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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Comments:Forms a fibrous white filling to small cavitys. and as fibrous pseudomorphs after rhombic calcite crystals. Associated with hydrocerussite, and rarely weddellite.
Habit:Fibrous-acicular
Colour:White
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Analysis Reference:NHM London
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hydrocerussite1 photo of Gypsum associated with Hydrocerussite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:14386
Long-form Identifier:1:3:14386:4
GUID (UUID V4):59be520f-fd8d-4584-986d-dfb95c2eb391
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
0.3km (0.2 miles) Fall Hill Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England, UK
6.8km (4.2 miles) Crich Quarry (Crich Cliff Quarry), Crich, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Masson Hill and mines, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Wapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
7.5km (4.7 miles) Cumberland mine, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
9.5km (5.9 miles) Old Millclose Mine, South Darley, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
10.8km (6.7 miles) Bage Mine, Wirksworth, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
18.6km (11.6 miles) Arthurton West Open Pit, Longstone Edge, Great Longstone, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
19.6km (12.2 miles) Glebe Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
20.4km (12.7 miles) Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
References
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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
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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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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
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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
Book
Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis, M.H. Hey & A.W.G. Kingsbury (1965)...Hingston Down Consols mine, Ca/stock, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis & M.H. Hey (1964) Min. Mag. 33, p. 937...Ashoverite (Holotype) BM 1982,00005 Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England A.M. Clark, E.E. Fejer, G. Cressey...1990,00025 Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall, England C.J. Stanley, G.C. Jones, A.D. Hart, P. Keller...1950,00056 - 61 Irchester, Northamptonshire, England F.A. Bannister & S.E. Hollingworth (1948) Nature
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) ... · ... ...
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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
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of, in ancient Britain, 59, 71 Amber, River, Derbyshire, 57, 118 Amberleya fowleri sp. nov., 52, 169...Rock and Brickearth, 60, 288 Anhydrite-Gypsum Deposits, N. England, 53, 141 Ankerite in Coal Seams, 52,...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
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the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein Roughtongill...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Cumbria Dyfed.Wales Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Leadhills,Scotl. Caldbeck,Cumbria Derbyshire Moorshaft Lode Scordale
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at £21 796...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...minerals. The value of minerals production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect their ultimate value
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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...Lead and Zinc ores in the Carboniferous rocks of North Wales. B. Smith. Memoirs of the Geological Survey...Newsletter 50; 2 for landfill. The nearby Pant Quarry (OS GR 198.702), owned by Wimpcy, still produces
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new find of Nickeloan Hydrozincite in Parc Mine, North Wales. 19 Richard E. Bevins, Paul O'Brien, Stephen... Walsh. The mineralogy of Fall Hill Quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire. An occurrence of Nickel minerals in...SHEPPEY, KENT Paul K. Monk I ntrod uction The north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, has long been... Other minerals occurring are calcite, pyrite, gypsum (variety selenite), and unidentified iron oxides...0272) is on the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, a generally low lying island off the north coast of Kent
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£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
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 (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, ···
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Southern Indiana / 19 Bedford and Mitchell / 19 Milltown / 24 Salem / 26 Greencastle / 29 Utica / 30 Other...800's / 8 5 Abandoned vertical lime kiln near Milltown , Crawford County, used by J. B. Speed & Co. from...(Wabash Formation) exposed in the Erie Stone Co. quarry at Huntington / 16 9 Abandoned vertical lime...Logansport , from about 1900 to 1943 / 18 10 Abandoned quarry near Rabbitville , Lawrence County, where St. Louis...Matthews & Buskirk (P.M. & B.) dimension stone quarry north of Oolitic / 22 Illustrations Figure 12 The
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. 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
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860 2AH Secretary Shirley Adrian An Fe6ran North Connell Argyll PA37 I RD Membership Secretary ...Green. Richard Bell and John Dickinson (on Dolyhir Quarry), and Micromounting Tcc.:hnilJUCS (hy Peter Braithwaite)...Banthorpe); various super specimens from Dolyhir Quarry - Messrs. Green, Dickinson and Bell; cotunnile...kicking. Austin Lockwood reported that the South-East Branch meetings continued to be well attended at...contributions to Mineral Kingdom/Mineral Realm, 24 to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals and countless contributions
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
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Switzerland ¨ Pendarves Mine, Cornwall, UK Milltown Quarry, Derbyshire, UK Cheleken, Turkmenistan Florida, USA...Writhlington near Radstock, Avon, UK Mealbank, Ingleton, N Yorkshire, UK Kangilia, Nugssuak, Western Greenland...whewellite was found in the Schlema-Hartenstein uranium district in Saxony, eastern Germany. Crystals with a mass...locality ŽHofmann, 1991.. This vein-type uranium district has a complex geologic history with main mineralization...Republic Biggs, OR, USA Kangilia, Nugssuak, Umanak District, Greenland Burgk, Freital, near Dresden, Germany
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Goldfield, Nevada PETER G. VIKRE ASARCO Inc., 510 East Plumb Lane, Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract Gold ore...depositionand replacementof Miocenerhyolites2 mi (3.2 km) north of Goldfield,EsmeraldaCounty,Nevada.The ledges,which...Sandstorm-Kendall are similarto those of the main district,immediatelynortheastof the town of Goldfield,where...essentiallycoevalwith rhyodacite,latite, and andesitcin the main district, subvolcanic intrusionsor diapirsof theserock...area is referred to hereinafter as the "main district." Small productiontotaling at least 60,000 oz
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...Natural Environment Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 lEU 'B' 01793-411500...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
Journal (issue)
SMLS Journal 165 May/June 2000 FIELD TRIP TO DERBYSHIRE th th 9 - 12 October 1999 The collecting part...collecting. It is a long time since SMLS collected in Derbyshire and it is clear that most of the key sites have...the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals (UKJMM), which is devoted to the minerals of the Peak District. The...The Derbyshire ore field has many similarities with the North Pennine ore field, which SMLS is more familiar...south as Southern Europe pushed north caused uplift in Northern UK and East/West faulting in the limestone
Journal (issue)
MERCIAN Geologist VOLUME 18 PART 1 AUGUST 2012 East Midlands Geological Society Contents President...phosphate in the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Eastern England 60 Hugh S Torrens and Trevor D Ford An early-19th...early-19th century geological map of the Peak District by John Farey 69 Front cover: The apron reef limestones...Hill, formed on the edge of the Carboniferous Derbyshire Carbonate Platform, and visited on a Society...Excursion – Ashover: Tim Colman Millom Rock Park, Cumbria: Alan Filmer The Record Back cover: Gypsum extraction
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sediments on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay (5 km north of Fairhope); utilized as early as the 1700s (originally...pottery clay (Willett and Brackner 1983). Woodstock district-centered 6 km northeast of Vance: Goethite-rich...iron-ore district of the Appalachians (Burchard and Butts 1910). Blount County Champion district-3 km southeast...(Gibson 1893). Butler County Iron-ore pits-8 km east of Greenville: goethite-rich residuum overlying...(Hastings and Smith 1964). Barbour County Eufaula district-13 km southwest of Eufaula: gibbsite and kaolinite
 
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