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Enargite from
Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Enargite
Formula:Cu3AsS4
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Raman Spectroscopy
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Wolframite Group2 photos of Enargite associated with Wolframite Group at this locality.
Langite2 photos of Enargite associated with Langite at this locality.
Copper2 photos of Enargite associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enargite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1373055
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1373055:4
GUID (UUID V4):063198e2-28e8-42b5-8b92-c4fe41a04c51
Nearest other occurrences of Enargite
75.8km (47.1 miles) Lushington Cove, Porthtowan, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
80.4km (50.0 miles) South Crofty Tin Project (South Crofty Mine; South Wheal Crofty), Pool, Carn Brea, 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
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
Report (issue)
5.598(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Hingston Down Consols mine, England. 4.28 (vvs), 4.81 (vvs), 6.97 (vvs)...[9.7] Total [100.0] [100.0] (1) Hingston Down Consols mine, England; H2 O by loss on ignition; after...deposits, formed by alteration of arsenopyrite or enargite. Association: quartz. Pharmacosiderite, scorodite...Distribution: In England, in Cornwall, from the Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, the Gunheath china...Material: The Natural History Museum, London, England, 1964,74–75 and 1964,80. References: (1) Davis
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...Acknowledgements 350 Frontispiece: David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction...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... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce &
Report (issue)
copper deposits, typically an alteration product of enargite. Association: Austinite, olivenite, clinoclase...Spain. In England, at Wheal Kendall, St. Hilary, and the Hingston Down quarry, Calstock, Cornwall; from Caldbeck
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the type-material from the Hingston Down Consols Mine, Calstock, Cornwall, at least up to d z A. No evidence...This rarity presumably reflects that of hypogene enargite in the majority of the deposits, and the occurrence...at Potrerillos probably derives from the minor enargite that is present in the ore (March, I935). Department... column E) cleared up the discrepancy: the Hingston Down Consols mine material contains 2. 4 % P and
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...The Ca.radon District, pp. 46-54. V. The East Cornwall a.nd Devon District, pp. 54---61. VI. The South...List of published six-inch Geological maps of Cornwall 63 APPENDIX : ... INDEX m t78JlU4l6 Wt 2455C-S
Catalog/List
Are NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530...60x40x25mm. £22. 3) AURICHALCITE. Gre,ystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. Linionitic veinstone with patches of...£12. 8) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A nice clean specimen showing several lustrous... 10) CASSITERITE var "RUBY WOOD TIN". St Agnes, Cornwall. A small piece of matrix showing red to brown...£45. 11) CASSITERITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Typical very fine grained grey mass. (a) 8 0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the type-material from the Hingston Down Consols Mine, Calstock, Cornwall, at least up to d z A. No evidence...This rarity presumably reflects that of hypogene enargite in the majority of the deposits, and the occurrence...at Potrerillos probably derives from the minor enargite that is present in the ore (March, I935). Department
Catalog/List
8ARSTOW Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. V.A.T. No.: 132-7852-67 ORDERING I~~O~IATION...axis. £22.00 APATITE. Colcerrow Qry., Luxulyan, Cornwall. Specimen A: Well formed translucent pale blue..." , £2.5Op. AXINITE. Botallack Head, st. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A: Select lustrous clove-brown sharp...BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Sharp lustrous light coloured crystals mostly...1tx1ix1f", £f;.5QJ 12. BoRNITE. Wheal Cock, St. Just, Cornwall. Very rich purply-blue masses associated with
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V~A.T.No...variety FRA~COLITE. Wheal Pendarves, Camborne, Cornwall. Rich sparkling crl,lsts of micro crystals covering...£2. SOp 7. ARSfNOPYRITE. Himgston Down, near callington, Cornwall. Specimen A: 8right silvery sharp crystals...rix. 1,!x1-?;x1", £4. SOp; Dean Qry., Lizard, Cornwall. Lustrous snow-white sharp crystals and crystal...£9.00 ~ 10. AXINITE. Botallack ,. st. Just, Cornwall. Lust rous clove-brown sharp crystals to in size
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits, by the alteration of arsenopyrite or enargite. Related species are earlshannonite, (Mn,Fe)Fe2(PO4)2(OH)2...Co. and originated from Hingston Down, Consols Mine. Calstock, Cornwall, England. Whitmoreite was obtained...(Scientific Instruments Ltd, Waterfield, Surrey, England). Spectroscopic manipulation such as baseline adjustment...probe analyses of the arthurite samples from USA and UK are shown in Figures 1 and 2. The analysis of the...Fig. 2. Electron probe analysis of arthurite from UK. Fig. 3. Electron probe analysis of whitmoreite
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...typified by the Cornubian orefield in south-west England (see section on Britain). Tin, copper, lead-zinc...Erzgebirge (Czech Rep.), Hemerdon (south-west England) Wolfram camp (Queensland, Australia), Doi Ngom...district (E. Siberia), Bodmin Moor (south-west England) Searles Lake (California, USA), other examples
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...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...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL . richard.tayler@minerals...River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. Pure hard white...■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline...ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite...½" £2 lxl £4 lx2 £6 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses CaS0.'4 lx2 £1
Catalog/List
RICHARD U. Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. V.A.T. No.: 132-7852-&7 ORDERING...APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Fine lustrous golden brown sharp hexagonal crystals...examples of this variety of Apatite yet found in Cornwall. . 7. APOPHYLLITE. Poona, nr. Bombay, India. Select... ;> 11. AXINITE. Roscommon Cliff, nr. St. Just, Cornwall. ~ustrous brown sharp large well formed crystals... £4.5Op 17. 8ORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Rich attractive irridescently tarnished masses
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline...ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive green... £4 lx2 £6 Ca SO/4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses lx2 80p 2x2 £1
Catalog/List
I Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL Phone 01932 862340 EMAIL richard.tayler@minerals...no £5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline...ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantite..._--~(~OI_~·-·· · -·- ·· ···ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule. Ixlins80p..._ _P_b_so_,_4____ 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich while to faintly,bluemasses lx2~0p ________
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.No.: st. Just 880 (STD CJ73 677) V...variety FRA~CoLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Select, sharp, lustrous transparent terminated...l-txltxl". £2.75. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Nr. Callington, Cornwall. Very rich, light green crystaline...CASSITERITE. RosBmBllyn Streamwor:.s, NI'. Roch2, Cornwall. A 4"xl" glass tube full of coarse granular lUptrous... £4.50. 29. CUPRITE. Wheal Damsel, Gwennap, Cornwall. Bright, sparkling, deep maroon coloured small
Catalog/List
No. Byways, 20 Burstcad Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL 2007 104 Phone 01932 862340 ...THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal
Catalog/List
Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine...under magnification. £8. 4. AMETHYST, St. Austell, Cornwall. 2.5x3x2.5cm. A single fairly pale dumpy xtl with...with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix...under magnification. £6. 9. ANGLESITE, Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. 3x l.9x2cm. A bright...£32. (am9) 2. ~ ~ I,. "POTATO STONE", Dulcote Quarry, Somerset. 4.5x4x2cm. A cut geode 4 12. ARAGONITE
Catalog/List
New Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall,Bahianite,Bismutite, Celestite with Sulphur,Cubanite...OH Cl ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. Engl.and__ .. _ _ - •· Ix2ins Very. rich~ ;a~...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2£I 2x2£2.S0 Al SO/4...--- · - · · ··· _ 2x3 £I .SO 2x2£1 Staffordshire England lx2 S0p Rich white to faintly blue masses 23 Al'\HYDRITE... _ . Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry. Tvedalcn near Ix I £3 I x2 £6 2x2 £ 12 7 AN!lilTE
Catalog/List
fcATALOGUE Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL No 96 2005\ Phone 01932 862340...Lcpidocrocitc. TiO FcO OH a £5 3mm£3 Quarry.Cornwall Hingston ANATASE 933 Yakutia,Russia ALABANDffE 15 Black...ALLOPllANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 52 501 Rich pinkish mass in dark grey homfels....lxl£4 lx2£8 1048 ALUMJNITE Newhavcn Sussex, England Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule_ lx2£1 2x2...group PbSO/4 1cm £4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses 2x2£1 lx2 50p
Catalog/List
__1_os__2_0_0_9� Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL Phone 01932 862340 richard.tayler@minerals...new entry for this list ANALCIME Dean Quarry, Lizard ,Cornwall Achmclvich, near Lochinvcr, Scotbnd 97...ANATASE Lauvland, Frigstad, Evjc Norway 933 Hingston Quarry,Cornwall 16 Rich grey-white cleavages , some with...lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal 95 10 77...Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal with possible Brochantilc
Journal (issue)
the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...the heyday of geological research in northern England and it was not long before spectacular new ideas...site: Bedford Utd. Mine, Dean Quarry, Gravel Hill Mine, Greystone Quarry, Gunheath Claypit, Me/don Quarries
 
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