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Calcite from
Hightown Quarry, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hightown Quarry, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:605517
Long-form Identifier:1:3:605517:2
GUID (UUID V4):cee53a1a-88fc-4449-b2eb-60998227c3e7
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
2.5km (1.6 miles) Wolf Hill Quarry, Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
3.3km (2.1 miles) Bairds Brae, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
4.7km (3.0 miles) Carnmoney, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
9.2km (5.7 miles) Bruslee quarry, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
10.3km (6.4 miles) Green Road Quarry (Ballyclare Old Quarry), Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
11.9km (7.4 miles) Parkgate Quarry, Antrim, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
12.0km (7.4 miles) Craighill Quarry, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
16.4km (10.2 miles) Lady Hill Quarry, Antrim, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
18.6km (11.5 miles) Carneal, Glenoe, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
20.0km (12.4 miles) Robinson Quarry, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Report No. 70/5 Sources of aggregate in Northern Ireland I. B. Cameron B.Sc. London: Her Majesty's...Cameron, I. B. 1970. Sources of aggregate in Northern Ireland. Rep. No. 70/5, Inst.geol.Sci., 29 pp. . 11...in Northern Ireland' is a handbook intended for consumers and producers of aggregate in Northern Ireland...assist the quarry industry in meeting their demands. The statistical information and the quarry list are...material supplied by the Ministry of Commerce. A quarry list and statistics of mineral production are prepared
Catalog/List
special interest in the mineralisation of the Northern Pennine Orefield, and together with others was...in the establishment of the Russell Society’s Northern Branch in 1984, the first beyond the confines...supergene mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche...chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Co. Durham. Collected in 1897. 5 Lot No. Approximate...12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's
Journal (issue)
MINERALS FROM BARGER'S QUARRY NEAR LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Barger's quarry is located just...in Rockbridge County, Virginia (Figure 1). This quarry offers a unique opportunity to collect complex...formed crystals of barite, calcite, fluorite, and quartz. Although Barger's quarry has long been known to...mineralogy of the quarry. Pomerantz (1940) briefly describes pyrite crystals from the quarry, and Franklin...as well as the geology of the area. The original quarry site was opened on the east side of U. S. Highway
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...MALACHITE 16 CUNOCLASE 17 ANGLESITE 18 PYROMORPHITE 19 CALCITE 20 SERPIERITE 21 ETTRINGITE 22 BROCHANTITE 23 CASSITERITE...CALEOONITE 40 PREHNITE 41 STILBITE 42 THOMSONITE 43 CALCITE 4-4 THOMSONITE 45 CELSIAN Waterba.nk mine Waterbank...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria
Journal (issue)
collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite, ferroan...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...11; W. F. Giannini specimen). Martin Marietta quarry-near Charlottesville epidote, muscovite crystals...crystals, pyrite, quartz Old Dominion soapstone quarry-near Old Dominion actinolite-tremolite, apatite, chalcopyrite...ferroan dolomite, malachite Dominion Stone Plant quarry-near Piney River albite, apatite, chalcopyrite
Report (chapter)
University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 2AB, UK Abstract: Coastal dunes fringe the coast between...and Lifeboat Road (Gresswell 1937, 1953). The northern limit or erosion has continued to move northwards...to that described from Magilligan Point in Northern Ireland by Wilson (1991), but appears to have formed...27 32 29 | 33 34 35 DownhollondMoss F 04 Hightown , Blundell 03 02 l•Little Crosby 0 I I...welldeveloped in the deposits, particularly in the northern half of the exposure, leading to a step-like outcrop
Book (edition)
andNorlhern Ireland (the latter as an agency service for the government ofNorthern Ireland), and of the...Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at £21 796...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial
Book
for free. The possibility of a trip to Portland quarry was also discussed – Mrs Cowie suggested that more...look into the chances of a subsidized outing to a quarry such as Portland and to arrange a trip to Barton-on-Sea...meantime, he would write to Mr Linham at Perry Field quarry on Portland and also circulate the member- ship...Museum, Charmouth, Shelford Sandpit, Malden quarry, Alton quarry, the Forest of Dean, the Wessex Impex factory...factory in Winchester, Radstock and Batscombe quarry near Cheddar plus Parkinson’s mineral dealership
Book (edition)
qutm-y in South Yorkshire (Rotherham Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd, Scrooby Top Quany, Doncas1e1; South Yorkshirej...and Northern. Ireland (the latter is an. agency service .for the government of Northern. Ireland), and...0115-936 3200 e-mail : sales@bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac. uk Shop online at.: www.thebgs.co.u.k !Vlurchison House...01392-445271 Fax 01392-445371 Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Colby House, Stranmillis Court, Belfast BT9...Kingdom for the British Geological Survey by Halstan & Co Ltd, Amersham. Contents Introduction Figures 1
Book (edition)
and Northern lteland (the latter is an agency service for the government of Northern. Ireland), and...l: bgslondon@bgs.ac.uk Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Colby House, Stranmillis Court, Bell'ast...KiJ1gdom for the British Geological Smvey by Halstan & Co Ltd, Amersban1. Contents Introduction Figures l...resources and workings in tJ1e UK, 2008 3 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2008 4 Limestone resotu-ces...2000-2006 (thousand tonnes) 3 Minerals produced in Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey 2001-2005
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include a wide array of other zeolites, prehnite, calcite, and apophyllite-group minerals. Scolecite is apparently...Mallison Falls, Windham, Maine, and at the Dexter quarry, Lincoln County, Rhode Island. A historical occurrence...occurrence is with prehnite in gneiss at Ward’s quarry, Pelham, Massachusetts. It has been reported from...collected in the diabase quarry at Manassas, Prince William County, and near Hightown, Highland County, Virginia...masses of white radiating crystals to 2 cm with calcite, heulandite, and quartz in gold-bearing veins of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recovered. CANADA Quebec Mt. St. Hilaire The Demix quarry soon will undergo a temporary ces­ sation of operations...uncertain when it will be possible to revisit the quarry. It is significant that this closing follows on...umangjte, ankerite, aragonite, aurichalcite, azurite, calcite, cerussite, dolomite, hydrozincite, malachite,...refreshing to see transparent and vitreous baryto­ calcite. Most of the English material is frosted and opaque...single boulder on the westernmost Russel Brothers quarry dump yielded a 1.5 cm intergrowth of two uraninites
Book
Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George SeYastopulo...Peter Rowe OTHER TITLES OF RELATED I"t\TEREST Co,zfi·onting catastrophe: nell'perspecrh·es on n:iwra...& Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI 'Jo ~6...stage of MB! that focusing only on Britain and Ireland might be too restrictive, and that what was really...personally discovered new species to Britain and Ireland, and colleagues permitted me to record their unpublished
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vesicular basalt, and is accompanied by needles o f calcite, small drusy spherules of columnar phillipsite...is of Ordovician age. The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount Ida off U.S. 270 near...stable matrix. Variscite has been reported from the quarry, but none was observed in recent material. A few...oxalic acid. If there is continued use of this quarry, no doubt good quality specimens of wavellite from...Pollack dis­ covered these crystals at the Emmons quarry in Greenwood. Several specimens that he first sent
Book
LOCALITIES IN THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. BY K TOWNSHEND M. HALL, F.G.S. LONDON : EDWARD...Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, by ROBERT P. GREG, F.G.S., and WILLIAM G. LETTSOM...of Mineral Substances hitherto dis covered in Ireland, by Sir CHARLES L. GIESECKE, F.G.S. 1832. A Catalogue...Catalogue of the several localities in Ireland where Mines or metalliferous indications have hitherto...Survey of the United Kingdom . Geological Map of Ireland, by Sir RICHARD GRIFFITH . ( Six sheets.) 1854
Report (volume)
Distribution Box 25286, MS 306, Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Subscriptions to periodicals (Earthquakes &...Distribution Box 25286, Bldg. 810, Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Residents of Alaska may order maps from U...Distribution, Box 25286, MS 306, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication...places such as the Burning Springs anticline of northern West Virginia or along the Bass Islands trend... stone. The sequence is best developed in the northern part of the basin and in the Valley and Ridge
Report (volume)
Distribution Box 25286, MS 306, Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Subscriptions to periodicals (Earthquakes &...Distribution Box 25286, Bldg. 810, Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Residents of Alaska may order maps from U...Distribution, Box 25286, MS 306, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication...places such as the Burning Springs anticline of northern West Virginia or along the Bass Islands trend... stone. The sequence is best developed in the northern part of the basin and in the Valley and Ridge
Journal (issue)
several dike-like bodies were observed in roadcuts or quarry walls, attempts to trace them away from where they...rocks found in the cores of the anticlines (the Hightown and Bolar Anticlines being the most prominent)...Amygdules may also be present, with zeolite and calcite the principal minerals filling the cavities. Felsic...objects are empty vesicles or vugs filled with calcite or zeolite. The matrix is a fine, dark, and highly...Irregularly shaped black glassy pods appear at the northern end of the body. The pods are up to 10 cm in length
Book (edition)
Gaswells. h-ont cover Operations at Shap Beck Quarry, Hanson Aggregates, North.em Region. © D Cameron...Britain. and Northern Ireland (the lauer is an. agency service for the government of Nonhern. Ireland), and...bgslondon@bgs.ac.uk Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Colby House, Stranmillis Court, Belfast BT9...Ji'igures 1 An extract from Hunt's 1858 listing of Quarry Re turns 2 lJnited Kingdom production of n1inerals...resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 4 Limestone resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 5 Sand and grave
Book
quartz or clay, or of carbonate minerals, such as calcite or dolomite. Predominantly silicate sedimen- tary...shell died. This coquina is primarily the mineral calcite which may dissolve slowly to form caves as ground...operator. Caves tend to collapse like that when calcite has been dissolved out. 26 Above the Yorktown...nature preserve for native wildlife that commingles northern and southern species and as a staging area for...Stafford Hill Fall fault ao5a Nanjemoy fm a Ry < co}oa Brooke fault fault Dumfries \?CSY fe| = yw
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in The Netherlands 251 CO20UTGASSING AND CALCITE PRECIPITATION IN FALLING SPRING CREEK, VIRGINIA...J.S. and Lorah, M.M., 1987. C02 outgassing and calcite precipitation in Falling Spring Creek, Virginia...supersaturation with respect to calcite. Physical evidence for calcite precipitation exists in the rimstone...significant level of supersaturation with respect to calcite over the entire length of the flow path studied...waters, carbon dioxide ingassing or outgassing, and calcite precipitation or dissolution are the most important
Journal (issue)
the quarry 4.- Magnetic profiles (vertical force) across the Brockhill Dyke, west of the quarry ... ...about half a mile W.S.W. of the Crown limestone quarry. The traverses were parallel with the aerial ropeway...was seen floating on ditches in Flea Moss near Hightown (F, Fig. 1), and near Hillhouse in A.ltcar (1869...on Flea Jl.-loss about one mile south-east of Hightown. At the present time a strong oil and iron iridescence...forms. part of the great Moine Schist belt of the Northern Highlands and lies not far to the east of the
Book (edition)
be of late Silurian to early Devonian age. One quarry each in Cornwall and Devon work the Hercynian granite...granite for roadstone. In Anglesey one quarry works syenitic gneiss. HORNFELS TRADE GROUP (Hl This group...Fife and Lanarkshire. The felsite of Cairngryffe Quarry in Lanarkshire has, on test, given exceptionally...the latter county the phonolite of Traprain Law Quarry has been in use for over fifty years. GRANITE TRADE...monumental stone. Granite-gneiss is worked in one quarry near Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. Four quarries
Book
(222), 1990 Braintree (223), 1982 Printed in the UK for HMSO Dd 0292043 12/93 C8 531/3 12521 = #>...local landowners during the resurvey. for their co-operation NOTES The word ‘district’ is used in...significance are sands and gravels belonging to @ Hightown Green @ Cockfield Broken Kettlebaston @ Acton...anomaly map, in an east to west band across the northern half of the dis- locities of 4.9 and 5.1 km s...exsculpta exsculpta. The former Victoria Pit, a large quarry Sten- [8793 4175] on the south side of the B115
Report (issue)
1894) IN THE UNITED KINGD0~1 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, AND THE PREP.A.RED BY HIS ISLE OF MAN. ~IAJESTY'S...Act in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Isle of Man, for the Year 1914. The Quarries...address of thA owner, the na1ne and situation of the quarry, the name of agent or manager , date of signature...t and Ironstone open workings No. 2 DIVISroN.-NoRTHERN. Cum,berla.nd DUiham ... Lancashire (detached...277 4 DJVISION.-LANCASHIRE, NoRTII vV ALEs AND IRELAND. Cheshire (part) ... Lancashire (except detached
 
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