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Sphalerite from
Slitt Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slitt Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:362095
Long-form Identifier:1:3:362095:3
GUID (UUID V4):5c3b200c-d9bf-4de6-a128-3527db7fed28
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
2.0km (1.2 miles) Heights Quarry, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Old Middlehope Mine, Ireshopeburn, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.0km (1.9 miles) Cambokeels Mine (Cammock Isle Mine; Cumnock Isle Mine; Cammock Eals Mine), Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.8km (2.4 miles) Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.1km (2.6 miles) Barbary Mine, Ireshopeburn, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.5km (2.8 miles) Redburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
5.0km (3.1 miles) Burtree Pasture Mine (Breckonsyke Mine; Broadmea Mine), Cowshill, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
5.0km (3.1 miles) North Groverake Quarry, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
References
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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
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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
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Outstanding Natural Beauty Authors: lan Forbes, Durham County Council. Brian Young, British Geological Survey...Northumberland County Council. Lesley Hehir, Durham County Council. Graphic design: Louise Fenwick, Durham County...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
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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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Outstanding Natural Beauty Authors: Ian Forbes, Durham County Council. Brian Young, British Geological Survey...Northumberland County Council. Lesley Hehir, Durham County Council. Graphic design: Louise Fenwick, Durham County...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
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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...conditions, Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8...the Lead Hill area, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois, and is 5.5 cm. Ross Lillie specimen...name. The most abundant ore minerals in MVTs are sphalerite (Zn) and galena (Pb). Other common minerals include
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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
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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)...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...S. Rumsey 35–38 Segnitite from Weardale, County Durham Brian Young and Adam Pacey 39–42 Exhalative...south-west of the Emerald Isle, to Ballybunnion, in County Kerry, from where Mike Rumsey describes the first
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cormate waterssimilarto thoseat presentfoundin the Durham coalfield. A comparison of the fluidinclusion...ClosehouseMine, 8. Blackdene Mine, 9. Slitt, 10. Allenheads,11. WhiteheapsMine, 12. Groverake Mine, 13. Rookhope Borehole...galenasand the age of the I-Iercyniangranitesof S.W. England (27). Mineralo#y.--The sulfide minerals present...present in the orefield are galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite,pyrrhotiteandmarcasite.In additionullmanRe...andniccolitehavebeenreportedfrom Settlingstones Mine. The threemajor matrix mineralsare fluorite, barite
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SOCIETY AND MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION IN WEST DURHAM, 19-23 APRIL 1962 The object of the meeting was...party which met at Grey College, University of Durham, on the Thursday evening, was given an informal...Cravenoceras leion Bisat. Between Wolsingham and Stanhope, along the Wear Valley, there are over 14 miles...subspecies. It is used as an ornamental stone in Durham Cathedral and is quarried on the south side of...for agricultural purposes. At the Stotfield Burn Mine immediately southeast of Rookhope Village, fluorspar
Book (edition)
| VOLUME V II UK MINING VENTURES T HE M INER AL HER ITAGE SPE CI ALI STS K U UK MI CONTENTS CONTENTS...CONTENTS UK MINING VENTU z FOREWOR D BY IAN & DIANA BRUCE4-5 z WEARDALE, COUNTY DURHA M 6-17 z DI A...A NA M ARI A MINE 18-29 SUTCLIFFE VEIN GR AEBER JONES POCKET 30-31 SNOWSTOR M POCKET 32-33 PAVEL’S...POCKET92-93 NORTHER N LIGHTS POCKET94-95 z ROGERLEY MINE 96-107 GREENBANK VEIN WOLFIE POCKET108-109 BEADLE...POCKET114-115 50 YEAR POCKET116-117 z LADY ANNABELLA MINE  118-127 THE BULL VEIN THE BULL VEIN 128-129
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University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK B.YOUNG British Geological Survey, Windsor Court...Court, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HB, UK AND C. J. STANLEY Department of Mineralogy, The...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 3BD, UK Abstract Bismuthinite-bearing quartz veins from the...earlier than the main fluorite-baryte-galena-sphalerite mineralization of the orefield. Rhythmical crystallization...followed by fluorite-quartzchalcopyrite-minor sphalerite-altered pyrrhotite mineralization. Early tin-bearing
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- an integrated view. Geoscience in South-West England, 13, 248-254. Long associated with metallic ore...deposits was investigated rigorously in South-West England long ago. The zoned distribution of minerals around...a complex pegmatite (Figure 2). In South-West England, although there are similarities between the topaz...veins at Cligga Head. Figure 3. Tin lode in Geevor Mine (Coronation Lode, 14 Level), photographed in 1987...(chalcopyrite and other copper sulphides, galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, etc.) more important moving further
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deep violet. These spec, came primarily from West Durham and adjacent areas. To list just a fragment of...but is now difficult to obtain. Such mines as: Slitt Vein, Stotfield Burn, Black Dene, Boltsburn East...Sedling, Rotherhope Fell, Brandlehow Vein, Florence Mine, etc. all have yielded fl. material. FLUORITE labeled...r t wave L W — l o n g wave dale, Cumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Devon, Derbyshire, and other districts...the darker materal almost never fl. 603 In New England several pegmatites have yielded fl. FLUORITE. The
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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...John Jones from the Hucklow Edge Vein at Ladywash Mine in Derbyshire. His sharp eyes spotted the rare copper
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and yellow zoning from the find at Rodderup Fell Mine in the early 1930’s Photo G. Scovil WANTED! We...The Old Linhay, Halberfoh Road. Wil land, Devon, England, EX 15 2QF TEL 01884 821563 Email Ian@crystalclassics...plumbogummite from Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Photo: David Green. The UK Journal of Mines and...------ 9 -------------------------- Rogerley Mine Jesse Fisher • Lindsay Greenbank MARKETING Peter...------------------------- Classified Advertisments UK Journal of Mines &• Minerals No. 23 - 1 - Editorial
Report (issue)
Greenlaws Mine NEWS Fluorite xx, 22 cm wide. J. Scovil photo Fluorites from a classic British mine — from...„Greenlaws Mine" ? The Greenlaws Mine is located in Weardale in the northern Pennines of England just south...collections around the world. The Greenlaws Mine was run as a lead mine from ca. 1840 t o 1900 and w a s o n...important lead mines in Weardale. Since then, the mine has been abandoned when in 2009, when a group of...under the leadership of mine specialist Pete Ward started the "Greenlaws Mine Project". The very beginning
Journal (issue)
interest were: Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally...always interested in elyite as Pam found the first UK specimen on Meadowfoot Smelter Wanlockhead in 1981...with a crude hexagonal outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill. Pale-green...crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute terminations...lead copper arsenate. This was the first recorded UK locality. As always, a superb collection of interesting
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January 2001 Durham meeting abstracts Downloaded by [Laurentian University] at 07:25 16 April 2016 ...from 3 to 5 January, 2001, in Durham, England. The University of Durham hosted the meeting and Dr. D....Stachel and coworkers18) and the diamonds from Premier mine in South Africa, which are particularly beautiful...The youngest are E-type diamonds from the Orapa mine, Botswana, at 990 m.y.,14 the oldest the 3300-m...Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich, Chatham, England J. W. Harris Division of Earth Sciences, University
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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...largest remaining mineral galleries in northern England. Strontianite was discovered by chance while volunteers
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contributions from C. Gilfellan A MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY DECEMBER 2002 1 2 ISSN 0308...publishers THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY KEIGHLEY, U.K. Cover illustration: Presser mine 1906 pump house...MINING AND SMELTING CO. LTD Derwent Mines Whiteheaps Mine Shildon 95 106 107 108 THE PERIOD 1900 TO 1950...11 3 11 5 11 5 11 5 BELDON ROYALTY Beldon Shield Mine Beldon engine Beldon and North Derwent Mining Company...Company Ltd New Beldon Lead Mining Company Ltd Reeding Mine Newbigginhope Burntshieldhaugh 11 6 11 8 120 120
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55–86 Mineralization of the South Pennine Orefield, UK—A Review T.D. Ford1 & N.E. Worley2* 1 Department... Leicester LE1 7RH, UK 23, Gloucester Avenue, Nuthall, Nottingham, NG16 1AL, UK *Correspondence: noel...limestone, rarely in sandstone; dominant minerals are sphalerite, galena, pyrite, marcasite, dolomite and calcite...fluorspar have been produced; estimates for sphalerite, barite and calcite are much lower, probably...technically challenging or no longer available because of mine closures. This, in combination with some additional
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mineral som er dannet etter atjeg harplukket medmeg mine prover fra Skjerpemy,r, og lagret dem i kjelleren...har har heller ikke unngitt denne. i tidens lop slitt ned bergartene over Skjerpemyr, og bloulagt hele...2 CuFeS, curS ,/ FeS, PYRITT (svovelkis) SPHALERITE tsinkbtende) ZnS KARBONATER AZURITT Curs-(CO
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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
 
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