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Dolomite from
Warden Point, Warden, Swale, Kent, England, UK


Locality type:Coast
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Warden Point, Warden, Swale, Kent, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1236424
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1236424:8
GUID (UUID V4):3b14e1ca-a0a7-41ed-bfa4-83a8447324b5
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
14.7km (9.2 miles) Whitehall Farm Quarry, Medway, England, UK
89.7km (55.7 miles) Stinkal quarry, Ferques, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
mudrocks from the London Clay Formation of southern England Physical Hazards Programme Intensity (counts)...mudrocks from the London Clay Formation of southern England S J Kemp and D Wagner mineralogy, London Clay...µm X-ray diffraction traces, sample Brambledown, Kent. Bibliographical reference KEMP, S.J. AND WAGNER...mudrocks from the London Clay Formation of southern England. British Geological Survey Internal Report, IR/06/060...to help explain the geotechnical behaviour of the UK London Clay Formation. This project follows similar
Journal (issue)
SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org .uk ***-***'lrl<-lrl<******7rl<'lrl<'lrl<**'lrl<**kl...9LZ MarkOddy Bryanstone Langton Road Speldhurst KENT CR95BX Elvira Mortimer Pen-y-Bryn Ford Near Shrewsbury...and Gill Burgess also Jonathan Abbs arrived from Kent, Peter Nancarrow from Surrey, and Trevor Devon brought...unusual hand specimen of manganoan calcite (or dolomite) was awarded second place: this had been collected...Ireland, that presented an attractive cluster of dolomite crystals. Trevor Devon Class 3 A Display of Mineral
Journal (issue)
Roger Kemplen 1 Orchard Cottages Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME90EX 01444 483041 0208 6541298 01743 850616...are angular. Martin commented that the cut-off point between the two is, of course, ill-defined. A common...IDENTIFICATION Peter Moore gave an excellent Power Point presentation on basic mineral identification at...associated with ore minerals. Quartz, calcite, dolomite, baryte and fluorite are classified as gangue...crystals; cleaves into octahedra 4 BARYTE 5 DOLOMITE 6 GALENA 7 PYRITE 8 CHALCOPYRITE 9 SPHALERITE
Journal (issue)
UNDFIELD NORTON NORTON West Sussex CROYDON Kent Kent CR95BX ME90EX ME90EX RH162SA 0181 6541298...the author. -3- SMLS Journal 162 Nov/Dec 1999 UK VISIT OF THE MILLAU GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 16th-23rd...know the UK. However, the rest of the group knew little English and many had never been to England before...of the visit was twofold. Firstly, to visit some UK collecting sites, and obtain some specimens of British...that Her Majesty has never been to the beach at Warden Point). Accommodation was in Croydon, in a hotel
Catalog/List
Italy £ 1O 72 DOLOMITE mass of small crystalline cleavages on a red-brown finer grained dolomite matrix ....across showing the internal structure. Warden Point, Sheppey, Kent, with collectors label. It Has some weak
Journal (issue)
caption to Photo 10 reads FLUORITE rather than DOLOMITE (from Eugui, Navarra, Spain). You can’t get good...between the main part of the city and Pittsburgh Point, at that time a peninsula jutting into Lake Havasu...under the bridge and flooded, separating Pittsburgh Point from the city, creating an island. After reconstruction...in-situ. The surprising thing was the highest fixing point was not near the top of the quarry face but many...until 1989 that this species from Merrivale, the sole UK occurrence (to date), was first described in the
Journal (issue)
Road Speldhurst KENT TN3 0NP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sid cup KENT DA14 SEL Trevor...of dolomite. The dolomite had originally been stromatolites which had not only produced dolomite, but...also trapped sand. The combination of sand and dolomite had been metamorphosed to produce fibrous crystals...tremolite in the buff coloured dolomite marble. The presence of dolomite in rocks of this age indicated...members of the expedition came across an area of dolomite rock one kilometre in length that did not fit
Journal (issue)
Road Speldhurst KENT TN3 ONP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sid cup KENT DA14 5EL Trevor...morning, to catch our train to Vienna. It was at this point that someone mentioned our interesting trip round...modem winery ear1ier in the day. Ah! This touched a point of honour. What did the French (the modem winery...great colour and pattern. Terry also entered three UK cabochons of which the orbicular jasper, in particular...awarded the "Best in Show''. The judges also made a point of commenting that they had double-checked to confirm
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Road Speldhurst KENT TN30NP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sidcup KENT DA14 5EL Trevor...site when we were offered the chance to become the UK agent for Mineralogical Record - thank you Mr Lowe...and 8. Main finds were baryte, various calcites, dolomite, galena, hemimorphite?, goethite, pyrite, copper...five Field Trips. The locations were the North of England, Sheppey, Samphire Hoe, Cornwall and South Wales...support. We only had three members on our North of England trip and two on our Samphire Hoe trip in 2009/2010
Journal (issue)
Janice Kemplen 1 Orchard Cottages Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME90EX Colin Brough 1 William Allen Lane LINDFIELD...Roger Kemplen 1 Orchard Cottages Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME90EX 0181 654 1298 01795 521174 01795 521174...Chatsworth estate. These can also be seen in vol.13 of the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals (UKJMM), which is devoted...Southern Europe pushed north caused uplift in Northern UK and East/West faulting in the limestone. The limestone...many rare and common minerals from mines in New England. Smithsonian Gem and Mineral Collection A collection
Journal (issue)
Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME9 OEX Roger Kemplen 1 Orchard Cottages Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME90EX 01444 483041...weather had been wet for two months, and the beach at Warden was a quagmire. In 2003, our visit followed one...only took 20 minutes to reach the section below Warden Point where the best nodules are usually found. However...excellent refreshments and the best one-day-show in the UK. Admission is £1.50 for adults, 50p for children...organises field trips to collect minerals in the UK. This year we went to Cornwall, Shropshire, the Mendips
Journal (issue)
EDITOR: George Ryba.:k . 42 Bell Road. Sitlingbourn.:. Kent ME 10 4EB. L.K . JOURNAL MANAGER: Rex Cook. '13...The supergene leaching of copper in south-west England has been recorded in numerous studies, although...post-Armorican early Mesozoic period when south-west England was approximately 200300 miles from the equator...hypogene gold subjected to supergene alteration), point to a supergene origin. The concentration of gold...Re-discovery of stokesite crystals in Cornwall, England. Mineralogical Record, 8, 294-297. Couper, A.G
Book
increasingly ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath...roles, but all involving more excursions to various UK and foreign locations. During some project work in...calcified Teredo Worm Holes from Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. I also cut and polish rocks, any
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
420 Copeland, Dr. ... 477 138, 140, 5116 Copt Point Coral-bed, Gault 144 Coralline Oolite 92,328,357... 419 466,475 Disco Dogger 128,409 Dolcoch 563 Dolomite 495 Dolomitic Conglomerate ... 69 Donations 35.... 127 Earth's axis, obliquity of 11,15, 16 East Kent Gravels 257 PAGE. 256 Ebsfleet ... 485 Ecca-beds...to 491 Graphite in Greenland 466 Gravels of East Kent 257 286, 290 .. of Somme Valley Gr ays bods ......Poikilitie rocks, section of... 79 " series... 52 Point Wilkie 473 Polar expeditions... 460 Political importance
Journal (issue)
Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME90EX Roger Kemplen 1 Orchard Cottages Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME9 DEX 01444 483041...expanded to become one of the largest barite mines in England. Production rose to over 20,000 tons per year in...Though a shade disappointing from the collecting point of view, the opportunity to collect underground...the local hardware store. Are they available in the UK? If so let's try them out. .. (I have found a pack...the chief executive of an American firm Lifegem . UK whose offices are in Hove. . 200 grams of your ashes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW7 2BP, UK (Received 30 April 1993; revised 31 August 1993)...mid Miocene tectonism which affected southern England. This maximum depth is an estimate based on known...D division of King (1981) were obtained from Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey (grid reference T R 021 714)...concretions in Permian limestones from north-east England, except that in the latter, crystals are up to...original and evolution of Tertiary phosphorites from England. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 137, 723-729. BERNERR.A. (1970)
Journal (issue)
Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sidcup KENT DA145EL Colin Brough 1 William Allen Lane Lindfield...Julie Dablaing, which she got from the beach at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey. Mark Oddy's entry came from...specular hematite on dolomite, hematite and quartz, a hematite specimen and a dolomite with calcite. One...addition to his talk on the Farces I would like to point out that John Pearce with Tony Lee oversaw the publication...trend over recent years particularly with regard to UK trips. Introducing new members to mineral and fossil
Book
Gazetteer section of Sites of Geological interest in England, Wales and Scotland compiled by Peter R Rodgers...of your detailed knowledge is relevant. At this point the spark of interest can easily be extinguished...the most widely travelled cut across northern England to die away on the Yorkshire coast and one or two...covers an area of 2,500 square km in Northern ee England (see Colour 2) averaging about 30m in thickness...Period when deltas extended over much of Northern England forming the ‘Millstone Grit’ (up to 2,000m of
Journal (issue)
also produced by the US, India and Pakistan. In the UK it is mined at Aberfeldy (Perthshire) and as a biproduct...and forms. Plate 1. ‘Rabbit ears’ baryte on dolomite, Plate 2. Pale blue, gemmy baryte on calcite,...class 10. Classes 10 and 11 can include minerals from UK or overseas. 2. Specimens in classes 2, 2A, 3,...the British Isles, defined for these purposes as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Channel...13-15), John Pearce with minerals from the South of England, Nick Hawes with a selection of his British minerals
Catalog/List
1980. 90/141 Pyrite with calcite. Warden Point, Isle of Sheppy, Kent. Bright pyrite crystals to 3mm sprinkled...quartz-sphalerite matrix. 94/069 Calcite, malachite with dolomite. Great Orme Copper Mine, Llandudno, N. Wales....calcite with green malachite coating a light brown dolomite matrix. 94/072 Calcite. Great Orme Copper Mine...crystals encrusting a vugh (70xS0mm) in a malachite-dolomite matrix. 94/074 Malachite with chalcopyrite. Great...chalcopyrite crystals scattered over a light brown dolomite matrix. 94/071 Calcite with malachite. Great Orme
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystalline rocks of, 2, 3; Devonian of, II ; dolomite of, 2 ; Eastern , 12 j E ocene of, IS j er up... 203 Dolerite 5, 152, 156, 201, 367,397, 41 I Dolomite 8, 12 Dorking 447 Dorset and Devon, Gravels of...Geology of 191 Petrology of Birmingham 389 Pettycur Point 137 Phi/lipsiana Beds I lSI Phyllite 8, II, 15 Phylloceras...Sandstone 387 Shrubsole, W. H. 167,459-462 Siccar Point II8, 122,204 Silurian 10, II7 et seqq. " of Birmingham...lton-on-the-Hi ll Excurs ion 456 Wa lton-on -the-Naze 75 Warden Point 460 Warlingham Excursion 458 Warren, S. H. 238
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Quarry Dolerite 5, 152, 156,201, 367,397, 4II Dolomite 8,12 Dorking 447 Dorset and Devon, Gravels of...143 Peaseburn 122,205 Pebbly Gravels in Southern England 264 Pebidian 412 Oak Hall INDEX. PAGE Pegwell...Geology of 191 Petrology of Birmingham 389 Pettycur Point 137 Phi//ipsiana Beds rs r Phyllite 8, II, 15 Phylloceras...Sandstone 387 Shrubsole, W. H. 167,459-462 Siccar Point r rS, 122, 204 Silurian 10, u7 el uqq. " of Birmingham...lton-on-the-Hill Excursion 456 Walton-cn-the-Naze 75 Warden Point 460 Warlingham Excursion 45 8 Warren, S. H
Journal (issue)
1982 COVER PHOTO Malachite on Chalcopyrite, on Dolomite from Ty Gwyn Mine Llandudno THE JOURNAL OF...Baryte and other minerals from the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. 5 Paul K. Monk. Metal mines of the British Isles...OF SHEPPEY, KENT Paul K. Monk I ntrod uction The north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, has long been...dedicated collectors in the field. Location Warden Point (I\latn. Grid Ref. TR 0272) is on the north...generally low lying island off the north coast of Kent. Access to the cliffs and beach can be difficult
Journal (issue)
Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................a loss; especially to members in the north of England. On a more up-beat theme, there is positive news...to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry...a replacement for the hard copy version at some point. A number of other clubs and societies already do
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collector'sguide 1 28 A list of 111i11eral localities in England, f;f/ ales and Scotland 13 1 Bibliography and further...Agate pebbles from the easr coast bc.:achesof England. 116 .io. A beach on the Lleyn Peninsula, North...most active in what is 110w thl.'.British Isles. England also has its interesting areas. Cornwall with its...co prepare. Bric;iin is a poor country from the point of view of mineral wealth; and although ores of...dcnud:irio11, :llld the Calcdonian Mountains of Wales and England h:id been well and truly flattened. Not so the
 
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