EIG FIELD TRIPS 2016 TUESDAY 6th
SEPTEMBER 2016 LOCATION Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire
Location Aggregate Industries Ltd Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 1TL Tel: 01455 288222. Meeting As above – reverse park in the Head Office car park which will be Point signposted
Website http://www.aggregate.com/ Objective Tour of aggregate quarry. Time of Tuesday September 6th 2016 at 9:30 arrival 3.5 hours Length of Visit Max No 20 PPE Helmet. Hi-Vis trousers and jacket/waistcoat. Safety glasses. Gloves. required Lace up boots (steel toecap) The company can provide some PPE but participants must provide their own protective footwear,
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Location Map
Access from the A511 Approx GR SK45348 12937 Car Park in red polygon Outline of Tour of aggregate quarry to view development of Neoproterozoic Trip Charnian volcanics and volcaniclastics. Time and weather permitting the visit will include a view into the recently opened Bardon Extension where pinnacles of Charnian terrain are gradually being exposed from beneath a thick overburden of glacial till and Mercia Mudstone. History of the Quarries http://www.aggregate.com/about-us/history/bardon-hill-quarries/
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BGS http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/hazards/volcanoes/models/bard onHillQuarry.html Bardon Hill Quarry Extension documents www.leics.gov.uk/downloaddatabasefile?file=10545 SSSI citation http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004337.pdf Guide to the geology of Mount st Bernard, Charnwood Lodge, Warren Hills and Bardon Hill, Charnwood Forest. BGS Open Report;OR/10/044 http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/12098/1/OR10044.pdf
Geology Neoproterozoic andesites and volcaniclastics (c.560Ma) unconformably overlain by Triassic red sandstone. Hydrothermal (gold?)–chlorite mineralisation. Quartz veins and belts of epidotisation. Numerous faults and thrusts, and crypto-domes Production 3mtpa.
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Source: BGS from http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/12098/1/OR10044.pdf
Driving time 40 miles /64 KM to 51 mins Birmingham University
Leader Eddie Bailey of Aggregate Industries Special Buffet lunch will be provided Conditions
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