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Calcite from
Goat Quarry, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Goat Quarry, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15145
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15145:6
GUID (UUID V4):c5aa9bf1-1012-4366-97be-cb04dd01428b
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
4.6km (2.8 miles) Orrock Quarry, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK
16.2km (10.0 miles) Cats Nick, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16.3km (10.1 miles) Salisbury Crags, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
23.9km (14.8 miles) Hilderston Silver Mine, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
26.6km (16.5 miles) Binn Hill, Glenfarg, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
26.8km (16.7 miles) Dollar Mine (Burn of Sorrow Mine), Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
30.3km (18.8 miles) Alva Silver Mine, Silver Glen, Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
30.4km (18.9 miles) Addiewell, West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
36.2km (22.5 miles) Blairlogie Mines, Stirling, Scotland, UK
39.5km (24.5 miles) Airthrey Hill Mine, Stirling, Scotland, 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...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Journal (issue)
ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...OF EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS
Journal (issue)
Minera/Bwlcligwyn MINERA Common Sphalerite, quartz, calcite, cerrusite Less Common Hemimorphite, smithsonite...Newsletter 50; 2 for landfill. The nearby Pant Quarry (OS GR 198.702), owned by Wimpcy, still produces...Mountain Common Less Common Key Ref: Fluorite, calcite, quartz, chalcopyrite, smithsonite, sphalerite...similar mineral assemblage can be found at the old quarry on the west side of the village (OS GR 054.256)...Ramsbeckite _________ CWM OROG Barite, galena, calcite, quartz Witherite, harmotome Harmotome, wulfenite
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...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
palaeoenvironment of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland: stable isotope evidence from silicates and sulphides...sulphate reduction, palaeoenvironment, East Kirkton, Scotland. The East Kirkton Limestone, which outcrops only...also described the unit as being isolated to the quarry alone, a 'limestone' originating as a small lagoon...the only sulphide phase observed commonly in the quarry lithologies, was undertaken in order to give a...et al. (this volume). The National Museums of Scotland (NMS) repository numbers are given for NMS samples
Journal (issue)
UK TS 2 EDITORIAL 2 BUXTON COVER:A superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate...Piddcollection. MUSEUM Ros Westwood 6 MINERAL NEWS 11 The UK ]011mal ef Mines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Fisher 29 ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe MINERALS OF FIFE Stephen Moreton 36 CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE...UKJounul of Mines & Mincr:ils No '7 -l- EDITORIAL he UK]oumal efMi11es& Mi11eralsis now in its twenty second...which at least eight have makers or retailers marks. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -2- Frontispiece
Journal (issue)
IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. TWENTY YEARS IN MINERAL SCOTLAND David Green • Gordon Todd 28 EDITOR David I...SPECIAL ISSUE The first of t\vo special editions of the UK ]oumal of 1\lli11es [.,,.Minerals celebrating t\venty
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
Book (volume)
"TOlVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited...Pyrites. DRAWN! eV DR HCDDLE THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...Stereograms of Gypsum, & and c Projections, Map of Scotland, Index to the one- inch Ordnance Survey . . ... Orthoclase. J . G. GOODCHILD. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND, VOL. II. OXYGEN II. SILICATES. ANHYDKOUS...infra, and the Appendix.] LINLITHGOW. [?] Hillhouse quarry, in a dyke of columnar basalt. MIDLOTHIAN. [?]
Book (edition)
(England and Wales) and A. G. MacGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland) LONDON: HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1951...OF R OADSTONES England and Wales (Fig. 1) 2 Scotland (Fig. 2) .. 4 PART I. CRUSHED STONE QUARRIES...be of late Silurian to early Devonian age. One quarry each in Cornwall and Devon work the Hercynian granite...granite for roadstone. In Anglesey one quarry works syenitic gneiss. HORNFELS TRADE GROUP (Hl This group...in Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire. SCOTLAND (Fig. 2) Scotland is well supplied with igneous, sedimentary
Journal (issue)
seeing you all there. Our new President on top of Goat Fell, Arran, in 2010. For those of you who don’t...to come. The number of mineralogy curators in the UK can now be counted on two hands, but more worryingly...to attract junior members is age restrictions on quarry visits, so I will be looking at arranging visits... Our first forays, in 1993, were to Coldstones Quarry, an easy journey from Leeds. In the early years...She became much more involved with the team at the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals and became its webmaster
Journal (issue)
FEATURES Minerals & Gems of Scotland part 1 ot a seri�s Rockwatch 199_8 photo-report on a .deserving...dkcnw Light ...... . ... . Mincrals & Gemstones of Scotland .12 Fossil cw ................. 16 olourcd Gcnmonc...series of articles on chc Minerals and Gemstones or Scotland, wricten by Simon Ingram of Celtic Minerals, as...Bul'kingh.umlurl', w,1, .1w.mkd the t1tle of the UK-_ top young g<·ologm. Helen. who h,·<'' 111 Clulfom-S1-C:ik...aimmg to find the best young earth scicnrists in the UK and will be advcrnsed in the next Rockwatch magazine
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Book
quartz, feldspars, muscovite, biotite, chlorite, calcite, pyrite, etc. is detem1ined by conco1nitant changes...400° to 650°C. Fluid flow calculations on a quartz quarry hosting the Au-Ag-Te mineralization revealed the...reservoir samples (Fife and Locharbriggs sandstones both from southwest Scotland and Slick Rock Aeolian...quartz, feldspars, muscovite, biotite, chlorite, calcite, pyrite, etc. is determined by concomitant changes...and from 0.00 l to saturating with respect to calcite at low temperatures. H2S concentration was 0.01
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between DeCew Falls and Grimsby. At the base of the Goat Island Member, the Ancaster chert beds become irregular...western part of the study area at the Vinemount Quarry. Although the thicknesses of the other units vary... 1972). 357 M. A. MOSTAGHEL W E VINEMOUNT QUARRY INEI~OUNT ,..HALE, B,..EOS~ ~ -.~ - - GLENRIDGE...COMPOSITE SECTION SIR ADAM BECK SECTION GOAT ISLAND GOAT ISLAND GOAT iSLAND GASPORT GASPORT ~c~ ~ DECEW...Gorge (Sir Adam Beck section) to the Vinemount Quarry. Description of Mineral Assemblages The disseminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
instructiveness as a synopsis of the geology of Scotland, with the contrast of the Highland type in the...base of the Carboniferous Limestone Series of Scotland. J. W. GREGORY AND G. W. TYRRELL, Unlike the...conglomerates, wen" early recognized as proof that the Goat Fell granite was post-Palseozoic and that the belt...metamorphism of the slates near the cont act wit h the Goat Fell granite. The Dalradian schist s are well seen...throughout the whole length of the west coast of Scotland (see Tyrrell, 1923, p. 2~7*). The direction may
Book (edition)
ROADSTONES IN GREAT BRITArN 4 England and Wales 4 Scotland 6 Channel Islands 9 LIST OF SOURCES OF ROAD...headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...and Wales) and A. G. MACGREGOR , M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland) revised by DIANE C. KNILL, Ph.D., D.I.C. (with...Distribution of Roadstone Quarries and Gravel Pits in Scotland. GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ROADSTONES 5 at
Book
and landscapes of Scotland Second Edition DUNEDIN Geology and landscapes of Scotland Iona, looking toward...Lewisian gneiss. Geology and landscapes of Scotland Second edition Con Gillen University of Edinburgh...published by Roger Jones, Terra Publishing, Harpenden, UK in 2003 Second edition first published in 2013 by...science of the Earth Introduction The rock fabric of Scotland The rock cycle Structure of the Earth Folds, faults... vii 1 1 1 12 12 15 19 Geological regions of Scotland Introduction Geological regions Geological evolution
Report (issue)
express his thanks to the many company officials and quarry superintendents who supplied information for this...weathering; aphanitic; medium bedded; stylolites, calcite crystals; abundant Tetradium. CRYSTALLINITY CLASSIFICATION...classification is suitable for laboratory work: Term Used Calcite Dolomite MgO* Dolomite . . . . . . . . . . ... Calcarenite. A limestone composed of clastic calcite grains and sorted fossil debris of sand size: i...COMMERCIAL STONE TERMS Riprap. Large angular blocks of quarry stone from l cubic foot (about 200 pounds) up to
Report (issue)
Florida-Little Florida Mountains; fluorite in the Fluorite-Goat Ridge; clay at Taylor Mountain; crushed stone in...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Mimbres Basin Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains Elsewhere...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Mimbres Basin Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains...Range Florida-Little Florida Mountains Fluorite-Goat Ridge Mimbres Basin Tres Hermanas-Victorio Mountains
Report (chapter)
3VE, UK Abstract: The Isle of Arran lies off the Ayrshire coast in the Firth of Clyde, SW Scotland. James...Firth of Clyde, just off the Ayrshire coast of SW Scotland. The island is about 32 km long and 17 km wide...abstract Hutton embarked on a field programme in Scotland to investigate the true nature of granite. The...evidence from other subsequent short tours around Scotland, Jameson wrote a second account of the geology...by which Jameson interpreted the rocks around Scotland in the subsequent chapters. That same year, Jameson
Catalog/List
intergrown and scattered on Basalt matrix, with minor Calcite in as::;ociatio~. 3x2-t" £8. 3. ill~ATASE. ~avradi...over i" across the axis, partially embedded in Calcite matr~x. 2ix2". £2,50. 6, lffiAGONITE variety "Flos-ferri"... 3xlixl-t". £It.50. _ 8. ARS~~OPYF,ITE. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall. Bright, silvery, sharp tVlinned...intergrown and s~attercd on ~imestone with minor Calcite in association; the crystal sorays of Baryto a...encrusting and lining cavities in crystalised Calcite matrix with minor uartz and Sphalerite in association
Book (edition)
ROADSTONBS IN GREAT BRITAIN 5 England and Wales 5 Scotland 8 Channel Islands LIST OF 11 SOURCES OF ROAD...headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...(England and Wales) and A. G. MACGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland) revised by DIANE C. KNILL, Ph.D., D.I.C. (with...early Devonian age is worked for roadstone. One quarry each in Cornwall and Devon work the Hercynian granite
Report (volume)
growth. River Black Lyne opposite Oakshaw Ford Quarry Bedding plane in the Whitberry Band showing abundant...Langholm (11) Sheet of the One-inch Geological Map of Scotland. It is not dealt with here but is described in...were marked by considerable volcanic activity in Scotland, but in the Bewcastle district such activity is...Carboniferous rocks of the north of England and central Scotland. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., 40, 835-77. SMITH, S....Kinmont Limestone, are represented at outcrop by the Goat Island Limestone. They are tentatively correlated
Journal (volume)
thomsonite (spiky and botryoidal varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected...Brian Young 18-26 The mineralogy of Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire Francis Ince 27-39...benefactors: Peter and Greg Tom at Bardon Hill Quarry (1 :4-3 : 1); Redland Aggregates (2: 1); Ralph...usually at least partly covered with flowstone calcite or tufts of aragonite or quite commonly both, as...brochantite and malachite rim s. Note the i1owstone calcite on the left upper edge. Specimen width 10 cm.
 
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