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Pyrite from
Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1089817
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1089817:6
GUID (UUID V4):9019fe43-b7b6-4bed-aada-d58219243fb4
Localities for Pyrite in this Region
Sandyhills Bay (Southwick Cliffs), Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
4.8km (3.0 miles) Lower Porterbelly Quarry, Kirkgunzeon, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
8.7km (5.4 miles) Sandyhills Bay (Southwick Cliffs), Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
9.5km (5.9 miles) Lotus Hill, New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
13.0km (8.1 miles) Airds Point, Auchencairn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
15.9km (9.9 miles) Southerness, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
16.9km (10.5 miles) Borron Point, Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
35.1km (21.8 miles) Oughterside open cast coal site, Oughterside and Allerby, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
35.9km (22.3 miles) Talnotry Mine, Talnotry, Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
36.5km (22.7 miles) Glen of the Bar, Talnotry, Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
38.4km (23.8 miles) Blackcraig Mine (East Blackcraig Mine; West Blackcraig Mine), Blackcraig, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
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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...MINERAL NOTES BOOK AND SOFTWARE REVIEWS COLLECTORS AND PERSONALITIES MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS LOCALITIES...information contained in books and journals, but are time consuming to produce and neglected by many publications...issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and 2000. Information about
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Geolo RESEARCH COUNCIL of the Kirkcudbright-Dalbeattie district I • - - - - Kirkcudbright_Memoir_Complete...KIRKCUDBRIGHT-DALBEATTIE DISTRICT SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS (DRIFT) Quaternary (Pleistocene and Recent) Alluvium...Alluvium (fluvial, coastal and estuarine), Peat, Post-Glacial raised beach deposits, Late-Glacial raised...raised beach deposits, Glaciolfluvial sand and gravel, Moraine, Till. SOLID FORMATIONS Permian Doweel Breccia...clasts ofwacke, microdiorite and granodiorite limestone, calcareous shale and thickly bedded sandstone calcareous
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Geology of the Kirkcudbright-Dalbeattie district --- - -• > :: -:s- a I --- - ?:,:=------==...KIRKCUDBRIGHT- DALBEATTIE DISTRICT SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS (DRIFT) Qua.ternary (Pleistocene and Recent) Alluvium...Alluvium (fluvial, coastal and estuarine), Peat, Post-Glacial raised beach d eposits, Late-Glacial raised...raised beach deposits, Glaciolfluvial sand and gravel. Moraine, Till. SOLID FORMATIONS Pennian Doweel Breccia...UnconformifJ (on Silurian) Carboniferous (Colvend and Rerrick outliers) DINAl\1TV\N Rascarrel Formation
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United Nations Educational, Scienllfic and Cultural Organization • 1n Ewan Hyslop Andrew McMillan Ingval...Publishing • IAEG • Queen's Printer for Scotland • British Geological Survey and Natural Environment Research Council...stone pillars of Kemnay granite from Aberdeenshire and sandstone (Arbroath stone) from the Carmyllie quarries...produced some of the finest building stone in Scotland. BGS © NERC. Photo: A. McMillan. Back cover image:...responsible for the choice and the presentation of the facts contained in this book and for the opinions expressed
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the New Galloway and Thornhill district TABLE 1 Geological succession in the New Galloway and Thornhill...beach deposit:; melrn,,uer deposits: glacial sand and gravel glacial deposits: hummocky moraine, till ... ,.... " 'tkick:ness Litlwlor:; 'tn Dumfries Basin Z. 5 l.OCHAR8R.ICCS SANl>STONE FOR~t,TJON DoWF...with clas,s of wac;ke sandstone, mi c:rodiori te and granite T HO&'...sandstone sandstone and red breccia with d a.stS rnafr,ly of basa lt thin basalt flows and interbedded breccia
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- A s - B i - C o mineralisation near Dalbeattie, south Scotland As a result of a radiometric survey carried...Miller and Taylor (1966) reported on uranium mineralisation on the coastline south of Dalbeattie, Dumfries...Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Some sixty mineralised structures were located and mapped, thirteen of them...deposits further west, e.g. near Newton Stewart, and related to the Leadhills-Wanlockhead mineralisation...method as 185_+ 20 m.y. (Darnley et al, in Miller and Taylor 1966). The vein fractures are mostly in a
Report (issue)
geochemical drainage survey of the Criffel-Dalbeattie granodiorite complex and its environs I I I I I I I I I...Programme Report No. 19 Metalliferous Minerals and Applied Geochemistry Unit R.C. Leake,BSc,PhD M. J...survey of the Criffel-.Dalbeattie granodiorite complex and its environs Analytical and Ceramics Unit A. R...Survey of Great Britain and the Geological Museum with Overseas Geological Surveys and is a constituent body..._granite roof in south-west Cornwall Geochemical and geophysical investigations around Garras Mine, near
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SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 · H. ·G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 H . G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...INTRODUCTION Compilation of the glossary . Style and guidelines Comments on the glossary . Statistical...groups. Appendix 3: Minerals discovered first in Scotland 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 12 13 39 44 47 SYNOPSIS...mineral species, listing some 443 mineral names, and containing 399 valid species has been corn piled
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Russell Society CONTENTS Volume 18, 2015 editorial and erratum 2 obituary trevor F. bridges (1935–2015)...mineral formation in an oxidising lead-, copper- and zinc-bearing ore deposit Trevor F. Bridges 5–16...Bridges and Roy Starkey 17–24 the history and occurrence of ‘buxton diamonds’ Roy Starkey and John Faithfull...Hill, Castle douglas, dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Stephen Moreton, John Lawson and Robert Lawson 45–47...Jens Najorka and John Spratt 48–52 book reView “matthew Forster Heddle: mineralogist and mountaineer”
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology South of Scotland FOURTH EDITION P Stone A A ,o\/1cN'liIla n J...B,A,RNES, R P, and PHILLIPS, E R. 20 l 2. British Regional i Geology: South of Scotland [Fourth edit on)...Geologica I Survey.) , Tl,. 1, ,e © Crown copyright and database rights 2012. Ordnance Survey L icence number...of St Abb's Head, Berw i ckshire, showing folded and steepy Formation (El/ri ck Group, , incli ned furbi...Glaciation 22 Human intervention 23 5 2 Ordovician and Silurian of the Girvan-Ballantrae district Ordovician
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