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Chalcopyrite from
Goat Quarry, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Goat Quarry, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15442
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15442:6
GUID (UUID V4):e85fb637-7ec8-4e12-8a57-6640234e64b7
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
26.8km (16.7 miles) Dollar Mine (Burn of Sorrow Mine), Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
30.3km (18.8 miles) Alva Silver Mine, Silver Glen, Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
49.0km (30.5 miles) Keltie Burn, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
54.9km (34.1 miles) Glen Lednock, Comrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
64.0km (39.8 miles) Glen Almond, Meall nan Oighreag, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
64.3km (39.9 miles) Glen Quaich [2], Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
66.1km (41.1 miles) Corrie Buie veins, Meall nan Oighreag, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
66.3km (41.2 miles) Hoardweel Mine, Hoardweel farm, Duns, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
66.6km (41.4 miles) Meall nan Oighreag, Ardeonaig, Stirling, Scotland, UK
67.3km (41.8 miles) Calliachar Burn, Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
References
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Journal (issue)
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...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Journal (issue)
Newsletter 50; 2 for landfill. The nearby Pant Quarry (OS GR 198.702), owned by Wimpcy, still produces...Common Key Ref: Fluorite, calcite, quartz, chalcopyrite, smithsonite, sphalerite, galena Pyrite Special...similar mineral assemblage can be found at the old quarry on the west side of the village (OS GR 054.256)...Unusual Key Ref: CRAIG RH1WARHI Aurichalcite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, cerussite, malachite, dolomite...GR 582.412), Manod Quarry at Blaenau Fcstiniog (OS GR SH 707.449), and Hendre Quarry, Glyn Cerriog (OS
Journal (issue)
ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...OF EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...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...KlrlScotland Scotland Beith.Scotland Leadhllls,ScoU. Beith.Scotland...Skye.Scotland Wanlockhead,Scot. Beith,ScoUand Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith,Scolland Rhlw
Journal (issue)
UK TS 2 EDITORIAL 2 BUXTON COVER:A superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate...Piddcollection. MUSEUM Ros Westwood 6 MINERAL NEWS 11 The UK ]011mal ef Mines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Fisher 29 ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe MINERALS OF FIFE Stephen Moreton 36 CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE...UKJounul of Mines & Mincr:ils No '7 -l- EDITORIAL he UK]oumal efMi11es& Mi11eralsis now in its twenty second...which at least eight have makers or retailers marks. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -2- Frontispiece
Journal (issue)
IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. TWENTY YEARS IN MINERAL SCOTLAND David Green • Gordon Todd 28 EDITOR David I...SPECIAL ISSUE The first of t\vo special editions of the UK ]oumal of 1\lli11es [.,,.Minerals celebrating t\venty
Journal (issue)
seeing you all there. Our new President on top of Goat Fell, Arran, in 2010. For those of you who don’t...to come. The number of mineralogy curators in the UK can now be counted on two hands, but more worryingly...to attract junior members is age restrictions on quarry visits, so I will be looking at arranging visits... Our first forays, in 1993, were to Coldstones Quarry, an easy journey from Leeds. In the early years...She became much more involved with the team at the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals and became its webmaster
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between DeCew Falls and Grimsby. At the base of the Goat Island Member, the Ancaster chert beds become irregular...western part of the study area at the Vinemount Quarry. Although the thicknesses of the other units vary... 1972). 357 M. A. MOSTAGHEL W E VINEMOUNT QUARRY INEI~OUNT ,..HALE, B,..EOS~ ~ -.~ - - GLENRIDGE...COMPOSITE SECTION SIR ADAM BECK SECTION GOAT ISLAND GOAT ISLAND GOAT iSLAND GASPORT GASPORT ~c~ ~ DECEW...Gorge (Sir Adam Beck section) to the Vinemount Quarry. Description of Mineral Assemblages The disseminated
Book
Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci
Report (issue)
occur at the north end of the Conconully district. Goat Mountain or Old Baldy, east of Blue Lake, is composed...in the veins are galena, pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite, or gray copper ore, associated...of the area to another; galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, or tetrahedrite may predominate at different...deposited above the other minerals of the veins. Chalcopyrite is an abundant constituent in places in the...districts, and sphalerite is probably in excess of chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite. A study of the ores from Mineral
Report (Issue volume)
Stibnite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, galena. Gangue: Altered granodiorite...Denny (see Goat Mountain) Goat Mountain (Denny) (I) Loe: NE% sec. 10, (23-14E), at base of Goat Mtn. about...galena, jamesonite, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite. Gangue: Calcite. Deposit: Quartz veins and... 33. 158. Bellevne (6) (see under gold) Billy Goat (1) (see under copper) Buckeye (see under silver)...Calif. (1943). Ore: Antimony. Ore min: Stibnite, chalcopyrite, pyrite. Gangue: Quartz, calcite. Deposit:
Catalog/List
3xlixl-t". £It.50. _ 8. ARS~~OPYF,ITE. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall. Bright, silvery, sharp tVlinned...thickly intergrown and scattered on Chlorite/Chalcopyrite/Gilbertite veinstuff. 2tx2". £5.50. CASSITE1i...size, richly scattered over a ellular Quartz/Chalcopyrite matrix. 2ixltxlt". £4.50. CHILD1,ENITE. Drake...Specimen C l:l-xl". £1.75. CUPRITE. Countybridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. Select, deep red, thick massive...3~x2t".£7.75. LEADHILLITE. Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Rich, pearly white platy mas es intergrown with
Report (issue)
Florida-Little Florida Mountains; fluorite in the Fluorite-Goat Ridge; clay at Taylor Mountain; crushed stone in...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Mimbres Basin Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains Elsewhere...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Mimbres Basin Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Mimbres Basin Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains
Journal (volume)
thomsonite (spiky and botryoidal varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected...Brian Young 18-26 The mineralogy of Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire Francis Ince 27-39...benefactors: Peter and Greg Tom at Bardon Hill Quarry (1 :4-3 : 1); Redland Aggregates (2: 1); Ralph...gypsum derived from the oxidation of pyrite and chalcopyrite in the rock matrix. This 'iron zone' is then...in a few cases. Minute specks of pyrite and chalcopyrite can be seen on the inside of many of the specimens
Book
Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Bucks HPI7 9AJ, UK. Set in 9 point Times roman and printed in Great...are exploited. The most important mineral is chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide), scattered through immense...Cornwall, grey, 80 by 60 mm (31 by 21/4 inches); chalcopyrite, Cornwall, golden, 110 by 70 mm (4/4 by 23/4...Siberia, 70 by 70 mm (2/4 by 23/4 inches). BELOW: Chalcopyrite, copper iron sulphide, showing various habits:...times copper ore was mined and smelted in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Uses of copper changed over
Catalog/List
size, intergrovm and free standing on Chlorit3/Chalcopyrite veinstuff. The centres of the ';alcite crystols...crystols appear to be cored with botryoidal Chalcopyrite. 3x3xl-~". £6.5"0. Cn.LL~GILNITE. Gabbs, Nye Co...2txltxl{-". 22. CEhUSSITE. Leadhills, Lanarkshlre, Scotland. Lustrous, creamy white, translucent sharp well...Dssociation, together with odd small brDssy Chalcopyrite crystals and slightly tarnished greyish Tetrahedrite...traces of Scorod ite. 2+x2xlt". £8. PhEHNITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Translucent pale
Book (volume)
"TOlVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited...Pyrites. DRAWN! eV DR HCDDLE THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...Stereograms of Gypsum, & and c Projections, Map of Scotland, Index to the one- inch Ordnance Survey . . ... Orthoclase. J . G. GOODCHILD. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND, VOL. II. OXYGEN II. SILICATES. ANHYDKOUS...infra, and the Appendix.] LINLITHGOW. [?] Hillhouse quarry, in a dyke of columnar basalt. MIDLOTHIAN. [?]
Journal (issue)
Survey, admires a spring spilling into the Fairfield Quarry, Adams County, Pa. This spring originates in fractured...fractured (faulted?) Beekmantown carbonate rocks in a quarry operated by Valley Quarries, Inc. 0 COMMONWEALTH...favorable and Smith noted trace chalcopyrite in the ferrogabbro. The chalcopyrite, as well as bornite and covellite...Fe, Ca amphibole containing 1.6 percent Cl; chalcopyrite (ccpy) containing 0.2 percent Pd; ilmenite-hematite...Pd-Cu piggybacking in Montana and the report of chalcopyrite at Reesers Summit came to him during a reading
Journal (issue)
..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other organisations
Book
Museum Street, London, WCIA No reproduction 1LU, UK Unwin Paperbacks, Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts...surveyed in England. Only the Isle of Arran in Scotland receives a greater influx of geology viii Preface...Eskdale 12 The Appletreeworth area 13 Greenscoe Quarry: an Ordovician volcanic vent 15 21 27 aS 40 50...wide gulf between a former continent composed of Scotland, Greenland and Labrador, and what is now England...accounted for by the occurrence of sandstone units (e.g. Goat Crags, Excursion 9) or by localised hardening induced
Report (issue)
105°25'0"W 36°45'0"N Straight Questa Hansen Central (Goat Hill) underground Eagle Rock Log Cabin Hottentot...Sulphur Gulch Spring Gulch Goat Hill Capulin Goat Hill W Goat Hill S Goat Hill SE Hottentot Mallette...total pyrite. In the mined ore bodies at Questa, chalcopyrite and galena veins are noted to occur in a zone...veins containing quartz, pyrite, and lesser chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, carbonates, fluorite, barite, phosphates...approximately 100 µm wide. Blebs of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite occur within the pyrite. This type of microscopic
Journal (issue)
Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Proustite (1.0mm) with barite and tennantite. Dolyhir quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, October 2004. Collection:...Part 2, 2005 PAPERS The mineralogy of Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire Frank Ince The occurrence...including koninckite and planerite from Grouse Lodge quarry, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick Stephen Moreton and...Neall and A ndy G. Tindle Columbite from Chywoon quarry in the Carnrnenellis Granite, Cornwall David Mou
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
old HaleWalker Quarry —perhaps a third of a mile from the Strickland Quarry. Chalcopyrite is disseminated...green coating on pegmatite, at the Hale-Walker Quarry itself, was seen a few years ago. It was probably...in one block of quartz. Galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and chalcocite are easy to find. In addition...mineral are a dark blue in color associated with chalcopyrite. At first glance the digenite can be readily..."Considerable hyalite has come from the Morrow (Leiper's) Quarry, on Route 320 between Swarthmore and ROCKS AND
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quarrieswere visited, the newer one after lunch. At this quarry a special blast had been fired by previous arrangement...NIr. Gorclon also reportecl a trip to'\faril,s quarry, I)elaware County, finding very good argentine...rvere also repolted: Nlr. Biernbaum, to Ward's quarry in Delaware Cto., rvith NIessrs. Frankenfield,...Vanartsdalen reported that nothing was now obtainable at Goat Hill, or Mor:re Station, in New Jersey. THE AMENICAN... and greenalbite from Ward's quarry; Mr. Trudell: pyrite, chalcopyrite, magnetite, aragonite, and byssolite
 
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