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Quartz from
Wheal Henry, Twelveheads, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cassiterite1 photo of Quartz associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Henry, Twelveheads, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1530947
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1530947:3
GUID (UUID V4):80de3f69-6b8f-4be9-bdd9-46acbc6973a4
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.4km (0.2 miles) East Wheal Maid, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) Wheal Fortune, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Poldice Mine, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) East Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Creegbrawse and Penkevil Mine, Creegbrawse, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Wheal Maid Decline, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) Bread and Cheese Shaft, Nangiles Mine (Wheal Nangiles), Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEl\ING INFOftMATION Mail orders are promptly...matrix. 2txlt". £4. 6. AZUhITE. Wheal Gor13nd, St. Day, Cornwall. Deep blue masses intergrovm and impregnating...-x2". £1.25. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich apple green crystaline crust on micro granite...£3.5C. . 11. BOhNITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An unusual specimen showing botryoidal masses...with small cubic crystals encrusting Chalcopyrite/Quartz matrix. 4x3". £7. CrUdely formed -2- BOURNONITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are termed the earthy minerals or matrix, such as quartz, lime, slate, &c. In mining, the contents of the...substance forming the matrix in copper ores is quartz. The relation of this to the other ingredients...the four substances, copper, sulphur, iron and quartz, is the leading feature. To give some idea of the...following table of ores from various mines of Cornwall and Devonshire, tested for their smelting quality...Mines Great Mitchell Consols ... IGrambler ...... Wheal Sisters IEast Pool iWheal Maria iWheal Bucketts
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
Catalog/List
£8 . 00 )( 2. ADULARIA . Denn Qry . , Lizard , Cornwall . Light pinkish small sharp crystalS scattered...s to 4 mm in size scattered over mat ri x with quartz crystal s to over 1" in s ize Elnd a little crystallised... ARS E ~OPYRI T E . Penlee Qry. , Nawl yn , Cornwall . Speci man A: ~rig ht si lv e r y s h8r p crystals...00 23 . AZUR ITE. Ting Tang r~i nc , Gwennap , Cornwall . Deep blu e spa rkling sma ll s hmp crystal s...whee l cryst a l 4 mm in si zu i mpl anted i n Q quartz c r yst a l li ned c ovity i n a c e ll ul Qr mat
Book (volume)
The metalliferous mining region of south-west England H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical notes...The metal/iferous mining region of south-west England, H G Dines (1956). Economi,· Memoir of the Geological...staffs of Geevor Mine, South Crofty Mine, Wheal Pendarves, Wheal Jane and Mount Wellington Mine. The generous...notably his 16-volume series Mines and miners of Cornwall, and two volumes on the mines of Devon, one of...Somerset figures were published in 1984 and the Cornwall outputs are due to be published soon. K. E. Beer
Book (edition)
THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. STATISTICS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, ILLUSTRATED...my Statistics and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall and Devon have been received, I am induced to... Bosorne and Bollowal United ... Boswedden and Wheal Castle ... Bosworthen Botallack ...... Brea Consols...Condurrow Cook's Kitchen 72 71 Cornubia 89 Cornwall, in a Mining and Geo logical point of view .....Moor Crane Cuddra..... Devon and Cornwall Devon Great Consols Devon Wheal Vor Ding Dong Dividends, Tabular
Book
Here too are the evocative mines of yesteryear: Wheal Fatwork, Heartsease, Old Prosperity and Wet and...270 Po oveandall 0060 | Fs) S Foner: hagofl CORNWALL COUNCIL 24 HOUR RENEWAL HOTLINE 0845 607 6119...169 LIMITED ENGLAND 12/14PT BUSHEY, © SET BASKERVILLE BUCKS LIMITED ENGLAND BEACONSFIELD,...TEXT BY LITHOPLATES DISPLAY MONOTYPE LIMITED ENGLAND LUTON, BY BY PRESS LITHOGRAPHY SOUTH LIMITED...CRESCENT LUTON, LIMITED ENGLAND PRINTED FRANK WHITE BOOKS LIMITED ENGLAND BUNN 1978 All rights
Report (issue)
Berks, Buckingham, Cambridge part o( Cheshire,• Cornwall, Ocrbr, (aow/4 of th• River TrenJ , Devon, Dorset...J.\,!aud, Aberdeenshire; Clackriach; Old Deer; Quartz . . 38 DEER DISTRICT COMMITTEE, per 1\11. Heddle...Station Road, Ellon; Hatton; Hatton Farm, Cruden; Quartz schist 71 Et.LON DISTRICT COMMITTEE, per D. J.... Dixon Street, Glasgow ; Lagnaha ; Kentallen ; Quartz .. .. .. 1 5 12 19 } 29 3 20§ 6 1 11 31...Market Street, :l\Iacduff ; Muiryhill ; Alvah ; Quartz .. 1 5 14 75 BANFF DISTRICT COMMITTEE, per Jas
Journal (volume)
Record of the Mining and Metal Markets. EDITED BY HENRY CURWEN SALMON, F.G.S., F.C.S. VOL. I. LIBRARY...Annales des Mines on theMetallurgy of Iron in England , ib. ; Proceedings of the Manchester Geological...Relief Fund, 402 ; The Geo Metallurgy of Iron in England, 120 ; Blow -pipe Vade Mecum byDr. Aquila loyical...Annales des Mines on the Metallurgy of Iron in England, 181 ; Abstract from Rev. 8. Haughton on the Chemical...231 , 305 . of Iron in England, 120, 181 , 327. ASSOCIATION, Miners', of Cornwall and Devon , by R. Hunt
Book (volume)
IE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF UTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume II LONDON HER MAJESTY ' S STATIONERY OFFICE...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South -West England Volume II By H...iv CHAPTER V . — Details OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 8. St. Austell district...Shaft shows the lode, about 2 ft. wide, of white quartz, with clusters of wolfram crystals along its margins...killas country rock is tourmalinized alongside quartz - filled fissures. On the right is 5th Level, driven
Book (volume)
The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 0 iz 0 1-rj VOLUME II Assistant Director's...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume II By ...published 1956 Second impression 1969 Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...PLATES V CHAPTER V.-DETAILS OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 509 8. St. Austell...Shaft shows the lode, about 2 ft. wide, of white quartz, with clusters of wolfram crystals along its margins
Report (issue)
Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire (part) Cornwall Derbyshire (South of the Trent) Devonshire Dorsetshire...and Wolfram ,vorkings, also old Lead mine heaps (Cornwall) ... . . PAGE 212 236 409 409 409 406 YE...Limestone. 2 Granite. 1 3 16t 2t 4 Whinstone. Quartz. Whinstone. Do. • .0 � 81 Misquentaie � ...Kirkpatrick, Surveyor, 43, Newtown Street, Duns. Henry Steel & Sons, Contractors, Greenlaw, Berwick­ shire...House, South Queensferry. Aberlady Road, Gullane Henry W. Hope, Aberlady, per Guild & Guild, 5, Rutland
Book (volume)
COUNCIL The METALLIFEROUS MINING GION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume II 1956 2017 reprint BRITISH GEOLOGICALSURVEY...The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME II H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical...metalliferous mining region of the south-west England. Economic Environmental Science Centre Keyworth...London SW7 5BD Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 4090 www.bgs.ac. uk www. geologyshop. corn ... 111 CONTENTS PAGE...CHAPTER V-DETAILS iv V OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET ...................
Book
SOURCES OF TEMPORARY WATEB SUPPLY in the SOUTH 01' ENGLAND and NEIGHBOUJlING PARTS OF THE CONTINENT. •NoTEB...progress of the Geological Survey, then wo1--king in Cornwall, '' to form collections ill11st1--ative of the...china-stone and Cornisl1 or china-clay collected -by Sir Henry de la . Beche unde1 this a_t1tl1ority. The collection...with. The 01·iginal specimens ·collected by Sir Henry de la Beche, though of great interest in consequence...the celebrated kaolin deposits of the West of England and with the 1nethods of winning the china-clay
Report (issue)
.. . Cambridgeshire .. . Cheshire (part) .. . Cornwall ... Derbyshire (South of the Trent) Devonsl1ire...Buck­ ingba..a, Cambridge, pa.rt of Cbeshir-e,t Cornwall, Derby (1touih .of tl-.e lliTJer Tnnt), Devon...(Cupelow) 5 5 6 3 Derby Do. 3 3 Cheshire Essex Cornwall Altamira Cork Altarstone Altdargue Peebles.... Glouc.'Cste1·.... 6 Alviggan Higher Alyth Cornwall Perth Do. Do. Amborley (inclull­ Sussex ing White... Anglesey York York Cornwall 6 1 I 6 6 3 2 6 Lincoln 3 .... Cornwall .... 6 .. ..1 Aberdeen
Report (issue)
Works, Wins. ford, Cheshire; Foxdale; Foxdale; Quartz 14 9 25 S1t1>a1• 115. 7 3 2t 2t 2t 3 15t...Brighouse ; Gooder Lane ; Brighouse ; Brickcarth; (Henry Keir, Sec.} 3 10 25 3 70 BROADBENT, S., & SoNs,...KNoTTINGLEY LIME Co., W01nersley Road, Knottingley; England Lane; Knottingley; Limestone .. 225 KNoTTTNGLEYLrnECo...Streaks• ; Middleton Dale ; Limestone .. 67 DEELEY, HENRY, LTD., Rowsley, Derbyshire ; Stanton Woodhouse;...25 6 4 25 253 6 4 25 6 4 25 10 24 GoonARD, HENRY, & SON, Brick and Tile Works, Stewton, Louth ; Stewton
Report (issue)
Buckinghamshire.. . Cambridgeshire .. . Cheshire (part) .. . Cornwall ... Derbyshire (South of the Trent) Devonshire...Berks, Buckingham, Oambrid~e, pa-rt of Chester,• Cornwall, Derby (south of the Uiver Trent), Devon, Dorset.... .. 6 Cheshire .... 4 .... Essex .... .... Cornwall .... 6 6 Alsager Sand Pit Alsa Lodge Alseveor.... Northumberland .... York .... Stirling .... Cornwall .... Amble Link House .Ambler Thorn .... .Arngomery...Anchor .... .... Cork .... .... Lincoln .... .... Cornwall .. .. 4 6 .A.nder·son's .. .. Aberdeen ...
Report (issue)
Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire (part) Cornwall ... ... Derbyshire (South of the Trent) Devonshire...Wolfram workings, also old Lead mine heaps ... (Cornwall) ... ... ... (3062!1-1.) Wt, 9983-;Y!l7. 226...Limestone. Gr:u1ite (abandoned). Whinstone. Do. Quartz. Whinstone. Do. "' "" 0 81 Kilmichael Minard...Kirkpatrick, Surveyor, 43, Newtown Street, Dttns. Henry Steel & Sons, Oontt·aotors, Greenlav-,, Berwick­...Linlithgow, Hopetoun House, South Queensferry. Henry W. Hope, Aberlady, per Guild & Guild, 5, Rutland
Journal (volume)
Record of the Ilining and Metal Markets . EDITED BY HENRY CURWEN SALMON , F.G.S., F.C.S. VOL. III . JANUARY...cost, of the rich oxidised ores of the north of England, and of readily exporting the products obtained...iron works were situated morein the south-east of England-in the counties of Kert, Sussex, and Surrey - and...the Millstone Grit of the centre and north of England. Only, in the district we are speaking of, this...quantity exported from South Wales to other parts of England amounted to : By sea, 1,907,643 tons of coal and
Catalog/List
of the staff detailed for this work, viz., in England Mr. T. C. Hall and Mr. John Rhodes, in Scotland...814. B 815. } B 817-23. Towan Head, Newquay, Cornwall. False-bedded blown • sand. Do. Consolidated blown...cylindrical pipes. Penhale Sands, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Sand-dune scenery. Do. Blown sand overwhelntlng...Whitesand Bay, Cornwall. Coast scenery, blown sand. Cassock Hill, near Rock, St. Minver, Cornwall. Blown sand...Camelford, Cornwall. Wash, or Head, on china clay. Lestowder Cliff, St. Keverne, Cornwall. Cliff-section
Report (issue)
305 305 309 :-116 No. 12 DISTRICT.-SOUTHERN. Cornwall .. Devonshire Dorsetshire Gloucestershire Hampshire...and Wolfram ,vorkings, also old Lead mine heaps (Cornwall), Arsenic, Copper, and Ochre workings (Devon)...Montgomery, Merioaeth, Carnarvon, and Anglesey. Henry Hall, Esq., I.S.O., Rainhill, Lancashire. Assistant...comprising Monmouth, Glouoest.er, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Wilts, Rants, London, Surrey, Suseex...Kirkpatrick, Surveyor, 43, Newtown Street, Duns. Henry Steel & Sons, Contractors, Greenlaw, Berwick­ shire
Report (issue)
(except thal part Edgbaston, Binning• Austell, Cornwall. West of tlui Hivcr Eler:trwal : bam 16. Sevem)...Street, Peel, Isle of Man. FOXDALE ; Foxdale ; QUARTZ ..................... { l 7 l 7 25 25 3 l...Castlegate ifills, Malton, Yorkshire. 38 WILLIAMSON, HENRY, & Co., LTD., North Bridge, Hull, Yorkshire. 39...BRICKS, LTD., Lepton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. ENGLAND, S., Stafford Hill, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.......................... . I I 2 FLOWER OF ENGLAND; Bolton, Bradford; 4 II 37 6 21 8 33 16
Report (volume)
R. Donald Bain " F. N. Wardell " John Gerrard " Henry Hall .. , . " A. H. Stokes " C. Le Neve Foster •...Warwick. The same as under Coal Mines Act. - Henry Hall, Esq., D. H. F. Mathews, Esq., Rainhill, Lancashire... Cannock Wood House, Hednesford. (Januu:ry.) Cornwall, Devon, Doriet, Glou08$ter, Hampshire, Hereford...' 12. SOUTH - WESTERN DIST1!.ICT' comprising Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Hampshire, Hereford...Co., Allon ... A. Hunter 2,062 Robert Dawson Henry T erris 267 James Watson ... H. Burt 368
Report (issue)
QUARRIES for GTeat Britain and the Isle of Man is SIR HENRY WALKER, C.B.E.; his headquarters are at the MINES...FISHER, ~LO., 13.0h., (Edinburgh 27368) 2 z SIB HENRY WA.LKHlt, (J.B.E., F. B. WYNNE, Minos Department...Rill, John's ad, Selly Privat,e addrus : Bath. Cornwall, Devon, DorPark, Birm1ngbam. .r. L . .Jeffery... ...."" ... WRITBWALL 00 34 WIIJ,IAMSO'N, HENRY, Norton, .M alton; i;i FLINT, ► GRAVEL AND...CRINOLES Bo'l'TOlll; Silsden; SANDSTONE ...... 139 ENGLAND, S., 18, Springdale Street, Longroyd Bridge, Huddersfield
 
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