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Calcite from
Eskett Mine, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Baryte5 photos of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eskett Mine, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1256534
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1256534:2
GUID (UUID V4):51e091bf-ef9b-487b-8ec9-ae37ed113c17
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Winder Pit No. 2, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
0.3km (0.2 miles) Eskett Quarry, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Lonsdale Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Mowbray Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Parkside Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
4.0km (2.5 miles) Cleator Moor Iron Mines, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
4.4km (2.7 miles) Crowgarth Mine, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
6.4km (4.0 miles) Mossbay Mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
6.4km (4.0 miles) Woodend Mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
Fluorite [BM 1964, R 1524], seepage 152; (back) Calcite [BM 1926, 1252]. see page 137; both images ©NHMPL...pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages...li Introduction to the Minerals ........ 117 Calcite .............................. 117 Barite ....................... 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
Book
siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale...(bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS 4490) (bottom right) ISBN O 85272 099...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.
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...group of brilliant white albite crystals. £48 4 CALCITE ON COLEMANITE (6cm x 6cm x 1.5cm) Boron. California...combination specimen with bright yellow/orange calcite crystals to 3mm on spear-like white colemanite...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...matrix. £32 PYRRHOTITE & QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive
Report (edition)
greater quantity is produced in the North\.Vest of England, and this region is therefore the :first to be...Cumberland... 3.-Diagrammatic Section across Beckermet :Mine, near Egremont 4.- Diagrammatic Section across Beckennet...across the Bigrigg Fault at Lord Leconfield's Bigrigg Mine... 10.-lvlap showing outcrops of Important Faults...of Gutty Flats at Postlethwaite's 1\:T.oor Rcnv Mine... 15.-Diagrammatic Cross-Section of the same r6...Vvest-South-\Vest to East-North-East across Hodbarrow :Mine ... 21.--:Map of ore-bodies, Park and Roanhead lVlines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
limestone, Di beds, Gratton Dale, x 23. Recrystallized calcite is not common, but occurs occasionally in patches...dolomite free from such inclusions. Recrystallized calcite in internal spaces. (Cf. No. 3, Plate IV.) The...sea. The whole of the Seventh Limestone with its calcite-mudstones, chinastone-limestones and gasteropod-beds...11. Black shale or mudstone . . . . . . . 10. Calcite-mudstone with conchoidal fracture . . . . 9. Dark...bands) . . 8. Thin beds of dolomite-mudstone and calcite-mudstone with thin interlayers of shale (Spircrbis
Book
BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geolo of the west Cumbria district ! ..: : .:·,: ·... ,:: ·, .... ...abcJ11t300 Cumbria district This memoir describes the area covered...sheets 28 Whitehaven, 37 Gosforth and 47 Bootle of England and Wales. The district includes the western margin...Carboniferous inversion, were the response in west Cumbria to the Variscan orogeny and marked the onset of...Sheets 28 Whitehaven, 37 Gosforth and 4 7 Bootle (England and Wales) Keyworth, Nottingham: The British Geological
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...MALACHITE 16 CUNOCLASE 17 ANGLESITE 18 PYROMORPHITE 19 CALCITE 20 SERPIERITE 21 ETTRINGITE 22 BROCHANTITE 23 CASSITERITE...43 CALCITE 4-4 THOMSONITE 45 CELSIAN Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown
Report (issue)
Support of National, Regional and Local Planning Cumbria and the Lake District: Resources and Constraints...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...This report accompanies the 1:100 000 scale maps: Cumbria and the Lake District Mineral Resources (North...Photograph Aerial View of Shap Beck Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, showing aggregate workings in the Knipe Scar Limestone
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...classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Ca isotopes δ44Ca...calcium isotope fractionation factor for inorganic calcite precipitates in previous laboratory and modelling...thought to be either primary or minimally altered calcite. This presumption is based off of both diagenetic...precipitation, transitioning from a micrite to blocky calcite phases. There is an increase in the δ44Ca of the...Mg calcite cement Bladed low-Mg calcite with blocky pore-filling calcite Microcrystalline calcite Microcrystalline
Book
British Geological Survey. 1:50000 Sheet 30 Appleby (England and Wales). © NERC 2003 All rights reserved Copyrig...cond itions being established widely in northern England by Early Jurassic times, but the area became e1nergent...the Seventh Limestone Formation (LM7) of west Cumbria nomenclature (Arthurton and Wad ge, 1981). The...comprise the Eskett Liinestone Fonnation (ESKT). Li1nestones in the Knipe Scar and Eskett li1nestone fonnations...te, chalcopyrite, bournonite, native antimony, calcite N and NNW ('Jl-outbc,<; k Fault)-trending 19th
Report (volume)
1919. Price 9s. Net. . ! GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. (OJ'llICE:...greater quantity is produced in the North-West of' England, and this region is therefore the first ta be described...Egremont 4.- Diagra.mmatic Section across Beckermet Mine, south of that shown in Fig. 3 5.- Diagrammatic...ator l\'foor district . 11.-Section from Parkhouse Mine to the Sir John Walsh Pit, Bigrigg 12.-Section across...-Section across the Sir John Walsh Jtault, Moss Bay Mine 14.-Diagrammatic plan of Gutty Flats at Postlethwa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ot Egremont to Scalesmoor Farm in the parish of Lamplugh it) West Cumberland, and comprises a tract of...Seminula ficoidea Vaughan. Fish teeth fairly common. Calcite-mudstones contain Spirorbis- The Carboniferous...dolomitization has been observed. A fine-grained calcite-mudstone, about 2 feet thick, weathering white...Seventh Limestone, whilst other calcite-mudstones, 1 The terms " calcite-mudstones " and " dolomite-mudstones...third lies on the Basement Shale. Crystals of calcite are abundant throughout, West Cumberland having
Catalog/List
<.Sanv We(ftuMineraG Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent Levanl Gallery, Lower Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance...infilJ.s about groupa,all xtl bases AMETHYST/CALCITE. Uraguay. Gemmybed of prismatic 9 violet-coloured...- ✓...,· -~Xc ,d, 12. APATITE.Panesquira xtls Mine,Beira i3eixa,PortugaL (to about 1ri in size) .....D2~5.OO. r ' \ 20. lURICBJ.ICITE. Golconda Mine,Brassington,Derbyshire. Silky blue-green xtl aggregRtee...Specimen B. 1~1"(very gemmy) ~2.00. AZURITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,S.W.Africa~ Brilliant,sharp,striated 'Roman-sword'
Report (issue)
·~/ .... > ,;Y, OF· SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE ENGLAND AND INDUSTRIAL GEOLOGICAL AND \VALES SURVEY...Frizington and Rowrah, 181. Colliergate Beck, Asby and Lamplugh, 182. Moorside and Dean Moor, south of Dean Cross..... . ... ... 5.-Section from Pallaflat Mine to Longlands Mine, Woodend, near Bigrigg .. . . .. ... ....Parton. Moresby. Branthwaite. Pardshaw. Asby-Lamplugh. Lampl ugh. Whitehaven. Hensingham-Frizington...part by correlations with their equivalents in England and Wales, more especially with those of the Pennines
Book
Callywith Rustic Slate Croes-y-ddwy Afon Slate Cumbria Green Slate Cwt-y-Bugail Slate Delabole Slate...industry is at present based in three main centres: Cumbria, Devon and Cornwall, and North Wales. These are... SS 20 e@e2i Blaenau @22 Ffestiniog @23 Cumbria 8 7 North Wales eee Tavistock Devon and Cornwall...Green — Broughton Moor Quarry Burlington Blue Cumbria Green Mill Hill Longford KH OANANIADNMNAFWN Lantoom...responsible for the mountainous areas in Scotland, Cumbria and Wales. It affected the rocks of Devon and Cornwall
Book (edition)
resources and workings in tJ1e UK, 2008 3 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2008 4 Limestone resotu-ces...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.mmodity in the UK, including Noriliem Ireland, Channel Islands and...2008 (Commodities) Abandoned Mine Methane Anhydrite Bal.I Clay Bai-ytes Calcite Chalk Chert China Clay China...Marble Madne Sand & Gravel Wharfs and Rail Depots Mine Drainage Gas Natural Gas Oil Peat i iv vi vii...industries, which represents their contribution to the UK econo1ny. The GVA of the nunerals extractive industries
Book (edition)
resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 4 Limestone resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 5 Sand and grave...resources and workings in tbe UK in 2010 6 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK in 2010 7 Coal resources...and workings in the UK in 2010 8 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas workings in the UK in 2010 Tables l Production...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.minodity in the UK, including Northern freland, Channel Islands and...Directory of Mines and Quarries (DMQ) 2010 Abandoned Mine M ethane Anhydrite Ball Clay Barytes Cal.cite Chalk
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...sales of minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...volume goes to press, the closure of the last tin mine in Britain was announced. In addition, through local...Directory. • Britain comprises Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland; its
Report (chapter)
development: a case study from the Late Dinantian of England and Wales SIMON VANSTONE Postgraduate Research...Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire RG6 2AB, UK Present address." Integrated Exploration and Development...Cirencester Road, Ilsom, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8RX, UK Abstract: Exposure surfaces represent an integral...Asbian-Brigantian cyclothemic platform carbonates in England and Wales. These are characterized by the association...exploit late Dinantiari:i limestones throughout England and Wales. An exception to this general rule has
Book (edition)
0115-936 3200 e-mail : sales@bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac. uk Shop online at.: www.thebgs.co.u.k !Vlurchison House...Assets in Easten1 England 3 Igneous & n1etamorphic rock resources and workings in the UK, 2005 4 Sandstone...resources and workings in the UK, 2005 5 Lin1estone resources and workings in the UK, 2005 6 Sand and gravel...gravel resources and workings in the UK, 2005 Tables l Production and value of the major sectors of the Minerals...tonnes) 4 Actjve Mineral Workings by com,nodity in the UK, including Northern Ireland, Channe l Islands and
Journal (volume)
mineralogy of the Clargillhead Vein, Tynehead, Cumbria: the first report of native silver from the Northern...and Andy Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...from localities such as Tynagh Mine in Co. Galway and Pendarves Mine in Cornwall (Figs 1 and 2) serves
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
Report (issue)
became the host for sulphide ores and associated calcite-baryte-fluorite gangue minerals. The district has...Deposits of barytes (BaSO4) and smithsonite (cala­ mine) (ZnCO3) were also locally present in economic quantities...worked as minerals in their own right. The calamine mine north of Malham [876 640] is well documented (Raistrick...available by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, Eskett Quarries Limited/Steetlev tvtinerals Limited and...Traces of galena and barytes occur sporadically in calcite veins and along joints. The Cove Limestone is consistently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on its surface. X 264 tt. ,x..~JmRs ox 92. Calcite after Quartz ; from Cork, Ireland. A specimen in...been converted, some wholly, some partly, into calcite. The change has taken place in zones which follow...zones of quartz remain alternating with bands of calcite. Some of the quartz crystals are entirely unaltered...unaltered. The change is to a massive calcite rather more white than the surrounding limestone it appears...enclosed calcite, hut the specimen is a true pseudomorph, and not merely an enclosure of calcite in quartz
 
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