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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.


Locality Name:
Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK

Oldest recorded age at locality: 330
Youngest recorded age at locality: 210

mindat Locality ID: 303078
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-303078.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Settlingstones Mine

Latitude: 55°0'32"N
Longitude: 2°14'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 55.008888888889,-2.2452777777778

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: Al As Ba C Ca Co Cu Fe H Ni O Pb S Sb Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteHarmotomeLöllingiteMarcasiteMilleriteNickelineNone
PerovskitePyriteQuartzRocksaltSkutteruditeSphaleriteSpinelUllmannite

19 IMA Minerals at location:
Baryte  (*)Barytocalcite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)
Harmotome  (*)Marcasite  (*)Millerite  (*)Nickeline  (*)Gersdorffite-Pa3  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Rammelsbergite  (*)Skutterudite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Ullmannite  (*)Vaesite  (*)Violarite  (*)Witherite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)330210112137411547
Barytocalcite  (*)NoneBaCa(CO3)2330210112137483
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)330210112137427770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2330210112137427198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS330210112137424243
Harmotome  (*)HarmotomeBa2(Si12Al4)O32·12H2O3302101121374290
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS233021011213745674
Millerite  (*)MilleriteNiS33021011213741066
Nickeline  (*)NickelineNiAs3302101121374633
Gersdorffite-Pa3  (*)PyriteNiAsS3302101121374767
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2330210112137439462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2330210112137461156
Rammelsbergite  (*)LöllingiteNiAs23302101121374233
Skutterudite  (*)Skutterudite PerovskiteCoAs33302101121374531
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS330210112137421482
Ullmannite  (*)UllmanniteNiSbS3302101121374293
Vaesite  (*)PyriteNiS23302101121374106
Violarite  (*)SpinelFeNi2S43302101121374380
Witherite  (*)AragoniteBa(CO3)3302101121374251



Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Lucy_007Carboniferous Limestone in Northern Pennines and Permian Magnesian Limestone


1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Lucy_007330210270 ± 60Pb isotope abundanceAge of Pb isotopes on galenagalena   Galena  1600Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UKSettlingstones, NorthumberlandDunham et al. (1968) PRSL307_251 


SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R050148Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UKhttps://rruff.info/R050148


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