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Copper (commodity) from
Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Civil Parish
Classification
Commodity:Copper (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Copper (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1300741
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1300741:0
GUID (UUID V4):20868b79-a937-4e6a-a277-9890f873e0b1
Localities for Copper (commodity) in this Region
Barncoose Mine, Barncoose, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Wheal Tehidy, Barncoose, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
North Wheal Frances (incl. Foxhole Mine), Bosleake, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
South Wheal Frances, South Frances United Mines, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
West Basset Stamps (Wheal Haste), Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
North Wheal Basset, Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
South Carn Brea Mine, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
South Wheal Basset, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Buller and Basset United Mine, Four Lanes, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Wheal Providence, Penhallick, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Carn Brea Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Wheal Druid, Carn Brea Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Cook's Kitchen Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
East Pool Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
South Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Tincroft Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Wheal Fanny, Tregajorran, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Wheal Raven, West Tolgus, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book (edition)
and S. DAVEY, Pursers, and Managers, Redruth, Cornwall. BULLER ANDLocal BASSET UNITED isGEORGE situate...8, Gresham House, Old Broad Street, London. ARN BREA is situate in the Parish of Illogan. London Offices...WESTLondon BASSET NORTH BASSET, SOUTH SOUTHTOLGUS CARN BREA. Offices, 50, Threadneedle Street. Secretary,...JOSEPH LYLE. LELANT Uny Lelant , near Hayle, Cornwall. Comanager and Purser,CONSOLS, WILLIAM RICHARDS...Street, London. ESSRS. HIGGS & SONS, of Penzance, Cornwall, are Managers MESSRS, & Providence Mines, Uny
Report (issue)
and tin-bearing vein from Hemerdon deposit, Devon, UK. The tungsten is present in wolframite, the dark...the Czech Republic through France and south-west England and into Spain and Portugal also has some important...Other metals that may accompany tungsten include copper, molybdenum, tin, zinc and bismuth. Tungsten skarns...Economically important accompanying metals include tin, copper, molybdenum, bismuth and gold. Complex uranium...Cornubian orefield in south-west England (see section on Britain). Tin, copper, lead-zinc, and iron zones are
Book (volume)
expansion and then rapid decline in the Cornish copper and tin mining industries. Four decades of vigorous...disastrous fall in metal prices later in the century, Cornwall led the world in the art and science of mining...legendary names as Cook's Kitchen, East Pool and the Carn Brea Mines: the mines of the northern district. It...1980 by Alison Hodge, 5 Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall. ©T. A. Morrison, 1980 No part of this publica1ion... 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41; Royal Institution of Cornwall, Plates 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Book (volume)
Oyllansow Truran, Trewolsta, Trewi rg ie, Redruth, Cornwall ISBN 0907566 83 9 Pr inted in Great Britain by...by A. Wheaton & Co Ltd. Exeter \ MINES IN CORNWALL Callrr'IG}tone • ltskeard MAPJ Volume 2 Sr Austell...'•Hoyte l 2 i. miles MAP1 West Seton• ._earn Brea mi le 6 Introduction T has been said that a...spanning a period of over a hundred years. Mining in Cornwall goes back to between 1,000 and 2,000BC, and exploration...attempts to raise copper ore in the St Just, St Ives and Perranzabuloe areas. Mining for copper began on a large
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
Report (volume)
MINERAL RESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. XXVII.-COPPER ORES OF OORNWALI, AND DEVON BY HENRY DE"\VEY.... .. .: : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote...this district took a prominent place among the copper-producing districts of the world. Since then the...famous old mines are practically exhausted, and copper-ores have tended to become by-products of mining...to describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring the information
Field Trip Notes
that once produced 53 Cornwall's tin and 52 of its copper. £ I of The mining boom of the early 19th century...mass and its two smaller , outlying masses , Cam Brea and Cam Marth. Many steep lodes were found in the...the killas country separating Carnmenellis from Carn Brea and in the North fringe of the Carnmenellis mass...Basset mines. Both tin and copper were extracted from the area , the copper being more plentiful in the...nite. K-H ciIIgk RE&RUTH. * E.P.ftX.. ++ (g CARN -DcAMARTH ; GRANITE Basset X- memcxual '■It cA&njactn)
Book (edition)
The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and other minerals...known from prehistoric times, and it is likely that copper was also worked at an early date. Tin was important...south- west corner of Britain a world leader. Copper mining was then far more important than tin, and...and crushing ores. 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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with the Cornubian Batholith of southwest England: Direct dating of cassiterite by in situ LA-ICPMS...Abstract The Cornwall and Devon vein- and greisen-type copper and tin deposits of southwest England are spatially...Keywords Cornwall . Devon . Cornubian . Cassiterite . Tin . U–Pb . Geochronology . LA-ICPMS . England Introduction...Introduction The tin and copper deposits of Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of England, have been a valuable...2016). The aforementioned geochronology studies in Cornwall and Devon focused on dating the granitic host
Report (issue)
Sheet 352 of the ne,v series one-inch 1nap of England and Wales. . The orig:inal geological st1rvey ...the Lodes ••• ••• III. Relative Age ot· the Tin-Copper and Silver... Lead Lodes . . . ••• ••• IV. Struct11re...III.--1 he Ca111borne tnining district ,vith Carn Brea in the distance . . . ... ... PIJATE IV.--Su11ny...stages of ... ... ... the process . . . PLATE VII.-Carn Brea. Granite tor ,vith stratiforrn ... ... ... v,reathering...Section of tl1e l\Iain Ijocle of Dolcoath a11d Crtr11 Brea l\Ii11es ... ... ... ... ... ... . . .. 2().-\V
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
196 EXCURSION TO CORNWALL. MONDAY, AUGUST 8TH, TO SATURDAY, AUGUST 13TH, 1887. Directors: THE PRESIDENT;...Secretary to the Mining Association and Institute of Cornwall; and A. K. BARNETT, F.G.S., of Penzunce. (Report...which a visit of tIle Association to the West of England had been extended beyond the TaIllar, an unusual1y...August 6th, and these had not struck far into Cornwall before an interesting rock presented itself for...the party assembled at the Royal Institution of Cornwall, ill Pydar Street, Truro. Here they were cordially
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
widespreadmineral occurring in numerous important copper deposits in considerableamounts. It forms under...o:10.910*0.005 kX, on natural bornite from Cornwall, England. The structure suggestedby de Jong, however...examined crystals of "bornite" from the Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, and reported a unit cell of cubic...Bonwrtn Bornite was synthesizedby holding mixtures of copper, iron, and sulfur (of required composition) at...components. Experiments were carried out using copper,iron, and sulfur in the ratios 5: 1:4. Since the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. 710...remote parts of the country, from Scotland to Cornwall. At that time, non-ferrous mining was about one-fifth...less than half their peak levels of the 1860s and copper production had virtually ceased.7 In contrast to...the deepening of the Mill Close mine, while in Cornwall tin production was restored to the high levels...(known as cost-book companies in the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon) which were tolerated by common law
Journal (volume)
KERNOW J COVER: Artefacts from Cam Brea by Roger Penhallurick Cornwall Archaeological Society 1981 President...interested in the history and material culture of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (persons under 16 being...Exeter. Price to non-members: £6.00 Printed in Cornwall by Penwell Ltd., Callington FRONTISPIECE: Dr...Institution of Cornwall. He holds a framed photograph of the Cunomorus stone, a gift of the Cornwall Archaeological...CHARLES THOMAS, FSA Excavations at Cam Brea, Illogan, Cornwall — a Neolithic Fortified Complex of the
Book
A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING CORNWALL AND IN | DEVON D. B. BARTON on |» Se Fai 4 H} r) Cavodent...DISTRICT 12 0@T45 6037 A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON Nac . A aes dex “8 ob ea...sigh ee Ja Teal Ps IOuROYE | (One COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON Deb ab Ak ON De BRAD RO RAD...CONSOLS: SECTION, 1778 SURFACE PLAN, 1839 CORNWALL AND SOUTH-WEST DOLCOATH MINEIN DOWNS, THE1830S...SWANSEA . 82 84-85 : . 64 8I : THE PRINCIPAL COPPER 59 63 . : AERIAL VIEW . 29 DEVON, MAP.
Book
There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic... They range from azure-blue 'hair crystals' of copper ore and the branching leaf-like growths of pure...purple crystals of amethyst to huge masses of iron copper sulphide. Chosen for their aesthetic qualities...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
Book
Francis Antony Limited Trcnancc Mill, St Austell Cornwall PL25 5AH Printed on: Paper made from 100% rcq•clcd...Objective One, South West Regional Development Agency, Cornwall County Cou nci l, Kerri er Di strict Council,...mining heritage. Introducing mining in central Cornwall Like my father before me, I worked at Dolcoath...minerals, and equipment began to travel in and out of Cornwall. Not only were tramways created, but also new...century there were · around 2,500 engine houses in Cornwall. Only one in ten of these survive today, and almost
Book (edition)
STATISTICS OF , AND OBSERVATIONS UPON THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON . ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND GROUND PLANS...Statistics of, and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall, published by me in 1859, have emboldened me,...to sustain legitimate mining enterprises, in Cornwall and Devon, to make an appeal for the public support...the numerous Mines, not only in the county of Cornwall, but in the adjoining county of Devon. Satisfied...will be en riched with a map of the county of Cornwall, and ground plans, distinguishing the Mines of
Book (edition)
THE CORNWALL & DEVON MINING DIRECTORY : CLASSIFIED IN DISTRICTS ; 1 With their Produce, number of...; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS . rusuh g Ndalhs1870.Cornwall Gfo . gogy ENTERED AT STATIONERS: HALL ... THE desire for a new edition of the CORNWALL AND DEVON MINING DIRECTORY having been often expressed...return them his sincere thanks. J. W. Hayle, Cornwall, April, 1870. INDEX . CORNISH THOSE MARKED...Cape Cornwall . Caradon and Phoenix Consols 5 60 Caradon Consols 60 Cargoll 45 Carn Brea Mine
Book
Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious...elements sough or disco ered 1ere not only of tin and copper but also o lead , zinc, tungsten. antimon , sil...cassiterite (tin oxide), and most probably for copper ores for the production of bronze weapons and tools...amethyst. Wheal Jane, near Truro (le(t) . Bornitc, Corn Brea Mtne, Redruth (nght) As a young boy, I looked into
Book
A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON D. B. BARTON -'= -- ---- -=------- - ----·-----·~...PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON GALEfJA PUBLIC LIBft~RY GALENA...t~~f\ ~ vJQ,ed_ WI-~: I A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON D. B. BARTON D. BRADFORD BARTON...MINE: SECTION, I FOWEY CONSOLS: SURFACE PLAN, CORNWALL AND SOUTH-WEST DEVON, MAP DOLCOATH MINE IN THE...DOWNS, AERIAL VIEW THE PRINCIPAL COPPER MINING DISTRICT OF CORNWALL • • • • SOUTH CARADON, THE REMAINS
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,...within the magmatic hydrothermal lode systems of Cornwall than has been previously recognised. In situ and...the chronology of granite magmatism across SW England using U-Pb monazite and xenotime methods have not
Report (issue)
Kingdom from 1873 to 1913. Output from Devon and Cornwall from 1897 to 1913. Commercial Uses. Rise and present...and is obtained u-iainly :fron1 Ournberland. In Cornwall wolfram is restr.icted in its occuri•ence to :four...4. The most important dis­ trict lies in West Cornwall between Scorrier and Camborne, and -especially...the ore treated contains any large quantity of copper-pyrites, this mineral may be separated as a middle...large quantities. Captain Thomas, Man-ager of the Carn Brea and Tincroft mines, points out* that where the
 
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