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Gypsum from
Birks Head Mine, Long Marton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Birks Head Mine, Long Marton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:16294
Long-form Identifier:1:3:16294:8
GUID (UUID V4):963e2d4d-bf87-4802-abdd-77b0226789c3
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
1.3km (0.8 miles) Longriggs Mine, Long Marton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Stamp Hill Mine, Long Marton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
5.3km (3.3 miles) Acorn Bank Gypsum Mine, Temple Sowerby, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
15.9km (9.9 miles) Long Meg Mine, Lazonby, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
17.7km (11.0 miles) Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
20.0km (12.4 miles) Sherry Gill, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
20.4km (12.7 miles) Shap Pink Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
20.8km (12.9 miles) Flusco Quarry, Newbiggin, Greystoke, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
21.1km (13.1 miles) Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
21.1km (13.1 miles) Caplecleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Report (issue)
Secret Sites dotted all over the landscape of the UK. There were three main waves of bunker construction...radioactive fallout from any nuclear attack on the UK. Fortunately, a 20th century re-enactment of 1066...underground quarries now known as Firs mine and Byfield mine. September 1994. David Pollard. 100pp. Available... The combined area occupied by Firs and Byfield mine is divided into sectors designated A to T. Positioning...recently as December 1985 (described in Cumbria Amenity Trust's The Mine Explorer 3 (1989), pp. 83 - 87.) As
Book
Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS 4487)...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
Report (issue)
Scordale and Hilton Beck and including Roman Fell and Long Fell, forms part of the British Army Warcop General...THE 9 PERMIAN AND TRIASSIC • Penrith Sandstone Eden Shales ' St Bees Sandstone • 10 STRUCTURE II...Penrith Sandstone Fig. 25 Comparative sections in the Eden Shales F(�. 26 Diagrammatic section across the Pennine... Farther west, the lower ground of th.e Vale of Eden is t1nderlain by Permo-Triassic sediments. The scarp...scarp is a major topographical feature of northern England and includes the highest Pennine peak, Cross Fell
Journal (volume)
4 Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society THE MINE EXPLORER Volume IV 1994 THE MINE EXPLORER...Journal of Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society Volume IV 1994 ISSN 0266-5700 The Mine Explorer...Explorer Published by Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society c/o The Secretary 411 West Shore Park...Park Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LAI 4 3YS Typeset in 9pt Palatino & 9pt Helvetica by CATMHS Printed by Lamberts...North Yorkshire BD24 9AA 0729 822177 Copyright © Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society 1994. All
Report (issue)
OLD SERIES. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. ENGLAND .A.ND WALES. GEOLOGY • OF �BE COUNTRY BETWEEN...The area embraced by the map extends from near the head of Ullswater on the west to Dufton and Appleby on...followed by the Triassic formations of the Vale of Eden. Some of tl1e pet1·ographical • notes were left...-PEBllIAN AND Tl\IAS. Tm.: RED RoCKS OP THE VALE OF EDEN • • • • • CHAPTER VII.-GLACI.i\L AND PosT-GLAeI"'-�...Lyvennet Superficial Deposits near Appleby between the Eden and .. .. • Lyvennet .. • Glacial Deposits of the
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...British or Irish links. It is a reflection of the long history of the study of mineralogy in these countries...re:ilized th:n wh:11l ,,-;is dning was not only long o, erdue. but that there were others in the mir...occurrence and associated species. I! \Y:JS:J·1 long before a few photographs,, ere collected and a decision...the) ha, e beco:r.e close friends. It didn't take long before it ,\as suggested that JfB/sho:ild CO\ er
Report (issue)
address of the owner, the name and situation of the mine, the names of manager and under-manager, number...the number of persons normally employed when the mine was at work. In the case of mines under the Metalliferous...Gian• Prwate address : mor Park Road, •• Thirlwall," Eden Sketty, Swansea. Ave., Swansea. C. Leigh, 23, Sketty...respectively. Owner and Postal Address. No. and Name of Mine. AYR. Adams Pict Firebrick Co., Ltd., Scotswoodon-Tyne...Nos. 3 & 4. 2. Gateside, Nos. 4 & 5. 3. Tower Mine Kirkconnel . . Achd. Wilson Jnr. (234). Sanquhar
Report (issue)
address of the owner, the name and situation of the mine, the names of manager and under-manager, number...(314). (4) A separate Index of all Mines producing mine�ls other than coal, arranged according to the mineral...the number of persons normally employed when the mine was at work. In the case of mines under the Metalliferous...Howieson. Ditto Ditto ditto ditto No. and Name of Mine. .. .. 2. Doura . . .. l . Pict Under-Manager...Alex. Dewar. Balgray Bauxite Co., Cunningham head Mine, Kilmaurs, Ayr• Agent, D. shire. McKinnon. ditto
Report (issue)
STEELE. Owner and Postal Address. No. and Name of Mine. AYR. Adams Pict Firebrick t 1. Pict ... Co., Ltd... 6 Geo. Johnstone (4,045). • Mainly a Fireclay mine. 80 34 (E.), (C.C.). Coal, H. & S. Ayr Hard...1st). Wm. Barr (3,088 ; 1st). • Mainly a Fireclay mine. Fireclay &Coal, M. and Shale. 15 5 41 13 ...H. Nine Feet & Twenty Inch (E'f, (C.C.). Surface Mine Abandoned 1/42. John Duncan (3,218; 1st). DUMBARTON...Canonbie 1. Bankton Near Prestonpans 3. Tower Mine 2. Fleets 3. Preston Links 4. Glencaim Ditto
Report (issue)
Owner and Postal Address. ,. No. and Name of Mine. Situation. AYR ... Adams Pict Firebrick Co...Robert Rennie (5,160 ; 2nd). • Mainly a Fireclay mine. 78 so 19 124 94 3 5 32 Coal, H. & S. Major...(3,088 ; 1st). Ditto Ditto • Mainly a Fireclay mine. 319 2 7 Coal, H. & M. Major and Five Quarter...Canonbie 1. Bankton Near Prestonpans 3. Tower Mine Ditto rutto 2. Fleets Ditto ditto 3. Preston...Blairball East Grange William Speir Bra11xton Mine. (3,021). William Speir, Jr. (3,146 ; 1st). Julian
Report (issue)
the number of persons normally employed when the mine was at work. (1) Scotland Division. Mr. A. H....respectively. Owner end Postel Address. No. and Name of Mine. Situation. AYR. ... ... Adams Pict Firebrick...1st). Wm. Barr (3,088 ; 1st). • Mainly a Fireclay mine. Coal, H. Ell, Major and Five Quarter (E.), (C...Sanquhar t. Bankton Near Prest.onpans 3. Tower Mine 2. Fleets 3. Preston Links William McNaughton...Glasgow, C.2. Agent, Jas. Young. ... Branxton Mine. Jas. Benzies (3,743 ; 1st). Julian Pit. � E
Report (issue)
Glasgow, C.2. Agent, G . W.Howieson. No. and Name of Mine. 1. Pict ... Saltcoats 2. Doura Montgreenan ...William Brazenall. 2. Gateside, Nos. 4 & 5. 3. Towe, Mine Sanquhar Ditto 4. Arche rbeck, No. 2. Canonbie... 219 71 460 163 9 5 130 41 30 Bra11xton Mine. William Speir (3,146 ; 1st). :Julian Pit. Robt...No. 7t, and Cowdenbeath, No. 10 (Kirkford) • This mine has a sys�em, of ventilation P,artly in common with...66 persons employed at the Power Station. t This mine has a system of ventilation partly in common with
Report (issue)
-;--------------Owner and Postal Address. AYR. No. and Name of Mine. . .. ... Situation. Adams Pict Firebrick Co...(3,088 ; 1st}. Ditto Ditto • Mainly a Fireclay mine. 16 5 Fireclay, oil Shale & coal. M. Ladyha'...William Brazenall. 2. Gateside, Nos. 4 & 5. 3. Tower Mine William McNaughton (3,391). Ditto Ditto 4. Archerbeck...C.2. Agent, Wm. Smith. William Speir Branxt011 Mine. (3,021). William Speir, Jr. (3,146 ; 1st). Julian...Proudfoot Surface Mine. 450 149 (3,646 ; 1st). Pit. Alex. Burnett (423 ; 2nd). • This mine has a system
Report (issue)
Howieso11. Ditto Ditto ditto ditto No. and Name of Mine. 1. Pict ... r. 2. Doura Situation. ... Saltcoats...Sanqul1ar 4. Arclterbeck Canonbie ... 3. Tower Mine 5. Ditto, No. 2. ... Ditto I William McNaughton...Julian Pit. William Speir (3,146 ; 1st). Bran:ctcn Mine. Robt. Imrie, Jr. (215 ; 1st). Jas. Wyllie (4,619...(2,479 ; 1st). . .. ... . .. (3,395). • This mine has a system of ventilation partly in common with...68 persons employed at the Power Station. t Th.is mine has a system of ventilation partly in common with
Report (issue)
Divisional H.Q., and at Farbrooke, Long Bennington, Nr. Newark, Notts. Long Bennington 282. SENIOR TllaINING...Bishop, 87, Netherfield Road, Long Eaton, NotRegent Road, Leicester, tingham. Long Eaton 997. (Mines, Inspector...OF ENGLAND DISTRICT {TEIGN­ MOUTH) The Counties of Cornwnll, Devon and Dorset. SOUTH OF ENGLAND The...the nun1ber of persons normally employed when the mine was at work. The initial letters attached to the...McDonald 1945 List Number and Nan1e of Mines of Mine County No. . , Aitken Nos. 1 & 2. 1.• .._Benarty
Report (issue)
Roberttt_C.8.E., 1\f.C. Principal Electrical Inspector of Mine, ... R. ):•,ttr11: C.B.E., u.S.O., M.C. Deputy Principal... F. Bishop, 87, Nethcrfield Road, Long Eaton, Not• t:ingham. Long Eaton 997. WEST MIDLAND AND SOUTHERN...Devon and Dorset. R. Butler (in charge), (Met­ ENGLAND alliferous Mines & Quar­ DISTRICT riea), 3, Courtney...Suffolk, Cambrid11e, Bedford, Ashford, Kent. (Mines ENGLAND Buckingham, Beru, Hertford, Eun, Lonaon, Middle...71484. Inspector, Newport, Mon.) F. H. Welch, Dale Head, Glasllwch Crescent, New­ L. N. John, 28, Beechwood
Report (issue)
OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY I. District Reports A. England and Wales I. South-Western District • • • • 2....Availability of one...inch geological maps of England . . . . . . . and Wales '' 32 Fig. 4 Availability...and 4641 sq. miles of resurvey. In south-western England the primary six-inch survey of the Hols­ worthy...have an important bearing upon the exploitation of gypsum and water supplies. Turning to consider field investigations...investigations by staff based in the North of England office at Leeds, attention in North Wales has been
 
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