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Bornite from
Wheal Jewel, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Tennantite Subgroup3 photos of Bornite associated with Tennantite Subgroup at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Jewel, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:713491
Long-form Identifier:1:3:713491:3
GUID (UUID V4):267a0d84-224b-4074-939e-65d97ea37031
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Poldory Mine, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Wheal Unity Wood (Tolgullow United Mine; West Poldice Mine), Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
2.5km (1.6 miles) Mount Wellington Mine (Wheal Magpie), Cusgarne, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
2.7km (1.7 miles) Pennance Mine (Pennance Consols; Wheal Amelia), Lanner, Lanner, Cornwall, England, UK
3.1km (1.9 miles) Tresavean Mine, Lanner, Lanner, Cornwall, England, UK
4.0km (2.5 miles) Wheal Buller, Wheal Buller and Beauchamp, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...terminations. £110 13 14 PYROMORPHITE (4cm 4cm x 3cm) St. Salvy, Tam, France Grass green crystal groups of...£75 61I 60 BORNITE (5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Well crystallised bornite is very rare...quartz/calate matrix prettily scattered with smaller bornite crystals. £425 TOURMALINE ON FELDSPAR (4cm x 4cm...many 19th century classics from Devon, Cornwall and Northern England If you do not find what you want on
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by Alison Hodge, 2 Clarence Place, Penzance, Cornwall TRI8 2QA, www.alison-hodge.co.uk, info@alison-hodge...Cornish minerals. Thanks also to Michael Merry of Cornwall Devon Mineral Specimens (www. cornwalldevonmineralspecimens...botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside Minerals (www.greensideminerals...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...to See Cornish Minerals 112 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers
Catalog/List
BARSTDW I 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677)...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...display. 4tx3xl". £4.50. AXINITE. Botallack, St. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A - Sharp, translucent, lustrous...Rhyolite matrix. lixlxl". £6.50. BoRNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Pure, solid metallic irridescently... 19. BoURNoNITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A very fine sharp, lustrous, metallic grey slightly
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Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...r_0 'f_'--"t S:r•a!e. or S age of the opal from St Austell is cred1te o Greenside Minerals (www.greenside...14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers...H elston Camborne- Redruth: Troon to Treleigh Gwennap: Carharrack to Camon D owns N orth Coast: Por1htowan...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitic tin-copper deposits, such as in Cornwall, England, to metamorphic settings, such as the Swiss...chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite...crystals to 0.7 mm across from Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England. Dan Behnke specimen and photo...tennantites are associated with chalcopyrite, enargite, bornite, rhodochrosite, and quartz. Superb examples of...localities. England, particularly east from Switzerland to Austria, we have tennantite again in Cornwall, is
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAP \ OF CORNWALL SHOWING GRA N ITE MASSES AND T H E PRINCIPAL LODES. 'l::j ~ o r g; o eLAUNCESTON...face p. r07. 10 THE MINERAL 7 ZONES OF CORNWALL. By HENRY DEWEY. l'residcntial Address, Read...sequences of mineral deposits in the mines of Cornwall and Devon has been familiar to all. The papers...classic work on " The Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon" (1)* is still an indispensable book...the granite masses. The mining district of St. Just and St. Ives lies on the northern part of the Land's
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exhibit the condition of the trade at the present day. .A.11d it will be seen that, in like manner to the...associated Fro1n the Great St. George lJ,fine, · Perran Porth, Cornwall. Presented by H. Humphries....NATIVE COPPER. From Penibrol,e Mine, St. A.1.istell, Cornwall. Presented by R. Taylor, F.G.S. 3. NATIVE...NATIVE COPPER a,nd RED-OXIDE of COPPER. St. Austell, Cornwall. 8 & 9. driform . NATIVE COPPER, den-...Cornioall. Cornwall. 11. lized. NATIVE COPPER, crystal- Carn Brea, near Bedrutli, Cornwall. 12. NATIVE
Catalog/List
(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...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of...1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well
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There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009
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Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...Graigola . Ponty Pool. Rock vein . Coleshill. Dalkeith jewel seam . Do. coronation seam . Wallsend, Elgin . Fordel...protect iron from oxidation. LOCALITIES. — England. Cornwall; near Tuckingmill, Cam borne, and in a granite...45 4.00 52.03 3.5256-6 3.07 592 7:08 Dalkeith jewel seam . 7.71 Do. coronation seam . 8:46 Wallsend
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4. Cana,)' Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin... I made it a stipulation that e:ich en~ in rn:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of
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MUSEUM is open gratuitously to the public every day in the week but Friday, with the exception of one...exhibit the condition of the trade at the present day. And it will be seen that, in like manner to the... The principal copper-producing districts are Cornwall, Devonshire (West of Dartmoor), Cumberland, Anglesey... of - District. Mines. Copper Ore. Tons. Cornwall and Devon Northern Counties Wales - Ireland ...associated with quartz. From the Great St. George Mine, Perran Perth, Cornwall. Presented by H. Humphries. 4
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
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
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copyright holder is strictly forbidden. Published in England by Dragon’s World Ltd, Limpsfield and London All...Rubinstein Typeset by Bookworm Typesetting, Manchester, England Printed in Singapore Contents Introduction 7...and you may not be able to tell at the end of the day what your specimens are, so badly may they break...Examples are bournite (‘cog-wheel ore’) from Cornwall, England, and pyrite from Panasqueira, Portugal. Fluorite...northern Pennine orefield and calcite from Cumbria, England are still sought by collectors though they are
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permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...company. Audrey and I were married on 16 March 1963 in St Werburgh's Church, Bristol. After our honeymoon we...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce &
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the Black Cat imprint Little, Brown and Company (UK) Limited Brettenham House Lancaster Place London...characteristic rosettes of wavellite from Barnstaple, England, showing a fibrous radiating structure. Opposite:...in limestone at Turnisk, USSR; as crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill...cobalt. Localities. Fine reniform masses occur at St Andreasberg in the Harz Mountains. Also from the...South Wales. Some bismuth occurs in Devon and Cornwall, California, South Dakota and Colorado. Sulphur
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Germany 7 i 1. Elements Copper. 42 mm. Cornwall, UK Copper Cu CUBIC • • • • • Properties: C...in) long are known from Freiberg, Schneeberg and St. Andreasberg, Germany. Wires several cm long were...dendritic aggregates occurred in the Hope's Nose, Devon. UK. A unique find of leaves up to 100 mm (4 in) was...crystals of completely different habit are known from St. Andreasberg, Germany. Crystals occurred also in...several cm across come from Redruth and St Just, Cornwall, UK. Crystals over 20 mm ("fo in) across occurred
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imagination—and that was this author’s experience. Our present-day love of minerals was doubt¬ less shared by early...classifier is on a course tangential to that of the day-to-day work of science. This requires no more of classifications...early nineteenth centuries. It is said that one day he dropped a calcite specimen belonging to a friend...style from country to country. Above: Southwestern England, a traditional mining area. Colours show rock types...found: pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, bornite, chalcocite, marcasite, tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite
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must have noticed historian Diodorus Our present-day love of minerals was doubt- brightly coloured pebbles... listed in an appendix to the Mineral Kingdom). ST ,UCTURES Solids, liquids and gases Youcertainly...classifier is on a course tangential to that of the day-to-day work of science. This requires no more of classifications...early nineteenth centuries. It is said that one day he dropped a calcite specimen belonging to a friend...from country to country. Above. Southwestern England, a traditional mining area. Colours show rock
Book (edition)
included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada,...Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula), St. (Saint), Ste. (Sainte). Recent developments in many...administrative divisions inside those countries, e.g in Spain, UK, Russia, some African countries, etc. Several repeated...tint. R = 35 %. VHN = 26-61. Rare at etc. at Mont St-Hilaire. Quebec. CM 32. 843-854, Georgetown, Clear...{100} and {010} Colfax co., New Mexico, and at Mont St-Hilaire, good.H = 3. D = 227. Np,m,g= 1.480.1.498
Journal (volume)
information: contents Issue 1 MINERALS '• Pyrite PY UK and Ireland: 0870 890 2730 Australia: (03) 9872 4000...265 4304 • Or visit the De Agostini website at: UK: AUS: SA: NZ: Rose quartz RO Ruby RU www.deagostini...deagostini.co.nz Missed a copy? Ring Customer Services UK: 0870 870 2575 Australia: (03) 9872 4000 New Zealand:...Precious and semi-precious stones © 2007 De Agostini UK Ltd, 1-2 samples supplied with this issue This...ruby is not only beautiful and much prized as a jewel, it is also one of the hardest materials available
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in the upper left hand figure, labeled Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall, for X read F. 494 *495 1, line 3, for...Crystal Chemistry, University Press, Cambridge, England, 1939. L. Bragg, Atomic Structure of Minerals,...elsewhere, and are generally inconsistent with present-day crystallochemical developments. Analyses are presented...sulfosalt syntheses carried out from melts. Present-day x-ray methods furnish a rapid and simple method of...of name in Russian: Akademiia nauk des sciences, St. Petersburg. Bulletin: ser. 1 as Bulletin scientifique
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3'P3, and x the hemidomo tals of axinite, the in Cornwall, of whose ; T ; P ; ; 2'P, oo .* Imperfections...when the mineral held near the eye in full clear day-light presents only a number of small shining points...to the sun's rays, or even only to the ordinary day-light. Many diamonds and calcined barytes exhibit...beSuch an argument will convince few in the present day ; and even his followers now introduce -the chemical...Fine varieties are found at Trevascus mine in Cornwall, in Scotland, Hungary, Tyrol, Bohemia, Bavaria
 
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