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Sphalerite from
Terrace Hill Quarry, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Terrace Hill Quarry, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:786455
Long-form Identifier:1:3:786455:1
GUID (UUID V4):7dc15fb0-4aee-428f-9368-6df61b9ef67b
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
2.0km (1.3 miles) Silver Vein Mine (Beacon Hill Mine; Wheal Fortescue), Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
2.9km (1.8 miles) Wheal Maudlin (Wheal Mawdlin; Wheal Magdalen), Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
4.9km (3.0 miles) Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath and Par, Cornwall, England, UK
5.2km (3.2 miles) Lanescot Mine, Fowey Consols (incl. Wheal Treasure; Wheal Fortune; Wheal Chance), Tywardreath and Par, Cornwall, England, UK
7.2km (4.5 miles) Wheal Menadue, Higher Menadew (Higher Menadue), Luxulyan (Luxullian), Cornwall, England, UK
7.5km (4.7 miles) Par Consols, St Blaise, Cornwall, England, UK
8.3km (5.2 miles) Pembroke Mine, South Par Mine, St Blaise, Cornwall, England, UK
8.4km (5.2 miles) East Crinnis Mine (incl. Wheal Rowe), South Par Mine, St Blaise, Cornwall, England, UK
9.5km (5.9 miles) Crinnis Mine (Great Crinnis Mine; Carlyon Consolidated Mine), Carlyon Bay, Carlyon, Cornwall, England, UK
9.7km (6.0 miles) Crinnis Cliff, Carlyon Bay, Carlyon, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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
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WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals...quarriesCalcite, Quartz crystals;  SE 3 mi., quarry on E bank of the Blue R.geodes (lined with Quartz...Quartz or rare blue Celestite); SW of Holmesville, quarry on the Blue R.geodes, flint, fossils. JEFFERSON...petrified wood. MORRIL COUNTY ANGORA, 2 mi. E of Angora Hill on ranch rd., abandoned mine dumpfluorescent moss
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crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite); e extensive exposure S of town on Crystal Glen...Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal...either brown Calcite; or Pyrite on chalcedony, Sphalerite on chalcedony or Calcite, Quartz. 151 Illinois...crystals, Fluorite (blue, yellow, purple, clear), Sphalerite; d the Empire and Fairview mines⎯Fluorite, Galena
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crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite); e extensive exposure S of town on Crystal Glen...Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal...either brown Calcite; or Pyrite on chalcedony, Sphalerite on chalcedony or Calcite, Quartz. 151 Illinois...crystals, Fluorite (blue, yellow, purple, clear), Sphalerite; d the Empire and Fairview mines⎯Fluorite, Galena
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A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C. ASSOCIATE TRURO:...F.R.S., THB ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL, AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS, (WHOSE OBSERVATIONS
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that he may know first of all what mountain or hill, what valley or plain, can be prospected most profitably...California The gem Jersey, show pegmatites of New England North Carolina, the Black this type of mineralization...Adapted from Frederic H, Lahee, Field Geology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952). * fifth ed. (New York: ...sulphur, sulphates feldspar, micas, quartz gypsum, sphalerite, and many more Metamorphic rocks Many Ore...notably true at Butte, Montana, where “the richest hill on earth” held only minor promise of gold at the
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1mprints, and gemmy substances is almost any rock quarry in America. , • - ..., -... .. .,. - ... • ;t California Division of Mines A PUMICE QUARRY. Commercial pumice occurs at the foot of Glass...especially in the pegmatite intrusions (dikes) of New England, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia... that he may know first of all what mountain or hill, what valley or plain, can be prospected most profitably...silver) led to the discovery of the "Billion-Dollar Hill"-the richest copper ores in mining history, reaching
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copper mine ............................... Yannery Hill copper mine ............................ %%undoand...general extent of underground workings at Yannery Hill mine ........................ 71 .................plan of Red Hill copper mine .......................................... Surface plan of Red Hill South workings............................. Surface plan of Cane Hill working ..........................................Holdings Ltd Texasgulf Australia Ltd The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd Union Miniere Development and
 
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