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Fluorite from
St Peter's Mine, Sparty Lea, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz45 photos of Fluorite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Siderite37 photos of Fluorite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Galena4 photos of Fluorite associated with Galena at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Fluorite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Fluorite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view St Peter's Mine, Sparty Lea, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (37 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:70905
Long-form Identifier:1:3:70905:9
GUID (UUID V4):9e48f09b-bc5c-4d86-b469-1cdc938da50d
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Sipton Mine, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
2.3km (1.4 miles) Dirt Pot Lead Smelt Mill slag locality, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
3.4km (2.1 miles) Allenheads Mine (Beaumont Mine), Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Barneycraig Mine, Coalcleugh, West Allen, Northumberland, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Greencleugh Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Scraithole Mine, Carrshield, West Allen, Northumberland, England, UK
5.7km (3.6 miles) Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
6.2km (3.9 miles) Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
6.2km (3.9 miles) Coalcleugh Mine, Coalcleugh, West Allen, Northumberland, England, UK
6.2km (3.9 miles) Park Level Mine, Killhope Burn, Stanhope, County Durham, 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
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself... Lot 324 – Fluorite on quartz – Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite...chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Co. Durham. Collected in 1897. 5 Lot No. Approximate...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
Report (volume)
BRITAIN. VOL. XXV.-LEAD AND ZINC ORES OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND ALSTON MOOR. BY STANLEY SMITH, }I.A., D...eads 1\-lining Office was freely given byLord Allendale and his agents. . M:r. J. )V. Metcalfe has l>een...Thornbrough Mine, p. 19. }"allowfield Mine, p. 21. Birkey Burn, p, 25. Grottington or Pont Head Mine, p. 25...Greyside Mines, p. 26. Settling.s tones Mine, p. 29. Langley Barony Mine, p. 31. Snialle1· Mines and Trials...J\line, p. 34. Whinnetlcy Mine, p. 34. '\"{a-terhouse Mine, p . . 34. Morraleo .Mine, p. 35). THE DERWENT
Book (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALF�S GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PENNINE OREFIELD...Copyright Reserved LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S ST A TI ONE RY OFFICE To be purchased directly from...Edinburgh, 2 ; 39-41 King Street, Afanchester, 2; 1 St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff• Tower Lane, Bristol...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
Book (edition)
Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...subject of V ()lume 2. A small part of the Northumberland Trough as far as the Roman Wall is included... 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
Book
Coverdesign by Mark Blackadder. Coverimages: (front) Fluorite [BM 1964, R 1524], seepage 152; (back) Calcite...pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages........................ West Allendale .................... East Allendale ..................... Weardale..... The Tyne Valley ................... The Northumberland and Durham Coalfield ............. The Northern...117 Barite .............................. 119 Fluorite ............................. 120 Hematite ..
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...important quantities of lead, silver, copper, baryte, fluorite and iron extended over several centuries and almost...from the mines of Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland made a huge and crucial contribution to this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
two articles have been devoted to the mineral FLUORITE. We had fully intended to limit it to that but...for the FLUORITE articles I came into correspondence with Mr. Nigel Kennedy, Cheshire, England. This was...was most fortunate since England has produced the finest FLUORITE groups I've ever seen, and, Mr. Kennedy...to be one of the finest assemblages of British FLUORITE. I would be remiss in my activities as a writer...great beauty and variety of colour displayed by fluorite, combined with the happy circumstance that it
Catalog/List
attending the following shows in the seconUK October I 2U1 / 13U1 November 23rd Dakcwell 1-laywards...CLOSED on SUNDAYS J.AEGYRINE and NATROLJTE . ML St. I-ul aire, Quebec, Canada. Small 3-climcnsional.... rhombs.£35. 2.ANAPAJTE. Kerlch Peni.r1su .lar, Uk raine. The be;;L localily m �le world for this mineral...pyrite. £20. 13.CINNABAR on STIBNITE. Nikitovka Mine, Ukraine. Single blade of stibnite 4.5cm long wiU1...lwi1med cinnabar xls. £25 14. CINN ABAR. Tongren Mine, Guizhou, China. Nice miniature. Two main elongated
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...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...collection, is°'currently owned by David McCallmn. UK Journal of Mines & Mfo~r:il, No. 22 -2- T·w·E.NTY
Book (volume)
Bucks county light green crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals...small amount of MnO in the green variety. P & R mine, Siesholtzville, Berks county. (W. Headden) B light...a silicate, but an altered calcite of The St. Peter's byssolite is found in acicular crystals, penetrating...dull brown; Rocksville, Bucks. 19: Andradite, St. Peter's; usually truncated; no striations. dark brown...Montgomery county. 410: Olive-green; Kober's copper mine, Sumneytown, Montgomery county. 418: Dark olive-green
Book (volume)
sulphur were found by me, several Ueberroth zine mine, Priedensville, Lehigh Co., years ago, at the ...Phillipsburg, N. J. at Siesholtzville, at Kinzi mine, Stony creek, 1 Refers to page in Dr. Genth's...Forksvilie, Sullivan Co., in small pieces in the Doughty mine, a few At upper layer of the limestone miles south...found in considerable quantity, associated with This mine was unsuccessfully operated, a few years ago, by...by the Susquehanna Mining and Smelting Co. At a mine near Espy, Columbia Co., small quantities of galeniteand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
most part uncommon or rare in pegmatite. Only fluorite, calcite and siderite are at all common while...Reagan mining district, Nevada. FLUORIDES (10) FLUORITE, calcium fluoride is the most common fluoride...though it is occasionally found in some quantity. Fluorite appears to occur most frequently and in the largest...hundred pounds were formerly found. Elsewhere fluorite occurs in many pegmatites throughout the United...Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. The best fluorite crystals have been found in the Gem Mines region
Report (issue)
2 0 1 6 Fluorite xx, 7,5 x 5 cm (Jeff Scovil Foto) Fluorites from a classic british mine — from the...Introduction The Greenlaws Mine is located in Weardale in the northern Pennines of England just south of the little...the world. In issue No. 1 (2015) we introduced the mine, its geology and history. Now, here you will get...since then. And we will have an interview with the mine operator, Pete Ward. N ( )12 .1. I I 1' NI 1 2...2 1. A N: I) • - 13liturtl,,nti •$C St Peter's Mole Whaelleops Moe Nni3ceiwilent,frigl
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1933; Granites oi the Front Range; the Long's Peak-St. Vrain batholith: Bu.ll Geol. Soc Am., vol. 45, pp...eastern Park County. Principal localitiesare St. Peter's Dome, Crystal Park, Cameron Cone, Pike's Peak...associated fluorides occur on the north flank of St. Peter'sDome. This is one of the very few cryolite...described in this paper. Key to numbers: (1) St. Peter's Dome (El Paso County), (2) Florissant (Teller...which cuts through a northward-trending spur of St. Peter's Dome, is shown on the Manitou topographic sheet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Impilahti, sphene, striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite...gibbsite, biotite, chlorite, muscovite, 429 Groverake mine, Rookhope, Weardale, Durham, copper, copiapite,...Derbyshire Cobbler mine, Bonsall, fluorite, 4oi Jughole mine, Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, 81 I...I Ladywash mine, Eyam, fluorite, 4Ol Mare Tot mine, Castleton, fluorite (Blue John), 363 Masson opencast...Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, 81 I Oxclose mine, Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, bravoite
Report (edition)
Kingsway, LONDON, w.c.2 P.O. Box 569, LONDON, s_. E.1 1 St. Andrew's Crescent, CARDIFF 13a Castle Street, EDINBURGH...Mr. R. G. Carruthers has had charge of the Northumberland, Durham and • Yorkshire sections; Mr. R. W...Pocock has revised the account of Derbyshire :fluorite deposits, and Mr. Henry Dewey has furnished notes... PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION of fluorspar in England and Wales were investigated as part of the programme...rare-earth contents of a series of specimens of fluorite at ' the Government Laboratory. Petrographical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the following minerals: Aquamarine Bertrandite Fluorite Mica Phenakite Quartz My camp was at a prospector's...amazonstone Columbite Mica, biotite Phenakite Fluorite Hematite after siderite Black tourmaline—as inclusions...inclusions in quartz Hematite—as inclusions in quartz St. Peter's Dome and Cook Stove Mt. Zircon Fergusonite Cryolite...amount of white microcline and small amounts of fluorite and hematite after siderite. No mica was present...bluffs are composed of. Cook Stove Mountain and St. Peter's Dome are just to the west of Cheyenne Mountain
Journal (issue)
of quartz, smoky quartz, cassiterite, amethyst, fluorite, autunite and other fluorescents, together with...nearby. The group visited a working porphyry copper mine with finely disseminated chalcopyrite, secondary...them back to the U.I<. without damage Thanks to Peter's generosity, those of us fortunate enough to attend...version of the talk she did at the AGM on St. Peter's Mine, Allendale. This is a very interesting story, not...particular the relations they developed with the Allendale Estates. Helen illustrated her talk with slides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
described in more than 40 articles since 1876, are St. Peter's Dome, Cookstove Mountain, and Crystal Park. several...gently to the east. l\{ost of the dikes near St. Peter's Dome contain subhedralcrystals that are tightly...altered to limonite, quartz, microcline-perthite, fluorite, topaz, phenakite, and genthelvite. n{ineral deposition...pegmatites in the upper zone contain fluorite; however, fluorite was not noted in either of the genthelvite-bearing... NOTES AND NEWS 429 Cheyenne Canyon near St. Peter's Dome, El Paso County, Colo., and he finds that
Book
wire and leaf gold were taken from the Printer Boy mine, Lake County, in tellurium in many in 1870...a pound. The Boulder Nest mine in Clear Creek County, and the Caribou mine in Boulder County were especially...found iu the Pittsburg mine at Empire. Dendritic coatings found in the Centennial mine, Georgetown. Loose...Summit county. Occasionally found in the Las Animas mine, Boulder county, associated with bismutite and bismuthinite...adamantine. Analysis by Konig of mineral from Iron Arrow mine: sulphuric acid 28'57, sesquioxyd of iron 51'10
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Buckingham Road, Yonkers, N. Y. E. Weidhaas,408 West 42nd St., N. Y. City. Lew'is G. Westgate, L24 Oak HiIl Ave...Natural History, 234 Berkley St., Boston, Mass. Eugene Willcox,.2224 Hazel St., Butte, Mont. Mrs. Franklin...Franklin D. Williams, 24Dean St. Taunton, Mass. Herman L. \Yillig, 140 E. Vine St., Lancaster, Pa. Ernest...Blvd., Urbana, Ill. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW ENGLAND INTERCOLLEGIATEGEQI,OGICALEXCURSION As reported...erueof November 12, 1920,the Sixteenth Annual Nerv England fntercollegiate Geological Excursion was taken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
post-nephrite deformation and shearing. RIEBECKITE FROM ST. PETER'S DOME, COLORADO R. G. Coleman Stanford University...and later called riebeckite by Lacroix from St. Peter's Dome, Colorado, pegmatites has been reinvestigated...microcline, albite, zircon, astrophyllite, and fluorite. A chemical and optical study shows it to be a... ankerite, and siderite are locally abundant. Fluorite is a widespread minor constituent of the veins...sulfate in the lower workings of the old Commonwealth Mine in the Steamboat Hills, Washoe County, Nevada. Some
Journal (issue)
Bridges, Ovington, u.K. NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ....4TG Printed by Northern Litho Services, Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly...resembles the quartz in the tungsten veins at Carrock mine, being very coarse and greasy with few cavities...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme. Report
 
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