 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountains, centered on the Weardale area of northern England, have yielded enormous amounts of both lead and...partner in UK Mining Ventures,which is operating a specimen-recoveryproject at the Rogerley mine in Weardale...Weardale, England. His most recent article for Rocks & Minerals was titled “The Rogerley Mine, Weardale,... County Durham, England” and appeared in the January/February 2000 issue. 378 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...cost of rehabilitating and running an underground mine, coupled with everincreasing environmental concerns |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | From the North Pennines Orefield England Figure 1. The Groverake mine, located in upper Rookhopeburn,...Weardale proper. The Groverake was the last operating commercial fluorspar mine in the North Pennines...Pennines, closing in 1999. Mine waste heaps (known locally as “tips”) dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth...nineteenth centuries can be seen on the hills above the mine site. Figure 2 (left). A scattering of numerous...matrix, 14 × 10 × 7 cm, recovered from the Cambokeels mine in the early 1980s. Figure 3 (right). A penetration-twinned |  | | Book | | Outstanding Natural Beauty Authors: lan Forbes, Durham County Council. Brian Young, British Geological Survey...Northumberland County Council. Lesley Hehir, Durham County Council. Graphic design: Louise Fenwick, Durham County...Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page.12 Fossilised tropical sea...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...Scraithole Vein, T.F. Bridges; p.28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite | | | Book | | Outstanding Natural Beauty Authors: Ian Forbes, Durham County Council. Brian Young, British Geological Survey...Northumberland County Council. Lesley Hehir, Durham County Council. Graphic design: Louise Fenwick, Durham County...Smallcleugh Level, Nenthead, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum. Page.12 Fossilised tropical sea...Survey; p.26 Miners in Greenside Mine, Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum; p.28 Scraithole...Scraithole Vein, T.F. Bridges; p.28 Fluorite, Boltsburn Mine © The Natural History Museum, London; p.29 Sphalerite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exception to this has been specimens from the Rogerley mine, which was worked by partners Lindsay Greenbank...1970s and 1996. The Rogerley is, to date, the only mine in the United Kingdom that has been operated specifically...on a commercial basis, and during this time the mine produced a limited but steady stream of high-quality...offered to assist in transferring the operation of the mine to a group of interested Americans. After completing...Komerak. and Jonina and Bill Pogue), operating as UK Mining Ventures, began full-time operations at the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This well-formed twinned yellow...conditions, Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8...the Lead Hill area, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois, and is 5.5 cm. Ross Lillie specimen...abundant ore minerals in MVTs are sphalerite (Zn) and galena (Pb). Other common minerals include pyrite, marcasite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK B.YOUNG British Geological Survey, Windsor Court...Court, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HB, UK AND C. J. STANLEY Department of Mineralogy, The...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 3BD, UK Abstract Bismuthinite-bearing quartz veins from the...Pennine Orefield are all close to, or above, the Rookhope and Tynehead cupolas of the buried Weardale Granite...paragenesis and are earlier than the main fluorite-baryte-galena-sphalerite mineralization of the orefield. Rhythmical |  | | Book (edition) | | Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...witherite and barytes, minerals that accompany the galena, all became industrially important. The 20th century...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the...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 |  | | Report (edition) | | .in the lead a.nd zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere. It is commonly...association is with calc spar and barytes, though in Durham where much of the country rook is arenaceous,...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...miners except in those parts which contained galena in paying quantity, had been the chief source of the...and, with Mr. Wray, an account of the mines in Durham. Mr. Pocock describes the occurrences in Derbyshire |  | | Report (edition) | | is the \Vholesale Agent to the Trade outside the County of London. 1916. Price Ninepence. .. 11 PREFACE...abundance in the lead- and zinc-veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quanti ties elsewhere. It is commonly...association is with calc spp.r and baryt.es, though in Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old. miners...miners except in those parts which contained galena in paying quantity, have ·been the chief source of |  | | Report (issue) | | ORE o, /J / \ I DEPOSITS UPPER WEARDALE, DURHAM ' I.JILES -:•••..... . ...___ •• • •:•• ...Structure of Ore-bodies lviineralo gy I. Weardale, Co. Durham 1. Carricks 11ine - 2. Rowantree A - 3. Rowantree...Mines on two Fell top Lir::estones in Rookhope (Frazers Hush, Groverake, Stotfield Head) 14. Prospects in...- 21. E. Dryburn - 22. Bollihope Teesdale, Co. Durham 1. Langdon - 2. Bands 5. Bow Lee - 6. Snaisgill... 1 • in Cumberland and Dun Fell Mine in Wes·tmorland. Co. Durham, is also a potential producer. Bol |  | | Report (edition) | | abundance in the lead and zinc veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller quantities elsewhere. It is commonly...association is· with calc-spar and barytes, though in Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being had to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...miners except in those·parts which contained galena in paying quantity, had been the chief source of the...Carruthers has had charge of the Northumberland, Durham and • Yorkshire sections; Mr. R. W. Pocock has |  | | Book | | publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages 41, 46, 54, 59(x2)...Earth Sciences,University of Durham: page_26 C H. Emeleus,University of Durham: page 26 Friends of Killhope...Valley ................... The Northumberland and Durham Coalfield ............. The Northern Pennine Orefield................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such a diverse expanse naturally |  | | Report (issue) | | in the Pennines of northern England, particularly in Derbyshire and Durham. The deposits are associated...flotation. Derbyshire is the principal producing county, much of the present production coming from workings...found, particularly in northern Derbyshire and west Durham, beneath geologically younger formations and also...Steel Corporation, both of which have mines in Durham. Laporte Industries is the largest producer and...rock. The minerals calcite, siderite, ankerite, galena, sphalerite, baryte, quartz and pyrite are commonly |  | | Book (edition) | | MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALF�S GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PENNINE OREFIELD...inserted on the six-inch maps, and all available mine-sections were reduced to the common scale of 200...made by him. The willing co-operation of all the mine-owners and operators and their staffs made possible... B. Laporte & Co., the Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd.,...Plan of the North Central flats, Rotherhope Fell Mine 82 11. Cross-section of Burtrec Pasture Vein |  | | Journal (volume) | | and yellow zoning from the find at Rodderup Fell Mine in the early 1930’s Photo G. Scovil WANTED! We...The Old Linhay, Halberfoh Road. Wil land, Devon, England, EX 15 2QF TEL 01884 821563 Email Ian@crystalclassics...plumbogummite from Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Photo: David Green. The UK Journal of Mines and...------ 9 -------------------------- Rogerley Mine Jesse Fisher • Lindsay Greenbank MARKETING Peter...------------------------- Classified Advertisments UK Journal of Mines &• Minerals No. 23 - 1 - Editorial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cormate waterssimilarto thoseat presentfoundin the Durham coalfield. A comparison of the fluidinclusion...minesareoperative, fiveproducing fluoriteandminorquantities of galena,oneproducing bariteandonewitherite. Dunham(8) hasdescribed...Blackdene Mine, 9. Slitt, 10. Allenheads,11. WhiteheapsMine, 12. Groverake Mine, 13. Rookhope Borehole...I-Iercyniangranitesof S.W. England (27). Mineralo#y.--The sulfide minerals present in the orefield are galena, sphalerite...andniccolitehavebeenreportedfrom Settlingstones Mine. The threemajor matrix mineralsare fluorite, barite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | British Steel Corporation geologists to Groverake Mine, near Rookhope in Weardale, supergene native copper...faces and cleavage planes of fluorite in the Groverake Vein. The growths are often radial around, but...Northern Pennines has been recorded only from Sedling Mine, Weardale, where D u n h a m (1932, p. 92) described...described the occurrence of covelline replacing galena at the Horse Level horizon. Acknowledgements. I thank...Steel Corporation for permitting access to Groverake Mine, and Mr. J. Forster and Mr. R. Willmers for |  | | Report (edition) | | the '1,Vholesale Agent to the Trade outside the County of London. 1917. Price 9d. Net. .. 11 PREF...abundance in the lead- and zinc-veins of Derbyshire and Durham, and in smaller qnal_lti ties elsewhere. It is...association is with ca l c spar and barytes, though i n Durham where much of the country-rock is arenaceous, the...being h.ad to the more costly process of mining. In Durham the veins, which were left intact by the old miners...miners except in those parts which contained galena in paying quantity, have been the chief source of |  | | Report (edition) | | GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION GUIDES The Durham Area Compiled by G. A. L. JOHNSON Introduction page ITINERARY...Coal Measures in the Banks of the River Wear at Durham 3 II. Ordovician, Carboniferous and Intrusive Rocks...Upper Weardalc 12 IV. The Permiao in North-East Durham 15 21 V. Jurassic Rocks of the North Cleveland...of East Durham VII. Supplement to llinernrics 11, Ill and V: Igneous Rocks 26 in the Durham Arca 30 References...for incorporation in any further edition. The Durham Area Compiled by G. A. L. JOHNSON Contributors: |  | | Journal (issue) | | RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...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 |  | | Book (edition) | | | VOLUME V II UK MINING VENTURES T HE M INER AL HER ITAGE SPE CI ALI STS K U UK MI CONTENTS CONTENTS...CONTENTS UK MINING VENTU z FOREWOR D BY IAN & DIANA BRUCE4-5 z WEARDALE, COUNTY DURHA M 6-17 z DI A...A NA M ARI A MINE 18-29 SUTCLIFFE VEIN GR AEBER JONES POCKET 30-31 SNOWSTOR M POCKET 32-33 PAVEL’S...HILL POCKET 38-39 QUEEN OF GREEN POCKET 40-41 GALENA POCKET42-43 PURPLE H AZE POCKET 44-45 NOVEMBER...POCKET92-93 NORTHER N LIGHTS POCKET94-95 z ROGERLEY MINE 96-107 GREENBANK VEIN WOLFIE POCKET108-109 BEADLE |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................ Groverake & Frazer's Hush Mines Brian Young 28 ...........is that David, while at University, represented England in the sport of 'winks', which apparently was taken...impurities. Thus elsewhere in this Newsletter Groverake Mine is described as a commercial producer of fluorspar...au South Caradon 5551 The site of South Caradon mine at St. Cleer Cornwall, has been declared by English...moss. The accessible underground workings of the mine are leased by the Caradon Mines Research Group, |  | | Catalog/List | | Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake B32381 (STD (022) V.A.T.No...arsenopyrite. 3x2~x1t", £13.00 . 5. Hingston Down Mine: nr. C~llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green micro...length intergrown and scattered on cellular calcite/galena matrix. >tx2tx2", £11.00. Specimen B: Translucent...Specimen B, 1~1fx1", £3.2Sp 17. CASSITERITE. Seal Hole Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Bright deep brownish sharp... 1-tx1tx1" , £12.00 1B. CASSITERITE. Blue Hills Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Rich heavy light brown mass |  | | Report (issue) | | 0308-2199j BRITISH MINING No.5 MEMOIRS of NORTHERN MINE the RESEARCH 1977 SOCIETY NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS...exploration and geological research with reference to mine workings of the British Isles are welcome for inclusion...addressed to: R.H. Bird Esq. The Editor, Northern Mine Research Society, 41 Windsor Walk, South Anston...Guthrie Esq . Publication After Sales, Northern Mine Research Society, 186 Station Road, Billingham TS23...otherwise, without prior permission of the Northern Mine Research Society. Further, any opinions or statements |
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Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK