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Forrestblyth
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Posted: Aug 28, 2023 14:35 Post subject: Castleton, Derbyshire |
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Some of the many interesting minerals in Castleton, Derbyshire UK
Including the incredible local specific fluorite "Blue John"
Mineral: | Calcite and Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 70cm x 70cmm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 70cm x 70cmm |
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On crinoid death bed matrix |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 70cm x 70cmm |
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Var specimens collected from Pindale Rake spoilheaps castleton |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Var specimens collected from Pindale Rake spoilheaps Castleton |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 400mm |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 4 meters |
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Calcite stalactite formation |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 4 meters |
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mid flow stone transformation |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 50cms |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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James Catmur
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Posted: Aug 29, 2023 04:34 Post subject: Re: Castleton, Derbyshire |
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Castleton still holds a special place in my memories, as I used to collect there a lot as a child and found some nice rocks and a Carboniferous trilobite, which I still have. My mother used to take me and a friend, aged about 9-10, and drop us off to collect together. She would then pick us up a few hours later!
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Forrestblyth
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Posted: Aug 29, 2023 10:49 Post subject: Re: Castleton, Derbyshire |
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It is a very fossilized area. I was very surprised to see the thick beds of spirifer bivalve and crinoid death beds. I was more focused on the minerals and didn't look too hard for more desirable subjects like trilobites.
What was your picking area. I was pleased to find a great variety of decent minerals in the long rake that stretched from the ugly cement factory up to the huge open cast working quarry. What an eyesore in so lovely a location. How anyone got planning permission for that monstrosity in so lovely a location is beyond me.
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James Catmur
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Posted: Aug 29, 2023 11:19 Post subject: Re: Castleton, Derbyshire |
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Back in the 60s you could go down almost any mine you wanted to visit, so we went down the Odin and Old Tor mines. For fossils we collected at Perryfoot in Perrydale and also on our farm near Hayfield. I seem to have a BlueJohn specimen on corral, but no note of when or where I found it.
Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Old Tor Mine, Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Castleton, High Peak District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Clearly not self collected |
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Forrestblyth
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Posted: Aug 29, 2023 14:40 Post subject: Re: Castleton, Derbyshire |
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Hi James, Derbyshire is truly the king of fluorite variety. your specimens show some fine zoning and colour variation from this area.
one location that less than 60 minutes drive from Castleton called Milltown is so full of cabinet sized chunks the hardest decision is what to leave behind. The floor and walls are festooned in clear and yellow fluorite. The picture is one bag uncleaned picked up in 15 minutes just from the floor of the quarry..
If you would like to take a reflective trip back to some of those wonderful locations I can recommend two great books that cover that area well
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two great books about the Castleton area |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 120mm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 150 mm specimens |
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Various Fluorite (uncleaned) collected from quarry floor in less than 15 minutes.. |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, North East Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England / United Kingdom | |
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Dimensions: | 600mm x 600mm |
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Fluorite in situ. Covering the walls. and blocks in the quarry. Some cubes 2 inch across in places |
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