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Gersdorffite from
Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Gersdorffite
Formula:NiAsS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gersdorffite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:787282
Long-form Identifier:1:3:787282:2
GUID (UUID V4):671e41ec-a0f8-405e-a393-966aa2a6c965
Nearest other occurrences of Gersdorffite
4.6km (2.8 miles) Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
6.1km (3.8 miles) Great Sulphur vein, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
9.3km (5.8 miles) Lady's Rake Mine, Harwood, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK
20.9km (13.0 miles) Hilton Mine, Scordale, Murton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
25.6km (15.9 miles) Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK
45.7km (28.4 miles) Old Sandbed Mine (Old Sandbeds Mine), Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
66.8km (41.5 miles) Coniston Copper Mines, Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...Marquis Lode. SX.2D1 Cassiterite var. "Wood Tin" - Lee Moor China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. SX.2F1 Stibnite...Mine, Appleby, Cumbria. [NY 703 317]. NY.D29 Barytocalcite - Blagill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. N.Thomson 1980s...from here. Polished. SK.N3 Calcite - Moor Farm Opencast, Bonsall Moor, Derbyshire. May be Beans and Bacon
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
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...Campylite is one of the classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of
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...1820s the bleak and isolated mining village of Alston had become a centre for mineral dealing and remained...numbers during the eighteenth century Mines on Alston Moor and in the rich deposits and became almost commonplace
Journal (issue)
RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...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...claudetite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England c. M. Leppinf{toll and D.I. Green 36 Atacamite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron-bearing sulpharsenides from the North of England R. A. IXER, C. J. STANLEY, AND D. J. VAUGHAN Department...SUMMARY. Within the Alston Orefield of the North Pennines, glaucodot and gersdorffite have been found in...Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, and zoned gersdorffite has been found from Nenthead and the Great Sulphur Vein. At...in nickel content in the sulpharsenides from the Alston Orefield with a relatively constant Co:Fe ratio...ratios from FeAsS to CoAsS. The compositions of the Alston Orefield sulpharsenides, in particular, show them
Journal (volume)
Ives Leeds (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...crystals to 4mm from Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, collected in the 1970s by Jim Knight. Photograph...occurrence of kottigite, from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and David I Green PAPERS A review...at Driggith and Sandbed Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...mineralogy of Brae Fell Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, David I Green and Michael S
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...specimens are labelled "Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...specimens were acquired through dealers operating in Alston, and, for whatever reason, they opted to change...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious
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...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Previous studies of the North Pennine Orefield, England have focused on gangue mineral assemblages (Dunham...growthrelated textures, previously unreported, for the Alston Block part of the orefield. Methodology Principal...in quartz gangue with minor siderite, galena, gersdorffite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. Type I sphaterite...lenses of gangue quartz with minor marcasite and gersdorffite. This sphalerite, unbanded in reflected light...tailings and dump material in the Nenthead District. The Nenthead mines and area are fully described
Catalog/List
_j Byways, 2o·Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...131 ■■ DOLOMITE Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria 1124 ■■ SCHEFFERITE Lwigban, Wennland, Sweden FERROAN...pyrite and veins of white quartz. Carrock Mine Cumbria, Scheelite is fluorescent blue with short wave...crystal group. (Force Crag Mine, near Keswick, Cumbria) 4x4 inch £25 PYROMORPffiTE small display piece...over 2x3 surface. Driggeth Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria £15 ALBITE translucent crystals up to 5mm size
Journal (volume)
Admirality Concession Flat, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. Specimen width 60 mm. Trevor Bridges specimen...Admiralty Consession Flat, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges, Frank Bouweraerts and Helen...occurrence from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Andrew G. Tindle, Tim Neall and...superintendent of the Blencathra Sanatorium in Cumbria when it opened in 1904, and published Precious...TAYLER Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England, KT11 2NL A study of historically, and recently
Catalog/List
is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria Dyfed.Wales Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Leadhills,Scotl. Caldbeck,Cumbria Derbyshire Moorshaft...Moorshaft Lode Scordale,Cumbria Ecton.Staffs. Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Trefelrig,Wales SlOay,Comwall Derbyshire...Staffs. Breage,Comwall Dorset Caldbeck,Cumbria Caldbeck,Cumbria Porthleven,Comw. Comwall Strathclyde Skye...Comwall Gwennap,Comwall Talybont,Wales Scordale,Cumbria SLDay,Comwall Start
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...and from the iron ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...to encompass the Forest of Bowland, the Vale of Eden, the Salway Plain and the western part of the North...Penrith Sandstone, Magnesian Limestone, St Bees and Eden shales, and evaporites 12 Sherwood Sandstone Group
Journal (issue)
Alderley Edge - Mottram St Andrew area, Cheshire, England R . S. W. Braith waite 91 Fluorite at Hampstead...109 NOTES Tyuyamunite from St Just, Cornwall , England NJ. Elton and J.J. Hooper 114 Barytocalcite and...Salop, England R.E. Starkey, N. Hubbard and B. Young 115 Witherite from Scaleburn vein , Nenthead, Cumbria...Cumbria, England R . Bunting 118 Vivianite from South Humberside and Yorkshire , England M.E. Smith ...slop 121 Cinnabar from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England T. ,veall and M. Lepping ton 123 Analyses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associations include erythrite, retgersite, gersdorffite, nickeline, maucherite, and nickel-skutterudite...occur with maucherite, nickeline, chloanthite, gersdorffite, violarite, rammelsbergite, and arsenopyrite...America. For example, it is associated with gersdorffite in the Gloria mine, Alisito, Sinaloa, Mexico...encrustations from the Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, both in Cumbria, as well as in numerous locations in Cornwall...from the Hilton mine, Scordale, Westmoreland, England, dominated by a 4-cm pocket containing aggregates
Journal (issue)
Nickel minerals in the Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria. 26 M.E. Smith. 33 T.F. Bridges. 40 First British...history of the Oxford Clay (Jurassic) of central England . Sedimentology, 25, 339·370. Pitcher, W.S., Peake...was exposed, with the quartzose sandstone of the Moor Grit member at its base (Sylvester-Bradley, 1949...show sandy beds of the Scalby Formation, with the Moor Grit at the base, unconformably capped by deposits...occupying vertical joints in the sandstones of the Moor Grit (Basal unit of Scalby Formation). R.J . KING
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite...½" £2 lxl £4 lx2 £6 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses CaS0.'4 lx2 £1...lxl £3 lx2 £6 2x2 £12 650 APATITE Carrock Mine Cumbria Greenish in Quartz. Will fluoresce pale yellow
Journal (issue)
Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Media, (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...mineralization at Silver Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Trevor F Bridges, M ichael P. Cooper...fuloppite from Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Tim Neall and A ndy G. Tindle ...supergene mineralogy of Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F Bridges and David I. Green Kegelite, a
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive green... £4 lx2 £6 Ca SO/4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses lx2 80p 2x2 £1...Fcldspnr Ix2 £4 2x2 £8 650 APATITE Carrock Mine Cumbria Greenish in Qunrtz . Will fluoresce pale yellow
Catalog/List
I Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite..._--~(~OI_~·-·· · -·- ·· ···ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule. Ixlins80p..._ _P_b_so_,_4____ 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich while to faintly,bluemasses lx2~0p ________...near Okeharnpton,Devo, ■ APATITE Carrock Mine CUmbria Greenish in Quartz. Will fluoresce pale yellow
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...mandarinoite, the rare iron selenite. Back in England, but at the northern end of the realm on this occasion...Bob Symes signing copies of Minerals of Northern England at the book launch hosted at Killhope Lead Mining...later, in the autumn of 2008, Minerals of Northern England was published, authored jointly by Bob and Brian
Catalog/List
Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677) ORDERING ...discovered. V 45. DOLOMITE. Smallclough Mine, Nenthead, Cumberland. Bright, creamy coloured "saddle"shaped...ChEllcopyrite in association. lixl-t". £2.25. 53. GERSDORFFITE. Mitterberg, Austria. Rich metallic grey masses...2tx2". £4.75. 93. SPHALERITE. Nentsberry Mine, Alston Moor, Cumberland. Choice, very bright, sparkling black
Journal (volume)
5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection. Photograph by David...Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection. Photograph by David...mineralisation at Ingray Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria David I. Green, Michael S. Rumsey, Trevor F. Bridges...mineralogy of Short Grain Low Level, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria Tim Neall and David I. Green 45-61 ‘Lady’s slippers’...Sir Kingsley Dunham from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE Acicular baryte
Catalog/List
No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals about half ins size...ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England Winster Derbyshire Pure fawn columnar masses grey...FLUORESCENl ½" £3 Ix! £6 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex. England 246 BARYfES Redhill, Surrey Pure hard white sphere...Scarborough Yorkshire 456 BARYfOCALCITE Near Alston Cumbria A rare British mineral. White veins and masses
 
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