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Magnetite from
Shap Blue Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shap Blue Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:16762
Long-form Identifier:1:3:16762:4
GUID (UUID V4):89e769a6-91ac-4ba7-876a-e81854f9af14
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
2.3km (1.4 miles) Shap Pink Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
29.1km (18.1 miles) Long Crag Mine, Greenburn Valley, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
29.8km (18.5 miles) Bonser Mine, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
30.2km (18.8 miles) Coniston Copper Mines, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
33.1km (20.5 miles) Wad Mine (Plumbago Mine; Graphite Mine; Black Lead Mine), Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
33.6km (20.9 miles) Cadger Well Level, Harwood, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK
33.7km (21.0 miles) Lady's Rake Mine, Harwood, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK
34.9km (21.7 miles) Grassgarth Height, Haverthwaite, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
35.9km (22.3 miles) Fleetwith Pike, Buttermere, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
45.1km (28.0 miles) Mecklin Wood, Wasdale, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
west Cumbrian coal and iron ore fields, the Vale of Eden and the Carlisle plain (Figure I). It is defined...batholith , of which the granites of Eskdale, Ennerdale, Shap and Skiddaw form part. Sediments of Lower Carboniferous...ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed review of metallogenesis...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation....only economic tungsten deposits outside of the SW England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon...Barstow. SW.B1 Apatite on orthoclase - Colcerrow Quarry, Cornwall. Barstow green stock label. SW.D10 Sphalerite...Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 1976. [SW 722 220]. SW.Q4 Serpentine - County Bridge Quarry, Lizard...Holyer 197-. [SW 722 22]. SW.R8 Stilbite - Dean Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. E.Retallack 1975. [SW 804 203]
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...000) Cover Photograph Aerial View of Shap Beck Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, showing aggregate workings in the
Journal (issue)
this area which produced magnificent specimens of blue fluorite. Unfortunately the mine shaft has been...Newsletter 50; 2 for landfill. The nearby Pant Quarry (OS GR 198.702), owned by Wimpcy, still produces...similar mineral assemblage can be found at the old quarry on the west side of the village (OS GR 054.256)...GR 582.412), Manod Quarry at Blaenau Fcstiniog (OS GR SH 707.449), and Hendre Quarry, Glyn Cerriog (OS...found in the screes. Beautiful small specimens of blue anatase can still be found at Manod and brown anatase
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...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...Leadhills,Scotl. Caldbeck,Cumbria Derbyshire Moorshaft Lode Scordale,Cumbria Ecton.Staffs. Derbyshire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Lake District (Caledonian) terrane, northern England: Palaeozoic motions and deformation at a leading...Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK The Lake District terrane of northern England comprises Upper Cambrian±Silurian...Ordovician to Devonian magnetization. Late plutons (Shap and Skiddaw granites and/or aureoles) record a shallow...Palaeozoic; Caledonides; Lake District; northern England 1. INTRODUCTION Assembly of the supercontinent...Avalonia comprise the Lake District of northern England and most of Wales (referred to hereafter as the
Catalog/List
and pale pink, sugary textured mass. small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales ...yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE Na Al...crystals on quartz. Good location pieces 4mm deep blue pure sphere shaped mass, with crystallised surface...5mm£3 Hannover Cove.St Agncs, Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture...mass Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham.Surrey England KTI I 2NL lxl £5 lxl £8 Ix½ £5 lxl £8 lxl.5
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...and from the iron ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...granites (e.g. the K20, Mo and Rb levels over the Shap intrusion) reveal differences between the evolution...to encompass the Forest of Bowland, the Vale of Eden, the Salway Plain and the western part of the North
Catalog/List
hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2£I 2x2£2.S0 Al SO/4...2x3 £I .SO 2x2£1 Staffordshire England lx2 S0p Rich white to faintly blue masses 23 Al'\HYDRITE CaSO/4... _ . Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry. Tvedalcn near Ix I £3 I x2 £6 2x2 £ 12 7 AN!lilTE...CO/3 121 ARFVEDSONITE - - •• • • •• Quite rich, blue-grey mnsses in Quartz Gun heath Pit.SI Austell.Cornwall...G~ec~ish· i~ Qu~. Wi-11 fluoresce pale Carrock Mine Cumbria - ·- · 1x1·11 __yel_low_,yithsh~rtw!1~e_!!._y~-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks adjacent to the Shap Granite by R. J. FIRMAN Received 11 June 1954 of the Shap Granite and its thermal...pyrites, chalcopyrite, galena, blende, molybdenite, magnetite, haematite and laumontite. This assemblage is...PETROGRAPHY 412 CHANGES IN ROCKS ADJACENT TO SHAP GRANITE413 whilst sericite forms from felspars...been recorded only from the south end of the Shap Blue Quarry. It is thought to be later than the epidotisation...species, likewise considered to be associated with the Shap Granite, occur in tensional and shear joints, faults
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...rocktypeconsisting of repeated thinlayers of hematiteor magnetite, alternating withchertor shale.ManyBIFsareover1...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
Journal (issue)
RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent gypsum...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation...Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES Valentinite...claudetite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England c. M. Leppinf{toll and D.I. Green 36 Atacamite
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...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British...R. F.Symes and B. Young MINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND v Aboutthe Authors vi Dr R.F.(Bob)Symes,OBE
Journal (issue)
................. . Chart topping rocks: Top 100 UK "Geosites" named ............................ Mineral...aims the recording of new and interesting items of UK topographic mineralogy. If you think your group may...comfort. The amount of water blowing around over the UK is vanishingly small compared to the amounts of water...museum curators we have invited from right across the UK. FinaDy, Dr Denis Martin is stepping down as national...society which can be sent out to landowners or quarry managers. If anyone is interested in using this
Catalog/List
1cm £6 ✓ on a ship wreck in 1885 Ives, Comwall, England ABHURITE SnO OH DESCRIPTON Pyroxene Na Fe...Devon .England Madagascar Railway cutting nearCreston . Wyoming ,U S. A Newhavcn Sussex. England I x2...Skye. Scotland lxl 70p 26 ANATASE single dark blue micro crys1al onChlnrilc ✓ Vinuous L:ody mine.Devon...ANHYDRITE Rich white to faintly blue masses Staffordshire England 25 ANKERITE-KlJTNAHORITE Rich fawn...APATITE Ca P0/4 F n rnm nirt Ca P0/4/ F F Saga Quarry, Tvedalcn near Larvik. Norway Loch Scridain Mull
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
299 THE PETROLOGY OF THE SHAP GRANITE. By D. R. GRANTHAM, Ph.D., A.R.S.M., A.R.C.S., D.LC. [Read June...granite in situ at the Shap Granite Quarry, and the writer is greatly indebted to the Shap Granite Co., Ltd...eye or with a lens." (1" 275.) Apatite, zircon, magnetite and sphene are the accessory minerals described...such. " One of the most striking characters of the Shap Fell granite is the occurrence of distinct patches...It would seem that a magma occurred beneath the Shap granite of a more basic cha racte r than the granite
Book
"ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...was born on the 18th March 1923 in Leicester, England. He attended the City Boys School, Leicester, and...Section; and in his later years, following a move to rural Gloucestershire, he became keenly involved with...mineral from New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical Magazine, 66
Catalog/List
Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872 262 232...£24 OCX>6 SPHALERITE,Brownley Hill M1ne,Nenthead,Cumbria Attractive druse of edomanl1no black Jack xtls...greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen,Scolland Radiating off while lo...tabular t,;:rm1nated celesllle x1Is to 25mm wilh pale blue lint.Ex D. Barstow label.Attractive D SPC_ Ml to...1ourmaline.R1ch RF SPC. C.£8 0027 CHALCEDONY.Pentee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall.Pretty botryoidal encrustations
Report (volume)
is Registered Charity 210161. The Society is the UK national learned and professional society for geology...fifth of the Society's fellowship resides outside the UK. To find out more about the Society, log on to www...uk. The Geological Society Publishing House (Bath, UK) produces the Society's international journals and...Brassmill Enterprise Centre Brassmill Lane Bath BA1 3JN, UK (Orders: Tel. +44 (0)1225 445046 Fax +44 (0)1225...Typeset by Type Study, Scarborough, UK Printed by Alden Press, Oxford, UK iv Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore
Book
collector'sguide 1 28 A list of 111i11eral localities in England, f;f/ ales and Scotland 13 1 Bibliography and further...19 A11:irt.ist's impression of the Lake District (Eden Valley) during Ordovici:in times. 25 Gas bubble...granite pegmatitc of Cairngorm. 44 n..ubisbw Granite Quarry. 45 Spoil heaps associated with the old tin mines...artist's impression of part of the Lake District (Eden Valley) during the Permian Period, 66 Cannon-ball...marble quarry at Eigo! on the lsk of Skye. 99 33. Garnet from the Blue Quarry at Shapin Cumbria, 102 34
Journal (issue)
America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................updates (still lots of activity in various parts of the UK) and an addition to the list of “creative things...minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local museum...countless field trips to sites of interest around England and Wales and although membership numbers have...Anatase from Cligga Head, Perrazabuloe, Cornwall, England. David Green photo. Reproduced with permission
Book
Gazetteer section of Sites of Geological interest in England, Wales and Scotland compiled by Peter R Rodgers...the most widely travelled cut across northern England to die away on the Yorkshire coast and one or two...covers an area of 2,500 square km in Northern ee England (see Colour 2) averaging about 30m in thickness...there is weathering: on the screes of Wastwater in Cumbria (fig. 2.1); on the buildings of Oxford where acid...temperature Sra 2.1 Erosion: Wastwater screes, Cumbria 19 minerals form clusters of very small crystals
Journal (issue)
considered the future prospects for mining in the UK to be pretty bleak, the last few months have seen...Rosevale Mine (underground tour), Hingston Down Quarry, Herodsfoot Mine, a "behind the scenes" visit to... 1982 ASM Dinner: Not bad value for £7! Croft Quarry: Good collecting for George Fletcher in 1995. the...should be awarded to Shirley Everett of Coldstones Quarry; to the best of my knowledge this is the first...ninth. I then went on to point out that Coldstones Quarry is probably the most interesting locality in the
Book
life - Charonia from Hanging Stone Rocks, North Quarry, Woodhouse, masoni : Bedfordshire. radioactive...continental masses. At the same time, central England was raised above sea level by marginal plate movements...and shales were deposited. The area of central England, which had been raised during the Ordovician, sank...Appalachians in America. The heat formed granite masses (Shap Fell in the Lake District is a notable example)...metamorphosed Devonian marine slates, Old Delabole Slate Quarry, North Cornwall. events of the Cambrian, Ordovician
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce &...During this period, I was going back and forth to the UK and worldwide shows and projects, as well as keeping
 
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