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Chalcocite from
Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:3392
Long-form Identifier:1:3:3392:3
GUID (UUID V4):9f78c02f-75c5-4c8f-93c3-d19226285039
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Wheal Unity Wood (Tolgullow United Mine; West Poldice Mine), Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.5 miles) Wheal Muttrall, Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Jewel, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Maid Decline, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) West Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) East Wheal Damsel, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION IN G.K. ROLLINSON 1, N. LE BOUTILLIER CORNWALL – A AND NEW DISCOVERY AT PORTHTOWAN R. SELLY...mineralisation in Cornwall – A new discovery at Porthtowan. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 176–187...Although cobalt mineralisation has been noted in Cornwall and Devon in the mining literature, there are...at Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the vicinity of old workings which are part of the Wheal Lushington group...in Cornwall. 1 Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10
Catalog/List
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders...orders are prollipt~y filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...botryoidal mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~... ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised coatings
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
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDERING INFOhMATION Mail orders...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...NATIVE ARSENIC. Burraton Combe Quarry, St. Stephens-bySaltaoh, Cornwall. Specimen A - Superb, pure, metallic...coating. 2xlt". £1- 6. BAYLDONITE. Wheal ~arpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich crusts of apple green sparklin...2xli-xlt". £6. 8. BEODA.NTITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich crust of sage green well formed
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...FACE OFGR AN1TE MATRIX. 80x40 7 TENNANTITE, CHALCOCITE ON QUARTZ MATRIX. COOK’S KITCHEN SECTION, DOLCOATH... 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.
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...to 4 mm in size scattered on cellular azurite/chalcocite matrix. 2x2x1-t", £4.5Op 4. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine...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
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
Catalog/List
Gems Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2DA England Telephone 01872 223 227 Fax 01872 262...UVSW. ALLOPHANE, Hawks Wood Mine, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. SW green. Ml. £5.00 12 UVSW. ICELAND SPAR CALCITE...00 16 HEMIMORPHITE, Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. Rich covering of silvery grey micro xtls. GRF... £6.00 17 QUARTZ with minor PYRITE, Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall. A pretty specimen of short dear 12mm...CERUSSITE, Trevinnick Mine, nr Port Isaac, St Endellion, Cornwall. Orangy limonitic quartz is scattered with
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.~O.: St. Just 7B8880 (STD 0736)...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, sUbject to approval. Irrrnediate...variety FRANCOLITE. Clitters Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich crusts of sparkling micro crystals covering...display. 4tx4". £6.50. AXINITE. Botailack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A -Lustrous sharp clove brown crystals...size, scattered in a Itxl" cavernous area in Chalcocite/Azurite matrix. Ifxlfxlt". £4.50. BARYTES. Hayden
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
August 2012 Chalcophyllite Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall, England S ome minerals, such as tsumebite...synonym is tamarite, for specimens from Wheal Tamar, Devon, England. Chalcophyllite occurs in a range of...exceptional crystals to 2 cm are known from Cornwall, England (Corbett 1973). The crystals are flattened...arsenate, have been noted (Piazza 1931). At Wheal Gorland, England, a specimen exhibiting partial replacement...classic chalcophyllite specimen from St. Day, Cornwall, England. The 4.7-cm specimen is currently in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
widespread and forms white acicular crystals. In Cornwall, England, a massive fibrous form of olivenite is locally...Figure 3. A classic olivenite specimen from Wheal Gorland, England, United Kingdom. The 5.7-cm-high piece...leucochalcite. Olivenite crystals being replaced by chalcocite and later coated by pharmacosiderite have been...small vugs, to 3 cm, are completely filled with chalcocite pseudomorphs of olivenite to 2 mm (Jensen 1985)...classic olivenite, 7.4 cm, from the Gwennap mine, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Arkenstone specimen
Catalog/List
::DW~ 25, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0735)...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, sUbject to approval. Immediate...crystalised CERUSSITE. 2xl~x!.". £4.50. 4. AI\GLESITE. Wheal Penro5e, Port:,le,'en; Cornt.:al1. Sharp, translucent...3x3xl". £11.00. AZURITE. Ting-Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Small bright blue crystals thickly encrusting...£23.00. CASSITERITE. Cligga Mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Large, lustrous, light brown composite sharp
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
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...many 19th century classics from Devon, Cornwall and Northern England If you do not find what you want on...MARCASITE (5cm x 5.5cm x 4cm) GeevorMine, Pendecn, Cornwall, U.K Rounded crystab of lustrous marcasite sitting...£245 79 FLUORITE (6cm x 6cm x 8cm) Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall, U.K A large matrix free specimen of watery
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
ALBITE AND RUTILE. Lanterdan Quarr y, Tintagel, Cornwall. A 50x50mm area of slate matrix showing many sharp...aera APATITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Calli ngton, Cornwall. Crystallized quartz covered micro granite matrix...£16. 13. Hingston Down‘ Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A quartz lined cavity in veinstone showing yellowish... BEUDANTITE. CALCITE ON FLUORITE. Wheal wWrey, St Ive, Cornwall. An intergrown crust of . Colourless...$ ; , ix t? 19. CASSITERITE. Trevaunance Minc, St Agnes, Cornwalli. ‘A A0x25mm area of cassiterite/veinstone
Book
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
will be exhibiting at six shows in 1995, viz London, St. Albans, Keele University, Oxford, Harrogate and...L6. 3, AGARDITE(CALCIAN).Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornvall ■ Tvo specimens. Specimen A-boxed...vith at least xlO lens. 5. ALLOP!IANE.Nev East Wheal Russell,Tavistock,Devon. Four specimens. Specimen...GILBERTITEon ORTHOCLASE.Megiliggar Rocks,Tremearne, Cornwall. Boxed MIN. Upper Gilbertite coated surface carrying...and mildly radioactive. SC,L8. --~26. AZURITE. Wheal Buller,Redruth,Cornvall? Pure Cuprite/Malachite
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.... ... II.- - DETA.ILS OF THE l\iINES 12 I. The St. Just District, pp. 12-17. II. '!'he Camborne, Redruth...The St. Austell District, pp. 42-45. IV. The Ca.radon District, pp. 46-54. V. The East Cornwall a.nd
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. ORDER ING INFORMnTION Mail orders...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...3x2t". £2. 3. "POPHYLLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. t" modifie; creamy grey crystals intergrown with...2~xli". £3.50. 7. hZURITE. Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Specimen h Bright blue platy crystal mass...1nG l u"irtz .. Cltrix. Speci;:l(;n",2tx2xlt". £5; St:>ecimen B - 2xl.,xH". £3.50; Specimen C - 2txlt"
Journal (issue)
the mineral assemblage is remarkably similar to Wheal Gorland. A third locality '\\ith close similarities...introduction. Located in the parish of Gwennap, just north of St Day, the deposit is hosted by granite of...not .the main metal recovered. th The parish of Gwennap was an important tin producer al the start of the...(Embrey and Symes, 1987). Between 1815 and 1851, Wheal Garland produced 40,750 tons of7.5% copper ore,...Geologically, Majuba Hill differs from both Stavoren and Wheal Garland, in that it is hosted by a sub-volcanic
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
,!.h. 50 Oamell Road. Tru ro. Cornwall TR I 2DA, England Telrphone UK (O 21223227 Paul Lowe Minerals...Minerals Endsleigh, 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 20A, England Tel: (0872)223227 NEWS AND INFORMATION...Pyromorphites, Mont St Hilaire, Kola-Peninsula, Greenland, Franklin, Crestmore, Cornwall, Chuquicamata, Langban...sections, namely 140 Bntish, including Devon and Cornwall starting on page 1, and 120 World Species, starting...Wendsleydale,York ■ hlre. xtls.E4 Cllff,Botallack,St Just,Cornvall.Dlsplay xtls up to 10-.60x40.El0 16
 
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