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Brochantite from
Drakewalls Mine, Drakewalls, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Brochantite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Posnjakite1 photo of Brochantite associated with Posnjakite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brochantite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Drakewalls Mine, Drakewalls, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2350
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2350:4
GUID (UUID V4):997b3407-8ec0-4974-aa74-4e2ce9666f91
Nearest other occurrences of Brochantite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) East Gunnislake Mine (in part: South Bedford and East Gunnislake Mine), Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
1.9km (1.2 miles) Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Marquis Lode, Bedford United Mine, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
2.2km (1.3 miles) Bedford United Mine, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
2.4km (1.5 miles) Prince of Wales Mine (Wheal Pleasant), Harrowbarrow & Prince of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin and Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
4.1km (2.6 miles) New East Wheal Russell (South Wheal Crebor), Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
5.0km (3.1 miles) Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
5.0km (3.1 miles) Lady Bertha Mine, Buckland Monachorum, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
11.6km (7.2 miles) Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822)...60x30x30mm. £28. 6) ARSENOPYRITE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Killas matrix with a 30mm chlorite/quartz...there. 80x50x40mm max. £45. 7) AZURITE. Girralambone Mine, Cambelego Co, New South Wales, Australia. Hundreds...xls to 2mm. 40x30x20mm. £16. 9) BOLEITE. Amelia Mine, Baja, California, Mexico. A typical stabilised...10) CASSITERITE and MOLYBDENITE. Drakewalls Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. A quartz veinstone showing a single
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOL. 46, PP. 119-126 Childrenite in South-West England R. S. W. BRAITHWAITE Chemistry Department, University...Tavistock area, and also from near St. Austell in Cornwall, and from one locality in Cumbria. The Sir Arthur...and subsequenfly, on old mine dumps in the CallingtonGunnislake area in Cornwall, a few miles to the west...crystals from four scattered localities in SW England have been analysed by electron probe microanalysis... and francolite occurrences in Devon and east Cornwall. C H I L D R E N I T E IN SW E N G L A N D The
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
NICK CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822)...3) ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A group of intergrown silvery grey bladed xis...60x30x30mm approx. £48. 4) ARSENOPYRITE. Old Anderton Mine, Tavistock, Devon. A solid mass of slightly iron...arsenopyrite. 80x50x40mm. £15. 5) ARSENOPYRITE. South Mine, Devon United Mines, Mary Tavy, Devon. Good very...2 0 m m . £8. 6) BARYTOCALCITE. Nentsbury Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. A nice small radiating mass
Catalog/List
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 Tel/Fax: Tavistock (0822) 832530 * *...1995 li.-- AGARDITE. Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. Cavities in quartz/killas veinstone showing pale...£45. 2..J ALBITE. Lanterdan Quarry, Tintagel, Cornwall. A 100x90mm area, of thin kilias/slate matrix... 140x90x20mm. £18. 3. ANTIMONITE. Xikuangshan Mine, Hunan, China. A single lead grey lustrous xl 110x9x7mn...4. APATITE AND SIDERITE ON QUARTZ. Panasqueria Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portugal, An impressive display specimen
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...PYROMORPHITE 19 CALCITE 20 SERPIERITE 21 ETTRINGITE 22 BROCHANTITE 23 CASSITERITE 24 CHALCEDONY 25 PYROMORPHITE...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Posnjakite from Cornwall WHILE examining and surveying the disused workings of the Drakewalls mine, Gunnislake...occurs as crystalline crusts, associated with brochantite and langite, coating the slaty micaceous mudstone...similar to that of the langite from Fowey Consols mine, St. Blazey, and in both cases the minerals are...waters. A hot and humid atmosphere, as in the Drakewalls stopes, appears to be a necessary condition for...present owners of the mineral rights at DrakewaUs mine for their permission to collect material. Specimens
Catalog/List
RICHARD U. 8ARSTOW Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. V.A.T. No.: 132-7852-67...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...association. 2x1-tx1t", £11.00 BARYTES. Force Crag Mine, nr. Keswick, Cumberland. Select, cluster of sharp... 2 11. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Sharp lustrous light coloured crystals
Report (issue)
deposits, commonly of post-mine origin; may occur in slags. Association: Brochantite, langite, devilline, serpierite...central Kazakhstan. In England, fine examples from Cornwall, as at the Drakewalls mine, Gunnislake, and the...the Fowey Consols mine, Tywardreath. Large crystals in the Penrhiw mine, Ystumtuen, Dyfed, Wales. At the...the Muckross mine, Co. Kerry, Ireland. In France, in the Salsigne mine, 15 km north of Carcassone, Aude...in the Yellow Pine mine, Crisman, Boulder Co., Colorado, and at the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the south shaft at South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Cornwall. R. J. Davis, M. H. Hey, and A...specimens in the BM(NH), at Wheal Alfred, Phillack, Cornwall. The variety agardite-(Nd), according to F. Permingeat...baryte, with tennantite in limestone, at Gortdrum mine, Oola, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. BM(NH) specimens...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
Catalog/List
RICHARD W. BARSTCW Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake...azurite/chalcocite matrix. 2x2x1-t", £4.5Op 4. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine, Co. Galway, Eire. Select cellular mass of bright...~2-tX1t", £11.00 5. BARYTES. Mt. Wellington Mine, Twelvehead~, Cornwall, Specimen A: Lustrous well formed terminated...that were f~und last century in the Ale & Cakes mine in Gwennap; barytes is a rare mineral in the Cornish...specimens •. 11. 8ISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, nr. Tavistock, Devon. Silvery-grey needly crystals
Catalog/List
RICHARD W. r'ARSTDW Drakewalls House , Drakewalls , Gunnislake , Cornwall , England. TEL . NO . : Tavistoc...9. NATIVE OISr·UTH. Wheal Spornon , Re druth , Cornwall. Silvery· c l eavages richly scattered i n qua...·10. OOUR NONITE. "Herodsfoot nne , La nreath', Cornwall. Oright silvery- grey cog- wheel cryst als to...wet ri x 1ix1 ". £7 . 00 21. CERUSSITE . Redgill Mine , Caldbock , Cumberland . Swell creawy to co lourl...CHALC_OCITE . Cr enver & Abrahaw t!,i ne , Crowan , Cornwall ~ Oright si lvery - grey large composite crystals
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...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
Catalog/List
assoc1at1ngminerals: Malachite, Mimetite Brochantite, Stannite, Scheel1te, Wolframite.... Noteably... with flbrous structure fromHolmbush Mine,Callington, Cornwall,GB Aurostibite 30.00 - 50.00 This is absolutely...cmcrystall1zed spec1mensfromLevant Sect1on, Geevor Mine, Pendeen,WCornwall,GB-Goodfor the mineral! Botallack1te...sarroles fromHarriet Lade, PendarvesMine,Camborne,Cornwall,GB. ct1alcoc1 te . 650.(Q A large <8 cm>spec1menrichly...xx on 3-6 cmbrownishmatrix from Drakewalls Mine, Gunnislake, E Cornwall, GB. Chiolite 30.00 - 85.00 Pearly
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y...attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown...• £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised
Catalog/List
Levant Gallery, Boscaswell, Pendeen, Penzance, Cornwall. Great Britain. Tel.No. Penzance 788286. (STD...,.S9• 00" L- .. • 4. ALSTONITE. Fallowfield Mine,Nr,Hexham,Northumberland. Small sharp,white, spiky...numerous ,mall gemmy • 9. ANGLESITE. Bunker Hill Mine,Kellog,Idaho,U"SeA. Choice sparkling group 11 of... tl6.50. 11. ARSENOPYRITE. Pendarves Mine,Camborne,Cornwall. Bright,sharp,small silvery-metallic xtls...ex;_n:ple o 1Jx1-½x¾n,.€6. 00. AXIHITE. Colesbrook Mine,Rosebcry,Tasmnnia,Australia. Choice gemmy terminatcd
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEl\ING INFOftMATION Mail orders are promptly...2txlt". £4. 6. AZUhITE. Wheal Gor13nd, St. Day, Cornwall. Deep blue masses intergrovm and impregnating...association. 2!-x2". £1.25. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich apple green crystaline crust on...granite. 2tx2t". £1. BARYTDCALCITE.Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Alston, Cumberland. Well formed sheaves of pale...2xltxH". £3.5C. . 11. BOhNITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An unusual specimen showing botryoidal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu3SO4(OH)4 (Araki 1961; Finney and Araki 1963), brochantite Cu4SO4(OH)6 (Helliwell and Smith 1997), and posnjakite...more stable under acidic conditions than is brochantite. The temperature of crystallization is significant...posnjakite formed at lower temperatures than brochantite. These minerals have been studied for various...Bouchard-Abouchacra (2001) using Raman microscopy identified brochantite and antlerite on the corroded surface of a bronze...Antlerite has four OH units in the structure; brochantite has six OH units, and therefore Raman spectroscopy
Catalog/List
st. Just, 26, Tregeseal, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD U73 677) V.A...Burraton Coombe qry., St. Stephen-by-Saltash, Cornwall. Pure, metallic grey masses, with a slightly pitted...thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite crystals
Catalog/List
Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean...Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...The Knipe, S.Scotland Ow A2 Price £1 Coldberrv Mine Corsica A2 A2 £2 sop Nevada, USA Unknown The
Book
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE
Catalog/List
RICHARD W. . OARSTOW DrQkewalls House , Drakewalls , Gunnislake , Cornwall, Eng18nd . TEL . ~U . : Tavist oc... 00 9 . BISMUTHINITE . South Croft y Mine , Illogan , Cornwall. Silvery- grey bl ades and needly crystals...cm in size . 2X1t-'.' , £10 . 00. 12. BROCHANTITE . Portales mine , Oingham , New Mexico , U. S.A. Rich.... 2Sp,eoch . 1S . CALCITE . Lev ant Mine , Pendeen , Cornwall. Choice lus trou s creamy to pa le salmoncoloured...l]1en 0 :, ~x2tXlt ", £6 . 00 16. CALCITE. Levant Mine , Pendeen , Cornwa ll . Choioe lust~ous transparent
Catalog/List
LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...LOT No: 1 ACC No. 795. ARTHUR1TE, HINGSTON MINE. DRAKEWALLS. GREEN XSTLS IN SHALLOW CAVITY (50 X 35 MM)... 30 4 ACC No. 760. OLIVENITE, BEDFORD UNITED MINE, GULWORTHY. CRYSTALS ON ONESIDEOFTHESLATEY KILLAS...QUARTZ MATRIX. COOK’S KITCHEN SECTION, DOLCOATH MINE. COLL 1892. 80x70 8 ACC No. 1056. CASSITERITE...RAMSLEY MINE, STICKLERATH, DEVON. A SINGLE CRYSTAL. ACC No. 744. PYRITE & QUARTZ, EAST POOL MINE, ILLOGAN
Journal (issue)
Minerals • `Endsleigh' • 50 Daniel! Road • Truro Cornwall • 111 2DA Tel: (0872) 223227 Гнаlcopyrite with...Аgги"в, Corп wall. Sрeгirнcvг: 70 х t30 .r 45»гт UK Journal of Mines and I b i e r a l s Issue No 8 A...p. (UK) Non UK £16.50 Equiv for 3 issues inc. р & р. USA $30 for 3 issues inc. p & p. Note: Non UK prices...C. van Loon. Diary of Events 4 2 6 Llywernog Mine and Museum S.J.S. Hughes. ADVERTISING Peter Briscoe...Great Consols. Sculls in Devon Great Consols copper mine supporting the hanging wall of the lode. When copper
 
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