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Galena from
Alston Moor District, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz13 photos of Galena associated with Quartz at this locality.
Fluorite10 photos of Galena associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Sphalerite9 photos of Galena associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Siderite4 photos of Galena associated with Siderite at this locality.
Baryte2 photos of Galena associated with Baryte at this locality.
Pyrite2 photos of Galena associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Ankerite1 photo of Galena associated with Ankerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alston Moor District, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (9 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:213752
Long-form Identifier:1:3:213752:0
GUID (UUID V4):211ba2f7-d025-43e8-b237-8a2a38b6c10f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountains, centered on the Weardale area of northern England, have yielded enormous amounts of both lead and...scientist for many years. He is currently a partner in UK Mining Ventures,which is operating a specimen-recoveryproject...specimen-recoveryproject at the Rogerley mine in Weardale, England. His most recent article for Rocks & Minerals was...titled “The Rogerley Mine, Weardale, County Durham, England” and appeared in the January/February 2000 issue...literature on the history of mining in Northern England (see, for example, Raistrick and Roberts 1984;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
jef520@comcast.net From the North Pennines Orefield England Figure 1. The Groverake mine, located in upper...mining history of the fluorite deposits in Northern England. He was involved in a specimen recovery project...the Dow Scar level at the Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria. Collected in 1970 by Lindsay Greenbank, ex collection...of County Durham and extend into the Alston Moor region of Cumbria, to the west, and northward into the...the deposits is fairly simple, with fluorite and galena being the principal ore minerals, along with lesser
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
23 December 2014 Fallowfield, Northumberland, England A lthough a relatively abundant and widely distributed...Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district. A fine witherite from Fallowfield, Northumberland, England, is featured as...associated minerals are barite, fluorite, calcite, and galena. Witherite is uncommon in the eastern United States...those of the fluorite-dominated Illinois-Kentucky district where fine witherite specimens have been found... Illinois (Grawe and Nackowski 1949). In this district, it occurs as a paragenetically very late alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NORTH-WEST OF ENGLAND. By CHARLES E. I)E RANCE, F.G.S.; of the Geological Survey of England. (Concluded... East Oumberland.—In the Cross Fell and Alston Moor district the Mountain Limestone is split up into...and Wallace. The chief limestones in the Alston Moor district, down to the Great Whin Sill, a sheet of...vein on the Tees considerably thinner. Of the Alston Moor beds, about 200 feet consist of limestone, 350...great heaps against the day when Middleton and Alston shall be joined by a railway. A small W.N.W. anticlinal
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...T CUMilRJA EDITOR David I. Green -12- LA.KE DISTRICT -16- MARKETING Peter J. Briscoe Tony Stubbins...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)
Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...fin e exam ples o f apophyllite, chalcopyrite, galena, hedenbergite, m anganaxinite, sphalerite and other...groups, large and lustrous black ilvaites, superb galena groups and outrageous fist-size crystals of green...altered to datolite. All the sulfide deposits in the district formed during the second period of skam formation...phase forming at 400° to 600°C, (3) the sphalerite galena phase forming at 120° to 350°C, and (4) the chalcedony
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
temperatures and is often associated with pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, stibnite, boulangerite...Pennsylvania; the Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with...occurrences of Sevier County and with tetrahedrite and galena in Montgomery County, Arkansas. Fine bournonite...States. Best known are those from the Park City district, Summit County, Utah, where at one time crystals...from the Albion mine in the Little Cottonwood district, Salt Lake County, Utah. It was an ore mineral
Journal (issue)
biggest and most ambitious geological enterprise in the UK for many years. This potential dichotomy of interests...on the minerals from the Florence iron mine in Cumbria; Brighton and Hove Geological Society had a rogues'...Wood, M. The Brownley Hill Mine. Alston Moor District, Cumbria, England. Mineralogical Record Val 31, No...including: alstonite, barite, yellow fluorite, galena, m1llente and bnanyoung1te Many congratulations...Education Software Ltd. P.O. Box 2 Grange-over-Sands, CUMBRIA LA11 7GN (£21.49 including VAT, plus £1.50 p &
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...in this article! Finally, we visit the north of England for Brian Young’s account of magnetite mineralisation...Localities: Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals, 20, 7–37. 2 Journal...Quarry2,7,9 (now water-filled and the location of the UK National Diving Centre, Stoney Cove) SP 493 9421...Caledonian magmatism of central Wales and the Lake District. Similar igneous rocks have been proved in boreholes
Journal (issue)
collecting trip to Cumberland and Durham Counties, England in 1912. By Paul Walther ........................COLLECTION TRIP TO CUMBERLAND AND DURHAM COUNTIES, ENGLAND, IN 1912 By PAUL WALTHER Easter was about the middle...holidays. I had not been to Alston (Cumberland), the highest situated town in England, for nearly a year and...dumps of the long abandoned lead mines on the Alston Moor and the newly opened mine at Nenthead and Nentbury...the river Tyne to Carlisle on the west side of England. We left the train at Haltwistle and boarded another
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
land. So, too, apparently was much of the Lake District [26J; but there was evidently communication with...we proceed northwards, until in the Scremerston district eight or ten workable seams are present. Farther...east of Alston, one may walk within two or three miles into any of the main valleys of the district: north-west...GENERAL REFERENCES. MEMOIRS OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES. I. a, 3. 4- 5. e. 7. 0. <). 10.... G. A. BURNETT and]. MADEN, 1927. The Alnwick District (N.S. Sheet 6). By R. G. CARRUTHERS, G. A. BURNETT
Catalog/List
Avenue, 17th Floor • Dallas, Texas 75219 Design District Annex • 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, Texas 75207...2008 Heritage Auctions, Inc. Heritage Design District Annex 15404 Natural History Specialist Steve...QUARTZ Var. JAPAN-LAW TWIN Pentadora, Capilla District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department...Rosario Mabel Claim, Pampa Blanca, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department...QUARTZ Var. JAPAN-LAW TWIN Pentadora, Capilla District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department
Book
Eastern country, who sought for, and discovered, a district producing tin. Indications of old mine workings...of a serpent -worshipping tribe who came from a district in Afghanistan. They were a more ancient people...could have obtained this metal, were Spain and England all the other places being too remotely inland...hill known as the “Beacon," and the important tin district around it. have, again, at St. Ives the remains...would be collected the tin produce of all the district, from Marazion to St. Ives, and then to the Land's
Book (edition)
conspicuous but by their absence, nor have we in England any journal which, like the Zedtschrift fur Praktische...MAN. . JUL PRINCIPAL KINGDOM 4 185 Sar ENGLAND : Rocks TPAANIESIE ORE : : ; : : E :...distances from one another sometimes traverse a district for considerable distances, and if the throws...Cretaceo-Tertiary age in the Nelson district, and of Devonian age in the same district, whilst in several places...rough-leaved willow, not common elsewhere in the district, grew most abundantly. The cassiterite of Cornish
Book
George Wesley Paxton showed me some cleavages of galena and calcite he had picked up in Derbyshire. The...Chris Stanley, into Minerals of the English lAke District: Caldbeck Fells (1990), a rather cumbersome title...series on the development of museums in northern England, Messrs Crosthwaite, Todhunter and Hutton have...Why not for the present state from the Caradon district, and wait until we get something worth labelling...wealthy private collectors:•• In early 19th century England subtler pressureswere felt 1 West Briton 9 April
Book
by of pure the Alston Crystals very white, upon Calcium). a Moor district, formed brilliant...showing at in. District of Weardale, Cumberland. 28 SILICA. No. with Galena. Spar, 4by Crystals...upon cube ins. 3 of Weardale, Cumberland. District Fluor and Quartz Crystals, white 22. of blue...associated white, pure Calcium). by 2\ with ins. District of Weardale, Cumberland. Quartz Crystals, No...with Calcite asso- crystals, ins. 4i by 3i Alston No. 25. Fluor brilliant, in lenticular Crystals
Book
Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings...to 6 cm (2005: 120). Los Remedios mine, Taxco district, Taxco, Guerrero. Ilvaite occurs in the wallrock...manto deposits of polymetallic ores in the Taxco district, commonly as compact aggregates of crystals overgrown
Journal (volume)
Annales des Mines on theMetallurgy of Iron in England , ib. ; Proceedings of the Manchester Geological...Relief Fund, 402 ; The Geo Metallurgy of Iron in England, 120 ; Blow -pipe Vade Mecum byDr. Aquila loyical...Annales des Mines on the Metallurgy of Iron in England, 181 ; Abstract from Rev. 8. Haughton on the Chemical...by J. Napier, 101 , 166, 231 , 305 . of Iron in England, 120, 181 , 327. ASSOCIATION, Miners', of Cornwall...CAL INTELLIGENCE . - The St. Just District, 42 ; Marazion District, 45 ; G. East Carn Brea, ib. ; St
Report (issue)
Hyde Park, in London, England, in the year 1851. The Society of Arts of England had been accustomed to...the Commission borrowed money from the Bank of England to make up the deficit. In 1850 architects were...source of great satisfaction to the people of England, so much so that REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST...at the request of the society, and the Bank of England agreed to advance the necessary funds when all...was donated to the Royal Agricultural Society of England. A special collection of seeds of cereals and vegetables
Journal (volume)
Sha-ho-hsien Coalfield Geological map of Sha-yuan-ling district Brachial valve of Chonetes elegain sp. nov. Distribution...Limestones, W. Cumberland and Alston Moor ......... ........... District Correlation of Limestone Zones...the Vale of Gordano Geol. Sketch-map of Tanga District Orographical Sketch-map of Western Yugoslavia...with the facts elsewhere. In the chief mining district of Western Cornwall, including the parishes of...rich tin-bearing deep-leads and alluvium of New England, completing a large quarto memoir thereon in 1887
Journal (volume)
Leitrim Coal, with Remarks on the Coal Area of the District. By R . J. Cruise, M . R . I. A ., . . . . . ...144 Examination of Lough Allen Coal, from Arigna District, County Leitrim . By L. Studdert, LL. D ., Ex-S...Professor Haughton ; and on a Perforated Crystal of Galena, by Dr. J. Emerson Reynolds, V . P. Dr. Reynolds... REYNOLDS - ON CRYSTALS OF GALENA. II.- ON TWO REMARKABLE CRYSTALS OF GALENA. By J. E . EMERSON REYNOLDS...Society. [Read April, 1870. ] The crystals of galena which I have the pleasure of submitting to the
Journal (volume)
Zecbstein of Germany, and the Magnesian Limestone of England, were found to occur in several courses of limestone...American Journal of Science and of M. Marcou having England. t Leipzig, 1861. X SeeLeonhard's * attracted...Kupfer-Seliiefer, and Lower and Upper Zechstein, and in England of Lower E,ed Sandstone and Maguesian Limestone...the rich Permian Flora is peculiar and characIn England, France, teristic of this supra-carboniferous deposit...deposits are for ever varying. Thus, series. in one district they constitute a Monas only, in others a Di/as
Book
232. Extinct volcanoes. 233. Extinct volcanic district of the 234. 235. 236. 237. II. Rhine. [France...veins. 640. Relation of veins to the surrounding district. 641. Systems of veins in Cornwall. 642. Systems... Use of the chalk. 788. Rarge of the chalk in England. 789. Extension of the chalk in Europe. 790. Upper...cretaceous rocks. 793. Upper greensand of South Eastern England. 794. Upper greensand of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire...series. 851. Fossils of New red sandstone in England. 852. The Keuper. 853. The Muschelkalk. 854. Fossil
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of sturmanite from the Black Rock mine, Kuruman District, South Africa, determined from its crystal structure...Scramble claim, Ryan, Black Mts., Furnace Creek district, Death Valley region, Inyo Co., California, USA...Locality: Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor district, Cumbria, England, UK. 2.2 Carbon and Carbonates...region, Russia. Description: White pseudomorph after galena. The associated minerals are malachite, hemimorphite...Ariskop Quarry, Aris, near Windhoek, Windhoek district, Khomas Region, Namibia (type locality). 2.2
 
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