.C., Davies, Jeremy, Cornwell, J.D. (2000) Evidence for gold mineralisation in the Lower Palaeozoic and Precambrian rocks of south-west Wales. Minerals Programme Publication 5. Department of Trade and Industry
 
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