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Pyromorphite from
Windy Brow Vein, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Vein
Classification
Species:Pyromorphite
Formula:Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyromorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Windy Brow Vein, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:17363
Long-form Identifier:1:3:17363:4
GUID (UUID V4):1f7973be-70cc-40c9-97e9-7c31f10c1259
Nearest other occurrences of Pyromorphite
5.3km (3.3 miles) Grasshill Mine, Harwood, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK
9.3km (5.8 miles) Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Milburn, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
9.8km (6.1 miles) Smittergill Head Mine, Ousby, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
11.5km (7.1 miles) Hard Rigg Edge (Knapside Veins), Ousby, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
17.3km (10.7 miles) Closehouse Mine, Lunedale, County Durham, England, UK
23.8km (14.8 miles) Whitfield Brow Mines, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
31.6km (19.7 miles) Healeyfield Mine, Healeyfield, County Durham, England, UK
36.4km (22.6 miles) Shap Pink Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
41.1km (25.5 miles) North Rake, Old Gang Mines (AD Mines), Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England, UK
41.9km (26.0 miles) Carrock End Mine (Queen Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Barium-pharmacosiderite and symplesite from Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria B. Young, E. Hyslop and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite...pre- and post-joint pegmatites, mineralized sheeted vein systems, mineralized fissure systems, and irregularly...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
Journal (issue)
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...Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES Valentinite...claudetite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England c. M. Leppinf{toll and D.I. Green 36 Atacamite
Journal (issue)
Somerset; and the Tortworth area, Gloucestershire, England. Geal. Mag., 106, 542-553. Williams, D. 1924. On...shown thus are BGS X-ray film numbers. 80 Pyromorphite in the Northern Pennines B. YOUNG J. Russell...Russell Soc., I, 81-82. Young, B. 1985. Pyromorphite in the Northern Pennines. B. Young, British Geological...also been observed . Published references to pyromorphite from the northern Pennines are few. Jamieson...remains a notable locality for specimens of pyromorphite though the reference ~o the two latter localities
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
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
Journal (issue)
PHOTO Pyromorphite crystals on plumbogummite, from Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. National...crystals associated with chalcophyllite in a small vein in the floor of the working, close to its northern...were only achieved in local environments within the vein, and distribution of the species is very limited...within small cavities in the vein and not in cracks or micro-fissures in the vein quartz. Chalcophyllite has...The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England, 2, Mem. Geol. Surv. Gt. Br. HMSO, London. Kingsbury
Book (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALF�S GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PENNINE OREFIELD...Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., and the New Brancepeth Coal Co...The Alston Block; The Teesdale Dome; Burtreeford Disturbance; F"aulting and Minor Folding; Vein-Fissures;...l\1INERAL DtPOSITS :-DETAILS, AREA 2, ALSTON ... :.. . .. MooR .... . .. ... .... ... CHAPTER VIII. MINERAL... Comparative sections at the Haydon Bridge and Alston lvfines .. . .. . .. . . .. . ... ... 6. Comparative
 
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