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Bismuthinite from
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismuthinite
Formula:Bi2S3
Habit:Acicular
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
SEM-WDS
Analysis Reference:University of Manchester, and Martin Stevko, Slovakia
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chlorite Group5 photos of Bismuthinite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Bismuth5 photos of Bismuthinite associated with Bismuth at this locality.
Chalcopyrite5 photos of Bismuthinite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Quartz4 photos of Bismuthinite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Cassiterite3 photos of Bismuthinite associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Dolomite1 photo of Bismuthinite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Erythrite1 photo of Bismuthinite associated with Erythrite at this locality.
Cobaltite1 photo of Bismuthinite associated with Cobaltite at this locality.
Galena1 photo of Bismuthinite associated with Galena at this locality.
Kësterite1 photo of Bismuthinite associated with Kësterite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuthinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20227
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20227:3
GUID (UUID V4):df53e626-3430-4418-8603-ef8f10aadc22
Nearest other occurrences of Bismuthinite
2.1km (1.3 miles) Croft Gothal Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
5.8km (3.6 miles) Wheal Herland (Old Herland Mine; Manor Mine; North Wheal Herland), Rosewarne and Herland United Mines (Rosewarne and Herland Mine; incl. Wheal Fancy; Wheal Pleasure), Gwinear, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
7.3km (4.5 miles) Crenver & Wheal Abraham (Abraham Consols; incl. Great Drym Consols), Crowan, Cornwall, England, UK
9.8km (6.1 miles) Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
11.8km (7.3 miles) South Tolcarne Mine, Beacon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
12.6km (7.8 miles) Great Condurrow Mine, Beacon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
13.2km (8.2 miles) Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
13.9km (8.6 miles) South Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
14.9km (9.3 miles) East Pool Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
16.2km (10.1 miles) Wheal Uny, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal
Journal (issue)
Very Aesthetic+ Very Rare ... Fabre Minerals THE UK of JOU mines minerals CONTE numbe11 TS 2~...FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11 lllit/...TlSEMENTS SPECIAL ISSUE A sp,·ri.11l·ditio11 of thl' UK Jou nu I of Mim:s & Minl'r,1ls 'JYPESF.'I 11 , A...till' mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL...whittling-away of the old minesites throughout the UK: foremost in the list of threats arc the use of sites
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...APATITE (var FRANCOLITE) Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A flattish quartz hematite vei.nstone...2mm. 80x40x20nun. £45. 3) AZURITE. Girralambone Mine, Canbelego Co., New SouthWales, Australia. Quartz...well. 150xl !0xl20nm1. £175. 4) BARITE. Bridford Mine, Christow, Devon. A single ternunated semi-transparent...l 00xl 60nun. £645. 6) BARYTOCALCITE. (Blaegill Mine) Alston Moor, Cumberland. A 50x40nm1 cavity in massive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience in south-west England MONAZITE IN POLYMETALLIC CHLORITE-(TOURMALINE)-QUARTZ-(FLUORITE)CASSITERITE-SULPHIDE...CHRONOLOGY OF MAGMATIC HYDROTHERMAL MINERALISATION IN CORNWALL N.G. LEBOUTILLIER 1, R.K. SHAIL 1 AND C. JEWSON...hydrothermal mineralisation in Cornwall. Geoscience in south-west England, 10, 403-409. Monazite [(Ce,...hydrothermal lode systems of Cornwall than has been previously recognised. In situ and mine dump specimens analysed...the chronology of granite magmatism across SW England using U-Pb monazite and xenotime methods have not
Journal (issue)
UK JOURNAL M I N OF E S -----&----- M ·1 N E R A L S ISSUE N0.9 • SPRING - SUMMER 1991...EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0.5mm...collection. Photo: Mick Cooper. 3 CALCITE 4 The UK Joumol of Mi11es011dMinerals publishes articles of-interest...BAYLDONITE FROM PENBERTHY CROFT G. Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes... EDITORIAL LOOKING BACK In the course of its evolution the UK Joumol of Mints and Minerals has seen many small
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...£30. 3) BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Quartz veinstone, the upper surface showing tiny...label. 40x30x20mm. £20. 4) BAYLDONITE. Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. A 15x12mm area of green...40x20x30mm. £25. 5) BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Dark green crusts and coatings...25x20x15mm. £8 6) BISMUTHINITE and CHALCOPYRITE. Fowey Consols, Tywardreath, Cornwall. A thin white quartz
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Catalog/List
Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean...Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The
Journal (issue)
Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon, England. EX15 2QF Telephone / Fax 01884 821563 Only Road...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Rycon lyping Service, 29 Rycon St., Worksop. Nom. S80 ZAY -+5 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEl\lENTS...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly
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... I made it a stipulation that e:ich en~ in rn:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned
Book
Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...r_0 'f_'--"t S:r•a!e. or S age of the opal from St Austell is cred1te o Greenside Minerals (www.greenside... Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL
Catalog/List
MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE, ARTHURITE, pure CHALCOCITE...pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U
Report (issue)
686–13.697 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Marropino mine, Zambezia, Mozambique. 2.953 (100), 2.737 (41),...and granite pegmatites. Association: Bismuth, bismuthinite, tetradymite, many other bismuth-bearing minerals...France. In England, from Wheal Owles, Wheal Coates, the South Crofty mine, the Penberthy Croft mine, and others...others in Cornwall, and at Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. From Beresovsk, near Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk),...other places in Bolivia. In the USA, at the Harding mine, Dixon, Taos Co., New Mexico; in the Trout Creek
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION IN G.K. ROLLINSON 1, N. LE BOUTILLIER CORNWALL – A AND NEW DISCOVERY AT PORTHTOWAN R. SELLY...mineralisation in Cornwall – A new discovery at Porthtowan. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 176–187...Although cobalt mineralisation has been noted in Cornwall and Devon in the mining literature, there are...cobalt mineralisation discovered at Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the vicinity of old workings which are part...in Cornwall. 1 Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 (STD 0736)...axis. £5.50. 3. APATITE. Botallack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous, creamy, well formed hexagonal...Limonitic matrix. 2x2xlt" .£2.75. ARGENTITE. Valenciana Mine, Guana,;uato, Me~ico,. Fine, bright, silvery grey... 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Select turquoise blue...etx 2lx2 w• £6.50. AXINITE. Botallack, 5t. Just, Cornwall~ 5harp, lustrous, clove brown crystals to 1 cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins
Journal (issue)
membership. Anyone joining the Society after January 31 st pays half the appropriate annual subscription. MEETINGS...dissolved and washed away. In some areas, e.g. in Cornwall, large quantities of very pure cassiterite can...North Africa, South Africa, Russia, Spain and Cornwall, but not North America where the granites have...introduced into Cornwall early in the 19th century, but unfortunately not in Haywards Heath in the 21 st century...sites in the North of England and some members have recently been in Wapping mine in Matlock - all locations
Journal (issue)
I t . NUMBER 17 • AUTUMN 1996 () F s s UK journal of mines & minerals CONTENTS number...10h11Pearce COVER:CERUSSITEfrom Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen from...described in the next issue of this journal. The UK Joumal of Mines and Ali11erals publishes articles...CLASSIFIED ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 UK journal TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Ryton Typing...Institutional Sponsor: THE BRITISH MICROl\lOUNT UK Journal of Mines & l\lincrals No. 17 -1- SOCIETY
Journal (issue)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite...Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 ...COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy, The...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral
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...Castle, Tickow Lane Lead Mine, Earl Ferrers' Lead Mine, Mancetter Manganese Mine, the Great North Museum...site digs was started, the first being at Penberthy Croft Mine (2021). A real testament to the success...the original excavation of the Tickow Lane Lead Mine was one of these projects (see the 'Society Projects
Journal (issue)
Round-up - Friends of Killhope Day School ; Hilton Mine; Anglesey Geopark; South Crofly update; Scotgold;...mineral Field Notes from Cornwall - Hallenbeagle Mine Field Notes from Cornwall - Wheal Charlotte The Munich...Sussex Branch Micromount Study Evening - West Cornwall Branch News - Branch Meetings for 20 I 0 Other... Flat 3, Over Garage, Paynters Lane, Illogan, Cornwall. TRl6 4DJ MEMBERS- CHANGE OF DETAILS John Pearce...to receive your remittance. (£7 Single; £9 Family (UK); £9 and £11 Overseas. ) You have paid - thank you
Catalog/List
Number C311 ALBITE excellent coveraqe (Tintagel, Cornwall) lx2 of creamy f.1.50 coloured 2x2 f.3 crystals...some with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2 ins. Pieces...C315 single 1/2 ins NATIVE ARSENIC rich (Kusa Mine, near ,Bau, lx2 f.5 •2x2 EIO crystal, across. ...Chalcopyrite. (16 level, Sim.ms Lade, Geevor Mine ,Cornwall) size reflects the area of botryoidal surface...80 lxl f.9 platy qrey-brown 5mm f.2.50 coverage Mine, small crystals of brown Devon) copper coloured
Journal (issue)
localities when I lived in South Africa was an old tin mine by the name of Stavoren in what used to be called...recovered from the Mutue Fides mine, but at the adjacent Stavoren mine, it seems that tin recovery was... Located in the parish of Gwennap, just north of St Day, the deposit is hosted by granite of the Carn...are of interest to collectors. Gorland is an old mine with a chequered history because, like Stavoren...and 18 tons of arsenic. Between 1906 and 1909 the mine was dewatered to the 30fm level, and the margins
Journal (issue)
Kevin Jolms, Burma House, Bentley Road, Forncett St Peter, Norwich, Norfolk NR16 lLH, U.K. EDITORIAL...Manchester, U.K. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, u.K. N.J. Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. R.A. Howie...Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite on Gower...Ramsbeckite with schulenbergite from Cornwall and Cumbria, England D.J. Green. J Betterton, R. Bell and...Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite from Bwlch mine, Deganwy, Conwy
 
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