According to the 'Notice concerning the Shropshire Witherite' by Arthur
Aiken (an 1811 paper to the Geological Society) the mineral was first
discovered by James Watt at Anglesark. Apart from Snailbeach, about which he
is writing he knows of only one other location where the mineral had been
found and that was in a mine near Neuberg in Upper Stiria (sic), that
information was from Klaproth, Analytical Essays, I. 389.
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From: Ian Forbes <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: Witherite.
> The type locality for witherite is unknown, and I guess will remain so.
> Withering could have obtained his witherite from a number of sources -
those
> of us who live and work in the North Pennines like to think it was
probably
> from our neck of the woods! The Friends of Killhope are currently
> preparing a permanent display of North Pennine minerals and their uses
which
> will be on show at Killhope when the museum re-opens at Easter. Amongst
> the specimens will be some good examples of witherite from the North
Pennine
> orefield.
> Ian Forbes
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