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| Species: | Scotlandite |
| Formula: | PbSO3 |
| Comments: | Cooper & Stanley (1990): "Recently found on a few small specimens collected from an outcrop of the Roughton Gill South vein in higher Roughton Gill. It occurs as a sparkling pale brown encrustation on altered galena with mattheddleite, lanarkite, leadhillite and caledonite (det. Leeds Univ.: XRD, D.I. Green in prep.)" |
| Habit: | pointed; chisel-shaped. |
| Colour: | pale brown; colourless. |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | XRD |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Scotlandite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Higher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 401689 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:401689:2 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 7d1a3e12-5e20-43aa-9860-3ca0da631b18 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Scotlandite |
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| 0.6km (0.4 miles) | ⓘRoughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 1.1km (0.7 miles) | ⓘRed Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 1.6km (1.0 miles) | ⓘDry Smale Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 1.8km (1.1 miles) | ⓘBrae Fell Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 2.3km (1.5 miles) | ⓘShort Grain, Deer Hills, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 6.0km (3.7 miles) | ⓘSaddleback Old Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK |
| 90.3km (56.1 miles) | ⓘHorners Vein (Jeffrey's Vein; Carse's Vein), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK |
| 90.5km (56.3 miles) | ⓘScar Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK |
| 90.6km (56.3 miles) | ⓘHopeful Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK |
| 90.7km (56.3 miles) | ⓘLady Anne Hopetoun shaft (Brow and Hopeful Veins), Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK |
| References |
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Green, D.I., Bridges, T.F., Rumsey, M.S., Leppington, C.M., Tindle, A.G. (2008) A review of the mineralogy of the Roughton Gill Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria: Part 2 The Roughton Gill South Vein on Balliway Rigg. Journal of the Russell Society, 11. 3-28 |
