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Cassiterite from
Cape Cornwall Mine, Cape Cornwall, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Feldspar Group4 photos of Cassiterite associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cape Cornwall Mine, Cape Cornwall, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:540793
Long-form Identifier:1:3:540793:4
GUID (UUID V4):b77055f8-d27a-4bf7-a2e8-6bacd564ff18
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Priest's Cove (Porth Just), Cape Cornwall, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.3 miles) Little Bounds Mine, St Just Amalgamated Mines (incl. Wheal Penzance), St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Wheal Call (Wheal Cole; Wheal Coal), Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Wheal Castle, Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.5 miles) Bollawal Mine, Carn Gloose, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Wheal Bellan (Wheal Bellon), Cot Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Wheal Cunning, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.8 miles) Wheal Hermon (Wheal St Just), Cot Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Bosorne Mine, Cot Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Summer Field Meeting in west Cornwall 15- 20 September 1974 Report by the Directors: A. HALL and N ....JA CKSON . 1975. Summer Field Meeting in west Cornwall, 15-20 September 1974. Proc. Geol. Ass .. 86 (I)...petrological and mineralogical interest in west Cornwall. In addition to visits to the granites and their...Geevor tin-mine and were shown the collection of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Department...INTRODUCTION The Summer Field Meeting was held in west Cornwall to see the igneous and metamorphic rock s of the
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undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...copper since the Bronze Age. Only the Geevor tin mine was still open in 1986, but the vigorous development...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...phonolite of Wolf Rock. Small outcrops of Pliocene St Erth Beds are described and there is a full account...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
Report (edition)
| Geologists’ Association Guide No. 19 West Cornwall by A. Hall BIRKBECK COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON...meetings in London and, via Local Groups, throughout England and Wales, conducts field meetings and publishes...Botallack Mine (photograph: David Alderton). Geologists’ Association Guide No. 19 West Cornwall by A....I Land’s End Peninsula II Mount’s Bay 15 III St. Agnes District 24 IV Falmouth Bay 29 V_ The...REFERENCES ISBN 0-900717-57-2 West Cornwall INTRODUCTION Cornwall has long been one of the classic areas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Society, January 1988 Metasomatic tourmaline at Cape Cornwall, Land's End G.A. DUDDRIDGE Department of Geology...Geology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE. Cape Cornwall, a west facing headland on the metamorphic aureole...aureole of the Land’s End granite, lies 2km west of St. Just. The granite, exposed at Priest's Cove (Fig. 1)...SEM showed apatites, a thorium phosphate and cassiterite in vug like areas set in an orthoclase, quartz...of tourmalinised appearance (G71) contained cassiterite in a quartz background. The SEM showed iron oxide
Report (issue)
BRITISH MINING No.79 CAPE CORNWALL PETER JOSEPH BRITISH M I N I N G TI IE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF...OF THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY ISSN 0308 - 2199 British Mining Memoirs and Monographs are vehicles...SOCIETY was formed in 1960 as the Northern Cavern and Mine Research Society. its activities centred upon the...study of mines. mining and speleology in nonhem England. Subsequently. with an expanding national membership...w w. n m rs.co.0 k BRITISH M I N I N G No.79 CAPE CORN A L L VANE PETER JOSEPH MONOGRAPH OFTHE NORTHERN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Harvard's Mineralogical Tour of England June 23-July 4, 1984 WILLIAM C. METROPOLIS Harvard Mineralogical...sponsoring a mineralogist's tour of London and Cornwall. A group of eleven left Boston's Logan Airport... We visited the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square...world-famous and truly magnificent Crown Jewels of England. Unfortunately, photography is not permitted, so...rings consist of blue sap­ phires, with the Cross of St. George in rubies set on them, surrounded by diamonds
Report (edition)
meetings in London and, via Local Groups, throughout England and Wales. It conducts field meetings and publishes...trips to the coast of Cornwall. Front Cover: Old engine house, Botallack Mine (photograph David Alderton)...Alderton). Geologists Association Guide No. 31 WEST CORNWALL by A . Hall Third Edition Guide Series Editor;... Land's End Peninsula II Mount's Bay 1 4 III St. Agnes District IV Falmouth Bay V The Lizard Peninsula...i n e map of West Cornwall 2. Map of Land's End peninsula 5 3. Map of St. Just area 7 4. Distribution
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Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...clay workings have created a unique landscape around St Austell. Tin, copper, lead, zinc and other metals...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action
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Bdss-27483 erik. ce wa | ~5 JUL 1997 | 10 FEB 2000 | ST IVESTR26 ax| 17 OCT 1997 | ~6 APR 2anp irtd ey...OSEP 1995 ‘ (f338 ee ad Fisar » CBS 263 CORNWALL COUNTY ais COUNTY HALL TRURO PLEASE RETURN...House, Church Street, Princes Risborough, § HPI7 GAS, UK Aylesbury, J p Bucks Set in 9 point Times roman...Pumping Engine House, Wheal Edward, near St Just, Cornwall. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to the following...Mr R. Penhallurick of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for his assistance. Special thanks are due to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLLECTING IN CORNWALL, ENGLAND By DAVID WRIGHT 8 Brampton Rd., St. Atbans, Hertfordshire, England During...I have spent twelve weeks holiday in Cornwall, England. Cornwall, the Cassiterides of the Greeks and Phoenicians...extremely good "artificial" museum in Penzance at St. John's Hall. Kynance Cove is a well known Cornish...curious "ribbed" appearance. Cape Cornwall "the only cape in England" is easly reached from once-prosperous...once-prosperous mining town of St. Just. I found a lot of amethyst as well as limonite and aventurine. There
Report (edition)
West Cornwall by A. HALL ITINERARY Introduction I. Land's End Peninsula II. Mount's Bay II I. St. Agnes...incorporation in any furtl,er edition. West Cornwall by A. HALL INTRODUCTION has long been one of...distribution of the major rock units is shown in Fig. 1. CORNWALL I••+·j Granite 3 D Devonian sediments filffm...10 20 kilometres Fig. I. Outline map of West Cornwall, showing the areas covered by the five itineraries...sedimentary rocks occupy the largest part of west Cornwall. The Devonian rocks are shales and sandstones
Journal (issue)
UK Journal of mes ·and .Minerals Issue SprJng 1989 , No ...6 Pr:f ee ~3.95 ·- • r .. Arnold...Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Calcite (Cornwall) UK Journal of Mines and...EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...1988 21 Dorothy Merritt Cassiterite from Whiteworks Carharrick, Cornwall R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking...the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of City of Manche
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The Geology of Cornwall an introduction Robert Westwood Tor Mark• Redruth For further information...2004 by Tor Mark United Downs Ind Est, Redrurh, Cornwall TR16 5HY This reprint 2009 ...7 Printed by R Booth Ltd, T he Praze, Penryn, Cornwall TRIO SAA .., . The Rumps near Polzeat/1, cliffs...011t 1111der the sea 1 Why is Cornwall so special? Any visitor to Cornwall is left in no doubt that it...carry the Cornwall flag and place names have a uniquely melodic character. le is not just the history
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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...BDP - Book Development and Production. Penzance. Cornwall Printed in China Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North...features but also include areas containing open mine shafts, ruined buildings and high cliffs. Please...Introduction 4 About this Book 6 St Just Mining District 8 Levant Mit ie a. Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West
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Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE
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Remfry in the Western Part of the St Austell Granite Pluton, Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . 51 P. Bowden Tourmalinization in Cornwall, England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Hydrothermal Activity in the St Just Mining District, Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . N.J. Jackson...Granitic Batholiths of South-west and Northern England and some Geothermal Analogues. . . . . . . . ....Mineralization and Fluid Inclusion Study of the Yod Nam Tim Mine, Southern Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
iv INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and...mined over the centuries. Today, only one large tin mine is at work, but the winning of tin is known from...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...were once bustling with industry. Sans Levant Mine, St. Just. The small engine house nearer the camera houses...connection with investigation of the old Levant Mine. April 1970. GEOLOGY CORNWALL’S mineral wealth
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There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009
Catalog/List
WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...Sale List 1. ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s...3x3x2", .L5.25. ACTI.IOLITS. 3otallack Cliffs ,St .Just, ''est Corn·.1all. 19th C. label. 11x1x1" lustrous... 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen 'A'...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix
WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...Sale List 1. ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s...3x3x2", .L5.25. ACTI.IOLITS. 3otallack Cliffs ,St .Just, ''est Corn·.1all. 19th C. label. 11x1x1" lustrous... 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen 'A'...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix
Journal (issue)
·>:~· .:t ~--~~ II I I ~ II I I I I I Cornwall Field Trip Journal 203 - September/October 2006...increasing pain from his knees. Before leaving the UK his surgeon, who had previously treated him some...bright, And all was set serene, A tasty picnic seemed just right, To complete the jolly scene. The time soon...in. Planning the programme starts early, we have just prepared the first draft, and this provides a useful...trips this year took us to Derbyshire, USA/Canada, Cornwall and a return to Newhaven . Unfortunately the trip
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...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...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
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features, natural or manmade, which abound in Cornwall: the granite tors of the high moors; Delabole's...Hensbarrow's lunar landscape; the burrowings, 'deads' and mine stacks of a great industrial past; megalith and...county; several bands of sedimentary rocks crossing Cornwall from cast to west, which are wrapped around the...or mountain chain, running east to west across Cornwall, this being flanked on the north by an even greater...limb. In the latter lay the youngest rocks of Cornwall (2 on the map), while 'the oldest (г), laid down
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Igneous Rocks of South-West England THE GEOLOGICAL CONSERVATION REVIEW SERIES The comparatively small...M. C. Gyopari S. Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd, C. S. Exley and M. T. Styles 6. ...D. R. Bridgland Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd Department of Geology, University of...study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued
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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
 
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