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Greisen from
Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Fell
Classification
Type:Greisen
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Greisen data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1243877
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1243877:4
GUID (UUID V4):d29bd24e-598f-46a4-abb2-63da62a71fb3
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1985 Mineralisation at the Carrock Fell Tungsten Mine, N. England: Paragenetic, fluid inclusion and... London, WC1X 8NG Abstract. Tungsten ore at Carrock Fell Mine comprises wolframite and scheelite in...volcamcs LLI x X x X x Granophyro [ C A R R O C K FELL w l l l l ; COMPLEX ,~ • • • • Gabbm Sk~ddaw Slate...L~ metres 500 _ l Fig. 1. Geology of the Carrock Fell area. A Location map; B SimIntroduction plified...the Grainsgill Granite and environs Carrock Fell Mine, Cumbria (Fig. 1), the only economic tungsten
Report (issue)
#associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria ihis report relates to work carried out...Sciences Reconnaissance Investigation associated Carrock of tungsten with Mine, J. D. Appleton, Programme...Programme and other the Skiddaw 1976 Granite Cumbria BSc, PhD and A. J. Wadge, MA A report prepared...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria. Miner. Reconnaissance Programme Rep. inst...Sci., No. 7, 37 pp. (Unpubl.) Photocopied in England by the Ins:itute of Geological Sciences CONTZWS
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metasomatism and the formation of greisen in Grainsgill, Cumbria, England 0. E. Roberts Department of Geology...Slate adjacent to the margin of the Grainsgill Greisen is described and chemical analyses of the various...liberated K and'Na from the granite to produce the greisen. This gave rise to K metasomatism of the adjacent...and that liberated during the formation of the greisen are probably the sources of the Na in the brines...setting The Grainsgill outcrop of granite and greisen is the northern of three surface manifestations
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
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)
and tin-bearing vein from Hemerdon deposit, Devon, UK. The tungsten is present in wolframite, the dark...the Czech Republic through France and south-west England and into Spain and Portugal also has some important...typified by the Cornubian orefield in south-west England (see section on Britain). Tin, copper, lead-zinc...which distinguishes porphyries from disseminated/greisen deposits. Tungsten occurs either as wolframite...central zone of pervasive greisen 22 Greisenisation: the formation of greisen, highly altered granitic
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)
The Underground Geology of part of the Carrock Tungsten Mine, Caldbeck Fells Minerals and Waste Programme...OR/15/033 The Underground Geology of part of the Carrock Tungsten Mine, Caldbeck Fells RP Shaw The National...Ordnance Survey Licence No. 100021290 EUL. Keywords Carrock Fell Mine, Tungsten, Lead, mineralisation. Front...Front cover Smith East Vein forefield, Carrock Mine Bibliographical reference SHAW, RP. 2015. The Underground...Underground Geology of part of the Carrock Tungsten Mine, Caldbeck Fells. British Geological Survey Internal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with the Shap, Skiddaw and Weardale granites, UK D. Selby1, J. Conliffe2, Q. G. Crowley3 and M. Feely2...Feely2 Late Devonian magmatism in Northern England records key events associated with the Acadian phase...tectonism of the Acadian phase of the C–AO in northern England. Based on the post-tectonic metamorphic mineral...aureoles, Acadian deformation in the northern England continued episodically (before ,405 Ma) throughout...Skiddaw and Weardale granites from the northern England sector of the Acadian phase of the C– AO (Fig.
Report (issue)
I· I I No.33 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1-Geophysical survey I I. I I I...Report No. 33 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell,Cumbria. Part 1-Geophysical survey D. J. Patrick...Cornwall 33 Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1-Geophysical survey 3 4 Investigation...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria 8 Investigation of stratiform sulphide...investigations at Woodhall and Longlands in north Cumbria 15 Investigation of stratiform sulphide mineralisation
Book (chapter)
Survey Chapter 4 Lake District and northern England Introduction INTRODUCTION D. Miliward In Ordovician...Ordovician times the Lake District and northern England formed part of the microcontinent of Eastern Avalonia...were emplaced in the Lake District and northern England subsequent to the closure of the Iapetus. The volcanoes...Figure 4.1 Lower Palaeozoic inliers of northern England and locations of the major, buried batholiths....Threlkeld; D Dufton. 137 Lake District and northern England 90 NX00NY 10 20 :::............ 30::::::::
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
techniques and CO2 from the minor calcite in the greisen samples was extracted using the conventional phosphoric...wall rock samples with lower δ 15N similar to greisen (e.g., KDC-80, 81; circled) show extensive retrograde...showing a range in N concentration of 17-225 ppm. Greisen samples from the borehole have δ15N values of +1...1‰) with greisen white micas at temperatures of 350–450 °C would have yielded a range in greisen white mica...range that includes the observed range for the greisen samples (+1.0 to +4.8‰; Table 4; Fig. 2b; cf.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hydrothermal Alteration in the Carrock Fell Area, Cumberland, England By A. EWART ABSTRACT Within this...granite, part of the southern margin of the Carrock Fell gabbro to the north, and an intervening area...product in each case is essentially similar to a greisen, with the addition of pyrite and arsenopyrite....part of a study of the mineralization of the Carrock Fell area (Ewart, 1957), and was accompanied by a...period of six months of laboratory study. The Carrock Fell area is situated in the north-eastern corner
Book
Museum Street, London, WCIA No reproduction 1LU, UK Unwin Paperbacks, Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts...(Rocks and fossils; 4) 1. Geology — England — Lake District (Cumbria) I. Cumberland Geological Society...Society is based on the northwestern coast of Cumbria, geographically isolated from major centres of...provide a balanced view of the geological scene in Cumbria. In a region where the rocks span the vast period...geological usage of all the regions surveyed in England. Only the Isle of Arran in Scotland receives a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1984 Fluid Inclusion Gas Studies, Carrock Fell Tungsten Deposit, England: Implications for Regional Exploration...inclusion investigation of the Carrock Fell tungsten deposit, Northern England, confirms that the quartz...the fluid inclusion "gas" signature for the Carrock Fell deposit, a distinction can be made between potentially...the fluids have a close affinity with those at Carrock Fell. This is interpreted as the high-level, distal... The wolframite-bearing quartz veins of the Carrock Fell tungsten deposit are located approximately 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
June 2, 2016 Vol. 5 i.] C~RROCK FELL ORANOI)HYRE AND GItAINSGILL GREISEN. 125 15. CAaaOCK FELr~ : a S~CI)r...) [Pr.ATE IV.--MAe.] CONTENTS. Part II. The Carrock Fell Granophyre. Page 9. Introduction ............. 133 Part III. The Grainsgill Greisen. 13. Description of the Greisen and its Relation to the Granite.................... 145 P~ II. T H E C ~ E O C K FELL GI~AI~0P~IXRE. 0. INTRODUCTION. IN a former paper...given a general sketch of t h e geol%oT of t h e Carrock Fell district, a n d discussed the r e m a r k a
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
If. Finlayson—Ore-bearing Pegmatites of Oar rock Fell. 19 which seems always to have crystallized by...—The wolfram veins in the Grainsgill greisen, near Carrock Fell, are an example of ore-bearing pegmatites...Finlai/son—Ore-bearing Pegmatites of Carrock Fell. Harker has described the greisen which carries the veins,1 while...western slopes of Carrock Fell. The country rock is a detached intrusion of greisen, related to the Skiddaw...cassiterite are absent. In classing this rock as a greisen, Mr. Harker has shown that its features are due
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
where numerous ore-bearing quartz veins and small greisen veins occur (Fig. 3). The Ore Deposits at Panasqueira...QUARTZ- CAP [~ (BIOTITE) - MUSCOVITE GRANITE GREISEN + DOLERITE + + 4- IF FAULT ORE VEINS O~t...significant trace elements in ppm: F Li Rb Sn W Cu P greisen (n=25) contact schist range Beira shale (n= 15)...either side of steeply dipping lodes at the Carrock Fell west vein system in a granite host rock. The...in the schist adjacent to the ore veins and the greisen body. As indicated in Fig. 2 which represents a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Threlkeld and St. John's Mocrogranite ; Ca : Carrock Fell Complex; SH : Shap Granite ; UA : Ullswater...Seafell Syncline; EA: Eskdale Anticline; HA: Harter Fell Anticline ; BS: Bannisdale Syncline ; SA : Selside...LSlONE GRIT (llIlN) CAAIlONFEROUS u.tESTONE t.lELL FELL CONGLOMERATE llNCOf\FORt.lITY KIRI...a period of prolonged erosion, although the Mell Fell Conglomerate, 5000 ft. (1600 m.) thick, laid down...Carboniferous Limestone rests either on the Mell Fell Conglomerate or with strong unconformity on the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Lake District (Caledonian) terrane, northern England: Palaeozoic motions and deformation at a leading...Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK The Lake District terrane of northern England comprises Upper Cambrian±Silurian...attributable to batholith emplacement. Instead, the Carrock Fell Complex Layered Gabbros have a mid- to late...events in this igneous complex comprise the Carrock Fell Granophyre with a post-folding Ordovician remanence...Palaeozoic; Caledonides; Lake District; northern England 1. INTRODUCTION Assembly of the supercontinent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aplite/quartz segregations - Greisen float; •80 qtz ser• temperature = 472øC 75 Greisen float; •O qtz-ser, temperature...- 130 Biotite gneiss - Drill core sample of greisen; exact location uncertain; •O qtz-ser, temperature...(sl-gn) (py-gn) (py-sl) (sl-gn) (py-gn) (9); greisen muscovite, 1.8 to 4.0 per mil (3); huebnerite,-0...(Fig. 4), however,indicatethat exchange the vein-greisen-wallrock system were affected by the metamorphicevent...Panasqueira,Portugal (Kelly and Rye, 1979); and Carrock Fell, Cumbria (Shepherdet al., 1976); have beenthe subject
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skiddaw Slates in the Blencathra-Mungrisdafe area, Cumbria D. E. Roberts Four phases of deformation (Dl-D4)...metamorphism There are two major intrusions, the Carrock Fell Complex,which forms the northern boundary of...quartz dolerites. The southern contact of the Carrock Fell Complex with the Skiddaw Slates can be shown...appraisal of its nature. The thermal effects of the Carrock Fell Complex on the Skiddaw Slates are localised...is younger than the minor intrusions and the Carrock Fell Complex, and was emplaced during the end-Silurian
Book (chapter)
Caledonian intrusive activity in eastern and northern England from geophysics, radiometric dating and basement...petrochemistry of the Eskdale and adjacent intrusions (Cumbria) with special reference to mineralization. Unpublished...Nottingham, UK. No. 2. ignimbrite emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe...emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe (Scotland), United Kingdom (eds B...III Igneous rocks of the Northern Lake District, England. Journal of Geophysical Research, 34, 27-46. Briden
 
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