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Cassiterite from
Killifreth Mine, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz3 photos of Cassiterite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Tourmaline3 photos of Cassiterite associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Cassiterite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Cassiterite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Killifreth Mine, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (13 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:670118
Long-form Identifier:1:3:670118:5
GUID (UUID V4):b5a26f99-85dc-4f3a-aabf-4469484c8f38
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Great Wheal Busy (Chacewater Mine), Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wheal Unity Wood (Tolgullow United Mine; West Poldice Mine), Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.7 miles) Hallenbeagle Mine, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Boscawen Mine (Wheal Andrew and Boscawen), Wheal Truro, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) South Wheal Hawke (incl. Scorrier Wolfram Prospect), Great North Downs Mine (incl. Wheal Hawke), Scorrier, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.8 miles) Creegbrawse and Penkevil Mine (Flakey's Shaft), Creegbrawse, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.8 miles) Wheal Daniell, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.8 miles) Creegbrawse and Penkevil Mine (Flat Rod Shaft), Creegbrawse, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Eastdowns Mine, Wheal Rose village, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles) Creegbrawse and Penkevil Mine, Creegbrawse, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance. Cornwall. England. ORDERING INFORMATION Mail orders are prollipt~y...attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...£6. 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Very fine highly modified clear sea green crystals...mass. £~. ANGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Fine clear glassy crystals to ~ mm. in size intergrown...• £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to crystalised
Book (edition)
from a mine or group of mines. Adventurer: Traditional name for a shareholder in a Cornish mine. Bal:...used for female mine surface worker engaged in copper and tin dressing. Barrow Road: A mine tunnel which...surface by means of trench-like excavations. Burrow: Mine waste tips at surface. Deads: Also called attle:...transfer shares without consent of the rest. Kibble: A mine bucket used for hoisting ore and waste rock to surface...2002 by Tor Mark, United Downs Ind Est, Redruth, Cornwall TR16 SHY Reprinted 2008 © 2002 Tor Mark ISBN 978
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDERING INFORMJi.TION Mail orders are promptly...bN~TaSE~ 4. hNGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Small sharp transparent "spear shaped" crystals...Quartzose gossan. 2x2". £1. 5. hNGLESITE. Parys Mine, bllglesey, N. Wales. Small well formed lustrous...3xlt'l. £2. 6. aPATITE. Stennagwyn Mine, Nr. St. ~ustell, Cornwall. Pale bluish hexagonal crystals aggregated...var iety FRl..NCOLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardrea th, Cornwall. i,. 2xl" cavity in Quartz/slate matrix
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.~O.: St. Just 7B8880 (STD 0736) V.A...covering mat rix. -rixl-t".£3.25. 7. APATITE. Etiro Mine Karibab District, S.W. Africa. Unusual turquoise...APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Clitters Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich crusts of sparkling micro crystals...matrix. 2xli". £2.75. ARSE~UPYRITE. Devon Friendship Mine, Mary Tavy, Devon. Slightly tarnished sharp silvery...4tx4". £6.50. AXINITE. Botailack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A -Lustrous sharp clove brown crystals
Catalog/List
Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Tel.No.: Gunnislake 832381 (STD (022) V.A...azurite/chalcocite matrix. 2x2x1-t", £4.5Op 4. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine, Co. Galway, Eire. Select cellular mass of bright...~2-tX1t", £11.00 5. BARYTES. Mt. Wellington Mine, Twelvehead~, Cornwall, Specimen A: Lustrous well formed terminated...that were f~und last century in the Ale & Cakes mine in Gwennap; barytes is a rare mineral in the Cornish...specimens •. 11. 8ISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, nr. Tavistock, Devon. Silvery-grey needly crystals
Book
OSEP 1995 ‘ (f338 ee ad Fisar » CBS 263 CORNWALL COUNTY ais COUNTY HALL TRURO PLEASE RETURN...House, Church Street, Princes Risborough, § HPI7 GAS, UK Aylesbury, J p Bucks Set in 9 point Times roman... Engine House, Wheal Edward, near St Just, Cornwall. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to the following...Mr R. Penhallurick of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for his assistance. Special thanks are due to...left), 29; J. C. Burrows (Royal Institution of Cornwall) 13 (lower), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 (upper);
Book (volume)
top: Holman's 70-inch engine house, South Caradon Mine, 1995. (Walk 1) Front cover, bottom: The pumping...engine houses at Chapple's Shaft, Cook's Kitchen Mine, 1995. (Walk4) Back cover, top: Wheal Trewavas -...OPPOSITE The 25-inch whim-engine house at Ding Dong Mine. (Walk 7) (Photograph by Simon Vere Jones, 1995)...PUBLICATIONS Landfall, Penpol, Devoran, Truro, Cornwall TR3 6NW Telephone Truro (01872) 862581 Copyright...Record Office, the Cornish Studies Library and the Cornwall Archaeological Unit. Typesening and maps (other
Book (edition)
iv INTRODUCTION THE HISTORY of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and copper, iron, lead, tin and...mined over the centuries. Today, only one large tin mine is at work, but the winning of tin is known from...CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...county were once bustling with industry. Sans Levant Mine, St. Just. The small engine house nearer the camera...connection with investigation of the old Levant Mine. April 1970. GEOLOGY CORNWALL’S mineral wealth
Book (edition)
See Photography by Peter Stanier and oe Levant Mine, St Just. The small engine house on the left houses...Skip Shaft P.S. The history of metal mining in Cornwall is a long one, and tin, copper, iron, lead and...typical view of Cornish i mining. Marke Valley Mine. P.S. innovations in machinery, particularly the...winding, and crushing ores. Tin was smelted in Cornwall, but the copper ore was shipped to smelters in...It is here that the richest mining districts of Cornwall are found. During a late cooling stage of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in depth ; thus copper minerals give place to cassiterite on passing down the lode and chlorite gives place... 4. A zone in which cassiterite is the predominant metallic mineral. In no mine has the lower limit of...is a limit to its extension downwards. If the cassiterite does not actually die out, its grain tends to...in the clay slate, as at Castle-an-Dinas and Killifreth, or just inside the granite, as at Hemerdon and...granite, as in the case at Tin Croft Mine, Roger's Lode, East Pool Mine, etc. The lodes are of coarser texture
Catalog/List
LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...(MM’s) LOT No: 1 ACC No. 795. ARTHUR1TE, HINGSTON MINE. DRAKEWALLS. GREEN XSTLS IN SHALLOW CAVITY (50 X... 30 4 ACC No. 760. OLIVENITE, BEDFORD UNITED MINE, GULWORTHY. CRYSTALS ON ONESIDEOFTHESLATEY KILLAS...KITCHEN SECTION, DOLCOATH MINE. COLL 1892. 80x70 8 ACC No. 1056. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN), GOSS MOOR...BISMUTH IN GRANITE MATRIX. 75x50 ACC No. 1036. CASSITERITE (VAR WOOD TIN) WHEAL KITTY, ST. AGNES. COLLCI920’S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. November 14, 1920. "On the Geology of St. Michael's...or of quartz, which carries such minerals as cassiterite, blende, wolfram, chalcopyrite, molybdenite,...pebble lies in the relationship of the quartz and cassiterite. The pebble is triangular, the apex being formed...dark-brown zonal cassiterite, with quartz above, through which needles of cassiterite are arranged radially...the quartz to be a mosaic, and the quartz and cassiterite needles must either have crystallized simultaneously
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE DEPOSITION OF CASSITERITE. The structure of an alluvial pebble of cassiterite. found in the Nanpusker...consists of a roughly hemispherical nodule of cassiterite about half an inch in diameter with white quartz...quartz attached ; through this quartz rays of cassiterite needles run radiately from the main mass. Microscopic...Microscopic exmination shows that the cassiterite nodule is crystalline dark brown in colour and beautifully...dark brown cassiterite needles, and further away there is a zone of yellow prisms of cassiterite with good
Report (volume)
: : The history of 1nining for copper-ore in Cornwall and J)evon goes back no doubt to a remote period...has been made to describe every mine ,vhich has yielded copper in Cornwall and Devon. In order to bring...information up to date Mr. Dewey has visite.d everv active mine and rnanv of those recentlv abandoned • • • or of...historic importance. Our thanks are due to t,he present mine managers for their courtesy and assistance. :Full...been made of the published accounts of mining in Cornwall and Devon, and reference to the principal sources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
E. H. Davison—Castle-an-Dinas Wolfram Mine. 347 under this name seem to belong to Kayser's species...Wolfram Mine. By E. H. DAVISOX, B.SC. fFHERE are two hills named Castle-an-Dinas in West Cornwall, •*-...one near Penzance and the one on which the Wolfram Mine is situated, which lies about 2 miles east of St...225. 348 E. H. Davison—Castle-an-Dinas Wolfram Mine. The hill rises 700 feet above sea-level, and forms...district, but since then the development of the mine has been carried further and fresh light has been
Report (edition)
principal sources of tungsten in the \Vest of England to collect new information. J\'Iessrs. Eastwood...re-written the chapters on tungsten ores of the West of England, a subject of ,vhich he has special kno,vledge...Survey officers in examining both the mines and the mine plans. Special mention show.d be made of Mr. Josiah...Capt. Taylor and Mr. T. Bennet for their help in Cornwall and Devon, and to Mr. G. J. Wi11iam"', H.l\if...). GENERAL AcooONT AND DE7'A.IL8 OF THE Mnms. Cornwall and Devon. District I, St. Austell Moor; District
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
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
Report (volume)
notable quantity in Britain outside · Devon and Cornwall, and there they are produced chiefly as a by-product...antimony a-re practica-lly confined to a. fev;, mine-, iu Cornwall and to two localities in Scotland at one...was paid by 1\-Ir. Dewey .to every active mine in England ond Wa.les from which · arsenic or antimony...Henwood called 'The :\'fotalliforous Deposits of Cornwall ancl Devon,' which was published in 1843 as vol...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and has prove.cl t o be of great VA,lue. Lil
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
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
Report (issue)
Sheet 352 of the ne,v series one-inch 1nap of England and Wales. . The orig:inal geological st1rvey .... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 36.-Pedn an J)rea Mine . . . ... ... ... :1 7. -Porkellis United 1\ii i11es...larger of these are the Red River, so called from the mine ,vasbi11gs which discolour it, and the stream th...Palreozoic formations of Cornwall. In the original Geological St1rvey map of Cornwall, De la Beche separated...state of our knowledge with regard to South­ West Cornwall it is clear that the main portion of the rocks
Report (issue)
forthcoming from Mr KE Beer of the South-West England field staff, and from the Mineral Statistics and...tin, 1970-72 31 IDustration Map of south-west England showing locations of tin deposits Vl 6 Summary...between Land's End and Dartmoor in south-west England. In mid-1973 three underground mines were in operation...after purchase of the mine by St Piran Mines Limited. In I 972 total domestic mine pro­ duction was greatly...produced by companies engaged in the treatinent of old mine tailings and sands. In addition; nearly 5,000 tonnes
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...do not all occur together in the same part of a mine, there are so many exceptions to the commonly accepted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology of Killifreth Mine." By H. Kitto. A detailed description of the geology of the mine and the lode...nearer surface. The minerals of the lodes include cassiterite, wolfram, mispickel, pyrite, blende, molybdenite
 
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