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Quartz from
Barrasford Quarry, Chollerton, Northumberland, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite4 photos of Quartz associated with Calcite at this locality.
Goethite1 photo of Quartz associated with Goethite at this locality.
Fluorite1 photo of Quartz associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Hematite1 photo of Quartz associated with Hematite at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Quartz associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Barrasford Quarry, Chollerton, Northumberland, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:233320
Long-form Identifier:1:3:233320:5
GUID (UUID V4):d1781448-b642-4da2-ade4-4e7b52c1d2ef
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
13.4km (8.3 miles) Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK
25.8km (16.0 miles) Shildon Mines, Blanchland, Northumberland, England, UK
26.1km (16.2 miles) Reeding Mine, Blanchland, Northumberland, England, UK
27.0km (16.8 miles) Beldon Mine, Blanchland, Northumberland, England, UK
29.1km (18.1 miles) Ramshaw and Jeffreys Mines, Derwent Mines, Hunstanworth, County Durham, England, UK
29.5km (18.3 miles) St Peter's Mine, Sparty Lea, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
29.7km (18.4 miles) Whiteheaps Mine, Hunstanworth, County Durham, England, UK
30.2km (18.7 miles) Sikehead Mine, Hunstanworth, County Durham, England, UK
30.9km (19.2 miles) Castleside Smelting Mill slag locality, Healeyfield, County Durham, England, UK
32.4km (20.1 miles) Allenheads Mine (Beaumont Mine), Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
References
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Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN England and Wales D. V. FROST and D. W. HOLLlDA Y Geology of the...112 pp. Books British Regional Geology Northern England, 4th Edition, 1971 Authors D. V. FROST, BSc, PhD...Gueinn, BSc; PhD Palaeoservices,Watford Printed in England for Her lvfajesty's Stationery Office by Staples...Britain (1: 625000), Sheet 1, Scotland and Northern England, 3rd Edition, 1979 Overprinted with sheet lines...Trace-fossils in sandstone at Hindleysteel Quarry 13 3 Quarry in Redesdale Ironstone and Limestone near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the 1976 summer field meeting in North East England MAURICE E. TUCKER TUCKER, M. E. 1977. Report of...of 1976 summer field meeting in North East England. Proc. Geo!. Ass., 88 (4), 275-94. The 1976 summer...Geologists' Association was spent in the northeast of England. Nine day-trips from Newcastle covered most aspects...Carboniferous sediments were examined on the Northumberland coast, in the Roman Wall country and in the...dykes were viewed on Holy Island, at Bamburgh and Barrasford. A day was spent on the unique Permian rocks
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landforms and geology. There are over 4000 SSSls in England, covering around 7% ofche country's land area....dramatic scenery in the southern part of the Northumberland National Park. It explores beneath the surface...nfom'0ben ain be ob1a,oed at www.counuysjdeacuk Hadrian's Wall was an important political frontier...AONB Partnership 2 British Geological Survey 3 Northumberland National Park Authority 1 ::\'{ This book...Geological Survey (BGS) in collaboration with Northumberland National Park Authority. Nonllumberltnd Nllioi\lJ
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non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...across) from the Whin Sill at Barrasford Quarry, Gunnerton, Northumberland. Peter Briscoe Collection; photo...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
Report (issue)
Resource Information for Development Plans Northumberland and Tyne & Wear: Resources and Constraints...Information for Development Plans: Phase One Northumberland and Tyne & Wear: Resources and Constraints...Information for Development Plans: Phase One Northumberland and Tyne & Wear: Resources and Constraints...report accompanies the 1:100 000 scale map: Northumberland and Tyne & Wear Mineral Resources Cover Photograph...Photograph Aerial View of Keepershield Quarry, Humshaugh, Northumberland, showing aggregate workings in the
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• 7 DAY BOOK Location map for Northumberland National Park and the area described in this book D...D RWICK NTWEED Northumberland National Park Im National Park Visitor Centre m1 Information Point...AONB Partnership ' Brrtish Geological Survey ' Northumberland National Park Authority This book has been...Geological Survey (BGS) in collaborabon wrth Northumberland National Park Authority. British Geological...NATU ...... L EHVIRONHlNT HSEAACH C0UNC-. Northumberland National Park Authority •-;-y r About this
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Thephotois a combinationof nineseparatedigitalimages. The UK Joumal of Mi11esand Minerals publishes articles of...EDITOR David I. Green EWALDITE FROM DOLYI-JIR QUARRY David Green • Neil Hubbard • Tom Cotterell ADVERTISING...DESIGN Julie Ballard 35 ELYITE FROM GREYSTONE QUARRY Richard de Nul The views and opinions Cll.'Presscd...Chambers 47 Born< REVlEWS 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTJSMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 25 -1- EDITORIAL...to be a genuinely rare mineral. This issue of the UK]oumal efMines and Minerals concentrates on rare minerals
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intruded into Carboniferous strata in the North of England. Together they form a distinct petrographical province...INTRODUCTION A large part of northern England, in the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland...lateCarboniferous earth-movements of northern England, and we believe that a consideration of the structural...the age of Vanscan mineralization in Northern England are in progress. Preliminary results from the Weardale...strata. Over much of its outcrop, from north Northumberland southwards to Teesdale, the sill occurs in
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LITERATURE. Wt.~c~, N. ft. On the Geology of Northumberland and Durham. Trans. Geol. Soc. vol. iv.p. 73...Sketch of the Geognosy of Part of the Coast of Northumberland. Mere. Wernerian Soc. vol. iv. part ii. p.... p. 58. 1831. Wool), 1N. On the Geology of Northumberland. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. ]North. vol. i. p....with the Carboniferous Formation of the North of England. Trans. I~at. Hist. Soc. North. vol. ii. p. 187...Mountain Limestone Series of :Northumberland. Trans. North of England Inst. of :Engineering, vol. ix
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chlorite-, calciteand quartz-bearing veins and joint coatings in the late Carboniferous quartz dolerite of the...Pennines and a large area of south and east Northumberland. Numerous descriptions of the petrography have...this suite include chlorite, bowlingite, calcite, quartz, sericite, albite, anatase and titanite (e.g. Wager...that zeolites were found rarely with calcite and quartz in early joints though the zeolite species were...apophyllite. Datolite has been found at Barrasford Quarry, Northumberland (Randall, op. cit. ). Recent collecting
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21 7 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. Written tor the Summer Field Meeting...3, 1931. 15 218 PREFACE. The Geology of Northumberland and Durham has been the subject of more or...Glaciology and the Whin Sill, and by members of the Northumberland unit of the Geological Survey, especially by...DEPOSITS. By GEORGE HICKLING. General Structure. NORTHUMBERLAND and Durham form a pair of welldefined topographic...depression of the Tyne valley. The rocks of Northumberland are arranged concentrically around the great
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cover Operations in the Welton Chalk at Melton Ross Quarry, Singleton Birch Ltd., near Brigg, North Lincolnshire...Figures 1 An extract from Hunt’s 1858 listing of Quarry Returns 2 Current distribution of BRITPITS database...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
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DISTRIBUTION OF ROADSTONES IN GREAT BRITArN 4 England and Wales 4 Scotland 6 Channel Islands 9 ...under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...teschenite Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite Spilite 2 SOURCES OF ROAD AGGREGATE...Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite Syenite Gritstone group Agglomerate Arkose
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Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at £21 796...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...minerals. The value of minerals production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect their ultimate value
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Sill between Haltwhistle and Scots' Gap, south Northumberland I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I...Sill between Haltwhistle and Scots' Gap, south Northumberland A. D. Evans, BSc J. D. Cornwell, MSc, PhD...Sill between Haltwhistle and Scots' Gap, south Northumberland 20 Geophysical field techniques for mineral...Sill between Haltwhistle and Scots' Gap, south Northumberland Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Rep. Inst...the Harlech Dome, North Wales Photocopied in England for the Institute of Geological Sciences by Four
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almost entirely built with stone from this famous quarry. Afterwards Bedhall, Binny, and others, were opened...stones from long distances, as far even as from England. This is to be regretted, while we understand that...stones after leaving the quarry, I put myself into communication with quarry owners, surveyors, inspectors...—Sandstones are generally composed of grains of quartz, cemented together by silica, carbonate of magnesia...interspersed throughout the mass. The grains of quartz being imperishable, the weathering qualities of
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Monoclinic Green massive, with yellow xanthiosite, quartz, and arsenides near the south shaft at South Terras...powder-pattern of mixite (q.v.), on mimetite in quartz on old specimens in the BM(NH), at Wheal Alfred...massive from a vein in a dolerite sill at Embleton quarry, near Cockermouth, Cumberland. A. W. G. Kingsbury... etc. Orange-brown cleavages on vein quartz, at Merehead quarry, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Specimen...(2 cm) from a pegmatite vein in the old aplite quarry at Meldon, Okehampton, Devon. A. W. G. Kingsbury
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potentially mineralized structures in Whin Sill, Northumberland, England J. H. Bateson B.Sc., M.I.M.M. British Geological...Nottingham, England A. D. Evans B.Sc. British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, England C. C. Johnson...British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, England (now on secondment to Directorate of Mineral Resources...airborne geophysical survey of part of the Northumberland Trough that is underlain by the Whin Sill detected...exploration. Geology The geological history of northern England has been influenced by its basin and block structures
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Whin Sill ill the neighbourhood of Gunnerton, Northumberland. This is the first record of stevensite associated...amygda]e usually only partially filled with smoky quartz and calcite. This second type of amygdale also...'amygdale-like' body from the Whin Sill, Barrasford quarry, Northumberland. Identification of the North Tyne
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Gaswells. h-ont cover Operations at Shap Beck Quarry, Hanson Aggregates, North.em Region. © D Cameron...Ji'igures 1 An extract from Hunt's 1858 listing of Quarry Re turns 2 lJnited Kingdom production of n1inerals...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
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distribution of roadstones by K. C. DUNHAM, D.Sc., S.D. (England and Wales) and A. G. MacGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland)..... I GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF R OADSTONES England and Wales (Fig. 1) 2 Scotland (Fig. 2) .. ...teschenite Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite Spilite GABBRO GROUP Basic diorite Basic...Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite Syenite HORNFELS GROUP LIMESTONE GROUP...Felsite Granophyre Keratophyre Microgranite Porphyry Quartz-porphyrite Rhyolite Trachyte 2 SOURCES OF ROAD
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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
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DISTRIBUTION OF ROADSTONBS IN GREAT BRITAIN 5 England and Wales 5 Scotland 8 Channel Islands LIST...under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...group Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite Spilite Flint group Gabbro group Basic...Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite Syenite Gritstone group Agglomerate Arkose
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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...industries, which represents their contribution to the UK econo1ny. The GVA of the nunerals extractive industries...1ninerals produced in 2005 in the UK, expressed as sales on an ex-works (quarry) basis as opposed to gross valued...the major sectors of 1/te Minerals Industry in the UK, 2003- 2005. Production (sales) (000 tonnes) Value
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CONTENTS Introduction 1 Eastern England programme 2 Central England programme 8 Mineral Resources...Tewkesbury 216 Tewkesbury 135. 55 262.00 Eastern England progamme Tydd St Mary Stowlangtoft Borehole As-1...Shepherds Farm Staverton Park Chalgrove Central England programme Lower House No. 1 Lower House No. 2...drilled BURY ST EDMUNDS (189) SHEET EASTERN ENGLAND PROGRAMME STOWLANGTOFT BOREHOLE KING'S LYNN (149)...98.8 1 220.96 225.08 226.26 7 The CENTRAL ENGLAND PROGRAMME LH7 Coal TE WKESBURY (216) SHEE T
 
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