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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:17994
Long-form Identifier:1:3:17994:8
GUID (UUID V4):11808c28-5705-450b-bf08-8b2a1ffac99c
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Wheal Edward, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Loe Warren Zawn, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
2.2km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
10.9km (6.8 miles) ā“˜Wherry Mine, Wherrytown, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK
16.5km (10.2 miles) ā“˜Wheal Trenwith, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
16.6km (10.3 miles) ā“˜Wheal Bahavella (Wheal Bravella), St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
22.9km (14.2 miles) ā“˜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
24.1km (15.0 miles) ā“˜Wheal Trewavas (Trewavas Cliff Mine), Rinsey, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrence, from St. Just, Cornwall WHEAL EDWARD (NGR SW 360327) and West Wheal Owles (NGR SW 362329)...are adjacent workings within the Wheal Owles sett, St. Just, Cornwall. The mines lie on a contact between...in 1893 (Dines, 1930, 1956). Spoil heaps around Wheal Edward incline shaft occasionally yield uranium...oxidation products, in alteration rinds surrounding uraninite nodules. Further specimens of compreignacite (identified...8788F) have recently been found at West Wheal Owles, St. Just, Cornwall. The specimens were obtained in situ
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
59, PP. 7 4 5 - 7 4 9 Widenmannite from Cornwall, England: the second world occurrence WIDENMANNITE...is an extremely rare mineral, hitherto known from just one specimen from Michael Mine in Weiler, near Lahr...uranium mineralization in the St Just district of West Penwith, Cornwall, widenmannite has been identified...exposure at NGR SW 362329, about 0.75 km west of Botallack village. The widenmannite occurs in a localized...boundary of the cove. A N E - S W line of sporadic uraninite mineralization with associated supergene products
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
513-514 Nov~i~ekite and metanov~i~ekite from Cornwall NOVA(~EKITE, Mg(UO2)2(AsO4)2.12H20, is isomorphous...been found in Cornwall (Ryback and Tandy, 1992), principally from Wheal Edward, St. Just. End-member nov~ekite...stope in disused mine workings at West Wheal Owles, St. Just (Grid. Ref. SW 362329). Identification was...1958; Walenta, 1964). No Ca was detected in Wheal Owles nov~tekite, but a little Cu was observed in most...metanovh~ekite to nov~t~ekite II. Conditions within Wheal Owles are cool and damp, and other minerals found at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Harvard's Mineralogical Tour of England June 23-July 4, 1984 WILLIAM C. METROPOLIS Harvard Mineralogical...sponsoring a mineralogist's tour of London and Cornwall. A group of eleven left Boston's Logan Airport... We visited the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square...world-famous and truly magnificent Crown Jewels of England. Unfortunately, photography is not permitted, so...rings consist of blue sapĀ­ phires, with the Cross of St. George in rubies set on them, surrounded by diamonds
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1081 Four new uranium-lead ages from Cornwall By R. P. C. POCKLEY,B.Sc., Dip.Ed., D.Phil. Department...1963] Summary. Four new isotopic U/Pb ages from Cornwall are reported. The Pb~~ ~a8 and Pb~~ 2~5 ages for...million years (Myr.), Redruth Area 124 :b 4 Myr., Wheal Owles mine 58ā€¢ Myr., and South Terras Area 62ā€¢ Myr...periods of mineralization affected south-west England at about 290 Myr. and 225 Myr., and that a final...south-west England. One other isotopic U - T h - P b age determination for south-west England had been
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Frindsbury, Rochester, Kent ME3 8AT, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD: F.B. Atkins, Oxford, UK. RE. Bevins, Cardiff, U.K. RS...Braithwaite, Manchester, UK. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, UK. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, UK. RA. Howie, Matlock, U...U.K. R.J. King, Tewkesbury, UK. A. Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK. l.R Plimer, Parkville, Australia RE....Bromsgrove, UK. R.F. Symes, London, U.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia B. Young, Newcastle, UK. Aims...baryte. Nether Row Brow, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. M. Rothwell collection. Photograph by Mick Cooper
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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
Report (issue)
184(6) Ī² = 96.87(6)ā—¦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Wheal Owles, England. 7.12 (10), 9.18 (8), 4.28 (8), 3.65 (5)...in the presence of uraninite; may be of post-mining origin. Association: Uraninite, zippeite, johannite... France. In Wheal Owles, Wheal Edward, and the Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. From Nowa Ruda
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
revival in the collection of uranium minerals. Uraninite (Cook 2004) and several of the most common secondary...section of West Wheal Owles, St. Just, Cornwall (Ryback and Tandy 1992); other St. Just occurrences include...include the Botallack mine and Wheal Edward. Cuprosklodowskite has also been reported as pale green crusts...lode of the Geevor mine, at Pendeen near St. Just, Cornwall (Elton, Hooper, and Coggan 1992). Other secondary...worldclass mining district with mineral deposits not just of uranium but also of copper, zinc, iron, lead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
south shaft at South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Cornwall. R. J. Davis, M. H. Hey, and A. W...on old specimens in the BM(NH), at Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. The variety agardite-(Nd), according...near the roof of the Tregonning granite, Rinsey, Cornwall. C. S. Exley and M. Stone (x964), in 'Present...some aspects of the geology of Cornwall and Devon' (Roy. geol. Soe. Cornwall), pp. I44-5, Anglesite (var...anglesite in uraniferous hydrocarbon at Wheal Speed, Cornwall, contain co-precipitated radium. Other localities
Report (issue)
ā€œpitchblendeā€ in uranium deposits. Association: Uraninite, cuprosklodowskite, uranophane, zeunerite, schoepite...chalcopyrite, siderite, uraninite, potassian feldspar (Wheal Edward, Cornwall, England). Distribution: In...Compreignac, Haute-Vienne. From Wheal Owles and Wheal Edward, St. Just, Cornwall, England. From JaĢchymov (Joachimsthal)...Compreignacite: a second occurrence, from St. Just, Cornwall. Mineral. Mag., 58, 339ā€“341. All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ENGLAl~D SW. England: coffinite, lxi Sykes, Bowland Forest High, Yorkshire: azurite, lxxxvi Cornwall Geevor...Geevor mine, Pendeen, St. Just-inRoseland: uraninite, xc Hingston Down Consols, Calstock: arthurire, pharmacosiderite...Redruth area: uraninite, 1081 South Crofty mine, Illogan, Redruth: coffinite, uraninite, xc South Terras...mine, St. Stephen-inBrannel: bismutoferrite, uraninite, xc, 1081 Wheal Bray, Altarnun: uraninite, xc Wheal...Wheal Owles, St. Just-in-Roseland: uraninite, 1081 Bj61fur, Seydisfj6rdur; Efri-Hrittd, !~agridalur;
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Westchester Co., New York], James (1947) [Cornwall, England], and Sohon (1951) [Branchville and Middletown...ocher in an oxidized gold quartz vein containing uraninite [?] in the Rathgeb Mine, San Andreas, Calaveras...the course of this study proved to contain only uraninite and liebigite. The uranocher of Vogl (1857) from...a coating on oxidized vein material in which uraninite and sulfides were primary constituents. Gypsum...aggregates.The measured specific gravity is 3.96 (Wheal Owles, Cornwallj. The hardness cannot be determined
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
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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 Ā© 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
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Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; 'ā€™i 'ā– -ā–  ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collectorā€™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... ā€™ā€™fe, -'A Sr A6Nfl^ fe'Pk :. g,TRURO <4 J -St AUS FELL Sā€™ LAND'S EHdG HOUMTSS. HEL5TOW PENZANCEJH...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS
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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:, Ā·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
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
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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
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investigations in the Liskeard area of south east Cornwall (Abstract). By C. J. Burton . . . . . . 44 Fammenian...folding in the Upper Carboniferous rocks of north Cornwall. By David J. Sanderson. . . . . . . . . . . ....Quaternary fluvial activity in south-west Cornwall, England. By Alan C. Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . .... 120 Discordant calc-silicate bodies in the Botallack area. By N. J. Jackson and D. H. M. Alderton ...of Devonian sediments in the Perranporth area. Cornwall. By S. Henley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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 ā€¢ ~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
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important part of Society activities. Localities from Cornwall to Cumbria were visited ā€“ at a time when attitudes...as well as all sorts of min erals whose names I just cannot remember. But what does that matter! To find...discovering something so intriguing and beautiful , just as nature made i t, was so fascinating and exciting...on his caving experiences in various parts of England and illustrated it with a splendid set of colour...the Southampton Council ā€“ approval appeared to be just a formality and SMLS expected to receive Ā£200. However
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology I * South-West England r * FOURTH EDITION e ā–  - O ā€ ..y 1835 Geological...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologist, South-West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the conĀ­...volume [1966] of the Royal GeoĀ­ 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
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G .. Bisson (District Geologist, South--West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the conĀ­...volume [1966] of the Royal GeoĀ­ 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 Carbonifļæ½rous 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
 
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