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Scheelite from
Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Scheelite
Formula:Ca(WO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Wolframite Group6 photos of Scheelite associated with Wolframite Group at this locality.
Hydrokenoelsmoreite4 photos of Scheelite associated with Hydrokenoelsmoreite at this locality.
Ferberite4 photos of Scheelite associated with Ferberite at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Scheelite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Stolzite2 photos of Scheelite associated with Stolzite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite2 photos of Scheelite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Scheelite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9804
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9804:5
GUID (UUID V4):2f1d8131-e9a1-499c-a266-cd14ff5f8b09
Nearest other occurrences of Scheelite
2.1km (1.3 miles) Old Gunnislake Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.8km (1.7 miles) Bedford United Mine, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
12.4km (7.7 miles) Wheal Friendship, Mary Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
13.5km (8.4 miles) North Mine (East Wheal Friendship), Devon United Mines, Peter Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
14.9km (9.3 miles) Hawkswood Mine (Hawk's Wood Mine), North Hill, Cornwall, England, UK
15.0km (9.3 miles) Wheal Jewell, Mary Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
17.0km (10.6 miles) Penhale Mine, Penhale and Trecarne United Mine (Caradon United Mines), Common Moor, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
18.8km (11.7 miles) Treburland Manganese deposits, Altarnun, Cornwall, England, UK
25.4km (15.8 miles) Meldon Mine, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
25.6km (15.9 miles) Meldon Aplite Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall: Callington to Calstock Rocks of Cornwall Precious Metals and Semi-precious...technical this will increase your appreciation Cornwall, Inevitably, language, but (pax ranges it
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...FRANCOLITE) Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A flattish quartz hematite vei.nstone. The upper...BISMUTHINITE and FLUORITE. South Crofty Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. A nice thumbnail showing several purple cubic...BOULANGERITE. Rose Tresungers Mine, St Endellion, Cornwall. A 40x20nm1 area ofveinstone showing fine needly...£45. 11) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A nice showy specimen with about 100 blocky cog
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... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...terminations. £16. 3) ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A group of intergrown silvery grey...£85. 8) BORNITE. Cooks Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Chalcopyrite matrix, the top of which is about...BOTALLACKITE. 130fm South Lode, Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. A scattering of sparkling green botaliockite...12) CALCITE on QUARTZ. Botallack Mine, St Just, Cornwall. Quartz matrix with areas showing small crude
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Acknowledgements 350 Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction...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... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce &
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Beach Meldon apllte q. Fallowfield mine East Gunnislake Struan,Skye,Scot. Wh.Gorland Tresavean mine Bwlch...Bristol.Avon Okehampton,Devon Hexham,Northumbr. Cornwall Cutting on A863 St.Day,Comwall Gwennap,Comwall
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...FRANCOLITE). Simms Lode, Gecvor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An approx 60x60mm area on bro\\11 cellular quartz...BABINGTONfTE, PREHNITE and QUARTZ. Hongquizhen Quarry, Meiqu Co , Sidman, China. A floater showing a...60x50x20nun. £85. 7) BARYTE and HEMATITE. Petit Tor Quarry, Torquay, Devon. An approx 70x30nun area ofintergrown...£85. 8) BORNITE. Cooks Kitchen Ivlinc, Cambome, Cornwall. A thin piece of gossan matrix on top of which
Report (volume)
notable quantity in Britain outside · Devon and Cornwall, and there they are produced chiefly as a by-product...a-re practica-lly confined to a. fev;, mine-, iu Cornwall and to two localities in Scotland at one of which...paid by 1\-Ir. Dewey .to every active mine in England ond Wa.les from which · arsenic or antimony ha...Henwood called 'The :\'fotalliforous Deposits of Cornwall ancl Devon,' which was published in 1843 as vol...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and has prove.cl t o be of great VA,lue. Lil
Journal (issue)
MALACHITE Collected in 1980 from Castle Hill quarry, Somerset. A rare form as curved strands up to...GOETHITE Collected in 1982 from Wheal Edward, Cornwall. As newcomers to minerals we thought goethite...AGARDITE(Y) Collected in 1987 from Marke Valley mine, Cornwall. Identified by David Green and photographed by...FLUORITE Collected in 1985 from Meldon Aplite quarry, Devon. A group of octahedral crystals on axinite...EPIDOTE Collected about 12 years ago from Loanhead quarry, near Beith, Southern Scotland. Fascinated by the
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...£30. 3) BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Quartz veinstone, the upper surface showing tiny...5) BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Dark green crusts and coatings of bayldonite...and CHALCOPYRITE. Fowey Consols, Tywardreath, Cornwall. A thin white quartz veinlet divides the specimen...£45. 9) CASSITERITE. Trevaunance Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. A quartz cassiterite matrix showing several lustrous
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix showing about 50...40x25x30mm. £18. 5) ARAGONITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A shallow cavity in a triangular galena/quartz...70x60x25mm. £95. 4 BIOTITE. Trelavour Down, St Dennis, Cornwall. A nice clean curved mass of silvery brown...£15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing very lustrous
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix showing about 50...40x25x30mm. £18. 5) ARAGONITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A shallow cavity in a triangular galena/quartz...70x60x25mm. £95. 4 BIOTITE. Trelavour Down, St Dennis, Cornwall. A nice clean curved mass of silvery brown...£15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing very lustrous
Book
Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious...physical properties of minerals (pages I I 0- 1 I). Cornwall, for its size, has one of the most diverse ranges...1n museum collections such as hose of the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro and the aural His ory Museum ...spectacular examples of this are exposed in North Cornwall. It was during this period of mountainbuilding
Catalog/List
- --q.,_u_artz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___::H_i_l_?fY Cornwall __________ _ _ _ _ __ _________ AGRELLITE Excellent...½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins S0p ALUMINITE Al SO/4 ALUMINOTSCHERMAKITE...- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...PbAgSbS lx2 S0p 2x2 £1 2x3 £I .SO Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses ANHYDRITE CaSO
Report (issue)
and tin-bearing vein from Hemerdon deposit, Devon, UK. The tungsten is present in wolframite, the dark...5 7.1-7.5 Hübnerite MnWO4 76.6 7.2-7.3 Scheelite CaWO4 80.6 5.4-6.1 Stolzite PbWO4 50.9 ...tungsten minerals are the monotungstates, such as scheelite (calcium tungstate, CaWO4), stolzite (lead tungstate...structure between two or more distinct substances. Scheelite is the most abundant tungsten mineral and is present...known tungsten deposits. An important property of scheelite is the bluishwhite fluorescence under short-wavelength
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine xls to 5mm...3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to 4mm...60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity in
Report (issue)
product of primary tungsten minerals. Association: Scheelite, ferberite, ferritungstite (Mpororo deposit, Uganda);...Uganda); anthoinite (Kara mine, Tasmania); scheelite, ferberite, ferritungstite, russellite, anthoinite...Territory, Canada. In the Hingston Down quarry, Calstock, Cornwall, England. Name: For the Mpororo deposit
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...50x30x25mm. £12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group of pale blue needly...70x40x30mm. £65. 9) CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendecn, Cornwall. An "onion layer" type of matrix showing rings...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group of eight intergrown prismitic...CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen matrix showing black cassiterite
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...50x30x25mm. £ 12. 3) AURICHALCITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A nice clean group ofpale blue needly...CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group ofeight intergrown prismitic...CASSITERITE, BERYL and MICA. Marazion Beach, Penzance, Cornwall. The top of a greisen matrix showing black cassiterite...CASSITERITE and SCHORL. Goonbarrow Clay Pit, Bugle, Cornwall. A good solid mass of black/brown cassiterite
Catalog/List
50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen,Scolland Radiating off while lo...1ourmaline.R1ch RF SPC. C.£8 0027 CHALCEDONY.Pentee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall.Pretty botryoidal encrustations...D SPC. C.£8 0028 CHLORITE after AXINITE,Aplile Quarry,Meldon,Devon.Unusual pseudomorphs of earthy brown...x1Is.Unusual RF SPC. C £10 0029 WAVELLITE,Highdown Quarry,Filleigh.Devon.Classic wavellite with radiating
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y... 2txlt". £6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown...lxl lT • £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised...granite matrix. 3Xlt". £2. lig~t AUTUNITE. Merrivale Quarry, D8rtmoor, Devon. micro crystals richly encrusting
Report (issue)
100.48 94.15 100.00 (1) Castle-an-Dinas mine, England. (2) Flo property, Canada; by electron microprobe...bismuthinite, bismite, wolframite, ferberite, scheelite, ferritungstite, anthoinite, mpororoite, koechlinite...In England, at the Castle-an-Dinas mine, St. Columb Major, and the Hingston Down quarry, Calstock, Cornwall;...mineral collector, of Swallowfield Park, Berkshire, England. Type Material: National School of Mines, Paris...Paris, France; The Natural History Museum, London, England, 1934,615. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman
Report (issue)
Kingdom from 1873 to 1913. Output from Devon and Cornwall from 1897 to 1913. Commercial Uses. Rise and present...\Volframo�curs ,, 2.-0re-dressing plant of the Gunnislake Clitters Mine ... PAGB 2 26 , CHAPTER I...bnerite, 1\{11"\V04 ; wolfram, r,·e:M:n,V04 ; and scheelite, CaW04 . Wolfram is the iron- and mangan.ese-tungstate...cent. of MnO and 76·37 pe1; cent. -0f "\V03 • Scheelite is lime-tungstate and consists of 19·45 per cent...size and- black or brownish-black in colour. Scheelite is cornmonly gra_nular 01· platy, and is grey
Report (edition)
principal sources of tungsten in the \Vest of England to collect new information. J\'Iessrs. Eastwood...re-written the chapters on tungsten ores of the West of England, a subject of ,vhich he has special kno,vledge...Capt. Taylor and Mr. T. Bennet for their help in Cornwall and Devon, and to Mr. G. J. Wi11iam"', H.l\if...). GENERAL AcooONT AND DE7'A.IL8 OF THE Mnms. Cornwall and Devon. District I, St. Austell Moor; District...FeWO,, hiibnerite, MnW04, wolfram, FeMnW04, and scheelite, Ca.WO,. Wolfram is the iron a.nd manganese tungstat
 
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