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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cuprite5 photos of Copper associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:4284
Long-form Identifier:1:3:4284:0
GUID (UUID V4):d557d88c-fedb-4084-9605-639e7c840746
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
0.6km (0.4 miles) Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Poldice Mine, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.7km (0.5 miles) Wheal Muttrall, Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Maid, St Day, Gwennap, 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
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
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
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
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
BARSTDW I 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677)...orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...display. 4tx3xl". £4.50. AXINITE. Botallack, St. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A - Sharp, translucent, lustrous...lixlxl". £6.50. BoRNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Pure, solid metallic irridescently tarnished... 19. BoURNoNITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A very fine sharp, lustrous, metallic grey slightly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
August 2012 Chalcophyllite Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall, England S ome minerals, such as tsumebite...from the Greek words for both its major element (copper) and its typical morphology (leaflike). This attractive...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
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
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...lllogan, Cornwall. Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals...STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS FAMILY...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL...reality when he spotted a fluorite specimen from Wheal Mary Ann on eBay.Woody recognised the importance
Book
A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING CORNWALL AND IN | DEVON D. B. BARTON on |» Se Fai 4 H} r) Cavodent...DISTRICT 12 0@T45 6037 A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON Nac . A aes dex “8 ob ea...sigh ee Ja Teal Ps IOuROYE | (One COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON Deb ab Ak ON De BRAD RO RAD...CONSOLS: SECTION, 1778 SURFACE PLAN, 1839 CORNWALL AND SOUTH-WEST DOLCOATH MINEIN DOWNS, THE1830S...8I : THE PRINCIPAL COPPER 59 63 . : AERIAL VIEW . 29 DEVON, MAP. WHEAL ELLEN, ENGINE HOUSE NORTH
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...00 18 NATIVE COPPER, White Pine Mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, USA. Heavy pure copper vein slab. GRF
Book
A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON D. B. BARTON -'= -- ---- -=------- - ----·-----·~...PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON GALEfJA PUBLIC LIBft~RY GALENA...t~~f\ ~ vJQ,ed_ WI-~: I A HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN CORNWALL AND DEVON D. B. BARTON D. BRADFORD BARTON...SURFACE PLAN, CORNWALL AND SOUTH-WEST DEVON, MAP DOLCOATH MINE IN THE I 63 8 3 OS 8r WHEAL ELLEN, ENGINE...DOWNS, AERIAL VIEW THE PRINCIPAL COPPER MINING DISTRICT OF CORNWALL • • • • SOUTH CARADON, THE REMAINS
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
There have been !)lines in Cornwall for some 3500 years where the intrusion of huge masses of granitic... They range from azure-blue 'hair crystals' of copper ore and the branching leaf-like growths of pure...purple crystals of amethyst to huge masses of iron copper sulphide. Chosen for their aesthetic qualities...significant minerals to come out of southwest England. The accompanying captions describe the crystallographic...t). ~ e • ~t~' l lr\ V: 1 'I Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Joseon1ne Community Llbral1es Grants
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
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
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
RICH8hD W. B8RSTOW 26, ~egeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEhING INFCRMATION Mail orders...orders are prmptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, subject to approval. Immediate...lxi". £1- 3. ANALCIME. Dene Quarry, st. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. A group of large, lustrous, snow-white... £1. These are very rich examples of this rare Copper Selenide. 12. BLOMSTI\.lNDINE. hrendal, Southern...£2. 16. CaSSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. h mass of light brown fine grained Cassiterite
Book
STATISTICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL MINES IN CORNWALL ; TO WHICH IS ADDED , THE HISTORY AND USES OF...STATISTIGAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL MINES IN CORNWALL ; TO WHICH IS ADDED , THE HISTORY AND USES OF...Assayers - Modes of Assaying Copper and Tin - Process of Smelting Copper andof Tin - Timber used in Mines...Britain for Mining Purposes - First Steam Engines in Cornwall - Manner of Calculatingtheir Quantity of Work...Whims and Water Wheels THE MINING DISTRICT OF GWENNAP. Account of the District with Statistics of its
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
H ydrothermal copper deposits are dominated in their primary mineralogy by copper-bearing sulfide minerals...2005), the sulfides become unstable and oxidize. Copper released from this reaction can form a plethora...“supergene” minerals, ranging from simple native copper and copper oxides to complex secondary minerals such...earthy masses. Olivenite is a hydrated arsenate of copper with variable zinc. Although of very wide distribution...restricting its occurrence relative to that of copper as a whole. It forms a solid-solution series with
Book
REPORT ON A Survey of the Mining District OF CORNWALL , FROM CHASEWATER TO CAMBORNE. BY RICHARD THOMAS...with the average Quantities and Values of Tin and Copper Ores raised per Month .-- 1818 Table showing the...the field of the Map, the nearest being those of St. Agnes Beacon and Carn -Bonellis ; the former is...barrow on Carn -Marth, and the engine-house at Wheal Gorland t ; all the relative positions of which...Survey of the kingdom, the meridian of the station on St. Agnes Beacon I, with the perpendicular to the meridian
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
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
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)
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
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...county of Cornwall, and ground plans, distinguishing the Mines of St. Just, St. Ives, Gwennap, Illogan
 
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