East Pool Mine (Pool Old Bal), East Pool and Agar Mine, Carn Brea area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

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Originally known as Pool Old Bal, the mine was worked for copper from the early 18th century until 1784. In 1834, it was restarted under the name East Pool Mine and changed to tin, also producing some arsenic and tungsten. In 1897, it was amalgamated with Wheal Agar under the name East Pool and Agar Mine.

Ref.: (in part): Rocks & Min.: 17:127, 133; P.G. Embrey, R.F. Symes: "Minerals of Cornwall and Devon", 1987, p. 43

UK OS Grid Reference: SW672415
Map Reference: 50°13'37"N , 5°15'51"W

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Mineral List:

Arsenopyrite

FeAsS - (Fe

0.90

0.10

)AsS

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Bismuthinite

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Cassiterite

SnO

Reference:

[No reference listed]

'Chalcedony'

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Chalcocite

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Chalcopyrite

CuFeS

Reference:

[Rocks & Min.: 17:127.]

East Pool Mine (Pool Old Bal), East Pool and Agar Mine, Carn Brea area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
© P Trebilcock.

Copper

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Cubanite

CuFe

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Cuprite

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

East Pool Mine (Pool Old Bal), East Pool and Agar Mine, Carn Brea area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
© P Trebilcock.

Cyanotrichite

[(OH)

|SO

] · 2H

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Erythrite

(AsO

)

·8H

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Fluorite

CaF

Reference:

[Golley & Williams, 1995, 28 - "Cornish Mineral Reference Manual"]

East Pool Mine (Pool Old Bal), East Pool and Agar Mine, Carn Brea area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
© 2002, Jesse Fisher

Fluorite
var: Chlorophane

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

East Pool Mine (Pool Old Bal), East Pool and Agar Mine, Carn Brea area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

Galena

PbS

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Hematite

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Langite

[(OH)

|SO

] · 2H

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Löllingite

FeAs

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Malachite

[(OH)

|CO

]

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Pyrrhotite

, (-4M), also given as Fe

1-x

S (x = 0 - 0.2)

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Quartz

SiO

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Quartz
var: Amethyst

SiO

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Quartz
var: Rock Crystal

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Schorl

[Na][Fe

][Al

][(OH)

|OH|(BO

)

|Si

]

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Siderite

FeCO

Reference:

[Rocks & Min.: 17:133.]

East Pool Mine (Pool Old Bal), East Pool and Agar Mine, Carn Brea area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
© J.Ralph

Silver

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Skutterudite
var: Smaltite

(Co,Fe,Ni)As

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Sphalerite

(Zn,Fe

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

Stannite

(Fe,Zn)SnS

Reference:

[No reference listed]

'Tungstic Ochre'

Reference:

[Golley & Williams, 1995, 63 - "Cornish Mineral Reference Manual"]

Uraninite

Reference:

[No reference listed]

Wolframite

(Fe

)WO

to (Mn

)WO

Reference:

[Collins, J.H. (1892): "A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon", 2nd ed., D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro, UK), pp. 108.]

31 entries listed. 24 valid minerals.

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