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Calcite from
Lonsdale Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dolomite12 photos of Calcite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Quartz4 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyrite3 photos of Calcite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lonsdale Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1423599
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1423599:5
GUID (UUID V4):d66dd769-d042-4baa-81e6-991672e7f2d9
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.7km (0.4 miles) Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Mowbray Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Parkside Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Eskett Mine, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Eskett Quarry, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Winder Pit No. 2, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
3.2km (2.0 miles) Cleator Moor Iron Mines, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
3.3km (2.0 miles) Crowgarth Mine, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
5.5km (3.4 miles) Mossbay Mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
5.6km (3.5 miles) Woodend Mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
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Catalog/List
Hot Springs. Arkansas Hematite, var. Kidney Ore, England Salin Spar Malachite, Stalactite Agatized Wood...Co­ balt. Ont. Chocolate colored Barite, Frizington, England S1ihnite, Crystalliz�d with Crystallized...Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine...Crystalliz.ed with Hematite, Cumberland. Eng. Calcite on Sphalerite, Joplin, Mo. Iridescent Chalcopyrite...cubes. Calamine, Drusy Crystals. Pseudomorph after Calcite, colored by Greenockitc, Long Elm, Mo. Wulfenite
Report (issue)
·~/ .... > ,;Y, OF· SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE ENGLAND AND INDUSTRIAL GEOLOGICAL AND \VALES SURVEY... 87. Cross Gill to Yeathouse Fault: North of Frizington Parks Fault, 88. · Yeathouse Fault to Salter...••• Hensingham, 100. South of Hensingham, 100. Frizington Eaglesfield, 102. Distington and Main Coalfield... ..• ..• Bigrigg and Cleator Moor, 110. 112. Frizington to Clifton Moor, CHAPTER XI.-PRODUCTIVE •••...Pica., 16r. Cleator Moor; northern area, 162. Frizington, 163. Distington and Gunnerdine, 164. Wythemoor
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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...li Introduction to the Minerals ........ 117 Calcite .............................. 117 Barite ....................... 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
Report (edition)
greater quantity is produced in the North\.Vest of England, and this region is therefore the :first to be...Cumberland... 3.-Diagrammatic Section across Beckermet :Mine, near Egremont 4.- Diagrammatic Section across Beckennet...across the Bigrigg Fault at Lord Leconfield's Bigrigg Mine... 10.-lvlap showing outcrops of Important Faults...of Gutty Flats at Postlethwaite's 1\:T.oor Rcnv Mine... 15.-Diagrammatic Cross-Section of the same r6...-Section across the Yeathouse Fault, :Margaret Pit, Frizington ... 19.--Section from north to south across Hodbarrow
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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...District , the hematite ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation.
Report (volume)
1919. Price 9s. Net. . ! GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. (OJ'llICE:...greater quantity is produced in the North-West of' England, and this region is therefore the first ta be described...Egremont 4.- Diagra.mmatic Section across Beckermet Mine, south of that shown in Fig. 3 5.- Diagrammatic...ator l\'foor district . 11.-Section from Parkhouse Mine to the Sir John Walsh Pit, Bigrigg 12.-Section across...-Section across the Sir John Walsh Jtault, Moss Bay Mine 14.-Diagrammatic plan of Gutty Flats at Postlethwa
Journal (issue)
TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue No 5 SUMMER1988...non U.K. Page No. The Re-opening of Clogau Gold Mine 1966 J. Hodgkins 2 The Minerals of Trimouns, Ariege...Hughes 12 AUSTRALIA The Mines of Lindale Moor, Cumbria A. McFadzean 15 AMERICAN CONTINENT Mrs. J. Schmitt...For Your Bookshelf 31 The Minerals of Esgair Hir Mine S.A. Rust, J. S. Mason 35 Classified Advertisements... 47 FRONT COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection
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BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geolo of the west Cumbria district ! ..: : .:·,: ·... ,:: ·, .... ...imesto11e Gro11p Concealed Urswick Limestone Frizington I ,imestone Marti11 l,i111est...abcJ11t300 Cumbria district This memoir describes the area covered...sheets 28 Whitehaven, 37 Gosforth and 47 Bootle of England and Wales. The district includes the western margin...Carboniferous inversion, were the response in west Cumbria to the Variscan orogeny and marked the onset of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
limestone, Di beds, Gratton Dale, x 23. Recrystallized calcite is not common, but occurs occasionally in patches...dolomite free from such inclusions. Recrystallized calcite in internal spaces. (Cf. No. 3, Plate IV.) The...sea. The whole of the Seventh Limestone with its calcite-mudstones, chinastone-limestones and gasteropod-beds...11. Black shale or mudstone . . . . . . . 10. Calcite-mudstone with conchoidal fracture . . . . 9. Dark...bands) . . 8. Thin beds of dolomite-mudstone and calcite-mudstone with thin interlayers of shale (Spircrbis
Journal (issue)
UK Journal of mes ·and .Minerals Issue SprJng 1989 , No ...6 Pr:f ee ~3.95 ·- • r .. Arnold... We can arrange local accommodation. Barytes (Cumbria) Arnold Fisher Minerals Higher Bal-Levant Trewellard...Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Calcite (Cornwall) UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue t...EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of
Journal (issue)
e. UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin, 40 mm tall, from Egremont, Cumbria. John...at the 1999 Munich Show. It is illustrated in Calcite: The Mineral with the Most Forms (Extralapis English...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
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............................. 41 E. Ethylenedia mine Tetraacetic Acid .................................in some localities. Rhodonite from the Sunnyside mine at Silverton, Colorado, goes to the mill tailings...pyrite; this can be removed with oxalic acid unless calcite or selenite crystals are present. Potassium oxalate...The principal other type-the iridescent, brown calcite geode­ which has a thin film of stilpnosiderite...cutting oil will niin such minerals as iridescen t calcite and kaolinite, and washing often flushes out tin
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES British Regional Geology Northern England (FOURTH EDITION) I By B. J. Taylor, B.Sc., I....Fourth Edition The mineral resources of northern England began to be exploited soon after the Roman Conquest...for information on the coal seams of northern England. Chapters 2 and 4 of the work were prepared by...Permian and Triassic Systems: North-east England; North­ west England ....... 68 ........ 8. Jurassic System...summarizing Ordovician stratigraphy in northern England ........ Distribution of Lower Palaeozoic rocks
Report (issue)
Dent-Ingleton area of the Askrigg Block, northern England I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I...- Ingleton area of the Askrigg Block, northern England Report No. 64 J. H. Bateson, BSc, MIMM C. C....Mineral exploration in the Ravenstonedale area, Cumbria 30 Porphyry style copper mineralisation at Black...Scotland 33 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1 -Geophysical survey 61 34 Results of...Dent-Ingleton area of the Askrigg Block, northern England 38 Geophysical evidence for a concealed eastern
Report (issue)
Support of National, Regional and Local Planning Cumbria and the Lake District: Resources and Constraints...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...This report accompanies the 1:100 000 scale maps: Cumbria and the Lake District Mineral Resources (North...Photograph Aerial View of Shap Beck Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, showing aggregate workings in the Knipe Scar Limestone
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...189 Lake D istri et l 89 Haematite deposits of Cumbria 196 Isle of Nian 199 N orthern Pennine Orefield...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FOURTH EDITION BJ Taylor, BSc, I C Burgess, BSc...936 3100 Fax 0115 936 3200 e-mail: sales@bgs.ac. uk www.bgs.ac.uk Online shop: www.geologyshop.com Murchison...Development and other ag·encies. e-mail: bgslondon@bgs.ac. uk The British Geolog·ical Suroey is a component body...British Geological Survey, Keyworth, e-mail ipr@bgs.ac. uk You may qttote extracts of a rea­ sonable lengtl1...Fourth Edition The mineral resources of northern England began to be exploited soon after the Roman Conquest
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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
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' Frontispiece Landsat imagery of north-west England taken from a height of 900 km. Photograph: National...Geological Society 1978 ISBN 0 9501656 2 X PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY W. S. MANEY AND SON LIMITED LEEDS CONTENTS...Geology 15 Epigenetic Mineralization 16 Offshore Cumbria 17 Hydrogeology C. K. Patrick 18 Environmental...placed the greater part of Scotland in ‘America’, England a :■ dies in ‘Europe’, and regarded the Southern...ccid on or near to the Solway, descending beneath England and Wales. Fitton and Hughes (op. cit.) also noted
Report (issue)
SOCIEn· was formed in 1960 as the Northern Cavern and Mine Research Society, its activities centred upon the...study of mines. mining and speleology in northern England. Subsequently, with an expanding national membership...NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY AUGUST 2008 Published in August 2008 by THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH...Ribble Coalfields', British Mining, No. 85, Northern Mine Research Society, Nelson. pp.84, ISBN-13: 978-0-901450-64-7...exposure, River Greta at Barnoldswick near Burton in Lonsdale. CONTENTS Page Acknowledgements 3 l. Introduction
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...sales of minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...volume goes to press, the closure of the last tin mine in Britain was announced. In addition, through local...Directory. • Britain comprises Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland; its
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered...Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 5...the other hand~ is composed of more transparent calcite. This 7again 7which will be generally found to...In 1840 (Trans. Geol. Soe. Lond. vol. v. pt. 3) Lonsdale figured and described Caunopora, Phill., under...concentrlca~ except that the tubes [the italics are mine] with mens careful search may always be found
Report (chapter)
Formation of the southern Lake District, northern England A. D. H O R B U R Y 1 & A. E. A D A M S 2 1 Cambridge...College, University o f London, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX, UK 2 Department of Earth Sciences, University o f Manchester...Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Abstract: Semi-quantitative analysis of allochems from...of the southern Lake District area of northern England has revealed a distinctive cyclicity of the microfacies...160 150 i40 ( ~ Kendal 80 Ulverston Kirkby Lonsdale N SD70 ~ ' t . B...... ~"..v..... Morecambe
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British Geological Survey. 1:50 000 Sheet 39 Kendal (England and \Vales). © NERC 2010 All rights reserved Copyright...Ceological Su,ve)~ K'.ey;v-o,·Lh, e-mai_l ipr@bg$.a(;.uk. You may quo~ extm,:;ts o f a ~asonable leng lh without...The Kendal district is a 1nainly rural part of Cumbria where the local economy is dominated by farming...drumlins. In Ordovician (Caradoc) thnes, northern England Jay at the 1nargin of Avalonia, and as the Iapetus...established widespread. rnarme con- ditions in northern England by the Early Jurassic, but the region beca1ne e1nergent
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will rank amongst the best Mines in the North of England . Since 1565 no less than seven smelt mills and...Plumbago Coal ... 56 "" "" "" Fluor Spar 56 "" ‫وو‬ Calcite 99 57 ‫دو‬ 57 "" Aragonite Dolomite . 93 57 ""...Goldscope Mine 76 81 Dale Head Mine "" Brandley or Brandlehow Mine " 83 86 Yewthwaite Mine "" 39 88 Barrow...Barrow Mine "" 39 90 "3 Stoneycroft Mine 93 Thornthwaite Mine 91 " " Rachel Wood Mine 96 ‫دو‬ Blencathra...Blencathra Mine 96 ‫رو‬ Woodend Mine 96 "" 96 ‫ور‬ Gategill Mine )) Threlkeld Mine 98 "" Mines in the Lake
 
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