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Calcite from
Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Common as a massive vein filling to 2mts, rare cavitys display crystals to 2.5cms, some with micro pyrite inclusions. With in the zinc oxide area calcite forms crystalline 'stallactites', very rare pinkish acute rhombs, and pseudoctahedral crystals.
Habit:Scalenohedron, and micro rombic crystals, stalactites
Colour:Colourless, white, pale brown, pale pink
Abundance at site:Very common
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Analysis Reference:NHM London
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Ashoverite
Baryte
Cerussite
Ettringite
Fluorite
Galena
Hemimorphite
Litharge
Massicot
Palygorskite
Pyrite
Quartz
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
Sweetite
Weddellite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite10 photos of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Sweetite4 photos of Calcite associated with Sweetite at this locality.
Ashoverite4 photos of Calcite associated with Ashoverite at this locality.
Palygorskite3 photos of Calcite associated with Palygorskite at this locality.
Cerussite3 photos of Calcite associated with Cerussite at this locality.
Baryte3 photos of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Litharge2 photos of Calcite associated with Litharge at this locality.
Smithsonite1 photo of Calcite associated with Smithsonite at this locality.
Ettringite1 photo of Calcite associated with Ettringite at this locality.
Unnamed (Tetragonal Pb Oxide Hydrate)1 photo of Calcite associated with Unnamed (Tetragonal Pb Oxide Hydrate) at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:14383
Long-form Identifier:1:3:14383:7
GUID (UUID V4):dabd2e71-4563-4a53-9526-d64b8f6bbd00
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.2km (0.1 miles) New Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
0.3km (0.2 miles) Fall Hill Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Hockley Quarry, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
0.7km (0.5 miles) Overton Hall Mine (Overton Mine), Overton Hall, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Gregory Mine, Overton Hall, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
5.8km (3.6 miles) Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
6.3km (3.9 miles) Riber mine, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
6.4km (4.0 miles) Dimple Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
6.8km (4.2 miles) Crich Quarry (Crich Cliff Quarry), Crich, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK
6.9km (4.3 miles) Rutland Cave Mine (Rutland Mine; Nestus Mine), Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...2000 Special issue devoted to the minerals of Derbyshire with the PDMHS Special issue on the minerals
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...occurrences in the Lake District, and in the Caldbeck Fells area within the Lake District, respectively, and...should be consulted for further details of any Lake District mineral mentioned in our list. More than 850 species...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as
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117 AN OUTLINE OF mE GEOLOGY OF ASHOVER, DERBYSIllRE. By G. S. SWEETING, D.I.C., EG.S. [Written for...just within the southern boundary of the Peak District, about seven miles S.W. of Chesterfield and four...imposing church dating from the l lth century, Ashover is a quiet and typical Pennine village. It has...or farming. The seclusion and attractiveness of Ashover is largely due to the fact that it is by-passed...Chesterfield to Matlock, being about a mile to the north-west at Kelstedge. On the south of the valley stands
Journal (issue)
PEAK of rhe DISTRICT A joint publication of Rockbottom Publications and the Peak District Mines Historical...Mines&Mineralsand vol. 12 no. 1 of the Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society. COVER:BLUE JOHN FLUORITE...FLUORITE, Blue John Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire, polished slab 7 x I 0cm. Bob King Collection (KI052),...TRI T MI E HISTORIC L SOCIETY 3-----------BL The UK Jouma/ of 1Jfi11es a11dMinerals publishes articles...advertising. EJOHN 4-----------ORIGI of the PEAK DISTRICT DC Quirk ORE FIELD EDITOR Mick Cooper EDITORIAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Frontispiece. 137 EASTER FIELD MEETING, 1946 ASHOVER DISTRICT, DERBYSIDRE Report by G. S. Sweeting, D.LC...twenty-seven members and friends in and around Ashover, while six or eight others joined the party daily...we were happy to welcome five members from the North-East Lancashire Group of the Association, who showed...m. to join the party at Ashover by 9.30. In such a small village as Ashover, it was not possible to accommodate...the Parish Hall, Ashover, where they were joined by Mr . A. Fletcher, of Robin Tor Quarry, and Mr. G. Townrow
Journal (issue)
Morgon • R.E. Starkey 7 DIARY OF EVENTS 8 The UK Joumol of illines mul 1J,,fi11erols publishes articles...advertising. JUDKINS QUARRY F. Ince· R.E. Starkey· J. Wooldridge ------- 14 ------MILLTOWN QUARRY S.A. Rusi -------...------- 20 ------A TRIP TO ENGLAND C. Pe1111ypocker • M.P. Cooper EDITORIAL P.J.Briscoe tv1.P.Cooper...BOC J. & P. Pearce ------- 48 ------- HENDRE QUARRY R.E. Starkey· N. Hubbard· M.P. Bayley 0952-2409...conference weekend at the Peak District Mining Museum in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. That first Symposium was
Report (issue)
c = 14.34(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Near Ashover, England. 2.922 (100), 3.572 (60), 4.53 (37), 1.764... 101.3 [105.08] 100.00 18.12 (1) Near Ashover, England; by AA, H2 O by CHN analyzer; high total thought...palygorskite, calcite. Distribution: From a limestone quarry 200–300 m northwest of Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire...Derbyshire, England. Name: To honor Jessie May Sweet (1901–1979), Curator of the mineral collections of...History), London, England. Type Material: The Natural History Museum, London, England, 1982,4. References:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
48, PP. 267-9 Sweetite, a new mineral from Derbyshire A. M. CLARK, E. E. FEJER, A. G. COUPER, AND G...tetragonal symmetry, has been found at Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire. It occurs as colourless or whitish...limestone quarry 200-300 m north-west of the village of Milltown near Ashover in Derbyshire. It occurred...oxidized area of a vein exposure on the north-western face of the quarry, the unaltered material consisting...consisting of fluorite veined with calcite. The sweetite crystals were found in the first 30 cm of the oxidized
Report (edition)
i n abundance in the lead- and zinc-veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller qnal_lti­ ties elsewhere...home-requirements and much fl.uorspar has been export.ed. In Derbyshire the spar has been obtained at smaii cost by turning...Durham. l\,lr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire. Mr. H. Dewey and Mr. C. E. N. Bromehead contribute...of ftuorspar which exist in ·Cornwall. Those of North Wales are descdbed by Mr. Wray. In all regions cordial...Rll'TION o:r TUE MINES (continued) :-Derbyshire, Cornwall, North Wales (Flintshire) ... · ... ...
Journal (issue)
the Coal Measures on Geological Survey Maps of England and Wales, by C. J. Stubblefield, D.Sc., A.R.C...11.-Mioeral Veins of the Minera-Maeshafn District of North Wales, by J. R. Earp, M .Sc., Ph.D. III.-The...the Carboniferous rocks of the Ash over district, Derbyshire, by W. H. C. Ramsbottom, M.A., Ph.D., G...Appendix A: Petrography of the Fallgate and Milltown Quarry boreholes, by R. W. Elliot, B.Sc... Appendix...PLATE PLATE PLATE Carboniferous fossils from the Ashover boreholes Comparative sections of Uppertown, Highoredish
Journal (issue)
MINING HISTORY The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society Volume 13, Number I. Sununer...l{emherton baths Winster Sough Gell and tithe Ashover tithes Stone tools today Coke oven~ letter Illicit...diamonds MINING HISTORY The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society Volume 13, No. 1. Summer...Productivity and Mineralogy of Snelston Mine, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Philip S. Jackman 19 The Lea Lead Smelter...of Lead Ore in Early 17th Century Derbyshire Ron Slack 48 An Ashover Lead Mining Tithe Dispute of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Mississippian, Visean) of the Peak District, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, UK Stephen. K. Donovan1* & David...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK * Correspondence: Steve.Donovan@naturalis.nl 2 ...(Mississippian, Lower Carboniferous) rocks of the Peak District, namely Melonechinus Meek & Worthen, Archaeocidaris...only known from the platform carbonate shelf of Derbyshire; other echinoid taxa occur on both the shelf...the Mississippian of the Peak District of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, UK, it became apparent that echinoids
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of, in ancient Britain, 59, 71 Amber, River, Derbyshire, 57, 118 Amberleya fowleri sp. nov., 52, 169...Brickearth, 60, 288 Anhydrite-Gypsum Deposits, N. England, 53, 141 Ankerite in Coal Seams, 52, 190 Annual...73 ARBER, MISS M. A., Coastal Landslips of South-East Devon, 51, 257 - - - - 2. Coastal Landslips in W...55, 38 Ashdown Structure, Sussex, 59, 254 Ashover, Derbyshire, Geology of, 57,117 - - - (Easter 1946),...Axmouth, S.E. Devon, Landslips, 51, 259 Aylesbury District, Bucks (10 April 1948), 60,219 Backlund, Helge
Report (issue)
lake-bottom sediments; may be formed by reaction of calcite with oxalic acid produced by lichens. Association:... Bulun district, polar Sakha, Russia. From the Milltown quarry, Milltown, Derbyshire, England. In Canada...Saguenay and St. Lawrence Rivers, Quebec; from the east side of Moore Lake, near Norland, Ontario; and from...from Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island, North West Territories. Large crystals from the Sami Tsubota jasper...Material: The Natural History Museum, London, England, 1936,975–1936,977. References: (1) Palache, C
Report (edition)
occurs in abundance in the lead and zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere...gangue of the veins, but it is noticeable that in Derbyshire, where the country-rock is chiefly limestone...requirements and much fluorspar has been exported. In Derbyshire the spar has been obtained at small cost by turning...Durhani. Mr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire, Mr. H. Dewey and Mr. C. E. N. Bromehead contribute...of fluorspar which exist in Cornwall. Those of North Wales are described by Mr. Wray. In all regions
Report (issue)
PLATE I (.Fro11tispiece) L570 LOOKING SOUTH-EAST FROM BROC'KHURST ' Natural Environment Research...MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Chesterfield...(112) Sheet of the One-Inch Geological Map of England and Wales was originally surveyed on the one inch...appeared. "The Geology of the Northern Part of the Derbyshire Coalfield and Bordering Tracts' by W. Gibson...Yorkshire border. Apart from small areas in the north-east and north-west mapped by Mr. W. N. Edwards in 1940
Report (issue)
flow diagram of the Cavendish Mill near Eyam, Derbyshire. 17 Fig 4 United Kingdom recorded production...occurring in the Pennines of northern England, particularly in Derbyshire and Durham. The deposits are associated...processed by gravity concentration or flotation. Derbyshire is the principal producing county, much of the...production coming from workings within the Peak District National Park; mining is carefully controlled...being in Derbyshire. Additional reserves are likely to be found, particularly in northern Derbyshire and west
Report (volume)
Swaledale are described togetlier with th6se of-· Derbyshire and· certain · othei· districts of minor importance...on the Carboniferous Limestone,. et,9., 9£ North Derbyshire (Second Edition, 1887), is still the best...best and · ·most complete description of that district; most of t he parts of that memoii: ·relating to our...Sheffield; Mr. G. Eagle, .and Jlrlr. Hugh Seed of the Ashover Mines. J?rofessor P. F. Kendall of .Leeds University...iatarice in reference to the mines of the Grassington district. · · ::/ ·. ....) ..· .:• JOHN S. FLETT, ···
Journal (issue)
. Central Branch Mini-Symposium: Minerals of Derbyshire ............................... Membership changes........ 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and other polymorphs of Zn(OH), from Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire. Mineral. Mag., 52,699-702. (calculatedforB:...Fresno County, California, in association with calcite, ludwigite, fluoborite, wightmanite, two undescribedborate...polymorphs is in a limestone quarry at Milltown, near Ashover, Derbyshire, L.D. Arkhipova, S.A. Galiy...A.I. Marushkin (1987) First cliachite find in England. The new name is for the locality. J.L.J. Pacific...fluorite, and chlorite. Hingganite-(Y) from a nearby quarry also is described. Discussion.Related to hingganite-(Y)
Journal (issue)
Havcrslock Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS Minerals From North Wales The Trials and Tribulations of Mineral Identification...Membership Details 2 5 19 20 MINERALS I ROM NORTH WALES Mike Rothwell During the 1996 BMS Symposium...workshop on the mineralogy of a few chosen sites in North Wales. The following is a short summary of the workshop...Minera/Bwlcligwyn MINERA Common Sphalerite, quartz, calcite, cerrusite Less Common Hemimorphite, smithsonite...Lead and Zinc ores in the Carboniferous rocks of North Wales. B. Smith. Memoirs of the Geological Survey
Journal (issue)
£120 Our spies report that people living in the north complain of the extra cost of travelling to and...Visit to Bwlch G las by D avid R. Neal Milltown Quarry, Derbyshire by Steven A . Rust .. Collecting Minerals...1982/8 3) No. 1 Jui/Aug l982 Whea l Jane Gold in North W a le s 35pp . , 2 B& W pho tos 24 illust rations...the Queen of Gems. They are adored by women in the East and the West. They are the birthstones for June... Collecting RECORDED LOCATIONS FOR FRANCOLITE DISTRICT MINE DESCRIPTION ST.JUST WHEALCOCK Francolite
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...MALACHITE 16 CUNOCLASE 17 ANGLESITE 18 PYROMORPHITE 19 CALCITE 20 SERPIERITE 21 ETTRINGITE 22 BROCHANTITE 23 CASSITERITE...CALEOONITE 40 PREHNITE 41 STILBITE 42 THOMSONITE 43 CALCITE 4-4 THOMSONITE 45 CELSIAN Waterba.nk mine Waterbank...Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein Roughtongill m....Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead
Report (edition)
in abundance .in the lead a.nd zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere...gangue of the veins, hut it is noticeable that in Derbyshire, where the country-rock is chiefly limestone...ments and much fluorspar has been exported. In Derbyshire the spar has been obtained at small cost by turning...Durham. Mr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire. Mr. H. Dewey and 1\fr. C. ,E. N. Bromehead contri­...of fluorspar which exist in Cornwall. Those of North Wales are described by Mr. Wray. In all regions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
186 EXCURSION TO DERBYSHIRE. MONDAY, JULY 22ND, 1877, AND FIVE FOLLOWING DAYS. Directore-s-Bxv, J. MAGENS...visitors. the party drove to Chesterfield, via Milltown and Ashover, examining on the way the extensive lead...Mountain Limestone, as it is usually called in Derbyshire, the Yorcdale Series and the Millstone Grit,...no other single cavern. An en- EXCURSION TO DERBYSHIRE. 187 graved bone was also found here, the first...in Great Britain, and which correlates the old Derbyshire caves with those of France and Switzerland; another
 
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