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Aragonite from
Florence Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kidney Ore3 photos of Aragonite associated with Kidney Ore at this locality.
Hematite2 photos of Aragonite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Aragonite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Specularite1 photo of Aragonite associated with Specularite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Florence Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1038324
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1038324:9
GUID (UUID V4):ab87c686-3716-4b59-ad81-b519815067ce
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
2.8km (1.8 miles) Bigrigg Mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
2.9km (1.8 miles) Haile Moor Mine, Haile, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
4.3km (2.7 miles) Cleator Moor Iron Mines, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
5.5km (3.4 miles) High House Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
7.6km (4.7 miles) Eskett Quarry, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
7.8km (4.9 miles) Eskett Mine, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
8.7km (5.4 miles) Stockhow Quarry, Kirkland, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
9.4km (5.8 miles) Kirkland, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
9.5km (5.9 miles) Kelton Quarry, Kirkland, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
11.5km (7.1 miles) Murton & Coronation Mine, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...green stock label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section... SW.18 Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]
Catalog/List
growing on a mass of fluorite crystals. BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4648 Tetrahedral crystals...grey micro crystals of quartz. GREENSIDE MINE, PATTERDALE, CUMBRIA M 4709 Large cubes of galena encrusted...siderite with the odd cube of fluorite BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4710 Beautiful association...and blue-grey micro-crystals of quartz. BEAUMONT MINE, ALLENHEADS, ALLENDALE, NORTHUMBERLAND M 5034 ...dolomite crystals on iron lattice-work. FLORENCE MINE, EGREMONT, CUMBRIA M 5416 Large cubes of shiny galena
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
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
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 (volume)
minor hematite on cream dolomite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. David Green photograph. BACK COVER:...PAPERS 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
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
Journal (issue)
access it gave me to real mineralogists who were a mine of useful information and expertise. The culmination...the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...driving a European visiting professor to Boltsburn Mine in its latter years as a producer of spectacular
Book (volume)
Vienna it might be Klimt’s “The Kiss” or when in Florence Michelangelo’s “David”. In Paris I must visit...Chalcopyrite) Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,..., Morocco, 48-49 Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina,...Div., Myanmar, 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite)...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)
Catalog/List
colourless calcite. 70x40xl5mm. £35. 2) ANNABERGITE. KM 4 Mine, Laurion, Greece. Cavities in gossan matrix showing...xls of annabergite to 3mm. 35x30x8mm. £12. 3) ARAGONITE. Reedy Cliff, St Endellion,. Cornwall. Cellular...gossan matrix intergrown with sharp colourless aragonite xls to 5mm. 50x40x30mm. £15. (a) 40x20xl2mm. £6...matrix. 30x20x7nun. £10. 5) AURICHALCITE. Royal Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Calcite matrix with some...130x70x80mm. £475. 9) BOURNONITE on SIDERITE. Mure Mine, lse:re, Rhone-Alpcs, Frauce. A 15mm lead grey cog
Catalog/List
(MM’s) LOT No: 1 ACC No. 795. ARTHUR1TE, HINGSTON MINE. DRAKEWALLS. GREEN XSTLS IN SHALLOW CAVITY (50 X... 30 4 ACC No. 760. OLIVENITE, BEDFORD UNITED MINE, GULWORTHY. CRYSTALS ON ONESIDEOFTHESLATEY KILLAS...QUARTZ MATRIX. COOK’S KITCHEN SECTION, DOLCOATH MINE. COLL 1892. 80x70 8 ACC No. 1056. CASSITERITE...RAMSLEY MINE, STICKLERATH, DEVON. A SINGLE CRYSTAL. ACC No. 744. PYRITE & QUARTZ, EAST POOL MINE, ILLOGAN...29 30 31 ACC No. 1039. CERUSSITE, PENTIREGLAZE MINE, PENTIREGLAZE, NORTH CORNWALL. WHITE JACKSTRAW XSTLS
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland
Catalog/List
<.Sanv We(ftuMineraG Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent Levanl Gallery, Lower Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance...- ✓...,· -~Xc ,d, 12. APATITE.Panesquira xtls Mine,Beira i3eixa,PortugaL (to about 1ri in size) .....D2~5.OO. r ' \ 20. lURICBJ.ICITE. Golconda Mine,Brassington,Derbyshire. Silky blue-green xtl aggregRtee...Specimen B. 1~1"(very gemmy) ~2.00. AZURITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,S.W.Africa~ Brilliant,sharp,striated 'Roman-sword'...3x21'',~1S.OO. 1tx1; /lZURITE/MALACHITE.Tynagh Mine,Co.Ga1way9Irelando Brilliant nodule form cavernous
Journal (issue)
Business Marco Marchesini suggested a visit to the Florence mineral show May 13 th 2018 with some collecting...interest were: Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally...found the first UK specimen on Meadowfoot Smelter Wanlockhead in 1981. Spiky white aragonite and a pyrrhotite...with a crude hexagonal outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill. Pale-green...crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute terminations
Book
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
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.
Journal (issue)
MineralogicalRecord.com Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily,..."paesina stone" (a kind of "picture rock" from the Florence area) and other materials suitable for lapidary...is important to mention the Imperial Museum of Florence, whose collections today form part of the Natural...Natural History Museum of the University of Florence (Cipriani and Poggi, 1995); the collection of King...and Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti (1712-1783) in Florence, Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730) in Padua, Giovanni
Catalog/List
quality specimens, continuously 'rolling in' from mine contracts, general imports and collection purehases...nnss, 2x1¾x1 , f.2. 50. APATITE/SIDERITE. Poldicc Mine, Illogan, Cormr.:i.llo Rare 19th C, specimen. Cavernous...xtls"3x2x1 11 ,215 00" 8. ARAG0NITE. Cape Sounion Mine,Attica,Greccc, Sharp spiky po..lc-green to _spnrkling... 4x2x1i~' 1 ,28. 00. AZUHITE/MALACHITE,.Morenci Mine \Arizona., U ..S.A. -Bri 15ht-blue spherical xtl·...2~1¾x1i",U.f.5,.. 14. BISMUTHINITE. South Crofty Mine,Camborne,Cornw~ll. Rich intergrowth of bright silvcry
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Pensance, Cornwall, England. V.A.T .No.132-78~ -67 CRDERING INFORMA.TION Mail...£13;50. 6. APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, TYwardreath, Covnwall. Small, bright, creamy hexagonal...12. 13. 14. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. ARAGONITE. Frizingwn, \fest- Cumb.exland.-Int-erest.ing...white Quartz. 2i" x 3". £10. BARYTES. Force Crag Mine, Nr. Keswick, Cumberland. An attractive intergro~n...2" on edge. 3x3~_ll.£6. 50. BARYTES. Ale & Cakes Mine, Gwennap, ~ornwall. Unusual, greyish green ~lusters
Journal (issue)
Malachite on Chalcopyrite, on Dolomite from Ty Gwyn Mine Llandudno THE JOURNAL OF THE RUSSELL SOCIETY...almost every mine in Great Britain and Ireland, and went underground in every metalliferous mine in the British...King. A new find of Nickeloan Hydrozincite in Parc Mine, North Wales. 19 Richard E. Bevins, Paul O'Brien...occurrence of Nickel minerals in the Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria. 26 M.E. Smith. 33 T.F. Bridges. 40...history of the Oxford Clay (Jurassic) of central England . Sedimentology, 25, 339·370. Pitcher, W.S., Peake
Catalog/List
Elements, Two new Gold locations and Copper after Aragonite. Metallic minerals , Arsenopyrite Ghana, Ilmenite...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...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
Book
SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...increasingly ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...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 (issue)
UK C TS 2 EDITORIAL COVER.Smalt-blueplumbogummite with minor pyromorphite on vein quartzfrom RoughtonGill...Ballard 39 EPIDOTE-(SR) AND PIEMONTITE-(SR) BENALLT MINE FROM NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe David McCallum...of the Editorial Board. GORCEIXITE FROM BENALLT MINE Tom Cotterell • Richard Tayler 61 Publication...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
Catalog/List
with red cavity. 2. 3. ALSTONITE, Fallowfields Mine,Hexham,Northumberland. Sharp,creamy,small spikey...00. 11 length) ;'cross". ANGLESITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Tsumeb 1 0tavi,S.W.Africa. Choice,gemmy,flattened...with pearly fans of StilbiteaDisplays .i18 .00. ARAGONITE.(Floss Ferri)"Santanda,Spain. Pearly-white development...3x2ix1¾;' ,~6 .00. branching wall. tree-like ARAGONITE. Rowrah,Frizzington,West Curnbria. Rich spray...3x2x11; 1', 25. 00. 16. ARSENOPYRITE.P endarves Mine , Camborne , Cornwall . Si 1 very ~e ll. ••f oraie
 
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