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Copper from
Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:231174
Long-form Identifier:1:3:231174:6
GUID (UUID V4):86053f83-cea0-441e-a1d1-2d4881f41533
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
18.6km (11.6 miles) Castleside Smelting Mill slag locality, Healeyfield, County Durham, England, UK
19.0km (11.8 miles) Cornriggs Vein, Black Burn Area, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
46.3km (28.8 miles) Raisby railway cutting, Kelloe, County Durham, England, UK
57.2km (35.5 miles) Driggith Mine (Driggeth Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
59.3km (36.8 miles) Greenside Mine, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
60.1km (37.3 miles) Higher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
60.2km (37.4 miles) Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
70.2km (43.6 miles) Stoneycroft Smelter slag locality, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...nineteenth centuries can be seen on the hills above the mine site. Figure 2 (left). A scattering of numerous...matrix, 14 × 10 × 7 cm, recovered from the Cambokeels mine in the early 1980s. Figure 3 (right). A penetration-twinned
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...Weardale Granite (Fig. 1) and the concentration of copper-rich mineralization above Mineralogical Magazine
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)
Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This well-formed twinned yellow...conditions, Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8...the Lead Hill area, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois, and is 5.5 cm. Ross Lillie specimen...and pyrrhotite. Chalcopyrite, bornite, and other copper minerals are normally not constituents of MVT deposits
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
Book
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................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such a diverse expanse naturally
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... PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION of fluorspar in England and Wales were investigated as part of the programme
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...deposits occur chiefly in the Pennines of northern England in limestones of Lower Carboniferous age, within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
P- 244 Supergene native copper in the Northern Pennine Orefield PRIMARY copper ore in the form of chalcopyrite...by-product may be feasible at some mines). The copper zone of the orefield is central with respect to...Corporation geologists to Groverake Mine, near Rookhope in Weardale, supergene native copper was discovered in...faces and cleavage planes of fluorite in the Groverake Vein. The growths are often radial around, but...of marcasite has formed intermediate between the copper sulphide and metal. The formation of the native
Journal (volume)
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... 36 --------------------------------------- Copper Minerals from Flamborough Peter Roydhouse • David
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 (article/letter/editorial)
cormate waterssimilarto thoseat presentfoundin the Durham coalfield. A comparison of the fluidinclusion...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...andniccolitehavebeenreportedfrom Settlingstones Mine. The threemajor matrix mineralsare fluorite, barite...explorationdrilling below the deepest levelsof the CammockEals mine on the Slitt vein (K. C. Dunham personal comm.)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6DW, UK ABSTR ACT Earthworms are an essential part of the...mining sites, Groverake, Rookhope, County Durham, UK and Devon Great Consols, Devon, UK and a soil originating...Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley, Surrey, UK, that was spiked with Cu, Pb and Zn salts >10 y ago...aqua regia digestion. Metal As Cu Pb Zn Wisley Rookhope Devon Great Consols BDL 113 1042 299 BDL 190...Consols soil but there was 5% mortality in the Rookhope soil. Soils from all three locations incubated
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Impilahti, sphene, striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite...chlorite, muscovite, 429 Groverake mine, Rookhope, Weardale, Durham, copper, copiapite, 244 Meldon, Devon...lepidolite, 289 Derbyshire Cobbler mine, Bonsall, fluorite, 4oi Jughole mine, Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite...fluorite, baryte, 81 I Ladywash mine, Eyam, fluorite, 4Ol Mare Tot mine, Castleton, fluorite (Blue John), 363...Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, 81 I Oxclose mine, Masson Hill, Matlock, fluorite, baryte, bravoite
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...impurities. Thus elsewhere in this Newsletter Groverake Mine is described as a commercial producer of fluorspar...au South Caradon 5551 The site of South Caradon mine at St. Cleer Cornwall, has been declared by English...rare species of copper tolerant moss. The accessible underground workings of the mine are leased by the
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
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
Report (issue)
0308-2199j BRITISH MINING No.5 MEMOIRS of NORTHERN MINE the RESEARCH 1977 SOCIETY NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS...exploration and geological research with reference to mine workings of the British Isles are welcome for inclusion...addressed to: R.H. Bird Esq. The Editor, Northern Mine Research Society, 41 Windsor Walk, South Anston...Guthrie Esq . Publication After Sales, Northern Mine Research Society, 186 Station Road, Billingham TS23...otherwise, without prior permission of the Northern Mine Research Society. Further, any opinions or statements
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene...radiometric dates for the igneous rocks of northern England l 0 5 Cross-section of th e lapetus Suture Zone
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cormlall, England. Tel. NO.l st. Just 880 (STD 073 677) V.A.T. No...display. ltx2i". £11. 7. ARSENOPYRITE. New Rosewarne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich, bright, silvery mass composed...ist matrix. 2x2xlt". £3.50. BUST ITE. Zinc Corp. Mine, Broken Hill, N.S. ales, ustralia. Large, slightly...veinstuff. 2tx2". £5.50. CASSITE1i.ITE. Poldi e Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Small, bright, brmmish black...veinstuff. 2-tx2xlt". £4.75. CASSITE1i.ITE. Cligga Mine, crranzabuloe, Cornwall. Select, Vlell formed, large
 
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