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Leadhillite from
Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Leadhillite
Formula:Pb4(CO3)2(SO4)(OH)2
Comments:Cooper & Stanley (1990): "Minute, poorly crystalline brownish aggregates on quartz have been identified (BM(NH): XRD) as leadhillite-susannite (B. Yates Collection)."
Habit:poorly crystalline aggregates
Colour:brownish
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Leadhillite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:6875
Long-form Identifier:1:3:6875:8
GUID (UUID V4):56b807c5-5f3e-477d-aef8-f03d58038c54
Nearest other occurrences of Leadhillite
1.6km (1.0 miles) Driggith Mine (Driggeth Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Higher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Balliway Rigg, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) Old Sandbed Mine (Old Sandbeds Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.3km (1.4 miles) Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.8km (1.8 miles) Red Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.9km (1.8 miles) Dry Smale Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
3.0km (1.9 miles) Brae Fell Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
5.3km (3.3 miles) Saddleback Old Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
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Book
siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...4487) (top left) Mimetite, variety campylite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right) Quartz...Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale (MNS 4488) (bottom left) Hematite, variety kidney ore, Nab Gill Mine, Boot (MNS...west Cumbrian coal and iron ore fields, the Vale of Eden and the Carlisle plain (Figure I). It is defined...ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed review of metallogenesis
Journal (volume)
crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection. Photograph...the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection. Photograph...Tindle 3-9 Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall Jens C. Ø. Andersen and David Moulding...review of the mineralisation at Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor...mineralogy of Short Grain Low Level, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Tim Neall and David I. Green 45-61 ‘Lady’s slippers’
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Minerals of the English Lake District Caldbeck Fells Cumbria. Caldbeck. Mineral deposts 1. Title 11. Stanley...largely of debris washed down fromthe Roughton Gill mine dumps under Iron Crag C O N T E N INTRODUCTION...Caldbeck and the Caldbeck Fells Are worth all England else (Hutchinson. 1794) is supposed to have originated...mineral occurrences of the area, Fig. 1 ROUGHTON GiLL: the beck drops some 120 metres (400 feel) in a...Balliway Rigg on the west. Mineral veins crossing the gill have been worked for centuries, making and losing
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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
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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
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mineral has been reported only from Hartsop Hall Mine, Patterdale (NY 395 119) (Russell, 1944) and Burtness...Eagle Crag Vein, formerly extensively worked at the mine of that name. Secondary minerals are relatively...GREENLAND, T.S. & RYBACK, G., 1963. Wulfenite from Poddy Gill, Caldbeck Fells. Mineral. Mag. 33, p. 720. CLARK...associated with the ore deposits of the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Trans. Leeds Geol. Ass. Vol. 10, pp. 22-39. KINGSBURY...of the rare copper molybdate lindgrenite at Brandy Gill, Carrock Fell, Cumberland. Mineral. Mag. Vol
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occurrence of wulfenite at Brandy Gill, Cumberland, and of leadhillite at Drumruck mine, K irkcudbrightshire...to be wulfenite and which he had found on an old mine dump near Carrock Fell, Troutbeck, Cumberland. One...the label bearing the more precise locality of Brandy Gill. Wulfenite is an extremely rare mineral in the...2 namely, Higher Pitts mine, Mendip Hills, Somersetshire, and Lauchentyre mine, Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire... three-quarters of the way up Brandy Gill, a tributary of Grains Gill, and at the confluence of which
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............. Former miner honoured for building UK - Mexico links .................... Crystal Classics................................... Trial at Brandy Gill Mine ... ........................................Posnjakite, connellite and other minerals from Crinnis Mine, Cornwall Meeting & Field Trip Reports ...........his medical problems necessitated a return to the UK for treatment. Following this Jorn worked in the...has benefited from the dataset, principally of old mine sites, put together for the earlier study of Bevins
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stock label. 40x30x20mm. £20. 4) BAYLDONITE. Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. A 15x12mm area...40x20x30mm. £25. 5) BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Dark green crusts and coatings...64. 40x30x20mm. £45. 9) CASSITERITE. Trevaunance Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. A quartz cassiterite matrix...max. £165. 10) CASSITERITE and QUARTZ. Huanuni Mine, Oruro, Bolivia. Really super group of about 50...about 10mm. 65x45x35mm. £90. 13) COLEMANITE. Tenneco Mine, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA. A nice
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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...of the Geological Survey. HMSO 1921 Bryn Gwiog Mine on Halkyn Mountain (OS GR SJ 194.697) was one of...magnificent specimens of blue fluorite. Unfortunately the mine shaft has been capped and the site levelled by the...carboniferous fossils. Permission from Wimpey or the mine manager must be obtained before visiting. Minerals
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Austell, U.K. A.D. Hart NHM, London, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King, Tewkesbury, U.K. I.R Plimer... Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, UK RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U. K. RF. Symes, Sidmouth...lnce, 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 3SQ UK). Back numbers of the Journal may also be ordered...characteristic trigonal sym metry, from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, described by Bridges et al. in this...botryoidall;>aryte, from Durnford Quarry, near Bristol, England. Chris Finch collection; David Green photograph
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Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...mimetite crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the 1970s by Jim Knight...British occurrence of kottigite, from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and David I Green PAPERS...at Driggith and Sandbed Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...review of the mineralogy of Brae Fell Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, David I Green and
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J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...P. J. Dunn Famous mineral localities: The Mezica mine, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ............................Pyromorphite group minerals from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England ............................................................................ 123 by B. M. England Locality species lists ..........................ISSUES! v.15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Bra­ zil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $7 v.15/#6
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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...the supplies of mineral specimens from Northern England were limitless. Hundreds of thousands of specimens
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious...Emb'eton quany,nrCockermouth. Cumbria; Gra:nsgill. Ca'.dbeck Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine...Fells,Cumbria; OldGunnls!ake m:ne.Calslock. Cornwall lindgrenite' BrandyGill,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria WestTurtPitsmine
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Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135 x 88 x 40mm...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
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logy. Contribution; co ncerning the topographical mine 7alogy of the British Isles are particularly welcome...with calcite, galena and pyrite. Glengowla East mine, Oughterard, Co . Galway, Eire. Sir Arthur Russell...vivianite PG. Embrey 77 Native silver from Hilderston mine , West Lothian. Scotland T.K. Meikle 83 Mineralogy...Alderley Edge - Mottram St Andrew area, Cheshire, England R . S. W. Braith waite 91 Fluorite at Hampstead...occurrence of arsenate minerals at Gwaith-yr-Afon mine, Dyfed , Wales S.A . Rust and J.s. Mason 109 NOTES
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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
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Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally these two minerals...always interested in elyite as Pam found the first UK specimen on Meadowfoot Smelter Wanlockhead in 1981...outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill. Pale-green material surrounded...dark-green crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute...lead copper arsenate. This was the first recorded UK locality. As always, a superb collection of interesting
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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
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UK j min~/1minerals C I 11 lNTS 200~ I 2 EDITORlAL: SPEClALISATION COVER:A fluoritecube 15...Egremont, Cumbria. 4 SOWERBY SCORODITE Nick Carruth • Ron Cleevcly • David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of...DESIGN Julie Ballard 47 PETITJEANITE FROM CAR.ROCK MINE Mike Rumsey • Trevor Bridges • John Spratt The... 50 PREISINGERITE & ROOSEVELTITE FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges...information and a full review in the next UKJMM. UK Journal vf Mines & Minerals No. 28 -2- Frontispiece
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NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...4TG Printed by Northern Litho Services, Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...MINERALISATION IN BURDELL GILL, CALDBECK FELLS,CUMBRIA T. NEALL, Greenside, Kirkbride, Cumbria, CA7 SJH. C. M...M. LEPPINGTON, 1 Harrot Hill, Cockermouth, Cumbria, CA13 OBL. Abundant green pharmacosiderite occurs in...quartz vein ,or veins, close to the head of Burdell Gill. Smaller amounts of beudantite, barium pharmacosiderite
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going to meet with our demise and go to the big mine in the sky, where all the vughs are full of topaz...organised by any geological or mineralogical group in the UK. If only I could get to even a fraction of these...meeting repor t: 'No! It is n ot Isolation Mine but Snelston Mine.' there were several attemp ts to exploit...early in the 20th century w hen Snelston Copper Mine Limited w as inco rp orated. The company was established...fact that this D erbyshire mine has recently come to be known as Isolation Mine while its only correct recorded
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pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages................... 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...ground; trial workings, mine dumps, mine buildings and smeltings, plus mine location maps and a wealth...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British
 
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