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Smithsonite from
Yew Tree Mine, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite1 photo of Smithsonite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yew Tree Mine, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:285247
Long-form Identifier:1:3:285247:8
GUID (UUID V4):199c4727-33db-4a0e-835d-f1c6166380f1
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
3.3km (2.0 miles) Rogerley Mine, Rogerley Quarry, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.4km (2.1 miles) Diana Maria Mine, Rogerley Quarry, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
10.0km (6.2 miles) Pike Law Mines, Newbiggin, County Durham, England, UK
10.8km (6.7 miles) Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
19.0km (11.8 miles) Willyhole Mine, Harwood, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK
21.5km (13.3 miles) Middlecleugh Upper Level, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
21.8km (13.6 miles) Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
22.6km (14.0 miles) Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
23.6km (14.6 miles) Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
26.2km (16.3 miles) Hudgill Burn Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
chose Eclusham Mountain Wedding Cave Mine at Bwlchgwyng, Bryngwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain, and Great Orme...Llangollen (OS GR SJ 255.503). At nearby Wedding Cave Mine (OS GR SJ 265.541) there is galena mineralisation...calcite, cerrusite Less Common Hemimorphite, smithsonite Unusual Key Ref: BWLCIIGWYN (Wedding Cave)...of the Geological Survey. HMSO 1921 Bryn Gwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain (OS GR SJ 194.697) was one of...Unfortunately the mine shaft has been capped and the site levelled by the old Clwyd County Council and the
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)
Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...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...sheets 19 and 25 and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales). Author Sir Kingsle_y Dunham, DSc, SD...FRS, FEng, FIMM Charleycroft, QuarryheadsLane) Durham DHJ 3D Y Other publications of the Survey dealing
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publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages 41, 46, 54, 59(x2)...Earth Sciences,University of Durham: page_26 C H. Emeleus,University of Durham: page 26 Friends of Killhope...Valley ................... The Northumberland and Durham Coalfield ............. The Northern Pennine Orefield................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such a diverse expanse naturally
Journal (issue)
except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping to get the permit system properly...has donated a wide range of items, covering both UK and world mineralogical topics, to the Society Library;...of a number of publications (Mineralogical Record, UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Lapis) and a variety...still very much a 'frontier place'. One supposed mine was started by a character called Otto van Stryk...Stryk who thought he had found a huge iron mine. Alas, he never got any useable ore out of it. Rick went
Report (edition)
abundance in the lead and zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere. It is commonly...association is· with calc-spar and barytes, though in Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...Carruthers has had charge of the Northumberland, Durham and • Yorkshire sections; Mr. R. W. Pocock has... PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION of fluorspar in England and Wales were investigated as part of the programme
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... B. Laporte & Co., the Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd.,...Plan of the North Central flats, Rotherhope Fell Mine 82 11. Cross-section of Burtrec Pasture Vein
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...included by an unknown black sulphide, from Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire. Don Edwards specimen and painting...2019 EDITORIAL 2 5 PAPERS Enargite from Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Steve A. Rust 6 10 Manganite...Barium-rich muscovite and hyalophane from Benallt Mine, Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd Tom F. Cotterell, David...Green, C. Mike Leppington and Tim Neall 77 92 Smithsonite replacements of rugose corals from the Middle
Journal (issue)
AGARDITE(Y) Collected in 1987 from Marke Valley mine, Cornwall. Identified by David Green and photographed...for the Society's Silver Anniversary cards. SMITHSONITE Collected in 1992 from Cametown coal tips, Mid...FLUORITE Collected about 15 years ago from Yew Tree mine in Weardale. A beautiful combination of the...Collected on a SMLS trip to the north of England in 1998 from Eagle Crag mine. A site memorable for a 3 mile walk...walk across the hills, entry into the mine through an oil drum through a cascading stream, a climb down
Journal (issue)
Dumps from old mines, for example in south west England, are often rusty brown with iron oxides, and where...of the mine workings still contained much pyrite which decomposed to give strongly acidic mine water as...a tray of mineral specimens) were subdivide into UK only and worldwide, while a new photographic class...SINGLE MINERAL OR ROCK SPECIMEN COLLECTED IN THE UK. There were 7 entries in this class. First place...X-ray diffraction spectrometry, from the Holmbush mine, Cornwall; greenish cubes of fluorite to 1.5cm on
Journal (issue)
access it gave me to real mineralogists who were a mine of useful information and expertise. The culmination...the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...supporters. Although he will always be associated with Durham, Kingsley Charles Dunham was born on 2nd January
Journal (issue)
is that David, while at University, represented England in the sport of 'winks', which apparently was taken...impurities. Thus elsewhere in this Newsletter Groverake Mine is described as a commercial producer of fluorspar...au South Caradon 5551 The site of South Caradon mine at St. Cleer Cornwall, has been declared by English...moss. The accessible underground workings of the mine are leased by the Caradon Mines Research Group,...to have overlain the granites of southwestern England but which are not preserved in situ, they are not
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens..."Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists, as it was merged with Westmorland...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during
Journal (issue)
attending, particularly those from the North of England, will be available to assist where possible. Please...went out collecting over the dumps at Hartsop Hall mine in the Lake district, looking primarily for wulfenite...the dumps or if it is an actual specimen from this mine I don't know?, I do know that I haven't found any...was discovered in 19* in the Mount Elliott Copper Mine, North Queensland. It was found at a depth of 260...enclosed in the actual copper lode worked by this mine. It is, therefore, , - - - - _ _.;;..,::.....______
Journal (issue)
nearby. The group visited a working porphyry copper mine with finely disseminated chalcopyrite, secondary...version of the talk she did at the AGM on St. Peter's Mine, Allendale. This is a very interesting story, not...that the only minerals likely to be found in that county are iron pyrites and gypsum. At least I can report...new by-pass for Semington, near Trowbridge, the County Town. The roadwork involved diverting a stream...finest exposures of a porphyry-copper deposit in the UK. In 1998 the section was carefully cleared of talus
Book
Humphries. 2. NATIVE COPPER. From Penibrol,e Mine, St. A.1.istell, Cornwall. Presented by R. Taylor...at Mu'llion, Liza,rd District, Corn- St. George Mine, Perran Porth, Cornwall. Presented by H. IIumphries...Cornwall. NATIVE COPPER, dendritic. Pe'IJibroke Mine, ,_~t. Austell, Cornwall. 19. NATIVE COPPER, cr3rsta...22. thi11 sheets. NATIVE CorPER, in Pembroke Mine, near St. Austell, Cornwall. Presented by Captains...NATIVE COPPER, crystallized on qua1--tz. Treskerby Mine, Cornwall. Presented by G. Croker Fox. 31. NATIVE
Journal (issue)
informed that the arrangements for next year at Durham are progressing well (April 11/13th). The Mineral...ONE! when I typed in 'mineral news' and checked the uk button. Gary is still searching for materia_l,,!9"pu...NorthernBranchAGM Next year's AGM weekend will be based at Durham University from 11th to 13th April, with the AGM...was attended by some 150 delegates from around the UK, including some from as far as Scotland. An excellent...have a similar conference on the minerals of the UK and what the societies do, and the problems we are
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the floor of the principal room is devoted to the mine rals, and to their application in the arts. In...associated with quartz. From the Great St. George Mine, Perran Perth, Cornwall. Presented by H. Humphries...Prseniºriy Mr. Graham. 2. NATIVE COPPER. From Pembroke Mine, St. Austell, Presented by R. Taylor, F.G.S. Presented...Copper, mingled with quartz. inter St. George Mine, Perran Porth, 12. NATIVE Copper, crystal lized...NATIVE CoppER, crystal lized on quartz. Treskerby Mine, Cornwall. Presented by G. Croker Fox. CoPPER,
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Chesterfield...(112) Sheet of the One-Inch Geological Map of England and Wales was originally surveyed on the one inch...Introduction, 8. Matlock-Wirksworth area, 10. Millclose Mine, 27. Ashover, 32. Crich, 35. Provings in deep boreholes...Limestone Series of Millclose . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. Mine .. .. FIG. 6. Sections of the Millstone Grit Series...(1 12) Sheet of the One-inch Geological Map of England and Wales. The district1 lies chiefly in Derbyshire
Journal (issue)
the Ritton Castle area PLATE III. A. Wrentnall Mine. A general view across the valley towards Broom...sky-line, centre, is in Longmyndian grits. B. Wrentnall Mine. An open gunnis near Bennett's Shaft showing the...PLATE IV. A. Huglith Mine. Entrance to the Badger Level adit. B. Gatten Mine. The barite vein left as...The underground structures are conjectural, The mine workings are projected onto the line of section...The workings on Roman Vein of the first mentioned mine are said to have reached a depth of over 100 ft
Book (edition)
is an individual, as much so as a crystal, or a tree and, to arrive at any correct views on these subjects...becoming submerged, though indicated in the New England and Long sea-bottom, and continued by southeastern...is common in Connecticut and other parts of New England, damourite. where it may be often seen graduating...by Mather, Columbia slate region of Fig. 89. County, N. Y. Occasionally, the lines of deposition are...Pennsylvania, the whole Appalachians, all New England, and much of Great Britain and Europe, There
Book (edition)
the sphere before us much so as a crystal, or a tree is and, to arrive at any ; correct views on...sea-bottom, and continued by southeastern New England and Long Island. Between this latter range...granite is common in Connecticut and other New England, where gneiss may be often seen graduating into...Vt., NewHaven, Ct., Hoboken, N. J., Cornwall, England, Banffshire, Scotland, Vosges, France. They occur...by Mather, Columbia slate region of Fig. 89. County, N. Y. Occasionally, the lines of deposition are
Book (volume)
VOLUME XXVIII VETCH to ZYMOTIC DISEASES Cambridge, England: at the University Press New York, 35 West 32nd...Barrister-at-law, Middle Temple. Charity Commissioner for England and Wales. J Waynflete, William; Formerly Assistant-Secretary...Dictionary of National Biography, 1893-1901. Author of England under the Protector Somerset-, Life of Thomas Cranmer;...Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. of England. B. E. S. j Editor of Encyclopaedia of the Laws... Formerly Director of Wood-carving, Gloucester County Council. Woodcarving. F. C. C. Frederick Cornwallis
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Memoir for 1:63 360 geological special sheet (England and Wales) B. Owens A. W. A. Rushton G. Warrington...che Bristol district special sheet was made on County Series maps at a scale of six inches co one miJe...areas it will be necessary to consult the original County Series based material. No. ST 34 NE ST 35 SE ST...and the staffs of the Bristol Archives Office and County Record offices of Taunton and Trowbridge, we are...coalfield no" lies within the newly constituted County of Avon which includes parts of the ancient cou1111esof
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Elementary 39 Elect. Colliery Practice . Mine-Surveying . . Mine Air, Investigation of. Mining Law . . Blasting...LARSEN J. RIEMER . . J. G. LAWN, A. R.S. M. - Mine Accounts º7 PROF. JAMES PARK, F. G.S. - - $3...INSTITUTIoN of MINING AND METALLURGY, o F THE No RTH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERs, OF... hilly. - ACCIÓN (Port. accão), (1) share in a mine, etc.; a industrial, share; a. librada, paid-up...or naphtha; (2) resin which distis from the fir-tree, etc., a. de palo, balsam copaiba; (3) a. de tierra
 
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