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Copper from
Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13768
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13768:7
GUID (UUID V4):a7a6fe63-aad1-4b6f-88e1-ea5a93eb5cdc
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
0.1km (0.1 miles) Loe Warren Zawn, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wheal Drea, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Call (Wheal Cole; Wheal Coal), Boswedden Mine (incl. Wheal Praze; Wheal Williams; Yankee Boy Mine), Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Hen, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Wheal Tolvan (Wheal Tolvaen), Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Spearn Consols (Wheal Spearn), Trewellard, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Little Bounds Mine, St Just Amalgamated Mines (incl. Wheal Penzance), St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Cape Cornwall Mine, Cape Cornwall, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm., 1991; XRD by Monica
Book
some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in England. These clifis arc dark in colour, being composed...pushed out a mile under the bed of the Atlantic; Botallack, another submarine mine incorporating an unusual...headgear very prominent in the Pendeen landscape; Wheal Owles, haunted by the memory of the disaster which...history. The centre of this industry was the town of St. Just, whose grey terraces of miners' cottages still...seaboard to bring to grass untold treasures of copper and tin. In this book is presented the story of
Journal (issue)
antwerpen v.z.w. 26(2), februari 2001 in dit nummer : cornwall vanadiniet mineralogische kring antwerpen vzw...Zuid-Frankrijk). Titelpagina De Botallack mine op de rotskust van West-Cornwall. Foto Rik Dillen (1979). Geonieuws...brogne.be TUCSON. Inn Suites Hotel, 475 N. Granada / St. Mary's Road. 10-19 h. Beurs TUCSON. Executive Inn...4/a. 8.30-19.30 h. Beurs. PARIS. Sofitel, 17 Bd. St.-Jacques. Beurs. Geonieuws 26(2),februari 2001 ...Terlingua 12-13 California scheelite : Princess Pat and St. Geonieuws 26(2),februari 2001 Elmo Mines 14-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Harvard's Mineralogical Tour of England June 23-July 4, 1984 WILLIAM C. METROPOLIS Harvard Mineralogical...sponsoring a mineralogist's tour of London and Cornwall. A group of eleven left Boston's Logan Airport... We visited the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square...world-famous and truly magnificent Crown Jewels of England. Unfortunately, photography is not permitted, so...rings consist of blue sap­ phires, with the Cross of St. George in rubies set on them, surrounded by diamonds
Report (issue)
company, conversation and enjoyable activi­ ties? Or just pleased we survived our last year of 'Chichester...:irchaeology , recorder for the Cornwall Arc:1a.,o!og;c;ii Sodety for our area and has just finished drawing a.ri...of fu:i:,en, M01;1;meats for the� Newquay Old Cornwall Society .:,l,:; hcv.: j1_;s, 1.om1cd a group�"-of...- I gave one to the Newquay Old ::_: 5,i:J � _ Cornwall Society in November which wcm ...Chichester Guest House 14 Bay View Terrace - Newquay -Cornwall - TR7 2LR Tel: 01637 874216 Email: sheila.harper@virgin
Book
by Alison Hodge, 2 Clarence Place, Penzance, Cornwall TRI8 2QA, www.alison-hodge.co.uk, info@alison-hodge...Cornish minerals. Thanks also to Michael Merry of Cornwall Devon Mineral Specimens (www. cornwalldevonmineralspecimens...botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside Minerals (www.greensideminerals...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...to See Cornish Minerals 112 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers
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...Book 6 St Just Mining District 8 Levant Mit ie a. Botallack Mine 14, Wheal Owles, West Wheal Owles and...and Wheal Edward 18, Cape Cornwall Mine 21 Boswedden Mine 23, Geevor Mine 25. Wheal Hear-le (East Boscaswell
Book
Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has.../s^° pnsduced Copper v Tin-, or botk- * ’’fe, -'A Sr A6Nfl^ fe'Pk :. g,TRURO <4 J -St AUS FELL S’...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS
Catalog/List
Silver Silver Sulphur Gold Sulphur Sulphur Graohite Copper coated with tenorite Gold Sulphur Gold Localitv...Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland...Coooer Sulphur Gold Graphite Copper Manqanese Copper Elaterite Sulphur Copper & Cuprite Gold Gold Silver...Silver Coooer Jet Gold Sulphur Copper Gold SULPHIDES No 36F 17H 45A 458 728 36H 14C 8V 100D 1138 113G 88C...Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific
Book (edition)
INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and other minerals...known from prehistoric times, and it is likely that copper was also worked at an early date. Tin was important...far south-west corner of Britain a world leader. Copper mining was then far more important than tin, and...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in South Wales...when foreign competition depressed the price of copper and then tin, hundreds of mines were hastily abandoned
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... The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and recording events within the Site 8.6 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage
Journal (issue)
SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.0119.uk ....................................... ················... Alilyona Jo;nrng the Sociot,y after January 31 :st pays half Uie appropriate annual subscriplion. 1...press, a well-attended meeting was held in King Edward Hall, Lindfield on 7th July 1972. This turned out...to curtail and eventually cease his participation. st Kenneth Fitch died on 31 July 2003. We have lost...new members out. When combined with a week in Cornwall, a day on a Kent coal tip for carboniferous plant
Journal (issue)
Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and...Trimouns, Ariege, France W.R. van den Berg 4 Wheal Owles T. Wolloxall 7 CONTINENTAL EUROPE SOUTH...COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection Photograph...dates from before 1800, originally being worked for copper. Gold was discovered later in 1854. occurring in...investment could be found so the site was abandoned, just as the workings began to reveal signs of gold bearing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals in some of the _Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon. By WILLIAM JORY HE~WOOD, F.R.8., JF...Phil. Mag. voL xxviii, p. 5. ~ Ibid. p. 49. *+ Cornwall Geological Transactions, vol. v. p. 214, completed...Arseniate o f copper.. Uranite . . . . . . . . . T u n g s t a t e o f llme R e d oxide o f copper.. Native...Native copper Malachite . . . . . . Mineral pitch Quartz . Amethystine quartz. Phosphate of iron . . ....ore Vitreous copper ore Black copper o r e . , . Earthy brown iron ore R e d oxide o f copper., Numerous
Book
Bdss-27483 erik. ce wa | ~5 JUL 1997 | 10 FEB 2000 | ST IVESTR26 ax| 17 OCT 1997 | ~6 APR 2anp irtd ey...OSEP 1995 ‘ (f338 ee ad Fisar » CBS 263 CORNWALL COUNTY ais COUNTY HALL TRURO PLEASE RETURN...House, Church Street, Princes Risborough, § HPI7 GAS, UK Aylesbury, J p Bucks Set in 9 point Times roman...COVER: The Pumping Engine House, Wheal Edward, near St Just, Cornwall. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted...Mr R. Penhallurick of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for his assistance. Special thanks are due to
Book
undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...(Sheets 351 and 358) has been exploited for tin and copper since the Bronze Age. Only the Geevor tin mine...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...phonolite of Wolf Rock. Small outcrops of Pliocene St Erth Beds are described and there is a full account...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
Book (edition)
THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON : STATISTICS AND OBSERVATIONS. THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON : STATISTICS...counties in England with which are associated more varied objects of interest than Cornwall and Devon...pecu liar. Cornwall stands at the head in the moral statistics of the counties of England. There is much...admire in the life and habits of the humble poor of Cornwall. The hardy pilchard fist ermen , with their clean...and enterprising persistence. The pursuits of Cornwall have enriched so many, that in few counties is
Catalog/List
RD W. BJIRSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ...1973 1. bP~TITE. Tregarden Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Specimen aSmall, bright sharp greenish blue modified...10. BhYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Specimen ~ - Rich crusts thickly coating... l~xl!". £1.25. 11. N"TIVE BISMUTH. Botallack Mine, St. Just, CormTal1. Rich, bright metallic cleavages...outline. 2xl". £1. BORNITE. Trenwith Mine, st. Ives, Cornwall. An interesting intergrowth of Bornite forming
Journal (issue)
..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...which grant permission for our visits (Natural England, English Nature, various private estates etc.)
Catalog/List
RICHARD W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOhMA.TION Mail...at all times. AUGUST 1974 1. 2. AEGIRINE. Mont st. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Numerous, lustra us black...Fluorite in association. 3x3'1. £5.40. 4. APATITE. st. Gotthard, Switzerland. Lustrous, semi-transparent... 10. BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mlne, Lanreath, Cornwall. Specimen A Bright, metallic grey, twinned crystals... 14. CARMINITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, reddish crystaline masses intergroviU
Journal (issue)
UK Journal of mes ·and .Minerals Issue SprJng 1989 , No ...6 Pr:f ee ~3.95 ·- • r .. Arnold...Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Calcite (Cornwall) UK Journal of Mines and...Merritt Cassiterite from Whiteworks Carharrick, Cornwall R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking 22 Mining Methods...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of City... Editorial Our objective to publish three issues of the UK Jourrral of Mines and Minerals annually has yet to
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the Natural History M useum...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...Pendeen West Cornwall, England Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England, have proved
Journal (issue)
Building a Mineral Collection Cornwall Part Ill and Field Trip to Cornwall Journal 221 - September October...-3- SMLS Journal 221 SepUOct 2009 MINERALS OF CORNWALL - Part 111 by David Aubrey-Jones This talk by...continuation of a series on the renowned minerals of Cornwall which he began in 2007. Part I concentrated on...North Coast and Part II concentrated on the famous copper minerals found in the mines of the Gwen nap area...in 1997 which can be read up in Number 19 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, co-authored by David
Catalog/List
will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele University, Oxford, Harrogate and...green,prismatic xtls.MIN,111. 11. ANTIHONITE. Wheal Boys,St with silvery grey,massive 12. ANTIHONITE....FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous Quartz...LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with upper surface...ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia fragment with upper
 
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