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Descloizite from
Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Descloizite
Formula:PbZn(VO4)(OH)
Comments:Kingsbury reference.
Colour:greenish brown, brown, reddish brown
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Descloizite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:4429
Long-form Identifier:1:3:4429:5
GUID (UUID V4):ac5f6587-fc1e-4bfe-8ea6-14efb9fa981b
Nearest other occurrences of Descloizite
2.7km (1.7 miles) Old Potts Gill Mine, Potts Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
91.3km (56.7 miles) Horners Vein (Jeffrey's Vein; Carse's Vein), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
91.4km (56.8 miles) Dobbies Vein, Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
91.4km (56.8 miles) Wilsons shaft (Brown's vein), Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
91.4km (56.8 miles) Browns Vein, Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
91.5km (56.9 miles) Scar Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
91.6km (56.9 miles) Hopeful Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
91.6km (56.9 miles) Belton Grain vein, Wanlock Dod-Whytes Cleuch, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
91.6km (56.9 miles) Cove Vein, Whytes Cleuch, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
91.6km (56.9 miles) Lady Anne Hopetoun shaft (Brow and Hopeful Veins), Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...4487) (top left) Mimetite, variety campylite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz...Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale (MNS 4488) (bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS...west Cumbrian coal and iron ore fields, the Vale of Eden and the Carlisle plain (Figure I). It is defined...ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed review of metallogenesis
Journal (issue)
Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower...Ramsbeckite with schulenbergite from Cornwall and Cumbria, England D.J. Green. J Betterton, R. Bell and T /lieall...Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite from Bwlch mine, Deganwy, Conwy...Derbyshire, England 89 A. Dyer, 0..\1. Wilson and B. Young Milarite from Shap granite quarry, Cumbria, England...G. Ry back Raspite from Carrock mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England: a first British occurrence 91
Book
Minerals of the English Lake District Caldbeck Fells Cumbria. Caldbeck. Mineral deposts 1. Title 11. Stanley...largely of debris washed down fromthe Roughton Gill mine dumps under Iron Crag C O N T E N INTRODUCTION...Caldbeck and the Caldbeck Fells Are worth all England else (Hutchinson. 1794) is supposed to have originated...mineral occurrences of the area, Fig. 1 ROUGHTON GiLL: the beck drops some 120 metres (400 feel) in a...Balliway Rigg on the west. Mineral veins crossing the gill have been worked for centuries, making and losing
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)
occurrences of vanadium minerals (mottramite, descloizite, and vanadinite) in the Caldbeck area of Cumberland...described. New X-ray powder data are given for descloizite and mottramite, and show appreciable differences...vanadinite. Higher part of Brandy Gill, CarroekFell. Mottramite, descloizite, and vanadinite occur here...conditions. About three-quarters of the way up Brandy Gill two old trial cross-cuts (now collapsed) have...have been driven, one on each side of the gill, on an east-west copper-lead V 1 H. E. Roscoe, Proc. Roy
Journal (issue)
other interesting species including wulfenite, descloizite, sulphur, hemimorphite, molybdenite, olivine...minerals, mainly micros were collected from old mine tips near mine shafts, tunnels and m open cast excavations...examined childrenite from the George and Charlotte mine, topaz and beryls from the granites of Lundy island...cuprite and brochantite from the Bedford United mine, gold from Hopes Nose, Torquay, brookite and anatase...finds. Later, Kingsbury also added Shropsh re and Cumbria to his areas ror coUecting. In 1936, wh~e visiling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hemimorphite, wulfenite, willemite, vanadinite, descloizite, caledonite, and others. It has been described...These include the Preble Hill mine near Garland, Maine; the old lead mine near Middletown, Middlesex County...Connecticut; Sterling Hill, New Jersey; and the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, and the well-known Wheatley...Bulldog Mountain mine in the Creede district, Mineral County; and the Missouri mine DI:Robert B. Cook...and to a much lesser extent at the Hidden Fortune mine north of Lead, Lawrence County, South Dakota (Roberts
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen purchased in 1948 as bayldonite from Ojuela mine, Mapimi, l)urango, Mexico (B.M. 1948,267) gave a...powder pattern related to those of members of the descloizite group and fairly close to but not identical with...specimen of a green botryoiBrandy Gill, Caldbeek Fells, Cumberland, sent in by Mr. W...spectrographic comparison of the Mapimi and Brandy Gill materials with several conichalcites suggested...with that of the Mapimi mineral, while that of Brandy Gill showed some characters of both duftite and conichalcite
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 ............................Pyromorphite 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 (issue)
Kingsbury (1906 - 1968) reproduced from UKJMM 5, of England. this contact offered a new and interesting field...Neumann which he claimed were from Bedford United Mine. The x-ray results (powder photographs) showed one...from Dry Gill. In, or about, 1947, Kingsbury discovered an occurrence of Bayldonite at Brandy Gill, then...then descnl>ed as Upper Brandy Gill, now known as Brandy Gill Lead Mine. Over succeeding years, he forwarded...In particular, Lindgrenite, descloizite etc., from Brandy Gill Lead Mine. Lindgrenite has been searched
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
final ΔF map. Duftite is a member of the adelite-descloizite group with the Cu2+ Jahn-Teller active cation...duftite; crystal structure; arsenates; adelite-descloizite group. Introduction Duftite, ideally PbCu(AsO4)(OH)...PbCu(AsO4)(OH), is a member of the adelite-descloizite group. It comprises prevalently common arsenates and...groups: P212121 (adelitetype members) and Pnma (descloizite-type members). They show the same topology: a...oxidized zones of a polymetallic deposit at Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. The mineral was named in honour of Gustav
Catalog/List
British minerals and oa especially those from Cumbria. The systematically rare minerals a&e 8 proving...being made lo cover Bank.clearancecosts here in England. Paul and Nanette Lowe FIOIIIC-:1.argaFulScå Dllaillromaneola...65x25, (5. APATITE. Sm1th Vein,Carrock Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria½ Three ~oall,near gc~ quolity,grecn prismntic...50x40, [7. base. 22. (L.Ox25) w1th a crystol Mine,Anglcse~,North and !ound A rich and heavy ~pecimen... (19. 4 7. BAYLDO~ITE/DUFTITE,STOLZITE. Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells, ca~briJ. Vcry rich speciocn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an old trial-level on the east side of higher Brandy Gill, carrock Fell, together with pieces of veinstone...from an old trial on the west side of bigher Brandy Gill, carrock Fell, has resulted in the finding of...occurrences of this mineral, in addition to descloizite, and of vanadinite at several localities in the
Journal (issue)
collected sharks teeth and other fossils from Southern England. Meticulous and painstaking in everything he did...fled to the cars. We moved on to the Blackcraig Mine tips for lunch. Much of the three to four mile stretch...site of the day was the Talnotry Arsenic and Nickel Mine dumps. This site is hidden deep in the forest, up...and set off for the Lauchentyre and King's Laggan Mine dumps. The road to the mines ran through some scenic...rejoined the party across the road at King's Laggan Mine. This meant traversing an even more mal-odorous
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious...Emb'eton quany,nrCockermouth. Cumbria; Gra:nsgill. Ca'.dbeck Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine...Fells,Cumbria; OldGunnls!ake m:ne.Calslock. Cornwall lindgrenite' BrandyGill,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria WestTurtPitsmine
Journal (issue)
Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135 x 88 x 40mm...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alteration in the Carrock Fell Area, Cumberland, England By A. EWART ABSTRACT Within this area are developed...basic and acidic rocks. The gabbro in the lower Brandy Gill area has also suffered low-grade metamorphism...the rare copper molybdate, lindgrendite, at Brandy Gill, Carrock Fell, Cumberland. Miner. Mag., 30, 723-726...occurrence of vanadium minerals (mottramite, descloizite, and vanadinite) in the Caldbeck area of Cumberland
Journal (issue)
professional mineralogist, spent two years at the Tsumeb mine, a site that has been described as the greatest...trouble with their slag or a small, rather remote, mine at Tsumeb in Namibia (originally called Southwest...the coast, the next stop was a small disused lead mine at Nameb, another freely-accessible sit e. The spoil...heaps y ield the most superb vanadinit e and descloizite crystals , mainly micro-mount- specimens. The...up the Tsumeb mine. They assumed that it would assist in laying a railway to the mine but did not reckon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Natural History), Cromwell Road, Lond"onSW7 5BD, England At the time of his suddendeath on August 3, 1968...he led the field excursionto the south-westof England for the Cambridge meeting of the International...of the rare copper molybdate, lindgrenite, at Brandy Gill, Carrock Fell. Cumberland. Mineral. Mag. 30r...occurrencesof vanadium minerals (mottramite, descloizite,and vanadinite) in the Caldbeck area of Cumberland...Hartley) Cosalite and other lead sulphosalts at Grains Gill, Carrock Fell, Caldbeck, Cumberland. Mineral. Mag
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite and groups: I-Descloizite 416 .... conichalcite(part...(Frederickson).... .1023 Descloizite, new occurrence in Cumberland.(Kingsley, Hartl"v) 8+2 Descloizite and adelite...groups, the structures of the minerals of : I-Descloizite and conichalcite (part t) (Qurashi, Barnes) 416.... . . . 3 1 7 , 3 2 4 , 3 2 7Lindgrenite at Brandy Gill, CarKuno, H. Study of ortlopyroxenes rock Fell...from SitMerritt, C. A. with Huang, W. T. asaongi Mine, Bhandara DisPetrography of the troctolite of 683
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 (volume)
Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...mimetite crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the 1970s by Jim Knight...British occurrence of kottigite, from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and David I Green PAPERS...at Driggith and Sandbed Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...review of the mineralogy of Brae Fell Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, David I Green and
Journal (issue)
logy. Contribution; co ncerning the topographical mine 7alogy of the British Isles are particularly welcome...with calcite, galena and pyrite. Glengowla East mine, Oughterard, Co . Galway, Eire. Sir Arthur Russell...vivianite PG. Embrey 77 Native silver from Hilderston mine , West Lothian. Scotland T.K. Meikle 83 Mineralogy...Alderley Edge - Mottram St Andrew area, Cheshire, England R . S. W. Braith waite 91 Fluorite at Hampstead...occurrence of arsenate minerals at Gwaith-yr-Afon mine, Dyfed , Wales S.A . Rust and J.s. Mason 109 NOTES
Journal (issue)
Sutcliffe put on a display of material from Rampgill Mine with two specime ns of enormous interest (to me...the 'old man' was working this part of Rampgill Mine well before I thought they had got that far! After...longer interested in their collection of a seri es of UK first day covers; 86 issues from the period July...a site. With Grah am I wa lked up t o Brae Fell Mine and showed him what we did in the summer and why...look at Roughton Gill, which appears undisturbed, and then walked right up Silver Gill past the dig on
 
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