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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Rhodochrosite
Formula:MnCO3
Comments:Cooper & Stanley (1990): "Listed by Fortey (1978) but Fortey & Bland (1979) state 'rhodochrosite may be present but has not yet been located by the present writer.' The occurrence is doubtful."
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodochrosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1251531
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1251531:0
GUID (UUID V4):dfc4a0aa-7eff-427c-9b77-ee0e2941ee06
Nearest other occurrences of Rhodochrosite
1.7km (1.1 miles) Burdell Gill, Coombe Height, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
37.9km (23.5 miles) Wyndham Mines, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, 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 (issue)
al55 mmtall fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals...CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C. Spence SADDLEBACK MINE Peter Briscoe • David McCallum • Paul Nicholson...Editorial Board. fEITKNECHTITE FROM BENALLT MANGANESE MINE Publication ofinformation on a collecting site...0952-2409 Tom Cotterell 49 NORTH DEVON UNITED MINE Mike Rumsey • Mike Savage 53 PIUNTING DY Ratcliff&...Worksop, Notts. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Minos & Minerals No. 29 -1- EDITORIAL
Catalog/List
some with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2 ins. Pieces...C315 single 1/2 ins NATIVE ARSENIC rich (Kusa Mine, near ,Bau, lx2 f.5 •2x2 EIO crystal, across. ...of Chalcopyrite. (16 level, Sim.ms Lade, Geevor Mine ,Cornwall) size reflects the area of botryoidal...80 lxl f.9 platy qrey-brown 5mm f.2.50 coverage Mine, small crystals of brown Devon) copper coloured...Cornwall) f.4 2x2 f7 metallic (Pyrite like) No 2 Mine, Chibougamau, lem rock. (Mt micros w1th Unusual
Book
pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages................... 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...ground; trial workings, mine dumps, mine buildings and smeltings, plus mine location maps and a wealth...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British
Catalog/List
label. 40x30x20mm. £20. 4) BAYLDONITE. Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. A 15x12mm area of green...40x20x30mm. £25. 5) BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Dark green crusts and coatings...64. 40x30x20mm. £45. 9) CASSITERITE. Trevaunance Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. A quartz cassiterite matrix...max. £165. 10) CASSITERITE and QUARTZ. Huanuni Mine, Oruro, Bolivia. Really super group of about 50...about 10mm. 65x45x35mm. £90. 13) COLEMANITE. Tenneco Mine, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA. A nice
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...lepidocrocite, parasymplesite, plumbogummite, rhodochrosite, romanechite, scorodite, switzerite, vivianite
Catalog/List
British minerals and oa especially those from Cumbria. The systematically rare minerals a&e 8 proving...being made lo cover Bank.clearancecosts here in England. Paul and Nanette Lowe FIOIIIC-:1.argaFulScå Dllaillromaneola...nativt:metal,showing n bright mirror APATITE. Carrock Hinc,Caldbeck Fells,Cuobria. p~lc oint-grecn,opaque...65x25, (5. APATITE. Sm1th Vein,Carrock Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria½ Three ~oall,near gc~ quolity,grecn...50x40, [7. base. 22. (L.Ox25) w1th a crystol Mine,Anglcse~,North and !ound A rich and heavy ~pecimen
Journal (issue)
Elatsite (a copper porphyry deposit), Chelopech (a gold mine) and Kremikovtsi (an iron ore deposit) in the Srednogorie...minerals which took our attention: galena, rhodochrosite, pyromorphite, quartz, iridescent pyrite, manganocalcite...a very strange combination of stilbite with rhodochrosite (Fig. 4). As mentioned in part 1 of this article...copper deposit) Chelopech Gold mine. Elatzite is a working open pit and the mine geologist Zlati Vassilev accompanied...chalcopyrite crystals. When we looked at these back in the UK under short-wave UV we found the green fluorite fluoresced
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
Journal (issue)
Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower...Ramsbeckite with schulenbergite from Cornwall and Cumbria, England D.J. Green. J Betterton, R. Bell and T /lieall...Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite from Bwlch mine, Deganwy, Conwy...Derbyshire, England 89 A. Dyer, 0..\1. Wilson and B. Young Milarite from Shap granite quarry, Cumbria, England...and G. Ry back Raspite from Carrock mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England: a first British occurrence
Catalog/List
Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The...Rocks Cornwall Hinqston Down, Cornwall Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 £1...Quebec (Cook) Herodsfoot Cornwall Bournonite Bedford Mine Devon Arsenoovrite Colorado USA Enaraite Minas Gerais...Cornwall Tennantite Parvs Copper Mine, Anqlesey Sphalerite Louisa Mine, Glendinninq, Dumfrieshire Stibnite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Espenshade Geologic Setting The Tungsten Queen mine is located in the (1947) alsofavoreddeposition of...TungstenQueen proximately 90 quartzveinsin the Hammetungsten mine (Fig. 1) revealsthreemajor geologicelements. The...16000 EXPLANATION •- --- Mine tunnel--Dashedwhere projected under higher mine workings: Arrow indicates...locality 18000E FxG.2. Horizontalprojectionof mine workings,subsurface samplelocations,and principal...surfaceelevation (130 m). The mine is currently tion and positionin the mine. Huebnerite crystals inactiveand
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
base. 60x60x22mm. £45. 4) ARAGONITE. West Mary Ann Mine, Menheniot, Cornwall. A nice clean white floss ferri...£22. 7) BAYLDONITE and MIMETITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Rich cellular quartz veinstone...80x50x50mm. £75. 8) BOULANGERITE and QUARTZ. Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China. A large 70x20mm terminated quartz...terminations. 50x40x20mm. £35. 11) CALCITE. Potosi Mine, Chuhuahua, Mexico. Large first sized spongy looking...calcite. 110x50x70mm. £30. 12) CASSITERITE. Viloco Mine, La Paz, Bolivia. Group of about ten very lustrous
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~...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
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
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
Catalog/List
_j Byways, 2o·Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...calcite or matrix 935 ■ MILLOSEVICHITE Scholler Mine, Kladno, Czech Republic. Rich yellow-grey spongy...-·-·-- !'lo_9_ _ _ _ _ 285 ■■ NATIVE GOLD La Farolla mine, Copiapo, Chile one or two spots on 2cm matrix _£7_..._ _ _ _ __ ~ - / ~ : i E.RTRANDITE ____ .Gclc~~~Mine, G~~e~~;i~;Val~d~~~;: srazitcolourless micro crystals... - --- ----- ----- - -- 73 ■■ BRAUNITE Praborna Mine, St Marcel ,Piedmont, Italy 849 ■ OPAL Carlaze Pit
Journal (issue)
interest were: Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally...always interested in elyite as Pam found the first UK specimen on Meadowfoot Smelter Wanlockhead in 1981...crystals with a crude hexagonal outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill....crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute terminations...lead copper arsenate. This was the first recorded UK locality. As always, a superb collection of interesting
Catalog/List
11 Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL ! · ··- - -------- · --- --------------...edenite or ferroedenite ✓767 ■■ 62 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA / ' Blue -green veinlets...1.5 inches across £10 766 ■■ DIOPTASE Christmas Mine, Gita County, Arizona ,USA Green elongated micro...£24 Hydrocarbon 1129 ■■ ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Rich fine grained mass like...crystal. ½"£6 5mm£3 · AgFeS 768 ■■ AXINITE Obira Mine, Oita Prefecture,Japan Brown mass, with one or two
Catalog/List
Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...than A. £5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll. A white...xtls. A fine example. £6. 7. ANATASE, Virtuos Lady mine, Devon. l.4xl.5xlcm. A MM with a micro xtl of sparkly...IO. APATITE, llarding's Vein. · Carrock mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbria. 5x4x2.5cm . One fairly gemmy greenish...clear xtls. Very pretty. £4. 16. AZURITE, Tynagh mine, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ex S.J.A.C. Brown coll. Old
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits suchas thoseat PastoBueno,Peru; CarrockFell, England; and Panasqueria,Portugal. The relationshipsof...districtcontainsthe largest theveindeposits Tungsten Queen. Mine workingshave developed quartz-wolframite-typevein...definebetterthe origin of the northern part of the mine, and in altered metasediTungsten Queen deposit....amountsof fluorite, sericite,and carbonate(calcite,rhodochrosite, ankerite, dolomite). Other ore mineralsincludepyrite...mineralogyof the vein is remarkablyuniformthroughoutthe mine and exhibits an apparent lack of zoning either along
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...Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive
Catalog/List
crystals to 2mm. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Black goethite... Collected 1980. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Stalactitic brown...Quartz. 50' above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. A group of colourless pyramidal...pyramidal quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals...minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte
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matrix hl !3 5 AGARDITE (Ce) r ...fe green micro's Mine, Wolf;_n, West Germany) 'h ins f.3. 60 6 ALBITE...sphere shaped botryoidal nodule,(Newhaven Sussex. England) 1" -10p 2"90p 3" !1.40 4" !3,30 13 ALUNITE pure... /' pale blue-gny ~;ssi\·c. (Staffordshire England) :::-::1 !:;1 2x4 tt.20 2;-;2 60µ e2S ANTARCTICITE...Grey-white crystals with terminations.(Sheppey Kent,England) lxl cm !1.80 43 BARYTES orange brownto fawn attractively...BARVTOCALCITE rich creamy massive. (Near Alston Cumbria) 1x2 40p 2x2 80p 2x3 :t1.20 B) showing small crystals
 
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