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Cassiterite from
Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Consols, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:952078
Long-form Identifier:1:3:952078:3
GUID (UUID V4):ab1250ab-6fb8-4fd6-bcb0-dded4fb17286
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.8 miles) Prince of Wales Mine (Wheal Pleasant), Harrowbarrow & Prince of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin and Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Wheal George, Harrowbarrow Mine (Harrowbeer Mine; Wheal Goodluck; East Wheal Brothers), Harrowbarrow & Prince of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin and Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Wheal Frementor, Devon Great Consols, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
1.8km (1.1 miles) Wheal Fortune (Wheal Newton and Queen; South Harrowbarrow Mine; incl. Wheal Newton (Wheal Barnard); Wheal Queen), Harrowbarrow Mine (Harrowbeer Mine; Wheal Goodluck; East Wheal Brothers), Harrowbarrow & Prince of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin and Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.8km (1.1 miles) Drakewalls Mine, Drakewalls, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.2 miles) Wheal Benny, Latchley, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.2 miles) East Kit Hill Mine, Kit Hill United Mines (incl. Kit Hill Great Consols), Callington, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.3 miles) Wheal Sisters (Wheal Fortune), Harrowbarrow Mine (Harrowbeer Mine; Wheal Goodluck; East Wheal Brothers), Harrowbarrow & Prince of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin and Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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
Book (edition)
iv INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and...also worked at an early date. Tin was important down through the Middle Ages, when it was administered...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...schooners returning with coal for the engines on the mines. Mineral railways to ports on the coast were part...great depth, reached every day by climbing up and down long ladders in the dark. After the mid-| 9th century
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
areas of copper4in mimrakatiou in south-west England AHTHO~Y P. MILLMAX Department of Xining Geology...of copper-tin mineralization on the borders of Cornwall and Devon. The distribution of theee ore met&...of Cu-Sn-Pb-Zn mineralization on the borders of Cornwall and Devon was selected in 1950 for the particular...were carried out in the Hingston Down and Gunnislake area of eastern Cornwall, about 4 miles to the south-west...temperate and the annual rainfall about 48 in. Hingston Down itself forms a conspicuous ridge, trending roughly
Book (edition)
Skip Shaft P.S. The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and...been mined over the centuries. Tin mining continued down to the close of the twentieth century, but the winning...also worked at an early date. Tin was important down through the Middle Ages, when it was administered...winding, and crushing ores. Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...schooners returning with coal for the engines on the mines. Mineral railways to ports on the coast were part
Journal (issue)
shows in Tucson, Denver, Munich and Ste-Marie-aux-Mines Tel.: 949-494-5155 • www.kristalle.com • Email:...Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England ......................... Bill Pinch at the Tucson Show in 2008. Kent England photo. The Pinch Medal, established in Bill’s...the Russian (then Soviet) government, visiting mines in the Urals and Siberia, to discuss how to market...of Lincoln: “A tree is best measured when it is down—and so it is with people.” Looking over Bill’s career
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS...second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992 and...freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue numbers...0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines and
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permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Belgium, France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154... Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was...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
Book (volume)
IE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF UTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume II LONDON HER MAJESTY ' S STATIONERY OFFICE...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South -West England Volume II By H... ... iv CHAPTER V . — Details OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 8. St. Austell... 624); Gunnislake (p . 636 ) ; Calstock (p . 644 ); Luckett, Latchley and Devon Great Consols (p . 649)...Okehampton district . . .. .. . Mines in the granite (p. 750); Mines in the Culm Measures (p. 751); Newton
Book (volume)
The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 0 iz 0 1-rj VOLUME II Assistant Director's...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume II By ...published 1956 Second impression 1969 Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...OF PLATES V CHAPTER V.-DETAILS OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 509 8. St. Austell...(p. 624); Gunnislake (p. 636.); Calstock (p. 644); Luckett, Latchley and Devon Great Consols· (p. 649);
Book (volume)
COUNCIL The METALLIFEROUS MINING GION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume II 1956 2017 reprint BRITISH GEOLOGICALSURVEY...The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME II H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical...metalliferous mining region of the south-west England. Economic Environmental Science Centre Keyworth...London SW7 5BD Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 4090 www.bgs.ac. uk www. geologyshop. corn ... 111 CONTENTS PAGE......... CHAPTER V-DETAILS iv V OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET ............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ENGLAl~D SW. England: coffinite, lxi Sykes, Bowland Forest High, Yorkshire: azurite, lxxxvi Cornwall Geevor...St. Just-inRoseland: uraninite, xc Hingston Down Consols, Calstock: arthurire, pharmacosiderite, 937 ...celesfine, hydrozincite, lxxxvi Dutchman and Good Hope mines, Ecton Hill, Wetton: aurichalcite, 441 Waterbank...gismondine, 187 Turkadle mine, Kutnd Hora: blende, cassiterite, pyrrhotine, stannite, 339 V~nd, Moravia: beryl...chrysotile, 467 Mr. Albert, Gaspd: forsterite, 730 United States Amelia County, Virginia: albite, 581 Bedford
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...collection. 50x40x20mm. £35. 2) APATITE and CASSITERITE. Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais...apatite xls to 10mm together with a few black cassiterite xls to 3mm. 30x25x30mm. £38 . ..c;;z- 3) ARTINITE...BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic matrix
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Ironstained quartz/gossan with scatterings of...collection. 50x40x20mm. £35. 2) A PAT I T E and CASSITERITE. Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais...apatite xls to 10mm together with a few black cassiterite xls to 3mm. 30x25x30mm. £38. 3) ARTINITE. Clear...4) BERTRANDITE. Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhome, Cornwall. Approximate 15x10mm cavity in granitic matrix
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...Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and n1ineral...n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 8 9- 3
Catalog/List
- --Dra kowalls Hous e, Drakewalls , Gunnislake, Cornwall England . - ---- TEL . ~O . : Tavistoc k...£7 . 00 n. CASSITERITE vari ety f1UOY TI N. Pedn- an- Drea Vi ne , Redr6.Jth , Cornwall. Sharp lustrous...ning a 1txi" c avi. ty in solid reddish - brown cassiterite rmtrix . An old l abel is attached to the s peci...CASS ITERITE. Olue? Hills ~'i ne , St . Ag ne&, Cornwall. nich dark brown cryst a lline? mass with srro...CHALCoTR ICHITE. Phoenix I"i ne , Li nki nhorne , Cornwall. Oright rod needly crys t a l s r i ch l y cov
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon...SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW.18 Botallackite...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi Lode...St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 368 346]. 130 fathom level, South Lode. Ex N.Carruth. SW.A8 Cassiterite - Pendarves
Catalog/List
OARS TOW DrLlkewa lls House , Drakewalls , Gunnislake, Cornwall; Engl a nd. TEL. ~U. : ORDERING Ta vi...2x1~-x1 " , £ 5.00 19 . CASSITERITE . Savath Chinoclay Work , Luxulyan , Cornwall . Oright sharp blpckish...2f,x2x1f," , £24 . 00 20. CASSITERITE . Greot Work Mine , Dreage , Cornwall. wel l formed lustrous dark... 00 24. CHALCANTHffiTE. Wh eal J a ne , Kes , Cornwall. Most unusual and beauti fu l sta l a ctitic masses...CHALCOSIDERITE . Phoenix Mine , Linkinhorne , Cornwall. Lustrous dark gr eenish c l usters of sharp crystals
Journal (issue)
·>:~· .:t ~--~~ II I I ~ II I I I I I Cornwall Field Trip Journal 203 - September/October 2006...persuaded me to buy it. It was indeed difficult to put down . ..... I would have thought that the recently published...our 200th issue of the SMLS journal in Issue 55 of Down To Earth. The article is included in this issue...slow steady pace with no deadlines. (Peter slowing down - you must be joking!!) However, by the time he...identifying seven boxes of minerals he had dropped down earlier in the week for SMLS tombotas, sales and
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...Survey, Edinburgh and Keyworth; Cambome School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn; Department of Earth...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...mineralogists and mineral collectors. Although the mines (and some museums) may have closed, and the teaching
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hsianghualite (Am. Minerat.44, 1327; 46,244), cassiterite, and scheelitein veins cutting ribbon rock (...arsenatefrom Cornwall. Mi'neral Mag. 33, 937-941 (1964). The mineral occurs at the Hingston Down Consols mine...mine, Calstock, Cornwall, as thin apple-green crusts usually intimately mixed with pharmacosiderite or an
Book
}JINER.~LOGY AND MINING 1N THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENH.AM REEKS, F. W. RUDLER, .~SSISTANT CURATOR...ON MINERALOGY ~D MINING IN THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENHA.M REEKS, AND F. W. RODLER, • A$SISTANT...commercially useful ores in particular districts 01" mines, an(l those which oxhibit in a 1..emarkable degre...and an estimate of the jmportance of the copper mines of the cot1ntry may be formed from the following...in the year 1863 :-* ... N0. of • District. Mines. Copper Ore. Tons. Co1·nwall and Devon Northern
Journal (issue)
the publication will die! If you find youself in Cornwall this year the St. Aubyn mineral collection is...winter will be fading in our memories. As I sit down to write this piece however I have just come back...9234136 C Mr Pete Seymour 7 Carew Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3TP Tel 01872 262078 SE WW SE Change of...he was joined by his parents. Upon returning to England he was employed by A.C.Dunn of Rugby and seconded... In June we had a three page feature article in Down to Earth , and a slightly shorter version of this
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St •. Just, Near pen~ance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 STD 0736) V.A.T... £5.50. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Specimen A - Rich crusts of sparkling lime green... -2-10'. I BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine Illogan, Cornwall. Select cluster of intergrown irridescently tarnish~d...lx-t".£6.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Specimen A - very rich purply tarnished mass...2txltxlf". £3.25. 11. 18. CASSITERITE. Ding-Dong Mine, Madron, Cornwall. Rich, heavy, greyish brown
Book
MINERALOGY AND MINING IN THE | ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENHAM REEKS, F. W. RUDLER, AND CURATOR. ...September. - The Session of the Roy AL SCHOOL of MINEs and of SCIENCE applied to the ARTs commences early...ON MINERALOGY AND MINING IN THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, TRENHAM REEKS, AND F. W. RUDLER, ASSISTANT CURATOR...commercially useful ores in particular districts or mines, and those which exhibit in a remarkable degree... The principal copper-producing districts are Cornwall, Devonshire (West of Dartmoor), Cumberland, Anglesey
Book
"ferns" from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England. Specimen dimensions: 32 mm x 28 mm. From the collection...(1987). Gold from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. The Mineralogical Record, 18-1, 85-88. Russell...was born on the 18th March 1923 in Leicester, England. He attended the City Boys School, Leicester, and...search of fine mineral specimens. The Cumbrian iron mines, the North Pennines, and the Caldbeck Fells in the...pat ing in the activities of the Peak District Mines Historical Society (with his great frie nd and coll
 
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