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Dolomite from
Eskett Mine, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eskett Mine, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:15900
Long-form Identifier:1:3:15900:5
GUID (UUID V4):b6a70e38-8d53-48a5-ad10-32077b3daf74
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Winder Pit No. 2, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Lonsdale Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Mowbray Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Parkside Mine, Frizington, Arlecdon & Frizington, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
4.0km (2.5 miles) Cleator Moor Iron Mines, Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
6.4km (4.0 miles) Sir John Pitt, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
6.7km (4.2 miles) Bigrigg Mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
7.3km (4.6 miles) Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
7.8km (4.9 miles) Florence Mine, Egremont, 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...District , the hematite ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation.
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
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone...intergrown mass. £-18 25 WULFENITE & MALACHITE ON DOLOMITE (6cm x 5cm x 2cm) Sitrra De Los Lamentos, Chihahua
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
immediately below the " basal" dolomite, Rainster Rocks. x 25. Dolomite rhombohedra with included limonite...indiscriminately through matrix and organisms. 3.—Typical dolomite of the Harborough district, x 23. Specimen obtained...coarse grained. 4.—Coral in dolomite, Harborough Rocks, x 23. Matrix of dolomite having some zonal inclusions...inclusions of limonite, coral (right) in dolomite free from such inclusions. Recrystallized calcite in internal...must be noted. At the very base of the series dolomite-mudstones with ostracods and calcitemudstones
Book
BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geolo of the west Cumbria district ! ..: : .:·,: ·... ,:: ·, .... ... M11dst<>nc: Mudsto11e M11dst<>newith halite, dolomite 11ot k11ow11 not known about 3000 ; <10-25...tone a11d !1reccia wit 11gy1>st1rr1 I,imestone, dolomite, anhydrite, sandsto11e, siltsto11e a11d 111uclstci11e...abcJ11t300 Cumbria district This memoir describes the area covered...sheets 28 Whitehaven, 37 Gosforth and 47 Bootle of England and Wales. The district includes the western margin
Report (edition)
greater quantity is produced in the North\.Vest of England, and this region is therefore the :first to be...Cumberland... 3.-Diagrammatic Section across Beckermet :Mine, near Egremont 4.- Diagrammatic Section across Beckennet...across the Bigrigg Fault at Lord Leconfield's Bigrigg Mine... 10.-lvlap showing outcrops of Important Faults...of Gutty Flats at Postlethwaite's 1\:T.oor Rcnv Mine... 15.-Diagrammatic Cross-Section of the same r6...Vvest-South-\Vest to East-North-East across Hodbarrow :Mine ... 21.--:Map of ore-bodies, Park and Roanhead lVlines
Report (issue)
Support of National, Regional and Local Planning Cumbria and the Lake District: Resources and Constraints...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...for Development Plans: Phase One Cumbria and the Lake District (Cumbria, Lake District National Park and...This report accompanies the 1:100 000 scale maps: Cumbria and the Lake District Mineral Resources (North...Photograph Aerial View of Shap Beck Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, showing aggregate workings in the Knipe Scar Limestone
Book (edition)
resources and workings in the UK in 2014 4 Limestone resources and workings in the UK in 2014 5 Sand and Gravel...resources and workings in the UK in 2014 6 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK in 2014 7 Coal resources...and workings in the UK in 2014 8 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas workings in the UK in 2014 9 Marine Sand...Sand and Gravel resource and licence areas in the UK in 2014 i i vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii Tables 1...the major sectors of the Minerals Industry in the UK, 2010–2012 (thousand tonnes) 2 United Kingdom Production
Report (volume)
1919. Price 9s. Net. . ! GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. (OJ'llICE:...greater quantity is produced in the North-West of' England, and this region is therefore the first ta be described...Egremont 4.- Diagra.mmatic Section across Beckermet Mine, south of that shown in Fig. 3 5.- Diagrammatic...ator l\'foor district . 11.-Section from Parkhouse Mine to the Sir John Walsh Pit, Bigrigg 12.-Section across...-Section across the Sir John Walsh Jtault, Moss Bay Mine 14.-Diagrammatic plan of Gutty Flats at Postlethwa
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...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...tonnes) 4 Actjve Mineral Workings by com,nodity in the UK, including Northern Ireland, Channe l Islands and
Catalog/List
<.Sanv We(ftuMineraG Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent Levanl Gallery, Lower Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance...GllOUP ''A" •· DDIVIl:>UALSPECIMENS. • AC'IINOLITE/DOLOMITE. Allli,Non,ay. Lustrous silTer,--g:Nten interf'oraed...- ✓...,· -~Xc ,d, 12. APATITE.Panesquira xtls Mine,Beira i3eixa,PortugaL (to about 1ri in size) .....Paneaqueira,Beira group ot large,etriated,short and Dolomite. 3x2l" ,t:14.oo. 1?. • een Choice, 1 type...D2~5.OO. r ' \ 20. lURICBJ.ICITE. Golconda Mine,Brassington,Derbyshire. Silky blue-green xtl aggregRtee
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER:Superbtwinnedyellowfluoritecrystal 15 mm on edge from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria...T'wENTY YEARS IN MINERALS NORTHERN ENGLAND David Green • Peter Briscoe The UK ]011rnalof Mines at1d Minerals...EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard Bell THE SHAP GRANITE CUMBRIA DESIGN Julie Ballard QUARRY, Max Wirth • David...Ratcliff & Roper (Print ) Ltd Worksop, Nous. S80 2EE UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 22 -t- Campylite...classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection
Book
British Geological Survey. 1:50000 Sheet 30 Appleby (England and Wales). © NERC 2003 All rights reserved Copyrig...cond itions being established widely in northern England by Early Jurassic times, but the area became e1nergent...the Seventh Limestone Formation (LM7) of west Cumbria nomenclature (Arthurton and Wad ge, 1981). The...comprise the Eskett Liinestone Fonnation (ESKT). Li1nestones in the Knipe Scar and Eskett li1nestone fonnations...replacement gypsum and fibrous gypsum veins Belah 'Dolomite' - up to 8.2m 110 =--~ Dolostone with laminae
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ot Egremont to Scalesmoor Farm in the parish of Lamplugh it) West Cumberland, and comprises a tract of...pseudo-pisolite ; chert nodules at one or two levels. Dolomite-mudstones and calcitemudstones with black shales...calcite-mudstones, 1 The terms " calcite-mudstones " and " dolomite-mudstones " are used for rock-types similar to...are at Rowrah Hall, Salter Hall, Postlethwaite's Eskett, Yeathouse, and Clints Quarries. Tbe junction of...ot Egremont to Scalesmoor Farm in the parish of Lamplugh in West Cumberland, and comprises a tract of country
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland
Report (Issue volume)
Limestone . ESKETT LIMESTONE QUARRIES LTD., Winder, Frizington, Cumberland. ESKETT; FELL , F., 32...Gravel and Sand. & ditto BOLLIHOPE; Stanhope; Dolomite and Limes tone . HARNISHA BURN; Limestone . ...36 The Green BL!~CIGIELL ; Viest Cornforth ; Dolomite and Lizrestone . .' 48. ditto 49, CRf'J)OCK...~ashington . EPPLETON; 135. NATIONAL COAL BOARD, Stella Mine ·,·· Blaydon-on-Tyne , Co . Durham• PHOENIX; Craworook;...Durham. 146, Dolomite - Sand and Gravel. 27, 9,29 RAISBY HILL ; Coxhoe; Dolomite and Limestone
Book (edition)
resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 4 Limestone resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 5 Sand and grave...resources and workings in tbe UK in 2010 6 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK in 2010 7 Coal resources...and workings in the UK in 2010 8 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas workings in the UK in 2010 Tables l Production...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.minodity in the UK, including Northern freland, Channel Islands and...Directory of Mines and Quarries (DMQ) 2010 Abandoned Mine M ethane Anhydrite Ball Clay Barytes Cal.cite Chalk
Book (edition)
resources and workings in tJ1e UK, 2008 3 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2008 4 Limestone resotu-ces...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.mmodity in the UK, including Noriliem Ireland, Channel Islands and...and Quarries (DMQ) 2008 (Commodities) Abandoned Mine Methane Anhydrite Bal.I Clay Bai-ytes Calcite Chalk...Marble Madne Sand & Gravel Wharfs and Rail Depots Mine Drainage Gas Natural Gas Oil Peat i iv vi vii...industries, which represents their contribution to the UK econo1ny. The GVA of the nunerals extractive industries
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...sales of minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...volume goes to press, the closure of the last tin mine in Britain was announced. In addition, through local...Directory. • Britain comprises Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland; its
Report (issue)
·~/ .... > ,;Y, OF· SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE ENGLAND AND INDUSTRIAL GEOLOGICAL AND \VALES SURVEY...Frizington and Rowrah, 181. Colliergate Beck, Asby and Lamplugh, 182. Moorside and Dean Moor, south of Dean Cross..... . ... ... 5.-Section from Pallaflat Mine to Longlands Mine, Woodend, near Bigrigg .. . . .. ... ....Parton. Moresby. Branthwaite. Pardshaw. Asby-Lamplugh. Lampl ugh. Whitehaven. Hensingham-Frizington...part by correlations with their equivalents in England and Wales, more especially with those of the Pennines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Haematite Mine (Dixon, 1931, p. 269), and copper pyrites is found in the old tips of the mine. Lead ore...Chalcopyrite with pyrite occurs in the Crowgarth iron ore mine in association with barytes and haematite. B. Smith...appeared very doubtful to me when I visited the mine in 1938. The sulphides occur in pockets or lenses...copper ore of Crowgarth mine. On the tip of the neighbouring Eskett iron ore mine, also in Carboniferous...(presumably Tertiary) times the rocks of the North of England were subjected to widespread horizontal tensile
Report (issue)
SD77 --r--- ___ T ____ SD76 The limestone and dolomite resources of the country around Settle and Malham...Austwick Formation 10 MAP The limestone and dolomite resources of the country aroundSettle and Malham...Yorkshire in pocket ... 111 The limestone and dolomite resources of the country around Settle and Malham...reference MURRAY, D. W. 1983. The limestone and dolomite resources of the country around Settle and Malham...district. Locally the quarrying of limestone, dolomite and pre-Carboniferous rocks has modified the scenery
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)
Chalcopyrite after Bismuthite; from Fowey Consols mine, St. Blazey, Cornwall, In this specimen the prisms... Chalcopyrite after Bournonite; from Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall. See No. 18. 8. Chalybite after...Bismuthite; St. Blazey, Cornwall. from Fowcy Consols mine, A specimel, in the British Museum shows pseudomorphs...however, identified as Cornish, and from Tresavean mine, St. Day, by the late Mr. T. Davies, whose knowledge...identified by Mr. Davies as fi'om the Icelistian mine, Camborne. A third specimen in the British Musemn
Journal (volume)
mineralogy of the Clargillhead Vein, Tynehead, Cumbria: the first report of native silver from the Northern...and Andy Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...from localities such as Tynagh Mine in Co. Galway and Pendarves Mine in Cornwall (Figs 1 and 2) serves
 
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