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Cassiterite from
West Wheal Frances, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view West Wheal Frances, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:624202
Long-form Identifier:1:3:624202:2
GUID (UUID V4):0c897493-323d-46f9-992e-25ee60e22b01
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.5km (0.3 miles) East Wheal Grenville, Grenville United Mines, Troon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Grenville, Grenville United Mines, Troon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) King Edward Mine, South Condurrow Mine, Grenville United Mines, Troon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Great Condurrow Mine, Beacon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) North Wheal Frances (incl. Foxhole Mine), Bosleake, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) South Condurrow Mine (Marshall's Shaft), Grenville United Mines, Troon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Wheal Providence, Penhallick, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Wheal Harriett, Beacon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Tincroft Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) The Reens, Troon, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth Barry Gamble Alison Hodge First...Alison Hodge. 2 Clarence Place. Penzance, Cornwall TRI 8 2QA. UK info@alison-hodge.co.uk WVAVal sonhod gepubl...Production. Penzance. Cornwall Printed in China Title poge: Lyle's Shaft, North Wheal Basset. Cambome-Redruth...Acknowledgements I would like to thank Paul Richards, of Brea, for checking the text and making useful suggestions...Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West Wheal Owles and Wheal Edward 18, Cape Cornwall Mine 21 Boswedden
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CORNWALL'S CENTRAL MINES THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT 1810-1895 by T. A. MORRISON M.A., A.C.S.M., M.I.M...Hodge, Bosulval Farmhouse, Newmill, Penzance, Cornwall. ©T. A. Morrison, 1983_ No pan of 1hi~publica1ion...34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40; Royal lns1i1u1ionof Cornwall, Pla1es 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 26, 27, 28, 30... Ives, Cornwall. Origination and printing by Dowrick Design & Print Lid., S1. Ives, Cornwall. CONTENTS...Camborne Vean 4. Camborne Consols 5. Carn Camborne 6. Wheal Harriett 7. West Stray Park 11 61 75 89 96 101
Other Paper
The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices to the World Heritage Site...Site Management Plan 2013-2018 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices...Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site...recording events within the Site 8.6 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site...research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site
Book
There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants...Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and n1ineral...n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009 8 9- 3
Book (volume)
THE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume 1 LONDON HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .,pvii Description .)SG(England urv eol em M est -WSouth of Region Mining MINING...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South - West England Volume I Ву...This account of the mining geology of south -west England summarizes the geological information gained...long history of mining in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and west Somerset . the territory in which The
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BRITAIN The Metalliferous MiningRegion of South-West England VOLUME I Assistant Director' s copy LIBRARY...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AN D WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume I By H...Second impression with amendme111s /969 PrinlCd in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...This account of the mining geology of south-west England summarizes the .iological information gained...of mining in the counties of omwall, Devon and west Somerset. The region covered is classical ground
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and sands (stream-tin.) The detrital tin, ore ~ Cornwall may be grouped under the following heads : - a...breecias ~'" Observations on the detrital tin-ore of Cornwall." Journ. Roy. Inst. (Tram., No,xi., 1874. See...occupying fissures. Such deposits have been observed at Wheal Fortune, near Marazion; Perran Downs, near St. Hilary;...now in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, is represented in fig. 2, pl. 1. At New P~osewarne...tolerably distinct crystals. *~P~po~ M~r Assoc. of Cornwall o~g De~o~, 1866, p. 26. 4 ~. H. CoT.~.~s ox
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CORN\.YALL'S CENTRAL MINES THE NORTHERN DISTRICT, 1810-1895 The years 1810-95 saw unprecedented expansion...Wars, and during the 1850s and early 1860s the mines enjoyed their heyday. Until the disastrous fall...fall in metal prices later in the century, Cornwall led the world in the art and science of mining for metals...industry. The story of the hundred or so different mines is of such intricate complexity, and the mass of...as Cook's Kitchen, East Pool and the Carn Brea Mines: the mines of the northern district. It also raises
Book
Cornwall’s Railways Customs and Superstitions Exploring Cornwall with your Car Ghosts, Demons and Spectres Harry...Historic Houses, Castles and Gardens Introducing Cornwall Shipwrecks Around Land’s End Shipwrecks Around...Bay Shipwrecks — St Ives to Bude The Story of Cornwall The Story of Cornwall’s Churches The Story of...Cornish Language The Story of St Ives Surfing South-West Tales of the Cornish Tales of the Cornish Tales...Tales of the Cornish Twelve Walks on the Victorian Cornwall Fishermen Miners Smugglers Wreckers Lizard The
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Cornwall's Railways Customs and Superstitions Exploring Cornwall with your Car Ghosts, Demons and Spectres Harry...Historic Iiouses, Castles and Gardens Introducing Cornwall Shipwrecks Around Land 's End Shipwrecks Around...Bay Shipwrecks - St Ives to Bude The Story of Cornwall The Story of Cornwall's Churches The Story of...Cornish Language The Story of St Ives Surfing South-West Tales of the Cornish Fishermen Tales of the Cornish...Victorian Cornwall - The photograph opposite was taken at Geevor about 1919. These men opened up Wheal Carne
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COUNCIL The METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume I 1956 20 I 7 reprint 0 z z ~...GREATBRI'IAIN The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME I H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE ·with petrographical... TI1e metalliferous mining region of the south-west England.Economic Cardi.tl"University lvfemoir...PREFACE This account of the minmg geology of south-west England summarizes the geological info1mation gained...the long history of mining in the counties of Cornwall. Devon m1dwest Somerset. ·n1e region covered is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stanniferous deposit known as the Great Flat Lode, the mines worked in which extend for a distance of 3^ miles...raised in Cornwall. The mines in question are Wheal Uny, South Cam Brea, West Wheal Basset, South and...and West Wheal Frances, South Condurrow, and Wheal Grenville; and in all the lode dips at a much less angle...angle than the average of Cornish veins, the dip at Wheal Uny being only about 46° S. Throughout the lode...wide; this contains from 1 to 3 per cent, of cassiterite, in little grains, or in strings or veins. Schorl
Book (volume)
1995. (Walk4) Back cover, top: Wheal Trewavas - looking south-west, 1990. New Engine Shaft nearest camera...Simon Vere Jones, 1995) EXPLORING CORNISH MINES Volume 2 First published 1995 by LANDFALL PUBLICATIONS...PUBLICATIONS Landfall, Penpol, Devoran, Truro, Cornwall TR3 6NW Telephone Truro (01872) 862581 Copyright...Record Office, the Cornish Studies Library and the Cornwall Archaeological Unit. Typesening and maps (other...Hill, Mabe, Penryn, Cornwall Kenneth Brown & Bob Acton EXPLORING CORNISH MINES Volume 2 Landfall
 
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