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Cassiterite from
Wheal Drea, Botallack, St Just, 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 Drea, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:308590
Long-form Identifier:1:3:308590:5
GUID (UUID V4):dfa8480c-cf90-43d2-89a6-600c5d858d84
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.3km (0.2 miles) Boscean Mine, Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) Parknoweth Mine (Wheal Buzza; Truthwall Mine), Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) Wheal Grouse, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) Goldings Mine, Boscean Mine, Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) West Wheal Owles (Cargodna Mine), Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.5 miles) Wheal Cunning, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wheal Castle, Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
NEVER CHANGE THEIR PASSWORD FIELD TRP TO DEVON AND CORNWALL – July 2021 SMLS 50th ANNVERSARY EVENTS A DISASTER...********************* SMLS FIELD TRIP TO DEVON AND CORNWALL 8-12 July 2021 South-West trip gets off to a cracking...Tyzack The long-awaited SMLS trip to Devon and Cornwall – organised by David Aubrey-Jones - started on...the Crackington Cider Company near Bude, North Cornwall (Photo 1). It was lovely to see and catch up with...glorious sunset. Ting Tang mine - Carharrack, Cornwall Reporter Susan Tyzack It was a long but not difficult
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...70x30x40mm. £8. 2) AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...collection, 60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a
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,!.h. 50 Oamell Road. Tru ro. Cornwall TR I 2DA, England Telrphone UK (O 21223227 Paul Lowe Minerals...Minerals Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 20A, England Tel: (0872)223227 NEWS AND INFORMATION...Pyromorphites, Mont St Hilaire, Kola-Peninsula, Greenland, Franklin, Crestmore, Cornwall, Chuquicamata, Langban...sections, namely 140 Bntish, including Devon and Cornwall starting on page 1, and 120 World Species, starting...Wendsleydale,York ■ hlre. xtls.E4 Cllff,Botallack,St Just,Cornvall.Dlsplay xtls up to 10-.60x40.El0
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Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work
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CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...3) ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A group of intergrown silvery grey bladed xis...£85. 8) BORNITE. Cooks Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Chalcopyrite matrix, the top of which is about...BOTALLACKITE. 130fm South Lode, Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. A scattering of sparkling green botaliockite...50x25x20mm. £9. 12) CALCITE on QUARTZ. Botallack Mine, St Just, Cornwall. Quartz matrix with areas showing
Catalog/List
,1:.1• 75 • I 5. ARSENIANPYRITE. Wheal Nangllcs,Dlssoe,Cornwall. 19th C ~pccimrn. Matrix free,crystalline...45x25x20mm. tl5.00. 17. ARSENOPYRITE/CHALCOPYRITE. Wheal Jane,Kea,Cornvall. Chalcopyrltc rich matrix topped...22. AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,carnyorth,West Cornwall. Specimen A-lustrous, vaxy brovn,matrix !ree interforms...Hatrlx free. 30x20x!5mm, tø.so. grey- an -438. Wheal carpenter,G11inear,West Corn11a11. li Quartz fragment...BAYLDONIT!!. 41. Penberthy crofts Hine,st Hilary,West Cornwall. Tron stained Quartz fragment covered on
Journal (issue)
SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.0119.uk ....................................... ················... Alilyona Jo;nrng the Sociot,y after January 31 :st pays half Uie appropriate annual subscriplion. 1...to curtail and eventually cease his participation. st Kenneth Fitch died on 31 July 2003. We have lost...new members out. When combined with a week in Cornwall, a day on a Kent coal tip for carboniferous plant...to take -7- SMLS Journal 185 SepUOct 2003 out just one insurance this year and pay less than previous
Book
Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Barry Gamble Alison Hodge First...Alison Hodge. 2 Clarence Place. Penzance, Cornwall TRI 8 2QA. UK info@alison-hodge.co.uk WVAVal sonhod gepubl...Production. Penzance. Cornwall Printed in China Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North Wheal Basset. Cambome-Redruth...Book 6 St Just Mining District 8 Levant Mit ie a. Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West Wheal Owles and...and Wheal Edward 18, Cape Cornwall Mine 21 Boswedden Mine 23, Geevor Mine 25. Wheal Hear-le (East Boscaswell
Journal (issue)
Building a Mineral Collection Cornwall Part Ill and Field Trip to Cornwall Journal 221 - September October...-3- SMLS Journal 221 SepUOct 2009 MINERALS OF CORNWALL - Part 111 by David Aubrey-Jones This talk by...continuation of a series on the renowned minerals of Cornwall which he began in 2007. Part I concentrated on...in 1997 which can be read up in Number 19 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, co-authored by David...famous copper secondaries previously associated with Wheal Garland could easily have come from the rich veins
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membership. Anyone joining the Society after January 31 st pays half the appropriate annual subscription. MEETINGS...useful. Following discussions at our meeting on 31 st • May, the Committee has agreed to add two new classes...the last minute) just call Trevor on the number above. ff Battle Barn Fann is just off the A21 up behind...all at bargain prices. Sites include ..... . Cornwall Wheal Mary Ann and neighbouring mine tips, near Liskeard...Restormel, near Bodmin; Hingston Down Quarry & Wheal Josiah, near Gunnislake; Plus various other tips
Book (volume)
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...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South - West England Volume I Ву...London s.E.1 13a Castle Street, Edinburgh 2 109 St. Mary Street, Cardiff 39 King Street, Manchester...This account of the mining geology of south -west England summarizes the geological information gained during
Catalog/List
NEW MINERALS 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood .Mine, Cornwall Greenish , good coating on matrix, green FLUORESENCE...capsule .J £5 207 ■■ KESTERITE Cligga Mine Cornwall Metallic mass in matrix, quite rich Ix! £4 lx2...from 2mm to 8mm. larger ones with slight damage, St Calixto Prospect Bolivia £12 15. RUTILE IN QUARTZ...brown prismatic crystals, tapering to a · point,just about solid mimetite .. crystal size about 5mm ---...large lx2 surface (Jfsumeb Namibia) £10 ,, '36. CASSITERITE pure brown masses, unusual location Mitwabi Katanga
Journal (issue)
Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and...Trimouns, Ariege, France W.R. van den Berg 4 Wheal Owles T. Wolloxall 7 CONTINENTAL EUROPE SOUTH...COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection Photograph...investment could be found so the site was abandoned, just as the workings began to reveal signs of gold bearing...Trimouns Quarry. ROCK BOTTOM, ISSUE No. 5, SUMMER 1988 St. BartMlemy TAAA~ON s.Ari~ ~~o -Et'"""' ' ANOOAAA
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...PH EM I STER, M.A., D.Sc. LONDON H ER MAJESTY'S ST A TI ONER Y OFFICE 1956 The Institute of Geological...London WCI J 3a Castle Street, Edinburgh EH2 3AR 109 St Mary Street, Cardiff CFJ IJW Brazennose Street, Manchester...Second impression with amendme111s /969 PrinlCd in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers
Catalog/List
(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of...1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well
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...This account of the minmg geology of south-west England summarizes the geological info1mation gained druing...the long history of mining in the counties of Cornwall. Devon m1dwest Somerset. ·n1e region covered is...production on a scale sufficientto preserve fue west of England mining tradition. For ease of treatment the region
Book
Scenes at Surface (Bradford Barton, 1968) Mining in Cornwall 1850-1960 (Moorland, 1980-1) 2 Volumes ISBN 0...Districts I The St Just and St Ives Mining Districts II The Marazion District III The Wheal Vor or Breage...Breage District IV The St Erth, Gwinear and Crowan Districts V The Wendron District 51 73 91 103 127 Section...South Condurrow II Tolgus Tunnel to Lambriggan III St Austell-Par Mines to Trebartha-Lemarne 147 163 181...Showing the Output of Metallic Tin and Copper from Cornwall, Estimated from the Public Sales of Ore 35 Fig
Other Paper
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...and recording events within the Site 8.6 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage
Book
GEOLOGY OF ,,, ,,. F .. THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL Cornwall is renowned for its spectacular rocky coastline...seventeenth century. This book reviews the importance of Cornwall in the development of geological thought in Britain...of notable scientific interest. The Geology of· Cornwall is a companion volume to The Geology of Devon...org/details/geologyofcornwal0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY Edited by E.B. Selwood...Liskeard High: E.B. Se/wood The Structure of East Cornwall: K. P Isaac Culn1 Basin: JR. Andrews The Boscastle-Tintagel-
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the remainder emanating from minor sources. Cassiterite is the only mineral of significant commercial...South and Central America Bolivia (3) Europe Cornwall, England Erzgebirge G.D.R./Czechoslovakia. West Iberia...Mt. Garnet, Queensland North-east Tasmania New England, New South Wales Cooktown, Queensland Albury -...characteristics, i.e. tin bearing pegmatites, quartz cassiterite, quartz sulphide etc. This however proved unworkable...intermediate Subvolcanic group (cassiterite-silicate, cassiterite-sulphide formations tin bearing skarns)
Journal (volume)
COVER: Chun Quoit. Drawing by Morwen Morris. Cornwall Archaeological Society 1998 and 1999 President... Veryan Green, Truro TR2 5QQ, and P. Herring, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Kennall Building, Old County...interested in the history and material culture of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (persons under 14 being...C O L E (Issued 2002) CORNWALL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY © COPYRIGHT CORNWALL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...TAYLOR 56 Excavations at Penhale Round, Fraddon, Cornwall, 1995/1996 DANIEL A JOHNSTON, CHRIS MOORE AND
 
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