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Stibnite from
Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Fell
Classification
Species:Stibnite
Formula:Sb2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Stibnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1094908
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1094908:1
GUID (UUID V4):44cee21c-cef6-4568-8c67-10adfe342ce0
References
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Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. SX.2F1 Stibnite - Trewetha Mine, St. Endellion, Cornwall. C19th...Mine, Appleby, Cumbria. [NY 703 317]. NY.D29 Barytocalcite - Blagill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. N.Thomson 1980s...Barytocalcite - Nentsberry Hagg's Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. [NY 766 450]. Admiralty Concession Flat. Barstow
Book
4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale (MNS 4488) (bottom left) Hematite...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....deposits outside of the SW England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is at present ( 1986)...clay iron-stones within the Coal Measures of west Cumbria at one time provided a source of lower grade iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation at Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria N. J. Fortey, J. D. Ingham, B. R. H. Skilton, B...metalliferous minerals, which include an early stibnite-berthierite assemblage, zinckenite and later-formed...is an expression of the nearby Early Devonian Carrock W-As deposit. The Pb-sulphantimonides may have...Lake District, including those shown in Figure I. Stibnite was worked early last century at Robin Hood Mine...J. Stanley, pers. comm.). Erratic boulders of stibnite have been found on two occasions in boulder clay
Book
Minerals of the English Lake District Caldbeck Fells Cumbria. Caldbeck. Mineral deposts 1. Title 11. Stanley...Caldbeck and the Caldbeck Fells Are worth all England else (Hutchinson. 1794) is supposed to have originated...Lancashire to form the new administrative county of Cumbria, It is an area of high ground, once described as...enclosed agrieultur al land. The distance from Carrock nd to Red Gil is at out 6km (3.7 miles) Potts...but the southern slopes of Carrock Fell including Brandy Gill and the Carrock tungsten mine, are part of
Report (issue)
NG12 5GG No.60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2 - Geochemical investigations INSTITUTE...Programme I Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2Geochemical investigations Report...Mineral exploration in the area around Culvennan Fell, Kirkcowan, south-western Scotland 15 Investigation...Mineral exploration in the Ravenstonedale area, Cumbria 19 A reconnaissance geochemical drainage survey...Scotland 60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2 -Geochemical investigations 32
Report (issue)
2 5GG No.60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2 - Geochemical investigations I...Report No. 60 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2Geochemical investigations M. J...Mineral exploration in the area around Culvennan Fell, Kirkcowan, south-western Scotland 15 Investigation...Launceston, Cornwall Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 2-Geochemical investigations 33 ... Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1 -Geophysical survey 34 Results of a gravity
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...and from the iron ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...District View ofYewbarrow, Great Gable and the Sea Fell range, rising above Wastwater lV FORE ORD The...Group (Ordovician to Silurian) 10 Devonian 10 Mell Fell Conglomerate 10 Carboniferous 10 Basement Beds 10
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...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British...R. F.Symes and B. Young MINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND v Aboutthe Authors vi Dr R.F.(Bob)Symes,OBE
Report (issue)
and tin sulfides and sulfosalts. Association: Stibnite, jamesonite, boulangerite, bournonite, plagionite...Bay area, Northwest Territories. From Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England. Known from a few additional localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...vein at Scar Crag, Causey Pike, near Keswick, Cumbria (Ixer et al., 1979). Alluaudite Monoclinic NaCaFe...Barnstaple, Devon; and localities in the Lake District, Cumbria (Ixer and Stanley, 1980). Inclusions (<5 ~tm) in
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...to 5cm on a small clump of matrix. £70 46 47 STIBNITE ON CALCITE (12cm x 9cm x 3cm) Htrja, Romania ...liberally scattered with bright silvery sprays of stibnite to 5cm in length £45 48 NATIVE SILVER (7cm...century classics from Devon, Cornwall and Northern England If you do not find what you want on these few pages...EP1MORPIIS AFTER BARYTE (13cm x 9cm x 9cm) Egremont, Cumbria, U.K /cry nice display specimen with pinkish dolomite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
If. Finlayson—Ore-bearing Pegmatites of Oar rock Fell. 19 which seems always to have crystallized by...wolfram veins in the Grainsgill greisen, near Carrock Fell, are an example of ore-bearing pegmatites, a... A. M. Finlai/son—Ore-bearing Pegmatites of Carrock Fell. Harker has described the greisen which carries...running into the Caldew from the western slopes of Carrock Fell. The country rock is a detached intrusion of...M. Finlayson—Ore-bearing Pegmatites of Carroclc Fell. 21 practically free from tungsten-ores. The small
Report (issue)
development work at a few sites, notably in the north of England, and the opening of the Whcal Jane tin mine in...baryte. More recent work in the 2 south west of England has revealed unexpected possibilities for gold...(for gold) and in the Craven Basin in northern England (for base metals). Reports and publications The...Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG 12 SGG, UK (telephone: 0()077 6111; telex: 378173 BGSKEY G;...Granite near Carrock mine, Cumbria J D Appleton and A J Wadge (1976) The W mineralisation at Carrock mine is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tin mines and china clay deposits of Cornwall, England, Captain M. T. Taylor of the East Pool Mine near...altering to pale yellow scheelite,from Carrock Fell, Cumberland, England. Under the iron arc, some of the scheelite...fluorescenceunder the iron arc." Mr. Lemcke loaned his Carrock Fell specimen to the writer for investigation and...cassiterite. East Pool Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England. Bright dark blue. Wolframite negative. Granular... Bright light blue. Crystal, yellow. Caldbeck Fell, Cumberland, England.a Bright light blue. Crystal
Journal (issue)
Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Media, (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...mineralization at Silver Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Trevor F Bridges, M ichael P. Cooper...fuloppite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Tim Neall and A ndy G. Tindle ...supergene mineralogy of Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F Bridges and David I. Green Kegelite, a
Book
glaciation. £6.50 Jacket photograph Pillar Rock © Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District...' Frontispiece Landsat imagery of north-west England taken from a height of 900 km. Photograph: National...Geological Society 1978 ISBN 0 9501656 2 X PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY W. S. MANEY AND SON LIMITED LEEDS CONTENTS...Geology 15 Epigenetic Mineralization 16 Offshore Cumbria 17 Hydrogeology C. K. Patrick 18 Environmental...DtNANT/AN LLANVIRN DEVONIAN ARENIG Plate 1. Carrock Fell Gabbro Borrowdale Volcanic Group Skiddaw Group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and other lead sulpho-salts at (Irainsgill, Carrock Fell, Caldbeck, Cumberland. By AaTi~va W. G. KINC~SBURY...Grainsgill, a t t h e w e s t e r n end of Carroek Fell, h a s b e e n well k n o w n for m a n y years...L e t t s o m 1 record a n t i m o n i t e ( = stibnite) f r o m ' C a r r o e k Fells '2 (sic); t h i...'C~rrock Fells', 'C,~rrock Fell', 'Brandy Gill', 'P~oughtengill', 'Caldbeck Fell(s)', whicll arc given in...Fells' (p. 378), bismuthinit(~ at 'Braudy (fill, Carrock Fells' (p. 38o), and molybdenit~, at five different
Catalog/List
quartz and fluorite. Florence mine, Egremont, W. Cumbria. Bright lustrous quartz crystals with pale blue...matrix. Aragonite. Kirkland Quarry, nr. Rowah, W. Cumbria. Many translucent aragonite crystals to 30mm on...Fluorite and hematite. Florence mine, Egremont, W. Cumbria. Blue cubic fluorite on specularite crystals lining...quartz and hematite. Florence mine, Egremont, W . Cumbria. Highly lustrous quartz crystals on specularite...Grove House Gallery label. 86/265 Hematite. W. Cumbria. A specimen of botryoidal hematite var. Kidney
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bismuthinite and guanajuatite (isotypic with stibnite) are not in the tetradymite group, in which all...within the structurally distinct stibnite group (bismuthinite, stibnite, antimonselite, guanajuatite)....circles); joséite-A and joséite-B from Carrock Fell, Cumbria, U.K. (green circles) and joséite-B from...we have re-examined ingodite from the Carrock Fell mine, Cumbria, U.K (polished specimens E817 and E819...coarse, deformed joséite-B (light gray), Carrock Fell mine, Cumbria, U.K. Ing: ingodite. [Section E819, BM
Book
Sphalerite Cobaltite Arsenopyrite Molybdenite Stibnite Nickel Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphorous Potassium... DEVONIAN SILURIAN BROTHA eoors eee x MELL FELL CONGLOMERATE —+—_———. LATER BAMMISDALE SLATES...time of their formation. The volcanic rocks of Bow Fell are particularly rich in particles of magnetite...has also been found at the Brandy Gill Mine on Carrock Fell. Although silver has been extracted from lead...the origin of the hematite deposits of West Cumbria. Most of these hematite deposits filled space previously
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...189 Lake D istri et l 89 Haematite deposits of Cumbria 196 Isle of Nian 199 N orthern Pennine Orefield...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
originally thought to occur in Brandy Gill, Carrock Fell, Cumberland, though in 1858 Greg and Lettsom...much in composition from other tetradymites. The Carrock mineral was later regarded as a new species and...the Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England (1956, vol. 2, p. 760, under ' Combe') refers to...been unable to confirm the record of mispickel, stibnite, and iamesonite. More recently I have identified
Journal (issue)
Lake District. led by Dr M Bassett. Part 1 - Carrock ·Fell Mine - led by Mr T Shipp. Part 2 Coniston Limestone...southern England, the sands of the Kent and Sussex Weald, Jurassic limestones of Central England and the...drilling posit.ions. Most of the main aquifers in the UK have been known for over a century. It has been estimated...of water extracted from the chalk in Southern England exceeds rainfall, thus the groundwater level is...quality, and stringent controls have existed in the UK under the Control of Pollution Act. A licence must
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...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...Fells,Cumbria; OldGunnls!ake m:ne.Calslock. Cornwall lindgrenite' BrandyGill,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria WestTurtPitsmine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Roughtongill South vein occupies a fault in the Carrock Fell Igneous Complex. Other lead-zinc veins in the...mineralization. Postlethwaite (1913) recorded stibnite from Robin Hood mine, Bassenthwaite, and also...(1948) found stibnite from St. Sunday Crag in the Helvellyn region. The occurrence of stibnite, zinckenite...jamesonite, and boulangerite in Grainsgill, near Carrock mine, was described by Kingsbury and Hartley (1956)
 
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