Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Newbiggin, Co. Durham, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 26765
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-26765.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Newbiggin, Co. Durham, England, UK": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Bleagill Mine
Bleak Ley Green (Bleak Ley Green Hush)
Flushiemere Mine (Flushamere Mine)
Holwick Mines
Pike Law Mines
Red Grooves Lead Mine (Red Groves)
Scoberry Bridge

Latitude: 54°37'2"N
Longitude: 2°8'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 54.617222222222,-2.1386111111111

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Diaspore	Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bindheimite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Ranciéite ()*	Siderite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ba C Ca F Fe H Mn O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca H Mn O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Diaspore Fluorite None Not in a structural group Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	117089	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	117089	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	117089	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	117087,117089	11547
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	1	117089	450
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	117087,117089,117090,117091	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	117089	4979
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	117085,117089,117090	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	117085,117087,117089,117090	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	117089,117090	7437
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	117089	1689
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	117089,117090	61156
Ranciéite ()*	None	(Ca,Mn²⁺)_0.2(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂·0.6H₂O	0		177
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	117089,117091	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	117089	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	117088	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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