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Cassiterite from
Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2876
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2876:9
GUID (UUID V4):3b92acc9-5606-437f-b92a-90f5cf644a53
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Parknoweth Mine (Wheal Buzza; Truthwall Mine), Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.2km (0.1 miles) Wheal Drea, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) West Wheal Owles (Cargodna Mine), Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) Boscean Mine, Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wheal Grouse, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Goldings Mine, Boscean Mine, Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Grylls Bunny, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Hazard, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Harvard's Mineralogical Tour of England June 23-July 4, 1984 WILLIAM C. METROPOLIS Harvard Mineralogical...sponsoring a mineralogist's tour of London and Cornwall. A group of eleven left Boston's Logan Airport... We visited the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square...world-famous and truly magnificent Crown Jewels of England. Unfortunately, photography is not permitted, so...rings consist of blue sap­ phires, with the Cross of St. George in rubies set on them, surrounded by diamonds
Book
Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Barry Gamble Alison Hodge First...Alison Hodge. 2 Clarence Place. Penzance, Cornwall TRI 8 2QA. UK info@alison-hodge.co.uk WVAVal sonhod gepubl...Production. Penzance. Cornwall Printed in China Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North Wheal Basset. Cambome-Redruth...Book 6 St Just Mining District 8 Levant Mit ie a. Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West Wheal Owles and Wheal...Wheal Edward 18, Cape Cornwall Mine 21 Boswedden Mine 23, Geevor Mine 25. Wheal Hear-le (East Boscaswell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm., 1991; XRD by Monica
Journal (issue)
Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and...Trimouns, Ariege, France W.R. van den Berg 4 Wheal Owles T. Wolloxall 7 CONTINENTAL EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA...COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection Photograph...investment could be found so the site was abandoned, just as the workings began to reveal signs of gold bearing...Trimouns Quarry. ROCK BOTTOM, ISSUE No. 5, SUMMER 1988 St. BartMlemy TAAA~ON s.Ari~ ~~o -Et'"""' ' ANOOAAA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
I T E after Cronstedtite; from Wheal Maudlin, Llanlivery, L-JL Cornwall. A specimen in the British Museum...recorded. 5. Chalcopyrite after Calcite; from Cornwall. A compact mass of chalcopyritc with rough surface...after Bismuthite; from Fowey Consols mine, St. Blazey, Cornwall, In this specimen the prisms of bismuthite...mine, Liskeard, Cornwall. See No. 18. 8. Chalybite after Bismuthite; St. Blazey, Cornwall. from Fowcy Consols...9. Chlorite after Mispickel; from Carn Brea, Cornwall. These are hollow drusy pseudomorphs of chlorite
Book
undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...phonolite of Wolf Rock. Small outcrops of Pliocene St Erth Beds are described and there is a full account...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE...British Geological Survey, Sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales). Authors A J J Goode, BSc and R T Taylor
Book
Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has... ’’fe, -'A Sr A6Nfl^ fe'Pk :. g,TRURO <4 J -St AUS FELL S’ LAND'S EHdG HOUMTSS. HEL5TOW PENZANCEJH...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group ofpale blue needly aurichalcite...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group ofeight intergrown prismitic...n1111_ £14. 11) CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen...greisen matrix showing black cassiterite xls to 3mm intergrown with mica and the odd small colourless hexagonal
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...£12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group of pale blue needly aurichalcite...70x40x30mm. £65. 9) CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendecn, Cornwall. An "onion layer" type of matrix showing rings...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group of eight intergrown prismitic...30x30x20nun. £14. 11) CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the Natural History M useum...See the article in this issue on the minerals of Cornwall. Copyright 1993 © by the Mineraiogicai Record...of your hand for singlehanded operation, weighs just over a pound, and runs on six AA batteries. The...Pendeen West Cornwall, England Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England, have proved
Catalog/List
,1:.1• 75 • I 5. ARSENIANPYRITE. Wheal Nangllcs,Dlssoe,Cornwall. 19th C ~pccimrn. Matrix free,crystalline...45x25x20mm. tl5.00. 17. ARSENOPYRITE/CHALCOPYRITE. Wheal Jane,Kea,Cornvall. Chalcopyrltc rich matrix topped...22. AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,carnyorth,West Cornwall. Specimen A-lustrous, vaxy brovn,matrix !ree interforms...Hatrlx free. 30x20x!5mm, tø.so. grey- an -438. Wheal carpenter,G11inear,West Corn11a11. li Quartz fragment...BAYLDONIT!!. 41. Penberthy crofts Hine,st Hilary,West Cornwall. Tron stained Quartz fragment covered on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HE MINERAJ~ASSOCIATES OF CASSITERITE.--These a r e much the same in Cornwall as have been observed in...are associated with Cassiterite in the different kinds of country-rock in Cornwall, I only refer (a) to...have been formed contemporaneously with the Cassiterite, and (b) to those which have been observed in...tourmaline still more generally associated with the Cassiterite, but often only in microscopic crystals. In the...--The occurrence of calcite associated with cassiterite, which has been reported from Polgooth, seems
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.... i CYassiterite, " Sparable Tin," from Cornwall. By R. H. SOLLY,~r F.GoS. [Read November llth...Sparable Tin have been raised from various mines in Cornwall ; a description of this variety may therefore...contain. The name " Sparable T i n " is peculiar to Cornwall, and has been given to this variety of Cassiterito...the angle which he found for the element of Cassiterite is accepted to-day. On page 840 he says, " I...of the various specimens of the Sparable Tin of Cornwall. LITERATURE. 1814. 1822. 1823. 1852. 1856. 1855
Catalog/List
will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele University, Oxford, Harrogate and...green,prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE....FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with upper surface...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper
Catalog/List
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...botryoidal mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~... ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised coatings...2tx2t". £1. AUTUNITE. South Terras Mine, st. Stephens, Cornwall. Light yellowish green platy crystals richly
Book (volume)
THE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume 1 LONDON HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .,pvii Description .)SG(England urv eol em M est -WSouth of Region Mining MINING...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South - West England Volume I Ву...London s.E.1 13a Castle Street, Edinburgh 2 109 St. Mary Street, Cardiff 39 King Street, Manchester...This account of the mining geology of south -west England summarizes the geological information gained during
Catalog/List
being made lo cover Bank.clearancecosts here in England. Paul and Nanette Lowe FIOIIIC-:1.argaFulScå Dllaillromaneola...mottled 30.nm, [2. consisting Rocks,Tremearne,Cornwall. of a cans o[ small hexagonal Apatlte crystals...ybas1tc. 80x70x55, [16. 28. ARSENIC and PROUSTITE. St Joachirnstha!,Czcchoslovakia. The dark grey and heavy...display piccr. 75x70, (28. 35. AZURITE. St. Day,Gwennap,Cornwall. platy Azurlte crysta!s in Azurite 36...3AYLUOS,TEond HI~ETITE. Penberthy Croft,St.Hil~rr,Cornwall. s~~ll display sµcci~cn of dark-green ~pherical
Book
A SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL, INCLUDING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE MINING DISTRICTS AND THE...“Campiglia Mines,” &c. With Geological Map of Cornwall, AND NUMEROUS STEEL PLATEs, ILLUSTRATIVE of INFLUENCE...ON SCENERY. REPRINTED FROM THE “GAZETTEER OF CORNWALL.” LONDON : OFFICE of “THE MINING Journal,” 26...ºx Foº: PREFACE. During my present visit to England, my father, Mr. Robert Symons of Truro, pressed...account of the Geology of Cornwall, to accompany his forthcoming Gazetteer of Cornwall. This, owing to the
Catalog/List
LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...COLLECTION LABEL) 70x30 5 ACC No. 745. CUPRITE, WHEAL DAMSEL, GWENNAP. CRYSTALS TO 8MM ON GOSSAN Y UPPER...DOLCOATH MINE. COLL 1892. 80x70 8 ACC No. 1056. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN), GOSS MOOR ALLUVIAL, ROCHE. EX...MATRIX. 75x50 ACC No. 1036. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) WHEAL KITTY, ST. AGNES. COLLCI920’S. 25x20 ... ACC No. 1037. CASSITERITE, GOSS MOOR ALLUVIAL, ROCHE. A20MM DIAMETER PEBBLE. COLL 1920. 20 ACC No
Catalog/List
NICKCARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...BOTALLACKITE. Cligg;1 Head, Perranzabuloc, St Agnes, Cornwall. Rich aglomerative matrix cemented by thousands...1400' level, Hanging Wall Vein, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. An intergrown group of"stacked" doubly terminated...12) CARMIN1TE and BEUDANTlTE. Wheat Ludcott, St Ive, Cornwall. The 40x30mm top of veinstone matrix showing...Collected 27/11/1994. 70x30x30mm. £22. _ '.. _. 13) CASSITERITE on QUARTZ. Zab}1oe Mine, Daloegorsk, Russia.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Actinolite, Grand Canyon, Arizona, anal., M24 Adularia, Cornwall, pseudomorphous after analcime, 245, 5o9, and..., X-ray, 439; Greenland, anal., 3 I Agardite, Cornwall, 169, I74 AHMAD (S.) and MORRIS (D. F. C.), Geochemistry...Discordant calc-silicate bodies from the St. Just aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia...anorthoclase, cryptoperthite, 63 Amblygonite, Cornwall, sp. gr., cell-size, I51 Amphibole, see actinolite...sedimentary, partial anal., cell-size, opt., 24 I; Cornwall, alteration to adularia, 245, 5o9, and M49 Andalusite
Report (volume)
: : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring the information up...been made of the published accounts of mining in Cornwall and Devon, and reference to the principal sources...... II.- - DETA.ILS OF THE l\iINES 12 I. The St. Just District, pp. 12-17. II. '!'he Camborne, Redruth...The St. Austell District, pp. 42-45. IV. The Ca.radon District, pp. 46-54. V. The East Cornwall a.nd
Book (volume)
The Metalliferous MiningRegion of South-West England VOLUME I Assistant Director' s copy LIBRARY...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AN D WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume I By H...PH EM I STER, M.A., D.Sc. LONDON H ER MAJESTY'S ST A TI ONER Y OFFICE 1956 The Institute of Geological...London WCI J 3a Castle Street, Edinburgh EH2 3AR 109 St Mary Street, Cardiff CFJ IJW Brazennose Street, Manchester...Second impression with amendme111s /969 PrinlCd in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ENGLAl~D SW. England: coffinite, lxi Sykes, Bowland Forest High, Yorkshire: azurite, lxxxvi Cornwall Geevor...Geevor mine, Pendeen, St. Just-inRoseland: uraninite, xc Hingston Down Consols, Calstock: arthurire, pharmacosiderite...South Terras mine, St. Stephen-inBrannel: bismutoferrite, uraninite, xc, 1081 Wheal Bray, Altarnun: uraninite...uraninite, xc Wheal Owles, St. Just-in-Roseland: uraninite, 1081 Bj61fur, Seydisfj6rdur; Efri-Hrittd...House, Sc~urie: pyroxenite, bronzite, 903 ~RELAND St. Patrick's copper mine, Avocet, Wicklow: morenosite
 
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