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De Dunstanville Mines, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK

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Location is approximate, estimate based on other nearby localities.
 
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 50° North , 5° West (est.)
Margin of Error:~1km
Other regions containing this locality:Devon and Cornwall metalliferous mining district, England, UK


An amalgamation formed in 1835 of Crane and Bejawsa Mine, Park-an-Bowen Mine and Wheal Wellington. It was dissolved again in 1842.

From 1835 until 1841, the group sold 67 tons of copper ores.

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6 valid minerals.

Geochronology

Geologic TimeRocks, Minerals and Events
Phanerozoic
 Paleozoic
  Permian
   Guadalupian
β“˜ Major polymetallic mineralization~270 MaCornwall, England, UK
   Cisuralian
β“˜ Porphyry dikes intruded (latest age)~275 MaCornwall, England, UK
β“˜ Greisenization (latest age)~280 MaCornwall, England, UK
β“˜ Porphyry dikes intruded (earliest age)~280 MaCornwall, England, UK
β“˜ Formation of metallized pegmatites~285 MaCornwall, England, UK
β“˜ Greisenization (earliest age)~285 MaCornwall, England, UK
β“˜ Emplacement of major plutons~295 MaCornwall, England, UK

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References

Dines, H.G. (1994): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, reprint, p. xxxiii.

Hamilton Jenkin, A. K. (1965): Mines and Miners of Cornwall, Vol. 10: Camborne - Illogan. Truro Bookshop (Truro), 70 pp.

 
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