ScoroditeGreat Wheal Fortune, Breage, Mount's Bay District, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo: Steve Rust UK Grid Reference: SW626289
Latitude: 50°6'43"N
Longitude: 5°19'15"W
Active from 1855 to 1880, with a total output of 2,992 tons of tin, 322 tons of copper, as well as some tungsten and arsenic. This mine worked lodes in the valley near Trelissick and Carnmeal Downs.
Large opencast working on series of lodes known as Conquer Branches.
References
- Rocks & Minerals: 19:8;
- B. Atkinson: Mining Sites in Cornwall, Vol. 2, Dyllansow Truran (1994)
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15 entries listed. 12 valid minerals.
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