Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Calcite from
Bonser Mine, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bonser Mine, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15123
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15123:4
GUID (UUID V4):bcdc7113-bd58-4ef0-a8e9-f0ca1678f13e
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Coniston Copper Mines, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
4.1km (2.5 miles) Hodge Close Quarry, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
14.9km (9.3 miles) Wad Mine (Plumbago Mine; Graphite Mine; Black Lead Mine), Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
15.4km (9.6 miles) Eycott Hill, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
15.4km (9.6 miles) Falcon Crag, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
16.7km (10.3 miles) Wythburn Mine (Wheal Henry; Helvellyn Mine), St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
16.9km (10.5 miles) Hartsop Hall Mine, Hartsop, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
17.0km (10.6 miles) Eagle Crag Mine, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
17.6km (10.9 miles) Millrigg Mine, Nether Staveley, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
18.8km (11.7 miles) Dale Head Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
DYKE CARBONIFEROUS ORDOVICIAN - Westphalian - Coniston Limestone Group - Namurian - Borrovvdale Volcanic...siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale...(bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS 4490) (bottom right) ISBN O 85272 099...area of remarkably varied geology. The central Lakeland fells comprise a thick sequence of Ordovician
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Tetragonal Significant component of siderite-calcite-Fe sulphide concretions being formed in reduced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PP. 3 4 3 - 5 0 Mineralization in the Bonser vein, Coniston, English Lake District: mineral assemblages...British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD AND D. J. VAUGHAN Department...in Birmingham, Birmingham B4 7ET ABSTRACT.The Bonser vein, one of the most productive sources of copper...mineral assemblage comprising quartz, chlorite, calcite, dolomite, stilpnomelane, magnetite, pyrrhotine...chlorite and stilpnomelane with some dolomite and calcite, magnetite as the earliest opaque phase, followed
Report (issue)
= 39.94(3) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Orijärvi mine, Finland. 3.072 (100), 2.246 (80), 2.112 (80), 1...93 (2) 15.4 3.3 Total 99.88 100.0 (1) Orijärvi mine, Finland; after deducting 4% of galena, sphalerite...quartz-anthophyllite-cordierite-biotite rocks (Orijärvi mine, Association: Chalcopyrite, bismuth, sphalerite... molybdenite, silver, pyrite, galena (Orijärvi mine, Finland); tetrahedrite–tennantite, luzonite–famatinite...nekrasovite, chalcopyrite, emplectite, bismuth, calcite, quartz, barite (Kuramin Mountains, Uzbekistan);
Book
Fluorite [BM 1964, R 1524], seepage 152; (back) Calcite [BM 1926, 1252]. see page 137; both images ©NHMPL...pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages...permission of The Trustees of The Ruskin Museum, Coniston: page 103 R. F. Symes: pages 28, 87, 98, 156 B...Northern Pennine Orefield ........ The West and South Cumbrian Iron Orefields ..........................Cumbrian Iron Orefield ......................... The South Cumbrian Iron Orefield ........................
Report (volume)
scattered over the Midlands, Wales and the North of England. Most of them have been visited by the author$...this information. Our thanks are due to numerous mine managers for assistance while visiting their mines...IV.-Section of Clogau :Mine, l.vlerioneth " V. -Sketch Map of the Coniston ~fines and Veins " Vl... the greater part from the Cornish mines. Ecton Mine in Staffordshire and the Parys Mountain Mines in...copper mines. The copper mines of the ,vest of England have already been described in the Special Reports
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Westmorland; and of smaltite and niecolite at Coniston, [~ncashire. By ARTHUR RUSS~:LL. (With a chemical...states that native arsenic had been found in Dolcoath mine, Camborne, associated with ores of cobalt. Greg"...2 J . H . Collins s also mentions Cooks Kitchen mine, Illogan, as another doubtful locality. The occurrence...traversing the qnarry in an approximately north and south direction with a small dip to the west, the rock...pits being occupied by yellowlsh-brown dolomite, calcite as coarse cleavage-masses, and small quartz crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration, (greisen) W (veins) - W Cornwall (England) Ukalunda (Queensland) Meymac hydrothermal...Ag-Co-Ni Villanueva - Co-Ni Bieber - Cu-Bi Bonser - Au-Ag Rezbanja - As Vein Brosso - Hg ...Huallatani (Bolivia) with +8.2O/oo, for the hydrothermal Bonser Vein (English F r o m these relationships the equilibrium...3 + 0.1 ccp + 0.9 high contact metamorphic/calcite, (+ hydroth. Ag-mineralization) Bi2S 3 - 7.3...BM Bonser vein (English Lake District) 86 42 9O W HD 3488 CNRS HD 3492 Cornwall (England) emplect
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eylandt, todorokite, 253; NEw SOUTH WALES, Kanaiara, dendritic pyrite, 132; SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Kapunda, peisleyite...510 BULGARIA, Madjarovo deposit, ardaite, 357 Calcite, atomic arrangement on twin boundaries, 265 CANADA...amphibole microstructures, 395 Cassiterite, SW England, U content, 211 Cebollite, in kimberlite, correction...247 Chevkinite, Scotland, 445 Childrenite, SW England, 119 Chlorite, identification in thin section,...493 EMMETr, T. F., corona-bearing dolerites, 43 ENGLAND, SW, U in cassiterite, wolframite, sulphide minerals
Book
large quantities of ore have been raised . While Coniston , Greenside, and the Graphite or Plumbago mines...will rank amongst the best Mines in the North of England . Since 1565 no less than seven smelt mills and...Metamorphism " 17 19 Volcanic Series of English Lakeland 26 Cross Fell Inlier "" 26 Fossils of 33 " Drygill...Drygill Shales " "" 27 Fossils of 27 99 Limestone Coniston Series 28 "" 28 Fossils of 99 Igneous Rocks ""...English Lakeland ... 36 Castlehead , Keswick 39 37 Stockdale Shales 38 Fossils of ... 39 "" Coniston Flags
Catalog/List
black-brown cleavage Yakutia. Russin 5mm£2 Rawhide Mine, MohavcCounty, ½xY,£3 Arizona , US.A . l.x2 50p...1cm £6 ✓ on a ship wreck in 1885 Ives, Comwall, England ABHURITE SnO OH DESCRIPTON Pyroxene Na Fe...AlS0/4 Al S0/4 ✓ New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon .England Madagascar Railway cutting nearCreston .... Wyoming ,U S. A Newhavcn Sussex. England I x2 £6 ½x½ £2.50 I ins £4 lx2 £2.20 IX½ £5 I x½ £4 lxl...Tanzania 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE f X 1/1 ½x½ £3 South Bay. Scarborough £5 Yorkshire lxl £.J Flux Canyon
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious...Emb'eton quany,nrCockermouth. Cumbria; Gra:nsgill. Ca'.dbeck Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine...Fells,Cumbria; OldGunnls!ake m:ne.Calslock. Cornwall lindgrenite' BrandyGill,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria WestTurtPitsmine
Report (issue)
History Museum Earth Galleries, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DE w 071-589 4090 w 071-938...Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil is thus a strong...and F in stream sediments and waters. Apart from mine spoil, contamination is generally not an important...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted
Book
Coniston Copper Mines A FIELD GUIDE ERIC G. HOLLAND ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eric Holland's interest in matters...became managerial a i Lant on a large open-cast tin mine and on forages into the surrounding jungle he discovered...Holland has been Editorial Assistant with the journal Mine and Quarry Engineering; has been a quarry manager...a waggon of iron ore from the last mine to operate - Margaret Mine. His 'Underground in Furness' series...Together with like minded colleagues he formed the Cumbria Amenity Trust, a mining historical society carrying
Book
try around Ulverston Around l! lverstou, in the south of the Lake District .NaLional Park, Lower Palaeozoic...dur; \ J I ing 1he Dinantian. In the Siksian, south\,·ard progr,1ding dcltaic sedinwntatinn prcdo111inatccl...Pahwogenc:. The h;H:n1atite 111int·ralisation in the South Cu111bria iron ordicld ,1lso probably origi 11a1cs...C<"nlllri1·s. H,w111at.i1c mi11i11g i11 1111· South Cumbria iron orclicld hro11gh1 aho11\ inclllstrial devdop111c1ll...7:">3} \,ith .the now flooded Park Sop haematite mine in the foreground. (L2258). (Photographer: KE Thon11
Report (volume)
from the DIRECTOR GENERAL, ORDNANCE SURVEY, . SOUTH,\MPTON. 1921. Prwe 2s. Net ' , , , JJT ...Mines, Mr. W. H. Borlase and staff of Greenside Mine, Mr. Stretton of Force Crag, :tvir. J. Hemingway... Flo. 2.-Diagramma.tic Sketch Plan of Greenside Mine to show shifting of the lode by east and west faults...Goldscope Mine along the ad.it, showing shifting of east and woot copperlode by north and south lead-veins...lead-lode by north and south veins, which carry tungsten in the greiaen farther south - 42 FAOING PAGE
Report (chapter)
Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL, UK, mark.witton@port.ac.uk Abstract: Understanding the...University of Leicester Department of Geology, Leicester, UK; LH, Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla–La Mancha...Alabama, USA; SDMS, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA; SMNK,...variable. Among the poorest quality are masses of calcite crystals preserved in the posterior trunk regions...roughly quadrangular pieces and variably composed of calcite masses (proximally) and hundreds of submillimetre
Book (edition)
from coming into contact with a number of other mine enthusiasts whose knowledge and friendliness has...tends only to deal with a specific aspect o f a mine, so when a l l the pieces arc put together the result... a warning. I shall have something to say about mine exploration later, but for the time being please...value. The early history o f Borrowdalc Graphite Mine is taken from the article b y George C. Boon in...Much o f the more recent information on Greenside Mine came from an essay by Arnold Lewis, which is kept
Report (issue)
formation is found in Latah Creek valley for 10 miles south of Spokane, on tributaries of Little Spokane River...Henry Fair, Mr. C. 0. Fernquist, and Prof. T. A. ,Bonser, of Spokane, and by Mr. H. J. Rust, of Coeur d'Alene...between two ancient lava flows. ·Recently Professor Bonser, aided by his pupils, has collected ·a large number...pit at the edge of the Spokane Valley, 2 miles south of Vera; from a well a quarter of a mile west of...the Schuele ranch and in a ravine, on the slopes south and southeast respectively of Fivemile Russell,
Report (issue)
address of the owner, the name and situation of the mine, the names of manager and under-manager, number...r . Glasgow. Private address : (Temporary) 7, South Gray Street, Edinburgh, 9. ( Edinburgh 41850.l ...51- 55, 9 8 -100 Denbigh .. Derby {North) Derby (South) . . Derby .• .. .. .. .. Devon Donet Dumbarton...Cromarty Salop Somerset . . Stafford (North) Stafford (South) Stirling . . Stirvey Sussex Sutherland \.Varwick...131 York (Korth Riding) 96, 97, 106, 107 York(South) . . York (\Vest) . . 108 -122 . . 122-135 A4
Book (volume)
Press pic, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford O X 3 OBW, England Pergamon Press Inc., 395 Saw Mill River Road, ...explain the ideas of those who have worked on it (and mine, where they differ from those readily available...discussions about six of the major lead-zinc deposits of England with the four Mississippi-Valley type deposits...of the other three, are arranged from north to south. For Sweden, a general summary of the metallogeny...the carbonatite of Alnö Island and the farthest south of all major Swedish metallic ore deposits, Smalands
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
test the hypothesis that the Kaapvaal craton of South Africa and the East Pilbara craton of Western Australia...Formations consist of the assemblage quartz–chlorite–calcite– phengite–leucoxene–pyrite–arsenopyrite, with apatite...sedimentary rocks preserved in the Barberton Belt of South Africa suggest that the temperature of the shallow...Mt Magnet Drilling for core acquisition and LC Bonser and JSR Dunlop for Ballmarking. This manuscript...Sedimentary geology of the Palaeoarchaean Buck Ridge (South Africa) and Kittys Gap (Western Australia) volcanosedimentary
Report (issue)
canyon, Wash.; B, East side of Latah Creek valley south of ·Duncan, Wash ______________________________...formation is found in Latah Creek valley for 10 miles south of Spokane, on tributaries of Little Spokane River...Henry Fair, Mr. C. 0. Fernquist, and Prof. T. A. ,Bonser, of Spokane, and by Mr. H. J. Rust, of Coeur d'Alene...between two ancient lava flows. ·Recently Professor Bonser, aided by his pupils, has collected ·a large number...pit at the edge of the Spokane Valley, 2 miles south of Vera; from a well a quarter of a mile west of
Report (issue)
address of the owner, the name and situation of the mine, the names of manager and under-manager, number...the nun1ber of persons normally employed when the mine was at work. In the case of mines under the Metalliferous.... . Cumberland Denbigh . . Derby (North) Derby(South) . . .. De,by D�on Dorset Dumbarton Dumfries ... Salop Somerset . . Stafford (North) Stafford (South) Stirling 296-301, 830, 331 301, 302, 831 206-214...1d'l York North Riding) 102, 103, 112, 113 York !South) . . York West) . . . . 114--128 . . 128-145 (1)
Report (issue)
address of the owner, the name and situation of the mine, the names of manager and under-manager, number...the number of persons normally employed when the mine was at work. In the case of mines under the Metalliferous...-100 255 Denbigh . . . . Derby (North) Derby {South) . . Derby . . .. Devon Dorset Dumbarton Dumfries... Sa!op Somerset . . Stafford (North) Stafford (South) Stirling . . Surrey Sussex . . Sutherland \Varwick...Tf'est . . .. Ridings) York (North Riding) York {South) . . York (\Vest) . . . . 2$3-287, 315 288, 289
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 6, 2024 21:14:45
Go to top of page