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Actinolite from
Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Fell
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1253969
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1253969:3
GUID (UUID V4):ade7b45d-6ef5-4202-a5a0-b1680174c98c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...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...area, and was followed by Harker's study of the Carrock Fell gabbro (1894) and granophyre and greisen (1895)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lower Palaeozoic Lake District inlier, in northern England, formed part of the northern margin of the Eastern...volcanics in the concealed Caledonides of Eastern England (Pharaoh et al., 1992) suggests there was also...the location of the Lake District in northern England. Localities: B Buttermere, Ba Barkbeth, CL Cteator...Hindscarth, L Lingholm, S Scawgill Bridge, Sa Sale Fell, SD Skiddaw Dodd, UP Ullock Pike, WI-IWatch Hill...Iapetus suture zone (Rock et al., 1988). The Carrock Fell Gabbro (Hunter, 1980; Harris and Dagger, 1987)
Report (issue)
associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria 8 Investigation of stratiform sulphide...investigations at Woodhall and Langlands in north Cumbria 15 Investigation of stratiform sulphide mineralisation...exploration in the Harlech Dome. North Wales Printed in England for the Institute of Geological Sciences by Four...intrusions. To the north the Lower Palaeozoic Carrock Fell gabbro complex trends roughly along the cast-west...was conducted in the vicinity of the Carrock tungsten mine, Cumbria. The object of the survey was to establish
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...crystals. £26 1 % J ________ • .L > * QUARTZ WITH ACTINOLITE (8cm x 6cm x 5cm) Shigar, Skardu, Pakistan An...5cm on a schistose matrix with some associated actinolite. £95 31 XENOTIME (3cm x 1.5cm x 1cm) Plata,...8cm in length. This in turn is overgrown with actinolite crystals. £190 Nchanga Mine, Chingola, Zambia...century classics from Devon, Cornwall and Northern England If you do not find what you want on these few pages
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ordovician Skiddaw Group of the Lake District, England N. J. Fortey Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological...Ordovician Skiddaw Group of the Lake District, England N. J. FORTEY A white-mica crystallinity (illite...vertical hatching — Eycott Volcanic Group and Carrock Fell igneous complex; H C — Haweswater igneous complex;...sedimentation commenced with deposition of the Devonian Mell Fell Conglomerate. T h e central Lake District was then...(Oliver 1988). Allen et al. (1987) described actinolite + epidote ( ± prehnite) bearing meta-andesite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Txcrryr.rr~ associated with the GXnBRO of C,~RROCrr FELL in the LA~E DISTR~CT. By T-Eo. T. GRoo~, Esq., B...WHILST engaged in studying the igneous rocks of Carrock Fell I observed a peculiar vein of tachylyte traversing.... 0.56 3".5o 4.1 103"76 97"00 99"3 99"61 I. Carrock-Fell tachylyte. IIL Basalt of Mt. Gravenaire in Auvergne...Technological University on June 15, 2016 OABBRO OF CARROCK FELL IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. 399 The percentage of...the fact that the rock is associated with the Carrock-Fell gabbro, which, according to Mr. Teall ~, is
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)
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
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)
College London on June 2, 2016 Vol. 5 i.] C~RROCK FELL ORANOI)HYRE AND GItAINSGILL GREISEN. 125 15. CAaaOCK...) [Pr.ATE IV.--MAe.] CONTENTS. Part II. The Carrock Fell Granophyre. Page 9. Introduction .............................. 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...most easily studied is t h a t w h i c h builds Carrock F e l l itself, and extends westw a r d in a t
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 (article/letter/editorial)
R.S.3~., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. (Read December 1, 1875.) [PL*TES I....occur ; but on this side hornblende rock and actinolite rock also appear." I n 1858 Mr. J. G. Marshall...surrounding rocks. 4. Carrock-Fell Rocks. a. Spherulitic Felsite of Carrock Fell and Great Lingy Hill...8yenitio Granite, and altered 8kiddaw S~te. 4. Carrock-Fel/Rocks. a. Spherulitic Felsite. b. Diorite ... John's Vale and of Buttermers. 2. Rocks of Carrock Fell. 8~n~m~ryo Appendix : Notioesof papers on these
Report (issue)
mineralisation Shetland Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1-Geophysical survey 34 5 Preliminary...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria Geophysical investigation of chromite-bearing...Mineral exploration in the area around Culvennan Fell, Kirkcowan, south-western Scotland 14 Mineral...investigations at Woodhall and Longlands in north Cumbria 43 Disseminated copper-molybdenum mineralisation...Geol. Sci., No. 46 Typeset and phototcopied in England for the Institute of Geological Sciences by lmediacopy
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)
Sukkula, Tammela, tapiolite, 477 British Isles ENGLAND Alderley Edge, Cheshire, osarizwaite, I75 Barrington...and Hauzton Road, Cambridge, glauconite, 373 Carrock Fell, Cumberland, tsumebite, I76 Gipsy Land, Leicester...muscovite, 292 Arizona Grand Canyon, amphibolites, actinolite, hornblende, anthophyllite, cummingtonite, gedrite
Journal (volume)
Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the 1970s by Jim Knight. Photograph...occurrence of kottigite, from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and David I Green PAPERS A review...at Driggith and Sandbed Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...review of the mineralogy of Brae Fell Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, David I Green
Journal (issue)
Barium-pharmacosiderite and symplesite from Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria B. Young, E. Hyslop and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite...rocks were thermall y metamorphosed in the albite-actinolite and hornblende hornfels facies . The production...The supergene leaching of copper in south-west England has been recorded in numerous studies, although...post-Armorican early Mesozoic period when south-west England was approximately 200300 miles from the equator...Re-discovery of stokesite crystals in Cornwall, England. Mineralogical Record, 8, 294-297. Couper, A.G
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
Report (issue)
OF OF THE RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL GEOLOGICAL ENGLAND SURVEY AND OF COUNCIL SCIENCES GREAT BRITAIN...BtT2 8ay or through any bookseller Printed in England for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Hull Printers...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet coloured has replaced...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description of...Petrographic DRYGILL Structural relations, 76. Fauna CARROCK Introduction, VOLCANIC Classification, SERIES
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL COUNCIL SCIENCES SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Cockermouthand...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet has replaced the Old Series...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description of...age, 76. References, 77. CHAPTER VI. THE IX CARROCK FELL COMPLEX 20 46 75 78 Introduction, 78. Field...intrusions associated with the major intrusions of Carrock and Skiddaw, 130. Minor intrusions into Skiddaw
Report (chapter)
prehnite-pumpellyite and pumpellyite and pumpellyite-actinolite facies into greenschist facies, with the localized...<>hornblende actinolite/tremolite 5 0 ,,, I I 6 ,, b i o t i t ~ pumpellyite + actinolite INDEX o zeolites...eastern area of the Welsh Basin and to pumpellyite-actinolite and greenschist facies in the thickest sequences...1983 Bevins & Rowbotham 1983 References Act, actinolite; Alb, albite; Anal, analcite; Bio, biotite; Cal...Comparison of Figs 2 and 5 suggests that pumpellyite-actinolite-facies graptolites have /~0(max)> 8.0 and that
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V~A.T.No...our best gttentipn at all times. MARCH 1978 1. ACTINOLITE. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. Rich lustrous olive-green...scattered on cellular quartz. 1x1", £8.00 19. CALCITE. Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. Choice lustrous... 2x1tx1t", £4.75p . 88. TETRADYMITE. Carrock Mine, Carrock Fell, Cumberlamd. Bright silvery-grey metallic
 
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