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Allophane from
Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Allophane
Formula:(Al2O3)(SiO2)1.3-2 · 2.5-3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Allophane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:423
Long-form Identifier:1:3:423:7
GUID (UUID V4):0c2c0db4-7a1b-4753-b67f-461572fcab81
Nearest other occurrences of Allophane
2.4km (1.5 miles) Driggith Mine (Driggeth Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Old Potts Gill Mine, Potts Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
15.2km (9.5 miles) Brandlehow Mine, Catbells, Keswick, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale...(bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS 4490) (bottom right) ISBN O 85272 099...west Cumbrian coal and iron ore fields, the Vale of Eden and the Carlisle plain (Figure I). It is defined...ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed review of metallogenesis
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 Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Greigite. As a secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm
Catalog/List
No Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 102 Phone 01932 862340 ... -- . - 1077 ■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 220 ■ CLINOSAFFLORITE Capitol Mine. Gowganda, Ontario...£3 lx2£6 CurichAdamile 766 ■ DIOPTASE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona ,USA Green elongated micro...CuSi0 .. - - -- -·- 131 ■ DOLOMITE Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria FERROAN DOLOMITE, rich brown massive...massive lxl £1 lx2 £2 2x2 £5 104 ■ EMMONSITE Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mexico Green crusts on matrix. quite
Catalog/List
telephone beforehand. * JANUARY/FEBUARY 2008 1) ALLOPHANE. New East Wheal Russel, Tavistock, Devon. Cavities...lightish green crusts of ball like masses of allophane roughly covering a 50x35mm area. A little kilas...label. 60x30x30mm. £28. 6) ARSENOPYRITE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Killas matrix with a 30mm chlorite/quartz...there. 80x50x40mm max. £45. 7) AZURITE. Girralambone Mine, Cambelego Co, New South Wales, Australia. Hundreds...xls to 2mm. 40x30x20mm. £16. 9) BOLEITE. Amelia Mine, Baja, California, Mexico. A typical stabilised
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone...ROSE QUARTZ & SMOKY QUARTZ (4cm x 4cm 2cm) Piftorra Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brasil A very pretty specimen
Catalog/List
Al PO/4 OH this is a new discovery, rare for the UK generally ,and a first for Wales. White micro spheres...grey mass with Actinolite, large 2x3 inch ..Bastnas Mine Sweden £30 12. SCAPOLITE completely clear single...small quartz crystals, possibly some with faces. lxl Mine, Washoe County Nevada USA £30 Olinghouse ......on lxl inch matrix Arizona USA £18 · Inspiration mine, Gila County, 21. HAMBERGITE chalky-white crystalline...tabular twinned crystal about 1cm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £25 . 1'fa Be PO4
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...classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting
Catalog/List
No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban
Catalog/List
cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~ on ...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2£I 2x2£2.S0 Al SO/4...- - · - --·· -·Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bolivia 6x6mm £3 217 A1'DORITE . PbAgSb_S
Catalog/List
Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Wheal Russell , ALLOPHANE £4 FLUORESCENT ½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn
Book
Minerals of the English Lake District Caldbeck Fells Cumbria. Caldbeck. Mineral deposts 1. Title 11. Stanley...largely of debris washed down fromthe Roughton Gill mine dumps under Iron Crag C O N T E N INTRODUCTION...Caldbeck and the Caldbeck Fells Are worth all England else (Hutchinson. 1794) is supposed to have originated...Lancashire to form the new administrative county of Cumbria, It is an area of high ground, once described as...distance from Carrock nd to Red Gil is at out 6km (3.7 miles) Potts Gill barytes Mine High Pike introduction
Catalog/List
Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall... Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________
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...1976 stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly
Catalog/List
tabular twinned crystal about 1cm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £25 Na Be PO4 19...19. TITANITE variety "Greenovite" (Praboma Mine, St Marcel, Aosta Italy) pink vein about 3mm wide and...CUBANITE crystal section 5mm overall size (Henderson# 2 mine, 3250 level, Chibugamu, Quebec Canada) £12 24. CUPRIAN...CUPRIAN MELANTERITE rich bluish-green mass, Lokken Mine, Trondheim Norway 25. NATNE GOLD micro grains on...small quartz crystals, possibly some with faces. lxl Mine, Washoe County Nevada USA £30 Olinghouse 27. QUARTZ
Catalog/List
Also new: Dufrenoysite, Ferroactinolite From England: There is a seperate This catalogue Nitrobarite...\·1hi te sphere shaped nodule. (Newhaven,Sussex,England) 111 50p 2" El.00 311 fl.60 411 f).80 017 ANALClTE...white masses intergrown with Selenite. (Dorset, England) lxl 60p lx2 El.20 2x2 E2.40 2x4 EJ.80 4x4ins E7...BAYLDONITE thin green coating on Quartz. (BrandyGhyll, Cumbria) lx ½ 60p lxl El.CO 075 BERTH I ER INE KaolinSerpentine...Group. Rich green masses with Siderite.Unusual for England. (ScarboroughYorkshire) lxl f2 lx2 f4.50 2x2 f9
Journal (issue)
is theirs to make. Myers Head Lead Mine The Myers Head Lead Mine at Hartsop has become a scheduled Ancient...Ancient Monument as from 1998. The mine is being restored through a conservation project funded by the...Regional Development Fund and the National Trust. The mine was also known as Low Hartsop. and is situated at...confluence of Pasture Beck and Hayswater Gill. The Mine was worked from 1867 to about 1878. when it was...participation more besides. at Gem and Mineral Fairs in the UK. Further details from Sri Lanka Now, however, we
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...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of
Catalog/List
I Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...5cm £4 no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine...micros £7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal
Catalog/List
pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7
Catalog/List
South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...formed on 1111 ABHURITE 6 St Ives. Cornw all, England 85 18 in wreck on ship a gots _ in Sn_______ O...Arcndal, lx2 £6 2x2 £12 Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO Norway ALLOPHANE grey bleby small botryo i dal with poss i ble...I x 1/, ALSiO Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...Ultevis,North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan
Catalog/List
Pb Te minute silvery apots in lca matrix (HillTop Mine. OrganHountains DonaAnnaC-Ounty,NewMexico) u OSSBIMDHEIHITE...OHH/20 good ccverage af white fibres en grey Allophane. (TynaghMine CountyGalwdy,Ireland) lx2 El.UO 2x2...Rich ycllow to brownmasseswith Cerussite. (Terrible Mine, Isle Colorado, USA)2x2cmEl5 lCII(10 less rich lem...limonitic matrix. with Barytes Crystals • (BrandyBottle Mine, Yor~shire) quite rich assemblage lx2 ES 238 DESCLOIZITE...in one small area on blue Chrysocolla. (Eagle Eye Mine, La Paz County, lrrizona ,USA) lx2ins f.4.50 l'i6
Journal (volume)
Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...mimetite crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the 1970s by Jim Knight...British occurrence of kottigite, from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and David I Green PAPERS...at Driggith and Sandbed Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...review of the mineralogy of Brae Fell Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, David I Green and
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious...Emb'eton quany,nrCockermouth. Cumbria; Gra:nsgill. Ca'.dbeck Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine...Fells,Cumbria; OldGunnls!ake m:ne.Calslock. Cornwall lindgrenite' BrandyGill,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria WestTurtPitsmine
 
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