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Baryte from
Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Baryte
Formula:BaSO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Baryte data
Locality Data:Click here to view Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1602
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1602:5
GUID (UUID V4):965ce7fd-e973-4127-9571-4ddd9fa81020
Nearest other occurrences of Baryte
2.5km (1.6 miles) Trearne Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
6.0km (3.7 miles) Hartfield Moss, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
8.0km (5.0 miles) Swinlees Mine, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
12.2km (7.6 miles) Muirshiel Mine, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
13.3km (8.3 miles) Boyleston Quarry, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
37.2km (23.1 miles) Glen Sannox Barytes Mine, Glen Sannox, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
43.6km (27.1 miles) Gasswater baryte mine, East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
44.8km (27.8 miles) Mannoch Hill Mine, Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
50.0km (31.1 miles) Touch Muir (Touch Forest), Stirling, Scotland, UK
60.3km (37.5 miles) Airthrey Hill Mine, Stirling, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Strontianite, Strontian mines, Highland Region, Scotland. 100 mm x 55 mm. From an old collection. Specimen...on native silver from the Clyde Plateau Lavas, Scotland T.K. Meikle 67 Conference Reports 71 Book...resulted in the formati o n of northeast-trending, north-plunging major and minor folds . During emplacement...connelJite, a new variety from the Britannia mine, North Wales, and from the Botallack mine, Cornwall. Journal...LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland. Chambers Street. Edinburgh EH I IJF Twenty-two
Report (issue)
5GG No. 67 Baryte and copper mineralisation in the Renfrewshire Hills, central Scotland 1 I I I 1...Reconnaissance Programme Baryte and copper mineralisation in the Renfrewshire Hills, central Scotland Report No....Llanrwst, North Wales 23 Disseminated sulphide mineralisation at Garbh Achadh, Argyllshire, Scotland 24...Geochemical drainage survey of central Argyll, Scotland 51 A reconnaissance geochemical survey of Anglesey...mineralisation in Dalradian schist near Aberfeldy, Scotland; Preliminary report Investigation of polymetallic
Journal (issue)
Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent ME3 8AT, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD: F.B. Atkins, Oxford, UK. RE. Bevins, Cardiff, U.K. RS...Braithwaite, Manchester, UK. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, UK. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, UK. RA. Howie, Matlock, U...U.K. R.J. King, Tewkesbury, UK. A. Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK. l.R Plimer, Parkville, Australia RE....Bromsgrove, UK. R.F. Symes, London, U.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia B. Young, Newcastle, UK. Aims...adamite, green globules up to 0.5 mm across on baryte. Nether Row Brow, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England
Catalog/List
Reference [SO 875 618]. Post Code is WR9 0AH. From the north, leave the M5 at junction 5 and follow the A38 southwards...worked initially in the Midlands, but in 1981 moved north to take up an opportunity on Tyneside at International...12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's...Barstow. SW.B1 Apatite on orthoclase - Colcerrow Quarry, Cornwall. Barstow green stock label. SW.D10 Sphalerite...Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 1976. [SW 722 220]. SW.Q4 Serpentine - County Bridge Quarry, Lizard
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Port Glasgow Loanhead quany WoolGill Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow...Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton...KlrlScotland Scotland Beith.Scotland Leadhllls,ScoU. Beith.Scotland...Scotland Wanlockhead,Scot. Beith,ScoUand Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith,Scolland Rhlw.Uyn,Wales
Journal (issue)
NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...orthoclase & chlosite. Mag. = x 8.5. Reilly quarry, Renfrewshire. 1998 Kemp Meikle. Journal of the...half way up Wet Swine Gill, some lkm to the ESE. North of the Grainsgill griesen very similar pharmacosiderite-bearing...on the minerals of Westmorland and Cumberland. North West Naturalist, 23 (for 1948) 136-154. Eastwood...Sclaigneaux, Belgium (De Nul, 1999). Several sites in the UK have yielded a wide range of interesting minerals
Journal (issue)
the permission of the author. -3- Sussex Goes North Once More Despite the well-known and bountiful mineralogical...discussion we headed off across the fields to visit some baryte mine workings. Peter entered the old workings,...blocked and had to retreat. There was much massive baryte on the tips around the workings and in the stream...(malachite?) were found on a couple of pieces of baryte. We returned empty-handed to the cars and made...digging was necessary as we found nice groups of baryte crystals and some witherite on the dumps. David
Book
E.GSt 'to W,e st and' North to South the Logo's been unfurled For North is North and E,a.st is East both...crystal group - Ramsbeck, Meschede, Sauerland, North Rhine - Westphalia , Germany . Photo: John Hall...and gradually extended to the Lake District and Scotland. Later on, SMLS organised many overseas field...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath
Journal (volume)
Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...overgrowths of white botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection;...photograph. Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES
Catalog/List
Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland Zambia Austria Ecton Hill, Staffs Cloqau Wales...Arsenopyrite Sphalerite& Hydrozincite Sphalerite, Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena & Dolomite Chalcopyrite...Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific...Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie Prospect, Co Mayo Copiapo, Chile...A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The Knipe, S. Scotland Masson Hill, Derbyshire A2 A2 A2 75p 50p £1
Journal (issue)
ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS
Other Paper
Clatteringshaws Res 434 Cnoc Cuil na Mine 162 Coatsgate Quarry 416 Coille-Bhraghad Mine 163 Caire Buidhe 428 Co~dstream...Tirials - Crawford Moor Creag Na Ca illich Creetown Quarry Criff el Hill Croggan Culc ron chie Min e Cumbcrhaad...hclyde Scotland Centr a l (Cl ac km a nn anScotland D&G(Kirkcudbright) Scotland SEE Anworth Scotland SEE...King's Laggan Scotland SEE North Britain Scotland Grampian Scotland D&GCKirkcLtdbright) Scotland Strath (Renfrew)...(Renfrew) Scotland D&G(KirkcLldbright) Scotland SEE Enrick Mine Scotland Scotland D&G Scotland Strath (Lanark)
Journal (issue)
Sperdhurst KENT TN30NP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sid cup KENT DA14 5EL Trevor Devon Battle...have to be 'pushed' to the public as here in the UK. 2. Vernadsky State Geological Museum. Jolyon was...lcdlntquo was lo w.alt ne·or the rnce until lho quarry shovel had a bucket full and begoo revar-Jlngi...'pigs eggs' and amethyst at Steetley's Bodelva quarry which is now the home of the Eden Project and trips...price of 50p each! At the start of the 1980s the UK had a couple of mineral publications, Gems Magazine
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Journal (issue)
days. Quite a problem. Q: Are there diamonds in Scotland? A: John was not aware of them – but he mentioned...magnetic north of the iron minerals in the sediments, as these represent the position of magnetic north as...have collected zeolites from our field trips to Scotland, Faroe Islands, India and Morocco. The size and...village café much to the bemusement of three passing UK bikers who stopped for coffee. As with other mineral...Nick Hawes, Chabazite, mesolite, calcite, Hustoft Quarry, Lambreidi, Faroe Islands. Page 68, Nick Hawes
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...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Journal (volume)
thomsonite (spiky and botryoidal varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected...Brian Young 18-26 The mineralogy of Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire Francis Ince 27-39...benefactors: Peter and Greg Tom at Bardon Hill Quarry (1 :4-3 : 1); Redland Aggregates (2: 1); Ralph...nickel-, and iron-bearing sulpharsenides from the North of England. Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 389-395...R.A. (1980) . Studies of sulphide mineralogy of north Pennine ores and its contribution to genetic models
Journal (issue)
SUSSEX TN330RL John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sidcup KENT DA145EL Colin Brough 1 William...wavellite from the type locality at High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon; unfortunately, but deservedly beating...wavellite entry. John also won second place for a baryte rose on calcite from his second home in Sheppey...analcime, in a large vug in Basalt, from Sund Old Quarry, Streymoy island, Faeroes. This was entered by...found whilst on the field trip to Hvitasteinar quarry, Skalabutnor on Eysturoy Island in the Faeroes
Journal (issue)
Austin Lockwood ....................... 28 Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum ..................................................................... 29 Dean Quarry - an update by Jeremy Hooper ........... ........our old specimens with that of the new. A mine or quarry name indicates the position of the locality in...found, a fourth dimension. It may take maps and quarry plans to help achieve the end, but with these kinds...(according to theirletter heads) 'South-WestBranch', 'North West Branch' and 'South East Branch'. The Constitution
Book
Namurian Clackmannan Group Passage Formati,,n Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member Troon Vc)lcanic Member basal......... -- -- . . NS • Ki1birnie • • • Beith •1 • • I • •/ ........ . • • / • • 50...Measures Middle Coal Measures Lower Coal Measures Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member (! Clyde Plateau Volcanic...000 Geological Sheet 22W and part of Sheet 21E (Scotland) Hydrogenlog;y N S R()bins �u;neotts -rocks D...��u-n,ey, Sheet 22\V and pa1·t of Sheet 2 1 E (Scotland) i\11,thar S K l\.1onro, BSc, Pl1D, CGeol B,ritisli
Journal (issue)
the agreed £600 sponsorship had been paid to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, a new Catalogue of...future. However Bob Reekie of the Royal Museum of Scotland stepped into the breach and lengthened his proposed...Judkins quarry, Nuneaton; beautiful anatase, brookite, and rare earth minerals from' Hendre Quarry, Glyn...zinc hydroxides and other species from Milltown quarry, Ashover. Other articles range from a review of...No. 19: Coatsgate Quarry, !Mattock, Dumfries & Galloway NT 065 053 Coategate Quarry is a working roadstone
Journal (issue)
UK C TS 2 EDITORIAL COVER.Smalt-blueplumbogummite with minor pyromorphite on vein quartzfrom RoughtonGill...appropriate channel. through MINERALS OF AUGHRIM QUARRY Stephen Moreton • David Green • Andrew Tindle...N0952-2409 BOOK REVIEWS 68 PRINTEDBY ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 33 -1- EDITORIAL...the journal by subscription. We have examined the UK subscription rates and these will remain at £16 for...fortunate enlist the help of Terry Huizing as our North American distributor following the retirement of
Journal (issue)
MALACHITE Collected in 1980 from Castle Hill quarry, Somerset. A rare form as curved strands up to...FLUORITE Collected in 1985 from Meldon Aplite quarry, Devon. A group of octahedral crystals on axinite...Collected about 12 years ago from Loanhead quarry, near Beith, Southern Scotland. Fascinated by the other minerals...coastal site in Lanzarote about 2 miles to the north of Playa Quemada. Small water clear crystals showing...2000 AZURITE Collected on a SMLS trip to the north of England in 1998 from Eagle Crag mine. A site
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Natural...British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION By I. B Cameron, BSc, and D. Stephenson...the area around Distinkhorn and Tincorn Hill, Ayrshire 45 16 Palaeolatitudes for the British Isles during...and ice limits 40 Sequence of shorelines in SE Scotland 41 Isobases of the 11ain Late Glacial shoreline...of basernent material frorr1 Partan Craig vent, North Berwick (MNS 3670, 3671) 3.2 Ochil Fault scarp,
Journal (issue)
6 6 7 8 9 10 News Items: A New Potash Mine for North Yorkshire? ................................... Hemerdon...considered the future prospects for mining in the UK to be pretty bleak, the last few months have seen...announcement of the commencement of test drilling in North Yorkshire for a potential new potash mine; optimistic...Rosevale Mine (underground tour), Hingston Down Quarry, Herodsfoot Mine, a "behind the scenes" visit to...attract participants from the Midlands and further north, and we look forward to seeing many of you there
 
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