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Biotite from
Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1253982
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1253982:4
GUID (UUID V4):46fffc85-786b-4201-8bd5-a88efd5ab2c6
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
3.8km (2.4 miles) Bannerdale Graphite Mine, Bannerdale, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
13.9km (8.7 miles) Sale Fell Minette, Wythop, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
22.5km (14.0 miles) Wad Mine (Plumbago Mine; Graphite Mine; Black Lead Mine), Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
34.0km (21.1 miles) Shap Pink Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
36.7km (22.8 miles) Mecklin Wood, Wasdale, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
50.6km (31.4 miles) Grassgarth Height, Haverthwaite, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
91.1km (56.6 miles) Bail Hill, Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, 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...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...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 (article/letter/editorial)
1984 Fluid Inclusion Gas Studies, Carrock Fell Tungsten Deposit, England: Implications for Regional Exploration...inclusion investigation of the Carrock Fell tungsten deposit, Northern England, confirms that the quartz...on the fluid inclusion "gas" signature for the Carrock Fell deposit, a distinction can be made between...the fluids have a close affinity with those at Carrock Fell. This is interpreted as the high-level, distal...Introduction The wolframite-bearing quartz veins of the Carrock Fell tungsten deposit are located approximately
Book
' Frontispiece Landsat imagery of north-west England taken from a height of 900 km. Photograph: National...Geological Society 1978 ISBN 0 9501656 2 X PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY W. S. MANEY AND SON LIMITED LEEDS CONTENTS...Geology 15 Epigenetic Mineralization 16 Offshore Cumbria 17 Hydrogeology C. K. Patrick 18 Environmental...DtNANT/AN LLANVIRN DEVONIAN ARENIG Plate 1. Carrock Fell Gabbro Borrowdale Volcanic Group Skiddaw...found in Lakeland St.Bees Sandstone St. Bees and Eden Shales with evaporites Penrith Sandstone and Brockram
Book
Museum Street, London, WCIA No reproduction 1LU, UK Unwin Paperbacks, Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts...(Rocks and fossils; 4) 1. Geology — England — Lake District (Cumbria) I. Cumberland Geological Society...Society is based on the northwestern coast of Cumbria, geographically isolated from major centres of...provide a balanced view of the geological scene in Cumbria. In a region where the rocks span the vast period...geological usage of all the regions surveyed in England. Only the Isle of Arran in Scotland receives a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skiddaw Slates in the Blencathra-Mungrisdafe area, Cumbria D. E. Roberts Four phases of deformation (Dl-D4)...Reading 1971). 1b. Stratigraphy of the Blencathra-Mungrisdale area Three major lithological divisions, interbedded...slates division. The Loweswater Flags occur at Mungrisdale only in the faulted inlier of Raven Crags (NY362307)...metamorphism There are two major intrusions, the Carrock Fell Complex,which forms the northern boundary...quartz dolerites. The southern contact of the Carrock Fell Complex with the Skiddaw Slates can be shown
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil is thus a strong influence...and F in stream sediments and waters. Apart from mine spoil, contamination is generally not an important...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...to encompass the Forest of Bowland, the Vale of Eden, the Salway Plain and the western part of the North
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1985 Mineralisation at the Carrock Fell Tungsten Mine, N. England: Paragenetic, fluid inclusion and...London, WC1X 8NG Abstract. Tungsten ore at Carrock Fell Mine comprises wolframite and scheelite in polyminerallic... L~ metres 500 _ l Fig. 1. Geology of the Carrock Fell area. A Location map; B SimIntroduction plified...the Grainsgill Granite and environs Carrock Fell Mine, Cumbria (Fig. 1), the only economic tungsten...Kingdom outside the Hercynian province of South-west England, produces wolframite and scheelite from parallel
Report (issue)
OF OF THE RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL GEOLOGICAL ENGLAND SURVEY AND OF COUNCIL SCIENCES GREAT BRITAIN...BtT2 8ay or through any bookseller Printed in England for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Hull Printers...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet coloured has replaced...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description...Petrographic DRYGILL Structural relations, 76. Fauna CARROCK Introduction, VOLCANIC Classification, SERIES
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL COUNCIL SCIENCES SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Cockermouthand...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet has replaced the Old Series...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description of...age, 76. References, 77. CHAPTER VI. THE IX CARROCK FELL COMPLEX 20 46 75 78 Introduction, 78....intrusions associated with the major intrusions of Carrock and Skiddaw, 130. Minor intrusions into Skiddaw
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
T: Threlkeld and St. John's Mocrogranite ; Ca : Carrock Fell Complex; SH : Shap Granite ; UA : Ullswater...(Brown and others, 1964). Of those visited the Carrock Fell Complex, Skiddaw Granite and Shap Granite...Microgranite is smaller and less well known. The Carrock Fell Complex and Skiddaw Granite have adjacent...459 Thursday, 3 September (Excursion 4) Mungrisdale-Carrock Fell Director: D. E. ROBERTS The purpose...of the Loweswater Flags on Raven Crags, near Mungrisdale, and folded arenaceous units in the Skiddaw Slates
Book
(CaMgFeAl)> (S1A1),0, Ca>(MgFeAl); (SiAl)s02(OH), Biotite (mica) K(FeMg),(AISi3)O10 Kaolinite Garnet Chlorite...Goldscope Mine and the Brandlehow Mine, near Keswick. It has also been found at the Brandy Gill Mine on Carrock...has been extracted from lead ore at the Goldscope Mine, it did not occur as a native element. Carbon, which...and chalcopyrite in the upper levels and on the mine dumps. Occasionally, such secondary enrichment ores...miners. A mine was most easily dewatered by driving a drainage adit from the lowest point in the mine which
Report (issue)
#associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria ihis report relates to work carried out...Reconnaissance Investigation associated Carrock of tungsten with Mine, J. D. Appleton, Programme and other...other the Skiddaw 1976 Granite Cumbria BSc, PhD and A. J. Wadge, MA A report prepared for the Department...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria. Miner. Reconnaissance Programme Rep. inst...Sci., No. 7, 37 pp. (Unpubl.) Photocopied in England by the Ins:itute of Geological Sciences CONTZWS
Report (chapter)
their once having existed in Scotland, Ireland and England. Proceedings of the Geological Society, 3(2), 327-332...the Lake District Boundary Fault Zone in West Cumbria, UK. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society...MILLWARD, D. & YOUNG, B. 1997. Geology of the West Cumbria District: Memoir for the 1:50 000 Geological Sheets...Sheets 28 Whitehaven, 37 Gosforth and 47 Bootle (England and Wales). The British Geological Survey, Keyworth...Latterbarrow and Redmain sandstones, Lake District, England. Geological Journal, 21, 5%76. ALLEN, P. M., COOPER
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 (article/letter/editorial)
the Lake District (Caledonian) terrane, northern England: Palaeozoic motions and deformation at a leading...Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK The Lake District terrane of northern England comprises Upper Cambrian±Silurian...attributable to batholith emplacement. Instead, the Carrock Fell Complex Layered Gabbros have a mid- to late...Later events in this igneous complex comprise the Carrock Fell Granophyre with a post-folding Ordovician...Palaeozoic; Caledonides; Lake District; northern England 1. INTRODUCTION Assembly of the supercontinent
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...Lancashire to form the new administrative county of Cumbria, It is an area of high ground, once described as...distance from Carrock nd to Red Gil is at out 6km (3.7 miles) Potts Gill barytes Mine High Pike introduction
Catalog/List
cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2£I 2x2£2.S0 Al SO/4...- - · - --·· -·Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bolivia 6x6mm £3 217 A1'DORITE . PbAgSb_S
Book (chapter)
Caledonian intrusive activity in eastern and northern England from geophysics, radiometric dating and basement...petrochemistry of the Eskdale and adjacent intrusions (Cumbria) with special reference to mineralization. Unpublished...survey of the English Lake District and the Vale of Eden. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 130...Nottingham, UK. No. 2. ignimbrite emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe...emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe (Scotland), United Kingdom (eds B
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...189 Lake D istri et l 89 Haematite deposits of Cumbria 196 Isle of Nian 199 N orthern Pennine Orefield...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene
Report (issue)
NG12 5GG No.60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2 - Geochemical investigations INSTITUTE...Programme I Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2Geochemical investigations Report...Mineral exploration in the Ravenstonedale area, Cumbria 19 A reconnaissance geochemical drainage survey...Scotland 60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2 -Geochemical investigations 32...Cornwall 33 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1 -Geophysical survey 34 Results
Book
interested in all aspects of geology in the County of Cumbria and surrounding areas. Members receive regular...Ellenbank Press Park Hill South Camp Road Maryport Cumbria CA15 6JN First published as The Lake District by...Shipp 107 The Penrith Sandstone of the Vale of Eden Jim Cockersole 115 16 17 18 Palaeozoic rocks...Geological and Mineralogical Museum Collections in Cumbria 143 Further Reading Index vi 148 Foreword...widest sense, going as far east as Shap and the Eden Valley, and right across to St Bees Head in the
Catalog/List
Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between Palaeozoic minor intrusionsinnorthern England. The lamprophyres of the Cross Fell Inlier subdivide...Threlkeld-St John’s microgranodiorite (445 m.y.) and Carrock Fell dolerite dyke swarm also possess steep magnetisations...with the later Caledonian intrusions of northern England. These episodes of intrusion are separated by late-Silurian...comprising the Skiddaw Slate Group of northern England was succeeded by a whole range of intrusive and...members of the Eycott Group in the vicinity of Carrock Fell (palaeomagnetic sites 15 to 21,Fig. 2A). A
Report (issue)
2 5GG No.60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2 - Geochemical investigations I...Report No. 60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2Geochemical investigations M. J...Launceston, Cornwall Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2-Geochemical investigations 33 ... Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1 -Geophysical survey 34 Results of a gravity...Mineral exploration in the Ravenstonedale area, Cumbria The· Institute of Geological Sciences was formed
 
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