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Fluorite from
Billing Hills Mine, Eastgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Billing Hills Mine, Eastgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:45731
Long-form Identifier:1:3:45731:4
GUID (UUID V4):10faebe3-fdf0-4719-b462-8c57408a7a38
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Eastgate Quarry, Eastgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Lady Annabella Mine, Eastgate Quarry, Eastgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Rainbow's End Pocket, Fairy Hole Vein, Lady Annabella Mine, Eastgate Quarry, Eastgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Cambokeels Mine (Cammock Isle Mine; Cumnock Isle Mine; Cammock Eals Mine), Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
2.4km (1.5 miles) Heights Quarry, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
2.7km (1.7 miles) Park Burn Opencut, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
2.9km (1.8 miles) Heights Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.4km (2.1 miles) Rigg Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.4km (2.1 miles) Westernhope New Mine, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.7km (2.3 miles) Newlandside Quarry, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
especial interest, namely those in the north of England and in Derbyshire. Barium minerals have been known...considered merely as waste products as was also the fluorite from neighbouring localities. I t has been thought...basic igneous rocks. The rocks of the north of England belong to the Carboniferous System, and into these...following the outcrop of the Whin Sill, while the fluorite localities are concentrated in the centre of the...accompanying map (fig. 1). Specimens showing both fluorite and barytcs in close association are exceptional
Report (edition)
the '1,Vholesale Agent to the Trade outside the County of London. 1917. Price 9d. Net. .. 11 PREF...abundance in the lead- and zinc-veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller qnal_lti­ ties elsewhere. It is...association is with ca l c ­ spar and barytes, though i n Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being h.ad to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...and, with Mr. Wray, an account of the mines in Durham. l\,lr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire
Report (edition)
.in the lead a.nd zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere. It is commonly...association is with calc­ spar and barytes, though in Durham where much of the country­ rook is arenaceous,...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...and, with Mr. Wray, an account of the mines in Durham. Mr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire...Carruthers has had charge of the Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire sections; l\ir. R. W. Pocock has
Report (edition)
abundance in the lead and zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere. It is commonly...association is· with calc-spar and barytes, though in Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...Carruthers has had charge of the Northumberland, Durham and • Yorkshire sections; Mr. R. W. Pocock has...has revised the account of Derbyshire :fluorite deposits, and Mr. Henry Dewey has furnished notes on Cornwall
Book
Coverdesign by Mark Blackadder. Coverimages: (front) Fluorite [BM 1964, R 1524], seepage 152; (back) Calcite...publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages 41, 46, 54, 59(x2)...Earth Sciences,University of Durham: page_26 C H. Emeleus,University of Durham: page 26 Friends of Killhope...Valley ................... The Northumberland and Durham Coalfield ............. The Northern Pennine Orefield...117 Barite .............................. 119 Fluorite ............................. 120 Hematite ..
Book (edition)
Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century... Plate 1 Purple fluorite crystals from a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by...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...FRS, FEng, FIMM Charleycroft, QuarryheadsLane) Durham DHJ 3D Y Other publications of the Survey dealing
Book (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALF�S GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PENNINE OREFIELD...inserted on the six-inch maps, and all available mine-sections were reduced to the common scale of 200...made by him. The willing co-operation of all the mine-owners and operators and their staffs made possible... B. Laporte & Co., the Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd.,...Plan of the North Central flats, Rotherhope Fell Mine 82 11. Cross-section of Burtrec Pasture Vein
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...led to errors, with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many..."Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists, as it was merged with Westmorland...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during
 
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