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⇱ Marcasite from Rising Sun Colliery, North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England, UK


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Marcasite from
Rising Sun Colliery, North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England, UK

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Locality type:Colliery
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rising Sun Colliery, North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:620651
Long-form Identifier:1:3:620651:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Marcasite
40.9km (25.4 miles) Whiteheaps Mine, Hunstanworth, County Durham, England, UK
44.2km (27.5 miles) Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
45.4km (28.2 miles) Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK
47.2km (29.3 miles) Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
48.7km (30.3 miles) Slitt Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
49.2km (30.5 miles) Middlehope Burn, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
51.7km (32.1 miles) Burtree Slits, Cowshill, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
54.6km (33.9 miles) Harthope Head Quarries, St. John's Chapel, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
57.1km (35.5 miles) Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
61.6km (38.3 miles) Tynehead Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sideronatrite from mineralized cavities in the Rising Sun colliery, Backworth, Northumberland By B. A. O. RANDALL...Newcastle upon Tyne [Read 9 June 1966] Summary. Two unusual cavities at a Northumberland colliery are described...thought to result from the alteration of the marcasite and pyrite lining the cavities by underground...salt stalactites in the disused roadways of the colliery. WO cavities were encountered in June 1960 during...coal seam, 1220 ft below sea level, at the Rising Sun colliery, Northumberland; grid reference 431401/567640
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ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH OF GEOLOGICAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL ENGLAND AND SURVEY COUNCIL SCIENCES OF GREAT BRITAIN...and Angela C. Girven, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, re-determined the amphibia. Permian fossils were...103 107 109 114 PAGE Fic. 80. Dyke echelons north-east of Blyth age Re ie a Bee | We) Fic....614).. A. Collywell Bay, Seaton Sluice: Hartley North tholeiite dyke, ending 108 upward in Middle Coal...‘district’ means the area of land included on the England and Wales one-inch geological sheet 15 (Tynemouth)
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COUNCIL SCIENCES OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT ENGLAND AND WALES BRITAIN 4 Geology of the “Tynemouth...and Angela C. Girven, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, re-determined the amphibia. Permian fossils were...103 107 109 114 PAGE Fic. 80. Dyke echelons north-east of Blyth ae ae al a 5a. 106) aos aa... 108 A. Collywell Bay, Seaton Sluice: Hartley North tholeiite dyke, ending upward in Middle Coal Measures...‘district’ means the area of land included on the England and Wales one-inch geological sheet 15 (Tynemouth)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aerugite, xanthiosite, 72. B r i t i s h Isles ENGLAND Derbyshire: native silver, lxxvii. Durlston Head...granite, 678. Rising Sun colliery, Bac~worth, Northumberland: baryte, gypsum, halite, marcasite, pyrite, sideronatrite...Visakhapatnam: charnoekite, 393. Bihar Pathardih colliery, Jharia : akagan6ite, wiistite, 664. Rajmahal...Bolivia Coehabamba: crocidolite, 291. Brazil Bahia NORTH AMERICA Greenland flimaussag: perthite, 903....Hamersley Range: crocidolite, 31 and 291. New Zealand North Island: titanhematite, titanomagnetite, 604.
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Report (issue)
halotrichite, uklonskovite, jurbanite, jarosite, pyrite, marcasite. Distribution: In Chile, from the San Simon mine...Cheleken Peninsula, Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan. From north of Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland. At Barton-on-Sea... Cornwall, and in the Rising Sun colliery, Backworth, Northumberland, England. From Winterslag and Eisden
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MEMOIRS OF THE GEOWGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Tynemouthdistrict (Explanation...and Angela C. Girven, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, r~determined the amphibia. Permian fossils were...82. FIG. 83. FIG. 84. FIG. 85. Dyke echelons north-east of Blyth Structure contours Faults and folds...PLATEV A. Collywell Bay, Seaton Sluice: Hartley North tholeiite dyke, ending upward in Middle Coal Measures...'district' means the area of land included on the England and Wales one-inch geological sheet 15 (Tynemouth)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accessory mineral in the aegirine-granite of Rockall, North Atlantic. A new species. J. R. Hawkes, R. J. Merriman...oxide 'pan' in a road cutting at Birness, 2o miles north of Aberdeen, Scotland. A new species. L. H. P. Jones...kaolinite, etc. in the Rowhurst Tonstein at Red Street colliery, near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. A. A. Wilson,...interstitially in the aegirine-granite of Rockall, North Atlantic. P. A. Sabine (I96O), Bull. geol. Surv...in a cavity of the aegirine-granite of Rockall, North Atlantic. P. A. Sabine (I96o), Bull. geol. Surv
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Book (edition)
Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...remaining parts of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain... the island ofRockall, which is located in the North Atlantic, some 440km W of northern Skye, off the...with the introduction of administn1tive regions. England suffered too, but on a much smaller scale. Change
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
common with other ferrous sulfides, pyrite and marcasite are unstable chemically when exposed to oxygen...Society the sulfur contained in the pyrite and marcasite, simultaneous oxidation of Fe2+ to Fe3+ and subsequent...jarosite, pickeringite and rozenite (Cumbrian coalfield, UK – Young and Nancarrow, 1988); alunogen, bı́linite...halotrichite, jarosite, melanterite and tschermigite (North Bohemian Basin, Czech Republic – Bouška and Dvořák...halite in natural cavities from the Rising Sun coal mine, Northumberland, UK where the sulfidic alteration was
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Book (edition)
Embrey LAPIDARY PUBLICATIONS Broadstairs • Kent . England - First published by John Yan Yoorst, London...kindly invited me to accompany him on that trip to England, ever memorable to me, and of the greatest influence...lilacAli.8ter (1906), llem. geol. Surv. U.K. (England Wah•J, Explanation of Sheet 352, pp. 315-324. ...nnd protect iron from oxidation. L C..\.LITTEs.-England. Cornwall; near Tuckingmill, Camb rne, and in n...hydrogen, 14-03. Occun at the Urpeth Colliery, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. Also, u noticed by Krantz and Heddle
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