Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Fluorite from
Wheal Jewel, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Jewel, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:541617
Long-form Identifier:1:3:541617:2
GUID (UUID V4):910c6b24-f77a-4953-aac7-43c668628c5d
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
0.3km (0.2 miles) East Wheal Damsel, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
0.4km (0.2 miles) St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) West Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Damsel, Wheal Damsel United Mines, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.5 miles) Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Unity, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Poldice Mine, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.8 miles) West Wheal Damsel (Wheal Spinster), Wheal Damsel United Mines, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Ting Tang Mine, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...pink rose quartz crystals £85 29 30 CALCITE ON FLUORITE (5cm x 4cm x 3cm) Sichuan Province, China Two...crystals sitting on an intergrown group of sea green fluorite crystals. £26 1 % J ________ • .L > * QUARTZ...matrix with blue cyanotrichite crystalsi. £55 FLUORITE (20cm x 11cm x 10cm) Sichuan Provinct, China Sea
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
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitic tin-copper deposits, such as in Cornwall, England, to metamorphic settings, such as the Swiss...covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite, and quartz. There are occurrences where exceptionally...crystals to 0.7 mm across from Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England. Dan Behnke specimen and photo...localities. England, particularly east from Switzerland to Austria, we have tennantite again in Cornwall, is...specimens of tennantite from various mines in Cornwall where tennantite with well-formed tetrahedra to
Catalog/List
(MINERALOGIST) Levant Laboratory, Pendeen. Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE SAM WELLER (MINERALOGIST) Levant...Levant Laboratory, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LE Tel: (01736) 788286 COLLECTION DISPOSAL This...formation. 2x1.5x1.25", £24.00 ADULARIA/CHLORITE. St Gothard, Ticino, Switzerland. A matrix-free penetrant...i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example of...1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to creamy, sharp well
Journal (issue)
mmtall fromFrizington, Cumbria,England. Stereomicroscopes The UK ]011malof Mines and Minerals publishes...Worksop, Notts. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Minos & Minerals No. 29 -1- EDITORIAL...immeasurably to your enjoyment of mineralogy. David Green UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 29 -2- Frontispiece...century there were no working metal mines left in the UK and there seemed little prospect of any being de...considerable demand. I The world-class tin and tunn-st n deposit at Hemerdon Bal in Devon which contains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAP \ OF CORNWALL SHOWING GRA N ITE MASSES AND T H E PRINCIPAL LODES. 'l::j ~ o r g; o eLAUNCESTON...face p. r07. 10 THE MINERAL 7 ZONES OF CORNWALL. By HENRY DEWEY. l'residcntial Address, Read...sequences of mineral deposits in the mines of Cornwall and Devon has been familiar to all. The papers...classic work on " The Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon" (1)* is still an indispensable book...the granite masses. The mining district of St. Just and St. Ives lies on the northern part of the Land's
Book
4. Cana,)' Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris...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... I made it a stipulation that e:ich en~ in rn:, ·st ,, ,u.d be fully referenced. After eight years the...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of
Journal (issue)
that may be everywhere when looked for. Clive Cornwall goes 111 for a spot of planet bashing in a search...network of contacts in the mineral w,orld, both in the UK and around the world. George travelled extensivelyin...discoveryas follows. ''This was a I very big important day for me, in . .. facta piece of personalglory that...gavehim regularundergroundaccessto the then working fluorite minessuchas the BeaumontMine,Blackdene,Cambokeels...innumerable continental collectors who obtained fluorite and associated minerals from Hucklow Edge, or
Journal (issue)
from La Marsiliana in Tuscany. Meanwhile Clive Cornwall finds some unexpected gems while eating his breal...heavily endowed with jokes at our expense. C.live Cornwall has a second foray into this edition with a short...reveals that Rob Selley is still digging holes in Cornwall - and putting us to shame by assiduously cracking...with MilCornwall at Chris Jewson's - but th were so many other...and biscuits to lday. And not having to w about lunch - the sandwiches
Book
copyright holder is strictly forbidden. Published in England by Dragon’s World Ltd, Limpsfield and London All...Rubinstein Typeset by Bookworm Typesetting, Manchester, England Printed in Singapore Contents Introduction 7...is usually ionic and many minerals are cubic. Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27...crystal structure. In the cubic system diamond and fluorite show octahedral cleavage (four directions) and...characteristic of many minerals, particularly of fluorite. When crystals twin on several sides at once they
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...company. Audrey and I were married on 16 March 1963 in St Werburgh's Church, Bristol. After our honeymoon we...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... I helped out at all of the mineral shows in the UK and on the continent, and later with the Bruce &
Book
the Black Cat imprint Little, Brown and Company (UK) Limited Brettenham House Lancaster Place London...characteristic rosettes of wavellite from Barnstaple, England, showing a fibrous radiating structure. Opposite:...in limestone at Turnisk, USSR; as crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill...cobalt. Localities. Fine reniform masses occur at St Andreasberg in the Harz Mountains. Also from the...South Wales. Some bismuth occurs in Devon and Cornwall, California, South Dakota and Colorado. Sulphur
Book
Germany 7 i 1. Elements Copper. 42 mm. Cornwall, UK Copper Cu CUBIC • • • • • Properties: C...in) long are known from Freiberg, Schneeberg and St. Andreasberg, Germany. Wires several cm long were...dendritic aggregates occurred in the Hope's Nose, Devon. UK. A unique find of leaves up to 100 mm (4 in) was...crystals of completely different habit are known from St. Andreasberg, Germany. Crystals occurred also in...several cm across come from Redruth and St Just, Cornwall, UK. Crystals over 20 mm ("fo in) across occurred
Book (edition)
named according to chemical composition (e.g. fluorite). to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine)...to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on the polished...included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada,...Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula), St. (Saint), Ste. (Sainte). Recent developments in many...administrative divisions inside those countries, e.g in Spain, UK, Russia, some African countries, etc. Several repeated
Book
imagination—and that was this author’s experience. Our present-day love of minerals was doubt¬ less shared by early...classifier is on a course tangential to that of the day-to-day work of science. This requires no more of classifications...mineral that is widespread at the earth’s surface is fluorite, CaF2, a characteristic associate of 21 THE...pseudomorphous after wood’, or ‘quartz pseudomorphous after fluorite’. Many minerals occur not as individual crystals...early nineteenth centuries. It is said that one day he dropped a calcite specimen belonging to a friend
Book
must have noticed historian Diodorus Our present-day love of minerals was doubt- brightly coloured pebbles... listed in an appendix to the Mineral Kingdom). ST ,UCTURES Solids, liquids and gases Youcertainly...classifier is on a course tangential to that of the day-to-day work of science. This requires no more of classifications...that is widespread at the earth’s surface is fluorite, CaF, a characteristic associate of 21 calcite...pseudomorphous after wood’, or ‘quartz pseudomorphous after fluorite’. Many minerals occur not as individual crystals
Journal (issue)
215-625-8900. UK/Europe: Taylor & Francis Customer Service, Sheepen Place, Colchester, Essex CO3 3LP; UK. Tel:...Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk) in the UK. This authorization does not extend to any other...faraway lands, which would later become known as England and France, in the form of the tin ore cassiterite... a number that represents over 160 visitors per day. Although that's not a big number compared to something...dealer Jordi Fabre would be arriving the following day with a young graduate geologist, Carles Manresa.
Journal (volume)
information: contents Issue 1 MINERALS '• Pyrite PY UK and Ireland: 0870 890 2730 Australia: (03) 9872 4000...265 4304 • Or visit the De Agostini website at: UK: AUS: SA: NZ: Rose quartz RO Ruby RU www.deagostini...deagostini.co.nz Missed a copy? Ring Customer Services UK: 0870 870 2575 Australia: (03) 9872 4000 New Zealand:...Precious and semi-precious stones © 2007 De Agostini UK Ltd, 1-2 samples supplied with this issue This...ruby is not only beautiful and much prized as a jewel, it is also one of the hardest materials available
Book (volume)
in the upper left hand figure, labeled Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall, for X read F. 494 *495 1, line 3, for...Crystal Chemistry, University Press, Cambridge, England, 1939. L. Bragg, Atomic Structure of Minerals,...elsewhere, and are generally inconsistent with present-day crystallochemical developments. Analyses are presented...sulfosalt syntheses carried out from melts. Present-day x-ray methods furnish a rapid and simple method of...of name in Russian: Akademiia nauk des sciences, St. Petersburg. Bulletin: ser. 1 as Bulletin scientifique
Book (edition)
L. Penfield of H. A. Miers New of Oxford, England, for various valuable suggestions. EDWARD SALISBURY...is not called a crystal. cleavage octahedron of fluorite and a cleavage rhombohedron of calcite are not...combination with the cube Fig. 124 is (Fig 123, fluorite) as six small faces replacing each solid angle...with garnet. + 123 Cube and Hexoctahedron Fluorite Garnet Dodecahedron and Hexoctahedron 64. Pseudo-symmetry...figures. Fig. 158 shows a crystal of cuprite from Cornwall (Pratt) with the form 2(13' 10' 12). 5. TETARTOHEDRAL
Book (edition)
Department of Mineralogy Natural History Museum London, UK SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. First edition...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued...appropriate Reproduction Rights Organization outside the UK. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the terms...from Switzerland, Stefan Graeser (Basel); from the UK, David Vaughan (Manchester); and from the USA, Pete...Cylindrite Livingstonite Berthierite (Tl,Pb)23(Sb,As )91 St 47 CuFeSe2 Pb4FeSII4Sb2St6 HgSb4S8 FeSb2S4 81 160
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 5, 2024 02:50:46
Go to top of page