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Smithsonite from
Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Habit:Botryoidal, rice grain like crystals
Colour:Colourless to brown, to pale yellow
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Wet Chemical
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Ashoverite
Calcite
Cerussite
Fluorite
Greenockite
Hemimorphite
Hydrozincite
Litharge
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite7 photos of Smithsonite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Baryte3 photos of Smithsonite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Sweetite2 photos of Smithsonite associated with Sweetite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Smithsonite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Greenockite1 photo of Smithsonite associated with Greenockite at this locality.
Hemimorphite1 photo of Smithsonite associated with Hemimorphite at this locality.
Unnamed (gamma-Zn(OH)2)1 photo of Smithsonite associated with Unnamed (gamma-Zn(OH)2) at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:14394
Long-form Identifier:1:3:14394:3
GUID (UUID V4):b34e645f-94b8-4a17-b63a-825f0295a927
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Fall Hill Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
1.5km (1.0 miles) Butts Quarry, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
5.8km (3.6 miles) Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
6.8km (4.2 miles) Crich Quarry (Crich Cliff Quarry), Crich, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK
6.9km (4.3 miles) Rutland Cave Mine (Rutland Mine; Nestus Mine), Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.3km (4.5 miles) Devonshire Cavern, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.3km (4.5 miles) Masson Hill Quarry, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.3km (4.5 miles) Owlet Hole, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Royal mine, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Masson Hill and mines, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
References
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INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...2000 Special issue devoted to the minerals of Derbyshire with the PDMHS Special issue on the minerals
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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...occurrences in the Lake District, and in the Caldbeck Fells area within the Lake District, respectively, and...should be consulted for further details of any Lake District mineral mentioned in our list. More than 850 species...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as
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Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis, M.H. Hey & A.W.G. Kingsbury (1965)...Hingston Down Consols mine, Ca/stock, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis & M.H. Hey (1964) Min. Mag. 33, p. 937...Ashoverite (Holotype) BM 1982,00005 Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England A.M. Clark, E.E. Fejer, G. Cressey...1990,00025 Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall, England C.J. Stanley, G.C. Jones, A.D. Hart, P. Keller...1950,00056 - 61 Irchester, Northamptonshire, England F.A. Bannister & S.E. Hollingworth (1948) Nature
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Havcrslock Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS Minerals From North Wales The Trials and Tribulations of Mineral Identification...Membership Details 2 5 19 20 MINERALS I ROM NORTH WALES Mike Rothwell During the 1996 BMS Symposium...workshop on the mineralogy of a few chosen sites in North Wales. The following is a short summary of the workshop...calcite, cerrusite Less Common Hemimorphite, smithsonite Unusual Key Ref: BWLCIIGWYN (Wedding Cave)...Lead and Zinc ores in the Carboniferous rocks of North Wales. B. Smith. Memoirs of the Geological Survey
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