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Calcite from
Threlkeld Quarry, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, 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 Threlkeld Quarry, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15192
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15192:4
GUID (UUID V4):27f77d69-a4eb-410e-a16b-393a09bcd749
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
7.8km (4.9 miles) Greenside Mine, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
8.7km (5.4 miles) Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
8.7km (5.4 miles) Mosedale Quarry, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
8.7km (5.4 miles) Smith Vein, Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
9.5km (5.9 miles) Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
9.5km (5.9 miles) Wythburn Mine (Wheal Henry; Helvellyn Mine), St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
9.8km (6.1 miles) Barrow Mine, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
9.8km (6.1 miles) Higher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
10.1km (6.3 miles) Iron Crag, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
10.2km (6.3 miles) Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
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Council Glossary of the minerals of the Lake District and adjoining areas B. Young NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BRITISH.... Glossary of the minerals of the Lake Distn'ct and adjoining areas. (Newcastle upon Tyne : British Geological...Tyne Cover illustrations Front cover-Sphalerite and siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491)...is available through the Sales Desks at Keyworth and Murchison House. Selected items are stocked by the...List 45. Maps are listed in the BGS Map Catalogue and Ordnance Survey's Trade Catalogue. They can be bought
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lluvium including river terraces and fan$, lacustrine deposits and latest scree ~ I:5 !:!; ~ V j...Lomond Stadia!: hummocky glacial deposits, head and scree DEVENSIAN Peat, till ~ • Wind erme re h>mrstad...:S IDimlington Stadia!: till, glaciofluvial sand and gravel z< 0 I DEVOc'...thinly bedded limestand calcareous sands tone stratified conglomerate with...volca nidastic sands tone, pebbly sandstone, breccia and tuff HELVELLYN FORMATION silicic lapili-tuff (ig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE BORROWDALE VOLCANIC SERIES OF HIGH RIGG AND THE ADJOINING LOW RIGG MICROGRANITE. By G. S. HADFIELD...HADFIELD, sr.se., A.R.C.S., D.l.C., F.G.S., and H. C. M. WHITESIDE, s.se., A.R.S.lIt [Received 26th January...May, 1935.] CONTENTS. PAGE. I. II. INTRODUCTION AND PREVIOUS LITERATURE SUCCESSION: (a) Lowest Basic...Basic Pyroxene Andesites (b) Fine-grained Lavas and Tuffs (c) Middle High Rigg Lavas. III. THE Low RIGG...THE ROCKS 57 59 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 6:r REFERENCES 64 INTRODUCTION AND PREVIOUS LITERATURE. District
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Keswick (England and Wales) Author D G Woodhall Contributors D F Ball The National Grid and other Ordnance...Stationery Office. Licence No: OD 272191/2000. Maps and d iagrams in this book use topography based ...Survey, l :50 000 Series Sheet 29 Keswick (En gland and Wales). 48pp. Copyright in materials derived from...the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and/or the authority that comm iss ioned the work. You...more popular maps and books may be purchased from BGS-approved stockists and agents and over the cotmter
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Palaeomagnetism and chronology of Caledonian igneous episodes in the Cross Fell lnlier and northern Lake...Piper, A. S. McCook, K. P. Watkins, G. C. Brown and W. A. Morris This study employs palaeomagnetism...between Palaeozoic minor intrusionsinnorthern England. The lamprophyres of the Cross Fell Inlier subdivide...subdivide petrographically into kersantites and minettes. All the kersantites have steep directions of magnetisation...in Caradocian times. The Threlkeld-St John’s microgranodiorite (445 m.y.) and Carrock Fell dolerite dyke
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SOCIETY Foreword by Chris Bonington Lakeland Rocks and Landscape A Field Guide The Cumberland Geological...the County of Cumbria and surrounding areas. Members receive regular newsletters, and every two years...original papers, together with summaries of excursions and lectures. From April to September, a full programme...Membership is open to anyone with an interest in geology and newcomers are welcome. The publishers will be pleased...address of the current Secretary. LAKELAND ROCKS AND LANDSCAPE A FIELD GUIDE THE CUMBERLAND Edited
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OF NORTHERNENGLAND R. F. Symes and B. Young "-. ~•, ~ ,' National , Museums ~ Scotland NATURAL HISTORY...Fluorite [BM 1964, R 1524], seepage 152; (back) Calcite [BM 1926, 1252]. see page 137; both images ©NHMPL...layout by NMS Enterprises Limited Publishing. Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by Cambridge Printing...Museums of Scotland/Natural History Museum, London and Brian Young 2008 Images © as credited (see below)...978 1 905267 01 9 For a full listing of titles and related merchandise, No part of this publicationmay
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Sedberg/JRoad, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 6AD Tel:(01539) 724988 Fax: (01539) 734761 UK journal of mtnes ...1996 2-----------COVER:STEUERITEfrom Sarbayskaya Quarry, Rudr:iiy,Kazakhstan,'40mmtall. EDITORIAL David...0. Photo David Green. 3-----------The UK Joumal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles of interest...interest to amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...welcome. See back page for address, subscriptions and advertising. EDITOR David I. Green MARKETING MANAGER
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information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com MINES AND MINING IN ...CHICAGO . 1894 EDFrench se1396 CMMMNuc 1 MINES AND MINING IN THE (ENGLISH) LAKE DISTRICT . THIRD...State Papers relating to the Mines in Newlands, and Smelting Works at Keswick ; copied from the Calendar...before the Keswick Literary and Scientific Society, on the 19th January, 1874, and was not originally intended...value, and consequently, that all mining operations in this District must prove unsuccessful . And this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
London on May 31, 2016 592 19: MESSRS. RAS~ALL AND WlLCOCKSON O~~ THE IV01. l x x i , The ACCESSORY...LAKE D~STRICT. B y R. H. RXSTXLL, M.A., F.G.S., and W. H. WILCOCKSO~, B.A., F.G.S. (Read June 9th, 1915...Granite .............................. Threlkeld and St. John's Vale .................. Armboth Dyke,........ The Buttermere and Ennerdale Granophyre... IX. Discussion of Results, and Conclusion ............investigating the mineral composition of certain sands and sandstones. These researches, although quite independent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
j u n c t i o n b e t w e e n the Skiddaw Group and the Borrowdale V o l c a n i c Group within the L...w e e n the groups is exposed in Matterdale Beck and at Causeway Foot. At Matterdale, the underlying Skiddaw...i g g , the field relations suggest that the Threlkeld M i c r o granite is pre-Borrowdale in age. T...outcrop supports the view of a regional unconformity, and suggests that a pre-Borrowdale anticline was developed...for an angular unconformity between the Skiddaw and Borrowdale 179 © Yorkshire Geological Society, 1
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Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the desrruction...Claudio Vita-Finzi Principles of emergency planning and ma11agemer:1DaYid Alexander Vesurius: a biography...Scarth & Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...ooper 2005) and the promise of new mineral galleries in Edinburgh in '.!011. I hope that these and all other
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attempts to satisfy the needs of both professional and amateur geologists as well as the curiosity of the...authors are experts in their fields, and present up-to-date descriptions and interpreta­ tions of the geology...history of the Lake District and its surroundings, from the early deep-sea and volcanic episodes of the Ordovician...Triassic, and finally to the Quaternary glaciation. £6.50 Jacket photograph Pillar Rock © Fell and Rock...' Frontispiece Landsat imagery of north-west England taken from a height of 900 km. Photograph: National
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society of amateur and professional mineralogists which encourages the study, 1·ecording and conservation of...of mineralogical sites and material. Registered charily No. 803308 The RussellSociety Health & Safety...issues, as applicable to the Society, have been and will be properly addressed. All members of the Society...reasonable steps for the Health & Safety of themselves and others who maybe affected by their acts or omissions...Society should seek appropriate medical attention and notify Society officials who will properly document
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...pounds" I will then fill in the actual amount in words and figures. This sum will also be on the Invoice sent...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals was used...used to illustrate this book, using 250 minerals and 140 rocks. I have the book available at £17 plus post...TEPHROITE, chocolate brown massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently
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those with an active interest in rocks, minerals and fossils. This book provides a reliable field guide...Cumberland Geological Society, it covers a wide area and takes in rocks ranging in age from Ordovician (500—435...diagrams and photographs. A general introduction presents the geological history of the area and a glossary... ROCKS AND FOSSILS Editor: J. A. G. Thomas 1 Snowdonia M. F. Howells, B. E. Leveridge and A. J. Reedman...Day, Mervyn B. Dodd, Fred Jones, Derek Leviston and John W. Rodgers. Every effort has been made to ensure
Report (issue)
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Jiit::======:I£__---~...T MAP OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN WILTON AND BORROWDALE By J FRED K N. GREEI" --=.G.S. Skit/dow...VOl~.xxvrll. Alluvium Intrusions Corboniferous and Trios Sltules 1coniSfon Rhyolite limestone . Grit...Water Thrust. The Buttermere Granophyre . 3. The St. John's Microgranite . 4. The Carrick Fell Complex I...writer has endeavoured to find a clue to the sequence and structure among the volcanic beds by detailed mapping...portions. Naturally, the complication of intrusion and metamorphism has as far as possible been avoided;
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Monthly News Sheet for British Mineral Collectors and Lapidarists etc.«««« SCOTTISH Crystal, Rock & JossiCjair...News are both pleased and proud to announce the joining of forces of ourselves and Simon Ingram of Celtic...Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, on Saturday 26th February and Sunday 27th February 2000, from 10am to 5pm both...wilderness” for some time now, both geologically and mineralogically, and it was time to put this right, as well...venue in the city centre, better publicity and street signs, and a policy of helping to further smaller
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society of amateur and professional mineralogists which encourages the study, recording and conservation of...of mineralogical sites and material. Registered charity No. 803308 Contents 1 .............................................................. Reports and Pictures from the AGM 25 ..................................... .Reference Guide to Mines, Quarries and Tips 29 .......................................................................... Norfolk Mineral and Fossil Fair John Pearce 38 .....................
Book (chapter)
Caledonian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain Compiled and edited by D. Stephenson British Geological Survey...Edinburgh P. Stone British Geological Survey, Edinburgh and W.J. Wadsworth University of Manchester, Manchester...Geological ,835 Survey Chapter 4 Lake District and northern England Introduction INTRODUCTION D. Miliward...Miliward In Ordovician times the Lake District and northern England formed part of the microcontinent of Eastern...comprised southern Britain and adjacent parts of continental Europe. Faunal and palaeomagnetic evidence
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10 individual 2 to 3mm long and I mm wide tiny thin metallic plates and crystal sections in a plastic...SCHAFER1TE mass of dark brown lustrous masses in and on slag, Agios Konstantinos Laurium slags, Attika...small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg No 1 quarry, Kaisersthul, Germany £4 11 LAVOISIERITE rich...£18 £12 Djebel Nammimate 14 NATIVE IRON , cut and polished wedge shaped piece of silvery Native iron...EDENITE very pale mauve fibrous mass . Praboma mine, St Marcel |, Piedmont Italy 5x2.5 £12 Sample b) .5x1
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book has been prepared by staff of the Minerals and Geochemical Surveys Division of the British Geological...tions from the Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys, and Corporate Coordination and In­ formation divisions....of Trade and Industry. The funds are currently channelled through the Office of Science and Technology...vector) BRITISH GE OLOGICAL SURVEY BGS MAIN OFFICES and SALES DESKS The full range of Survey publications...through the Sales Desks at Keyworth and at Murchison House, Edinburgh, and in the BGS London Information Office
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society of amateur and professional mineralogists which encourages the study, recording and conservation of...of mineralogical sites and material. Registered Charity no. 803308 Contents Editorial ................Austin Lockwood ....................... 28 Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum .................................................................. 29 Dean Quarry - an update by Jeremy Hooper ........... ........Museum by Sue Cowdry ................. 34 Film, flash and fluorite by John M. Baty .............. ........
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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...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for...welcome. See back page for address, subscriptions and advertising. -4FOREWORD -6WE T CUMilRJA EDITOR...NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard Bell THE SHAP GRANITE CUMBRIA DESIGN Julie Ballard QUARRY, Max
 
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