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Chalcopyrite from
Wheal Unity, Sithney, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Unity, Sithney, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:548315
Long-form Identifier:1:3:548315:0
GUID (UUID V4):ece278d9-74d6-45d3-8360-b7c4aa6f2269
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
Catalog/List
vith at least xlO lens. 5. ALLOP!IANE.Nev East Wheal Russell,Tavistock,Devon. Four specimens. Specimen...sevextls to 3mm. r.6. 1. AHGLBSITB.Wheal Penrose,Sithney,Cornvall, rix fragment vith end vugh lined vith...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...35. BAYLDOHIT!. Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornwall, Three rich 1pecimena. Specimen A-large vughy
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
Old Linhay, Woodcockshayes Farm, Willand,Devon, England EX15 2QF Tel 01884 821563 Fax 01884 821724 e mail...PYROMORPHITE (3.5cm x 4cm x 1.5cm) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Moss green acicular crystals covering...10cm x 6cm) Force Crag Mine, Keswick, Cumbria, England. Large specimen with flat base, so sits well, of...on base. Classic locality. £155 (REDUCED) 19. CHALCOPYRITE ON QUARTZ (8cm x 6cm x 3cm) Cavnic, Romania...x 4cm x 4cm) Dry Gill, Calbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Classic locality piece of dark brown to brown-orange
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...samples contained up to 50% cobaltite, along with chalcopyrite, bornite, galena, sphalerite, acanthite, erythrite
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
Journal (issue)
apatitecrystal from Megilligar Rocks, Breage, Cornwall. Collectedby NickTalbott.Thephotois a combinationof...combinationof nineseparatedigitalimages. The UK Joumal of Mi11esand Minerals publishes articles of interest...Chambers 47 Born< REVlEWS 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTJSMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 25 -1- EDITORIAL...liroconite which is reasonably easy to obtain from Cornwall (albeit at an ever-increasing cost) but which...to be a genuinely rare mineral. This issue of the UK]oumal efMines and Minerals concentrates on rare minerals
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
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFORMnTION Mail orders are promptly...3x2t". £2. 3. "POPHYLLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. t" modifie; creamy grey crystals intergrown with...£3.50. 7. hZURITE. Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Specimen h Bright blue platy crystal mass on...cavities associated with gossan and a little Chalcopyrite. 2xlt". £3. 8. AZURITE. Chessy, Rhone, France...Ci.SSITERITE. Old BodelV3 Clay Pit, st. B11zey, Cornwall. Brilliant black striated twinne cryst11s intersrown
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...Sara Chambers, Collections Manager, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (www.royalcorn- wallmuseum.org...Landreath to Linkinhorne East Cornwall: Callington to Calstock Rocks of Cornwall Precious Metals and Semi-precious...technical this will increase your appreciation Cornwall, Inevitably, language, but (pax ranges it
Catalog/List
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...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...BISMUTHINITE. Fowey ~onsols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Rich grey elongated thick needly crystals, showing
Catalog/List
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...lixlxl". £6.50. BoRNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Pure, solid metallic irridescently tarnished...tarnished purplish mass with very minor Chalcopyrite in association. 2xl~xl~-". £1.50. 19. BoURNoNITE. Herodsfoot...Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A very fine sharp, lustrous, metallic grey slightly tarnished single
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V.A...5. BARYTES. Mt. Wellington Mine, Twelvehead~, Cornwall, Specimen A: Lustrous well formed terminated greyish...scattered over tarnished Chalcopyrite crystals to 8 ~m in size covering massive chalcopyrite matrix. qX3x2", £16...00. Specimen C: As specimen B, but covering chalcopyrite matrix. 2tx1t", £4.75p. Specimen D: As specimen...crystals in asso~iation and covering irridescent chalcopyrite matriK. 1i-x1t", £3.50p. These specimens resemble
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...The Ca.radon District, pp. 46-54. V. The East Cornwall a.nd Devon District, pp. 54---61. VI. The South...List of published six-inch Geological maps of Cornwall 63 APPENDIX : ... INDEX m t78JlU4l6 Wt 2455C-S
Catalog/List
Woodcockshayes, Halberton road, Willand, Devon, ENGLAND EX15 2QF Tel/Fax (01884) 821563 Catalogue 2/1997...growth of chrystotilc very lovely specimen. £165 CHALCOPYRITE ON SPHALERITE (8cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk,...quartz'calcite matrix with a beautiful large chalcopyrite crystal 4cm across perched on the top This is...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
Catalog/List
B8RSTOW 26, ~egeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDEhING INFCRMATION Mail orders are prmptly... ANALCIME. Dene Quarry, st. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. A group of large, lustrous, snow-white crystals...£2. 16. CaSSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. h mass of light brown fine grained Cassiterite...C",-SSITThITE variety "TOr..DS-EYE-TIN". West Wheal Kitty, st. "gnes, Corm131l. hich light brQl'1Il...ChSSITThITE. Goss Noor L.lluvial Flats, st. Columb, Cornwall. A rounded pebble of coarse dark brown crystaline
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
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y...£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...£1. AUTUNITE. South Terras Mine, st. Stephens, Cornwall. Light yellowish green platy crystals richly encrusting
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake B32381 (STD (022) V...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...£8.00 1S. CALCITE. Porthoustock Qry., Lizard, Cornwall. A large geode-like cavity in calcite/ altered
Book (volume)
THE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume 1 LONDON HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .,pvii Description .)SG(England urv eol em M est -WSouth of Region Mining MINING...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South - West England Volume I Ву...This account of the mining geology of south -west England summarizes the geological information gained during...the long history of mining in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and west Somerset . the territory in which
Book
Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Bucks HPI7 9AJ, UK. Set in 9 point Times roman and printed in Great...Mr R. Penhallurick of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for his assistance. Photographs are acknowledged...Isa Mine, page 8 (lower); Royal Institution of Cornwall, pages 2, 4 (lower), 9, 16 (upper), 17, 18 fievery...are exploited. The most important mineral is chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide), scattered through immense...associated with ee Dendritic native copper, Wheal Unity, Cornwall, 120 mm (45/4 inches) long, in Camborne
Journal (issue)
Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon, England. EX15 2QF Telephone / Fax 01884 821563 Only Road...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly...more detailed discussion of zeolite nomenclature. UK Journal of t.lincs & fllincral~ No. 19 -4- MINERAL
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LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...COLLECTION LABEL) 70x30 5 ACC No. 745. CUPRITE, WHEAL DAMSEL, GWENNAP. CRYSTALS TO 8MM ON GOSSAN Y UPPER...75x50 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...CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR WHEAL COATES. ST. AGNES. A SINGLE CRYSTAL. (EX SIR W.SARGEANT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy by copper-bearing sulfide minerals such as chalcopyrite. When these deposits are exposed to oxygen and...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...olivenite, 7.4 cm, from the Gwennap mine, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Arkenstone specimen, Jeff...an early alteration product of tennantite and chalcopyrite. Olive-green needles of olivenite to 5 mm long
Catalog/List
area of the Ludlamite on lxl inch matrix (Wheal Jane, Kea Cornwall) £10 b) a piece with a pale green micro...large lx2 matrix, also minor dolomite micros and chalcopyrite-pyrite. (Missouri USA ) Seager collection £8...over about an inch area lx2 £6 (Boulby,Cleveland England) CORUNDUM large hexagonal pale pink single crystal...(Levant Mine Cornwall) £12 TRIPLITE rich brown masses in pegmatite 3xl .5 Porthleven Cornwall) £15 CLINOCLASE...2x2 £7 Ix½ £5 (Megiliggar Rocks, near (Wheal Unity Cornwall) · LEUCOPHOSPIDTE mass of creamy micros
 
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