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West Wheal Basset (Wheal Haste), South Frances United Mines, Basset Mines, Troon-Lanner area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

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Thomas's engine house by road near Piece (SW 6815 3970).

Ref.:
- Rocks & Min.: 17:127; 18:73
- Golley & Williams, 1995, 21 - "Cornish Mineral Reference Manual".

A stamps engine house stands above one of the finest surviving nineteenth century tin dressing floors in the world.

The West Basset Mine Stamps (SW 6815 3970) constructed by the Tuckingmill Foundry, date to 1875. The remains of the dressing floors show three different phases - settling and buddling (1875), additional buddle floor (1892), and the installation of Frue vanners (1906).

The site is listed by English Heritage as "Grade II" [buildings of nationally important and of special interest].





 UK OS Grid Reference: SW682397
Map Reference: 50°12'40"N , 5°14'57"W

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Mineral List:
  		•  Arsenopyrite
    FeAsS - (Fe
     
    0.90
    		Co
     
    0.10
    		)AsS
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]
  		•  Autunite
    Ca(UO
     
    2
    		)
     
    2
    		(PO
     
    4
    		)
     
    2
    		·11H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]
  		•  Cassiterite
    SnO
     
    2
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]
  		•  Chalcocite
    Cu
     
    2
    		S
    Reference: [Rocks & Min.: 17:127; 18:73.]
  		•  Chalcopyrite
    CuFeS
     
    2
    Reference: [Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]
  		•  'Chlorite Group'
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]
  		•  Cuprite
    Cu
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Golley & Williams, 1995, 21 - "Cornish Mineral Reference Manual"]
  		•  Cuprite
    var: Chalcotrichite
    Cu
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Golley & Williams, 1995, 21 - "Cornish Mineral Reference Manual"]
  		•  Langite
    Cu
     
    4
    		[(OH)
     
    6
    		|SO
     
    4
    		] · 2H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Richard De Nul collection]
  		•  Malachite
    Cu
     
    2
    		[(OH)
     
    2
    		|CO
     
    3
    		]
    Reference: [Richard De Nul collection]
    Site Photo
    West Wheal Basset (Wheal Haste), South Frances United Mines, Basset Mines, Troon-Lanner area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
    © De Nul, Richard
  		•  Pyrite
    FeS
     
    2
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]
  		•  Quartz
    SiO
     
    2
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]
  		•  Torbernite
    Cu(UO
     
    2
    		)
     
    2
    		(PO
     
    4
    		)
     
    2
    		·12H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]
  		•  'Tourmaline'
    AD
     
    3
    		G
     
    6
    		(BO
     
    3
    		)
     
    3
    		[T
     
    6
    		O
     
    18
    		]Y
     
    3
    		Z
    Reference: [Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 341-351.]


    14 entries listed. 11 valid minerals.

    Localities in this Region:
    UK
     
    • England
      • Cornwall
        • Camborne - Redruth - St Day District
          • Troon-Lanner area
            • Basset Mines
              • South Frances United Mines
                • West Wheal Basset (Wheal Haste)

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