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Chalcopyrite from
Ale and Cakes Mine, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphalerite2 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ale and Cakes Mine, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:3250
Long-form Identifier:1:3:3250:6
GUID (UUID V4):088f68b9-6be3-4959-9a68-3117aa6d0df6
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
0.2km (0.2 miles) United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Wheal Lovelace, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Clifford, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Poldory Mine, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.5 miles) Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) East Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wheal Fortune, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) East Wheal Maid, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) Wheal Maid, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
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BRITAIN. VOL. XXVII.-COPPER ORES OF OORNWALI, AND DEVON BY HENRY DE"\VEY. Ft)BLJSBEI) DY ORDBR OF...To be purchased from E. STANFORD, LTD., 12, 13, and 14, LONG ACRE, LONDON, w. & A. K. JOHNSTON, LTD...STREET, EDINBURGH; & Co., LTD., 20, NASSAU STREET, and FREDERICK STREET, DUBLIN; from any Agent £or the...: The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...world. Since then the decline has been continuous and in i:ecent years the output has dwindled to a very
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HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and other minerals have all...one large tin mine is at work, but the winning of tin is known from prehistoric times, and it is likely...administered by the industry’s own Stannary Courts and Parliament. Most was still streamed from valley gravels...period of mining activity came in the late 18th and 19th centuries, which for a while made this far south-west...Copper mining was then far more important than tin, and a great wealth was won from beneath the Cornish soil
Catalog/List
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...orders are prollipt~y filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...specimens. Please quote the name and the number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose P.O./Cheque with order...charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 50p. We reserve...requests and 'wants lists' are welcome. We hope that we may be of some service to you, and assure you
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There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...very valuable ores and minerals. Besides their economic importance, many of the ores and associated minerals...beauty both in form and colour. They range from azure-blue 'hair crystals' of copper ore and the branching...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...'"'ell as providing information on their extraction and exploitation. Prefaced by a brief introduction on
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Designed by See Photography by Peter Stanier and oe Levant Mine, St Just. The small engine house on the left...whim engine now preserved by the National Trust and behind it, to the right, is the head gear of Skip...history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and other minerals have all...winning of tin is known from prehistoric times, and it is likely that copper was also worked at an early...administered by the industry’s own Stannary Courts and Parliament. Most was still streamed from valley gravels
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Cornish Mineral Reference Manual Peter Golley and Richard Williams April 1995 First published 1995 by...Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's 'Manual...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter
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(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...specimens offered is that as they are all ex collection and in many cases ex a sequence of collections, many...specimens represent material no longer available and all have passed the qualifying test of being selected...very detailed location and species information and often earlier collections and sources. Some specimens
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BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677)...INFORMATION Mail orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination-basis, subject to approval...condition. Pleare quote the name and number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose P.O./Cheque with order...charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 75p. We reserve...requests and "wants lists" are welcome. we hope that we rray be of some service to you, and assure you
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t() be 11t1rcl1ased f ro111 E. STANFORD, 12, 13, and 14, LONG ..t4.0RE, LONDO:N"; \V. &A. K. ,JOHNS11...Sheet 352 of the ne,v series one-inch 1nap of England and Wales. . The orig:inal geological st1rvey ,vas...superi11te11de11ce of Colo11el Colby, I?.. E., F.R.S., and in tl1e course of l1is ,vo1-- lr l)e la J3ecl1e received...Hl1rveyors, J\'Ir. Henr·y J.\ticLauchlan, ., J:i _G.S., and l\lr. Hen1"y Still, F.G.S. rJ�l1e rest1lts of the...series maps 31 and 33, and in the ,vell-li:now11 l{eport on the Geology ot· Oorn wall, Devon and 1Vest S0111erset
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i'ish, tin"'cor per NF )907566804 ~42 . 37 • CORNWALL COUNTY LIBRARY ll 11111111111111 3 8009 014 20...tin~copper ~ • ~ C ORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL LIBRARIE S AND ARTS DEPARTMENT Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/detai ls/fishti ncopper0000knee 'FISH, TIN and COPPER' By Derek A. Kneebone ~ TRURAN Published...Dyllansow Truran. Trewolsta, Trewirgie. Redruth, Cornwall. © 1983 D. Kneebone \ All rights reserved...photocopying. recording, or any information storage and retneval system \.vithout permission in writing from
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The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices to the World Heritage Site...Site Management Plan 2013-2018 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices...The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site...8.5 List of survey and recording events within the Site 8.6 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...(2012) 8.7 Publications and research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
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south-west England H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical notes by J Phemister, MA, DSc Addenda and Corrigenda...available from: HMSO Publications Centre (Mail and telephone orders) PO Box 276, London SWS 5DT Telephone...4181 HMSO's Accredited Agents (see Yellow Pages) And through good booksellers BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...available through the Sales Desks at Key­ worth and Murchison House. Selected items can be bought at...London Information Office in the Geological Museum, and orders are accepted here for all publications. The
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