 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | area of northern England, have yielded enormous amounts of both lead and, later, fluorite ores. Byproducts...activity were the many well-crystallized specimens of fluorite and other minerals that were found lining cavities...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | All photos by the author unless otherwise noted FLUORITE JESSE FISHER 380 Pennsylvania Avenue San Francisco...From the North Pennines Orefield England Figure 1. The Groverake mine, located in upper Rookhopeburn,...Weardale proper. The Groverake was the last operating commercial fluorspar mine in the North Pennines...Pennines, closing in 1999. Mine waste heaps (known locally as “tips”) dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth...above the mine site. Figure 2 (left). A scattering of numerous penetration-twinned fluorite crystals |  | | Book | | Outstanding Natural Beauty Authors: lan Forbes, Durham County Council. Brian Young, British Geological Survey...Northumberland County Council. Lesley Hehir, Durham County Council. Graphic design: Louise Fenwick, Durham County...Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page.12 Fossilised tropical sea...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...Scraithole Vein, T.F. Bridges; p.28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite | | | Book | | Outstanding Natural Beauty Authors: Ian Forbes, Durham County Council. Brian Young, British Geological Survey...Northumberland County Council. Lesley Hehir, Durham County Council. Graphic design: Louise Fenwick, Durham County...Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page.12 Fossilised tropical sea...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...Scraithole Vein, T.F. Bridges; p.28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK B.YOUNG British Geological Survey, Windsor Court...Court, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HB, UK AND C. J. STANLEY Department of Mineralogy, The...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 3BD, UK Abstract Bismuthinite-bearing quartz veins from the...Pennine Orefield are all close to, or above, the Rookhope and Tynehead cupolas of the buried Weardale Granite...and paragenesis and are earlier than the main fluorite-baryte-galena-sphalerite mineralization of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Beautzjhl green fluorite specimens from this classic locality m e once again on the collector market...important source of lead, fluorspar (commercial fluorite), and other metallic and nonmetallic ores for...well-crystallized specimens of fluorite that exhibit a strong daylight fluorescence unique to fluorite from this region...collector’s market as a byproduct of mining for lead and fluorite ores has largely ceased. Those specimens that...exception to this has been specimens from the Rogerley mine, which was worked by partners Lindsay Greenbank |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluorite in Mississippi Valley–type Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 08:16...(top left). Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...transparent, dark green twinned fluorite crystal is perched on a triangular piece of ironstone matrix....(center left). Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This well-formed...well-formed twinned yellow fluorite crystal has a cluster of smaller fluorites at the base. The specimen |  | | Book (edition) | | Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century... Plate 1 Purple fluorite crystals from a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by...sheets 19 and 25, and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales) LONDON: HMSO 1990 . I\. © C,rown...sheets 19 and 25 and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales). Author Sir Kingsle_y Dunham, DSc, SD...FRS, FEng, FIMM Charleycroft, QuarryheadsLane) Durham DHJ 3D Y Other publications of the Survey dealing |  | | Report (edition) | | abundance in the lead and zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere. It is commonly...association is· with calc-spar and barytes, though in Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...Carruthers has had charge of the Northumberland, Durham and • Yorkshire sections; Mr. R. W. Pocock has...has revised the account of Derbyshire :fluorite deposits, and Mr. Henry Dewey has furnished notes on Cornwall |  | | Book | | Coverdesign by Mark Blackadder. Coverimages: (front) Fluorite [BM 1964, R 1524], seepage 152; (back) Calcite...publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages 41, 46, 54, 59(x2)...Earth Sciences,University of Durham: page_26 C H. Emeleus,University of Durham: page 26 Friends of Killhope...Valley ................... The Northumberland and Durham Coalfield ............. The Northern Pennine Orefield...117 Barite .............................. 119 Fluorite ............................. 120 Hematite .. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | especial interest, namely those in the north of England and in Derbyshire. Barium minerals have been known...considered merely as waste products as was also the fluorite from neighbouring localities. I t has been thought...basic igneous rocks. The rocks of the north of England belong to the Carboniferous System, and into these...following the outcrop of the Whin Sill, while the fluorite localities are concentrated in the centre of the...accompanying map (fig. 1). Specimens showing both fluorite and barytcs in close association are exceptional |  | | Report (issue) | | in the Pennines of northern England, particularly in Derbyshire and Durham. The deposits are associated...flotation. Derbyshire is the principal producing county, much of the present production coming from workings...found, particularly in northern Derbyshire and west Durham, beneath geologically younger formations and also...Steel Corporation, both of which have mines in Durham. Laporte Industries is the largest producer and...occurring mineral substance consisting essentially of fluorite (calcium fluoride, CaF2) together with variable |  | | Report (edition) | | .in the lead a.nd zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere. It is commonly...association is with calc spar and barytes, though in Durham where much of the country rook is arenaceous,...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...and, with Mr. Wray, an account of the mines in Durham. Mr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire...Carruthers has had charge of the Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire sections; l\ir. R. W. Pocock has |  | | 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... B. Laporte & Co., the Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd.,...Plan of the North Central flats, Rotherhope Fell Mine 82 11. Cross-section of Burtrec Pasture Vein |  | | Journal (volume) | | fabulous group of highly lustrous getniny bicoloured fluorite crystals to 5cm in length showing the characteristic...and yellow zoning from the find at Rodderup Fell Mine in the early 1930’s Photo G. Scovil WANTED! We...The Old Linhay, Halberfoh Road. Wil land, Devon, England, EX 15 2QF TEL 01884 821563 Email Ian@crystalclassics...plumbogummite from Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Photo: David Green. The UK Journal of Mines and...------ 9 -------------------------- Rogerley Mine Jesse Fisher • Lindsay Greenbank MARKETING Peter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pennine ores are presented. These indicate that fluorite was depositedbetweentemperaturesof 200øC and 100ø...cormate waterssimilarto thoseat presentfoundin the Durham coalfield. A comparison of the fluidinclusion...leadin additionto considerable quantitiesof zinc, fluorite,bariteand witherite. The earliest records of...Blackdene Mine, 9. Slitt, 10. Allenheads,11. WhiteheapsMine, 12. Groverake Mine, 13. Rookhope Borehole...galenasand the age of the I-Iercyniangranitesof S.W. England (27). Mineralo#y.--The sulfide minerals present |  | | Report (edition) | | is the \Vholesale Agent to the Trade outside the County of London. 1916. Price Ninepence. .. 11 PREFACE...abundance in the lead- and zinc-veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quanti ties elsewhere. It is commonly...association is with calc spp.r and baryt.es, though in Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old. miners...and, with i:t:T. Wray, an account of the �es in Durham. l\,fr. Pocock describes the occurrences in ;Derbyshire |  | | Report (edition) | | GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION GUIDES The Durham Area Compiled by G. A. L. JOHNSON Introduction page ITINERARY...Coal Measures in the Banks of the River Wear at Durham 3 II. Ordovician, Carboniferous and Intrusive Rocks...Upper Weardalc 12 IV. The Permiao in North-East Durham 15 21 V. Jurassic Rocks of the North Cleveland...of East Durham VII. Supplement to llinernrics 11, Ill and V: Igneous Rocks 26 in the Durham Arca 30 References...for incorporation in any further edition. The Durham Area Compiled by G. A. L. JOHNSON Contributors: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | British Steel Corporation geologists to Groverake Mine, near Rookhope in Weardale, supergene native copper...crystal faces and cleavage planes of fluorite in the Groverake Vein. The growths are often radial around...Northern Pennines has been recorded only from Sedling Mine, Weardale, where D u n h a m (1932, p. 92) described...Steel Corporation for permitting access to Groverake Mine, and Mr. J. Forster and Mr. R. Willmers for...Department of Geology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham. F.W. SMITH REFERENCE DUNHAM(K. C |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Impilahti, sphene, striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite...biotite, chlorite, muscovite, 429 Groverake mine, Rookhope, Weardale, Durham, copper, copiapite, 244 Meldon...Derbyshire Cobbler mine, Bonsall, fluorite, 4oi Jughole mine, Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, 81 I...I Ladywash mine, Eyam, fluorite, 4Ol Mare Tot mine, Castleton, fluorite (Blue John), 363 Masson opencast...Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, 81 I Oxclose mine, Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, bravoite |  | | Book (edition) | | | VOLUME V II UK MINING VENTURES T HE M INER AL HER ITAGE SPE CI ALI STS K U UK MI CONTENTS CONTENTS...CONTENTS UK MINING VENTU z FOREWOR D BY IAN & DIANA BRUCE4-5 z WEARDALE, COUNTY DURHA M 6-17 z DI A...A NA M ARI A MINE 18-29 SUTCLIFFE VEIN GR AEBER JONES POCKET 30-31 SNOWSTOR M POCKET 32-33 PAVEL’S...POCKET92-93 NORTHER N LIGHTS POCKET94-95 z ROGERLEY MINE 96-107 GREENBANK VEIN WOLFIE POCKET108-109 BEADLE...POCKET114-115 50 YEAR POCKET116-117 z LADY ANNABELLA MINE 118-127 THE BULL VEIN THE BULL VEIN 128-129 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................ Groverake & Frazer's Hush Mines Brian Young 28 ...........is that David, while at University, represented England in the sport of 'winks', which apparently was taken...the replacement of such names as fluorspar by fluorite, barytes by baryte etc. is not in any sense '...practice, in Britain and elsewhere, to apply the name fluorite to the mineral consisting of calcium fluoride...mineral fluorite but with variable amounts of impurities. Thus elsewhere in this Newsletter Groverake Mine |  | | 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 |  | | Report (edition) | | the '1,Vholesale Agent to the Trade outside the County of London. 1917. Price 9d. Net. .. 11 PREF...abundance in the lead- and zinc-veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller qnal_lti ties elsewhere. It is...association is with ca l c spar and barytes, though i n Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being h.ad to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...and, with Mr. Wray, an account of the mines in Durham. l\,lr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire |  | | Catalog/List | | Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake B32381 (STD (022) V.A.T.No...arsenopyrite. 3x2~x1t", £13.00 . 5. Hingston Down Mine: nr. C~llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green micro...Specimen B, 1~1fx1", £3.2Sp 17. CASSITERITE. Seal Hole Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Bright deep brownish sharp... 1-tx1tx1" , £12.00 1B. CASSITERITE. Blue Hills Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Rich heavy light brown mass...matrix. 2-tx2tx2~", £3.7Sp 21. CERUSSITE. Redgill Mine, Caldbeck, Cumberland. Lustrous creamy-~~ite ljackstraw |
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Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK