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Pyromorphite from
Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK


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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite, etc.

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite, etc.

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
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Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
09416810017271998575794.jpg
Pyromorphite

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
08949040017271926067687.jpg
Pyromorphite, etc.

Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyromorphite
Formula:Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Comments:Sometimes as epimorphs/pseudomorphs after cerussite.
Habit:prismatic; tabular; botryoidal encrustations; stalactites; acicular
Colour:white; grey, yellow, oil-green to emerald-green; brown; orange; bicolour (green/orange, green/yellow)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Plumbogummite32
Quartz10
Baryte8
Galena4
Tsumebite1
Brochantite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyromorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (68 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9196
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9196:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Pyromorphite
0.1km (0.0 miles) ⓘRoughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘMexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘTodd Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.4km (0.2 miles) ⓘIron Crag, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) ⓘBarstow's Trench, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) ⓘBalliway Rigg, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) ⓘSilver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘClints Gill (Roughton South Vein), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘThief Gills, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘHigher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
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.
Goodchild, J.G. (1885) Contributions towards a list of minerals occurring in Cumberland and Westmorland [part 3]. Transactions of the Cumberland Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science, 9. 175-199
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.
Kingsbury, Arthur W. G., Hartley, J. (1956) New occurrences of vanadium minerals (mottramite, descloizite, and vanadinite) in the Caldbeck area of Cumberland. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 31 (235) 289-295 doi:10.1180/minmag.1956.031.235.02
El Shazly, E.M., Webb, J.S., and Williams, D. (1957) Trace elements in sphalerite, galena and associated minerals from the British Isles. Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 66, 241-271.
Cockbain, A. G. (1968) Lead apatite solid-solution series. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 36 (284). 1171-1173 doi:10.1180/minmag.1968.036.284.17
Newby, H.P. (1981) Rare earth elements in pyromorphite group minerals. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of London.
Hartley, J. (1984) A list of minerals associated with the ore deposits of the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association, 10 (3) 22-39
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
Bridges, T.F., Green, D.I. (2008) Baryte formation in supergene environments in the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Journal of the Russell Society, 11. 48-50
Bridges, Trevor F., Green, David, Rumsey, Michael S., Leppington, C. Michael (2011) A review of the mineralisation of the Roughton Gill mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria: Part 3 Roughton Gill Mine. Journal of the Russell Society, 14. 3-23
 
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