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Calcite from
Coombe Farm Quarry, Henbury, Bristol, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Coombe Farm Quarry, Henbury, Bristol, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:694540
Long-form Identifier:1:3:694540:4
GUID (UUID V4):87a67110-7446-4f74-810a-1965997e9206
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wesley Mine, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, England, UK
2.3km (1.4 miles) Pen Park Hole, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
8.4km (5.2 miles) Providence Iron Mine, Long Ashton, North Somerset, England, UK
10.7km (6.6 miles) Aust Cliff, Aust, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
13.0km (8.1 miles) Hartcliffe Rocks, Felton, Winford, North Somerset, England, UK
14.2km (8.8 miles) Woodleaze Quarry, Tytherington, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
15.7km (9.8 miles) Yate Quarry, Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
15.8km (9.8 miles) Wick Quarry, Wick and Abson, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
16.8km (10.4 miles) Cromhall Quartzite Quarry, Cromhall, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
17.2km (10.7 miles) Chipping Sodbury Quarry (Hampstead Farm Quarry), Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
near Bristol WULFENITE has been found at a new locality, at Henbury, near Bristol (Coombe Farm quarry...quarry, G.R. I" sheet I56. 562778). The quarry, now disused, is opened in steeply dipping Lower Carboniferous...throughout the Bristol district (Spencer and Mountain, I923; Alabaster, I975). East-west-trending calcite veinlets...cut the mineralized fissure. To the east of the quarry these veins thicken up and have been worked for...also found along crystal boundaries in the vein calcite and encrusting corroded grains of galena. In this
Journal (issue)
South Wales I. Plimer Alumohydrocalcite from the Bristol District C. Alabaster The secondary mineralogy...Clyde Plateau Lavas, Scotland. Part 1: Boyleston Quarry T.K. Meikle The secondary mineralogy of the Clyde...Clyde Plateau Lavas , Scotland . Part 2: Loanhead Quarry T.K. Meikle Car\:mnatian connellite , a new variety...oxide-hosted lead oxychloride minerals in the Bristol District C. Alabaster 29 1 5 11 15 NOTES ...corner of the field, about 200 m east of Leechpool Farm, on the south side of Tanhouse Lane, Yate, Avon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
near Bristol WULFENITE has been found at a new locality, at Henbury, near Bristol (Coombe Farm quarry...quarry, G.R. I" sheet I56. 562778). The quarry, now disused, is opened in steeply dipping Lower Carboniferous...throughout the Bristol district (Spencer and Mountain, I923; Alabaster, I975). East-west-trending calcite veinlets...cut the mineralized fissure. To the east of the quarry these veins thicken up and have been worked for
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines
Journal (issue)
ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...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
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...MALACHITE 16 CUNOCLASE 17 ANGLESITE 18 PYROMORPHITE 19 CALCITE 20 SERPIERITE 21 ETTRINGITE 22 BROCHANTITE 23 CASSITERITE...CALEOONITE 40 PREHNITE 41 STILBITE 42 THOMSONITE 43 CALCITE 4-4 THOMSONITE 45 CELSIAN Waterba.nk mine Waterbank...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria
Journal (volume)
June 2006 from a blast pile on Bench G of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Width of view approx. 20 mm. Photograph...twinned trigonal plates. From Bench F of Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills. Rick Turner photograph. Journal...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite...separate deposits, such as Higher Pitts Farm and Merehead Quarry, are in fact related, and the discovery...untoward incident, I might add) and on many occasions, quarry companies have called us in when something interesting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calcareous Series of the Lower Cuhn at East Underdown Farm, and is seen in the well by the roadside. V. FIELD...show the same features, so a description of Mill Quarry will suffice (as being the clearest). This is about...deep. Trees, shrubs, and talus hide most of the quarry ; but an adit driven through the south-western...Whiddon Down to Hobhouse Farm buildings; but, about 100 yards beyond this farm, it is cut by a fault. The...i~he south-east side, and, as can be seen in the quarry on the Exeter road, a large amount of fault-breccia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MI7 ALABASTER(C.), A new wulfenite locality near Bristol, 298 Albite, Greenland, anal., 31 Alderley Edge...allactite, hematolite, synadelphite, I33 Bravoite, England, paragenesis, 149 BRAY (C. J.), see HOLLAND (R...Laubmann and Steinmetz is probably strunzite, 3o9 Calcite, Cornwall, in paragenetic sequence, 5o9 and M49...geochemistry of loveringite, 187 Cannington Park quarry, Somerset, djurleite, 172; durangite, 172; milarite... see EGGLETON (R. A.), 361 and M37 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, danburite, I7I Chernovite
Journal (volume)
Bindheimite Blixite Braunite Brucite Calcite Calcite var. Mg-calcite Calcite var. manganocalcite Celestine Cerussite... * X X X * X * X X Doulting Stone Quarry Dulcote Quarry X X Ham Woods X X * X X X X X X...X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Merehead Quarry Moons Hill * X X * T X X X T X * X X X X...Lane Wesley Mine Westbury-sub-Mendip Whatley Quarry Wick Quarry X X X X X X X X X X * X X X * X X X X...“Priddy” Priddy Hill Farm Rodney Pitts (Chewton) Rowberrow Sandford Hill + Quarry Shipham x X X X * X
Book (edition)
DISTRIBUTION OF ROADSTONBS IN GREAT BRITAIN 5 England and Wales 5 Scotland 8 Channel Islands LIST...under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...BRITAIN by K. C. DUNHAM, D.Sc., S.D., F.R.S. (England and Wales) and A. G. MACGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland)...Channel Islands) ENGLAND AND WALES Roadstones quarried from the solid rock in England and Wales are obtained
Book (edition)
Gaswells. h-ont cover Operations at Shap Beck Quarry, Hanson Aggregates, North.em Region. © D Cameron...Ji'igures 1 An extract from Hunt's 1858 listing of Quarry Re turns 2 lJnited Kingdom production of n1inerals...resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 4 Limestone resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 5 Sand and grave...resources and workings in tbe UK in 2010 6 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK in 2010 7 Coal resources...and workings in the UK in 2010 8 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas workings in the UK in 2010 Tables l Production
Book (edition)
resources and workings in tJ1e UK, 2008 3 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2008 4 Limestone resotu-ces...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.mmodity in the UK, including Noriliem Ireland, Channel Islands and...Abandoned Mine Methane Anhydrite Bal.I Clay Bai-ytes Calcite Chalk Chert China Clay China Clay Waste Clay &...industries, which represents their contribution to the UK econo1ny. The GVA of the nunerals extractive industries...1ninerals produced in 2005 in the UK, expressed as sales on an ex-works (quarry) basis as opposed to gross valued
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around OKEHAMPTON...Brazennose Street, Manchester 2 50 Fairfax Street, Bristol BS I 3DE 258-259 Broad Street, Birmingham I 7-11...other early Geological Survey maps of south-west England, are undated, but it is believed that they were...'The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England'. The district formed part of the area in which...geophysical methods. In 1962 the newly formed South-West England field unit, successively under Dr. F. B. A. Welch
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...deposits o f m endipite were discovered at M erehead quarry, the H igher Pitts m ine at Priddy was the main...the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, 25 km south of the city of Bristol and 4 km north of the city of...construction of a new house at the Higher Pitts Farm. All that now remains at the site is a small underground
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on the 24 March 1943. My parents were Eric Charles...few hundred yards from the main entrance to the Bristol Aircraft Company where my father worked. During...born in 1953. We moved back to the Bristol area and a house in Henbury, fairly close to the British Aircraft...Corporation works at Filton, Bristol, where my father worked on the Bristol Brabazon167 giant airliner
Report (issue)
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL ,SURVEY ENGLAND AND WALES EXPLANATION OF SHEETS 274 and 290 The...new colour-printed issues of one--inch Sheets, England, 274 and 290. Reference to the principal books...LYDDEN HALT. Coombe Rock. Pit in fan of chalk .. and flint-wash discharged from the shallow coombe in background...the . .. right, i.e., towards the thalweg of the coombe . . • 35 63 • • Vl • FIGURES IN TEXT PAGE...the Sands is at present gapped by two channels of coombe-like contour, which descend east­ ward, and probably
Report (issue)
Bridford Lead and zinc anomalies in the Higher Coombe area, Bovey Tracey 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 31...the Higher Coombe area, near Bovey Tracey Contoured dipole-dipole results, Higher Coombe area 38 40...40 Contoured gradient array results, Higher Coombe area 45 Drill sites in relation to mapped geology...north-east of Bovey Tracey, between Lower and Higher Coombe, to investigate the clusters of geochemical anomalies...sequence both here and in other areas of south-west England. 1 )( X 90 X X X X' X X )C X X X X
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WAI..ES Geology of the Country around Canterb11ry•...Brazennose Street, Manchester 2 50 Fairfax Street, Bristol I 35 Smallbrook� Ringway, Birmingl1am 5 80 Chichester...Belfast 1 or through any bookseller Printed in England • • ••• 111 PREFACE TH1s MEMOIR describes...sheets of the New Series One-inch Geological Map of England and Wales. These maps are at present in the press...with-flintst 204; Head, 207; Head Gravel, 209; Coombe Deposits, 209; Head Brickearth, 210. Details: Clay-with-flints
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci...Cheesewring quarry, Cornwall (Foord et al. 1985); a study oflithium minerals from Meldon aplitc quarry, Devon...remaining parts of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain...with the introduction of administn1tive regions. England suffered too, but on a much smaller scale. Change
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. .. ENGLAND AND WALES• EXPLANATION OF SHEET 339. THE GEOLOGY OF THE...Upper Devonian Goniatite-beds at Lower Dunscombe Farm in 1880. 5 .. · Dr·�: :l{;ays�:r -- co�elated ·...aro'>unt of dis­ turbance is e�traordinary, every,. . quarry, . every range of oli.ff_,­ every _ a,rtifi9ial...-ftom�th_e_ Upp�r Devonian Slates on the e�st. In a quarry at Murley Grange these slates contain Pleurodiotyum...Middle Devonian Slates of West Ogwell. In Stanning's Quarry, near Wolfsgrove, the limestone contains Heliolites
Journal (volume)
mineral assemblage of the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK using a stability field model Trevor F. Bridges,...58-62 Copper and barium mineralisation at Forcett Quarry, East Layton, North Yorkshire Brian Young, Trevor...Tandy 62-72 NOTES Chalcoalumite from southwest England Richard S.W. Braithwaite and Michael G.H. Merry...volume describe copper mineralisation in Forcett Quarry, North Yorkshire and at Rassal Mine in the Scottish...Northern Pennines, and chalcoalumite from southwest England. Enjoy reading these, be inspired to make more
Book
Valley Deposits 2.5 ni River Terrace Deposits Head Coombe Deposits Brickearth Hoxnian Deposits Glaciofluvial...> AVA 90014 Cover photograph View from Gannock Farm to the north-west. A typical scene on the Chalk... . Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 221 (England and LONDON: HMSO Wales) Structure JM Allsop...Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 221 (England and Wales). Memoirs Huntingdon and Biggleswade...1923 [1990(F)] Hertford (239), 1978 Printed in the UK for HMSO Dd 301325 C8 3/96 Epping (240), 1981
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Bridport...valley in the Inferior Oolite south-east of Combe Farm, north-west of Sherborne . (A 8936) VI. A. B. ...Cudworth, Chillington . . J. A. Robbie . . • • Coombe . . •• •• ,, Merriott, West Chinnock V. Wilson...Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks that extends across England from the Yorkshire co·ast. It is entirely agricul­...one of the most attractive in the south-west of England ; though it possesses no lofty hills or rugged
Book
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN England and Wales E. C. FRESHNEY K. E. BEER and ]. E. WRIGHT CONTRIBUTORS...worked extensive!y from small quarries near the farm for local building purposes ( A 11491) © Crown...films by U.D.O ..J enn Ltd, London Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Staples...siltstones and shales of the Bude Formation in a quarry near Rosemoor, St Giles in the Wood. (A 11492)...a slab ofBude Formation sandstone in Newbridge Quarry, Huish. (A 11473) 10 Courtmoor ball claypit near
 
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