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Cuprite from
West Caradon Mine, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copper1 photo of Cuprite associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view West Caradon Mine, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:751787
Long-form Identifier:1:3:751787:7
GUID (UUID V4):c94dce0a-8ab4-4bfc-8436-d37eb8c84284
Localities for Cuprite in this Region
Hallets Shaft, West Caradon Mine, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
New West Caradon Mine, West Caradon Mine, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Hallets Shaft, West Caradon Mine, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
0.3km (0.2 miles) Craddock Moor Mine, Craddock Moor, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
0.4km (0.2 miles) Gonamena Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
0.4km (0.3 miles) New West Caradon Mine, West Caradon Mine, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Caradon Consols, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) South Caradon Mine, Caradon Hill, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (1.0 miles) East Caradon Mine, Downgate, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) West Rosedown Mine (The Caradon), Marke Valley Mine, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Wheal Phoenix, Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFORMnTION Mail orders...2~xli-". £4.50. 1. N.~TIVE 2. :,P"TITE. Carrock Mine, Caldbeck, Cumberland. Large cloudy sea-green crystals...light. 3x2t". £2. 3. "POPHYLLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. t" modifie; creamy grey crystals intergrown...crystaline mass. 3x2~". £4. 6. AZURITE. Titlg-Tang Mine, Glvennap, Cormmll. Specimen rlSmall sharp bright...2~xli". £3.50. 7. hZURITE. Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Specimen h Bright blue platy crystal mass
Catalog/List
RICHARD W. BARSTCM 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ...blades of Cerussite 3nd odd well formed crystals of Cuprite. 3x2". £5. 2. aP&TITE. Renfrew Co., Ontario,...2xltxl". £6. 5. M\SENOPYRITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Sharp, silvery grey, complex twinned crystals...matrix in association. Itxlt". £4. 8. AUTUNITE. Mine La Faye, Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France. Yellowish...2txlt-". £2. 9. hXINITE. Roscommon Cliff, Nr. St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous, sharp, clove brown crystals to
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...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL
Catalog/List
Gems Endsleigh, SO Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRl 2DA England Telephone 01872 223 227 Collection of...vein in banding. GRF. LMI. £6.00 3 APATITE, Etiro Mine, Karibab Disbict, South Africa. Sea blue soild XN...00 5 CASSITERITE, Wheel Vinoent nr Liskeard, Cornwall. Very heavy black m8S$ with extensive mica. RF...sliver. GRF. SM!. £10.00 11 CASSITERITE, Birch Tor Mine, Dartmoor, Devon. Massive ore. Olab on specimen...TN. £10.00 13 PITCHBLENDE, Wheel Edward, St Just, Cornwall. Blackish solid mass. RAD. RF. SMI. £10.00
Catalog/List
W• BAR STOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOFlMATION Mail...APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Fowey ';onsols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Small, sharp, ttansparent hexagonal...50. 9. BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crusts covering Quartz... -2- 10. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Cro~ts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Transparent, well formed, mi£!Q crystals...SSITERITE. Wheal Rock, Nr. Bugle, Hensbarrow Moor, Cornwall. Pure, dark brovm cellular mass, with numerous
Report (volume)
: : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...has been made to describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring...information up to date Mr. Dewey has visite.d everv active mine and rnanv of those recentlv abandoned • • • or of...historic importance. Our thanks are due to t,he present mine managers for their courtesy and assistance. :Full...been made of the published accounts of mining in Cornwall and Devon, and reference to the principal sources
Report (issue)
of hydrothermal copper deposits. Association: Cuprite, connellite, brochantite, chalcophyllite, cyanotrichite...Southwest mines, Bisbee; in the Maid of Sunshine mine, Courtland, Turquoise district, Cochise Co.; at...at the Grand Central mine, Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah; in the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district...Gorland, Gwennap, and the West Caradon mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall, England. At Trébas, Tarn, and Fontana...France. From the Arenas mine, south of Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy. In the Kamariza mine, Laurium, Greece. From
Unpublished Work
exploratory drives. Althou,-5h no tin was mined in the Caradon .�roup , alluvial deponi ts are known to have occurred... copper-producing areas of Cornwall, the largest being South Caradon Mine. V[es t Ca radon. This property...property 1 ies � mile south-west of Ca radon Hill and includes !lev1 West Caradon Mine. It is imm8diately south...9:} S ore oefoeen 18l13 arid 1886. New \'lest Caradon Mine produced 295 tons of 6j 1 copper ore from 1881...co-pper , fluorite , libethenite , olivcnite , cuprite and the uranium mineral torberni te. 0 R,1 d
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No. Gunnislake 832381 (STD 0822) V.A...green crystals. 2ix2t". 3 ".s. ANTHOINITE. Bjordal Mine, Uganda. Specimen A - Rich whitish earthy masses...quartz. 2tx2xl". £3.25. 5. AZURITE; Copper queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co. Arizona, U.S.A. Choice, bright...cavities. 4x2xl-t'.'. £23.00. 6. AZURITE. Buckingham Mine, Doddington, Nether Stowey, Somerset. Small bright...2~x1~~1~". £3.25p. . BORNITE. Wheal Cock, st. Just, Cornwall. Very rich purply tarnished mass associated
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near ~enzance, Cornwall, England. TEL. NO.: St. Just 880 (STD ffi3 677)...smaller Anglesite crystals. 2x2xl~". £17.00. APATITE. st. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland. Specimen A - Select...Sphalerite. 2tx2~xli". £9.00. ARSENOPYRITE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. Choice, silvery grey... 7. 8. 9. -·2- 10. AZURITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A. select, bright... 3x2x1-t".· £22.00. 11. BARYTES. Settlingstones Mine, Hexham, Northumberland. Specimen A,- ~hoi~e, lust
Journal (issue)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite...Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 ...COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy, The...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral
Catalog/List
e Co b h a m COBHAM SURREY 0 9 3 2 8 S2 3 4 0 ENGLAND KT 1 1 2 NL Catalogue 1'392 No 55 - This is..."'· f·,,or.-i ti.s cd: send a 1 ist of th,;'! mine"i",;• L, that price for ~ach piece There is no... C191 AJOITE fairly (New Cornelia well covered~ Mine,Ajo,Pima greenish (Belstone light County blue...A) Cl92 ANDRADITE location. brown crystals on Mine near Okehampton Cl93 ARSENOPYRITE Arsenopyrite...location pieces, about a third covered (Bedford Consols Mine near Tavistock, Devon) B) for micros lx 1/2 ins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chalcophyllite Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall, England S ome minerals, such as tsumebite and leadhillite...tamarite, for specimens from Wheal Tamar, Devon, England. Chalcophyllite occurs in a range of colors from...exceptional crystals to 2 cm are known from Cornwall, England (Corbett 1973). The crystals are flattened...have been noted (Piazza 1931). At Wheal Gorland, England, a specimen exhibiting partial replacement of the...reported from the now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine.
Catalog/List
1600 hours each day at 7, Condor Way, Burgess Hill, West Sussex Tel: 01444 233958 (Pre-view on Saturday March...Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Copper Manqanese Copper Elaterite Sulphur Copper & Cuprite Gold Gold Silver Coooer Jet Gold Sulphur Copper...Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean...Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie
Book
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EG Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 * *...beforehand. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1995 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. V-shaped cavity in limonitic...£18. 3. APATITE. Kessel Dows Quarry, Penryn, Cornwall. A 20x15mm cavity in pegmatite matrix showing...APATITE (VAR FRANCOLITE). Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. Cellular matrix lined with lustrous brown...60x50x45mm. £22. 7. AURICHALCITE AND HEMIMORPHITE. 79 Mine, Hayden, Arizona, USA. A 50x20nan cavity in veinstone
Report (issue)
LONG ACRE, LONDON; w. & A. K. JOHNSTON, LTD., 2, ST• .ANDREW SQUARE, EDINBUR...Climslancl ; and Mr. Dewev .,. for the area betw··een St. C1ether and ·Lewannick. Mr. Bromel1ead joi11ell...responsible for tl1e mineral lodes taken £1..om olcl mine-planR, l)11t where p<}ssible tl1e Olttcrops were...of the main boundary.. Tl1e largest of tl1ese at St. Don1inick has alrea.dy been reco1·ded by }fr. Ussher...supplied at the cost of drawing and colouring. CORNWALL. 15. NE., by H. Dewey; SE., by G. Barrow and H
Journal (volume)
U.K. R.E. Starkey, Bromsgrove, U.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. R.F. Symes, Sidmouth, U.K. A.D. Hart...manganese-bearing assemblage from Restormel, Lostwithiel, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell 53-56 The first confirmed British...Cu3Al4(PO4)2(OH)12·2H2o, from spoil at Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall Michael S. Rumsey and Gordon M. Cressey 57-61...Trevor F. Bridges 61-65 A report on Westernhope Old Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges Journal...from around 40 to over 110, including the ‘first UK occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite
Journal (issue)
on Calcite . Hope's Nose, near Torquay, Devon, England. The dendritic composite is approximately I cm...Braithwaite 71 An Occurrence of Djurleite at West Caradon Mine, Cornwall I.A. Lawrence 81 NOTE Cinnabar from...archaeology orjust taking in the best ofbeautiful CORNWALL, with full board, transport and equipment. J1e...Interest Holidays: 14, Bayview Terrace, Newquay, Cornwall TR72LR. Telephone: 0637874216 47 MINERALOGICAL...to 1'. Pieces 2'x 2' to 4'x 3' from £5. FLORENCE MINE. CUMBRIA, Botryoidal Hematite, plus some pieces
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Catalog/List
gemmy blue crystal 1 'h ins. long £150 Corconda Mine, Minas Cera,s, Brazil APOPHYLLITE - a 2 inch spray...crystals in vug in limestone, 5 ins. x 5 ins. Muzo Mine, Colombia £ on application FLUORITE - mauve fluorite...fluorite with dolomite 3 x 2½ ins. Shangbao Mine, Hunan Province, China £60 SIDERITE - a 3V2 inch crystal...cassiterite crystals 31/2 x 21/2 ins. £260 Juan Delvalle Mine, Uncia, Bolivia LAZULITE - dark blue crystals 2... OTHER NtEW ACQU�S�lONS CREEN FLUORITE Okurusu Mine, Namibia Fine green to blue crystals in I x 1 inch
Book
Mitchell of Truro, to Mr. Lavin of Pen zance , for West Cornish localities ; and to Dr. Forster Heddle ...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...SULPHIDE IN NATION . COMBI Genus 2. OXIDES . 161. Cuprite. 162. Melaconite . 163. Pitchy copper. 144. Mispickel...ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...on Kergiliack estate near Pen a. Coberard ; at a mine near the head of Borrowdale, near Lometer, rearis
Book (edition)
See Photography by Peter Stanier and oe Levant Mine, St Just. The small engine house on the left houses...Skip Shaft P.S. The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and...centuries, which for a while made this far south- west corner of Britain a world leader. Copper mining...typical view of Cornish i mining. Marke Valley Mine. P.S. innovations in machinery, particularly the...winding, and crushing ores. Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in
Catalog/List
Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...NNW of ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass...micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall Pure black-brown cleavage... Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________
 
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