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Covellite from
Cligga Mine, Cligga Head, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Comments:Alteration product of stannite-group minerals.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cligga Mine, Cligga Head, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:906445
Long-form Identifier:1:3:906445:4
GUID (UUID V4):0b5c19ae-cefd-4b13-92c3-978457b13c80
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
3.8km (2.4 miles) Wheal Kine (Wheal Kind), St Agnes Consols (Polberro Consols), St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
7.7km (4.8 miles) Lushington Cove, Porthtowan, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
12.2km (7.6 miles) Mount Wellington Mine (Wheal Magpie), Cusgarne, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
13.7km (8.5 miles) Wheal Druid, Carn Brea Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
14.1km (8.8 miles) Carn Brea Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
26.6km (16.6 miles) Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
28.1km (17.4 miles) Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
30.3km (18.9 miles) Mulberry Mine (Mulberry Hill Mine), Mulberry Downs, Lanivet, Cornwall, England, UK
35.5km (22.1 miles) Wheal Maudlin (Wheal Mawdlin; Wheal Magdalen), Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
41.1km (25.5 miles) Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dans le mine de Cligga, been discovered.Ferrokesterite occursin greisen-bordered d Perranzabuloe, en Cornouaille... C'est un sulfide veins in granite from the Cligga mine, Perranmin€ral tdtragonal, qui crlstallise dansle...dansle groupe spatial,I4, zabuloe,Cornwall, England, The mineral is tetragopalwith Z:2: a 5.433, c 10...l) i CassiarDistrict, British Columbia; the Ikuno mine, Hyogo I'indice de Herb, dansle district de Cassiar...Mount Pleasantmine, Charlotte britannique, 2) d la mine lkuno, pr6fecture de Hyogo, au County, New Brunswick
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
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)
display this year, and again covering the whole of England and Scotland. Chris Jewson had a number of micro...Geldart found at south Wheal Basset. Finally from Cornwall, Dorothy Merritt had an interesting and unusual...displaying good barite collected recently from Florence mine at Egremont, demonstrating that this locality is...some mattheddleite and lanarkite from the Susanna mine at Leadhills and some excellent hemimorphite on...some lovely pale pink smithsonite at the Blackcraig mine near Creetown. BMS Newsletter 45: 2 > Epistilbite
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...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS...WHERE. Beaches Cliffs and Caves. River Beds etc. Mine Dumps Quarries St. Just - Botallack - Pendeen Camborne
Report (issue)
San Juan, Chile; H2 O by difference. (2) Dome Rock mine, Australia; by electron microprobe, H2 O by difference;...tennantite, covellite, chalcanthite, antlerite, brochantite, geminite (Cap Garonne mine, France); cuprian...Republic. In England, from the Littleham Cove area, Budleigh Salterton, Devon; in the Cligga mine, Perranzabuloe...Perranzabuloe, and the Pentireglaze mine, Cornwall. From Bunmahon, Co. Waterford, Ireland. At Southwick Cliffs...France, from the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, and at the Salsigne mine, 15 km north of Carcassone
Journal (issue)
Dealer & Mine gent Levant Gallery Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Telephone:...CATALOGUE GENEROUS TRADES AND COLLECTION PURCHASES UK Journal of Mines and Minerals IssueNo3 SUMMER1987...SUBSCRIPTIONS are payable in local currency, or direct to the UK in Sterling. Barite from Silverwood Colliery ARTICLES...Lane, Blaxton, Nr. Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Telephone: (0302) 770248 5 21 S. Uttley Mineral...30 M.P.Cooper Present day collecting at Cligga Head, Cornwall 33 L. Chick BACK ISSUES For Your Bookshelf
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tin-bearing sulphides from St Michael's Mount and Cligga Head, Cornwall F. MOORE* AND R. A. HOWIE Department of...sulphides from two different localities in south-west England indicate that the mineral hitherto describedfrom...Cuz(Feo.63Zno.3s)SnS4, are also reported from Cligga Head. It is suggested that a more cautious approach...appreciable Zn and have not so far been reported from Cornwall. 390 F. MOORE AND R.A. HOWIE Stannite is the...south-west England from two specific localities, namely St Michael's Mount (SW 515 299) and Cligga Head (SW
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
Catalog/List
Gems Endsleigh, SO Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRl 2DA England Telephone 01872 223 227 Collection of...Paul.A.Lowe@BTintemet.com January 2000 £6.00 COVELLITE, Butte, Montana, USA. Blacl...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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION IN G.K. ROLLINSON 1, N. LE BOUTILLIER CORNWALL – A AND NEW DISCOVERY AT PORTHTOWAN R. SELLY...mineralisation in Cornwall – A new discovery at Porthtowan. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 176–187...Although cobalt mineralisation has been noted in Cornwall and Devon in the mining literature, there are...cobalt mineralisation discovered at Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the vicinity of old workings which are part...in Cornwall. 1 Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10
Catalog/List
Levant Gallery, Boscaswell, Pendeen, Penzancc, Cornwall. Great Britain . •I TER1'iSOF BUSINESS Mail orders...bric;ht and colourful on,plcasingly,luycred Limonitic Mine ,Attica,Grcece. cryst.q,J J :i nP. 1nnRR. Colourful...nrf"e, bright ra.hi nc,t o 19. BARYTES. Hilton Mine,Wcstmorland. blad ed xtls. 3·2x2{x1-il-",~8, 00...to.bular 3. 20. BARYTES. United Mines,St.Day,Cornwall.(Ex.Christie Collection). little Cornish classic...2-¼x1¾1¾11 ,~9.oo. 21. BARYTES. Wilsons Level,Hilton Mine,Appleby,Cumbria. dorne-shaped Epimorph (originally
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.~O.: St. Just 7B8880 (STD 0736) V.A...covering mat rix. -rixl-t".£3.25. 7. APATITE. Etiro Mine Karibab District, S.W. Africa. Unusual turquoise...APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Clitters Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich crusts of sparkling micro crystals...matrix. 2xli". £2.75. ARSE~UPYRITE. Devon Friendship Mine, Mary Tavy, Devon. Slightly tarnished sharp silvery...milky Quartz crystals, odd translucent creamy "nail head" Calcite crystals to over -t" in size, and odd small
Journal (issue)
Symes Russellite from Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria, England B. Young , N. J. Fortey and P.H.A. Nancarrow 3...D .H .M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES...N. Hubbard 35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper...visit underground in a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being about 8 years old at...to visit every mine in Great Britain and Ireland, and to go into every metalliferous mine in the British
Journal (issue)
mmtall fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals publishes...CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C. Spence SADDLEBACK MINE Peter Briscoe • David McCallum • Paul Nicholson...Editorial Board. fEITKNECHTITE FROM BENALLT MANGANESE MINE Publication ofinformation on a collecting site...0952-2409 Tom Cotterell 49 NORTH DEVON UNITED MINE Mike Rumsey • Mike Savage 53 PIUNTING DY Ratcliff&...Worksop, Notts. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Minos & Minerals No. 29 -1- EDITORIAL
Catalog/List
st. Just, 26, Tregeseal, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD U73 677) V.A...Burraton Coombe qry., St. Stephen-by-Saltash, Cornwall. Pure, metallic grey masses, with a slightly pitted...thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite crystals
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
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...for obscure references, and for support from my head of department and secretary. In all cases, help...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)
the occurrence of varlamoffite at the Sardine tin mine, North Queensland, Australia R. G. TAYLOR, B.Sc...been reported from several other localitites: Cornwall (Russell and Vincent, I952), Malaya (Bradford...Government geologist, visited the well-known Sardine tin mine, which is situated near Ewan, in the Kangaroo Hills...diagnosis. Mode of occurrence. The Sardine tin mine is small and privately owned, and is unique amongst...is by the raise just north of no. 5 winze in the mine. The vein is I-2 ft wide, and consists of an ocherous
Catalog/List
Levant Gallery, Boscaswell, Pendeen, Penzance, Cornwall. Great Britain, Penzance 788286. (STD Code 0736)...y box.-i}x-i}",:t.14.00~ and AZURITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,S.W.Africa. These 3 specimens are inexpensiye...about ¾11 face. 2~x2}x1" ,s8. oo. CALCITE. Buick Mine, Reynolds Co. , U. S .A. Choice twinned twinned...CASSITERITE.(Diamond Tin). Wh.Bounty,Camborne,Cornwall. Exceptionally -fine brJillnnt crystalline spccimens...CASSITERITE/B0RNITE/CHALC0CITE. Geevor Mine, Pendeen, 1·/"Cornwall. ally rich cryEtalline mass of glassy-brown
Book
■ W. ' -.X\ »•*>.?* QOLD in the Counties Of Cornwall and Devon Errata Contents should read; Dedication...Counties Of Cornwall and Devon G.S.Camm CORNISH HILLSIDE PUBLICATIONS St. Austell, Cornwall. r First...Analysis 17 Gold Bearing Localities 25 I West Cornwall District 25 2 Camborne to Truro District 27...Index 99 108 Maps and Figures Page Map 1 SW England Simplified Geology. Map 2 District Location.... Fig I Sources of metal-bearing fluids in SW England. 9 Fig 2 Profile of oxidised sulphide-bearing
Catalog/List
Mineral Dealer <£ Mine Agent Barn Cottage, Lower Boscaswell, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain...inspection and personal selection. If you are in Cornwall do visit, you will be welcome. Established clients...£5-50. 'Z ‘_ 2£x2x1", £4.25. ALMANDINE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia. Very largei ,matrixfree... 2-Jx2xJ", £14.00. 10. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia, Several large,creamy... Very rich for this mine. 1-Jx1^x1",, £20.00. 11. ANGLESITE. Bunker Hill Mine,Kellogg,Idaho,U.S.A.
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
Journal (issue)
incompletely characterised mineral from Penberthy Croft Mine .. 16 Meeting & Field Trip Reports .............hosting next years event, on the south coast of England, so put the date (11-13 April) in your diary and...perhaps, leading a fieldtrip to some long forgotten mine in Wales. I joined the Russell Society fifteen years...the heavy metallic ‘rocks’ that could be found on mine dumps in Mid-Wales during walking trips. My parents...to come. The number of mineralogy curators in the UK can now be counted on two hands, but more worryingly
 
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