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Marcasite from
Dale Head Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Arsenopyrite1 photo of Marcasite associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Marcasite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Galena1 photo of Marcasite associated with Galena at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Marcasite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dale Head Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:16882
Long-form Identifier:1:3:16882:7
GUID (UUID V4):a8559b47-dc7e-4b5f-9d83-0dc681ce1543
Nearest other occurrences of Marcasite
2.1km (1.3 miles) Goldscope Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
4.8km (3.0 miles) Cobalt Mine, Scar Crag, Causey Pike, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
5.9km (3.7 miles) Force Crag Mine (Force Craig Mine), Coledale, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
13.6km (8.4 miles) Greenside Mine, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
18.8km (11.7 miles) Coniston Copper Mines, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
18.8km (11.7 miles) Bonser Mine, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
19.1km (11.9 miles) Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
21.9km (13.6 miles) Old Sandbed Mine (Old Sandbeds Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
22.0km (13.7 miles) Old Potts Gill Mine, Potts Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
33.9km (21.1 miles) Shap Blue Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
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.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of this suite at Coniston, Wasdale, Honister, Newlands and Borrowdale shows that the veins were strongly...of deposits with structural features within or above the Lake District batholith, and to relate their...by Skiddaw Group rocks, are present in the Newlands Valley, Borrowdale and Black Combe. The evidence for...interpreted as the result of thrusting southeastwards above a ramp dipping gently northwest beneath the central...Hospital Level [adit at SD 2831 9887] and at higher mine levels beneath the Back Strings (Fig. 2). The wall
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pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages........................ The Derwent Valley ................ The Tyne Valley ................... The Northumberland................... 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...ground; trial workings, mine dumps, mine buildings and smeltings, plus mine location maps and a wealth
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...for obscure references, and for support from my head of department and secretary. In all cases, help...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
Journal (issue)
UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Egremont, Cumbria. 4 SOWERBY SCORODITE Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of...DESIGN Julie Ballard 47 PETITJEANITE FROM CAR.ROCK MINE Mike Rumsey • Trevor Bridges • John Spratt The... 50 PREISINGERITE & ROOSEVELTITE FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges...information and a full review in the next UKJMM. UK Journal vf Mines & Minerals No. 28 -2- Frontispiece
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland
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...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...classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection
Journal (issue)
--------------------------------------------------------Page 21. UK Mining Round-up --------------------------------...-------------------------Page 38. High Longrigg Mine (NB) -------------------------------------------------------Page...fellow members and guests from the four corners of the UK and from overseas. They really are a good way for...better this weekend as the temperature is now just above zero. I hope you all had a chance to join one of...a further excavator dig organised at the Benallt Mine following the very successful one at Penberthy Croft
Book (edition)
Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...the . veins. The Dales of the South ,.l.,yne, Derwent, Wear and Tees, with their tributaries have been...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the...sheets 19 and 25, and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales) LONDON: HMSO 1990 . I\. © C,rown...sheets 19 and 25 and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales). Author Sir Kingsle_y Dunham, DSc, SD
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Synopsis of the State Papers relating to the Mines in Newlands, and Smelting Works at Keswick ; copied from the...accounts of Goldscope, Yewthwaite, Brandley, Dale Head, Kelton, and Knockmurton Mines, in the latter...will rank amongst the best Mines in the North of England . Since 1565 no less than seven smelt mills and...District . The former were erected at Keswick, Dale Head , Stoneycroft Gill, Braithwaite, Thornthwaite..."" Skiddaw " 32 ,, Buttermere and Enner39 ... 33 dale Granophyre ,‫د‬ 29 ,‫د‬ St. John's Microgranite
Journal (volume)
Enquiries should be made to the Journal Manager at the above address. Back numbers of the Journal may also be...Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David 1. Green...Copper·bearing silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 ...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence...Tom F. Cotterell 54-55 Cesarolite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales Tom F. Cotterell
Journal (issue)
Enquiries should be made to the Journal Manager at the above address. Back copies of the Journal may also be...FRONT COVER: Vanadinite, probably from High Pim mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Orangybrown...The: lKcurrence of sphalerite in Leicestershire, England R.J. King 15 Lead-zi nc-copper-arsenic-baryte...Bristol, England R.A. lxer, R.A. D. Pat/rick and R.E. Starkey NOTES Botallackite from Dooneen mine, Allihies...Cinnabar from Stancombe quarry, near Bristol, England N. Zachariades CONSERVING BRITA[N S MINERALOGICAL
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron-bearing sulpharsenides from the North of England R. A. IXER, C. J. STANLEY, AND D. J. VAUGHAN Department...gersdorffite have been found in samples from Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, and zoned gersdorffite has been found...studies. At Tynebottom Mine, glaucodot and gersdorffite overgrow arsenical marcasite, and at Nenthead and...conditions of formation of the assemblages. At Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill [ N Y 739 418], glaucodot and gersdorffite...occurrence of cobalt-bearing minerals from Tynebottom Mine confirms the suggestion by D u n h a m (1948) of
Journal (issue)
with the last contribution in this series, the Wye Valley, this paper is again being published jointly with...Charity 504662) Company No. 1227931 (Registered in England) - Liability Limited by ;uaran c Member of the...Society maintains the Museum and the nearby Temple Mine which are open every day except Christmas. Admission...Telephone (01629) 583834. Society Field Centre, Magpie Mine (Sat. Nav DE45 1 QU). Use of the field centre at...productive 1111111:s in th..: U..:c Lo\\ and Monsal Dale Limestones in the ea tern half of the area. The
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N_Jf'ORTEY Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 38 (England and Wales) (;C)NTRIBlJTIN(; ,\UTf1C)RS S'tratigraphy...GeoloUK fo1· Tl1e Statio11e1-yOffice J:J000848 C6 3/00 ...\i11blcside<>f. the 1:50 000 scale geological map of~ England and v\lales, available as separate solid and solid...a calc-alkali11e st1ite tl1at ,vas ge11e1·ated above a subducticln zo11e. The lo,ver part ot· the s11ccession...Geological st1ccessio11 1 Skiddaw G1·oup l Borro,v-dale Volcanic Gro11p 9\,Vindermere S1.1pergro11p 3 111tr11sio11s
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their characters, uses, crystalline forms, and, above all, the localities where they have either formerly...Appendix. Meteoric stones. 141. Pyrites. 142. Marcasite, &c. 143. Pyrrhotine. xiv GENERAL CLASSIFICATION...Kergiliack estate near Pen a. Coberard ; at a mine near the head of Borrowdale, near Lometer, rearis erbausted...in the Isle of Man. Scotland . At Craigman coal -mine, near New Cumnock in Ayrshire, massive and columnar...; on the estate of Killimore, two miles from the head of Loch Seriden, in detached masses of a medium
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diluvium, conglomerate, oolite, pisolite. The terms mine and quarry were both originally rock terms. Seams...and, from at least the 14th to the 17th century, mine meant a mineral or ore. It is usually supposed to...1886, Gloss.). Cf. YOLK COAL, Attal, Attel, Attle. Mine refuse; 'deads' (1837, OED). er. addle, OE adela...Res. xxxi, MGS, 1). from its lying immediately above, or Ballast. Rough unscreened graYel u on the back...known as "sand ballers" or limestone, 2 to 4 ft., above the Aish; "giant's marbles", some being 3 to 6 Lower
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diluvium, conglomerate, oolite, pisolite. The terms mine and quarry were both originally rock terms. Seams...and, from at least the 14th to the 17th century, mine meant a mineral or ore. It is usually supposed to...1886, Gloss.). Cf. YOLK COAL, Attal, Attel, Attle. Mine refuse; 'deads' (1837, OED). er. addle, OE adela...Res. xxxi, MGS, 1). from its lying immediately above, or Ballast. Rough unscreened graYel u on the back...known as "sand ballers" or limestone, 2 to 4 ft., above the Aish; "giant's marbles", some being 3 to 6 Lower
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discovered, a district producing tin. Indications of old mine workings such as holes pierced in the faces of the...could have obtained this metal, were Spain and England all the other places being too remotely inland...those parts where the level of the land : — above-mentioned I'uins, fences, muics, and other things...lieth a rock^ which at Iftw water disco vereth its head. They term it the ‘Gulf’ (now known as the ‘ Wolf’)...St. Michael’s Mount; in St. Hilary, at Godolphin mine, and in the stream-works of Treloy, Carnon-Leat
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strata ; é : : depression - CuapreR In England . In Anglesey . é . - 356] Gneiss . : 357...regarding the sediments deposited by the Nile in the valley of Egypt, and carried out to sea; of the time (10...strata in England and elsewhere. 3. The appearances of regular structure in the mines of England, Germany...account of the Katakekaumene (burnt district), in the valley of the Hermus, in Asia Minor—a district which remained...so populous, and of so diversified an aspect as England, necessarily produced a very intimate knowledge
 
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