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Calcite from
Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:A common mineral throughout the mine, forming crystals to 3 cms in diameter displaying major shallow pyramid faces with minor development of the prism faces. Commonly forming crystals richly scattered over an ankerite matrix. An area near the Bogg Shaft, from a brecciated area has in the past furnished cabinet size specimens of typical calcite crystals to 2.5cm dia.
Colour:Translucent white to colourless
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphalerite35 photos of Calcite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Dolomite17 photos of Calcite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Ankerite15 photos of Calcite associated with Ankerite at this locality.
Fluorite10 photos of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Quartz10 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Chalcopyrite10 photos of Calcite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Galena5 photos of Calcite associated with Galena at this locality.
Pyrite2 photos of Calcite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Hydrozincite1 photo of Calcite associated with Hydrozincite at this locality.
Siderite1 photo of Calcite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (32 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2580
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2580:5
GUID (UUID V4):27abfd1d-53a0-4f96-95c3-2ca8f6237be5
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Middlecleugh Upper Level, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.9km (0.5 miles) Caplecleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
3.0km (1.9 miles) Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Wellhopehead Mine, West Allen, Northumberland, England, UK
3.7km (2.3 miles) Park Level Mine, Killhope Burn, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.5km (2.8 miles) Wellheads Hush, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
5.1km (3.2 miles) Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Windy Brow Vein, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 92/089 Analcime with calcite. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Analcime...with calcite crystals. 92/088 Calcite and analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Calcite-analcime...pseudomorphs after laumontite crystals 50mm lon_g. 92/095 Calcite and analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire...by calcite and analcime. 89/039 Calcite. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Large white calcite crystal...crystal with later white calcite crystals on faces. 93/142 Calcite with analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft,
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 (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 (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
growing on a mass of fluorite crystals. BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4648 Tetrahedral crystals...grey micro crystals of quartz. GREENSIDE MINE, PATTERDALE, CUMBRIA M 4709 Large cubes of galena encrusted...siderite with the odd cube of fluorite BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4710 Beautiful association...and blue-grey micro-crystals of quartz. BEAUMONT MINE, ALLENHEADS, ALLENDALE, NORTHUMBERLAND M 5034 ...crystals on iron lattice-work. FLORENCE MINE, EGREMONT, CUMBRIA M 5416 Large cubes of shiny galena sitting
Book
Fluorite [BM 1964, R 1524], seepage 152; (back) Calcite [BM 1926, 1252]. see page 137; both images ©NHMPL...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...li Introduction to the Minerals ........ 117 Calcite .............................. 117 Barite ....
Catalog/List
Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Arsenopyrite Sphalerite& Hydrozincite Sphalerite, Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena & Dolomite Chalcopyrite on...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...£1 Irkutsk Museum) Siberia Smallcleugh, Nenthead Smallcleugh, Nenthead A3 A3 A3 £3 £1.50 £2 Haxis
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...Tetragonal Significant component of siderite-calcite-Fe sulphide concretions being formed in reduced
Report (chapter)
Secondary minerals in the abandoned mines of Nenthead, Cumbria as sinks for pollutant metals C. A. N U T...University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Abstract: Direct observations made during underground...abandoned lead-zinc mine workings in the north Pennines. Chemical analysis of mine waters has shown that...there must be significant sinks for zinc within the mine workings. Secondary zinc mineral sinks (principally...addition to the secondary zinc minerals, secondary calcite and aragonite from the workings have also been
Journal (volume)
mineral deposition in a cavity in Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and Roy Starkey...development of a mineralised cavity at the Smallcleugh Mine in the North Pennine Orefield, where Trevor...we were walking down from Copa Hill at Cwmystwyth mine in mid-wales. we had both been participants on one...group of clear quartz crystals from brownley Hill mine, and Journal of the Russell Society (2015) 1st...“micromount” category, with a baryte from tear breeches mine, matlock bath. at this time, the Society was also
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
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...crystals, with calcite on quartz matrix, 14 × 10 × 7 cm, recovered from the Cambokeels mine in the early...× 4-cm specimen was recovered from the Rogerley mine in 2013. 306 ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 4. General
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
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...Nowadays, surface traces of mining are mos~y LG 41 Calcite Frizington, Cumberland restricted to the barren...waste rock and gangue discarded during mining - the mine pagel The Lindsay Gree11ba11k Collection curators
Catalog/List
Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...than A. £5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll. A white...xtls. A fine example. £6. 7. ANATASE, Virtuos Lady mine, Devon. l.4xl.5xlcm. A MM with a micro xtl of sparkly...APATITE, llarding's Vein. · Carrock mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbria. 5x4x2.5cm . One fairly gemmy greenish...clear xtls. Very pretty. £4. 16. AZURITE, Tynagh mine, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ex S.J.A.C. Brown coll. Old
Journal (issue)
UK C TS 2 EDITORIAL COVER.Smalt-blueplumbogummite with minor pyromorphite on vein quartzfrom RoughtonGill...Ballard 39 EPIDOTE-(SR) AND PIEMONTITE-(SR) BENALLT MINE FROM NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe David McCallum...of the Editorial Board. GORCEIXITE FROM BENALLT MINE Tom Cotterell • Richard Tayler 61 Publication...N0952-2409 BOOK REVIEWS 68 PRINTEDBY ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 33 -1- EDITORIAL...the journal by subscription. We have examined the UK subscription rates and these will remain at £16 for
Journal (issue)
ISSN 0263 7839 FRONT COVER: Barite, Cleator Moor, Cumbria. National Museum of Wales specimen NMW 83.4IG...F. Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow...from Smal1cleugh and Brownley Hill mines, Nenthead, Cumbria A. Livingstone Stannite revisited D .H .M...M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES Phosgenite...Hubbard 35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper minerals
Journal (issue)
Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria B. Young, E. Hyslop and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall....;:;0;:;..,.... :.WST'JUST )~~~ BALLESWIDDEN MINE '\:;;:~. .F lGURE 1. Schematic geology of the
Journal (issue)
Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten...ecord Articles Rare sulfosalts from the Van Silver mine, British C olum bia...............................mineral localities: The Brownley Hill mine, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England....................................COVER: ATACAMITE in GYPSUM, 6.8 cm, from the Lily mine, lea, Peru. Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo
Journal (issue)
Peter and Roger to check out an abandoned copper mine just up the hill from the hotel. The proximity of...in transit from their home in southern Spain to England. David spent a day with the group collecting at...through the mountains and present near almost every mine. Certain people in the party would not have bothered...really think they would have come all the way f ram England to steal a cow-bell!" The police were called by..."herkimer'' quartzes (cristal de roca), a wonderful calcite specimen with two amber coloured, almost faceted
Book
remains of the Park Level lead crushing mill and mine buildings. Minor repairs were carried out to the...walked the four miles from home to the Killhope mine where he worked. On the way he met up with his partners...partners and together they went into the mine to start work. The lead vein was rich and wide and they...Lead Mining Centre, on the site of the Park Level Mine and Crushing Mill, is a memorial to the lead industry...COMPANY { '-�. BBlaгnchlandW. В. LEAD •Allenheads Alston Моог,- . — Contours 800ft and 1400 ft - - -
Catalog/List
clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment... 14. APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen....Aragonite to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece. 3 specimens. Specimens A and B.... ARSENOPYRITE/BORNITE/CASSITERITE. South Crofty Mine,Camborne, Cornwall. Grey sulphidic,vuggy matrix...lustre. specimen. SC,.t4. 23. AURICHALCITE.Cha Kouh Mine,Isfahan,Iran. Earthy,limonlte stained vuggy matrix
Pennine Lead-Miner Eric Richardson, of Nenthead Personal recollections of lifeiin ae Pennine orefield...a | Pennine Lead-Miner Eric Richardson, of Nenthead by W.R. Mitchell DALESMAN BOOKS 1979 THE...the splashing of beck-water and the voices of the moor birds— the gutteral calls of grouse and crow, the...crumbling bouseteams, where the ore brought from the mine was stacked. At Kilhope, near the head of Weardale...mines on the great fells. Eric Richardson, of Nenthead, had his interest in mining aroused when, as a
Catalog/List
DRAKEWALLS HOUSE, DRAKEWALLS, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V.A.T...<2x1t", £4. SOp /-. " 9. AUTUNITE." South Terras Mine, St. ~e~; Cornwall. Pale green flakes and masses...places. 2~2x1t", £18.00 11. AZURITE. Sir Domoni r Mine, Mt. Painter, S. Auatralia. Select cluster of large...sides of limonitic matrix with numerous clear CALCITE crystals to il-" in size in assliJciation. Fine...3-~x2il-x2", £23.00 14. BARYIES. Mt. Wellington Mine, Twelveheads, Cornwall. Specimen A: Lustrous creamygrey
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
 
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