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Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

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Aragonite : CaCO3

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Aragonite crystals to 20mm, sitting on small tan rhombs of possibly calcite, on a quartz/brown jasper matrix.
Specimen size 5 x 4 x 4 cm

Collection and photo - Colin Fearon
 © Colin FearonPhoto ID: 191938    View Count: 62

Bornite : Cu5FeS4

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Bornite pseudomorphs after lentil-shaped chalcocite crystals to about 4 mm across. Field width: 3 cm. P Haas photograph and collection (no. 22-023), ex RC Simmonds collection.
 © Peter HaasPhoto ID: 26708    View Count: 434

Bornite : Cu5FeS4

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Bornite crystals on a sulphide matrix.
The label states Wheal Cock Mine, Carnyorth, West Cornwall.
Collection and photo, Paul De Bondt.
 © Paul De BondtPhoto ID: 227735    View Count: 40

Calcite : CaCO3, Rhodochrosite : MnCO3, Goethite : α-Fe3+O(OH), Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) : SiO2

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Brownish crystals of calcite and tufts of acicular goethite on pale pink balls of rhodochrosite and smoky quartz. Collected in 2000. Field width: 2.6 cm. P Haas photograph and collection (no. 52-160), ex G Moffatt collection.
 © Peter HaasPhoto ID: 38766    View Count: 285

Calcite : CaCO3, Arsenopyrite : FeAsS - (Fe0.90Co0.10)AsS

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Double terminated Calcite xtls to 3mm on Arsenopyrite. Collected, Photographed by and in Bill Gordon collection.
 © Bill GordonPhoto ID: 129602    View Count: 78

Chalcocite : Cu2S

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

A dense metallic matrix is first coated with pyrite then crowned with an incredible array of chalcocite "tombstones." Tremendous crystallisation - a very good specimen.Ex Roland Thomas Collection Label No:228
 © 2002 Thames Valley MineralsPhoto ID: 5558    View Count: 389

Chalcopyrite : CuFeS2

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Chalcopyrite crystals in quartz vein. Wheal Cock dumps, August 2009. Size of coin 26mm.
 © M.AlferovaPhoto ID: 253423    View Count: 126

Connellite : Cu19[(OH)32|SO4|Cl4] · 3H2O

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

submillimeter spheruliths
 © Maurice de GraafPhoto ID: 31522    View Count: 295

Copper : Cu

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

An old and well documented specimen of native copper and associated secondarys from Wheal Cock.The size of specimen is 90mm x 60mm x 50mm.
Collection of P Trebilcock.
Photo ID: 164208    View Count: 108

Goethite : α-Fe3+O(OH), Quartz (Var: Amethyst) : SiO2

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, Botallack - Pendeen Area, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

Tufts of golden brown acicular crystals to about 1 mm, on very pale purple amethyst. Collected in 2000. Field width: 9 mm. P Haas photograph and collection (no. 52-160), ex G Moffatt collection.
 © Peter HaasPhoto ID: 36254    View Count: 351
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