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Cassiterite from
Wheal Buller, Wheal Buller and Beauchamp, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Buller, Wheal Buller and Beauchamp, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2918
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2918:6
GUID (UUID V4):08de4b35-139e-42ca-bb38-5842a4b3e667
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Copper Hill Mine, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Penstruthal Mine (Bestruthal Mine; incl. North & South Penstruthal Mines), Lanner, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.5 miles) East Wheal Basset, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) South Wheal Basset, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Clyjah and Wentworth Mine (Perseverance Mine), Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Beauchamp, Wheal Buller and Beauchamp, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Wheal Trefusis (incl. East Wheal Trefusis), Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Wheal Uny, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.8 miles) West Basset Stamps (Wheal Haste), Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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Book
Cornish Mineral Reference Manual Peter Golley and Richard Williams April 1995 First published 1995 by...Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's 'Manual...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter
Book (volume)
Hodge, Bosulval Farmhouse, Newmill, Penzance, Cornwall. ©T. A. Morrison, 1983_ No pan of 1hi~publica1ion...34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40; Royal lns1i1u1ionof Cornwall, Pla1es 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 26, 27, 28, 30... Ives, Cornwall. Origination and printing by Dowrick Design & Print Lid., S1. Ives, Cornwall. CONTENTS...Camborne Vean 4. Camborne Consols 5. Carn Camborne 6. Wheal Harriett 7. West Stray Park 11 61 75 89 96 101...Dolcoath 9. Wheal Nelson 10. 'West Tolcarne 11. Trevoole 113 119 125 126 Srdion 3. Beacon and Troon 12
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Boutillier and R. Selly COBALT MINERALISATION IN G.K. ROLLINSON 1, N. LE BOUTILLIER CORNWALL – A AND NEW...G.K., Le Boutillier, N. and Selly, R. 2018. Cobalt mineralisation in Cornwall – A new discovery at Porthtowan...South-West England, 14, 176–187. Although cobalt mineralisation has been noted in Cornwall and Devon in...literature, there are limited details of its production and paragenesis; detailed mineral studies of cobalt are...at Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the vicinity of old workings which are part of the Wheal Lushington group
Catalog/List
Penzance, Cormlall, England. CRDERING TIlFCRM.il.TION Mail oroers are promptly filled and despatched on a...specimens. Please quote the name and the number of the speclmen(s) required, and enclose ?O./Cheque with order...charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 5Op. We reserve...requests and '~~nts lists' are welcome. We hope that we may be of some service to you, and assure you...lustrous orange-red crystals, thickly intergrO\>lIl and completely covering matrix 5x2}". £25, A2. V1ilitillI'ITE
Book
ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google...T BRITAI N AND IRE . LAN D + MANUAL w OF THE MINERALOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. BY...BY ROBERT PHILIPS GREG, F.G.S. , AND WILLIAM G. LETTSOM . VY LONDON : JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER...387652A ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1928 L PRINTED BY RICHARD TAYLOR AND WILLIAM FRANCIS, RED...Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland on that footing to which scientifically and economically it is entitled
Catalog/List
Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDERING INFOhMATION Mail orders are promptly filled and despatched on...specimens. Please quote the name and the number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose .O./Cheque with order...charge is made fo~ postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 50p. We reserve...requests and 'wants lists' are welcome. We hope that we may be of some service to you, and assure you...Burraton Combe Quarry, St. Stephens-bySaltaoh, Cornwall. Specimen A - Superb, pure, metallic grey irregular
Catalog/List
Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. and despatched on...specimens. Please quote the name and the number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose P.O./Cheque with order...charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 50p. We reserve...requests and 'wants lists' are welcome. We hope that we may be of some servi~e to you, and 3ssure you...greyish-green hexagonal crystals to t" in size scattered on and partially embedded in Chlor i t e cover ing ma tr
Book (volume)
saw unprecedented expansion and then rapid decline in the Cornish copper and tin mining industries. Four...vigorous growth and technical innovation followed the Napoleonic Wars, and during the 1850s and early 1860s...metal prices later in the century, Cornwall led the world in the art and science of mining for metals. Cornwall's...mining dist1 ict, concentrated around Camborne and Redruth, was the core of the industry. The story of the...different mines is of such intricate complexity, and the mass of information available so vast that the
Book (volume)
ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google... UC - NRLF $ B 78 995 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...THE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume 1 LONDON HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .,pvii Description .)SG(England urv eol em M est -WSouth of Region Mining MINING...SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES
Catalog/List
BARSTDW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzo~ce, Cornwall, England. TEL .No.: St. Just BBo (STD 07 3 67·7) ...ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are promptly filled and despatched an a 7-daV examination basis, subject...condition. Please quote the name and number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose P.o./Chegue with order...charge is made for postage and packing, axcept for overseas customers and postage over 75p. We reserve...requests and "wants lists" are welcome. We hope that we may be of some service to you, and assure you
Report (issue)
t() be 11t1rcl1ased f ro111 E. STANFORD, 12, 13, and 14, LONG ..t4.0RE, LONDO:N"; \V. &A. K. ,JOHNS11...Sheet 352 of the ne,v series one-inch 1nap of England and Wales. . The orig:inal geological st1rvey ,vas...superi11te11de11ce of Colo11el Colby, I?.. E., F.R.S., and in tl1e course of l1is ,vo1-- lr l)e la J3ecl1e received...Hl1rveyors, J\'Ir. Henr·y J.\ticLauchlan, ., J:i _G.S., and l\lr. Hen1"y Still, F.G.S. rJ�l1e rest1lts of the...series maps 31 and 33, and in the ,vell-li:now11 l{eport on the Geology ot· Oorn wall, Devon and 1Vest S0111erset
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677) ORDERING...132-7852-67 I~~oRMATIoN Mail orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject...condition. please quote the name and number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose P.o./Cheque with order...charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 75p. We reserve·...requests and "wants lists" are welcome. We hope that we may be of some service to you, and assure you
Catalog/List
8ARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.No.: st. Just 880 (STD rr73 677) V...132-7852-67 INFORMATION Mail orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, sUbject...condition. Please quote the name and number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose p.o./Chaque with order...charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage OJer 75p. We reserve...requests and "wants lists" ara welcome. W~ hope that we may be of some service to you, and assure you
Book
There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...very valuable ores and minerals. Besides their economic importance, many of the ores and associated minerals...beauty both in form and colour. They range from azure-blue 'hair crystals' of copper ore and the branching...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...'"'ell as providing information on their extraction and exploitation. Prefaced by a brief introduction on
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Intrusive and pneumatolytic breccias in south-west England • • • • • • • • •...80/2 Intrusive and pneumatolytic breccias in south-west England A. J. J. Goode and R. T. Taylor ©...Composition in south-west England 5 Distribution and form 6 Relationship to granites, elvans and lodes 7 Mechanism...Porphyry deposits, intrusive breccias and their signficance in Cornwall 13 Conclusions 14 Acknowledgements...the nature and form of intrusive breccias in relation to lodes 17 Appendix 2 Location and description
Book (volume)
The Metalliferous MiningRegion of South-West England VOLUME I Assistant Director' s copy LIBRARY...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AN D WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume I By H...Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology with Overseas Geological Surveys and is a constituent...PrinlCd in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers Limited, Wokina and London SBN...This account of the mining geology of south-west England summarizes the .iological information gained during
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677) V.A...ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination-basis, subject...condition. Pleare quote the name and number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose P.O./Cheque with order...charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 75p. We reserve...requests and "wants lists" are welcome. we hope that we rray be of some service to you, and assure you
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...Pounds Sterling. Add 50p per specimen for postage and packing. All orders will be despatched first class...1) AGATE. Skeleton Coast, SW Africa. A nice wind and sand polished pebble showing raised bands in shades...FRANCOLITE) Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A flattish quartz hematite vei.nstone. The upper...manganese'? matrix with the odd micro malachite xJ here and there. Displays well. 150xl !0xl20nm1. £175. 4) BARITE
Catalog/List
divided into the standard classification listed below and contained in 5 Sisley cabinet drawers, A to E with...Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland...Orpiment Realqar Cinnabar Stibnite Galena, Fluorite and Barvte Pyrite & Marcasite Jamesonite Chalcopyrite...Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific...Pacific Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie
Catalog/List
Severn plain and is a geologically complc:; 1ced to L'i Most aspects of the history and development of...medieval monks selected sites for their communities and the pu: at the ',', issue from the Precambrian rock...as well as protecting the wealth of wild plants and animai;; TERMS OF BUSINESS Mai! orders are dispatched...number. All prices are inclusive of postage & packing and there is no VAT. TRADES, EXCHANGES & PURCHASES We...grade single specimens and collections. We are also pleased to consider trades and exchanges against any
Book
~42 . 37 • CORNWALL COUNTY LIBRARY ll 11111111111111 3 8009 014 20 1146 ~~ Redruth l ~,, Clinton...tin~copper ~ • ~ C ORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL LIBRARIE S AND ARTS DEPARTMENT Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/detai ls/fishti ncopper0000knee 'FISH, TIN and COPPER' By Derek A. Kneebone ~ TRURAN Published...by Dyllansow Truran. Trewolsta, Trewirgie. Redruth, Cornwall. © 1983 D. Kneebone \ All rights reserved...photocopying. recording, or any information storage and retneval system \.vithout permission in writing from
Book (volume)
The METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume I 1956 20 I 7 reprint 0 z z ~ w ...The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME I H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE ·with petrographical...petrographical notes by J Phemister, MA, DSc and addenda and corrigenda by K EBeer, BSc LONDON HER MAJESTY'SSTATIONERY...1956 20]7rep,int © Crown copyright 1956 Addenda and corrigenda ©NERC 1988 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...This account of the minmg geology of south-west England summarizes the geological info1mation gained druing
Book (volume)
H MINES OF DEVON Cornish mines and the work done on them by A. K. Hamilton Jenkin are famous. Devon...Devon mines, though generally less discussed and hitherto largely unresearched, have an equally absorbing...second volume will deal with the mines of North and East Devon. This volume deals with a wide variety...present century and, as the demand for metal grows more urgent, many of the older workings and sites are being...history of the mines and of mining ways among industrial archaeologists, local historians and those who are
Book (volume)
MINES AND MIN OF CORNWALL 5. HA YLE, GWlNEAR & GWITHIAN ( ~ .• -- -- ~ 0 '& l,',1 ' . ' , · ... MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL V. BAYLE, GWINEAH AND t;WJTIIIAN MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL V. HAYLE...HAYLE, GWlNEAR AND GWlTHlAN Dr.A. K. HAMlLTON JENKIN M.A., B.LITT., F.S.A. FORGE BOOKS 42 RECTORY LANE...out the scope and origin of this work. sec Part 1 : AROUND ST. lvRs HAYLE, GWINEAR AND GWITHIAN T ...on the south by the road from Hayle to Fraddam, and thence via the hamlet of Wall to Barripper. From
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The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices to the World Heritage Site...Site Management Plan 2013-2018 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices...The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site...8.5 List of survey and recording events within the Site 8.6 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...(2012) 8.7 Publications and research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
 
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