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Covellite from
Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:787287
Long-form Identifier:1:3:787287:7
GUID (UUID V4):eafe21a5-ff52-45b3-bea6-684671356dd8
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
21.8km (13.6 miles) Closehouse Mine, Lunedale, County Durham, England, UK
39.4km (24.5 miles) Shap Blue Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
45.9km (28.5 miles) Driggith Mine (Driggeth Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
46.6km (28.9 miles) Old Potts Gill Mine, Potts Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
46.6km (29.0 miles) Potts Gill Copper Mine, Potts Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
46.8km (29.1 miles) Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
46.9km (29.1 miles) Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
47.1km (29.3 miles) Deer Hills, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
47.2km (29.3 miles) Deer Hills Baryte Mine, Deer Hills, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
47.2km (29.3 miles) Saddleback Old Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER:Superbtwinnedyellowfluoritecrystal 15 mm on edge from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria...T'wENTY YEARS IN MINERALS NORTHERN ENGLAND David Green • Peter Briscoe The UK ]011rnalof Mines at1d Minerals...EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard Bell THE SHAP GRANITE CUMBRIA DESIGN Julie Ballard QUARRY, Max Wirth • David...Ratcliff & Roper (Print ) Ltd Worksop, Nous. S80 2EE UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 22 -t- Campylite...Campylite is one of the classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of
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RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...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...claudetite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England c. M. Leppinf{toll and D.I. Green 36 Atacamite
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pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages...Orefield The Alston Block ...................... The Pennine Escarpment ........... Alston Moor ...........Wensleydale ...................... Wharfedale, Grassington Moor and Greenhow .................... The West Cumbrian................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...District, the north Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such
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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...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines
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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...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...vein at Scar Crag, Causey Pike, near Keswick, Cumbria (Ixer et al., 1979). Alluaudite Monoclinic NaCaFe...Barnstaple, Devon; and localities in the Lake District, Cumbria (Ixer and Stanley, 1980). Inclusions (<5 ~tm) in
Catalog/List
Cornwall Hinqston Down, Cornwall Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 £1.75 £1.50...Irkutsk Museum) Siberia Smallcleugh, Nenthead Smallcleugh, Nenthead A3 A3 A3 £3 £1.50 £2 Haxis, Arizona...Qy, Devon Arsenopyrite & Garnet Colarado, USA Covellite & Chalcopyrite Whitesmiths Mine, Strontian Galena...Ladywash, Derbyshire Sphalerite & Force Crag, Cumbria (Halls) Siderite Sphalerite Mount Wellinqton. Cornwall...sphalerite Force Crag, Cumbria Geevor, Cornwall Chalocite with brochantite Carrock Mine Cumbria Arsenooyrite Sphalerite
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...specimens are labelled "Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...specimens were acquired through dealers operating in Alston, and, for whatever reason, they opted to change...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious
Catalog/List
Endsleigh, SO Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2DA England Telephone +44 (0) 1872 223 227 Fax +44 (0)1872...matrix. Good RF TN. £8 ARAGONITE Alston Moor, Cumberland, England. Radial spray of translucent long...smaller calcite crystals. D.MI. £16 | 234] £16.00 COVELLITE, Summitville, Rio Grande Co, Colorado, USA. Old...high quality sheaves of gun metal blue to grey covellite as matrix free pure mass Good RF SPC/semi D. C...£22 ---£22 oo witherite. Haggs Mine. Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria. Milky white xtl group of witherite. Free
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...59 76 The Smale Gill trials, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, C. Mike Leppington and Tim Neall...of rugose corals from the Middle Fell area Alston, Cumbria Brian Young and Andy Hopkirk 93 95 Epimorphs...‘species’. The mines of the Caldbeck Fells in Cumbria are best known for their colourful suites of copper-...pseudomorphs after rugose corals from Middle Fell near Alston. This makes an interesting comparison with an earlier
Journal (issue)
ISSN 0263 7839 FRONT COVER: Barite, Cleator Moor, Cumbria. National Museum of Wales specimen NMW 83.4IG...F. Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow...from Smal1cleugh and Brownley Hill mines, Nenthead, Cumbria A. Livingstone Stannite revisited D .H .M...35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper minerals from...1991 ). RUSSELLITE FROM BUCKBARROW BECK, CUMBRIA, ENGLAND B. YOUNG British Geological Survey, Windsor
Catalog/List
Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...A. £5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll. A white and...llarding's Vein. · Carrock mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbria. 5x4x2.5cm . One fairly gemmy greenish xtl to 0...Good specimen. £ 12. 17. BARITE, Crowgarth mine, Cumbria. 5.5x5x3cm. A mass of pale blue and peach waxy...interesting. £15. 20. BARYTOCALCITE, Blagill mine, Alston, Cumbria. 9x6x6cm. Ex. J.R. Hoyle coll. A massive crystalline
Journal (issue)
sussex • mine & la society North of England Field Trip SMLS Visit to Paris Journal 218 - March April...March/April 2009 FIELD TRIP TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND - September 2008 This trip took place over three...from the 13th-15th September and was centred on Nenthead and the Lake District. Six members of the Society...stayed in Hellen Shirlock's 'Cherry Tree' 8/8 in Nenthead where SMLS members have sampled her hospitality...years of experience exploring the mines in the Alston and Weardale areas, she has co-authored a number
Journal (issue)
Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Media, (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...mineralization at Silver Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Trevor F Bridges, M ichael P. Cooper...fuloppite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Tim Neall and A ndy G. Tindle ...supergene mineralogy of Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F Bridges and David I. Green Kegelite, a
Book (edition)
coal 220 to 260 Alston Gro·up Girvane1la Band Asbian (P- P 1a) (D 1)- Lower Alston Massive limestone...Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...Stainmore between the two halves. The northern half or Alston Block is host to a great majority of the deposits...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
Catalog/List
is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria Dyfed.Wales Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Leadhills,Scotl. Caldbeck,Cumbria Derbyshire Moorshaft...Moorshaft Lode Scordale,Cumbria Ecton.Staffs. Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Trefelrig,Wales SlOay,Comwall Derbyshire...Staffs. Breage,Comwall Dorset Caldbeck,Cumbria Caldbeck,Cumbria Porthleven,Comw. Comwall Strathclyde Skye...AZURITE 57 PHOSGENITE 56 COPPER 59 BARITE 60 COVELLITE 61 TOURMALINE 62 ALSTONITE 63 LIBETHENITE 64 MESOLITE
Catalog/List
11 ,f,20.00. CALCITE. Hilton Mine,Scoredale,Cumbria. Well formed,ter~inated,hexagonal creamy-coloured...Mangan/Plumbo core. 2x1 {x1l;r ,l2.4o50. •. 37. COVELLITE. Butte,Montana. Brilliant steel-blue to golden...Tynbottom crusts of botryoidal Mine,Garrgill,Alston Moor,Cumbria. Raspberry-iink xtls formed over Calcitic/Mangan...FLUORITE. Heights Meadow Mine,Weardale,19th C. Cumbria. Sparkling gemmy 11 lll)ple-green penetrant cubic... 4?. FLUORITE. Hilton Mine,Scoredale,Appleby,Cumbria. Bright xtls to about -½"in size formed over matrix
Journal (volume)
Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the 1970s by Jim Knight. Photograph...occurrence of kottigite, from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and David I Green PAPERS A review...at Driggith and Sandbed Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...mineralogy of Brae Fell Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, David I Green and Michael S
Journal (issue)
NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...4TG Printed by Northern Litho Services, Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...BURDELL GILL, CALDBECK FELLS,CUMBRIA T. NEALL, Greenside, Kirkbride, Cumbria, CA7 SJH. C. M. LEPPINGTON...LEPPINGTON, 1 Harrot Hill, Cockermouth, Cumbria, CA13 OBL. Abundant green pharmacosiderite occurs in a goethite...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme. Report of the
Journal (volume)
5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection. Photograph by David...Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection. Photograph by David...mineralisation at Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...mineralogy of Short Grain Low Level, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Tim Neall and David I. Green 45-61 ‘Lady’s slippers’...Sir Kingsley Dunham from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE Acicular baryte
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...and from the iron ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...to encompass the Forest of Bowland, the Vale of Eden, the Salway Plain and the western part of the North...Penrith Sandstone, Magnesian Limestone, St Bees and Eden shales, and evaporites 12 Sherwood Sandstone Group
Journal (issue)
15 mm. EDITORIAL Digital Micro-Photography The UK Joumal ef Mi11esa11dMi11erals publishes articles...northern England arc also problematic, the famous blue fluorite from Florence Mine in west Cumbria commonly...which is possible using the technique. David Green UK Juurnal of Miucs & Minerals No. 24 -2- MICRO MINERALS...ClashgormOpencut,Strontian.DavidMccallumcollection UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 24 -4- The Island...the Great Limestone at Rampgill Mine near Nenthead, Cumbria. Quartz epimorphs after fluorite have long
Journal (issue)
North of England. As a 16yr old left to live in Canada from 1956-63 then moved to S.E. England until moving...invalid he now had time to do this, in the North of England and Cornwall. Although having deep involvement...Award Winning Book! Rocks and Landscapes of Alston Moor. Shortly before Christmas it wa s announced that...together with representatives of Cumbria RIGS and the East Cumbria Countryside Project, were presented...mineral collecting and resource conservation in the UK. If we are to find a mutually acceptable way forward
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(not sharp lx2.5ins masses U.S.A of clean Cumbria) cr8amy Tuscany curved across, South 10 GOLD...cubes on micro Specularite Mine, near Egremont Cumbria) 1/2 x 1/2 long single (West Fork 1 black (...Mine, Kuruman ANKERITE thin plate Hill Mine, Nenthead Shihan fl8 3 7 Makinat matrix. (Levant...coveLing of clean black crystals Hill Mine Nenthead Cumbria) HUBNERITE good red-brown quartz crystals...lx2ins centres there is a darker (Carrock Mine Cumbria) 50 platy grey crystals. outline of a calcite
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RICHARD ’ BYWAYS, , COBHAM ENGLAND MINERALS T AY L E R C L 0 00 E 2 0 B U R S T E A D P h one SURREY...crust on matrix (Red Ghyll, off Roughton Ghyll Cumbria) 1 x 54 ins £1.20 430 THEISITE Cu Zn (As Sb) 0...coating on Quartz. (Brandy Ghyll, Caldbeck Fells Cumbria) 1 x Si 60p lxl £1.20 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate...in groups about 1x2 ins. (Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead Cumbria! 1x1.5 to 1x2 £6 197 JAMESONITE Pb/4 Fe Sb/6...with Pyromorphite. (Poddy Ghyll Caldbeck Fells Cumbria) Ixlins quartz matrix. £2.50 M I NERALS 134 BEAVERITE
Catalog/List
included white quartz. 40x20x15mm- £5. 27. COVELLITE. Leonard Mine, Butte, Montana, USA. A lovely iridescent...dark blue, with reddish tinges, mass of platoy covellite with a little included pyrite. 60x40x25mm- £18...PHARMACOSIDERITE. Burdell Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. A. 30x15mm cavity in ironstone gossan matrix lined...matrix. 40x20x15mm. £5. 56. SPHALERITE ON GALENA. Nenthead, Cumberland. Three etched galena xls to 25mm with
 
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