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Dolomite from
Florence Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz78 photos of Dolomite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Specularite70 photos of Dolomite associated with Specularite at this locality.
Fluorite56 photos of Dolomite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Hematite56 photos of Dolomite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Calcite31 photos of Dolomite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Kidney Ore22 photos of Dolomite associated with Kidney Ore at this locality.
Baryte19 photos of Dolomite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Smoky Quartz3 photos of Dolomite associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Florence Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (17 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:4587
Long-form Identifier:1:3:4587:2
GUID (UUID V4):617e76f1-29d9-4651-a109-7f2b75408b6d
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.2km (0.8 miles) Winscales pit (Beckermet No. 2 shaft), Haile, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Beckermet Mine, Haile, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
2.8km (1.8 miles) Bigrigg Mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
3.9km (2.4 miles) Sir John Pitt, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
4.3km (2.7 miles) Cleator Moor Iron Mines, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
6.1km (3.8 miles) Parkside Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
6.4km (4.0 miles) Mowbray Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
7.0km (4.4 miles) Sandwith Mine, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
crystals to 2mm. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Black goethite... Collected 1980. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Stalactitic brown...Quartz. 50' above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. A group of colourless pyramidal...pyramidal quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals...minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte
Catalog/List
and knowledgeable birdwatcher. A specimen of dolomite collected by Trevor in 1961, in the Dolomites...mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...green stock label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section
Journal (volume)
with minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK...PAPERS Geology and mineralisation at Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria Brian Young 3-18 A geochemical study...mineral assemblage of the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK using a stability field model Trevor F. Bridges,...of type mineral species at the Benallt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell...Tandy 62-72 NOTES Chalcoalumite from southwest England Richard S.W. Braithwaite and Michael G.H. Merry
Catalog/List
growing on a mass of fluorite crystals. BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4648 Tetrahedral crystals...grey micro crystals of quartz. GREENSIDE MINE, PATTERDALE, CUMBRIA M 4709 Large cubes of galena encrusted...siderite with the odd cube of fluorite BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4710 Beautiful association...and blue-grey micro-crystals of quartz. BEAUMONT MINE, ALLENHEADS, ALLENDALE, NORTHUMBERLAND M 5034 ...saddle-shaped dolomite crystals on iron lattice-work. FLORENCE MINE, EGREMONT, CUMBRIA M 5416 Large
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
Book
pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages................... 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...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of
Catalog/List
50x25x35nun. i\ la,. .£95. 3) AURICHALCITE. Ochrycraig Mine, Llangynog, Powys, Wales. Cavities in ironstainccl...8111111. £ 15. 5) C..-\ LCITE. Carrock Mine, Mosedale, Cumbria. A group of about 15 sharp hexagon:il xls...50x40x30mm. £45. <> C.\ LCITE and Mr\RCASITE. Pare Mine, Llanrwst, Gwynedd, North Wales. Nice intcrgrown...8) CASSITERITE. Robinsons Section, South Crafty Mine, Pool, Cornwall. An intergrown mass or black cassitcritc...£20. 9) CASSJTERlTE. North Lode, WalkJiam United Mine, Whitchurch, Devon. Small quartz veinlet in tourmaline
Catalog/List
Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena & Dolomite Chalcopyrite on Dolomite Arsenopyrite Sphalerite var Marmetite...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The...Rocks Cornwall Hinqston Down, Cornwall Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 £1...Quebec (Cook) Herodsfoot Cornwall Bournonite Bedford Mine Devon Arsenoovrite Colorado USA Enaraite Minas Gerais
Catalog/List
2) APATITE (var FRANCOLITE) Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A flattish quartz hematite vei...2mm. 80x40x20nun. £45. 3) AZURITE. Girralambone Mine, Canbelego Co., New SouthWales, Australia. Quartz...well. 150xl !0xl20nm1. £175. 4) BARITE. Bridford Mine, Christow, Devon. A single ternunated semi-transparent...brown colour. 25xl 5x20mm. £20. 5) BARYTE and DOLOMITE. Frizington, Cumberland. A double hand sized specimen...a "floater" showing all surfaces covered with dolomite xJs. To the rear these are of a biscuit colour
Catalog/List
gemmy blue crystal 1 'h ins. long £150 Corconda Mine, Minas Cera,s, Brazil APOPHYLLITE - a 2 inch spray...x 5 ins. Muzo Mine, Colombia £ on application FLUORITE - mauve fluorite with dolomite 3 x 2½ ins. Shangbao...Shangbao Mine, Hunan Province, China £60 SIDERITE - a 3V2 inch crystal with wolframite £120 Panasqueira...cassiterite crystals 31/2 x 21/2 ins. £260 Juan Delvalle Mine, Uncia, Bolivia LAZULITE - dark blue crystals 2... OTHER NtEW ACQU�S�lONS CREEN FLUORITE Okurusu Mine, Namibia Fine green to blue crystals in I x 1 inch
Journal (issue)
access it gave me to real mineralogists who were a mine of useful information and expertise. The culmination...the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...driving a European visiting professor to Boltsburn Mine in its latter years as a producer of spectacular
Book
C a s c M nerals of o h England 0 0 = The Greenbank Collection This Catalogue is a Limited Edition...divide us, the mineral specimens from Northern England unite almost everyone in an appreciation of their...treasured specimens remain to fire the IN NORTHERN ENGLAND has a imagination and wonder of collectors and...waste rock and gangue discarded during mining - the mine pagel The Lindsay Gree11ba11k Collection curators...the supplies of mineral specimens from Northern England were limitless. Hundreds of thousands of specimens
Catalog/List
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 1) ALBITE and MICA. Consolheiro Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A nice intergrown group of...collection. 60x30x30mm. £68. 4) AURICHALCITE. Wet Groves Mine, Wensleydale, N Yorks. A calcite matrix with the...Frizington, Cumbd". 70x40x30mm. £65. 9) CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendecn, Cornwall. An "onion layer" type of matrix...90x60x40mm. £95. 10) CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group of eight intergrown...buff hexagonal calcite xls to 10mm on a little dolomite/chlorite matrix. Ex J L White collection. 30x30x20nun
Report (issue)
Support of National, Regional and Local Planning Cumbria and the Lake District: Resources and Constraints...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...This report accompanies the 1:100 000 scale maps: Cumbria and the Lake District Mineral Resources (North...Photograph Aerial View of Shap Beck Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, showing aggregate workings in the Knipe Scar Limestone
Catalog/List
ims *, ye iffy: £1 x APATITE. .Carrock Mine,; Fell, Cumbria. > A {lmm ‘pale ‘gree nish hexagonal xl... 10. BARITE. Dry Gill Mince, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. A single off white tabular barite x1 with two...£40. 14. CALCITE. Smallclough Mince, Nenthead, Cumbria. Nice, clean intergrown group of colourless platey...xis to 101m intergrown with a little yellowish dolomite on dolorite matrix. £12. — a. a y 2 17; CALCITE... £15. & ces: 25. ,.CHALCOTRICHITE. Pendarves Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. A collujar: ironstined . quartz
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.
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BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geolo of the west Cumbria district ! ..: : .:·,: ·... ,:: ·, .... ... M11dst<>nc: Mudsto11e M11dst<>newith halite, dolomite 11ot k11ow11 not known about 3000 ; <10-25...tone a11d !1reccia wit 11gy1>st1rr1 I,imestone, dolomite, anhydrite, sandsto11e, siltsto11e a11d 111uclstci11e...abcJ11t300 Cumbria district This memoir describes the area covered...sheets 28 Whitehaven, 37 Gosforth and 47 Bootle of England and Wales. The district includes the western margin
Catalog/List
<.Sanv We(ftuMineraG Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent Levanl Gallery, Lower Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance...GllOUP ''A" •· DDIVIl:>UALSPECIMENS. • AC'IINOLITE/DOLOMITE. Allli,Non,ay. Lustrous silTer,--g:Nten interf'oraed...- ✓...,· -~Xc ,d, 12. APATITE.Panesquira xtls Mine,Beira i3eixa,PortugaL (to about 1ri in size) .....Paneaqueira,Beira group ot large,etriated,short and Dolomite. 3x2l" ,t:14.oo. 1?. • een Choice, 1 type...D2~5.OO. r ' \ 20. lURICBJ.ICITE. Golconda Mine,Brassington,Derbyshire. Silky blue-green xtl aggregRtee
Catalog/List
colourless calcite. 70x40xl5mm. £35. 2) ANNABERGITE. KM 4 Mine, Laurion, Greece. Cavities in gossan matrix showing...matrix. 30x20x7nun. £10. 5) AURICHALCITE. Royal Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Calcite matrix with some...calcite xls, dolomite and hematite. 130x70x80mm. £475. 9) BOURNONITE on SIDERITE. Mure Mine, lse:re, Rhone-Alpcs...STONE". Rotherhope Mme, Leadgate, Alston Moor, Cumbria. A nice intergrown group of plate like flow structures...colour. 140x80x90mm. £85. -12) CASSITERITE. Old Beam Mine, Goonbarrow Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. An approx
Catalog/List
7Qx30x30,m. £25. APATITE (VAR IRANOXITE) , '.I?.!- _rs Mine, Gunn' . . "■nrnwall. An interesting cellular mass...antimony. 35x20x7mm. £28. 4. ATACAMITE. Mount Gunson Mine, South Australia. A nice hemispherical mass of intergrown...£18. c) 30x20x10mm. £6. 6. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. A dark chalcocite/chalcopyrite... 100x80x50itm. £45. 8. BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A fine small museum, specimen...120x80x60nm. £1250. 9. BREWSTERITE. Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Scotland. A veinstone breccia cemented
Book (volume)
Vienna it might be Klimt’s “The Kiss” or when in Florence Michelangelo’s “David”. In Paris I must visit...Chalcopyrite) Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,..., Morocco, 48-49 Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina,...Div., Myanmar, 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite)...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)
Catalog/List
quality specimens, continuously 'rolling in' from mine contracts, general imports and collection purehases...nnss, 2x1¾x1 , f.2. 50. APATITE/SIDERITE. Poldicc Mine, Illogan, Cormr.:i.llo Rare 19th C, specimen. Cavernous...xtls"3x2x1 11 ,215 00" 8. ARAG0NITE. Cape Sounion Mine,Attica,Greccc, Sharp spiky po..lc-green to _spnrkling... 4x2x1i~' 1 ,28. 00. AZUHITE/MALACHITE,.Morenci Mine \Arizona., U ..S.A. -Bri 15ht-blue spherical xtl·...2~1¾x1i",U.f.5,.. 14. BISMUTHINITE. South Crofty Mine,Camborne,Cornw~ll. Rich intergrowth of bright silvcry
Catalog/List
(MM’s) LOT No: 1 ACC No. 795. ARTHUR1TE, HINGSTON MINE. DRAKEWALLS. GREEN XSTLS IN SHALLOW CAVITY (50 X... 30 4 ACC No. 760. OLIVENITE, BEDFORD UNITED MINE, GULWORTHY. CRYSTALS ON ONESIDEOFTHESLATEY KILLAS...QUARTZ MATRIX. COOK’S KITCHEN SECTION, DOLCOATH MINE. COLL 1892. 80x70 8 ACC No. 1056. CASSITERITE...RAMSLEY MINE, STICKLERATH, DEVON. A SINGLE CRYSTAL. ACC No. 744. PYRITE & QUARTZ, EAST POOL MINE, ILLOGAN...29 30 31 ACC No. 1039. CERUSSITE, PENTIREGLAZE MINE, PENTIREGLAZE, NORTH CORNWALL. WHITE JACKSTRAW XSTLS
Catalog/List
70x80x30mm. £45. 5) BARITE. Wilsons Stope, Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumberland. A nice clean and undamaged...label. 30x30x15mm. £18. 7) CALCITE (Co). Tynebottom Mine, Alston Moor, Cumberland. A nice lavender coloured...stock label. 90x60x70mm. £65. 8) CALCITE, QUARTZ, DOLOMITE and PYRITE. Capnic, Romania. A nice clean thin...and about half the quartz are creamy lustrous dolomite xls. A little pyrite here and there. 100x70x40mm...100x70x40mm. £35. 9) CALCITE. 15 Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Quartz veinstone with the upper
 
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