Mine detail: Southern Pennines Fluorspar Ore Field

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Location

Lat / long:

53.13231, -1.53094

Resource(B)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite
Secondary:	Lead, Zinc
Tertiary:	Calcium, Copper, Iron
Gangue:	Calcite, Pyrite
Orebody form:	PINCH AND SWELL (VEINS)

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1899

Geology

Host rock:	Visean L.S.;Namurian Shales Of Millstone Grit Series
Host type:	Shale,Limestone
Associated rock:	Olivine Dolerite Sills (Intrusive)
Associated type:	Diorite,Tuff
Structure:	Derbyshire Dome To The West, Faulted And Jointed Folded Structures (Peak Forest, Matlock Anticlines; Longstone Edge Monocline; Abney, Chatsworth And Stanton Synclines; Bonsal And Gulf Faults With Graben In Between. Major Fault Trend Is Easterly To East - Northeasterly.)
Alteration processes:	Dolomitization, Silicification Of Host Rock

References

MRDS	W006984
DEP	10069449
Reference	{Deposit:: BLUNDEN, J., 1975, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF BRITAIN, HUTCHINSON & CO. LTD., LONDON, P. 241 - 260}{Deposit:: MASON, J.E., 1974, GEOLOGY OF THE DERBYSHIRE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS, UNITED KINGDOM, IN A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KY. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUB. 22 P. 10 - 22}{Deposit:: NOTHOLT, A.J.G. AND HIGHLEY, D.E., 1971, FLUORSPAR: INST. GEOL. SCIENCES, MINERAL RESOURCES CONSULTATIVE COMM., MINERAL DOSSIER NO. 1, 31 P.}{Deposit:: FORD, T.D. AND INESON, P.R., 1971, THE FLUORSPAR MINING POTENTIAL OF THE DERBYSHIRE OREFIELD: INST. OF MIN. MET. TRANS., V. 80, N. 777, P. B186 - B210}{Production:: BLUNDEN, J., 1975, MIN. RES. OF BRITAIN. FORD, T.D. AND INESON, P.R., 1971, DERBYSHIRE OREFIELD}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G.