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Millerite from
Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Millerite
Formula:NiS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Millerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:764667
Long-form Identifier:1:3:764667:6
GUID (UUID V4):446585de-c89c-4762-b987-b73207bd1a3f
Nearest other occurrences of Millerite
13.0km (8.1 miles) Wiregill Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England, UK
13.8km (8.6 miles) Coldberry Gutter, Coldberry Mines, Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England, UK
14.8km (9.2 miles) Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
16.1km (10.0 miles) Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
17.4km (10.8 miles) Cowgreen Mine, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK
26.6km (16.5 miles) Hilton Mine, Scordale, Murton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
27.1km (16.9 miles) Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK
82.4km (51.2 miles) Oughterside open cast coal site, Oughterside and Allerby, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
97.8km (60.8 miles) Wyndham Mines, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
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................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such a diverse expanse naturally
Book (edition)
Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...from a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in...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
Catalog/List
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...Rookhope, Co. Durham. Collected in 1897. 5 Lot No. Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest...Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon...green stock label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rake Mine [NY 8063 3414] in the North Pennines 5.5 km NW of Langdon Beck, Teesdale, Co. Durham. Associated...of S and Sb for As. In 1981 D. B. Smith found millerite in an underground borehole at Blackhall Colliery...accounts of the geology and history of Lady's Rake Mine have been given by Dunham (1948) and Beadle (1977)...ullmannite,gersdorflite, Teesdale, Pennines, England ~/~ i~ NICCOLITE has only been recorded from...Settlingstones Mine [NY 842 683] near Hexham: about half a ton of niccolite was raised from this mine (Russell
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ffiDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are promptly...3. 4. 1/ 5· 6. 8. 9. 10. ALTAITE. smuggler Mine, Balarat, Boulder Cty., Colorado, U.S.A. Rich metallic...under ultra-violet light. 4x2". £6. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine, Co.Galway, Eire. Sparkling blue crystals with minor...limonitic gossan. 3tx2tx2" • £8. AZURITE. TL~g Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Thin blue coatings inter-mixed... 20. 21. 22. 24. 25· BISMUTHINITE. Old Pool Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Delicate silvery needles in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pennine Mountains near the town of Appleby, the Hilton mine is one of several mines in Scordale that were worked...much, if any, future specimen production from the mine. Location and Geologic Setting The Hilton and adjacent...area forming the topographic crest of northern England. The western margin of this region of the North...meters). Scordale is located in the traditional county of Westmorland, which was combined in the early...portion of Lancashire to the west to form the modern county of Cumbria. The region around Scordale is sparsely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition of the mineral.in the Northumberland-Durham coalfield so far made has been that of the washery...Nr~'~AO DURHAM CJ ~ 9$ o L r s a u ~ v .C*~RICKS EVEN~ Era. 1. Sketch-map of the north of England, to...broken line represents the western margin of the Durham-gorthun~berla.nd coalfield. mineral was clearly...4). ANKEP,ITES A:ND CHALYB1TES FROM N()P,TH ENGLAND 57 8. Newbiggin Colliery; rock containing vein...400 yards north-east of Evenwood Colliery, Co. Durham ( l-inch map, 32) ; 'very hard sandstone', 60 feet
Journal (issue)
Fisher photo. Collector interview: Jolyon Ralph (UK) This time our inteview is again with a very famous...the creator of mindat.org – Jolyon Ralph from the UK. Jolyon is well known as a webmaster but not many...cm wide. Fisher/Kureczka collection. Rogerley Mine, UK – mining for fluorites J. Scovil photo. Tomasz...throughout the Weardale area along with the rest of the UK. As a result, the supply of crystallized mineral...Rogerley Mine. First discovered by local mineral collectors around 1970, the Rogerley Mine has produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Golden brown barite crystals, Villamassargia, near mine, Guanajuato, Mexico (8.5 cm). Iglesias, Sardinia...Enna, Sicily (6 cm). West 800 Level, White Capps mine, Man- 11: Dark grey stibnite crystals, (variety...(5.3 cm). Figure 13: Silver, Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan (11 cm). A photograph of this specimen...fluorite crystals on grey galena crystals, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Tennessee (5 cm). Figure 17: Transparent... dark blue-green vivianite crystals, Montserrat mine, Pazna, Bolivia (12 cm). Figure Figure 19: Transparent
Journal (issue)
49 Minutes of the 24th Annual General Meeting, Durham, 30 March 1996 ................... ...... .......mineral which I had enquired about from that kindly mine of info rmation which was Peter. He was always willing...Comish minerals. Phoenix was, perhaps, his favourite mine. His collection of Cornish minerals and mining memorabilia...Sunday 11 August, and the October trip to Sedling Mine is on Sunday 6 October. In most cases a species...collections, a11d is used by many museums i11 tlze UK. (Ed.) North-West Branch · November Meeting: Basic
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677) ORDERING ... in length. 6x3xl". £11.00. BARYTES. Silverband Mine, Great' Dun Fell, Westmoreland. An unusual transparent...Rhyolite matrix. lixlxl". £6.50. BoRNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Pure, solid metallic irridescently... 2xl~xl~-". £1.50. 19. BoURNoNITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A very fine sharp, lustrous...Herodsfoot Mine during the last century and are now extremely rare. 20. BREWSTERITE. Whitesmith Mine, Strontian
Catalog/List
Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...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...Cornwall Tennantite Parvs Copper Mine, Anqlesey Sphalerite Louisa Mine, Glendinninq, Dumfrieshire Stibnite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province...History. Figure 1. Gemmy siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province...Figure 2. Siderite with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The composite crystals...of siderite were collected from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, where large cleavage masses to...(fig. 2). From the Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, come microcrystals
Journal (issue)
RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent gypsum...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation... 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later
Book
SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...increasingly ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath
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 ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens..."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
Journal (volume)
the manganese ore bed obtained from Llyn Du Bach Mine, Harlech, Merionethshire, Wales. National Museum...fluorite from Old Towns Quarry, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges and Timothy H. Pettigrew 12-14...was born on the 18th March 1923 in Leicester, England. He attended the City Boys School, Leicester, and...gain access to a small lead deposit (Tickow Lane Mine), and extensive investigations and a feasibility...study on reopening the famous Earl Ferrers’ Lead Mine at Staunton Harold. Ten years after the founding
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...supporters. Although he will always be associated with Durham, Kingsley Charles Dunham was born on 2nd January
Journal (issue)
UK TS 2 EDITORIAL 2 BUXTON COVER:A superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate...Piddcollection. MUSEUM Ros Westwood 6 MINERAL NEWS 11 The UK ]011mal ef Mines a11dMinerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. BARITE FROM BARRAS END MINE Peter Briscoe 15 DIGITAL MICRO-PHOTOGRAPHY David...FINANCE Jean C. Spence CESAflOLITE FROM EAGLEBROOK MINE Tom Cotterell 39 NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard...Richard Bell WURTZITE FROM LOCKRIDGE MINE Ben Grguric • Ernest Nickel 41 DESIGN Julie Ballard COPPER
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...P. J. Dunn Famous mineral localities: The Mezica mine, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ............................group minerals from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England ................................................................................. 123 by B. M. England Locality species lists ..........................ISSUES! v.15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Bra­ zil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $7 v.15/#6
Journal (volume)
flat, Admirality Concession Flat, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. Specimen width 60 mm. Trevor...24–30 NOTE Kinoshitalite from Bennalt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales: a first British...John S. Mason 32–35 The mineralogy of Pim Hill Mine, Shropshire, with a study of mottramites Richard...the Admiralty Consession Flat, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, Frank Bouweraerts...brittle mica kinoshitalite, from the Bennalt Manganese Mine at Rhiw. Heading south to Central Wales, fragments
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Journal (issue)
Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London, England Richard C. Era U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University.....157 by C. Albertini Sellaite from the Brumado mine ..................................................Iron and Washington Counties) and Arizona (Mojave County). This region is one of the last American frontiers...expanding vista. On arrival at the American Nettie mine the superintendent, Mr. Kunz, permitted us to visit
Book
P L AT E 8 Chalcopyrite and Calcite. Groundhog mine, Vanadium, New Mexico. 4 x 5 cm. Thesecrystals formed...I ( o p p o s i t e ) Elbaite. Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California. i o-cm crystals. The dramatic...Spitzkoppe, Namibia (crystal, 4 x 4 cm); Mason County, Texas (gem, 48.35 ct). Topaz is one of many gem...than in pegmatites. ■ ;_. • Triphylite. Smith mine, Newport, New Hampshire. 2.5-crn crystal. Well-formed...into the basins. P L AT E 4 0 Calcite. Carter County, Montana. 8 x t o cm. The iciclelikeform of these
 
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