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Aragonite from
Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Habit:tapering prisms
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1247579
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1247579:3
GUID (UUID V4):c65ba200-c2d1-4daa-a438-45c6e756080e
Localities for Aragonite in this Region
Iron Crag, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
0.1km (0.0 miles) Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) Iron Crag, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.2km (1.3 miles) Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.6km (1.6 miles) Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
3.0km (1.9 miles) Longlands Fell Mine, Ireby and Uldale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
3.1km (2.0 miles) Potts Gill Copper Mine, Potts Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
10.4km (6.5 miles) Threlkeld Quarry, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
11.1km (6.9 miles) Parkhouse Quarry, Johnby, Greystoke, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
15.1km (9.4 miles) Stoneycroft Smelter slag locality, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
15.7km (9.7 miles) Brandlehow Mine, Catbells, Keswick, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
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...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines
Journal (volume)
plumbogummite with yellow pyromorphite. Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. R.J. King Collection (ex. Harwood...lined with green malachite. Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection. David...mineralisation of the Roughton Gill mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria: Part 3 Roughton Gill Mine Trevor F. Bridges...Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S. Rumsey, George Ryback and Richard...Francis Ince 44-62 A report on Hay Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, Michael S. Rumsey
Book
C a s c M nerals of o h England 0 0 = The Greenbank Collection This Catalogue is a Limited Edition...Collection. LG 3 Pyromorphitc on Plumbogummitc Roughton GJ/1, Coldbeck, Cumberland. The Lindsay Greenbank...divide us, the mineral specimens from Northern England unite almost everyone in an appreciation of their...treasured specimens remain to fire the IN NORTHERN ENGLAND has a imagination and wonder of collectors and...specimen collecting broadened to include first the Caldbeck Fells, whose ancient copper and silverlead mines
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Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...characteristic trigonal sym metry, from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, described by Bridges et al. in this...botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green photograph
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER:Superbtwinnedyellowfluoritecrystal 15 mm on edge from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria...T'wENTY YEARS IN MINERALS NORTHERN ENGLAND David Green • Peter Briscoe The UK ]011rnalof Mines at1d Minerals...-16- MARKETING Peter J. Briscoe Tony Stubbins CALDBECK FELLS -25- NORTH CIRCULATION Jean C. Spence...EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard Bell THE SHAP GRANITE CUMBRIA DESIGN Julie Ballard QUARRY, Max Wirth • David...Ratcliff & Roper (Print ) Ltd Worksop, Nous. S80 2EE UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 22 -t- Campylite
Journal (issue)
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2023 Articles The Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England................575 by P. S...classics.fine.minerals The Dry Gill Mine Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England Peter S. Burr Ichoring 30A...Crescent High Harrington Workington, CA14 4NT England “Campylite,” a variety of mimetite, occurs rather... barrel-shaped crystals at the Dry Gill mine in Cumbria, England. It is among the most attractive British...Dry Gill mine is situated at an elevation of about 550 meters above mean sea level in the Caldbeck Fells
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...Pyromorphite group minerals from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England .................................................................... 123 by B. M. England Locality species lists .......................... Australia, Calif., Breckenridge, Hopes Nose (England), etc. $12 Postage $1 per co p y O rder 10 copies...Cooper 41 Albany Road Sherwood Rise Nottingham, England NG7 7LX Chris J. Stanley Department of Mineralogy
Book
MINERALS ENGLISH OF LAKE CALDBECK M P COOPER AND «...Minerals of the English Lake District Caldbeck Fells Cumbria. Caldbeck. Mineral deposts 1. Title 11. Stanley...composed largely of debris washed down fromthe Roughton Gill mine dumps under Iron Crag C O N T E ...T R O D The mines and mineral veins of the Caldbeck Fells have produced some of the finest mineral...world over. Among British mineral collectors, Caldbeck is one of the most popular collecting areas in
Journal (issue)
UK C TS 2 EDITORIAL COVER.Smalt-blueplumbogummite with minor pyromorphite on vein quartzfrom RoughtonGill...N0952-2409 BOOK REVIEWS 68 PRINTEDBY ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 33 -1- EDITORIAL...the journal by subscription. We have examined the UK subscription rates and these will remain at £16 for...website, we are still very happy to accept cheques from UK subscribers, these should be payable to UKJMM and...the northern Pennine Orefield that would grace any UK collection. Ief Frontispiece. Thisbeautiful engraving
Journal (volume)
Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...mimetite crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the 1970s by Jim Knight...occurrence of kottigite, from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and David I Green PAPERS A review...mineralisation at Driggith and Sandbed Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor...review of the mineralogy of Brae Fell Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, David I Green and Michael
Journal (issue)
Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Media, (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...supergene mineralization at Silver Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Trevor F Bridges, M...composition of fuloppite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Tim Neall and A ndy...supergene mineralogy of Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F Bridges and David I. Green Kegelite, a
Journal (issue)
CALDBECKS RE-VISITED Friday October 20th 2017 The Caldbeck Fells (reproduced with permission from Peter Briscoe)...suited to our meetings. Some of us had looked at Caldbeck micros from the BMS Reference Collection in 2002...and the notes up-dated. John had organised 54 Caldbeck micros with detailed notes. Some of those that...Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally these two minerals...found the first UK specimen on Meadowfoot Smelter Wanlockhead in 1981. Spiky white aragonite and a pyrrhotite
Journal (issue)
at the confluence of Pasture Beck and Hayswater Gill. The Mine was worked from 1867 to about 1878. when...participation more besides. at Gem and Mineral Fairs in the UK. Further details from Sri Lanka Now, however, we...1999. displaying was mainly from the north of England - fluorite, calcites, barytes, witherites, campylites...is that David, while at University, represented England in the sport of winks’, which apparently was taken...early 1970’s, a mining history society called Cumbria Amenity Trust (C. A. T.) was formed and began
Journal (issue)
COVER: Calcite crystals, Bigrigg Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, U.K. (National Museum of Wales Specimen, NMW 83...and Barytocalcite from Holwell, Mendip Hills, England C Alabaster Identification of Minerals Using X-Ray...and Namuwite from Smal\cleugh Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria A. Livingstone, T.F. Bridges and R.E. Bevins 23...23 Supergene Minerals from Low Pike, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria B. Young, M.P. Cooper, P.H.A. Nancarrow...Nancarrow and D.I. Green 25 Hausmannite from West Cumbria B. Young and P.H.A. Nancarrow 29 NOTE Bertrandite
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...Severallocalities intheLakeDistrict Carrockmine.Grainsgill, Caldbeck Fells,Cumb:ia (jask61skiile)' WheatCock,SIJust...Emb'eton quany,nrCockermouth. Cumbria; Gra:nsgill. Ca'.dbeck Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine
Journal (issue)
Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1�):9-11 Definition o·f a mineral. Nickel...Zeolites and associated minerals from Borambil, NSW. England, B.M. 2(1):11-20, 38 Zeolites from Daylesford,...1(1):23-28; 1(2):17-23; 2(1):3-10 Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70 England, B.M: 1(2):9-11; 2(1):11-20 Haupt, J. 1(1):3-19...Shaft, Mount Bonnie 2(1):1 England: Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria 1(1):30-31 Boulby Mine, Loftus...1(1):30W Pentireglaze Mine, Cornwall l(l):30W Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells 1(1):30W Wheal Jane, Cornwall 1(1):30W
Catalog/List
Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...£5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll. A white and grey...APATITE, llarding's Vein. · Carrock mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbria. 5x4x2.5cm . One fairly gemmy greenish...Quarry, Somerset. 4.5x4x2cm. A cut geode 4 12. ARAGONITE, Hopes Nose, Torquay, S. Devon. 6.5x4x2cm. This...arrangement of milky white sprays and longer needles of aragonite on a very thin brown matrix. Great specimen. £36
Book
increasingly ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath...roles, but all involving more excursions to various UK and foreign locations. During some project work in...I think I am hooked. 2. Caledonite - Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. Field of view approx 7mm
Catalog/List
Ladywash, Derbyshire Sphalerite & Force Crag, Cumbria (Halls) Siderite Sphalerite Mount Wellinqton. Cornwall...sphalerite Force Crag, Cumbria Geevor, Cornwall Chalocite with brochantite Carrock Mine Cumbria Arsenooyrite Sphalerite...Cornwall Lanterden, Cornwall Stonetcroft Smelter, Cumbria A7 A7 A7 A7 A7 A7 A7 A7 A7 A7 A7 £1 £1 £1.50...£4 £12 £1 75p £1 Rauris, Austria Florence Mine Cumbria North Carolina, USA Gunheath Cornwall Topaz Vallev...Mine Weaedale Morocco Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria 82 82 82 82 82 82 £2 £2 £2 £2 £3 £4 Glory Mine
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...and Chris Finch 59 76 The Smale Gill trials, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, C. Mike Leppington...rugose corals from the Middle Fell area Alston, Cumbria Brian Young and Andy Hopkirk 93 95 Epimorphs...Scottish ‘species’. The mines of the Caldbeck Fells in Cumbria are best known for their colourful suites...description of the minerals of the little known Smale Gill trials. Rounding off, Brian Young and Andy Hopkirk
Catalog/List
quartz and fluorite. Florence mine, Egremont, W. Cumbria. Bright lustrous quartz crystals with pale blue...hematite matrix. Aragonite. Kirkland Quarry, nr. Rowah, W. Cumbria. Many translucent aragonite crystals to...Fluorite and hematite. Florence mine, Egremont, W. Cumbria. Blue cubic fluorite on specularite crystals lining...quartz and hematite. Florence mine, Egremont, W . Cumbria. Highly lustrous quartz crystals on specularite...Grove House Gallery label. 86/265 Hematite. W. Cumbria. A specimen of botryoidal hematite var. Kidney
Journal (issue)
e. UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin, 40 mm tall, from Egremont, Cumbria. John...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...barite from west Cumbria, plumbogummite, pyromorphite and Iinarite from the Caldbeck Fells and fluorite
Book
pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...District, the north Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British...R. F.Symes and B. Young MINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND v Aboutthe Authors vi Dr R.F.(Bob)Symes,OBE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mimetite, scorodite, 432 Cumberland Gold, 420 Caldbeck Fells: gold, lxxxiii Driggith mine, Caldbeclc...carminite, cerussite, mimetite, galena, 428 Dry Gill, Caldbeck Fells: beudantite, baryte, azurite, olivenite...thaumasite, zunyite, 418 ; thaumasite, lxxvi Grains Gill, Carrock Fell: arsenopyrite, beudantite, beaverite...bayldonite, mimetite, 428; gold, 420 Higher Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells: beudantite, beaverite, carminite...plumbojarosite, 430 998 TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells: beudantite, carminite, pharmacosiderite
Journal (issue)
TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue No 5 SUMMER1988...Hughes 12 AUSTRALIA The Mines of Lindale Moor, Cumbria A. McFadzean 15 AMERICAN CONTINENT Mrs. J. Schmitt...0952-2-'09 The Occurrence of Mattheddleite in The Caldbeck Fells M. P. Cooper, D. I. Green, R.S.W. Braithwaite...COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection Photograph...the Nancherrow valley in Cornwall, South West England. The derelict engine houses of Wheal Edward (SW
 
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