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Chiastolite from
Threlkeld Mine, Threlkeld, Threlkeld, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Andalusite var: Chiastolite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chiastolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Threlkeld Mine, Threlkeld, Threlkeld, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15841
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15841:3
GUID (UUID V4):4f79c481-1c17-4149-9f56-a6cd7d599162
Nearest other occurrences of Chiastolite
2.6km (1.6 miles) Saddleback Old Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.8km (1.7 miles) Andalusite outcrop, Glenderaterra Valley, Threlkeld, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
3.4km (2.1 miles) Glenderaterra Valley, Threlkeld, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Bannerdale Graphite Mine, Bannerdale, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.5km (2.8 miles) Blackhazel Beck, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
7.3km (4.5 miles) Gibraltar Crag, Skiddaw, Keswick, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
13.5km (8.4 miles) Dacre Castle, Dacre, Greystoke, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
22.5km (14.0 miles) Sharp Knott, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...west Cumbrian coal and iron ore fields, the Vale of Eden and the Carlisle plain (Figure I). It is defined...ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed review of metallogenesis
Book
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...intrusions (Ordivician) 15 Ennerdale intrusion 15 Threlkeld nticrogra11ite 15 Minor intrusions 15 Younger...ignimbrite of the Helvellyn Fonnation, Rydal Head 47 7 Threlkeld 1nicrogrmtite inBratncf'...along part of Glenridding valley 48 11 Force Crag Mine, Braitlnvaite 48 12 Sn1all landslip on the north
Book
interested in all aspects of geology in the County of Cumbria and surrounding areas. Members receive regular...Ellenbank Press Park Hill South Camp Road Maryport Cumbria CA15 6JN First published as The Lake District by...Boardman OS 14. The Skiddaw Granite north of Threlkeld Tom Shipp IOI 15 The Carboniferous Limestone...Shipp 107 The Penrith Sandstone of the Vale of Eden Jim Cockersole 115 16 17 18 Palaeozoic rocks...Geological and Mineralogical Museum Collections in Cumbria 143 Further Reading Index vi 148 Foreword
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUPPLEMENTARY EXCURSION TO EYCOTT HILL AND THRELKELD MINE. MONDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 1900. THE members...in the Lake District visited Eycott Hill and Threlkeld Mine under the leadership of MR. JOHN POSTI.ETHWAITE...shortly after mid-day, they paid a visit to the Threlkeld Mine, where, through the kindness of Captain Bawden...from the rough material as it is taken out of the mine. There are two veins, one bearing 10° E. of N.,...northern part of the mine. This mine has been worked northward into the chiastolite slate . EXCURSION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
members left Keswick by the 9.40 train, arriving at Threlkeld about ten a.m, They were there joined by Mr. Harkowitz...Harkowitz, the proprietor of the Threlkeld Quarry, who conducted them to the quarry and explained the...viewing the works. The rest of the party reached Threlkeld shortly before noon, and a move was then made...north-east of the Blencathara Lead Mine, where they examined the chiastolite slates; a move was then made to...slopes of Lonscale Fell, while the rest walked to Threlkeld Station, in time to avoid a thunderstorm accompanied
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUPPLEMENTARY EXCURSION TO EYCOTT HILL AND THRELKELD MINE. MONDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 1900. THE members...in the Lake District visited Eycott Hill and Threlkeld Mine under the leadership of MR. JOHN POSTI.ETHWAITE...shortly after mid-day, they paid a visit to the Threlkeld Mine, where, through the kindness of Captain Bawden...from the rough material as it is taken out of the mine. There are two veins, one bearing 10° E. of N.,...northern part of the mine. This mine has been worked northward into the chiastolite slate . EXCURSION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skiddaw, Shap, and Eskdale, the microgranite of Threlkeld, and the granophyre of Buttermere and Ennerdale...In parts of both the Skiddaw granite and the Threlkeld microgranite, anatase and brookite were found...Ennerdale granophyre, while garnet is abundant at Threlkeld and Eskdale. l*he Eskdale granite also contains...of any thickness containing cordierite, while chiastolite, white mica,, and andalusite proper are characteristic...shale, with remarkable skeleton crystals of chiastolite, are described from the Nodden quarries, together
Book
will rank amongst the best Mines in the North of England . Since 1565 no less than seven smelt mills and...Goldscope Mine 76 81 Dale Head Mine "" Brandley or Brandlehow Mine " 83 86 Yewthwaite Mine "" 39 88 Barrow...Barrow Mine "" 39 90 "3 Stoneycroft Mine 93 Thornthwaite Mine 91 " " Rachel Wood Mine 96 ‫دو‬ Blencathra...Blencathra Mine 96 ‫رو‬ Woodend Mine 96 "" 96 ‫ور‬ Gategill Mine )) Threlkeld Mine 98 "" Mines in the Lake...Glenderaterra Mine Force Crag Mine ... ΙΟΙ ... 103 Loweswater Mine Old Brandley Mine Saltwell and Copper
Book
Museum Street, London, WCIA No reproduction 1LU, UK Unwin Paperbacks, Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts...(Rocks and fossils; 4) 1. Geology — England — Lake District (Cumbria) I. Cumberland Geological Society...Society is based on the northwestern coast of Cumbria, geographically isolated from major centres of...provide a balanced view of the geological scene in Cumbria. In a region where the rocks span the vast period...geological usage of all the regions surveyed in England. Only the Isle of Arran in Scotland receives a
Book
Geological Survey. 1:50 000 Sheet 29 Keswick (England and Wales). Keyworth, Nottingha1n: British Geological...Geological Survey ll Plates CONTENTS Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite 1 2 View westwards fro1n Place Fell...Woodhall, Regional Editor for Scotland and Northern England, and is based on the approved version of the Sheet...ubaerial volcanis1n that fonned the Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite [2010 2166]: the treattnent plant with...Fault between Buttern1ere, Der went Water and Threlkeld Con11non CAMBRTAN AND ORDOVICIAN 5 Figure 3
Report (volume)
at Thornthwaite and Threlkeld Mines, Mr. W. H. Borlase and staff of Greenside Mine, Mr. Stretton of Force... Flo. 2.-Diagramma.tic Sketch Plan of Greenside Mine to show shifting of the lode by east and west faults...F10. 3.-Diagramma.tic Sketch Plan of Goldscope Mine along the ad.it, showing shifting of east and woot...Lake District,' Ed. 3, 1913. • The copper ores of England and Wales will be described in a special memoir...veins with little or no barytes (Thornthwaite, Threlkeld and Greenside) are low in silver (a.bout 10 ozs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skid(law, Shap, and Eskdale, the microgranlte of Threlkeld, and the granophyre of Buttermere and Ennerdale...In parts of both the Skiddaw granite and the Threlkeld microgranite, anatase and brookite were found...Ennerdale granophyre, while garnet is abundant at Threlkeld and Eskdale. The Eskdale granite also contains...of any thickness containing cordierite, while chiastolite, white mica, and andalusite proper, are characteristic...shale, with remarkable skeleton-crystals of chiastolite, arc described from the Nodden quarries, together
Book
' Frontispiece Landsat imagery of north-west England taken from a height of 900 km. Photograph: National...Geological Society 1978 ISBN 0 9501656 2 X PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY W. S. MANEY AND SON LIMITED LEEDS CONTENTS...Geology 15 Epigenetic Mineralization 16 Offshore Cumbria 17 Hydrogeology C. K. Patrick 18 Environmental...found in Lakeland St.Bees Sandstone St. Bees and Eden Shales with evaporites Penrith Sandstone and Brockram...placed the greater part of Scotland in ‘America’, England a :■ dies in ‘Europe’, and regarded the Southern
Book (chapter)
Survey Chapter 4 Lake District and northern England Introduction INTRODUCTION D. Miliward In Ordovician...Ordovician times the Lake District and northern England formed part of the microcontinent of Eastern Avalonia...were emplaced in the Lake District and northern England subsequent to the closure of the Iapetus. The volcanoes...Figure 4.1 Lower Palaeozoic inliers of northern England and locations of the major, buried batholiths....Shap; Sk, Skiddaw; Th, Threlkeld; D Dufton. 137 Lake District and northern England 90 NX00NY 10 20
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as the work progresses. COLLECTING MINERALS IN ENGLAND CUMBERLAND, PAUI, WAI,TIIER Newark, N. J, One...county of Cumberland, in the northwest corner of England. Let me guide you on a two weeks excursion to the...few miles north is Little Salkeld, with its gypsum mine. There we can get fine plates of selenite, also...since been worked out, with the exception of the Threlkeld lead and zinc mines. The Thornthwaite mines, near...are worth all England else." From Caldbeck we first reach the old dumps of the Redgill mine, then the Silvergill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shape, is remarkable. Al;GUST 13TH. TIlE TU:\"GSTEN MINE AXD SKIDDAW AUREOLE. Ox leaving the motors at Mosedale...and the Carrick Fell intrusions. At the Tungsten Mine quantities of wolfram, scheclite, arsenopyrite,...density than kyanite. In the Skiddaw aureole chiastolite (or andalusite) appeared throughout, but biotite...well-cleaved condition, containing torn-out chiastolite pseudomorphs. The high-level eastern track was...local specimens. ACGL'ST 17TH. ST. JOlIN'S AND THRELKELD. O~ the way towards St. john's-in-the-Valc a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the foot of St. John's Vale, and is quarried at Threlkeld. This is a fine-textured grey rock with small...rhyolites and especially the nodular rhyolites, the Threlkeld microgranite, the Armboth type of granophyre,...as many of the igneous rocks themselves. The chiastolite-slate of Sinen Gill and the more highly metamorphosed
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil is thus a strong influence...and F in stream sediments and waters. Apart from mine spoil, contamination is generally not an important...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...to encompass the Forest of Bowland, the Vale of Eden, the Salway Plain and the western part of the North
Book
pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages................... 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...ground; trial workings, mine dumps, mine buildings and smeltings, plus mine location maps and a wealth...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Westmorelalld. The mountains are unusually lofty for England, and contain by far the highest summits to be found... so that the waters flow into the basins of the Eden and Derwent respectively. The Keswick district lies...it with the great Pennine Chain of the North of England, formed entirely of Carboniferous rocks. It is...passes from the basin of the Lune into that of the Eden at the moderate elevation of about 800 feet. The...Permian rocks. The view across the broad valley of the Eden, bounded on the east by the huge mass of Crossfell-the
Book
generally regarded as among the n1ost intractable in England but a recently completed resurvey programme led...similar strata extend beneath 1nuch of northern England. To the west, the Manx Croup of the Isle of ]\...British Geological Survey, 1Vewcastle Printed in the UK for the British Geological Su1vey by . & Co Ltd....Fonnation 60 Teesdale inlier and boreholes in northern England 60 Ingleton Group 61 Four Depositional environment...Skiddaw Group rocks at depth across much of northern England, the study is also relevant to the understanding
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic rocks constituting the central hills of Cumbria, and, owing to the existence of an anticlinal fold...Crag; Knott Head, Wbinlatter Pass; Brundelhow Lead Mine. patulus, Hall. Outerside; Eandal Crag ; Eggbeck...Bassenthwaite Sand Beds; Gibraltar, Skiddaw (in chiastolite slate). Tetragraptus bryonoides, Hall. Outerside;...country near Troutbeck Station, extending towards Threlkeld. Amongst the Graptolites which. have been found
Book
scenically it is one of the most complex regions of England and within the space of this volume rigorous selection...the M6 or potters along the lanes of the Vale of Eden. THE GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE AREA Ordovician...transported eastwards into what is now the Vale of Eden which, even at this early date, was a mountain-girt...range and the Shap Fells moved into the Vale of Eden and suffered a varied fate. The more northerly ice...Carrock Fell gabbros and the Grainsgill wolfram mine. We follow the arc from Glenderaterra in the south-west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Keswick. On Wednesday morning train was taken to Threlkeld Station, whence the party visited the quarry in...the metamorphic belt, containing crystals of chiastolite, was reached. That this belt really is metamorphosed...indisputably of late, by the discovery in the Chiastolite Slate on Skiddaw top of a well preserved trilobite...part of the important central watershed crossing England from east to west, and which is crossed by passes
 
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