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Ashoverite from
Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Ashoverite
Formula:Zn(OH)2
Comments:Thin platy Square-like crystals to 1mm, associated with all other zinc hydroxides
Habit:Tetragonal thin tabular-platy
Colour:Colourless to white, creamy
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
SEM-EDS
Analysis Reference:NHM London
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Calcite
Fluorite
Hemimorphite
Hydrozincite
Smithsonite
Sweetite
Unnamed (gamma-Zn(OH)2)
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite6 photos of Ashoverite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Sweetite5 photos of Ashoverite associated with Sweetite at this locality.
Calcite4 photos of Ashoverite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Baryte3 photos of Ashoverite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Unnamed (gamma-Zn(OH)2)2 photos of Ashoverite associated with Unnamed (gamma-Zn(OH)2) at this locality.
Hydrozincite1 photo of Ashoverite associated with Hydrozincite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ashoverite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1499
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1499:1
GUID (UUID V4):3b746759-2d87-4a9c-b652-a6ac440adfc3
References
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RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...occurrences in the Lake District, and in the Caldbeck Fells area within the Lake District, respectively, and...should be consulted for further details of any Lake District mineral mentioned in our list. More than 850 species...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as
Report (issue)
c = 14.34(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Near Ashover, England. 2.922 (100), 3.572 (60), 4.53 (37), 1.764... 101.3 [105.08] 100.00 18.12 (1) Near Ashover, England; by AA, H2 O by CHN analyzer; high total thought...Polymorphism & Series: Occurrence: Trimorphous with ashoverite and wülfingite. In an oxidized vein in limestone...limestone. Association: Galena, ashoverite, wülfingite, anglesite, cerussite, hydrocerussite, litharge...From a limestone quarry 200–300 m northwest of Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire, England. Name: To honor
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Morgon • R.E. Starkey 7 DIARY OF EVENTS 8 The UK Joumol of illines mul 1J,,fi11erols publishes articles...advertising. JUDKINS QUARRY F. Ince· R.E. Starkey· J. Wooldridge ------- 14 ------MILLTOWN QUARRY S.A. Rusi -------...------- 20 ------A TRIP TO ENGLAND C. Pe1111ypocker • M.P. Cooper EDITORIAL P.J.Briscoe tv1.P.Cooper...BOC J. & P. Pearce ------- 48 ------- HENDRE QUARRY R.E. Starkey· N. Hubbard· M.P. Bayley 0952-2409...conference weekend at the Peak District Mining Museum in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. That first Symposium was
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Ashoverite Zn(OH)2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group:...36(4) Z = 32 X-ray Powder Pattern: Near Ashover, England. 2.902 (100), 1.819 (33), 1.702 (21), 1.470...88 Total 102.28 100.00 18.12 (1) Near Ashover, England; by electron microprobe, average of eight...(near Ashover, England). Association: Sweetite, wülfingite, fluorite (near Ashover, England). Distribution:...In a limestone quarry 200–300 m northwest of Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire, England. From Jüliushutte
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INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...2000 Special issue devoted to the minerals of Derbyshire with the PDMHS Special issue on the minerals
Report (issue)
Series: Occurrence: Germany). Trimorphous with ashoverite and sweetite. A rare secondary mineral formed...zinc (Richelsdorf, Germany); ashoverite, fluorite (near Ashover, England). Distribution: On slag heaps...In a limestone quarry 200–300 m northwest of Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire, England. Name: Honors
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Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis, M.H. Hey & A.W.G. Kingsbury (1965)...Hingston Down Consols mine, Ca/stock, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis & M.H. Hey (1964) Min. Mag. 33, p. 937...23, p. 305. Ashoverite (Holotype) BM 1982,00005 Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England A.M. Clark,...1990,00025 Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall, England C.J. Stanley, G.C. Jones, A.D. Hart, P. Keller...1950,00056 - 61 Irchester, Northamptonshire, England F.A. Bannister & S.E. Hollingworth (1948) Nature
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Wroclaw, Poland Ashoverite* A.M. Clark, E.E. Fejer, G. Cressey,P.C. Tandy (1988) Ashoverite, a new mineral...and other polymorphs of Zn(OH), from Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire. Mineral. Mag., 52,699-702. (calculatedforB:...that of the syntheticphase.The last polymorph (ashoverite)occurs on colorlessfluorite as groups of square...polymorphs is in a limestone quarry at Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire, L.D. Arkhipova, S.A. Galiy...A.I. Marushkin (1987) First cliachite find in England. The new name is for the locality. J.L.J. Pacific
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PEAK of rhe DISTRICT A joint publication of Rockbottom Publications and the Peak District Mines Historical...Mines&Mineralsand vol. 12 no. 1 of the Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society. COVER:BLUE JOHN FLUORITE...FLUORITE, Blue John Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire, polished slab 7 x I 0cm. Bob King Collection (KI052),...TRI T MI E HISTORIC L SOCIETY 3-----------BL The UK Jouma/ of 1Jfi11es a11dMinerals publishes articles...advertising. EJOHN 4-----------ORIGI of the PEAK DISTRICT DC Quirk ORE FIELD EDITOR Mick Cooper EDITORIAL
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Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 East 4th Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721, U.S.A. 5 Universität...1.8159 Hf0.03BAl9O18 Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin district, Mandalay division, Myanmar ny nz calc...chemical name formula Ca4Al2SO4 kuzelite Zeilberg Quarry, 1.504 1.504 1.488 1.4987 1.499 –0.1 256.5 23.31...Greece Economou (1981) Zn(OH)2 ashoverite Ashover, 1.629 1.629 1.639 1.6323 1.616 1.0 48.56...123 Clark et al. (1988) Derbyshire, England Zn(OH)2 sweetite Derbyshire, 1.635 1.635 1.628 1.6327
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