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Bismuthinite from
Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismuthinite
Formula:Bi2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuthinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1071165
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1071165:5
GUID (UUID V4):598d9957-d09a-48a1-8b08-1146107a72bc
Nearest other occurrences of Bismuthinite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Levant Mine, Trewellard, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
2.5km (1.6 miles) Boscaswell Downs Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
2.9km (1.8 miles) Balleswidden Mine, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
11.3km (7.0 miles) Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
18.9km (11.7 miles) Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
20.4km (12.7 miles) Croft Gothal Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
22.9km (14.2 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
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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 AFRICA...COVER Barite. Parksidc Mine, West Cumberland. England. Crystals to %mm Ralph Sutcliffe Collection Photograph...investment could be found so the site was abandoned, just as the workings began to reveal signs of gold bearing...Trimouns Quarry. ROCK BOTTOM, ISSUE No. 5, SUMMER 1988 St. BartMlemy TAAA~ON s.Ari~ ~~o -Et'"""' ' ANOOAAA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(lemn~tsite),23o Sukula, alluaudite, 230 British Isles ENGLAND Alston, Cumbria, fluorite, 82o Blue Anchor point...Somerset, mendipite, chloroxiphite, 9o i St. Austell granite, Cornwall, luxullianite, 441; 442 Scar Crag, Lake...gersdorffite, glaucodot, 390 Wheal Owles, St. Just, Cornwall, triploidite, neotocite, ~79 Wheal Phoenix, Linkinhorne...Linkinhorne, Cornwall, kidwellite, 952 WALES(Cymrul Dyfed, illite, 857 Parc mine, Gwynedd, hydrozincite, nickeloan...meneghinite, ullmanite, pentlandite, vaesite, bismuthinite, chalcanthite, quartz, coppite, frigidite, 99
Book
undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...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...British Geological Survey, Sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales). Authors A J J Goode, BSc and R T Taylor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF CASSITERITE.--These a r e much the same in Cornwall as have been observed in other tin-producing districts...Cassiterite in the different kinds of country-rock in Cornwall, I only refer (a) to those which appear to have...pyrites, clutleopyrite, smahite, blende, bismuth, bismuthinite, hematite, and limonite, with occasionally native-copper...hornblendic slates, as at Botallack and Wheal Owles in St. Just, and Terras Mine, St. Stephen's. Oxide of...where present in the tinproducing districts of Cornwall, as well as boron and iron.* I t seems to me,
Report (issue)
and granite pegmatites. Association: Bismuth, bismuthinite, tetradymite, many other bismuth-bearing minerals...Saxony. At Meymac, Corrèze, France. In England, from Wheal Owles, Wheal Coates, the South Crofty mine, the...the Penberthy Croft mine, and others in Cornwall, and at Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. From Beresovsk, near
Catalog/List
LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN... 80x70 2 BISMUTHINITE XSTLS. PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE, TWO XSTLS TO 3MM IN BISMUTHINITE/QUARTZMATRIX...COLLECTION LABEL) 70x30 5 ACC No. 745. CUPRITE, WHEAL DAMSEL, GWENNAP. CRYSTALS TO 8MM ON GOSSAN Y UPPER... ACC No. 1036. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) WHEAL KITTY, ST. AGNES. COLLCI920’S. 25x20 ACC No. 1037....CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR, WHEAL COATES, ST. AGNES. (EXC.V.SMALE) 40X20 14 ACC No.
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.)
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)
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...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Actinolite, Grand Canyon, Arizona, anal., M24 Adularia, Cornwall, pseudomorphous after analcime, 245, 5o9, and..., X-ray, 439; Greenland, anal., 3 I Agardite, Cornwall, 169, I74 AHMAD (S.) and MORRIS (D. F. C.), Geochemistry...Discordant calc-silicate bodies from the St. Just aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia...anorthoclase, cryptoperthite, 63 Amblygonite, Cornwall, sp. gr., cell-size, I51 Amphibole, see actinolite...sedimentary, partial anal., cell-size, opt., 24 I; Cornwall, alteration to adularia, 245, 5o9, and M49 Andalusite
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
Report (volume)
: : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring the information up...been made of the published accounts of mining in Cornwall and Devon, and reference to the principal sources...... II.- - DETA.ILS OF THE l\iINES 12 I. The St. Just District, pp. 12-17. II. '!'he Camborne, Redruth...The St. Austell District, pp. 42-45. IV. The Ca.radon District, pp. 46-54. V. The East Cornwall a.nd
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS· ·OF ·-1}RE-·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -: ,. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. - -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F PRACTICAL GEOLOGY• of...6d. A Compl1 �) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake ENGLAND .i Di��rct) Dewon;}; ' ....' .. -: Torquay NEW...p1lblished i n 1 822 bJ.. Di,. John Fo1·bes, the map of St. Just Pa1·ish issued in the same year by Joseph Ca1�·n...Ca1�·n e, a11d the geological map of Cornwall of 1 832 by D1'. H . S. Boase, are deserving of special mention
Book
its place as one of the principal producers in Cornwall Cyril Noall's history of Levant captures romance...TRURO • CORNWALL Copyright © CYRIL NO ALL I 970 Printed in Great Britain by WORDENS OF CORNWALL LIMITED...mining in Ireland-to take only these islands. In Cornwall and Devon alone there are a number of notable...enough, for this was one of the grand old mines of Cornwall, with a long and colourful history. Its setting...engine houses cling to the top of precipitous cliffs just six miles north of Land's End, their eyeless windows
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 Growth...SUPERGENE COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy...chlorides and sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed...from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral assemblage exa mined
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...Embrey. P. G. Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. 1. Mines and mineral resources;--England --Devon 2. Mines and...and n1ineral resources --England--1Cornwall J. Title IL Symes. R. F. 549.9423'5 QE262.D45 ISBN 0-56 5-009
Journal (issue)
Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>, Ovington, U.K. N.J . Elton, St Austell,...Society, named after the eminent amateur mineralogi st Sir Arthur Russell (1878-1964), is a society of amateur...Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field of view 13 mm x 9 nun. Roy Starkey specimen...phosphates from Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation
Journal (issue)
l.llr.::r.m o:1~. ~ fn ►•:, u, 1b.: .\~-nl h .~ UK =...decision of course; every institution has to evolve, just as individuals and companies do, and for exactly...Boat Museum. It has a pleasant appearance and has just been extended/refurbished inside. There is plenty...rich sponge spicules in the chalk. The question of just what is the Russell Society and what activities...do with a small breed of dog, or Russell Square just round the corner from U.C.L. Visitors were impressed
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Hawkins, who was later to become my wife. I was just 17 years old when we first met. At this time my...company. Audrey and I were married on 16 March 1963 in St Werburgh's Church, Bristol. After our honeymoon we...Minerals and became regular exhibitors at many of the UK mineral shows over the following years. We also visited...We collected together for many years, both in the UK and on the continent. I also helped Ian out later
Journal (issue)
Research into the geology and geomorphology of S. W. England Volume 5 Part 3 1982 Edited by G.M Power The...into the geology and geomorphology of South West England and the surrounding marine areas; to hold Annual...Annual Conferences at various places in South West England where those engaged in this research can meet formally...R.T. Taylor, Institute of Geological Sciences, St Just, 30 Pennsylvania Road, Exeter EX4 6BX Devon. Proceedings...Launceston, on Brent Tor and in the stream section near Wheal Betsy and had explained to it the newly-recognized
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Body at Wheal Remfry in the Western Part of the St Austell Granite Pluton, Cornwall, England. . . . .... . . 51 P. Bowden Tourmalinization in Cornwall, England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Hydrothermal Activity in the St Just Mining District, Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . N.J. Jackson...Granitic Batholiths of South-west and Northern England and some Geothermal Analogues. . . . . . . . ....Elements during Granite Differentiation, West Cornwall, England. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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...Millerite and associated minerals from Brixham, Devon, England R.S W Braithwaite and JI. Wilson 87 Rosiaite
Journal (issue)
UK .M ----- JOURNAL I OF N E & ----- s M 1· N E R A L S n \) II I/ i] NUMBER 15 • SPRING...Watercolour commissioned for Paul A. Lowe, Truro, Cornwall. Telephone (01872) 223 227 for copy prints of...TISPIECE CALCITE on HEMATITE Fred Bull 4 MI The UK Jouma/ of Mines and .Minerals publishes articles...Stephm lloreto11 5 MINERALIZATION of the LLANR\\ST OREFIELD Ra11dolphHaggerty ------------- 11 -------------...G AND PRI TI ·a BY Ryton Typing Service, 29 Ryton St., Worksop, , Otts. S 0 2 Y -------------46 ------------CLASSIFIED
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A. W. G. Kingsbury LONDON BUTTERWORTHS ■ ENGLAND Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd London: S8 Kingsway...Conservancy, 1970 ISBN 0 40S 70002 5 Printed in England at the Pitman Press, Bath ) I 281495 Contents...Contents Preface Introduction 7 11 Descriptions: Cornwall 17 Devon 39 Dorset 89 Gloucestershire 197...but mankind in general. Today in south-western England the geologist can examine the strata that fired...important geological sites in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Gloucester. By treating
 
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