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Granite from
Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:River Valley
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1097517
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1097517:4
GUID (UUID V4):36ee7cec-4d4b-465d-ae70-1b31859e7695
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
55.3km (34.4 miles) Lotus Hill, New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
56.9km (35.4 miles) Lower Porterbelly Quarry, Kirkgunzeon, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
57.7km (35.9 miles) Craignair Quarry, Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
58.5km (36.4 miles) Screel Hill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
4487) (top left) Mimetite, variety campylite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz...(bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS 4490) (bottom right) ISBN O 85272...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...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation.
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...and EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard Bell THE SHAP GRANITE CUMBRIA DESIGN Julie Ballard QUARRY, Max Wirth •...Ratcliff & Roper (Print ) Ltd Worksop, Nous. S80 2EE UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 22 -t- Campylite...the classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull
Report (volume)
is Registered Charity 210161. The Society is the UK national learned and professional society for geology...fifth of the Society's fellowship resides outside the UK. To find out more about the Society, log on to www...uk. The Geological Society Publishing House (Bath, UK) produces the Society's international journals and...Brassmill Enterprise Centre Brassmill Lane Bath BA1 3JN, UK (Orders: Tel. +44 (0)1225 445046 Fax +44 (0)1225...Typeset by Type Study, Scarborough, UK Printed by Alden Press, Oxford, UK iv Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore
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
Book
District. 1. Mountains — England — Lake District — Guide-books 2. Lake District (England) — Description and...variety of stratified and unstratified rocks, from granite to carboniferous beds. But it isn’t only the geologist...the middle of the nineteenth century, much of England seems to have taken a persistently Philistine view...who earn a living in this delectable corner of England. 17 Table 1 The 600-metre mountains of the Lake...Sharp Edge Bannerdale Crags from Mungrisdale Bowscale Fell from Mungrisdale 23 1.13 Souther Fell from Scales
Journal (volume)
crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection. Photograph...the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection. Photograph...review of the mineralisation at Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor...mineralogy of Short Grain Low Level, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Tim Neall and David I. Green 45-61 ‘Lady’s slippers’...Kingsley Dunham from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE Acicular baryte
Journal (volume)
- - Volume 4 Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society THE MINE EXPLORER Volume IV 1994 THE... THE MINE EXPLORER The Journal of Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society Volume IV 1994 ...ISSN 0266-5700 The Mine Explorer Published by Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society c/o The Secretary...Secretary 411 West Shore Park Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LAI 4 3YS Typeset in 9pt Palatino & 9pt Helvetica...North Yorkshire BD24 9AA 0729 822177 Copyright © Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society 1994. All
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
area, and the occurrence near here of Criffel Granite and other Scottish erratics, reverses his decision...g the east side of the River Derwent, and up Grains Gill to 1,250 ft. O . D . T h e y have their greatest...greatest development just below the junction of Styhead Gill, at Stockley Bridge, here forming parallel mounds...450ft. to 600ft. O . D . In the upper part of Grains Gill, at the junction with R u d d y Beck, an interesting...of S p h a g n u m bog. Between the head of Grains Gill and Esk Hause, a thin covering of drift and rainwash
Report (chapter)
associated rocks of the Scafell area, Lake District (England)' (1953). Though Firman was born before Oliver...became interested in the question of the origin of granite - at that time a controversial topic - and the...suggested that a study of the Shap and Eskdale granite aureoles would make a good PhD problem. Although...emplaced as molten magmas. They held that the Shap Granite was intruded after the main Lakeland earth movements...Grantham (1928), had had the idea that the Shap Granite was composite, an earlier somewhat basic type being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been present at other localities in the West of England. The first recorded British occurrence of beudantite...associations. ~ Lake District, Cumberland. Grains Gill, Carrock Fell. Beudantite has been found here...Higher part of Brandy Gill, Carrock Fell. About three-quarters of the way up the gill, an east-west C u -...westerly members of the ' granitic' suite of veins in Grains Gilla half a mile t o the south. These ' g r a...veins and strings in the higher part of B r a n d y Gill, as well as the adjacent country-rock, contain much
Book
OF THE CHANNEL ISLES-Cedric Rogers 5. NORTHERN ENGLAND NORTHUMBRIA 1-Ron Brown NORTHUMBRIA 2-Ron Brown...brews­ terite among a variety of other minerals. England is much less well supplied, and apart from a scanty...usually refers to the kind consisting of the typical granite minerals (quartz, feldspar, mica etc), although...plagioclase feldspar. I will only be mentioning the granite pegmatites here since they are more common and...surrounding rock, which is usually, but not always, granite or aplite. There has been some doubt as to how
Journal (issue)
associated with many kinds of rock, especially with granite. As the magma cooled and its principal elements...precipitated in pockets formed by hot gas in the granite. Where it has room to do so gold forms delicate...which is quite easily recovered. The presence of grains or nuggets in the riverbed suggests the presence...and probably to the locals before tl:lem. Small grains of gold, and occasionally nuggets, have been found...from locali­ ties scattered all over Wales, from grains found in marl while boring a well at a brewery
Book (edition)
natural decay processes i n rocks, especially granite. The early miners were, o f course, unaware of...Here, for example, is the composition o f the Hay Gill Mining Company (1839): Edward Channey, spirit merchant;...with the mint and spoke of it as `The best in England', but the attitude of the locals gave much cause...few yards to the W o f the bridge over Stoncycroft Gill on the Braithwaite to Buttcrmcrc road ( N Y 231212)...early workings were open cuts in the bed of the gill from which the water was diverted by a dam and watercourse
 
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