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Pyrrhotite from
Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1245709
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1245709:8
GUID (UUID V4):934fa0e9-dea4-46f3-97b1-e3c729e44ba5
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
3.9km (2.4 miles) Bojewan Placers, Sancreed, Cornwall, England, UK
11.8km (7.3 miles) Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
12.0km (7.5 miles) Levant Mine, Trewellard, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
12.0km (7.5 miles) Crowns Rock, Cliff outcrops, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
22.9km (14.2 miles) New Roskear Shaft, Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
23.5km (14.6 miles) New Cook's Kitchen Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
24.6km (15.3 miles) East Pool Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
26.4km (16.4 miles) Wheal Whitfield (North Carn Brea Mine; North Tincroft Mine), Robarts Mine (incl. East Wheal Seton; Wheal Maude), Illogan, Cornwall, England, UK
33.1km (20.6 miles) Newporth Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK
33.6km (20.9 miles) Wheal Kine (Wheal Kind), St Agnes Consols (Polberro Consols), St Agnes, 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...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just Near Penzance, Cornwall, f , England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...£3. 2. ANDREWSITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Light brownish yellow spherical aggregates scattered...£4. 6. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crust of micro crystals covering...^. — 11 8. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. 1" group of large sharp tarnished intergrown...£3- 9. BORNITE. South Caradon Mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall. A rich solid mass of tarnished Bornite intergrown
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50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...greyish green matrix.RF SPC. C.£15 0014 XONOTLITE.Bin Quarry,Hunlley,Aberdeen,Scolland Radiating off while lo...1ourmaline.R1ch RF SPC. C.£8 0027 CHALCEDONY.Pentee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall.Pretty botryoidal encrustations of...D SPC. C.£8 0028 CHLORITE after AXINITE,Aplile Quarry,Meldon,Devon.Unusual pseudomorphs of earthy brown...x1Is.Unusual RF SPC. C £10 0029 WAVELLITE,Highdown Quarry,Filleigh.Devon.Classic wavellite with radiating
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_j Byways, 2o·Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...Piedmont, Italy 849 ■ OPAL Carlaze Pit St Austell Cornwall Dark grey massive with quartz Rich, jelly-like...CORUNDUM Kibayai, Tanzania 381 ■■ SCHEELITE Penlee Quarry, Newlyn,Comwall Large pale pink single crystal,...··-···--·-· -·-- - - -·--· 865 ■ KAOLINITE Bugle, Cornwall 278 ■■ TINAKSITE Charo River, Aidan massif Yakutin...1a1u<:o~inTI_SiO 1048 ■■ LABUNTSOVITE · Mn ··Aris quarry, n~n; Wlndh~-~k.-Nnmlbi~- - --- - · · 61 ■■ VALENTINITE
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PLI8 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...2005 1. ALLOPHANE.* Hawks Wood Mine, North Hill, Cornwall. A nice rippled crust of pale yellow allophane...25x15x15mm. £6. 4. AMETHYST/SMOKEY QUARTZ. St Austell, Cornwall. A composite xl, 60x50x30mm, showing multi terminations...Skinners Engine Shaft Dump, Clitters Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. A matrix composed mainly of cellular apatite...70x30x50mm. £175. 10. NATIVE BISMUTH. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall. Greenstone matrix with quartz covering
Catalog/List
11 Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KT112NL ! · ··- - -------- · --- --------------...section about 7mm Al B0/4F £5 865 ■ KAOLINITE Bugle, Cornwall Very pure white mass, from processing plant Ix½"...Zcolite Ix! £4 lx2 £8 2x2£16 26) ■ MAGADIITE Aris Quarry, near Windhoek,Namibia / White micro snow-flakes...SiO 220 ■ MENDIPITE ✓~ CaAISiOC0/3 Merehend Quarry, Mendips Somerset Very rich white to pinkish faintly...matrix £7.50 849 ■ OPAL Carlaze Pit St Austell Cornwall Rich, jelly-like white to pale yellowish on matrix
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Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain. Telephone: Penzance Penzance (Day) (Everiing)...opening in June of our new retail premises in Penzance (\.•;nolesale remains in Pendeen) has lead to...prismatic ARTHURITE.Hingston Downe Consol Callington,Cornwall. Ricb cover of bright green colou.red cryetalline...Hemimorphite. 2~1; 11 ,~3.00. 21. ~UTUNITE. Merryvale Quarry,Princetown,Devon. Very rich cover of small yel...J\ZURITE/M>'.LACHITE. Penberthy Crofts 1 St "Hil.Cornwall. \,'ell crystallised, brightblue, small xtls with
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...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS...Mount’s Bay - The Lizard .. North and Central Cornwall East Cornwall Devon 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 MAPS
Catalog/List
WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s sel! collected in 1972...1-tx1t-", .f.2.00. 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix...8mm AflGLESITE. 19th C. 'ib • .i!ose,Sithney,Cornwall. Rich scatter of lustrous, terminated,bladed crystals
WELLER(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall,TR19 7LE Te!. No. (0736788286) COLLECTIONDISPOSALS...ACnROITE/CASSITERITE. ?3rc St.:leots Pit,3odmin Hoor,Cornwall. Thia rich specimen wa.s sel! collected in 1972...1-tx1t-", .f.2.00. 9. ANALCL'lE.Dean Quarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. Three l&rge,Yery fine examplea. Specicen...ANALCIME/STILBITE.Dean 1uarry,St.Keverne,Lizard,Cornwall. An open, Calcite lined cavity in gabbraic matrix...8mm AflGLESITE. 19th C. 'ib • .i!ose,Sithney,Cornwall. Rich scatter of lustrous, terminated,bladed crystals
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V...B. ARSENoPVRITE. New Rosewarne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall. Large tarnished sharp crystals to 7" in size... 13. BORNITE. South Caradon Mine, st. Cleer,· Cornwall. Ricr solid attractively metallic mass. 3x1ix1i"...SOp 17. CASSITERITE. w'·lberry ~jne, Lanivet, Cornwall. Very rich heavy deep brown crystalline vein section...21. CHALCOSIDERITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Deep green sharp crystals to 2 mm in size scattered
Report (issue)
joséite, bismuthinite, ikunolite, hedleyite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, Distribution: In Canada, in British... Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, and the Penlee quarry, Cornwall, England. Name: For the relation to joséite;
Book
Igneous Rocks of South-West England THE GEOLOGICAL CONSERVATION REVIEW SERIES The comparatively small...M. C. Gyopari S. Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd, C. S. Exley and M. T. Styles 6. ...D. R. Bridgland Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd Department of Geology, University of...study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued
Catalog/List
(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL...golden-yellow nodule, A/20. ANALCIME. Enderby Quarry. Leicestershire. This specimen is more interesting...00 1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well...ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large dodecahedral
Catalog/List
Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2D A. Telephone: Truro 223227 BUSINESS AS...ADULARIA/SCHORL. Whiskey Lode,Geevor Mine.Pendeen,West Cornwall, Pale creamy-pink coloured.rhombic xtls and gr<■eenish-black...2-Jx2x1-i", £8.00. 6. ANALCIME. Magheramourne Quarry , Antrim ,N. Ireland. A dark , cavernous Basaltic...APATITE/ORTHOCLASE. Hegiligger Rocks .Tremearne ,Cornwall. Most attractive, thin crystalline Orthoclase-plate...£8.00. 24. ATACAMITE. Wh.Hazzard,St.Just,West Cornwall. Sparkling gemmy,small emerald-green,sharp xtls
Catalog/List
£30. SW. ALLUVIAL TIN. Rialton,St Columb,North Cornwall. A jar containing 400 gm of alluvial tin in the...£16. 57W. BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter,Gwinear,Cornwall. Milky Quartz fragment richly coated on two sides... CALCITE. Whiskey Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Large,terminat ed ferruginous Quartz group overlain...LC,£15. CALCITE/GALENA. Wheal Penrose,Helst on,Cornwall. 19th c specimen.Galena matrix topped by large...Level,Coronation Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard, Cornwall. Boxed mat rix-free specimen. White,opaque Calcite
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the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Bristol.Avon Okehampton,Devon Hexham,Northumbr. Cornwall Cutting on A863 St.Day,Comwall Gwennap,Comwall...Trinafour.ScoU. Lochan-na-Lalrigh Loanhead quarry Loanhead quarry Hopeful vein Hopeful vein Ralk's vein Fethaland
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Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland...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...Herodsfoot, Cornwall Barstow) St Endellion Cornwall (Broadstone) Hinoston Down, Cornwall Judkins Qy,
Report (edition)
SCIENCES British Regional Geology South-West England (TH [RD EDITION) By E. A. Edmonds, M.Sc. M. C...world war, interest in the geology of south-west England has further inten ified. Much valuable work ha...done, and in 1962 the newly l"ormcd outh-we t England field unit of the Geological Survey began ix-inch...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologi t. South-We t England, editor). Private workers whose publications have...volume ( 1966] of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. The writer have attempted to produce a handbook
Report (edition)
G .. Bisson (District Geologist, South--West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the con­...volume [1966] of the Royal Geo­ logical Society of Cornwall. The succeedi11g years have seen notable advances...in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carbonif�rous rocks...age-determinations of rocks of south-west . . . . . . . Facing England 1 112 List of Geological Survey Maps and Memoirs...positions prior to continental drift. South-west England is shown in . . . . . black . . . . . Generalized
Journal (issue)
..... 20 Cave mineralisation at Hampstead Farm Quarry, a lecture by Pro£ Rankin; report by Frank Sharp... Isle of Man, Caldbeck Fells, etc. the North Cornwall Lead and Antimony Mines, Dartmoor Mines, etc....Manod Quarry was on view, notably a fine synchesite-Ce and some good blue anatase. From Cornwall there...there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper and cuprite from Prince ofWales Mine, prehnite, doubly...terminated natrolite and possible mesolite from Dean Quarry, hetaerolite crystals from Kennack Sands, mixite
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology I * South-West England r * FOURTH EDITION e ■ - O ” ..y 1835 Geological...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologist, South-West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the con­...volume [1966] of the Royal Geo­ logical Society of Cornwall. The succeeding years have seen notable advances...in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carboniferous rocks...Isotopic age-determinations of rocks of south-west England ...... Facing 112 1. . . . List of Geological
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055............................ 1 P: palagonite to pyrrhotite ............................... 377 THE MINERALS...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...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
Journal (volume)
were estimated independently from analyses of pyrrhotite and sphalerite . The composition of the 6 ...ratio. Abbreviations: asp, arsenopyrite; po, pyrrhotite; py, pyrite; 10, löllingite; and L , liquid....deposited at,...., 500°C, while later hexagonal pyrrhotite crystallized at ~ 375°C. The writer has carried...preliminary re-examination of arseno pyrite and pyrrhotite from this deposit (1963) and has shown that the...the compositions of coexisting arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite in the apical zone of the greisenized
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te 9 5mm C113 ALBITE srnall wbite Tint~gel, Cornwall) micros fx\ on matrix. t1.8Q Good Cov1c1 ·...ORTHOCLl,SE, inctividual pinki.sh small (Penlee ~a.rry, Cornwall) !cbout }ins C115 F'LUORITE, purple Buckskin...SILLIJ\'iAIHTE, very IRGIIISI1 1 ~, C) 7mm frem Davis Quarry 9 n,::tr Bancroft Onta:bbo nn ene side .2 ins thick...9 m~ss 00 U. S. S. R) 2x4ins (India) 40 PYRRHOTITE-CI·U,.LCOPYRITB9 sepF,r2. te ;!.rc:.:i,s of tr
 
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