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Arsenopyrite from
Copper Plate Mine, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Arsenopyrite
Formula:FeAsS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arsenopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper Plate Mine, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:14638
Long-form Identifier:1:3:14638:4
GUID (UUID V4):bcf3ab33-608a-4f04-a777-6c39a2ea0e6a
Nearest other occurrences of Arsenopyrite
0.7km (0.5 miles) Manesty Vein, Grange, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) Black Crag, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Yewthwaite Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.0km (1.3 miles) Little Mine Crag, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Goldscope Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Castle Nook Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.4km (1.5 miles) Dale Head Mine, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Dale Head North, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
5.1km (3.2 miles) Cobalt Mine, Scar Crag, Causey Pike, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Scar Crags, Coledale, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1999 Cambridge University Press 159 Pre-Acadian copper mineralization in the English Lake District D....metalliferous veins dominated by copper sulphides with abundant arsenopyrite, pyrite and accessory galena...at Coniston, Wasdale, Honister, Newlands and Borrowdale shows that the veins were strongly cleaved during...intracrystalline deformation in quartz, cataclasis of arsenopyrite and pyrite, fracturing and/or buckling of bladed...distributed in rocks of the Skiddaw, Eycott and Borrowdale volcanic groups, and the granitic intrusions
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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...recognized . These range in age from early Devonian copper and tungsten-bearing veins, through early Carboniferous
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Geological Survey 1:50 000 Series Sheet 29 Keswick (England and Wales) Author D G Woodhall Contributors D...uk e-commerce: www.british-geological-survey.co. uk Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA...Ileous intn1sions in the Borrowdale Volcanic Group 14 Geochentist.ry of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group 14 31...depositional environ1nent, lower part of the Borrowdale Volcattic Group 9 Stratigraphy m1d depositional...depositional enviromnent, upper part of the Borrowdale Volcmtic Group 11, 12 Details of 1nineralisation localities
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Rhodium 45 Cs Ces1um 55 Rn Radon 86 Cu Copper 29 Ru Ruthenium 44 Dy Dyspros'um 66 s ...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
Catalog/List
e Co b h a m COBHAM SURREY 0 9 3 2 8 S2 3 4 0 ENGLAND KT 1 1 2 NL Catalogue 1'392 No 55 - This is..."'· f·,,or.-i ti.s cd: send a 1 ist of th,;'! mine"i",;• L, that price for ~ach piece There is no... C191 AJOITE fairly (New Cornelia well covered~ Mine,Ajo,Pima greenish (Belstone light County blue...location. brown crystals on Mine near Okehampton Cl93 ARSENOPYRITE Arsenopyrite. with crystals. lx2 f4 ...location pieces, about a third covered (Bedford Consols Mine near Tavistock, Devon) B) for micros lx 1/2 ins
Journal (volume)
4 Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society THE MINE EXPLORER Volume IV 1994 THE MINE EXPLORER...Journal of Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society Volume IV 1994 ISSN 0266-5700 The Mine Explorer...Explorer Published by Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society c/o The Secretary 411 West Shore Park...Park Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LAI 4 3YS Typeset in 9pt Palatino & 9pt Helvetica by CATMHS Printed by Lamberts...North Yorkshire BD24 9AA 0729 822177 Copyright © Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society 1994. All
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Cu2+ solution can inhibit the hydrolysis of copper ions, increase the content of Cu2+ in the solution...surface. Keywords: electrochemical pretreatment; copper sulfate; muscovite; action mechanism 1. Introduction...to about 35%more copper recovery. It seems that the main reason for increasing copper recovery by electrochemical...Northparkes copper and gold mine in New South Wales, Australia, containing arsenopyrite, it is necessary...necessary to remove the arsenopyrite existing in the raw Minerals 2020, 10, 206; doi:10.3390/min10030206
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By Dale Baity Big Thunder Gold Mine • • IDID B). Dale Baity © 1995 Special thanks to my lovely............................... Page 7 Holy Terror Mine ............................................................................... Page 8 Key~ne Mine ............................................................................ Page 10 Big Thunder Gold Mine ........................................... .......................... Page 10 Bisnt.ark Mine ... .. ... .... .. ... ... .. ... . ........ .. ..... ..
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reason that, while the c.ommoner metals, iron, copper, lead, zinc and tin occur in the earth's surface...on the gold particles. In still later practice copper plates were coated with a thin layer of mercury...adhered due to the formation of copper amalgam. Over the amalgamated plate the finely ground ore is washed...amalgam, the residual ore matter flowing on over the plate and away to waste. Periodically the accumulated...accumulated gold amalgam is scraped from the copper plate to which a new dressing of mercury is given and the process
Report (Issue volume)
accumulating steadily since 1853, when the first mine (a coal property) was developed. Actually it antedates...and tantalum ......... , ......... . Occurrences Copper Occurrences Gallium Occurrences Germanium Occurrences...383 383 395 399 ILLUSTRATIONS In volume 2 Page Plate 1. Antimony 2. Arsenic ............................................. . Copper ....................................... . Copper-Stevens County ..........in its various mineral forms or of any specific mine or prospect in the state. An effort has been made
Journal (issue)
specimens are held in the collection as well: native copper plate from Kazakhstan (about 500 kg in weight), a...orthoclase (pseudomorph). St. Agness, Cornwall, England. 2 7 x 1.5 cm, VSGM, .1022419. Photo: M. Leybov...Kongsberg (Norway), and campylite from Cumberland (England). In addition to quartz and calcite collections...collections of fluorite (England, Tadzhikistan, and Transbaikalia), barite (England, Germany, and Middle...than 600 specimens.), including such rare ones as copper after aragonite (Corocoro, Bolivia), cassiterite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ANALYSES OF SOME ROCKS AND MINERALS THE HOMESTAKE MINE, LEAD, SOUTH No. 8 FROM DAKOTA. W. J. S•IAUW00U...Mr. T. J. Grier, superintendent of the Homestake Mine. TheHomestake ore-body, asiswellknown, constitutes...or felsite, is compactand nearly white, near the mine it usuallyshowsbut little evidenceof crystallization...alsocommon near the surface. It is frequently met in the mine workings, in irregular bodieshaving a generaltendencyto...of the Algonkian. The trachytoid phonolitein the mine is rougher in texture, altering more readily. It
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and a few enlarged, as the diamond crystal of Plate 1, depicted in both natural and greatly magnified...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...production clearly ranked with that of food supplies. Copper and gold were the first known metals. Gold occurs...metal tools were made of copper, occasionally found native, but pure copper is also too soft. Only by...pure metal. In order to obtain copper in sufficient quantities copper ores had to be found and smelted
Book (edition)
H. Oglethorpe, 107 and photograph Sandbeds Mine, of Glenridding; 113 were taken by Eric Caldbeck...the last copper miners, and | also prospected with “Uncle” John William Shaw, who was mine foreman at...times. Some very ancient workings at the Coniston Copper mines are thought to date back at least to the...Minersda! and copper mines at Keswick. There is little doubt that Silver Beck is Silver Gill Mine and Minersdale...stands the famous old Roughtongill Mine on the Caldbeck Fells. Of the copper mines near Keswick the Ge «iscope
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
source of one of the strangest pseudomorphs: native copper after aragonite, described originally by Domeyko...(188 I). In this article we describe not only the copper after aragonite but also other types of pseudomorphs...eastern Andes of Bolivia. Pseudomorphs of native copper, cuprite, chalcocite, and malachite-after-aragonite...Corocoro, the site of the most important Bolivian copper deposit, with a long history reaching back to pre-Columbian...native copper was the main ore mineral, with minor chalcocite occuring in some parts. The copper lies in
Book (edition)
Ruthenium 129 Palladium Mercury and its Compounds Copper and its Compounds 141 Silver its Lead and its...window-bar. The crystal is attached to the movable plate & by means of wax, and so arranged that the edge...instrument. This is done by varying its situation on the plate, or by means of the adjacent screws and slides....the crystal consists of 8. parallel plates, each plate often less than a twentieth of an inch A in thickness...section of such a crystal, made transverse to the plate, is given in Fig. 8 ; without the twinning the section
Book (edition)
collection Cover photograph by Eric Holland Sandbeds Mine, Caldbeck. a shows the last shift at . $ zy...times. Some very ancient workings at the Coniston Copper mines are thought to date back at least to the...Minersdale and copper mines at Keswick. There is little doubt that Silver Beck is Silver Gill Mine and Minersdale...stands the famous old Roughtongill Mine on the Caldbeck Fells. Of the copper mines near Keswick the Goldscope...establishing a copper mining and smelting enterprise on a scale without equal in England in a district
Report (issue)
shear zone ___ _ Lee Mountain mine ____________ .____ _ Valley Forge mine _________________ _ Little Lilly...Free Speech mine __________________ _ Eureka mine ______________________ _ Mammoth mine ___________________... Bassett mine ________________ _ Lexington mine ____________________ _ Daniel Stanton mine _______________...Bunker Hill mine __________________ _ Teal Lake mine ____________________ _ Evergreen mine ____________________...____________________ _ Alley mine _____________________ ---Locality 5 _____________________________ _ III 35
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK (jbec01@esc.cam.ac.uk) The amount of metamorphic...differences between Yellowstone’s acid waters and acid mine waters A. CARACAUSI1, M. DITTA1, F. ITALIANO1,...organisms such as these have never been found in acid mine waters of identical pH. In Brimstone Basin, Yellowstone...acid drainages at Norris by Park naturalists. Acid mine waters of the same pH have never been observed to...fly larvae. The most complex life forms in acid mine waters have been ciliates and rotifers living at
Book
crust. 45 50% Plate 1. REPRESENTATIVE MINERAL AGGREGATES A X 0.75 COPPER RHODOCHROSITE Dendritic...WULFENITE HEMIMORPHITE Tabular-composed of flat, plate-like, well-developed crystals. Ahumada, Mexico....resembling a bunch of grapes. Cumberland, England. Plate 2. REPRESENTATIVE MINERAL AGGREGATES A ...X 0.66 BARITE ("DESERT ROSES") Rosette Sh ape-Plate-like barite crystals containing sand grouped like...of such groupings are copper, lead, zinc; gold and silver; silver and lead; copper and gold; tin, tungsten
Book (edition)
from coming into contact with a number of other mine enthusiasts whose knowledge and friendliness has...tends only to deal with a specific aspect o f a mine, so when a l l the pieces arc put together the result... a warning. I shall have something to say about mine exploration later, but for the time being please...value. The early history o f Borrowdalc Graphite Mine is taken from the article b y George C. Boon in...Much o f the more recent information on Greenside Mine came from an essay by Arnold Lewis, which is kept
Report (issue)
Castle Creek Central Chicago Chloride Queen Copper Glance Copper World Extension Crounse placer Crystal Butte...BigSrnoke Black Rocle Blue Bar placer Bonanza Bonanza Copper Brooks Bullion Bunus Calhoun Chewelah Standard...Queen Clara aeveland Columbia River Copper Butte Copper King Copper King Coyote Daisy Deep Creek Deer Trail...Margaret Sweden SNOHOMISH Bonanza Queen Buckeye Copper Belle Ethel Florence Rae Forty Five Glacier Peak...Trust Liberty Copper Little Mountain Lone Star Longshot Loon Lake Blue Bird Loon Lake Copper l.ouie l.owley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
essential to develop effective mine waste management approaches and mine site reclamation techniques to...columns with ICCBE are expected to prevent acid mine drainage generation longer than the other columns...barrier effect (ICCBE); desulphurized tailings; acid mine drainage; freeze and thaw cycles; environmental...sometimes contain sulphide minerals (such as pyrite, arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite), which are unstable in atmospheric...receiving water, produce acidic leachates (known as Acid Mine Drainage or AMD). AMD is characterized by low pH
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Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht / Boston /...45 The rise and fall of gold metallurgy in the Copper Age of the Carpathian Basin: The background of......... 399 The appearance of black patinated copper-gold alloys in the Mediterranean area in the Second...2000 1000 Copper Age Copper Age Eastern Mediterranean Copper Age Iberian Peninsular Copper Age Western...Kluwer Academic Publishers. Copper Age I Bronze Age Bronze Age Copper Agel Bronze Age Bronze Age 4
Report (issue)
..................................... Porphyry copper (molybdenum) deposits (models 17, 21a of Cox and......................................16 Porphyry copper-gold deposits (model 20c of Cox and Singer, 1986)......................................._ Porphyry copper, skarn-related deposits (model 18a of Cox and Singer...Singer, 1986).....................24 Copper skarn deposits (model 18bof Cox and Singer, 1986)....................48 Sedimentary exhalative zinc-lead (copper, barite) deposits (models 3la and 31b of Cox and
 
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