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Apatite from
Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Apatite, etc.

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3A
Comments:Crystals up to 30mm occur on an iron-stained muscovite and quartz matrix and appear to have been most common on the selvedges of the veins (Fortey, 1978).
Habit:prisms
Colour:greenish; colourless; yellow; blue; pink
Luminescent properties:green crystals fluoresce orange-yellow in shortwave UV (Cooper & Stanley, 1990)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphalerite6
Muscovite6
Scheelite1
Arsenopyrite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:914
Long-form Identifier:1:3:914:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Apatite in this Region
Harding vein, Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘGrains Gill, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘBrandy Gill Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
2.3km (1.4 miles) ⓘHigher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
2.6km (1.6 miles) ⓘRoughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
4.1km (2.6 miles) ⓘBannerdale, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
13.9km (8.7 miles) ⓘSale Fell Minette, Wythop, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
16.9km (10.5 miles) ⓘCobalt Mine, Scar Crag, Causey Pike, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
20.3km (12.6 miles) ⓘDale Head North, Newlands Valley, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
22.5km (14.0 miles) ⓘBurtness Wood, Buttermere, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
26.9km (16.7 miles) ⓘBrown How, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
References
and especially the localities of British minerals. 3rd edition. Published by the author, London. 407 pp.
Borie, Mr (1817) Caldbeck Fells. Annals of Philosophy, 9, 161.
Phillips, William (1823) An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy (3rd ed.)
Lévy, Armand (1837) Description d'une collection de minéraux, formée par m. Henri Heuland, et appartenant à m. C.H. Hampden Turner, de Rooksnest, dans le comté de Surrey en Angleterre. Trois Volumes avec une Atlas de 83 Planches. F. Richter et Haas.
Greg, Robert Philips, Lettsom, William G. (1858) Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland. John Van Voorst, London.
Hall, Townshend M. (1868) The Mineralogist's Directory: or, a guide to the Principal Mineral Localities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Edward Stanford.
Jenkinson, H.I. (1875) Practical guide to the English Lake District, 4th ed., Carlisle [a chapter on 'Mineralogy' (pp. lxxi-xciii) was contributed by Bryce M. Wright Jr and was reprinted in all subsequent editions].
Rudler, F. W. (1905) A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Isles - Mostly selected from the Ludlam Collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology. 253pp.
Finlayson, A. M. (1910) The Ore-bearing Pegmatites of Carrock Fell, and the Genetic Significance of Tungsten-ores. Geological Magazine, S. 5 Vol. 7 (1). 19-28 doi:10.1017/s0016756800132649
Day, F. H. (1928) Some notes on the minerals of the Caldbeck Fells. Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society, 4. 66-79
Davidson, W.F. and Thomson, N. (1951) Some notes on the minerals of Westmorland and Cumberland. North West Naturalist, 23 (for 1948), 136-154.
Fortey, N.J. (1978) Mineral parageneses of the Harding vein tungsten deposit, Carrock Fell mine, Cumbria. Mineralogy Unit Report 228, Institute of Geological Sciences.
Ball, T.K., Fortey, N.J., and Shepherd, T.J. (1985) Mineralisation at the Carrock Fell Tungsten Mine, N. England: Paragenetic, fluid inclusion and geochemical study. Mineralium Deposita, 20, 57-65.
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Stanley, Christopher J., Cooper, Michael P. (1991) Famous Mineral Localities: Pyromorphite-Group Minerals from the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. The Mineralogical Record, 22 (2) 105-121
 
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