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Gypsum from
Mountfield Mine, Mountfield, Rother, East Sussex, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mountfield Mine, Mountfield, Rother, East Sussex, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:16306
Long-form Identifier:1:3:16306:2
GUID (UUID V4):c29a4ef2-c832-4f15-af3a-e3bcba378deb
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
5.2km (3.2 miles) Brightling Mine, Brightling, Rother, East Sussex, England, UK
34.1km (21.2 miles) Newhaven Cliffs (Fort Hill), Newhaven, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK
51.0km (31.7 miles) Upnor, Frindsbury Extra, Medway, England, UK
51.6km (32.0 miles) Elmley Hills, Swale, Kent, England, UK
52.1km (32.4 miles) Folkestone and Hythe District, Kent, England, UK
53.9km (33.5 miles) East Cliff and Copt Point, Folkestone and Hythe District, Kent, England, UK
54.2km (33.7 miles) Sulphur Band, Folkestone and Hythe District, Kent, England, UK
57.4km (35.7 miles) Norwood Pit, Minster-on-Sea, Swale, Kent, England, UK
58.5km (36.4 miles) Whitehall Farm Quarry, Medway, England, UK
58.7km (36.4 miles) Minster Beach, Minster-on-Sea, Swale, Kent, England, UK
References
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Book
This memoir describes the geology of parts of East Sussex and Kent; the district includes the resorts of...varied relief in the western part of the district. East of Hastings these beds form rugged sea cliffs up...Battle, and these contain economic deposits of gypsum in their lowest part. The eastern district comprises... 1 Cliffs in Ashdown Beds and Wadhurst Clay, east of Hastings [830 095] The upper part of the cliff...Memoir for 1:50 000 geological sheets 320 and 321 (England and Wales) Petrology C. P. Sladen Natural Environment
Book
This memoir describes the geology of parts of East Sussex and Kent; the district includes the resorts of...varied relief in the western part of the district. · East. of Hastings these beds form rugged sea cliffs up...Battle, and these contain economic dep('sits of gypsum in their lowest part. The eastern district comprises... Plate 1 Cliffs in Ashdo½'n Beds and Wadhurst Clay, east of Hastings (830 095]. The upper part of the cliff...Memoir for 1:50 000 geological sheets 320 and 321 (England and Wales) Petrology C. P. Sladen Natural Environment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cement, limestone (ragstone) for roadstone, and gypsum for plaster, plasterboard and cement manufacture...INTRODUCTION SAND AND GRAVEL CLAY CHALK SILICA SAND GYPSUM LIMESTONE AND SANDSTONE FULLER'S EARTH HYDROCARBONS...Greensand near Farnham and Cheriton, and the last mine in the Upper Greensand producing 'hearthstone',...Chalk is exploited for cement manufacture, and gypsum, which was discovered in the sinking of the Sub-Wealden...the most important sources of sand in southeast England, meeting a wide range of industrial specifications
Journal (issue)
SBN 11 880140 6 The Purbeck Beds of the Weald (England) BY F.W. ANDERSON, D.Sc., F.R.S.E. and R.A.B...BAZLEY, B.Sc., Ph.D. Dd. 502161 Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Hull Printers...Middle Purbeck .. Three Purbeck faunicycles, the Mountfield, Goldspur and Burwash .. .. .. Variations of... •• ,n ,.,1 THE PURBECK BEDS OF THE WEALD (ENGLAND) Summary. The Purbeck Beds of the Weald are described...PH.D. INTRODUCTION THE PURBECK BEDS in south-east England consist mainly of medium grey shaly mudstones
Report (issue)
Resources Consultative Committee Mineral Dossier No 13 Gypsum and Anhydrite Compiled by A JG Nothol.t, BSc, MIMM...Talc No 11 Ball Clay No 12 No 13 Slate 11 Gypsum and Anhydrite Preface The Mineral Resources...Portland Cement Manufacturers Limited, British Gypsum Limited, and Fisons Limited is also gratefully...rocks and location of gypsum and anhydrite mines and quarries Fig 2 Location of gypsum workings in the Vale... Cleveland Fig 6 Location of gypsum mines and quarries in the East Midlands Fig 7 Generalised section
Report (issue)
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ENGLAND EXPLANATION OF SHEETS 3 20 and 3 2 r The near...included in the Memoir on 'The Water Supply of Sussex,' published in 1899, and in the 'Supple­ ment'...(1911). A new Memoir on' The Wells and Springs of Sussex,' containing much additional information on that...represents an area of 216 square miles, partly land in Sussex and Kent, partly sea ; land occupying about 124...the ,vest and the outskirts of Ne'Y Romney on the east, are included in the area covered by the above-named
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CORRELATION OF THE UPPER PURBECK BEDS OF ENGLAND WITH THE GERMAN WEALDEN F. W. ANDERSON (Distinguished...Certain ostracod species in the Upper Purbeck of England show a succession of morphological changes which... and it is shown that the Upper &beck Beds in England correspond to most of the German Wealden W3 together...Sylvester-Bradley, and material from borings put down by the Gypsum Mines Co., Ltd., the British Petroleum Company...FAUNAS The type section of the Purbeck Beds in England is that seen in Durlston Bay in Dorset. This has
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 (issue)
INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Broadoak Borehole, Sussex ' t ,. � ii • �, . • -.�. • • •• • • •...Research Council Report 78/3 Broadoak Borehole, Sussex R. D. Lake and D. W. Holliday © Crown copyright...R. D. ancl HoLI.IDAY, D. W. 1978. I BorehcJle, Sussex LAKE, Purbeck Beds of tl1e Broadoak D. \iV....Br<)adoak Borehole, Sussex HOLLIDAY, .. 11 Purbeck Beds of the Broadoak Borehole, Sussex R. D. Lake and...Comparative sections of the lowermost Purbeck rocks of Sussex showing the main gypsum­ anhydrite seams 5 4 Lithofacies
Journal (issue)
worth it ?…… by Dave Rayner 05 Visit to Brightling Mine. by Dave Talbot 09 On photographing fossils (Photo...(including photos) on the visit to the Brightling Gypsum Mine. I did not attend, but I have been down a few...visit for collecting fossils. Sites in the South East were; Botany Bay Margate, Beltinge, Sheppey and...areas where we could collect fossils - places in Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Norfolk etc. Having had our...Brightling Gypsum Mine – March 9th 2015 Dave Talbot Almost three years ago I visited the mine with the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
234 SURFACE PROBLEMS IN THE SEARCH FOR OIL IN SUSSEX By Rev. 1. W. REEVES, M.sc, [Received 1st June...an area of some 2,200 square miles in Southern England. Special areas were selected for study and a geological...of the value of the areas A SEARCH FOR OIL IN SUSSEX 235 surveyed from the point of view of commercial... (B) Subsurface. (A) Surface. (i) Seepages. In Sussex itself the surface evidence for oil rests mainly...drilled about three-quarters of a mile SW. of Mountfield Church (727197). At a depth of 602ft. and in
Book
x pete. : ‘ i i 4 me . \j KENT AND EAST SUSSEX UNDERGROUND by J. Bradshaw N. Caiger M. Halpin...publisher of books about Kent, with some on East Sussex, including the monthly magazine ‘Bygone Kent’...Sic.cas. sere The AUth Be Es 6). iat, teri Ais. east dg le 121 Cee 123 ee Micat sulwicgiritihsks ...Meresborough Books Publications List... Map of Kent and East SUSS€X -...scscsssssssssssssessesssesneesnaninsennsennarinetinst...of need, the South East Cave Rescue Organisation has teams covering Kent and Sussex. To call them out
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northward, then turnin g westw ard to Mountfield and to the office of the Gypsum Work s in Millham Wood. Whilst...resulted in the finding of a large bed of work able gypsum. Some cars had been pr ep ar ed for the use of...little Ri ve r Line. A plan of th e unde rground gypsum-mine was sho wn, specimen s of the rock were ta ken...MANTELL, G. A.-" Illustrations of the Geologv of Sussex." 1836. FITTON, W. H._" On the Strata between the...the Chalk and the Oxford Oolite in the S.E. of England." Trans. Geoi. Soc., series 2, vol. iv, EXCURSION
Journal (issue)
STERLING HILL SPECIMENS SMLS 45th ANNIVERSARY DINNER SUSSEX MINERAL AND FOSSIL SHOW 2017 SMLS MEETINGS in January...DIARY FIELD TRIP TO ISLE OF SHEPPEY March 2018 SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.online (NOTE...Hawes Keepers Cottage Church Road Scaynes Hill WEST SUSSEX RH17 7NH Trevor Devon Ridgeview House Meres Lane...William Allen Lane Lindfield Haywards Heath WEST SUSSEX RH16 2SA 01444 831252 01435 873898 01444 483041...COPYRIGHT. All original material published in the Sussex Mineral & Lapidary Journal is subject to copyright
Journal (issue)
and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...gold has been found associated with chlorargyrite, gypsum , natron , and a suite of secondary chlorides and...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall
Report (issue)
Basal Purbeck evaporites of the Fairlight Borehole, Sussex D. W. Holliday, MA, PhD and E. R. Shephard-Thorn...Basal Purbeck evaporites of the Fairlight Borehole, Sussex. Rep. Inst. Geol. Sci., No. 74/4. 14 pp. ISBN...DESCRIPTION OF LITHOLOGIES Mudstones Limestones Gypsum-Anhydrite Rocks Comparison with Other Localities...Stage B Stage C Stages D and E Replacements of Gypsum and Anhydrite 11 11 11 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 12 ...developments of basal Purbeck evaporites in the Sussex Gypsum Mines and the Guestling No. 3 Borehole 2 Plate
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...pipes; limestone and chalk in cement and lime; gypsum for plaster and plasterboard; salt in chlorine...volume goes to press, the closure of the last tin mine in Britain was announced. In addition, through local
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND HEATHFIELD, SUSSEX. WITH REPORT OF EX CURSION TO HEATHFIELD, BRIGHTLlNG...one furnish ed the raw material used in the old Sussex iron-smelting industry. The series is well exposed...responsible for the bringing up of the Purbeck Beds to the east of Heathfield, and to which all other structural...Westfield and ultimately passes out to sea about 4 miles east of Hastings, whence it is probably continuous under...the three Purbeck inliers when traced from west to east are not collinear, also that the trend of the folding
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...Depots and Wharfs Fireclay Flint Fluorspar Gold Gypsum Igneous & Metamorphic Rock Iron Ore - Hematite...Marble Madne Sand & Gravel Wharfs and Rail Depots Mine Drainage Gas Natural Gas Oil Peat i iv vi vii
Report (issue)
-.<' _,,... 8 ,9 0 :i. "' \. , Co-.. EAST GRINSTEAD '0 Prn•�t• I� SCALc IN MILES 0 5...according to the route adopted. The descent into the gypsum mine is strenuous, and heavy boots and old clothing...is necessary from The Manager, Gypsum Mines Ltd., Robcrtsbridge, Sussex, and ladies arc not allowed.)...Arrive at Netherfield by bus (or by train to Mountfield Halt and walk two miles). Views of Fairlight-Battle...the underlying Purbcckian is best examined in the mine [2]. Below the 'Blues'. it continues to be mainly
Report (edition)
Isopachyte map of the Jurassic rocks of south-east England showing the depth of the Jurassic sedimentary...Lias sea across the folded Palaeozoic rocks of the east Kent area Sections to illustrate the northerly wedging...Jurassic strata in east Kent . • The geology and geography of south-east England in mid- 19 5. Hastings...Submerged Forest of Little Galley Hill, Bexhill, Sussex b. Junction of Folkestone Beds and Gault at Copt...Superficial Structures in Weald Clay, Southwater, Sussex b. Folkestone Warren Landslip, Folkestone, Kent
Book
understand 1he geology of a large pan of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Easl Hampshire. The firsl four chap1ers provide...The Weald. - (Rocks and fossils). I. Geology - England - Weald I. Tit le 11. Series 554.22'5 QE262. W4...Council Preface The Weald is that part of South-East England bounded by the North and South Downs and includes...includes within it parts of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire. The area is an excellent place to study...the base of the formation a number of valuable gypsum seams lie within the shales. These are overlain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Field Meeting to the Weald of East Sussex 25 July 1964 Report by the Directors: R. A. BAZLEY and C. R...Shovelstrode Lane, one and a quarter miles south-east of East Grinstead Station. Dr. Bristow explained that...abruptly (553362) by the southern boundary fault of an east-west trending horst, Three hundred yards to the...having here a throw of at least 400 feet. Large east-west faults of this type are characteristic of the...Tunbridge Wells Sand, overlain by Grinstead Clay, in the East Grinstead district. Buchan (1938) showed that the
Report (edition)
sulphates of calcium and strontium are described. Gypsum, the hydrated sulphate of calcium, known when used...boring in Sussex, known as the S u bW - ealden Exploration, was to prove the existence of gypsum of great...alilSOCiatoo with gypsum, and if it oould be profitably utilised, would add to the value of gypsum-properties...output has been exported. The duty of visiting the gypsum-workings and of writing the report upon them was...responsible. The collecting of the information upon gypsum and celestine necessitated the vi8iting of a large
 
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