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Blister Copper from
Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite var: Blister Copper
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Blister Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:212716
Long-form Identifier:1:3:212716:3
GUID (UUID V4):dd70aa71-045a-417d-b0e0-2eaf30e284b4
Nearest other occurrences of Blister Copper
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Jewel, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) East Wheal Damsel, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.2 miles) Ale and Cakes Mine, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
6.2km (3.9 miles) Carn Brea Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
6.5km (4.0 miles) East Pool Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
6.7km (4.2 miles) Wheal Fanny, Tregajorran, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) Tincroft Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Cook's Kitchen Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
8.0km (5.0 miles) Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, 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
LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...LABEL) 70x30 5 ACC No. 745. CUPRITE, WHEAL DAMSEL, GWENNAP. CRYSTALS TO 8MM ON GOSSAN Y UPPER SURFACE... ACC No. 1036. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) WHEAL KITTY, ST. AGNES. COLLCI920’S. 25x20 ACC No. 1037....CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR, WHEAL COATES, ST. AGNES. (EXC.V.SMALE) 40X20 14 ACC No....35X30 15 ACC No. 1034. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) ST. AGNES. A POLISHED PEBBLE, COLL Cl920. (EX MIKE MERRY
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake B32381 (STD (022) V...orders are promptly Filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, sUbject to approval. Immediate...00 . 5. Hingston Down Mine: nr. C~llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green micro crystallised crusts on...3x2~x1-t", £7.00 9. BAVLDoNITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich light green micro crystals...Specimen C, 1~x1", £2.25p. 10. BORNITE. Wheal Baspet, Illogan, Cornwall. Solid purply metallic heavy mass with
Book
by Alison Hodge, 2 Clarence Place, Penzance, Cornwall TRI8 2QA, www.alison-hodge.co.uk, info@alison-hodge...Cornish minerals. Thanks also to Michael Merry of Cornwall Devon Mineral Specimens (www. cornwalldevonmineralspecimens...botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside Minerals (www.greensideminerals...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...to See Cornish Minerals 112 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V.A...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...5. BARYTES. Mt. Wellington Mine, Twelvehead~, Cornwall, Specimen A: Lustrous well formed terminated greyish...f~und last century in the Ale & Cakes mine in Gwennap; barytes is a rare mineral in the Cornish orefield...", £5.5Op •. 17. CALCITE. Botallack Mine, St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous creamy-white sharp platy heaagonal
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 (STD 0736)...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...axis. £5.50. 3. APATITE. Botallack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous, creamy, well formed hexagonal...etx 2lx2 w• £6.50. AXINITE. Botallack, 5t. Just, Cornwall~ 5harp, lustrous, clove brown crystals to 1 cm...Axinite matrix. l~xltxl". £3.25. AZURITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, 5. Australia. Pure bright blue crystaline
Catalog/List
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ffiDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate... Itxi". £2. ANALCIME. Dene Quarry, st. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Large sno\1-white intergrown crystals...minor Quartz. 2txlt". £8. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Rich crust of rhombic crystals thickly...ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Cornwall. A Itxl" cavity in massive pure Arsenopyrite lined
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...terminations. £110 13 14 PYROMORPHITE (4cm 4cm x 3cm) St. Salvy, Tam, France Grass green crystal groups of...over them Very pretty. £45 8 ■i 70 68 NATIVE COPPER EPIDOTE (8cm x 5cm x 3cm) Gilgit, N. Pakistan...Mine, Chingola, Zambia Hackly crystalline native copper forming an interestingly shaped crystal group with...many 19th century classics from Devon, Cornwall and Northern England If you do not find what you want on
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Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...r_0 'f_'--"t S:r•a!e. or S age of the opal from St Austell is cred1te o Greenside Minerals (www.greenside...14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers...H elston Camborne- Redruth: Troon to Treleigh Gwennap: Carharrack to Camon D owns N orth Coast: Por1htowan...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow
Catalog/List
WICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EG Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 822530 *...50x50x20mm. £40. 6. CASSITERITE. Polberro Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. 7An intergrown ‘ ' group of lustrous jet...£45. 7. CASSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Chlorite matrix showing several sharp black "sparable'...CASSITERITE AND TOURMALINE. Egloshellan Mine, St Austell, Cornwall. Rich veinstone showing sharp sparkling...50x30x30mm. £75. 10. CHALCOCITE. Levant Mine, St Just, Cornwall. A nice rich group of platey hexagonal xls
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 (STD 0736)...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...Chlorite Schist. 3-!x 3x If" • £11. DD. 3. ANATASE. st. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland. Select, sharp, lustrous...". £90. DD. APATITE. Longdowns, Carnmenellis, Cornwall. Lustrous, transparent, bluish hexagonal crystals...£2.50, APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Wheal Cock, St; Just, Cornwall. Small, transparent, platy hexagonal
Catalog/List
W• BAR STOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOFlMATION Mail...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examina tion ba sis, sUb.j ect to approval. Immedia...FRANCOLITE. Fowey ';onsols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Small, sharp, ttansparent hexagonal crystals... 9. BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, apple green crusts covering Quartz...10. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Cro~ts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Transparent, well formed, mi£!Q crystals
Catalog/List
RICH ,0 W. W'TllW 2, Tregescal, st. Just, NOuI Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.No.: St.Just 880 (STD 073...132-7852-67 promp ly filled and d spatched on a 7-day examination basis, Immedia refund guarant od on return...encrusting 8asalt matrix. 3tx2Jxl,,"". £3.25. 3. AOULARIA. st. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland. select, lustrous...ix~x~". £3.50. G. APATITE. Colcerrow Qry. Luxulyan, Cornwall. select, trahsparent pale blue colour zoned single...display. 5x4xli". £33.00. AXINITE. Roscommon Cliff, St. Just, Cornwqll. Choice, lustrous, sharp clove brown
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD 0022) V...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examin?tion basis, subject to approval. Immediate...with silky AMIANTHUS. 3x2tx1~", £6.5Op 3. ANATASE. St. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland. Sharp deep bluish...attractive specimen. ~-x2tx1~", £18.00 10. AZURITE. Copper queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A. Select bright...DUFTITE. 2x1i", £4.SOp 1S. CASSITERITE. Wheal Maudlin, Lanlivery, Cornwall. Bright black sharp twinned crystnls
Catalog/List
BARSTOW Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ~=, TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD 073 677)...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...for display. 4x~x2". £28.00. ATACAMITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Pure, bright green...~x2txli". £13.00. AZURITE. South Caradon Mine, st. Cleer, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue, lustrous mass associated...50. CASSITERITE. GI ~t Carbona, st. Ives Consols, st. Ives, Cornwall. Select, very rich,· lustrous brownish
Journal (issue)
of mi nes UK & minerals summer 1997 number 2----------EDITORIAL Dtlf.!idGreen COVER: Chalcodte...Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. The UK Journal ofM;nts...Nom1an Thomson 17 SPONSORSHIP James Catmur ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM Roger Penhallurick 33 The views and opinions...Ryton SL, Work$op, Notes. S80 ZAY Tel (01909) 476906 UK journal of mines & minerals No. 18 Sponsors: SUSSEX...SOCIETY PEAK DISTRICT MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SO�IETY UK Journal of Mines & �linerals No. 18 -1- EDITORIAL
Journal (issue)
Stefan Weiß, München Geografie und Geologie von Cornwall 13 Stefan Weiß, München Der Bergbaubezirk Cambome-Redruth...Crofty Mines Wheal Gorland und Wheal Uruty Consolidated and United Mines (Gwennap) Wheal Jane Mines 16...56-800. TITELFOTO: Typische Bergbaulandschafl in Cornwall: Verfallene Maschinenhäuser auf den Granitklippen...Auslieferungstemtln 31. 1. 1986. 2/86 • LAPIS· 3 Cornwall Die Artikel dieses LAPIS-Heftes sind Teil einer...klassischen Grubenbezirks von C amborne, Redruth und Gwennap. Die vollständige Serie umfaßt insl!c­ samt 54
Book
Bougainville copper mine, AND M1 4 td oe 3 om. Papua New Guinea — the fourth largest copper mine in...in the world. COPEER COPPER MINING R. Shire L. Atkinson Publications Ltd CONTENTS First Copyright...History batiaes cme tetestadaeeenteevesee 10 Copper mining in Britain ..... bien fe Oe Mining, processing... Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Bucks HPI7 9AJ, UK. Set in 9 point Times roman and printed in Great...Mr R. Penhallurick of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for his assistance. Photographs are acknowledged
Catalog/List
circumstances. NOTE: In case of any problems on the day of the sale you may try to contact Roy Starkey on...mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW.18 Botallackite...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi Lode
Thesis/Dissertation
The Mining and Smelting of Copper in England and Wales 1760 — 1820 John C Symons A thesis submitted...Mineralogy and Metallurgy of Copper............13 Chapter 3 The Mining of Copper ...........................Smelting of Copper........................................83 Chapter 5 The Marketing of Copper............development of the copper industry, mining and smelting, located mainly in Cornwall and South Wales respectively...technological change, and the regionalisation of copper smelting. Whereas previous work has tended to regard
Journal (issue)
Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon, England. EX15 2QF Telephone / Fax 01884 821563 Only Road...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 G I THE SPI Bemie Day 1 IFEX 28 NE\\S fROi\I DOWN BemieDay U DER...TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Rycon lyping Service, 29 Rycon St., Worksop. Nom. S80 ZAY -+5 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEl\lENTS
Journal (issue)
t;>.,,.,. J..2. w ,·tf, SI' l'UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...of local knowledge, by the well known north-of-England collector Lindsay Greenbank. T The celebration
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..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...which grant permission for our visits (Natural England, English Nature, various private estates etc.)
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4. Cana,)' Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris...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:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of
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_S)_O_H_C_l_ _ _ _ _ _on tin ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives, Com\~'!!_!!,_~gl~nd____ 2 AEGIRINE Very rich...sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...- --q.,_u_artz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___::H_i_l_?fY Cornwall __________ _ _ _ _ __ _________ AGRELLITE Excellent...East Wheal Russell , ALLOPHANE £4 FLUORESCENT ½ x ½ ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England Large...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins S0p ALUMINITE Al SO/4 ALUMINOTSCHERMAKITE
 
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