Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, St Just District, Cornwall, England, UK

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A copper and tin mine in the northwestern part of the Botallack 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.

Mineral List

'Apatite' Arsenic Arsenogoyazite Augite 'Axinite Group' Azurite Bismuth Bismuthinite Bornite Botallackite (TL) Brochantite Brushite Calcite Cassiterite

Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Connellite Copper Cornubite Cornwallite Epidote Fluorapatite var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite Fluorite 'Garnet' Goethite Hastingsite Helvine

Hematite var: Specularite Herderite ? 'Hornblende' Jarosite Libethenite 'Limonite' Liroconite Magnetite Malachite Manganite Paracostibite ? Paratacamite Pargasite

Phenakite Pyrite Quartz var: Amethyst var: Carnelian var: Smoky Quartz Rhodochrosite Scheelite ? Schorl Siderite Silver Stibnite Talc Woodwardite

56 entries listed. 44 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral). 2 erroneous literature entries.