| Classification |
|---|
|
| Species: | 'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species) |
| Formula: | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
| Confirmation |
|---|
|
| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
|---|
|
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Tourmaline data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Hen Comb, Loweswater Fell, Loweswater, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| Data Identifiers |
|---|
|
| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 17974 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:17974:4 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 011c5d2d-7ce5-4cfd-97f3-8a8406777aee |
| Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline |
|---|
|
|
| 7.6km (4.7 miles) | ⓘForce Crag Mine (Force Craig Mine), Coledale, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 7.8km (4.9 miles) | ⓘScar Crags, Coledale, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 7.8km (4.9 miles) | ⓘCobalt Mine, Scar Crag, Causey Pike, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 13.9km (8.6 miles) | ⓘLanghorn Quarry, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 14.2km (8.8 miles) | ⓘOverend Quarry, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 18.1km (11.2 miles) | ⓘBeckfoot Quarry, Eskdale, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 20.4km (12.7 miles) | ⓘThrelkeld Quarry, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 22.5km (14.0 miles) | ⓘSaddleback Old Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 22.6km (14.0 miles) | ⓘBurdell Gill, Coombe Height, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 23.4km (14.5 miles) | ⓘBannerdale Graphite Mine, Bannerdale, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK |
| References |
|---|
|
|
| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
|---|
 | | Book | | (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale (MNS 4488) (bottom left) Hematite...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....deposits outside of the SW England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is at present ( 1986)...clay iron-stones within the Coal Measures of west Cumbria at one time provided a source of lower grade iron |  | | Report (issue) | | ·~/ .... > ,;Y, OF· SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE ENGLAND AND INDUSTRIAL GEOLOGICAL AND \VALES SURVEY...folded Blakef~ll Mudstones (Skiddaw Slate), Gavel Fell . ... . .. . . . . ... . . .. . .. Basic rock in...239 VIII.-A. B. Glacial Channels east of Flat Fell ••• ••• ••• 255 Glacial Channel south-east of Bransty...other Glacial deposits. Left to right: part of Banna Fell (Blakefell Mud .. stones), Gill Beck hanging-valley...folded Blakefell Mudstones (Skiddaw Slate), Gavel Fell. Two bedding-planes are partly black-lined to show |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rock is a fine-grained granoblastic mosaic of tourmaline, quartz, and minor rutile in which bedding is...tourmalinite fragments are set in a coarser quartz-tourmaline matrix, is present in some veins. Networks of...quartz veinlets with tourmaline, chlorite, and muscovite are very common. The tourmaline is intermediate schorl...tourmalinization, Skiddaw Group, Lake District, England. TOURMALINITE veins occur in Skiddaw G r o u p...and semi-pelitic rocks formerly called the Blake Fell Mudstone (Dixon, 1925) but subsequently interpreted |
|
