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Silver from
Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:540879
Long-form Identifier:1:3:540879:5
GUID (UUID V4):9ddc9ef8-5960-4424-8036-de2e22a90902
Localities for Silver in this Region
Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
0.5km (0.3 miles) Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) Levant Mine, Trewellard, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
13.5km (8.4 miles) West Wheal Darlington, Long Rock, Ludgvan, Cornwall, England, UK
19.0km (11.8 miles) Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
20.3km (12.6 miles) West Alfred Consols (Wheal Ann), Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK
21.6km (13.4 miles) Wheal Alfred, Great Wheal Alfred (Alfred Consols), Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK
22.2km (13.8 miles) Wheal Carpenter, Fraddam, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
22.4km (13.9 miles) Wheal Providence, Wheal Tremayne, Fraddam, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
22.8km (14.2 miles) Wheal Herland (Old Herland Mine; Manor Mine; North Wheal Herland), Rosewarne and Herland United Mines (Rosewarne and Herland Mine; incl. Wheal Fancy; Wheal Pleasure), Gwinear, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
22.8km (14.2 miles) Wheal Tremayne, Fraddam, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite...Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 Growth of acanthite on native silver from...SUPERGENE COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy...chlorides and sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1992, VOL 56, PP. 123-126 Gold from Botallack mine, St. Just, Cornwall DURING a recent examination of oxidized...oxidized samples from cliff exposures near Botallack mine (SX 362340) gold was observed in hand specimen...found in mineralised lodes elsewhere in southwest England (Russell, 1944; Clark and Criddle, 1982; Clayton...reported occurrence in the St. Just mining district, although both native silver and bismuth have been found...district (C. J. Stanley, pers. comm.). The BotaUack mine is well known for the occurrence of an extensive
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...never the less be only just to mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work
Journal (issue)
UK Journal of mes ·and .Minerals Issue SprJng 1989 , No ...6 Pr:f ee ~3.95 ·- • r .. Arnold...Trewellard, Penzance, Cornwall. TR19 7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Calcite (Cornwall) UK Journal of Mines and...EUROPE SOUTH AFRICA The History of Ystrad Einion Mine J & A Wolters. Leeuwendaal 2, 3273 XD Westmaas...Merritt Cassiterite from Whiteworks Carharrick, Cornwall R. Morton.Dr. K.F.G. Hosking 22 Mining Methods...Showing the Boscawcn Diagonal Shaft at Botallack Mine. St. Just. Cornwall. Reproduced hy permission of City
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...of your hand for singlehanded operation, weighs just over a pound, and runs on six AA batteries. The...Pendeen West Cornwall, England Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England, have proved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...has improved recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins
Other Paper
CORNWALL MINING’– A MULTI-AGENCY APPROACH TO PRESERVING MINERAL DIVERSITY KEVIN L. WALSH Oxford University...Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK Abstract. The Mining Landscape of Cornwall and South Devon (“Cornwall Mining”), in SW...SW England was declared a World Heritage Site in 2006. The impressive mineral diversity of Cornwall, 466...batholith, and its alteration and weathering products. Cornwall is a popular tourist area in Britain. Tourists...resources, are a growing part of this industry. Geevor mine and Wheal Martyn kaolin pit are two of many sites
Book
Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has... ’’fe, -'A Sr A6Nfl^ fe'Pk :. g,TRURO <4 J -St AUS FELL S’ LAND'S EHdG HOUMTSS. HEL5TOW PENZANCEJH...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS
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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...taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...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
Catalog/List
Apatite (Var: Francolite). Geevor Mine, Pendeen, West Cornwall. An altered Chloritic matrix with overforming...e/Native Bismuth. Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, West Cornwall. A hilly and sculpted Chloritic matrix indurated...Lode West 420 fm level, South Croft Mine, Pool, Central Cornwall. An interesting and rare Cornish phenomena...05. * Axinite. Carn Vellan near Botallack, St Just, West Cornwall. Large, sharp, terminated clove-brown...ra/Pyrnmnrphito/ramccitp Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, West Cornwall. A vuggy completely encrusted matrix
Book
A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN...BOSCAWEN STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION...THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; OF THE...KOYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, AND OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, &C., &C. ASSOCIATE TRURO:...F.R.S., THB ELECTRICITY OF MINERAL LODES IN CORNWALL, AND OF MANY CORNISH MINERALS, (WHOSE OBSERVATIONS
Catalog/List
• I 5. ARSENIANPYRITE. Wheal Nangllcs,Dlssoe,Cornwall. 19th C ~pccimrn. Matrix free,crystalline fragment...22. AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,carnyorth,West Cornwall. Specimen A-lustrous, vaxy brovn,matrix !ree interforms...bladed sur!acc an thln Barlte or tiny,glittering silver Galena xtls. 60mm. 130.00. 28. BARITE/CALCITE...BAYLDONIT!!. 41. Penberthy crofts Hine,st Hilary,West Cornwall. Tron stained Quartz fragment covered on...30x30x!Omm. 16.25. Penberthy Crofts Mine,St llllary,Wcst Cornwall, Spcclmcn carries an Arnold Fisher label
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is mobile as a chloride complex. The gold at Botallack may well represent an enrichment by such a process...Andersonite and schr6ckingerite from Geevor mine, Cornwall: two species new to Britain SCHROCK1NGERITE...information on the distribution of gold in southwest England, and to J. F. W. Bowles for reviewing the note...Supergene copper mineral assemblages at Botallack, Cornwall. J. Russell Soc. Clark, A. M. and Criddle...studies of lead-antimony mineralization in North Cornwall. Proc. Ussher. Soc., 7,258-62. Cloke, P. L. and
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...cobalt mineralisation discovered at Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the vicinity of old workings which are part...in Cornwall. 1 Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10
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... Geology and Mine ralization 14 The D istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's...Por1htowan to Perranpor1h The Lizard: Mullion to Manaccan St Auste ll: Ladock to Lostwithiel Wadebridge: Padstow...Linkinhorne East Cornwall : Callington t o Calstock 36 40 45 50 56 61 66 70 74 Rocks of Cornwall 78 Precious
Report (issue)
SOCIETY was fonned in 1960 as the Nonhern Cavern ond Mine Research ocicty, its acuvitics centred upon the...study of mines. rmning and speleology in nonhcm England. Subsequently, with an expanding national membership...93 Published in September 2012 by THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY 1 elson. Lancashire The Society...Goodchild 38 The ar enic industry at Botallack Mine, Cornwall and its archaeology: a story or early...surveyor was underground during 1871 to keep the mine plans up to date. The Rev. Auden continued to work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations Jens... Shail, Robin K., Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations,...Ore Geology Reviews Indium mineralisation in SW England: host parageneses AC CE P TE D and mineralogical...Cornubian batholith, SW England 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT The SW England ore region contains significant...mineral lodes associated with D the Carnmenellis and St Agnes granites, which are the districts that had
Journal (issue)
ultraviolet technology. Contact: ntroducto offer st £29! +'l TIie - compre11e1,.1,,. celalogue of Laplda...MACHINERY & ACCESSORIES-CUT GEMSTONES­ ROUGH GEMSTONES-SILVER & T00L$-JEWELLERY FINDINGS A selocllon from our...Stampe) tor Catalogue. MODERN SETTINGS IN GOLD AND SILVER AT TRADE PRICES � �- � the handmade jewellery...SEND 90p- FOR FULL COLOUR BROCHURE TO:-NORFOLK SILVER LTD., 1 (P.O. Stamps or Cheque)-Refundable, 210...Colorado and its Minerals (3) by Eric Otty The Botallack Appeal ... Gems & Minerals 14 35 36 36 40 42
Book
VII-paid a memorable visit to Botallack Mine, set amid spectacular cliff scenery just a few miles north of Land's...metalliferous mines not only in Cornwall but the whole world. Botallack became the Mecca of many tourists-so...ride in the Crowns skip to prevent the work of the mine being too much interrupted by curiosity seekers...until now, no detailed and connected history of Botallack has appeared. In this book is covered the full...sensational copper discovery in 1842 that saved Botallack from failure and made it one of the richest mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have...widespread and forms white acicular crystals. In Cornwall, England, a massive fibrous form of olivenite is locally...secondary copper assemblages from the Black Pine mine in the Phillipsburg area of Granite County (Waisman...classic olivenite specimen from Wheal Gorland, England, United Kingdom. The 5.7-cm-high piece was in the
Catalog/List
CARRUTH 3 Chequer Tree Court Orakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PLl8 9DW Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:...90x60x60mm. £95. 2) APATITE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. A --v" shaped quartz/mica matrix showing...50x25x35nun. i\ la,. .£95. 3) AURICHALCITE. Ochrycraig Mine, Llangynog, Powys, Wales. Cavities in ironstainccl...50x30x I 8111111. £ 15. 5) C..-\ LCITE. Carrock Mine, Mosedale, Cumbria. A group of about 15 sharp hexagon:il...50x40x30mm. £45. <> C.\ LCITE and Mr\RCASITE. Pare Mine, Llanrwst, Gwynedd, North Wales. Nice intcrgrown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chalcophyllite Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall, England S ome minerals, such as tsumebite and leadhillite...tamarite, for specimens from Wheal Tamar, Devon, England. Chalcophyllite occurs in a range of colors from...exceptional crystals to 2 cm are known from Cornwall, England (Corbett 1973). The crystals are flattened...have been noted (Piazza 1931). At Wheal Gorland, England, a specimen exhibiting partial replacement of the...reported from the now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine.
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some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in England. These clifis arc dark in colour, being composed...mile under the bed of the Atlantic; Botallack, another submarine mine incorporating an unusual diagonal...history. The centre of this industry was the town of St. Just, whose grey terraces of miners' cottages still...abroad which emigrants from this little comer of Cornwall enriched with theiruniqueskillsandknowled MONOGRAPHS... MONOGRAPHS ON METALLIFEROUS MINING HISTORY: THB ST. JUST MINING DISTRICT MONOGRAPHS ON METALLIFEROUS
Other Paper
The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices to the World Heritage Site...Site Management Plan 2013-2018 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Appendices... The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and recording events within the Site 8.6 The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage...and research commissioned or co-funded by the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage
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Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...IN COMBINATION . ORDER II. Silver. Genus 1. NATIVE SILVER. 117. Silver. 125. Göthite. 126. Limonite...119. Pyrargyrite. Genus 4. CHLORIDE. 120. Horn -silver (kerate ). 130. Cronstedtite. 131. Vivianite....ad petett inte tro con . LOCALITIES. — Evand. Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry...on Kergiliack estate near Pen a. Coberard ; at a mine near the head of Borrowdale, near Lometer, rearis
 
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