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Calcite from
Colemans Quarry, Nunney, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Goethite5 photos of Calcite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Fluorite2 photos of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Colemans Quarry, Nunney, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15127
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15127:0
GUID (UUID V4):302530d9-ec59-48f7-b283-37aed457d117
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
2.7km (1.7 miles) Whatley Quarry, Whatley, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
3.2km (2.0 miles) Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Halecombe Quarry, Leigh-on-Mendip, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
6.1km (3.8 miles) Holcombe Quarry (Cook's Wood Quarry; Cookswood Quarry), Stoke St Michael, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
6.3km (3.9 miles) Moons Hill Quarry, Stoke St Michael, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
6.8km (4.2 miles) Stoke Hill Quarry, Stoke St Michael, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
11.0km (6.9 miles) Gurney Slade Quarry, Binegar, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
15.8km (9.8 miles) Dulcote Quarry, St Cuthbert Out, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
17.3km (10.7 miles) Odd Down, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK
19.0km (11.8 miles) Lyncombe Hill, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
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...Re-discovery of stokesite crystals in Cornwall, England. Mineralogical Record, 8, 294-297. Couper, A.G...The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-west England. 2 vols. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great...activity in the St. Just mining district, Cornwall, England. In : Evans, A.M . (ed.), Metallization Associated
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...Tetragonal Significant component of siderite-calcite-Fe sulphide concretions being formed in reduced...gibbsite, etc. in fissure-fill in limestone, Woodleaze quarry, Tytherington, Avon (Alabaster, 1989a). Andersonite
Journal (issue)
Russell Society 1990. ISSN 0263 7839 FRONT COVER: Calcite crystals, Bigrigg Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, U.K...Wales, and Barytocalcite from Holwell, Mendip Hills, England C Alabaster Identification of Minerals Using...WALES, AND BARYTOCALCITE FROM HOLWELL, MENDIP HILLS, ENGLAND C. ALABASTER Department of Geology, Wills...localities. Alstonite associated with witherite, calcite, dolomite, barite, and quartz accompanies low temperature...working Car~omferous Limestone quarry in the eastern Mendip Hills, Somerset. These occurrences are compared
Journal (volume)
Bindheimite Blixite Braunite Brucite Calcite Calcite var. Mg-calcite Calcite var. manganocalcite Celestine Cerussite...Mn-oxide suite Mn pod contents Slag Minerals Chewton Mendip Chewton Warren “Churchill” X X X X X X X ... * X X X * X * X X Doulting Stone Quarry Dulcote Quarry X X Ham Woods X X * X X X X X X...X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Merehead Quarry Moons Hill * X X * T X X X T X * X X X X...Stancombe Lane Wesley Mine Westbury-sub-Mendip Whatley Quarry Wick Quarry X X X X X X X X X X * X X X * X
Journal (issue)
ONE! when I typed in 'mineral news' and checked the uk button. Gary is still searching for materia_l,,!9"pu...roads are just tracks. Trevor Bridges Sligachan Quarry, Isle of Skye. A recent very brief visit to Sligachan...and some equally micro dentic forms. Some nearby calcite/zeolite vugs have traces of copper sulfides too...building stones used originally came from a local quarry which is now filled in with rubbish, or a overgrown...conference there was an interesting display of the local quarry stones available from the S Wales area (Dave Wille
Book
(Ponca) 40-41 Boxley (fossils) 42-43 Boxley Quarry (fossils, minerals) 44 Altus (fossils) 45 Cinnabar...Crlsto has produced quartz, amber calcite, and aragonite. The amber calcite fluoresces red under UV light...Pencil sized and larger crinoid stems, replaced by calcite, can be found in the road ditch at intervals all...feet above the ground. These are also replaced by calcite, and are difficult to remove with any success....Just to the south is an abandoned phosphate-rock quarry in a shale deposit believed to be Pennsylvanian
Journal (volume)
2006 from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...twinned trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal of...CONTENTS Volume 13, 2010 PAPERS The minerals of the Mendip Hills and their relationships Rick Turner and Michael...look at the work that we have been doing in the Mendip Hills (reported in this issue of the Journal) in...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite
Book
....................................... 30-31 Colemans'(minerals) ...................................................................... 42-43 Boxley Quarry (fossils, minerals) .... : ......................specimens. This mine has produced fine specimens of calcite--both water clear and amber, sphalerite, dolomite...Cristo has produced quartz, amber calcite, and aragonite. The amber calcite fluoresces red under UV light...Pencil sized and larger crinoid stems, replaced by calcite, can be found in the road ditch at intervals all
Journal (issue)
how it appeared and Monica Price passed on the Calcite cut-out that accompanies this 40th edition. I have...any material collected would be decided by the quarry owners and the sub-committee. We need to start...attending, particularly those from the North of England, will be available to assist where possible. Please...now in its third year, by mounting a display of 'Calcite and Calcareous Rocks' which attracted considerable...produced interesting specimens of analcime and calcite, and the 'radio mast' exposure near Glengorm Castle
Journal (issue)
with high temperatures, but they are unusual for the UK and are therefore worth a comment. As responsible...unusual for the temperature at the bottom of a quarry to be 15 degrees Centigrade higher than the outside...under these conditions the bottom of our local quarry is a pretty fair approximation of the Sahara in...you can. Get them out of the sun, and out of the quarry. In the meantime, loosen their clothing and lie...seen any truly serious cases of heatstroke in the UK, the potential is there and I have seen many minor
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...MALACHITE 16 CUNOCLASE 17 ANGLESITE 18 PYROMORPHITE 19 CALCITE 20 SERPIERITE 21 ETTRINGITE 22 BROCHANTITE 23 CASSITERITE...CALEOONITE 40 PREHNITE 41 STILBITE 42 THOMSONITE 43 CALCITE 4-4 THOMSONITE 45 CELSIAN Waterba.nk mine Waterbank...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria
Journal (issue)
along some excellent photos of minerals from Machen Quarry, unfortunately just too late to go in the branch...branch had got up to this year. Minerals of Dolyhir Quarry On Sunday morning, November 16th 2003 in the Glanely...handout on all the minerals to be found in the quarry was provided. Quite a few of these minerals from...phase rhodochrosite, showing baryte, some unusual calcite balls (half light, half dark with inclusions of...land. Huge septarian nodules (containing meagre calcite), large belemnites, ammonites up to a metre across
Book (edition)
resources and workings in tJ1e UK, 2008 3 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2008 4 Limestone resotu-ces...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.mmodity in the UK, including Noriliem Ireland, Channel Islands and...Abandoned Mine Methane Anhydrite Bal.I Clay Bai-ytes Calcite Chalk Chert China Clay China Clay Waste Clay &...industries, which represents their contribution to the UK econo1ny. The GVA of the nunerals extractive industries...1ninerals produced in 2005 in the UK, expressed as sales on an ex-works (quarry) basis as opposed to gross valued
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at £21 796...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...minerals. The value of minerals production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect their ultimate value
Journal (issue)
has donated a wide range of items, covering both UK and world mineralogical topics, to the Society Library;...of a number of publications (Mineralogical Record, UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Lapis) and a variety...lump of mineral found in a limestone quarry on the Mendips in Somerset a few years ago. It was found by way...way, that this mineral stopped the quarry stone crusher. It activated a safety mechanism (metal detector)...working at the quarry this has never happened before. Further to this I spoke to the quarry foreman who
Book (edition)
0115-936 3200 e-mail : sales@bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac. uk Shop online at.: www.thebgs.co.u.k !Vlurchison House...Assets in Easten1 England 3 Igneous & n1etamorphic rock resources and workings in the UK, 2005 4 Sandstone...resources and workings in the UK, 2005 5 Lin1estone resources and workings in the UK, 2005 6 Sand and gravel...gravel resources and workings in the UK, 2005 Tables l Production and value of the major sectors of the Minerals...tonnes) 4 Actjve Mineral Workings by com,nodity in the UK, including Northern Ireland, Channe l Islands and
Journal (issue)
the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...the heyday of geological research in northern England and it was not long before spectacular new ideas...site: Bedford Utd. Mine, Dean Quarry, Gravel Hill Mine, Greystone Quarry, Gunheath Claypit, Me/don Quarries
Journal (issue)
...................................... the first uk rigs conference a ustin lockwood 3 5 ..............Dunlap's talk on the 'Minerals of the North of England', held on Sunday, 6 December 1998 showed a marked...throughout October with the final event at Ton Mawr Quarry in South Wales. Although discoveries have been...visits have generally been quite successful. Wick Quarry produced its usual array of calcites and pyrite...found. Other visits have included Wickwar quarry and Hendy quarry, both of which proved interesting. Attendance
Report (issue)
.....................5 Mount Clarence historic quarry .....................................................................5 Albany Monumental Masons quarry .....................................................................................13 Phill’s quarry ....................................................................................17 American quarry ....................................................................................17 Fantasia quarry ..............................................
Book
for free. The possibility of a trip to Portland quarry was also discussed – Mrs Cowie suggested that more...look into the chances of a subsidized outing to a quarry such as Portland and to arrange a trip to Barton-on-Sea...meantime, he would write to Mr Linham at Perry Field quarry on Portland and also circulate the member- ship...ship about an outing to Barton and to Watchet in Somerset. Complimentary tickets to the Southampton Common...Museum, Charmouth, Shelford Sandpit, Malden quarry, Alton quarry, the Forest of Dean, the Wessex Impex factory
Journal (issue)
longer interested in their collection of a seri es of UK first day covers; 86 issues from the period July...rocks, in other words their principal minerals are calcite and dolomite instead of the usual silicates. They...description was given of the occu rrence of silver in calcite veins associated with sulphide rich 'fahlbands'...complex and fascinating. Pictures were shown of calcite collecting underground in a mine where limestone...Peter Wallace with a display of specimens from Dean Quarry, Cornwall. Peter Wallace. Wales & West Social
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quartz with adularia or calcite in several forms or habits, and brookite. The calcite varies from distinct...984-5396; 1-800-291-4484 Website: www.omtp.com/colemans Fee: $20 per adult, other prices for groups. Campground...Arkansas. « Hi r mmaak The open pit mine at Ron Colemans. Truckloads of dirt are brought up from the bottom...Montgomery Co.; two prismatic crystals - Jeffrey quarry, Pulaski Co.; large double with small attached...that crosses the crystal. Crystal from Jeffrey quarry, Pulaski County, showing a faden line. Faden Line
Journal (issue)
relationships with the quarry management community. He was particularly fond of Machen Quarry, due to its geographical...including specimens enclosing sand from Shelford Quarry, Sturry, Kent. Peter Wallace ISSUE NO. 52 - PAGE...Chris Rinnells and Andrew McDovall of Natural England. Quartz and chlorite. Field of view 2 mm ISSUE...[we found a lot of t his o n Sunday] barite , calcite, and si derite, well illustrate d w it h posters...discussed included early geophysical prospecting in the UK and later, cont rasted with a tal k on gold prospecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technology, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, England. Greenstones form an important part of both the...clinopyroxene and chlorite, epidote, clino zoisite, calcite, quartz and opaque minerals. The pyroxene is colorless...in geothermal that intergrowths muscovite calcite/chlorite. clase, entirely crystals zone 1977;...Geology, 1, 19-22. Prior, D.B., Bornhold, B.D., Colemans, J. M. and Bryant, W. R. (1982), Morphology of
Journal (issue)
Geschichte von Phosgenit und Matlockit von Matlock, England • Berühmte Fundstellen: Prenteg, Tremadog, Gwynedd...graubrauner Manganmulm zu erwähnen . Auffallend ähnliche Calcite konnten bis in die 80er Jahre im Gangmaterial der...einkaufenden Händler ausgestellt. Ron Coleman Ron Colemans "Crystal Mines" ist der zweite bedeutende Bergkristallieferant...geborgen werden. Links unten. Darren Crumpton, Ron Colemans Mitarbeiter, zeigt uns eine noch "bergfrische"...pachten konnte. Im ersten Jahr arbeiteten die Colemans für ihn; Kristalle über 70 cm gingen an Brommont
 
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