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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Siderite6 photos of Sphalerite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Quartz5 photos of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Fluorite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view St Peter's Mine, Sparty Lea, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:148806
Long-form Identifier:1:3:148806:7
GUID (UUID V4):b8514ddc-d8dd-41f2-9ddf-504853b8c95e
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
3.4km (2.1 miles) Allenheads Mine (Beaumont Mine), Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Swinhope Moor, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Barneycraig Mine, Coalcleugh, West Allen, Northumberland, 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
6.5km (4.0 miles) North Groverake Quarry, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) Wellhopehead Mine, West Allen, Northumberland, 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...with minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent
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...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... SW.18 Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]
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...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the...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
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................... 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mr. Nigel Kennedy, Cheshire, England. This was most fortunate since England has produced the finest FLUORITE... such as galena, and sphalerite, and blende (usually a term meaning sphalerite in this country). Fluorite...coast, from Scotland in the north, to the south of England, in Devon and Cornwall, Midway, in the mines of...of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Northumberland, and Durham, and parts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire...in the crystals IS characteristic of a particular mine or locality. I have never seen black fluor, but
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...from the mines of Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland made a huge and crucial contribution to this...waste rock and gangue discarded during mining - the mine pagel The Lindsay Gree11ba11k Collection curators
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 ...probably resulting from the dcsulphuration of the sphalerite. 4. GRAPHITE. (8) Graphite occurs, with gneiss...Phillipsburg, N. J. at Siesholtzville, at Kinzi mine, Stony creek, 1 Refers to page in Dr. Genth's...Fritz Island, Berks Co.. and associated with sphalerite, it occurs at Victor Hollow, Georges twp., Fayette...Forksvilie, Sullivan Co., in small pieces in the Doughty mine, a few At upper layer of the limestone miles south
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
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)
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 (issue)
correlations. Minerals including millerite, galena and sphalerite peak at different coal volatile percentages,...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)
inclusions in quartz Hematite—as inclusions in quartz St. Peter's Dome and Cook Stove Mt. Zircon Fergusonite Cryolite...Arfvedsonite Cassiterite Astrophyllite Galena Prosopite Sphalerite Pyrochlore Red Rock Canyon Celestite Agate ...bluffs are composed of. Cook Stove Mountain and St. Peter's Dome are just to the west of Cheyenne Mountain...the face of an abandoned mine tunnel near the northeast base of St. Peter's Dome. They are embedded in...prosopite and pyrochlore in the cryolite veins of St. Peter's Dome. Near the base of Cook Stove Mountain is
Journal (issue)
CONTENTS . ZIRCONS FROM THE EUREKA TUNNEL , ST . PETER'S Dome , El Paso COUNTY , COLORADO , 163 BOLÉITE...mountainous region . It is needless to 237 N. Seventh St. , Newark , N. J. say that these minerals sell ....endeavor to fill all now . FROM E. H. HARN . St. Peter's Dome , Colo . CRYSTALS IN THE MATRIX . Specimens...ARTHUR CHAMBERLAIN , GRAHAM & Co. , 237 N. Seventh St. , Newark , N.J. - Practical + Lapidaries , et NEW...NEW MINERALS . Read on last cover 63 Nassau St. , New York . Gems Mounted in any Desired Setting . page
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ mounmined from a pegmatite...chalcocite of mine near Penland and the McKinney secondary origin in the School Section mine near Little...quarry near Southford, all Park No. 2 mine and the McKinney mine in Connecticut. At the latter locality...the Morefield mine near Winterham, Virginia; at Orange, New Hampshire; and the McKinney Mine near Little...Argentiferous galena has been found in the Quickstrike mine near San Augustin Peak, Organ Mountains, New Mexico
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
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
Report (issue)
Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56...attention of miners, carvers, and decorators: in England, dark (almost blue-black), violet, and yellow fluorite...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797...banded fluorite from Castleton in Derbyshire, England. Since the mid-18th century, this specific deposit
Report (issue)
0308-2199j BRITISH MINING No.5 MEMOIRS of NORTHERN MINE the RESEARCH 1977 SOCIETY NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS...exploration and geological research with reference to mine workings of the British Isles are welcome for inclusion...addressed to: R.H. Bird Esq. The Editor, Northern Mine Research Society, 41 Windsor Walk, South Anston...Guthrie Esq . Publication After Sales, Northern Mine Research Society, 186 Station Road, Billingham TS23...otherwise, without prior permission of the Northern Mine Research Society. Further, any opinions or statements
Journal (issue)
I t . NUMBER 17 • AUTUMN 1996 () F s s UK journal of mines & minerals CONTENTS number...10h11Pearce COVER:CERUSSITEfrom Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen...described in the next issue of this journal. The UK Joumal of Mines and Ali11erals publishes articles...CLASSIFIED ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 UK journal TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Ryton Typing...Institutional Sponsor: THE BRITISH MICROl\lOUNT UK Journal of Mines & l\lincrals No. 17 -1- SOCIETY
Journal (issue)
t;>.,,.,. J..2. w ,·tf, SI' l'UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...of local knowledge, by the well known north-of-England collector Lindsay Greenbank. T The celebration
Report (issue)
elastic than muscovite. Lesleyite 48 Fibrous (Lea, 1867, 44) forms are known as sericite. Fuchsite:...issues of the Journal of the Academy. In 1812, Isaac Lea published "An account of the minerals at present...Masonic College, Clarksville, The collection of Isaac Lea was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania, gems...Pennsylvania, the collections of Frederick A. Gently Isaac Lea, T. M. Cardeza, and Joseph A. Clay. Today, the State...work of Adam Seybert, Troost, Keating, Vanuxem, and Lea, was followed by that of Henry Seybert, one the most
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055... I made it a stipulation that e:ich en~ in rn:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...meneghinile Pengenna mine,St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria...CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth mine,Grassinglon, Yorkshire Severallocalities in theLakeDistrictandComw melacinnabar...theLakeDistrictan:iCorrr::a!I natrojarosite Wanlhwaite mine,StJohn'sin theVale,Cumbria SouthTerrasmine,StStephen-in-Brannel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
black tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8...length. Other crystals have been noted at the Baer mine near Orange, New Hampshire, to 10 inches in diameter...Dakota; deep blue tourmalines at the Chickering mine near Walpole, New Hampshire; others from a few of...beryl at the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California; and also from the Rutherford mine at Amelia, Virginia...been taken from the Spruce Pine Company's No. 10 mine at Spruce Pine, N. C, in 1933 which weighed 4,320
 
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