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Smoky Quartz from
Beckermet Mine, Haile, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Specularite2 photos of Smoky Quartz associated with Specularite at this locality.
Kidney Ore2 photos of Smoky Quartz associated with Kidney Ore at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beckermet Mine, Haile, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:119652
Long-form Identifier:1:3:119652:8
GUID (UUID V4):0a1a2c95-d722-4853-a5ec-40ee337b479f
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
1.9km (1.2 miles) Florence Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
5.9km (3.7 miles) Cleator Moor Iron Mines, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
45.2km (28.1 miles) Rascarrel Bay, Auchencairn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
45.3km (28.1 miles) Abbey Head, Abbey Burn Foot beach, Dundrennan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
47.9km (29.8 miles) Toors Hill, Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
52.5km (32.6 miles) Screel Hill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
52.5km (32.6 miles) Boreland Burn, New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
References
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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
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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
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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
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5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...invested in pearly-white tabular xtls and pale-brown Quartz, with a single terminated, Beryl xtl upstanding...5x2x1", £10.00 6. ANDRADITE GARNET. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devonshire. A vitreous brownishgreen...25x5/8", £15.00 12. ANDRADITE/URALITE. Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon Co, Colorado, U.S.A. Lustrous coffee­ brown...silvery-grey bladed xtl with, enhancing, stalactitic micro-Quartz encrustation on under side (or display side?).
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9W. ALSTONITE. Jug Vein,Brownley Hill Mine,Nenth ead,Cumbria. Barite-rich matrix fragment topped by...colln. TN,£20. 14W. 1sw. 16. 17W. -2- Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,N.:imib!a. Ex Cyril Quc!t coll<'r.11011. Thin...on rear. SC,£20. 18W. APATITE. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Beira-Beixa,Portugal.Gemmy, grey-blue... 20W. APATITE on QUARTZ. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Portugal. MillQuartz xtls with several gemmy...22W. 23. 24W. 25W. 26. APATITE on QUARTZ. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Portugal. Ex Paul Desautels
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...District , the hematite ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation.
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y...attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...intergrown in a cavity in quartz gossan. lxl lT • £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall...Li~ht green 2tx2t". £1. AUTUNITE. South Terras Mine, st. Stephens, Cornwall. Light yellowish green platy...black Pitchblende and Quartz matrix. 2xlt". £2.50. A?1JRITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, U.S
Journal (volume)
minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK COVER: Paracelsian...Geology and mineralisation at Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria Brian Young 3-18 A geochemical study...mineral assemblage of the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK using a stability field model Trevor F. Bridges,...of type mineral species at the Benallt Manganese Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales Tom F. Cotterell...Tandy 62-72 NOTES Chalcoalumite from southwest England Richard S.W. Braithwaite and Michael G.H. Merry
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C a s c M nerals of o h England 0 0 = The Greenbank Collection This Catalogue is a Limited Edition...divide us, the mineral specimens from Northern England unite almost everyone in an appreciation of their...treasured specimens remain to fire the IN NORTHERN ENGLAND has a imagination and wonder of collectors and...waste rock and gangue discarded during mining - the mine pagel The Lindsay Gree11ba11k Collection curators...the supplies of mineral specimens from Northern England were limitless. Hundreds of thousands of specimens
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Pensance, Cornwall, England. V.A.T .No.132-78~ -67 CRDERING INFORMA.TION Mail...botryoidal, shelly mass partially overlain with whitish Quartz and ~lcite. 2txlt't. £6.50. 4. ANATASE. Cavradi...t" in length, scattered and lying flat on small Quartz crystals covering Galena. 2x2x2". £13;50. 6. APATITE...APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, TYwardreath, Covnwall. Small, bright, creamy hexagonal...dark brown Siderite lining cavities in ~ellular Quartz with minor Chalcopyr ite. Specimen A - 2ixlt".
Catalog/List
n'egesoaal., ot. JU'st, ~ '8 Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. V.A.T. No.132-7852-67 <0O, .' ORDER ING INFORMATION...greenish Chlorite. lixlxl".£3.25. 2. ALASKAITE. Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, Silverton, San Juan Co., Colorado...£13. 5. APATITE variety FRM~~OLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, ~ornwall. Snall, translucent, aggregates...aggregates of hexagonal crystals richly encrusting Quartz veinstuff. Specimen A 3xH". £4.50; SpeClmen B -... ARAGONITE variety TAhNOWITZITE. New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries. Thick, creamy white, lustrous
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...calcite-lined worm holes. 90/072 Quartz. 50' above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales...group of colourless pyramidal quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale...minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte
Catalog/List
crystals on dar~ matrix. (not radioactive) (Leonie Mine, huerbach, Oberpfal Genany) Sto 10mmf3 l/2in;; ES...Silicate pinkish massiv~ with black Allanite (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhytt2n Vastm~~l2nd,Sw2deri) Cu/2 Se 039...34. Bur J rnin. 61lo6 2~5ff. greyish micros on Quartz. X20neeeed.(Hangabeira Hine,Gois 3ra;:il) ~-r....(Ti Nb 0 rich black nasses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lxl E2.50 lx2 ins...PO/~ • yellowish plates on mauvEUssingit~ (UmDa Mine, Reuda, Kola Peninsula • Russia) (6a pure plate
Journal (issue)
Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175;...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...unearthing many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ...crystal faces. 2xltxl". £6. 5. M\SENOPYRITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Sharp, silvery grey, complex...crystals scattered on botryoidal Chlorite with minor Quartz and pink Feldspar in association. Specimen n. -...crystals sea ttered on and in a reddish Hematite/Quartz matrix. 3~-x2xlt". £3. 7. aUTUNITE. Joachimsthal...matrix in association. Itxlt". £4. 8. AUTUNITE. Mine La Faye, Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France. Yellowish
Catalog/List
d>anu> ^IVefCenS^Minerats Mineral Dealer <£ Mine Agent Barn Cottage, Lower Boscaswell, Pendeen, Nr...£5-50. 'Z ‘_ 2£x2x1", £4.25. ALMANDINE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia. Very largei ,matrixfree... 2-Jx2xJ", £14.00. 10. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia, Several large,creamy... Very rich for this mine. 1-Jx1^x1",, £20.00. 11. ANGLESITE. Bunker Hill Mine,Kellogg,Idaho,U.S.A....fragment. 1£x1x1", £12.00. 12. ANGLESITE. Touissit Mine,Nr.Oujda,Morocco. Two very different but equally
Catalog/List
Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872 262 232...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...milky quartz iron stained quart.z.RF.C.£24 OCX>6 SPHALERITE,Brownley Hill M1ne,Nenthead,Cumbria Attractive...metallic anatas!? prisms 10 4mm scaltered with spany quartz xtls on greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014
Journal (issue)
Sutcliffe put on a display of material from Rampgill Mine with two specime ns of enormous interest (to me...first was severely corroded fluorite in one of the quartz epimorphs from the Bounder End Cross Vein area...the 'old man' was working this part of Rampgill Mine well before I thought they had got that far! After...longer interested in their collection of a seri es of UK first day covers; 86 issues from the period July...a site. With Grah am I wa lked up t o Brae Fell Mine and showed him what we did in the summer and why
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Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055................................... 428 8: babel quartz to bytownite .............................. 66...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
Catalog/List
meteorites that contains a rare form of shocked Quartz called Stishovite. The irst remnants of Muonionalusta...due to its metallic luster and patches of drusy Quartz crystals. This medium-sized sphere has been carved...green and cream orbs with a spattering of drusy Quartz among a sea of concentric orbs. This sphere has... The impactful display piece features bands of Quartz crystals and blue Agate that frame the Amethyst...diameter Starting Bid: $1,500 72068 “Star” Rose Quartz Sphere Stone Source: Madagascar This beautiful
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permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later
Journal (issue)
postage paid at Bowie Md. 20715 RHODOCHROSITE on quartz from Trepca, Serbia, Yugoslavia. The upright crystal...photo of a copper mine (for example), several copper ore specimens from that mine, a model or drawing...series of brief labels to lead the viewer from the mine to the m etal in a logi­ cal progression. Some may...ANNUAL NEW ENGLAND GEM AND MINERAL SHOW - MORE THAN A LITTLE DIFFERENT! The 10th Annual New England Gem and...are just some of the activities planned. The New England Show encourages educational mineral exhibits in
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Rich grey silvery platy mass in matrix (San Jose Mine,Oruro, Bolivia) 1cm t4 Very rich 2cm piece £10 ...sections in maliix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 lx2 £7.50 317...'rELLURIUM Rich silvery vein in matrix. (La eambolla Mine Moctezuma Sonora Mexico) 1 x half ins £10 flakes...Nickel,Cobalt Selenide. Dark grey mass . IEl Dragon Mine, Potosi, Bolivia) See Min Ree Vol 21 pagel33 10...quite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl
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Md Cover photo: the 180 fathom level of East Pool mine, Illogan, Cornwall, in 1893, by John Charles Burrow... GARNITURE Young Welsh girl sellinga plate of quartz crystalsby the roadside.Watercolourby the aptly-named...cavities are, in many cases, studded with crystals of quartz and other minerals for which the haematite mines...series on the development of museums in northern England, Messrs Crosthwaite, Todhunter and Hutton have...producing the specimens for fear of being found out by mine management, and dealers would carefully guard their
 
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