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Sphalerite from
Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Galena1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Galena at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Dolomite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:252349
Long-form Identifier:1:3:252349:1
GUID (UUID V4):58272dfb-6628-400f-82e7-45eeb3d0c9ff
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
3.9km (2.4 miles) Rotherhope Fell Mine (Rodderup Fell Mine), Black Burn Area, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.2km (2.6 miles) Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.6km (2.8 miles) Caplecleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.6km (2.9 miles) Tynehead Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
4.9km (3.0 miles) Carrs Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
5.0km (3.1 miles) Gudhamgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
5.1km (3.2 miles) Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Middlecleugh Upper Level, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...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... 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES
Book (edition)
coal 220 to 260 Alston Gro·up Girvane1la Band Asbian (P- P 1a) (D 1)- Lower Alston Massive limestone...Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...Stainmore between the two halves. The northern half or Alston Block is host to a great majority of the deposits...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the...sheets 19 and 25, and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales) LONDON: HMSO 1990 . I\. © C,rown
Book
pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages...Orefield The Alston Block ...................... The Pennine Escarpment ........... Alston Moor ...........Wensleydale ...................... Wharfedale, Grassington Moor and Greenhow .................... The West Cumbrian................... 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
Journal (issue)
sussex • mine & la society North of England Field Trip SMLS Visit to Paris Journal 218 - March April...March/April 2009 FIELD TRIP TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND - September 2008 This trip took place over three...to spend the first two days underground in the Tynebottom and Rampgill mines and the last day high in the...the Lake District on the Old Saddleback mine dumps at a height of approximately 1700ft. In the event...years of experience exploring the mines in the Alston and Weardale areas, she has co-authored a number
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
From the North Pennines Orefield England Figure 1. The Groverake mine, located in upper Rookhopeburn,...operating commercial fluorspar mine in the North Pennines, closing in 1999. Mine waste heaps (known locally...nineteenth centuries can be seen on the hills above the mine site. Figure 2 (left). A scattering of numerous...matrix, 14 × 10 × 7 cm, recovered from the Cambokeels mine in the early 1980s. Figure 3 (right). A penetration-twinned...× 4-cm specimen was recovered from the Rogerley mine in 2013. 306 ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 4. General
Catalog/List
CASSITERITE. Old lmpc1iaJ Goonba row Pit., Bugle, Cornwall, UK. Granite wiUt good ar ea of cassiterite xls to ½cm...3cm. £35 I I .COBALTIAN CALCffE. Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Teesdale, UK. Small pink stalactite/ flowstone...of cosaJile iJ1cJuded. £15 13. CROCOITE. Adelaide Mine, Dw1das, Tasmania. Large TN. Bright orange inlcrgrown...tfos mineral. £60 I 5. f-ER.BERITE. Yaogangxian Mine, 1-hman, China. Slender 7½cm quartz x1 bea.ring...£23 16. FLUORITE on QUARTZ. Cambokeels Mine, Eas1gate, IJu.rham, UK. SiJ1gle twinned Jluotile x1, 18mm x
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER:Superbtwinnedyellowfluoritecrystal 15 mm on edge from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria...T'wENTY YEARS IN MINERALS NORTHERN ENGLAND David Green • Peter Briscoe The UK ]011rnalof Mines at1d Minerals...EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard Bell THE SHAP GRANITE CUMBRIA DESIGN Julie Ballard QUARRY, Max Wirth • David...Ratcliff & Roper (Print ) Ltd Worksop, Nous. S80 2EE UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 22 -t- Campylite...classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection
Book (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALF�S GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PENNINE OREFIELD...inserted on the six-inch maps, and all available mine-sections were reduced to the common scale of 200...made by him. The willing co-operation of all the mine-owners and operators and their staffs made possible...Co., the Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., and the New Brancepeth..... ... . .. Grain of the Foundation Rocks; The Alston Block; The Teesdale Dome; Burtreeford Disturbance;
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...green stock label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section... SW.18 Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]
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...Sukula, alluaudite, 230 British Isles ENGLAND Alston, Cumbria, fluorite, 82o Blue Anchor point to StolJbrd...rocks, Somerset, calcite, baryte, celestine, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, analcime, 76I Castleton...Coniston, Cumbria, wittichenite, IO3; IO9 Sprattling Court farm, Ramsgate, Kent, chalk, i6o Tynebottom mine
Book
Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page.12 Fossilised tropical sea...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite and Barytocalcite, courtesy...of England Lead Mining Museum; p.30 Miners in Rotherhope Fell Mine, Beamish The North of England Open...Lesley Hehir; p.55 Smelters, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.55 Assay house, Lesley Hehir;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pb–Zn–Ba–F mineralisation in the Alston Block, North Pennine Orefield (England) Jon E. Bouch & Jonathan Naden...Survey 2006 Abstract The North Pennine Orefield Alston Block has produced approximately 4 Mt Pb, 0.3 Mt...Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth, NG12 5GG Nottingham, UK e-mail: jbouch@bgs.ac.uk T. J. Shepherd School of...Leeds, UK B. Young British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, EH9 3LA Edinburgh, UK H....Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth, NG12 5GG Nottingham, UK Present address: B. Young Department of Earth Sciences
Book
Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page.12 Fossilised tropical sea...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite and Barytocalcite, courtesy...of England Lead Mining Museum; p.30 Miners in Rotherhope Fell Mine, Beamish The North of England Open...Lesley Hehir; p.55 Smelters, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.55 Assay house, Lesley Hehir;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountains, centered on the Weardale area of northern England, have yielded enormous amounts of both lead and...partner in UK Mining Ventures,which is operating a specimen-recoveryproject at the Rogerley mine in Weardale...Weardale, England. His most recent article for Rocks & Minerals was titled “The Rogerley Mine, Weardale,... County Durham, England” and appeared in the January/February 2000 issue. 378 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...cost of rehabilitating and running an underground mine, coupled with everincreasing environmental concerns
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
forming cubic or pseudocubic frameworks, as in sphalerite, but with cation order. The crystal-chemical...arsenides, was described from the Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, England by Ixer & Stanley (1987). It...forming cubic or pseudocubic frameworks, as in sphalerite, but with order of the cations. On the whole...silver–nickel–cobalt mineral association at Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, near Alston, Cumbria. Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc...mineral of the chalcopyrite group from the Montgros mine, Haute-Loire, France. Eur. J. Mineral. 5, 891- 897
Catalog/List
Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...17K 339A 72D Mineral Stibnite & secondaries Sphalerite Realgar & Orpiment Realqar Cinnabar Stibnite...Chalcoovrite Loellingite Arsenopyrite Sphalerite& Hydrozincite Sphalerite, Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena...Chalcopyrite on Dolomite Arsenopyrite Sphalerite var Marmetite Sphalerite Sphalerite Berthierite Cinnabar Wheal...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...specimens are labelled "Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...specimens were acquired through dealers operating in Alston, and, for whatever reason, they opted to change...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious
Journal (volume)
PAPERS Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David 1. Green...Copper·bearing silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 ...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence...Tom F. Cotterell 54-55 Cesarolite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales Tom F. Cotterell...55-56 PAPER Corkite and hinsdalite from Frongoch Mine, Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales, including evidence
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland
Catalog/List
crystals to 2mm. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Black goethite... Collected 1980. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Stalactitic brown...Quartz. 50' above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. A group of colourless pyramidal...pyramidal quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals...with minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This well-formed twinned yellow...under stagnant conditions, Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois...name. The most abundant ore minerals in MVTs are sphalerite (Zn) and galena (Pb). Other common minerals include...partner in UK Mining Ventures, which is operating a specimen-recovery project at the Rogerley mine in Weardale
Journal (volume)
mineralogy of the Clargillhead Vein, Tynehead, Cumbria: the first report of native silver from the Northern...and Andy Hopkirk 86 90 Linarite from Cononley Mine, Skipton, North Yorkshire John Chapman and David... 112 120 BOOK REVIEW ‘‘Gold Occurrences in the UK’’ Norman Moles Journal of the Russell Society, volume...The current ‘History of Mineral Collections’ in the UK is not even a ‘History of Kings and Queens’. A small...from localities such as Tynagh Mine in Co. Galway and Pendarves Mine in Cornwall (Figs 1 and 2) serves
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil is thus a strong influence...and F in stream sediments and waters. Apart from mine spoil, contamination is generally not an important...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...to encompass the Forest of Bowland, the Vale of Eden, the Salway Plain and the western part of the North
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...of euhedral schulenbergite at the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall John Betterton and Ian E. Grey 34–35...mandarinoite, the rare iron selenite. Back in England, but at the northern end of the realm on this occasion...supergene zone of the Slitt Vein, at Heights Pasture Mine, Weardale, an area not normally associated with
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...Photograph Aerial View of Shap Beck Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, showing aggregate workings in the Knipe Scar Limestone
 
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