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Chalcopyrite from
Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:River Valley
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Comments:Kingsbury reference.
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1094914
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1094914:2
GUID (UUID V4):68ee34b0-49bc-4021-9c43-3ef5cd12ac9d
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.3km (1.5 miles) Iron Crag, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.5km (1.5 miles) Higher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.5km (1.6 miles) Driggith Mine (Driggeth Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.5km (1.6 miles) Mexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.7km (1.7 miles) Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.8km (1.7 miles) Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.8km (1.7 miles) Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
3.0km (1.9 miles) Low Pike north slopes, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
4487) (top left) Mimetite, variety campylite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz...(bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS 4490) (bottom right) ISBN O 85272...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...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation.
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...the classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull
Book
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 (volume)
crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection. Photograph...the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection. Photograph...review of the mineralisation at Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor...mineralogy of Short Grain Low Level, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Tim Neall and David I. Green 45-61 ‘Lady’s slippers’...Kingsley Dunham from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE Acicular baryte
Journal (volume)
- - Volume 4 Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society THE MINE EXPLORER Volume IV 1994 THE... THE MINE EXPLORER The Journal of Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society Volume IV 1994 ...ISSN 0266-5700 The Mine Explorer Published by Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society c/o The Secretary...Secretary 411 West Shore Park Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LAI 4 3YS Typeset in 9pt Palatino & 9pt Helvetica...North Yorkshire BD24 9AA 0729 822177 Copyright © Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society 1994. All
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been present at other localities in the West of England. The first recorded British occurrence of beudantite...associations. ~ Lake District, Cumberland. Grains Gill, Carrock Fell. Beudantite has been found here...Higher part of Brandy Gill, Carrock Fell. About three-quarters of the way up the gill, an east-west C u -...westerly members of the ' granitic' suite of veins in Grains Gilla half a mile t o the south. These ' g r a...veins and strings in the higher part of B r a n d y Gill, as well as the adjacent country-rock, contain much
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Notes on the occurrence of wulfenite at Brandy Gill, Cumberland, and of leadhillite at Drumruck mine...label bearing the more precise locality of Brandy Gill. Wulfenite is an extremely rare mineral in the British...associated small quantities of galena, cerussite, and chalcopyrite. Anglesite, noted by Mr. Goodchild as an associate...three-quarters of the way up Brandy Gill, a tributary of Grains Gill, and at the confluence of which gills...was worked, while half a mile to the north is Dry Gill mine, the well-known locality for campylite (six-inch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carminite, cerussite, mimetite, galena, 428 Dry Gill, Caldbeck Fells: beudantite, baryte, azurite, olivenite...thaumasite, zunyite, 418 ; thaumasite, lxxvi Grains Gill, Carrock Fell: arsenopyrite, beudantite, beaverite...bayldonite, mimetite, 428; gold, 420 Higher Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells: beudantite, beaverite, carminite...plumbojarosite, 430 998 TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells: beudantite, carminite, pharmacosiderite...pharInacosiderite, plumbojarosite, scorodite, 429 Potts Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells: cornubire, 2 ; arsenopyrite
Book
OF THE CHANNEL ISLES-Cedric Rogers 5. NORTHERN ENGLAND NORTHUMBRIA 1-Ron Brown NORTHUMBRIA 2-Ron Brown... DEVON CONSOLS, Good arsenopyrite crystals, chalcopyrite crystals. rare coppers. WORKING QUARRIES SOUTH...arborescent formations of arseni­ cal pyrites, chalcopyrite and pyrite, chalco­ pyrite. galena, sphalerite...pegmatites (some with topaz, beryl and apatite), chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, bornite, fluorspar, pectolite...brews­ terite among a variety of other minerals. England is much less well supplied, and apart from a scanty
Journal (issue)
which is quite easily recovered. The presence of grains or nuggets in the riverbed suggests the presence...acquire it any other way. 'Fool's gold,' or chalcopyrite, is a mineral which even the amateur is supposed...and probably to the locals before tl:lem. Small grains of gold, and occasionally nuggets, have been found...from locali­ ties scattered all over Wales, from grains found in marl while boring a well at a brewery...gold was found in a quartz vein with pyrite and chalcopyrite. The Dolgelly gold belt of Merioneth­ shire
Book (edition)
Here, for example, is the composition o f the Hay Gill Mining Company (1839): Edward Channey, spirit merchant;...with the mint and spoke of it as `The best in England', but the attitude of the locals gave much cause...few yards to the W o f the bridge over Stoncycroft Gill on the Braithwaite to Buttcrmcrc road ( N Y 231212)...early workings were open cuts in the bed of the gill from which the water was diverted by a dam and watercourse...to the NW of Stoncycroft, at the head of Barrow Gill, arc some ancient workings which may be on a continuation
 
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