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Pyrrhotite from
Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:601093
Long-form Identifier:1:3:601093:5
GUID (UUID V4):837aff3c-5926-4a6b-b570-afa9c8fb80f8
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
5.6km (3.5 miles) Middlehope Burn, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
6.0km (3.7 miles) Whiteheaps Mine, Hunstanworth, County Durham, England, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) Cambokeels Mine (Cammock Isle Mine; Cumnock Isle Mine; Cammock Eals Mine), Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
15.8km (9.8 miles) Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
16.4km (10.2 miles) Calvert Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
22.8km (14.2 miles) Smittergill Head Mine, Ousby, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
49.0km (30.5 miles) Sherry Gill, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
57.0km (35.4 miles) Old Sandbed Mine (Old Sandbeds Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
58.0km (36.0 miles) Grains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
From the North Pennines Orefield England Figure 1. The Groverake mine, located in upper Rookhopeburn,...Weardale proper. The Groverake was the last operating commercial fluorspar mine in the North Pennines...Pennines, closing in 1999. Mine waste heaps (known locally as “tips”) dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Pennine Orefield are all close to, or above, the Rookhope and Tynehead cupolas of the buried Weardale Granite...fluorite-quartzchalcopyrite-minor sphalerite-altered pyrrhotite mineralization. Early tin-bearing (up to 0.29
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...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...celestine, gypsum, anhydrite, native sulfur, and pyrrhotite. Chalcopyrite, bornite, and other copper minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exception to this has been specimens from the Rogerley mine, which was worked by partners Lindsay Greenbank...1970s and 1996. The Rogerley is, to date, the only mine in the United Kingdom that has been operated specifically...on a commercial basis, and during this time the mine produced a limited but steady stream of high-quality...offered to assist in transferring the operation of the mine to a group of interested Americans. After completing...Komerak. and Jonina and Bill Pogue), operating as UK Mining Ventures, began full-time operations at the
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
Report (issue)
ORE o, /J / \ I DEPOSITS UPPER WEARDALE, DURHAM ' I.JILES -:•••..... . ...___ •• • •:•• ...Structure of Ore-bodies lviineralo gy I. Weardale, Co. Durham 1. Carricks 11ine - 2. Rowantree A - 3. Rowantree...Mines on two Fell top Lir::estones in Rookhope (Frazers Hush, Groverake, Stotfield Head) 14. Prospects in...- 21. E. Dryburn - 22. Bollihope Teesdale, Co. Durham 1. Langdon - 2. Bands 5. Bow Lee - 6. Snaisgill...ferrodolomite in roughly equal proportions; pyrite and pyrrhotite. Within 100 - 350 ft. of the surface these minerals
Book
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 (article/letter/editorial)
cormate waterssimilarto thoseat presentfoundin the Durham coalfield. A comparison of the fluidinclusion...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...andniccolitehavebeenreportedfrom Settlingstones Mine. The threemajor matrix mineralsare fluorite, barite...upwardpassagefrom fluoriteto barite and from pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite to galena-sphalerite.The major concentrations
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)
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
Journal (issue)
............................................ Groverake & Frazer's Hush Mines Brian Young 28 ...........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,
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
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...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...collection, is°'currently owned by David McCallmn. UK Journal of Mines & Mfo~r:il, No. 22 -2- T·w·E.NTY
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene...radiometric dates for the igneous rocks of northern England l 0 5 Cross-section of th e lapetus Suture Zone
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...es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National Grid Reference...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...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055............................ 1 P: palagonite to pyrrhotite ............................... 377 THE MINERALS...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
Report (issue)
Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56...Special Collections Library at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The ancients were interested...attention of miners, carvers, and decorators: in England, dark (almost blue-black), violet, and yellow fluorite...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797
Journal (issue)
along with Carboniferous pebbles from northeast England and a scatter of Scandinavian rocks, including...Lieutenant of the Richard Blachford 226 Richard Allen County), arrangements were made to extract the block bearing...mineralogy and underground workings of the Golconda Mine and some of the artifacts left by miners from the...fluorspar from the Hucklow Edge vein system (Milldam Mine) ceased in 1999, while mining at Longstone Edge...both published and unpublished papers, reports, mine sections, borehole logs and field observations. The
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...John Jones from the Hucklow Edge Vein at Ladywash Mine in Derbyshire. His sharp eyes spotted the rare copper
Journal (issue)
., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS
Journal (issue)
M. Gressm an tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic...COVER: METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's...west of the Mackenzie River Delta. The Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island was another prolific locality pioneered...Nanisivik mine, at Rapid Creek in the Yukon, at the El Bonanza mine, at the Society Girl mine, and at Emerald
Report (issue)
mm. Plain transmitted light. Sample ER 69-3, Hill mine, Cave-in-Rock, southern Illinois fluorite-zinc distt·ict...mm. Plain transmitted light. Sample ER 69-3, Hill mine, Cave-in-Rock, southern Illinois fluorite-zinc district...of photograph 0.8Xl.l mm. USNM 96696, Rukuba tin mine, Nigeria. Data of Geochemistry Sixth Edition MICHAEL...monophase inclusions in quartz crystals from Herkimer County, N.Y., showing critical behavior at -5.55°C and...lead-zinc deposit associated with the Bingham copper mine in Utah (pl. 7, fig. 11; Roedder and Creel, 1966)
Book
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK. Data conversion by Intacom, Weybridge, Surrey, UK. Drafting by Furnell Shawyer...Associates, Chessington, Surrey, UK. Design by The Type Connection, Egham, Surrey, UK. ISBN: 0-947671-28-5 ISSN:...come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many rocks and...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...and Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, in the UK; Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa
 
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