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Marcasite from
Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cassiterite2 photos of Marcasite associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite2 photos of Marcasite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Bornite2 photos of Marcasite associated with Bornite at this locality.
Pyrite2 photos of Marcasite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Marcasite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Aragonite1 photo of Marcasite associated with Aragonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:47023
Long-form Identifier:1:3:47023:6
GUID (UUID V4):da731cee-a140-46a7-a61e-381b6075bdc4
Nearest other occurrences of Marcasite
29.6km (18.4 miles) New Cook's Kitchen Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
29.6km (18.4 miles) South Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
29.6km (18.4 miles) Cook's Kitchen Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
29.9km (18.6 miles) Tincroft Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
30.8km (19.1 miles) Carn Brea Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
31.8km (19.8 miles) Wheal Whitfield (North Carn Brea Mine; North Tincroft Mine), Robarts Mine (incl. East Wheal Seton; Wheal Maude), Illogan, Cornwall, England, UK
34.8km (21.7 miles) Cathedral Mine, Busveal, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
36.9km (22.9 miles) Wheal Concord, East Treskerby Mine, Skinners Bottom, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
37.0km (23.0 miles) Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
38.6km (24.0 miles) Wheal Clifford, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele University, Oxford, Harrogate and...clear,tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment...prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE. Ichinokawa...APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous...LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with upper surface
Catalog/List
(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST)...(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of
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...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of
Catalog/List
WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...List 1. ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s sel! collected...3x3x2", .L5.25. ACTI.IOLITS. 3otallack Cliffs ,St .Just, ''est Corn·.1all. 19th C. label. 11x1x1" lustrous... 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen 'A'...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix
WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...List 1. ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s sel! collected...3x3x2", .L5.25. ACTI.IOLITS. 3otallack Cliffs ,St .Just, ''est Corn·.1all. 19th C. label. 11x1x1" lustrous... 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen 'A'...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix
Catalog/List
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown...• £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised
Catalog/List
personally and sEe my latest one-otf srecimens. Just give me a ring to make suYe I will be hsre. f,...fromme you can pay after you receive the minerals. -Just s~nd a list of ~he r.1i1:era1s _and pr1ce for each...Also new: Dufrenoysite, Ferroactinolite From England: There is a seperate This catalogue Nitrobarite...:.ic::2ousmasses Qn matrix (Pr::'.)~:I:'1 1:ir:2,St :!37'.Cel,Val d' ~osi:a rtaly) lxl 10p lx2 El.JO...crystal cection 1/2 i~s to l!~~ lcns i~ ral2 F~lspar St Hilaire, Ql!eb~cCanada lx2 ins GOp 2x2 ins El.20
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2006 1) ADULARIA. Ogo Dour, Predannick, Lizard, Cornwall. Nice group of salmon pink xls to 1mm covering...70x30x40mm. £8. 2) AMETHYST. Park Clay Pit, St Neot, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A nice clean group of amethystine...£65. 3) ARSENOLITE. Levant Arsenic Works, Pendeen, Cornwall. Flue product. A group of spiky grey xls to...collection, 60x40y,5nirn. 4) BARITE. Wheal Drea, St Just, Cornwall. Pinkish buff radiating masses in a cavity
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...packaging for the specimens in your collection then just call us. Folding card specimen trays (measurements...CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...terminations. £110 13 14 PYROMORPHITE (4cm 4cm x 3cm) St. Salvy, Tam, France Grass green crystal groups of...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...3) ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A group of intergrown silvery grey bladed xis...60x30x30mm approx. £48. 4) ARSENOPYRITE. Old Anderton Mine, Tavistock, Devon. A solid mass of slightly iron...arsenopyrite. 80x50x40mm. £15. 5) ARSENOPYRITE. South Mine, Devon United Mines, Mary Tavy, Devon. Good very...2 0 m m . £8. 6) BARYTOCALCITE. Nentsbury Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. A nice small radiating mass
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No. Gunnislake 832381 (STD 0822) V.A...£1.S0p 3. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose,Porthlsven/ Cornwall. A sharp transparent colourless terminated crystal...matrix. 17Xli-x1 ", £1. SOp 4~ ANHVDRITE. Bancroft Mine, Zambia. Select pure light lavender coloured rhombic...SOp. S. APATITE. Tremearne Cliff, Porthleven, Cornwall. Well formed transparent terminated colourless...Malachite. 2~x1b<1t", £.11.00 9. BARVTES. Char Kounhi Mine, Iran. Lustrous creamy coloured tabular crystals
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...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
997 TOPOGRAPHICAL I N D E X Penberthy Croft, St. Hilary: carminite, EUROPE Iceland (fsland) Bondolfur...Iceland: beudantite, 431 Pengenna (Trewethen) mine, St. Kew: pitchsbone, oligoclase, 587 Sellatur,...WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham: aph~hitalite(?), arsenopyrite(?), epsomite...Roscommon Cliff, St. Just-in-Peuwith: stokesite, 433 St. Day: cornubite, 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite...genthelvite, molybdenite, 921 Treore mine, St. Teath: beudantite, carminite, jamesonite, mimetite, scorodite
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
Catalog/List
MUS,£30. SW. ALLUVIAL TIN. Rialton,St Columb,North Cornwall. A jar containing 400 gm of alluvial tin...6W. SW. 9W. ALSTONITE. Jug Vein,Brownley Hill Mine,Nenth ead,Cumbria. Barite-rich matrix fragment topped...colln. TN,£20. 14W. 1sw. 16. 17W. -2- Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,N.:imib!a. Ex Cyril Quc!t coll<'r.11011. Thin...on rear. SC,£20. 18W. APATITE. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Beira-Beixa,Portugal.Gemmy, grey-blue...MIN,£25. 20W. APATITE on QUARTZ. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Portugal. Mill
Catalog/List
We((enj\linera(s Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2D A. Telephone:...00. ADULARIA/SCHORL. Whiskey Lode,Geevor Mine.Pendeen,West Cornwall, Pale creamy-pink coloured.rhombic...5x2-Jx1-J", £8.50. ALLOPHANE/LINARITE. Maid of Sunshine Mine,Cochise Co..Arizona.U.S.A. Highly attractive and... 1-£xl£x1", £8.00. 5- ALSTONITE. Fallowfields Mine,Nr.Hexham,Northumbria. A 2x£" channel developed...APATITE/ORTHOCLASE. Hegiligger Rocks .Tremearne ,Cornwall. Most attractive, thin crystalline Orthoclase-plate
Journal (issue)
Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and...non U.K. Page No. The Re-opening of Clogau Gold Mine 1966 J. Hodgkins 2 The Minerals of Trimouns, Ariege...For Your Bookshelf 31 The Minerals of Esgair Hir Mine S.A. Rust, J. S. Mason 35 Classified Advertisements... 47 FRONT COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection...Clogau Gold Mine 1966 John Hodgkins 36 Church Road, Altofts, Normanton, Yorkshire. The Clogau Mine is situated
Catalog/List
packaging for the specimens in your collection then just call us. Folding card specimen trays (measurements...Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes Farm, Willand,Devon, England EX15 2QF Tel 01884 821563 Fax 01884 821724 e mail...co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Moss green acicular crystals covering entire
Catalog/List
50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Telephone or Fax 01872 223 227 (UK Time 8am -9pm) FLUORITE... FLUORITE,Rosilare Level.Minerva Mine No 1 ,Cave-in-Rock District.Southem Illonois.Xtl group of interlocking...£10 9. SPHALERITE,var.Ruby Blende.Mid-Continent Mine,Pitcher.Oklahoma,USA Rich continuous druse of ruby...free Very attractive D Ml. £5 36 MALACHITE,Dolwen Mine,Devils Bridge.Dyfed.Wales Vughy matrix of milky...of marcasite Attractive near complete xtl.Matrix free Good D or RF Ml £8 39 PYRITE,Nanisivik Mine,Baffin
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...TETRAHEDRITE, 15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the Natural History...See the article in this issue on the minerals of Cornwall. Copyright 1993 © by the Mineraiogicai Record...of your hand for singlehanded operation, weighs just over a pound, and runs on six AA batteries. The...Boscaswell, Pendeen West Cornwall, England Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England
Catalog/List
RICH8hD W. B8RSTOW 26, ~egeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEhING INFCRMATION Mail orders...lxi". £1- 3. ANALCIME. Dene Quarry, st. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. A group of large, lustrous, snow-white...Limonite mmtrix. 3x2". £8. 10. BARYTES. Haile Moor Mine, Nr. Egremont, W. Cumberland. Superb, intergrown...2~xlt". £2. 16. CaSSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. h mass of light brown fine grained Cassiterite...tin mine. 3x2~xli". £2. =. 17. C",-SSITThITE variety "TOr..DS-EYE-TIN". West Wheal Kitty, st. "gnes
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
Catalog/List
Mineral Dealer <£ Mine Agent Barn Cottage, Lower Boscaswell, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain...inspection and personal selection. If you are in Cornwall do visit, you will be welcome. Established clients...SAM WELLER MBE BSc Cover Picture "Wh. Edward, St. Just” (Original by Arnold Fisher) Sam Weller Minerals...£5-50. 'Z ‘_ 2£x2x1", £4.25. ALMANDINE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia. Very largei ,matrixfree... 2-Jx2xJ", £14.00. 10. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia, Several large,creamy
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your HDW TO ORDEF~ Individual times. you can Just e.nd send price There is Y o u c an • customers...about 2 or 3 mmon calcite. 'l'ype & only location.(St Hilaire, Quebec) 1 x ½ to lxl f5.50 103 CH~RCHITE...crystals on dar~ matrix. (not radioactive) (Leonie Mine, huerbach, Oberpfal Genany) Sto 10mmf3 l/2in;; ES...Silicate pinkish massiv~ with black Allanite (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhytt2n Vastm~~l2nd,Sw2deri) Cu/2 Se 039...(Ti Nb 0 rich black nasses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lxl E2.50 lx2 ins
Catalog/List
pale brown prismatic crystals, tapering to a point, just about solid mimetite. 2x2 inch overall size. Actual...inch area of curious flattened c1ystals Nanisivik ,Mine, Baffin island , North West Territories Canada £25...Specimen mounted on a plastic display base Volcano Mine, Tharis, l-Tuleva, Spain£25 15. MINIUM orange coating...greyish-red 2111 crystals on I x2 surface St Day Cornwall, no other info £ 1 O 18. BARYTES on FLUORITE...x2 surface. with some minor green Pyromorphite 79 Mine Arizona USA £10 26. SMALTITE dark grey 5 111111
 
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