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Uraninite from
Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:786775
Long-form Identifier:1:3:786775:0
GUID (UUID V4):5344e4ea-cd97-4f27-99ca-c70b6b4b23e3
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Loe Warren Zawn, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (1.0 miles) Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
11.3km (7.0 miles) Wherry Mine, Wherrytown, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
16.2km (10.1 miles) Wheal Trenwith, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
16.3km (10.1 miles) Wheal Bahavella (Wheal Bravella), St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
22.8km (14.2 miles) Wheal Herland (Old Herland Mine; Manor Mine; North Wheal Herland), Rosewarne and Herland United Mines (Rosewarne and Herland Mine; incl. Wheal Fancy; Wheal Pleasure), Gwinear, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
24.4km (15.2 miles) Wheal Trewavas (Trewavas Cliff Mine), Rinsey, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1992, VOL 56, PP. 123-126 Gold from Botallack mine, St. Just, Cornwall DURING a recent examination of oxidized...oxidized samples from cliff exposures near Botallack mine (SX 362340) gold was observed in hand specimen...found in mineralised lodes elsewhere in southwest England (Russell, 1944; Clark and Criddle, 1982; Clayton...b) this is the first reported occurrence in the St. Just mining district, although both native silver and...district (C. J. Stanley, pers. comm.). The BotaUack mine is well known for the occurrence of an extensive
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)
is mobile as a chloride complex. The gold at Botallack may well represent an enrichment by such a process...Andersonite and schr6ckingerite from Geevor mine, Cornwall: two species new to Britain SCHROCK1NGERITE...information on the distribution of gold in southwest England, and to J. F. W. Bowles for reviewing the note...Supergene copper mineral assemblages at Botallack, Cornwall. J. Russell Soc. Clark, A. M. and Criddle...studies of lead-antimony mineralization in North Cornwall. Proc. Ussher. Soc., 7,258-62. Cloke, P. L. and
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
Journal (issue)
UK Journal of mes ·and .Minerals Issue SprJng 1989 , No ...6 Pr:f ee ~3.95 ·- • r .. Arnold...Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Calcite (Cornwall) UK Journal of Mines and...EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Merritt Cassiterite from Whiteworks Carharrick, Cornwall R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking 22 Mining Methods...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of City
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...TETRAHEDRITE, 15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the Natural History...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
59, PP. 7 4 5 - 7 4 9 Widenmannite from Cornwall, England: the second world occurrence WIDENMANNITE...rare mineral, hitherto known from just one specimen from Michael Mine in Weiler, near Lahr in the Black...uranium mineralization in the St Just district of West Penwith, Cornwall, widenmannite has been identified...exposure at NGR SW 362329, about 0.75 km west of Botallack village. The widenmannite occurs in a localized...The cove is nameless on Ordnance Survey maps and mine plans of the area, but for the purpose of this paper
Report (issue)
formed as a weathering product of uraninite. Association: Uraninite, becquerelite, masuyite, schoepite...At Shinkolobwe, from Kalongwe, and in the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province...Mountain, Acworth, Sullivan Co., and in the Palermo mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire;...Utah, from the Delta mine, Emery Co., and in the “C” group of claims and the Jomac mine, White Canyon district...district, San Juan Co.; from the Lucky Mc No. 20 mine, Wind River Basin, Fremont Co., Wyoming; near McCoy
Report (issue)
99 b = 9.36–9.381 X-ray Powder Pattern: Michael mine, Germany. 4.16 (10), 2.34 (10), 3.19 (8b), 3.34...00 (1) Michael mine, Germany; by electron microprobe. (2) Loe Warren zawn, England; by electron microprobe...(Michael mine, Germany); an alteration product of sulfides by sea water (Loe Warren zawn, England). Association:...galena, quartz (Michael mine, Germany); dewindtite, uraninite (Loe Warren zawn, England). Distribution: From...From the Michael mine, Weiler, near Lahr, Black Forest, Germany. At Jáchymov (Joachimsthal), Czech Republic
Book
undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...copper since the Bronze Age. Only the Geevor tin mine was still open in 1986, but the vigorous development...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
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
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
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...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations Jens... Shail, Robin K., Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations,...Ore Geology Reviews Indium mineralisation in SW England: host parageneses AC CE P TE D and mineralogical...Cornubian batholith, SW England 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT The SW England ore region contains significant...mineral lodes associated with D the Carnmenellis and St Agnes granites, which are the districts that had
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
revival in the collection of uranium minerals. Uraninite (Cook 2004) and several of the most common secondary...specimen selected comes from the famous Musonoi mine, a locality that produces the world’s finest examples...3 mines, Elk Ridge district; and the Happy Jack mine. Cuprosklodowskite is apparently widespread throughout...acicular cuprosklodowskite crystals from the Musonoi mine, Democratic Republic of Congo. Houston Museum of... Figure 2 (left). A portion of the large Musonoi mine as it looked in the late 1990s. Figure 3 (below
Book
A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C. ASSOCIATE TRURO:...F.R.S., THB ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL, AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS, (WHOSE OBSERVATIONS
Catalog/List
RRUTH Copse Cott.age Drakewalls Gun..riislake Cornwall ?Ll 8 Tel/Fax: Tavistoc1<: (0822) 832530 Plea�e... JULY/AUGUST 1'994 1. ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Tavistock, Devon. A greenish matrix of compact...(b) 1 xl 30x20x20mm. £4. 3. APATITE. Panasqueria Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portug:il. Intergrown group of pale...4. APJ\TITE. Coice.q:-0,-1 Quarry, Luxulyian, Cornwall. A single pale blue 8x5mm x1, part'iy irnbedded...Geevor Mine, St Just,. rix showing bands of massive l:>rown apatite inters!)2rsed· and Mat Cornwall. red
Catalog/List
RD W. BJIRSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ...1973 1. bP~TITE. Tregarden Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Specimen aSmall, bright sharp greenish blue modified...mineral. ltxlt". £10. 5. aZURITE. Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, tlustralia. Bright...around l"xt" in size - £3 each. 7. BbRYTES. Hilton Mine, Scordale, Westmoreland. 1. large wellformed group...crystals being mainly transparent. £3.50. Golconda Mine, Brassington, Derbyshire. Light green radiated crystal
Other Paper
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...and recording events within the Site 8.6 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are of recent origin. All components of all the mine waters are of meteoric origin. Radiogenic 4He contents...of about 1.2 km. T a B Carnmenellis granite in Cornwall and its aureole contain the only recorded thermal...Wheal Seaton O 9 9 Wheal Jane South Crafty - ~ Botallack Shallow groundwaters Granite Killas ..... - ...Stilly Isles; L, Land's End; C, Carnmenellis: A, St Austell; B, Bodmin; D, Dartmoor), after Edmonds et... Shallow groundwater sample 10 is located in the St Austell granite. G R O U N D W A T E R S IN C A
Journal (issue)
Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent ME3 8AT, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD: F.B. Atkins, Oxford, UK. RE. Bevins, Cardiff, U.K. RS...Braithwaite, Manchester, UK. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, UK. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, UK. RA. Howie, Matlock, U...U.K. R.J. King, Tewkesbury, UK. A. Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK. l.R Plimer, Parkville, Australia RE....Bromsgrove, UK. R.F. Symes, London, U.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia B. Young, Newcastle, UK. Aims...baryte. Nether Row Brow, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. M. Rothwell collection. Photograph by Mick Cooper
Catalog/List
::DW~ 25, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0735) ...all times. JULY 1977 1. 2. AJOITE. New Cornel~a Mine, Ajo, Pima Co.; Arizona, U.S.A. Turquoise coloured...matrix. lMinE, Sticklepath, Devon. Specimen A - Sharp olive green...3tx2xlt". £:.3.00. 9. AXINITE. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devon. Lustrous, clove brown, sharp...specimen. 3x3xl". £11.00. AZURITE. Ting-Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Small bright blue crystals thickly encrusting
Catalog/List
RICHARD W. 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.~~.: st. Just 880 (STD an 677) V...in size attached. 2-tx2~xlt". £6.75. 2. ADULARIA. st. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland. A very large translucent...faces. 3-tx2x2". £11.50. 3. ALLANITE. Mary Kathleen Mine, queensland, Australia. Sharp, lustrous black, well...Specimen B Ifxlixf". £1.50. AXINITE. Botallack, st. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A - Choice, bright, clovebrown... 11. 12. 13. -2AZURITE. Ting-Tpng Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue small sharp crystals
Book
effort. The current 25-year index is divided into just two major sections: Author/fitle, and General. The...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec 2: 141-142 AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G
Catalog/List
STOW ;>6, ';:'reg8seal, St. Just, '~ear Penzance, Cornwall, England. St. Just 880 (STD 073 677) V.a.T... ::::~,,50i Specimen B - 3x2t". £2,25. aDULtU'u. st. G~:r·:tha::'d, Ticino, Slo/itzerland. Specimen A...14. 15. 16. 17. 18. ARA ONITE. Floristella Mine, Sicily, Italy. Superb, lustrous, creamy white,...crystals. 3x2t". £5.50. ll.URICHP.LCITE. Grandvield Mine, Grand :anyon, Coconino Co., Arizona, U.S.~. Select...under u.v. 4tx2t". £5,50. AZUrtITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Conchise Co., Arizona. U.S.A. Fine, bright
 
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