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Sphalerite from
Marke Valley Mine, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marke Valley Mine, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:533517
Long-form Identifier:1:3:533517:6
GUID (UUID V4):c92c8fb1-56d4-4abe-b787-5f5448997dce
Localities for Sphalerite in this Region
West Rosedown Mine (The Caradon), Marke Valley Mine, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.5km (0.3 miles) West Rosedown Mine (The Caradon), Marke Valley Mine, Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.3 miles) Cheesewring Quarry, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.3 miles) South Caradon Mine, Caradon Hill, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
2.4km (1.5 miles) Great Caradon Consols (Penharget Mine), Penharget, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Penhawger Mine, Menheniot, Cornwall, England, UK
5.7km (3.5 miles) Wheal Wrey, Wrey and Ludcott United Mines, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
6.0km (3.8 miles) Wheal Ludcott, Wrey and Ludcott United Mines, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
7.0km (4.4 miles) Haye Valley Mine, South Hill, Cornwall, England, UK
7.9km (4.9 miles) Redmoor Mine (East Cornwall United Mines), Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, 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...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although
Catalog/List
8ARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0736) V.A...£3.50. 6. 7. 8. APATITE. Great Work Mine, 8reage, Cornwall. Small sharp transparent colourless to... £33.00. ARSENOPVRITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Specimen A - well " .•. ·formed silvery...matrix. 2tx2xlt". £3.50. BARVTES. settlingstones Mine, Hexham, Northumberland. Sharp, lustrous, creamy...£2B.00. BARVTOCALCITE. Admiralty Flats, Nentsberry Mine, AlstJn Moor, Cumberland. Specimen A - Lustrous
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...Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Tl!JL .1\10.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677)... 7. ANALCIME. Dean qry. St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Well fDrmed, snow white, crystals and crystaline... 43. NATIVE COPPER. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Rich, dark. coppery, h3Ckly crystalised...2-t;-x2xl-!:-". £4.50. CoRNWALLITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall-. Rich, deep.green, slightly botr~oidal...C - As Specimen A - 2xlt". £1.25. CRoCOITE. Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tas~enio, ~ustralia. Choice, bright, orangev
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25, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 788880 (STD 0735) V.A...all times. JULY 1977 1. 2. AJOITE. New Cornel~a Mine, Ajo, Pima Co.; Arizona, U.S.A. Turquoise coloured...matrix. lMinE, Sticklepath, Devon. Specimen A - Sharp olive green...3tx2xlt". £:.3.00. 9. AXINITE. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devon. Lustrous, clove brown, sharp...specimen. 3x3xl". £11.00. AZURITE. Ting-Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Small bright blue crystals thickly encrusting
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NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PLI8 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...MAY/JUNE 2005 1. ALLOPHANE.* Hawks Wood Mine, North Hill, Cornwall. A nice rippled crust of pale yellow...25x15x15mm. £6. 4. AMETHYST/SMOKEY QUARTZ. St Austell, Cornwall. A composite xl, 60x50x30mm, showing multi terminations...* Skinners Engine Shaft Dump, Clitters Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. A matrix composed mainly of cellular...Collection No 803. 60x55x35mm. £30. 7. BARITE. Sharkham Mine, Brixham, Devon. Nice intergrown group of light
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DECEMBER/JANUARY 1995 1. ALSTONITE. Brownley Hill Mine, Alston, Cumberland. About 30 greyish-white pyramidal...matrix. 60x35x30mm. £58. 2. APATITE. Panasqueria Mine, Portugal. Nice lustrous double sided group of pale... BINDHEIMITE AND CERUSSITE. Trevinnick Mine, St Kew, Cornwall. A good solid mass of yellow bindheimite...E "FRANCOLITE". Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Chilsworthy, Cornwall. A 40x30mm area of granite matrix covered...60x40x20mm. £12. CASSITERITE. Turnavore Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. Rich specimen showing a 60x30mm area
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26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDERING INFOhMATION Mail orders are promptly...Burraton Combe Quarry, St. Stephens-bySaltaoh, Cornwall. Specimen A - Superb, pure, metallic grey irregular...£1- 6. BAYLDONITE. Wheal ~arpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich crusts of apple green sparklin micro crystals...£6. 8. BEODA.NTITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Rich crust of sage green well formed micro crystals...- 2tx2". £2; Specimen B ltxl". £1. Char Kounhi Mine, Iran. Rich, lustrous, turquoise blue crystals scattered
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Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnisloke, Cornwall, England. Tel.Nb. Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V.A...3xl-txl".£5.50p. 7. AXINITE.Botallack Head, st. Just, Cornwall. Select bri~ht sharp clove brown well terminated...specimen •. 2x2xl". £6.00. 10. BARYTES. wetgrove Mine,Aysgarth, Yorkshire.Specimen A:Select lustrous creamy-white...£13.00. 2 12. BoTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Specimen A: Light green lustrous formed...in plac8s. 4x1ix1t", £7.00 14. CALCITE. Black~ene Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham. Select creamy translucent
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
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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
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26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: St. Just 880 (STD a73 677) ORDERING...4tx3xl". £4.50. AXINITE. Botallack, St. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A - Sharp, translucent, lustrous, terminated... in length. 6x3xl". £11.00. BARYTES. Silverband Mine, Great' Dun Fell, Westmoreland. An unusual transparent...matrix. lixlxl". £6.50. BoRNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Pure, solid metallic irridescently tarnished...2xl~xl~-". £1.50. 19. BoURNoNITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A very fine sharp, lustrous, metallic
Book
Designed by BDP - Book D evelo ion,/ enzance, Cornwall o part of this 'Nork may be pho ocop:ed, stored...Introduction 4 About this Book 9 Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith:...to Port Gaverne Liskeard: Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45...45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious Metals and Semi-precious Stones 85 Mineral Gallery...physical properties of minerals (pages I I 0- 1 I). Cornwall, for its size, has one of the most diverse ranges
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50 Daniell Rd, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2 DA England Tel. 01872 223 227 (Tel. UK Time 8am -9pm) Fax. 01872...(International +44 1872 262 232) OCX)2 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Terminated off while calcite...limonilic flat matrix. RF. C.£12 0Cl03 CALCITE.Hilton Mine,Scordale,Westmorland Single translucent honey coloured...milky quartz iron stained quart.z.RF.C.£24 OCX>6 SPHALERITE,Brownley Hill M1ne,Nenthead,Cumbria Attractive...Polished seciion.RF SPC. C.£8 0023 DUFTITE.Brandy Gill Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumberland.V1v1d green druse of duflile
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...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL
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ofthe largest selections ofquality minerals in England. lfyou are passing through Devon at any time please...Woodcockshayes farm, Halberton Road, Willand, Devon, England EXJ5 2QF Tel/Fax 01884 821563 TERMS OF BUSINESS...piece. 1. GOLDEN BARYTE (9cm l 8cm l 7an) Meil:Je Mine, EU:o Co1U1ty, Nn-ada, USA Highly lusirou, brighl... RHODONITE A QUARTZ (12cm 18cm x 4an) Clw,n,cM Mine, Dos� Mayo Province, Huanon Departement, Peru AA...rare indeed and this recall fiDd a1 lbe Cbl11111cu mine produced some very fine material. This ,pecimen
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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...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...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Book
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 • ~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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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...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...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I
Journal (issue)
GOETHITE Collected in 1982 from Wheal Edward, Cornwall. As newcomers to minerals we thought goethite...AGARDITE(Y) Collected in 1987 from Marke Valley mine, Cornwall. Identified by David Green and photographed...FLUORITE Collected about 15 years ago from Yew Tree mine in Weardale. A beautiful combination of the two...Collected on a SMLS trip to the north of England in 1998 from Eagle Crag mine. A site memorable for a 3 mile walk...walk across the hills, entry into the mine through an oil drum through a cascading stream, a climb down
Journal (issue)
of mi nes UK & minerals summer 1997 number 2----------EDITORIAL Dtlf.!idGreen COVER: Chalcodte...Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. The UK Journal ofM;nts...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...Nom1an Thomson 17 SPONSORSHIP James Catmur ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM Roger Penhallurick 33 The views and opinions...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED
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Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat...17K 339A 72D Mineral Stibnite & secondaries Sphalerite Realgar & Orpiment Realqar Cinnabar Stibnite...Chalcoovrite Loellingite Arsenopyrite Sphalerite& Hydrozincite Sphalerite, Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena...Arsenopyrite Sphalerite var Marmetite Sphalerite Sphalerite Berthierite Cinnabar Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel...Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy
Journal (issue)
J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...TETRAHEDRITE, 15 cm, from the Herodsfoot mine, Liskeard, Cornwall, England. Collection of the Natural History...See the article in this issue on the minerals of Cornwall. Copyright 1993 © by the Mineraiogicai Record...Pendeen West Cornwall, England Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England, have proved...article will review the earliest days of mining in Cornwall and will include a brief description of Cornwall’s
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SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to the Lake...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath
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Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action...are older rocks on the Lizard peninsula, most of Cornwall consists of Devonian rocks, known locally as “killas’
 
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