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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Comments:Cooper & Stanley (1990): "Small tapering colourless crystals with beudantite and carminite from a vein exposure in the dry gully to the east [NY32403385] have been shown by IR (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)) to be almost phosphate-free."
Habit:massive; tabular to prismatic rarely above 5mm long
Colour:grey to pale green; greyish brown; yellow; colourless
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Infrared Spectroscopy
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite5 photos of Mimetite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Quartz4 photos of Mimetite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Beudantite4 photos of Mimetite associated with Beudantite at this locality.
Goethite4 photos of Mimetite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Bayldonite2 photos of Mimetite associated with Bayldonite at this locality.
Stolzite1 photo of Mimetite associated with Stolzite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7747
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7747:7
GUID (UUID V4):3a5dbc23-9b65-4a60-9f39-d3b59c2b13e9
Nearest other occurrences of Mimetite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Arm O'Grain, Coombe Height, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Driggith Mine (Driggeth Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
1.7km (1.0 miles) Barstow's Trench, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
1.8km (1.1 miles) Mexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Driggith Opencut (Roughton South Vein), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.0km (1.3 miles) Low Pike north slopes, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.0km (1.3 miles) Burdell Gill, Coombe Height, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Higher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS...(MNS 4487) (top left) Mimetite, variety campylite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells (MNS 4492) (top right)...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
Book
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...specimens ever found: pyromorphite, plumbogummite, mimetite, linarite, hemimorphite and other species from...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
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’
Journal (issue)
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2023 Articles The Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England................575 by P. S...containing a wet and dry cave environment and a mine. He was active in the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society...TRINCHILLO TOURMALINE WITH LEPIDOLITE Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil 16 cm | w w w.FineMineral.com Fine...classics.fine.minerals The Dry Gill Mine Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England Peter S. Burr Ichoring 30A...Harrington Workington, CA14 4NT England “Campylite,” a variety of mimetite, occurs rather abundantly as
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...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...23 CASSITERITE 24 CHALCEDONY 25 PYROMORPHITE 26 MIMETITE 27 LOWNGITE 28 TURQUOISE 29 LAUMONTITE 30 CHABAZITE...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein
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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...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of
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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
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...the supplies of mineral specimens from Northern England were limitless. Hundreds of thousands of specimens
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Mimetite Rocks & Minerals 2001.76:114-117. Tsumeb, Namibia...pyromorphite, and mimetite. Of these, the acquisition of a good-quality, highly colorful mimetite can be a significant...species. Accordingly, a pair of unusually fine mimetite specimens in the Desmond Sacco collection have...been chosen as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Mimetite is best known as a pale to bright yellow mineral...of 3 . 5 4 and a density of about 7.25 gm/cm,. Mimetite is typically translucent, seldom transparent,
Journal (issue)
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
Report (issue)
agardite-(Y). Chemistry: (1) Red Cloud fluorite mine, New Mexico, USA; analysis not given, by electron...(Red Cloud fluorite mine, New Mexico, USA); chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, vanadinite, conichalcite...mottramite, cerussite, quartz (Red Cloud copper mine, New Mexico, USA); smithsonite, aurichalcite, hydrozincite... chrysocolla, zincaluminite, gibbsite (Kamariza mine, Greece). Distribution: From the Red Cloud fluorite...Mexico, USA. In the Kamariza mine, Laurium, Greece (Ce > La in part). In England, from Wheal Alfred, Phillack
Report (issue)
Namibia); bayldonite, beudantite, mimetite, cerussite (Cap Garonne mine, France). Distribution: Many minor...Zambia. At the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France...France. In the Virneberg mine, near Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. From Beresovsk, near...Russia. In England, at Brandy Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, and in the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary...Cornwall. From the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango, Mexico. In the USA, from the Mohawk mine, Clark Mountains,
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen purchased in 1948 as bayldonite from Ojuela mine, Mapimi, l)urango, Mexico (B.M. 1948,267) gave a...specimen of a green botryoiBrandy Gill, Caldbeek Fells, Cumberland, sent in by Mr. W...spectrographic comparison of the Mapimi and Brandy Gill materials with several conichalcites suggested...with that of the Mapimi mineral, while that of Brandy Gill showed some characters of both duftite and conichalcite...associated with other lead minerals, and from Brandy Gill as thin coatings also associated with lead minerals
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deseloizite, and vanadinite. Higher part of Brandy Gill, CarroekFell. Mottramite, descloizite, and vanadinite...conditions. About three-quarters of the way up Brandy Gill two old trial cross-cuts (now collapsed) have...have been driven, one on each side of the gill, on an east-west copper-lead V 1 H. E. Roscoe, Proc. Roy...absent. A large amount of massive greyish-brown mimetite is present in certain parts of the vein at the...the outcrop and it is in cavities in this mimetite that most of the mottramite occurs, forming yellowish-green
Catalog/List
MARCH/APRIL 2008 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan...50x40x20mm. £35. 2) A PAT I T E and CASSITERITE. Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A small...£125. 7) CASSITERITE. Great Flat Lode, Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Rich heavy chloritic veinstone...1 2 m m . £15. 8) CASSITERITE and TOPAZ. Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. The top...40x25x18mm. £35. 11) CHALCOPYRITE. South Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall. A nice solid mass of chalcopyrite
Journal (issue)
lo; I ,., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen:...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 (volume)
middle portion of Cumberland, North of the River Eden, and South of the River Elien, being a sort of terra...had found growing in pastures, etc., between the Eden and the Ehen, giving particulars of their occurrence...vale, from its source to its confluence with the Eden. He says : " of the many valleys ramifying from...not indigenous to the North-Western Counties of England, are yet included in the " London Catalogue ” of...ix., p. 315). Its most southern localities in England are at Longridge, near Preston, and the Blackhills
Catalog/List
Greenside Mine, Patterdale, Cumbria, pinkish grey xls. 50x30x20mm. £9. 6. BARYTOCALCITE. Blagill Mine, Alston... 7. BAYLDONITE AND BEUDANTITE. Brandy Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Quartz matrix showing apple green...80x80x40mm. £375. 11. CALCITE. Carrock Mine, Carrock Fells, Cumbria. a quartz/calcite veinstone showing...80x70x15mm. £18. 12. CALCITE. Cambokeels Mine, Weardale, Cumbria. A sharp lustrous hexagonal xl, 40x30mm...60x60x2Ontn. ■max. £285. 14. CALCITE. New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Scotland, A small group of three colourless
Catalog/List
35x30x20mm. £ 12. ..._ 5) ARGYRODITE. Himmelsfurst Mine, Saxony, Gennany. Several lead grey metallic fragments...45x30xl5mm. £25. 8) BAYLDONITE. Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Cellular quartz matrix with green...60x50x30mm. £165. (b) JO) CALCITE (Co). Masl1amba West Mine, Kolwezi, Zaire. An approximate 50xl5mm crust of...coated QUARTZ. 1400' level, Hanging Wall Vein, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. An intergrown group of"stacked"...£22. _ '.. _. 13) CASSITERITE on QUARTZ. Zab}1oe Mine, Daloegorsk, Russia. Two colourless translucent
Journal (volume)
Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...Hexagonal prismatic mimetite crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the...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
Book
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
Journal (volume)
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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