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Olivenite from
Wheal Phoenix, Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Olivenite
Formula:Cu2(AsO4)(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Olivenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Phoenix, Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:752037
Long-form Identifier:1:3:752037:2
GUID (UUID V4):26d1b385-7c3e-4bb3-a259-c04545296419
Nearest other occurrences of Olivenite
1.2km (0.7 miles) Marke Valley Mine, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) West Caradon Mine, Crow's Nest, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
2.2km (1.3 miles) South Caradon Mine, Caradon Hill, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
9.1km (5.7 miles) Holmbush Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
14.2km (8.8 miles) Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
14.3km (8.9 miles) Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
16.4km (10.2 miles) Old Gunnislake Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
17.0km (10.6 miles) Bedford United Mine, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
28.8km (17.9 miles) Old Beam Mine (Great Beam Mine), Bugle, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
29.1km (18.1 miles) North Goonbarrow China Clay Pit, Roche, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
is fluorescent. MUS,L85. 2. ADAMITE. Kameriza Mine,Laurium,Attica,Greece. Goethite fragment vith aggregates... SC,L6. 3, AGARDITE(CALCIAN).Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornvall ■ Tvo specimens. Specimen A-boxed...xtls and thin crusts. SC,L8. ~- AGARDITE-Y. Clara Mine,Rankachtal,BLack Forest,Germany. 3 boxed specimens...acicular xtls and a small agaregate af dark,green Olivenite xtls. KIH,LB.50. Specimen C-massive Fluerite fragment...vith at least xlO lens. 5. ALLOP!IANE.Nev East Wheal Russell,Tavistock,Devon. Four specimens. Specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Reichenbachite from Cornwall and Portugal R. S. W. BRAITHWAITE Chemistry Department, University of Manchester...Manchester, M60 1QD, UK AND G. RYBACK 42, Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4EB, UK Abstract Infrared...labelled 'pseudomalachite' from Cornwall, in particular from Old Gunnislake mine, are of reichenbachite, thus...identified with pseudomalachite from Miguel Vacas mine, Vila Vigosa, Evora, Portugal. Identification of...pseudomalachite, ludjibaite, infrared spectroscopy, Cornwall, Portugal. Introduction PSEUDOMALACHITE (Hausmann
Book
Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Introduction 4 About this Book 9 Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith:...to Port Gaverne Liskeard: Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45...45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious Metals and Semi-precious Stones 85 Mineral Gallery...a posler (or Lovm's shop, Penzance: liroconilc, Wheal Garland, Sl Day the early I 800s to supply their
Book
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...taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...Liskeard: Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall: Callington to Calstock Rocks of Cornwall Precious Metals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Saskatchewan Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...minerals such as the highly collectible species olivenite (Berry 1951). As a continuation of our treatment...secondary minerals, a specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at...(Cook 2002), has been selected for this issue. Olivenite occurs in a range of colors from virtually black...from 4.4 to 4.5, and its Mohs hardness is 3. Olivenite is pseudo-orthorhombic and has a twinned monoclinic
Report (issue)
92.93(1)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Potts Gill mine, England. 4.72 (10), 2.562 (10), 2.489 (10), 2.688 (9)...43 [100.00] [96.94] 100.00 (1) Wheal Carpenter, Cornwall, England; by microchemical methods, H2 O by...deposits. Association: Cornwallite, chalcophyllite, olivenite, liroconite, chenevixite, clinoclase, pseudomalachite...chrysocolla, quartz. Distribution: In England, from Cornwall, at Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear; Wheals Gorland...Muttrell, Gwennap; Wheal Phoenix, Linkinhorne; and a number of other mines; in the Bedford United mines, Tavistock
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...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins
Catalog/List
50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...Polished seciion.RF SPC. C.£8 0023 DUFTITE.Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumberland.V1v1d green druse of duflile...Barstow label. RF or D. C £10 0030 CHABAZITE,Ramsley Mine,Sticklepath,Devon Scintilating druss of chabazite
Catalog/List
Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes Farm, Willand,Devon, England EX15 2QF Tel 01884 821563 Fax 01884 821724 e mail...co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...PYROMORPHITE (3.5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Moss green acicular crystals covering...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislakc Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistocl< (01822) 832530 email:...S0x20mm area. 70x50x35mm. £38. 3) ANGLESJTE. Parys Mine, Anglesey, Wales. Brown cellular gossan matrix showing...dealers label. 60x30xl2mm. £18. 6) AZCRITE, Tynagh Mine, Co Gallway, Ireland. A cavity in veinstone shows...banded matrix. 80x70x40mm. £85. 8) CALCITE. Clasgorm Mine, Strontian, Argyll, Scotland. Calcitic matrix, the... £45. 9) CALCITE, PYRITE and QUARTZ. Cambokeels Mine, Weardale, Co Durham. A limestone/fluorite matrix
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been found on specimensfrom fivelocalities in Cornwall,one in Devon, and one in Cumberland. The name...cornubite(from Cornubia, the medieval Latin name for Cornwall) is proposed for the new mineral. Chemical analyses...examination of some copper phosphates and arsenates from Cornwall in 1955, one specimen belonging to Sir Arthur...the Roman name for Cornwall. The specimens from Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall, carry well-crystallized...of cornubite : one, B.M. 42818, from St. Day, Cornwall, was labelled clienevixite and carries light to
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi
Catalog/List
Also new: Dufrenoysite, Ferroactinolite From England: There is a seperate This catalogue Nitrobarite...\·1hi te sphere shaped nodule. (Newhaven,Sussex,England) 111 50p 2" El.00 311 fl.60 411 f).80 017 ANALClTE...white masses intergrown with Selenite. (Dorset, England) lxl 60p lx2 El.20 2x2 E2.40 2x4 EJ.80 4x4ins E7...rich grey fibres in quartz. (WhealProsper St Ewe, Cornwall) lxl f!.50 lx2 E3.00 026 BERTRANDITE Be/4 Si/2...Group. Rich green masses with Siderite.Unusual for England. (ScarboroughYorkshire) lxl f2 lx2 f4.50 2x2 f9
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N....by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...Kennedy and G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt ... without surcharge, to the following people: England: Roger S. Harker 2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire...Record, November — December, 1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford
Catalog/List
Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific...Pacific Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The
Catalog/List
LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...(MM’s) LOT No: 1 ACC No. 795. ARTHUR1TE, HINGSTON MINE. DRAKEWALLS. GREEN XSTLS IN SHALLOW CAVITY (50 X...TWINNED XSTLS. 30 4 ACC No. 760. OLIVENITE, BEDFORD UNITED MINE, GULWORTHY. CRYSTALS ON ONESIDEOFTHESLATEY...COLLECTION LABEL) 70x30 5 ACC No. 745. CUPRITE, WHEAL DAMSEL, GWENNAP. CRYSTALS TO 8MM ON GOSSAN Y UPPER...QUARTZ MATRIX. COOK’S KITCHEN SECTION, DOLCOATH MINE. COLL 1892. 80x70 8 ACC No. 1056. CASSITERITE
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...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well formed, dodecahedral...ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large dodecahedral crystals, interformed
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone...ROSE QUARTZ & SMOKY QUARTZ (4cm x 4cm 2cm) Piftorra Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brasil A very pretty specimen
Report (issue)
66.54 3.77 Total 99.47 99.09 100.00 (1) Mercedes mine, Coquimbo, Chile. (2) L’ubietová, Slovakia. (3)...(Libethen, near Neusohl), Slovakia. In England, good crystals at Wheal Phoenix, mines around Calstock, Illogan...elsewhere in Cornwall. Around Nizhni Tagil, Ural Mountains, Russia. In Portugal, at the Miguel Vacas mine, near...near Alcoutim. Very large crystals from the Rokana mine, near Kitwe, and at Chingola, Zambia. At Kakanda...Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). From the Burra Burra mine, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. In the USA
Report (issue)
(Potts Gill mine); azurite, duftite, mimetite, baryte, tennantite (Stennerskeugh Clouds mine). Distribution:...Prefecture, Greece. At Penberthy Croft mine and Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall; at Dolyhir quarry, Powys; at Ecton...Longrigg mine and Stennerskeugh Clouds mine, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, Britain; and at Tynagh mine, Co. Galway...prefix identifies the zinc-dominant analogue of olivenite. Formerly ‘cuproadamite’. Type Material: Mining
Catalog/List
clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment...green,prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE...APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper...Aragonite to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece. 3 specimens. Specimens A and B.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
East Iceland: beudantite, 431 Pengenna (Trewethen) mine, St. Kew: pitchsbone, oligoclase, 587 Sellatur...WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham: aph~hitalite(?), arsenopyrite(?), epsomite...cornubite, 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite, molybdenite, 921 Treore mine, St. Teath: beudantite...scorodite, stibnite, 431 Tretoil mine, Lanivet: danalite, garnet, ilvaite, 921 Wheal Betsy, Tremore, Lanivet:...Lanivet: he]vine, scheelite, 921 Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear: beudantite, bayldonite, carminite, 431 ; cornubite
Book
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
Journal (volume)
caledonite crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection...mm from the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection...3-9 Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall Jens C. Ø. Andersen and David Moulding 10-14...collected by Sir Kingsley Dunham from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE...NOTE Acicular baryte in the Cavanacaw Gold Mine, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland James A.S. McFarlane
Catalog/List
Pb Te minute silvery apots in lca matrix (HillTop Mine. OrganHountains DonaAnnaC-Ounty,NewMexico) u OSSBIMDHEIHITE...Rich ycllow to brownmasseswith Cerussite. (Terrible Mine, Isle Colorado, USA)2x2cmEl5 lCII(10 less rich lem...limonitic matrix. with Barytes Crystals • (BrandyBottle Mine, Yor~shire) quite rich assemblage lx2 ES 238 DESCLOIZITE...in one small area on blue Chrysocolla. (Eagle Eye Mine, La Paz County, lrrizona ,USA) lx2ins f.4.50 l'i6...~icro crystals on aatrlx (Pentire Glaze Hine, Cornwall) 1 x, E2 lxl E3.60 lx2 [6 397 STOUITEPb W0/4.
 
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