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Marcasite from
Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:36733
Long-form Identifier:1:3:36733:0
GUID (UUID V4):b2c366a3-cb1a-4678-bc03-5526d7f2a5ef
Nearest other occurrences of Marcasite
2.9km (1.8 miles) Great Sulphur vein, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.6km (2.9 miles) Tynehead Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
6.1km (3.8 miles) Calvert Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
11.9km (7.4 miles) Burtree Slits, Cowshill, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
14.1km (8.8 miles) Harthope Head Quarries, St. John's Chapel, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
15.4km (9.5 miles) Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
17.0km (10.5 miles) Slitt Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
17.0km (10.5 miles) Middlehope Burn, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
19.8km (12.3 miles) Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent gypsum...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation... 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron-bearing sulpharsenides from the North of England R. A. IXER, C. J. STANLEY, AND D. J. VAUGHAN Department...Birmingham, Birmingham B4 7ET SUMMARY. Within the Alston Orefield of the North Pennines, glaucodot and gersdorffite...gersdorffite have been found in samples from Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, and zoned gersdorffite has been found...in nickel content in the sulpharsenides from the Alston Orefield with a relatively constant Co:Fe ratio...ratios from FeAsS to CoAsS. The compositions of the Alston Orefield sulpharsenides, in particular, show them
Book (edition)
coal 220 to 260 Alston Gro·up Girvane1la Band Asbian (P- P 1a) (D 1)- Lower Alston Massive limestone...Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...Stainmore between the two halves. The northern half or Alston Block is host to a great majority of the deposits...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Greigite. As a secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sweden (Sverige) Gladhammar mine, nickel-rich carrollite, 737 Harstig mine, Pajsberg, sarkinite, 681 Norr6...Norr6, arrojadite (hiihnerkobelite), 23o Sjo mine, Grythytte Parish, Orebro, xantharsenite, polyarsenite...Sukula, alluaudite, 230 British Isles ENGLAND Alston, Cumbria, fluorite, 82o Blue Anchor point to StolJbrd...Coniston, Cumbria, wittichenite, IO3; IO9 Sprattling Court farm, Ramsgate, Kent, chalk, i6o Tynebottom mine...mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, arsenical marcasite, gersdorffite, glaucodot, 390 Wheal Owles, St. Just, Cornwall
Report (issue)
Chile [TL]. In the USA, at the Standard Consolidated mine, Sumpter, Grant Co., Oregon, and at Franconia, Grafton...Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, near Alston, Cumbria, England. From Tsumeb, Namibia...glaucodot, (Co,Fe)AsS, and its relationships to marcasite and arsenopyrite. Amer. Mineral., 93, 1183-1186
Book
pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages...Orefield The Alston Block ...................... The Pennine Escarpment ........... Alston Moor ...........Wensleydale ...................... Wharfedale, Grassington Moor and Greenhow .................... The West Cumbrian................... 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
Book (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALF�S GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PENNINE OREFIELD...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...Co., the Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., and the New Brancepeth..... ... . .. Grain of the Foundation Rocks; The Alston Block; The Teesdale Dome; Burtreeford Disturbance;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
From the North Pennines Orefield England Figure 1. The Groverake mine, located in upper Rookhopeburn,...operating commercial fluorspar mine in the North Pennines, closing in 1999. Mine waste heaps (known locally...nineteenth centuries can be seen on the hills above the mine site. Figure 2 (left). A scattering of numerous...matrix, 14 × 10 × 7 cm, recovered from the Cambokeels mine in the early 1980s. Figure 3 (right). A penetration-twinned...× 4-cm specimen was recovered from the Rogerley mine in 2013. 306 ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 4. General
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
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]
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenides, was described from the Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, England by Ixer & Stanley (1987). It...employed the following standards: pure silver (Ag), marcasite (Fe, S), synthetic GaAs (As), pure copper (Cu)...silver–nickel–cobalt mineral association at Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, near Alston, Cumbria. Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc...mineral of the chalcopyrite group from the Montgros mine, Haute-Loire, France. Eur. J. Mineral. 5, 891- 897...Verbreitung in den Erzen der Tsumeb- und Kipushi-Mine. Neues Jahbr. Mineral., Monatsh., 241-264. Strunz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountains, centered on the Weardale area of northern England, have yielded enormous amounts of both lead and...partner in UK Mining Ventures,which is operating a specimen-recoveryproject at the Rogerley mine in Weardale...Weardale, England. His most recent article for Rocks & Minerals was titled “The Rogerley Mine, Weardale,... County Durham, England” and appeared in the January/February 2000 issue. 378 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...cost of rehabilitating and running an underground mine, coupled with everincreasing environmental concerns
Catalog/List
Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Stibnite Galena, Fluorite and Barvte Pyrite & Marcasite Jamesonite Chalcopyrite Chalcopyrite Bournonite...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The...Rocks Cornwall Hinqston Down, Cornwall Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 £1...Quebec (Cook) Herodsfoot Cornwall Bournonite Bedford Mine Devon Arsenoovrite Colorado USA Enaraite Minas Gerais
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pb–Zn–Ba–F mineralisation in the Alston Block, North Pennine Orefield (England) Jon E. Bouch & Jonathan Naden...Survey 2006 Abstract The North Pennine Orefield Alston Block has produced approximately 4 Mt Pb, 0.3 Mt...Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth, NG12 5GG Nottingham, UK e-mail: jbouch@bgs.ac.uk T. J. Shepherd School of...Leeds, UK B. Young British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, EH9 3LA Edinburgh, UK H....Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth, NG12 5GG Nottingham, UK Present address: B. Young Department of Earth Sciences
Report (issue)
mines • 9'1133-1 1 • in Cumberland and Dun Fell Mine in Wes·tmorland. Co. Durham, is also a potential...angdon Moss and Bow Lee in Teesdale; Blagill in Alston Moor and Gilberts Level in Westmorland. 7. Longer...weJl as in lower limestones at the Nest Mines near Alston • •• • 8. Iron carbonate may be obtained as...embraces Alston Moor, served by the Alston - Hexham branch of the L.N.E.R., and part of the Pe::mine Escarpment... . Cockle Shell ' Beds ' Single Post .• Tynebottom • • ' Jew • • 22 - 33 Lower Little 12
Journal (volume)
PAPERS Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David 1. Green...Copper·bearing silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 ...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence...Tom F. Cotterell 54-55 Cesarolite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales Tom F. Cotterell...55-56 PAPER Corkite and hinsdalite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales, including evidence
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
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...specimens are labelled "Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...specimens were acquired through dealers operating in Alston, and, for whatever reason, they opted to change...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious
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)
Chemical Industries Ltd., to visit the anhydrite mine at Billingham. During the excursion the opportunity...the first day was the Rotherhope Fell lead mine, near Alston, Cumberland. The route followed took the party...rises, and passing through Nenthead and Alston, Rotherhope Fell mine, situated on the Black Burn, a tributary...tributary of the South Tyne, was reached. At the mine, which is owned by the Vieille Montagne Zinc Co. Ltd...party was conducted Flo. 1. Rotherhope Fell lead mine. (Photo. by Dr. G. F. Claringbull.) round the workings
Catalog/List
60x30x30mm approx. £48. 4) ARSENOPYRITE. Old Anderton Mine, Tavistock, Devon. A solid mass of slightly iron...arsenopyrite. 80x50x40mm. £15. 5) ARSENOPYRITE. South Mine, Devon United Mines, Mary Tavy, Devon. Good very...£8. 6) BARYTOCALCITE. Nentsbury Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. A nice small radiating mass of xis to...matrix. 50x45x40mm. £85. 8) BORNITE. Cooks Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Chalcopyrite matrix, the top... £85. 9) BOTALLACKITE. 130fm South Lode, Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. A scattering of sparkling green
Journal (issue)
NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...4TG Printed by Northern Litho Services, Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...BURDELL GILL, CALDBECK FELLS,CUMBRIA T. NEALL, Greenside, Kirkbride, Cumbria, CA7 SJH. C. M. LEPPINGTON...LEPPINGTON, 1 Harrot Hill, Cockermouth, Cumbria, CA13 OBL. Abundant green pharmacosiderite occurs in a goethite...stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly
Journal (volume)
mineralogy of the Clargillhead Vein, Tynehead, Cumbria: the first report of native silver from the Northern...and Andy Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...from localities such as Tynagh Mine in Co. Galway and Pendarves Mine in Cornwall (Figs 1 and 2) serves
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This well-formed twinned yellow...under stagnant conditions, Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois...galena (Pb). Other common minerals include pyrite, marcasite, dolomite, calcite, quartz, and occasionally barite...partner in UK Mining Ventures, which is operating a specimen-recovery project at the Rogerley mine in Weardale
 
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