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Stibnite from
Embleton Quarry, Embleton, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Stibnite
Formula:Sb2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Stibnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Embleton Quarry, Embleton, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:17803
Long-form Identifier:1:3:17803:7
GUID (UUID V4):8ed1e467-a520-45ef-9b79-27b1670b1e29
Nearest other occurrences of Stibnite
5.7km (3.6 miles) Robin Hood Mine, Bassenthwaite, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
13.9km (8.6 miles) Wet Swine Gill, Coombe Height, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
14.9km (9.3 miles) Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
15.0km (9.3 miles) Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
16.2km (10.1 miles) Bannerdale Graphite Mine, Bannerdale, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
17.1km (10.6 miles) Wanthwaite Mine, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
37.9km (23.5 miles) Troutbeck, Lakes, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
52.7km (32.8 miles) Crawthwaite, Tundergarth, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
67.1km (41.7 miles) Louisa Mine, Glendinning, Glenshanna Burn, Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
94.9km (59.0 miles) Knipe Mine (Knipes Mine), Hare Hill, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
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....only economic tungsten deposits outside of the SW England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is...clay iron-stones within the Coal Measures of west Cumbria at one time provided a source of lower grade iron...the Carboniferous Limestone of west and south Cumbria. Although small amounts of ore were obtained from
Catalog/List
sphere shaped botryoidal nodule,(Newhaven Sussex. England) 1" -10p 2"90p 3" !1.40 4" !3,30 13 ALUNITE pure... /' pale blue-gny ~;ssi\·c. (Staffordshire England) :::-::1 !:;1 2x4 tt.20 2;-;2 60µ e2S ANTARCTICITE...Grey-white crystals with terminations.(Sheppey Kent,England) lxl cm !1.80 43 BARYTES orange brownto fawn attractively...BARVTOCALCITE rich creamy massive. (Near Alston Cumbria) 1x2 40p 2x2 80p 2x3 :t1.20 B) showing small crystals...whi~e masses intergrown with Selenite. (Dorset England) 1x1 60p 1x2 t1.00 2x2 !1.90 2x4 !3.50 4x4 f6.5C
Catalog/List
RICHARD ’ BYWAYS, , COBHAM ENGLAND MINERALS T AY L E R C L 0 00 E 2 0 B U R S T E A D P h one SURREY...crust on matrix (Red Ghyll, off Roughton Ghyll Cumbria) 1 x 54 ins £1.20 430 THEISITE Cu Zn (As Sb) 0...OH good blue micro crystals on rock (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) 14 X 14 £2.00 lx 14 £3.50 2 ...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...coating on Quartz. (Brandy Ghyll, Caldbeck Fells Cumbria) 1 x Si 60p lxl £1.20 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carminite, jamesonite, mimetite, scorodite, stibnite, 431 Tretoil mine, Lanivet: danalite, garnet,... azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban...contact, xlvii; vaterite, 535; calcite, 609 Belshaw's quarry, White Mountain: laumontite, 516 Bengore Head:
Catalog/List
ANHYDRITE?Ure pal€ grey-blue massive.(Staffordshire England) lx2 ~Op 2x2 80p 2x4 El.50 075 J.!!KEi:ITB-KUTN... grey-green somewith Serpentine. (CountyBridge Quarry, Lizard) lxl 90p lx2 fl.50 2x2 f3.00 024 NATIVE~...white masses intergrownwith Selenite. (Dorset England)lxl 60p lx2 fl.20 2x2 f2.40 2x4 t3.80 4x4 f7.00...BAYLDONITE thin green coating on Quartz (BrandyGhyll Cumbria) 1 x ½ 60p lxlins 90p 050 BEIDELLITE rich grey...green spots on matrix. Unusualspecies for Cumbria (west Cumbria) ½x½f3. 50 058 BITUMEN rich black treacle
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
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...placed the greater part of Scotland in ‘America’, England a :■ dies in ‘Europe’, and regarded the Southern...ccid on or near to the Solway, descending beneath England and Wales. Fitton and Hughes (op. cit.) also noted
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
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
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...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...Fells,Cumbria; OldGunnls!ake m:ne.Calslock. Cornwall lindgrenite' BrandyGill,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria WestTurtPitsmine
Catalog/List
COBlIAM 0 7 ) 1 '1411-.A[ S l . ! 1 1 . 1 1 Y s . ENGLAND 0 9 3 2 86 2 3 4 0 ,1 1" rm orEh5i1SJ1l,:;ttt7üi...white sphere shaped nodulé. (Newhaven, Sussex,England) 1" 50p 2 " £1.00 3" £1.60 4 " £3.80 013 ALUNITE...grey, f a i n t l y blue masses (Staffordshire, England) 1x2 40p 2 x 2 80p 2 x 4 £1.50 L9 25.11KERITE-KUTNAHORITE...£5 223ARSENIC NATIVE A s Rich black mass with Stibnite (Kusa Mine, Bau, Sarawak, Borneo) lx1 £2.50 1...Carbonate rich creamy coloured 'masSes (Near Alston, Cumbria) 1x2 50p 2 x 2 £1 2 x 3 £1.50 'B) showing small
Catalog/List
C L O S E OBHAM S U R R E Y Phone C o b h a m ENGLAND K T 11 2 N L 0 9 3 2 862340 C a t a l o g u e N...sphere shaped botryoidal nodule.(Newhaven Sussex. England) 1 " 50p 2 " £1.00 3" £1.60 4 " £3.80 013 ALUNITE...023ANHYDRITE pure pale grey—blue massive.(Staffordshire England) 1x2 40p 2 x 2 80p 2 x 4 £1.50 025AHRERITE-RUTNAHORITE...phenocrysts of t h i s Felspar i n grey Basalt. (Eycott Cumbria) 2x2 60p 2 x 4 £1.20 083 CACOXENITE golden veinlets...small brown curved crystals on dolomite. (West Cumbria) 1x2 60p 2 x 2 £1.20 237 DIADOCH1TE l i g h t
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered...Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK International Geology Review Publication details...carbonates, sporadic pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, stibnite, and native silver (Cottard et al., 1986b). Gypsum...Republic of the Sudan: A regional geography: London, UK, University of London Press. Bellevier, F., Guyot...The universal geography, v. X. NE Africa. London, UK, Oxford University Press. Recoche, G., 1989, Les
Journal (issue)
ABSTRACT. Laumontite has been identified at Llanelwedd Quarry, Builth Wells, Wales, occurring in thin, 2-3cm...Introduction Occurrence of laumontite at Llanelwedd Quarry Laumontite, CaA12Si40l2.4H20, a member of the...first occurrence of laumontite from Llanelwedd Quarry, Builth Wells, Powys (Nat. grid ref. SO 051 521)...cutting altered Ordovician basic lavas at Llanelwedd Quarry, Builth Wells, Powys. The occurrence of pumpellyite...of both prehnite and pumpellyite from Llanelwedd Quarry and suggested that metamorphic grade in the area
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
Catalog/List
2mm size red crystals on Cinnabar , some with Stibnite crystals.All nice pieces (Nikitovka, Donezk, Ukraine...groups about l x2 ins. (Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead Cumbria) lxl.5 to lx2 £6 2x2ins £10 184 HYDROCERUSSI'rE...cleavages 1·1ith cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Herehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) ½ X ½ £1.60 1 X ½ £2.50 200...crust on matrix (Red GHyll, off Roughton Ghyll Cumbria) 1 X ½ 90p 310 PYROMORPHITE Pb P0/4 Cl Rich brownish-yellow...creamy masses with Boehmite or Diaspore. ( Saga Quarry, Tvedalen Norway) lxl £1.20 lx2 £2.20 2x2 £4.40
Journal (issue)
plumbogummite, from Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. National Museum of Wales Collection, 83.41G.M7818...surface and the are was obtained by open work, quarry fashion, here and at Black House. Also saw Crokes...suppose this abandoned spot, with its overgrown quarry and trial shaft, is a memorial to these endeavours...quarries at Gorsley: Greens Quarry (SO 677259) and Linton Parish Quarry (SO 677255), are still accessible...NNE-SSW direction. The deposit has been worked in a quarry 270m long, 36 to 45m wide and up to 36m deep. The
Book
Sphalerite Cobaltite Arsenopyrite Molybdenite Stibnite Nickel Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphorous Potassium...the origin of the hematite deposits of West Cumbria. Most of these hematite deposits filled space previously...in association with the hematite ores of West Cumbria, and with fluorite in the lead-bearing veins of...THE WORTH. THIS DELTA COVERED MUCH OF MORTHERN ENGLAND. SEAN A INTO VEGETAION OF LAYERS LAND/SEA IN CHANGE...Carrock Fell, Castle Head near Keswick, and the Embleton diorites (Fig. 10) were all intruded into the
Book (edition)
with the mint and spoke of it as `The best in England', but the attitude of the locals gave much cause...it for prospecting, but this was never done. Embleton Mine A small lead mine situated about 250 yards...yards NE of the Blue Bell Inn in the village o f Embleton ( N Y 169306). I t was abandoned i n 1856. T h...Peter How and others enabling them to mine in Embleton and Sctmurthy. Whether or not the mine existed...accordingly it was closed. About 1# miles to the E of Embleton Mine there is a run-in level behind Close House
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...(34 mm across) from the Whin Sill at Barrasford Quarry, Gunnerton, Northumberland. Peter Briscoe Collection;...Young and Andy Hopkirk 4–16 Millerite from Linton Quarry, Gorsley Common, Herefordshire Roy E. Starkey and...mineralisation associated with the Whin Sill of northern England is described in a geological context in an account...Mineralogy Publications, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. Tindle, A.G. (2008). Minerals of Britain and Ireland
Book (edition)
Gold Occurrences in the UK A Gold Prospector's Guide LEE GARY PALMER MSc Published in the United...40 Archers Ave Irvine, Ayrshire KA11 2GB Scotland UK Content copyright© Lee Gary Palmer, 2019 The right...Nuggets of the UK Preface Gold The Word The Element Origin Locations Information Maps England South West...West England - Cornwall South West England - Devon South West England - Somerset South East England - Essex...Essex South East England - Kent South East England - Bedfordshire South East England - Suffolk English
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...batholith 18 Hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria 19 Mineralisation in the Northern Pennine Orefield...the Salway Plain, Eden Valley and west and south Cumbria. Diverse and once-rich mineral deposits formed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
significant amounts relative to the other BMS. Galena, stibnite, and sphalerite were detected only in negligible...Geology 77, 1328–1347. FISHER, N.I., LEWIS, T., & EMBLETON, B.J. (1987) Statistical analysis of spherical...spherical data. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. LEE, C.A. (1996) A review of mineralization in
Book
Africa (Briden, 1976) and Australia (McElhinny and Embleton, 1976) apparent polar wander “swathes” can be...Geophys. Res., 75: 3291-3300. McElhinny, M. W. and Embleton, B. J. J., 1976. Precambrian and early Paleozoic...much the same as those of today (Bickle, 1978; England, 1979), and it has been suggested that most of...-vol., 5th Conf. Afr. Geol., Cairo, pp. 9-10. England, P. C., 1979. Continental geotherms during the...99-118. McElhinny, M. W., Giddings, J. W. and Embleton, B. J. J., 1974. Palaeomagnetic results and late
Report (issue)
South-West England 16 17 17 18 19 19 28 32 33 39 43 44 w� Isle of Man Central and Northern England Scotland...Location map of selected mines in the South-West of England 27 Fig 3 Process flow sheet at a large precious...important silver producing mines of south-west England Table 4 Summary of world silver stocks: 1982...proportion by country, 1978-1982 59 Table 6 EEC and UK silver consumption by major end use 60 Table 7...year of 1868 84 Table 12 Mjnes in south-west England whose total silver production was greater than
 
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