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Quartz from
Muirshiel Mine, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Muirshiel Mine, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:17462
Long-form Identifier:1:3:17462:4
GUID (UUID V4):0a98988c-76cc-4f86-aae0-053e95ee7f70
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
4.4km (2.7 miles) Linthills and Lairdshide, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
8.6km (5.4 miles) Catburn, Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
9.1km (5.6 miles) Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
10.3km (6.4 miles) Inverclip, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
11.3km (7.0 miles) Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
12.2km (7.6 miles) Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
13.0km (8.1 miles) Craigmuschat quarry, Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
13.8km (8.6 miles) Kaim Hill, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
14.5km (9.0 miles) Great Cumbrae, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
14.6km (9.1 miles) Trearne Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
and copper mineralisation in the Renfrewshire Hills, central Scotland 1 I I I 1 I INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL...and copper mineralisation in the Renfrewshire Hills, central Scotland Report No. 67 I t I D. Stephenson...sulphide mineralisation at Garbh Achadh, Argyllshire, Scotland 24 Geophysical investigations along parts of...Geochemical drainage survey of central Argyll, Scotland 51 A reconnaissance geochemical survey of Anglesey...mineralisation in Dalradian schist near Aberfeldy, Scotland; Preliminary report Investigation of polymetallic
Book
Sheet 30W and part of29E of the geological map of Scotland. The introductory chapter briefly describes the...000 geological sheet 30W and part of sheet 29E (Scotland) Palaeontology P J Brand DK Graham LONDON: HMSO...Geological Survey, Sheet 30W and part of Sheet 29E (Scotland). British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data...British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland, 3rd Edition, 1985 Memoirs The geology of the...1930 Economic geology of the Central Coalfield of Scotland, Area IV, 1920 Memoir for 1:50 000 geological
Journal (issue)
UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue1Wo7 AUTUMN 1989 EDITORIAL BOARD P.J. Briscoe M.P.Cooper M.D...YourBookshelf 18 Bwlchglas Mine 20 Alpine Quartz L. Gautron 29 Muirshiel Mine 40 The Copper Trials...smoky quartz. Mont Blanc, France. Pink fluorite is one of the most prized associates of quartz in Alpine...sits on a small group of doubly-terminated smoky quartz. Frederic Escaut collection. Photo: Mick Cooper...discussed as we go to press. Only the smoky variety of quartz specimens were now available throughout the world
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PP. 4 4 6 - 8 An unusual calcite from Muirshiel, Renfrewshire FLUID inclusion studies were made on a...calcite found on the tip of the disused Muirshiel barytes mine, which is situated some fifteen miles west...consisting almost totally of pink baryte and a little quartz. Calcite is not common. Although there has been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sweden (Sverige) Gladhammar mine, nickel-rich carrollite, 737 Harstig mine, Pajsberg, sarkinite, 681 Norr6...Norr6, arrojadite (hiihnerkobelite), 23o Sjo mine, Grythytte Parish, Orebro, xantharsenite, polyarsenite...Court farm, Ramsgate, Kent, chalk, i6o Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, arsenical marcasite, gersdorffite...illite, 857 Parc mine, Gwynedd, hydrozincite, nickeloan hydrozincite, 397 SCOTLAND Barncorkrie farm,...tschermakitic hornblende, diopsidic pyroxene (sahlite), quartz, 177 Centre 3 igneous complex, Ardnarnurchan, laminated
Report (issue)
of considerable interest because until 1969 tJ:ie UK was for many years the principal world producer;...exclusively at only one mine in the world, Settlingstones in Northumberland. This mine closed in 1969 and...and beds associated with calcite, fluorite and quartz, and as a gangue mineral associated with ores of...intruded at various horizons by sills and dykes of quartz-dolerite. Mineral veins are widespread throughout...17m wide. The main deposit is a replacement of a quartz-dolerite dyke, but a little further west large
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyroxene structures, 565 Amphibolites, Sutherland, Scotland, three groups investigated, petrography, anal...and mineralogy of weathered basalt from Morvern, Scotland, 865 BAKER (C. K.), and BLACK (P. M.), Assimilation...at Scourie, Sutherland, 37 I Basalt, weathered, Scotland, chemical, mineralogical, and textural changes...Immiscibility in tholeiites, 543 Biotite and garnet, Scotland, distribution of Fe and Mg, 155 Biotites, Italy...new amorphous copper carbonate from the Carr Boyd Mine, Western Australia, 97 BRINDLEY (G. W.), Motukoreaite--additional
Report (volume)
which barite and associated minerals (commonly quartz, calcite, fluorite, and sulfides of base metals)...export (Zans, 1951). BRITISH HONDURAS A zone of quartz-barite veins 60 feet wide, dipping 70°, is exposed...along with about 20 percent magnetite and some quartz. Mechanical concentration of the barite proved...limestone in the lead-zinc district. Barite occurs with quartz, fluorite, and sulfides in a complex combination...more rarely in basement granites. Fluorite and quartz normally accompany the barite, along with minor
Book
co111piled by D c; Woodl1all, Divisio11a1 Editor, Scotland a11d Norther11 Er1gland Unit, Edi11l")t1rgl,,...rounded pebble- and cob­ ble-sized clasts of vein quartz and t]Uartzite, along with those of fine-grai11ed...a cryptic source within the Midland Vallev of Scotland. The Swanshaw Formalion (SWAS) is up t...Vtllcanic rocks else,vhere in the Midland Vallev., of Scotland (Thirlvvall, 1981 ). The intercalated volcaniclastic...top has rounded pebbles of greyivacke sandstone, quartz, chert and volcanic rock , Alltivial fan deposits
Book
Survey 1:50 000 Series Sheet 15W N'e w Ctnnnock (Scotland) Author RA Smith TI1e Nationa l Grid and other...Swvey. l :50 000 Series Sheet 15W New Cumnock (Scotland). 37pp. Copy1ight in materials derived from the...Geo logical Survey, Keyworth, e-mail ipr@ bgs .ac .uk. You may quote ex-tracts of a reasonable length without...fonnations 33 4 Correlation of the Coal Measures (Scotland) Group 34 5 Geological structure of the district...south-western margin of the Midland Valley of Scotland, extending south to include part of the Southern
Report (issue)
' GE- OLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN: • • SCOTLAND • ' • • / • Wartime Pamphlet No. 38 • •...• , • • • • BARYTES IN CENTRAL SCOTLAND • • • . . L I 8 I • RA H '/ • r·I.. 0 Iu '• ... 129� • SHETLAND I SL ANOS • INDEX MAP OF SCOTLAND SHOWING, COUNTIES AND SUBDIVIDED INTO ..,.INCl;I...Contents Index to One - Inch Geological Sheets of Scotland Introduction (Tables I, II: Production Statistics)...Muirshiels Mine (Figs. 6 9 7) 3. Berrygl6n Burn Vein (Fig. 6) Eaglesham District: Renfrewshire V. 1l 2.
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Natural...British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION By I. B Cameron, BSc, and D. Stephenson...age in the Midland Valley 35 Late Carboniferous quartz-dolerite and tholeiite intrusions in the 11idland...and ice limits 40 Sequence of shorelines in SE Scotland 41 Isobases of the 11ain Late Glacial shoreline...Carboniferous quartz-dolerite sill, Hound Point, South Queensferry (D1917) 11. l Quartz-dolerite dyke
Journal (issue)
..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...of individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other
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
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Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the................................... 428 8: babel quartz to bytownite .............................. 66...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb
Journal (issue)
........... 351 by R. M . Ley The Sm okey Bear quartz claim s, Lincoln County, N ew M exico ...........find a pegmatite a “half-mile” from the Palermo mine, in New Hampshire. It was originally identified...removal or partial change of some reference points (mine dumps, for example), or all simple reference points...unwise in this instance. Small quarry owners and mine operators are, for the most part, unfamiliar with...sh o w m ineral specim ens (including calcite, quartz, gypsum , silver, copper, hem atite, and w h at
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Regional geochemistry of southern Scotland and part of northern England Keyworth, Nottingham...SURVEY. 1993. Regional geochemistry of southern Scotland and part of northern England. (Keyworth, Nottingham:...are likely to become increasingly important in the UK, and no doubt in many other parts of the world, in... Midland Valley and Southern Uplands areas of Scotland, and the northern part of Northumberland. Many...exploited coalfields. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil is thus a strong influence on the distribution
Book (edition)
LlBR-ARY WHITMAN f;OJ I l[ii • , GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND GEOLOGY OF • SECOND EDITION Edited by G....Geology of Scotland '' A Halsted Press book." Includes bibliographies and index. I. Geology-Scotland. I. Craig...ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I. THE GROWTH AND ST RUCTURE OF SCOTLAND The formation of the crystalline craton Hebridean...North-west Highlands Highland Border South of Scotland Later Ordovician Northern Belt Central Belt Silurian...Limestone Group Passage Group Coal Measures Southern Scotland Lower Border Group Middle Border Group Upper Border
Book (edition)
VICTORIA LIBRARY . THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND • THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND Edited by GORDON Y. CRAIG Senior...1965 PREFACE The last book on the geology of Scotland was published 120 years ago. This may seem surpr...geology. With this early impetus to the science Scotland has emerged as one of the classical geological...Undoubtedly the initiator of geological thought in Scotland was James Hutton (1726-97). He and his friends...geologist who spent much of his time travelling about Scotland. From Boue's pen came the first book on Scottish
Journal (issue)
Rear-Dump Euclids are standard equipment on hundreds of mine, quarry, and construction jobs. For moving rock...service your wire rope is capable of deliverin Many mine operators go on for years getting less than the...information on request. 1321 South Main Street MINE DEVELOPMENT & DIRECTORY ® Dial 6-8555 NUMBER...operating in hard service, rock drills and other mine machinery, motor gear—heads, etc.; excellent air-—tool... with either medium or fine to bowl. Y-9 Mine & Smelter Supply Co. Denver 17, Colo. Mines Eng
Report (issue)
MAN. PREPAH,ED BY HIS MA,JESTY'S lNSPECTORS OF MINE~ By direction of the Secr etary of State for the...Scotlnnd .. . ... J. 1\1. R.onaldson 2. 1;vest Scotland " J . B. Atkinson • " 3. Newcastle •• • " 4. Durham...principal list bri.ves tbe name and situation of each Mine, the name and address of the owner or company, the...Ea~t Stirling,• and East LanArk.t 2. 'WEST SCOTLAND l)JSTRIOT1 comprising Argyll, Ayr, Bute, Dumbarton...Weller & Graham L~~ Lrtho. London. • (1.) East Scotland District. -. ~fR. R. MCLAREN. c.o 0 LIS'l
Report (issue)
INSPECTOR. DISTRICT. - . .. No. 1. East Scotland ••• 2. West Scotland ••• • •• " 3. Newcastle ••• • •• ••...principal list gives the name and situation of each Mine, the name and address of the owner or company, the...DISTRICTS. (Corrected to May 1902.) District. AST SCOTLAND DISTRICT, ·i,ing Aberdeen, BanfI, B~rCaithness... Kelvinside, Glasgow. r.-..-k.t I; l'\vEST SCOTLAND DISTRICT, "sing A:rgyll, .A.yr, Bute, Dum' Dumfries...the COAL :tl:1INES REGUT,ATION A.CT, in the EAST SCOTLAND DISTRICT, during the Year 1901-contintted. 00
 
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