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Galena from
Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Comments:Cubic and cubo-octahedral crystals to 10cms have reputedly been collected from the large cavities in the replacement ore body; crystals are common in the 2.5cm range.
Colour:Grey
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Extremely common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz44 photos of Galena associated with Quartz at this locality.
Ankerite27 photos of Galena associated with Ankerite at this locality.
Sphalerite17 photos of Galena associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Pyrite10 photos of Galena associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite6 photos of Galena associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Calcite5 photos of Galena associated with Calcite at this locality.
Dolomite5 photos of Galena associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Siderite2 photos of Galena associated with Siderite at this locality.
Sulphur2 photos of Galena associated with Sulphur at this locality.
Rock Crystal1 photo of Galena associated with Rock Crystal at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (57 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:5502
Long-form Identifier:1:3:5502:4
GUID (UUID V4):ded59f02-774a-4400-aea6-aa6c628f917d
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
0.4km (0.2 miles) Carrs Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) Middlecleugh Upper Level, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.9km (0.5 miles) Caplecleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Gudhamgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.5km (1.5 miles) Coalcleugh Mine, Coalcleugh, West Allen, Northumberland, England, UK
3.0km (1.9 miles) Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Wellhopehead Mine, West Allen, Northumberland, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte
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 (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
Catalog/List
steel grey cubes and cube-octahedra crystals of galena and small brass coloured tetrahedral pyrite growing...growing on a mass of fluorite crystals. BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4648 Tetrahedral crystals...crystals of quartz. GREENSIDE MINE, PATTERDALE, CUMBRIA M 4709 Large cubes of galena encrusted with pale milky...siderite with the odd cube of fluorite BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4710 Beautiful association...and blue-grey micro-crystals of quartz. BEAUMONT MINE, ALLENHEADS, ALLENDALE, NORTHUMBERLAND M 5034
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
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
Catalog/List
Gold Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Sphalerite Realgar & Orpiment Realqar Cinnabar Stibnite Galena, Fluorite and Barvte Pyrite & Marcasite Jamesonite...Hydrozincite Sphalerite, Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena & Dolomite Chalcopyrite on Dolomite Arsenopyrite...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The...Rocks Cornwall Hinqston Down, Cornwall Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 £1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Greigite. As a secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm
Book
image: Miners outside Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...Scraithole Vein, T.F. Bridges; p.28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite...29 Galena, Killhope The North of England Lead Mining Museum; p.30 Miners in Rotherhope Fell Mine, Beamish...Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.34 Rookhope Borehole, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University
Report (chapter)
Secondary minerals in the abandoned mines of Nenthead, Cumbria as sinks for pollutant metals C. A. N U T...University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Abstract: Direct observations made during underground...abandoned lead-zinc mine workings in the north Pennines. Chemical analysis of mine waters has shown that...there must be significant sinks for zinc within the mine workings. Secondary zinc mineral sinks (principally...within the workings, is found to leave the mine dissolved in the mine water. However, this is sufficient to
Book
image: Miners outside Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...Scraithole Vein, T.F. Bridges; p.28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite...29 Galena, Killhope The North of England Lead Mining Museum; p.30 Miners in Rotherhope Fell Mine, Beamish...Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.34 Rookhope Borehole, Dept, of Geological Sciences, University
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
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 (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...witherite and barytes, minerals that accompany the galena, all became industrially important. The 20th century...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the
Journal (volume)
mineral deposition in a cavity in Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and Roy Starkey...development of a mineralised cavity at the Smallcleugh Mine in the North Pennine Orefield, where Trevor...we were walking down from Copa Hill at Cwmystwyth mine in mid-wales. we had both been participants on one...group of clear quartz crystals from brownley Hill mine, and Journal of the Russell Society (2015) 1st...“micromount” category, with a baryte from tear breeches mine, matlock bath. at this time, the Society was also
Book
remains of the Park Level lead crushing mill and mine buildings. Minor repairs were carried out to the...walked the four miles from home to the Killhope mine where he worked. On the way he met up with his partners...partners and together they went into the mine to start work. The lead vein was rich and wide and they...Lead Mining Centre, on the site of the Park Level Mine and Crushing Mill, is a memorial to the lead industry...COMPANY { '-�. BBlaгnchlandW. В. LEAD •Allenheads Alston Моог,- . — Contours 800ft and 1400 ft - - -
Catalog/List
Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...than A. £5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll. A white...xtls. A fine example. £6. 7. ANATASE, Virtuos Lady mine, Devon. l.4xl.5xlcm. A MM with a micro xtl of sparkly...APATITE, llarding's Vein. · Carrock mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbria. 5x4x2.5cm . One fairly gemmy greenish...clear xtls. Very pretty. £4. 16. AZURITE, Tynagh mine, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ex S.J.A.C. Brown coll. Old
Journal (issue)
ISSN 0263 7839 FRONT COVER: Barite, Cleator Moor, Cumbria. National Museum of Wales specimen NMW 83.4IG...F. Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow...from Smal1cleugh and Brownley Hill mines, Nenthead, Cumbria A. Livingstone Stannite revisited D .H .M...M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES Phosgenite...Hubbard 35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper minerals
Journal (issue)
UK C TS 2 EDITORIAL COVER.Smalt-blueplumbogummite with minor pyromorphite on vein quartzfrom RoughtonGill...Ballard 39 EPIDOTE-(SR) AND PIEMONTITE-(SR) BENALLT MINE FROM NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe David McCallum...of the Editorial Board. GORCEIXITE FROM BENALLT MINE Tom Cotterell • Richard Tayler 61 Publication...N0952-2409 BOOK REVIEWS 68 PRINTEDBY ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 33 -1- EDITORIAL...the journal by subscription. We have examined the UK subscription rates and these will remain at £16 for
Pennine Lead-Miner Eric Richardson, of Nenthead Personal recollections of lifeiin ae Pennine orefield...a | Pennine Lead-Miner Eric Richardson, of Nenthead by W.R. Mitchell DALESMAN BOOKS 1979 THE...the splashing of beck-water and the voices of the moor birds— the gutteral calls of grouse and crow, the...crumbling bouseteams, where the ore brought from the mine was stacked. At Kilhope, near the head of Weardale...mines on the great fells. Eric Richardson, of Nenthead, had his interest in mining aroused when, as a
Journal (issue)
Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria B. Young, E. Hyslop and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall....;:;0;:;..,.... :.WST'JUST )~~~ BALLESWIDDEN MINE '\:;;:~. .F lGURE 1. Schematic geology of the
Book
Richardson, of Nenthead ~ ~\.• .....:.+ ., , ,, Pennine Lead-Miner Eric Richardson, of Nenthead by W...the splashing of beck-water and the voices of the moor birdsthe gutteral calls of grouse and crow, the...crumbling bouseteams, where the ore brought from the mine was stacked. At Kilhope, near the head of Weardale...mines on the great fells. Eric Richardson, of Nenthead, had his interest in mining aroused when, as a...Dow Gang mine at the end of a shift. Meanwhile, the small boy savoured the atmosphere of the mine by peering
Journal (issue)
Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist...Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten...ecord Articles Rare sulfosalts from the Van Silver mine, British C olum bia...............................mineral localities: The Brownley Hill mine, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England....................................COVER: ATACAMITE in GYPSUM, 6.8 cm, from the Lily mine, lea, Peru. Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo
Book
C a s c M nerals of o h England 0 0 = The Greenbank Collection This Catalogue is a Limited Edition...divide us, the mineral specimens from Northern England unite almost everyone in an appreciation of their...treasured specimens remain to fire the IN NORTHERN ENGLAND has a imagination and wonder of collectors and...waste rock and gangue discarded during mining - the mine pagel The Lindsay Gree11ba11k Collection curators...1820s the bleak and isolated mining village of Alston had become a centre for mineral dealing and remained
Catalog/List
ANGLESITE. Monteponi,Iglesias,Cagliari,Sardinia.Heavy Galena matrix with upper surface richly invested in many...clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment... 14. APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen....Aragonite to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece. 3 specimens. Specimens A and B.... ARSENOPYRITE/BORNITE/CASSITERITE. South Crofty Mine,Camborne, Cornwall. Grey sulphidic,vuggy matrix
 
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