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

A copper and tin mine in the northwestern part of the Botalack sett. There are several walled shafts and quite extensive dumps remaining west of the Southwest Coast Path and just opposite to the now levelled dump of Wheal Hen. Both mines were later incorporated with the Botallack Mine.

Ref.: (in part): Golley & Williams, 1995, 19 - "Cornish Mineral Reference Manual"; Rocks & Min.: 60(1):24.





UK OS Grid Reference: SW363339
Map Reference: 50°8'44"N , 5°41'29"W

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Mineral List:
Apatite-(CaF)
var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF)

Arsenic
Arsenogoyazite
Augite
'Axinite'
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bornite
Botallackite (TL)
Brochantite
Brushite
Calcite
var: Manganoan Calcite
Cassiterite
'Chalcedony
var: Carnelian'

Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Clinoclase
Cobaltite
Connellite
Copper
Cornubite
Cornwallite
Cuprite
Digenite
Djurleite
Erythrite
Fluorite
'Garnet Group'
Goethite
Hastingsite
Helvite
Hematite
var: Specularite
Herderite
Jarosite
Libethenite
Limonite
Liroconite ?
Magnetite
Malachite
Olivenite
Paracostibite
Paratacamite
Pargasite
Phenakite
Prehnite
Pseudomalachite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Amethyst
var: Smoky Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Scheelite
Schorl
Scorodite
Siderite
Turquoise
Wickmanite
Woodwardite


61 entries listed. 50 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral). 1 erroneous literature entry.

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