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Lake at limit of the workings |
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Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Whitchurch, Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK
The lake flooding the far extremity of the underground workings the first part is quite shallow but then drops off to a great depth to the left of the photo. Chris Popham photo, Nov 2004. |
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Ore stringer. |
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Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Whitchurch, Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK
Malachite formation around an ore stringer in the roof of a stope off the main adit close to the mine entrance. A small amount of limonite stalactite formation has also taken place seen at the bottom of the photo but this is not pronounced at this site. Generally residual mineralisation is very restricted and belies the large quantities of ... |
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Spoil heaps |
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Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Whitchurch, Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK
The dumps at Virtuous Lady mine, looking northward with the Tamar river to the left. The dumps contain a variety of material, however where these have fallen into the river the shales have been washed away leaving lumps of mineral rich (pyrite, arsenopyrite) material the size of footballs. These are readily accesible on the beach just behind the ... |
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