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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Grossular1 photo of Magnetite associated with Grossular at this locality.
Tourmaline1 photo of Magnetite associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:689839
Long-form Identifier:1:3:689839:7
GUID (UUID V4):7d06de6c-2fe9-4ed4-8f6d-bd6a5aa253ad
Localities for Magnetite in this Region
Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Crowns Rock, Cliff outcrops, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
17.4km (10.8 miles) Tregurtha Downs Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
23.4km (14.5 miles) Wolf Rock, Cornwall, England, UK
34.2km (21.2 miles) Wheal Montague, Treleigh Wood Mine, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
34.8km (21.6 miles) Wheal Harmony (Wheal Garden), Treleigh Wood Mine, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
36.0km (22.4 miles) Tresavean Mine, Lanner, Lanner, Cornwall, England, UK
36.8km (22.9 miles) The Rill, Mullion, Cornwall, England, UK
37.6km (23.4 miles) Kynance Cove, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK
39.9km (24.8 miles) Lizard Point, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite...Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 ...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
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Skarn garnets from South-West England SKARN GARNETS FROM SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND D.H.M. ALDERTON Alderton...Skarn garnets from South-West England. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 91–97. Chemical analysis...analysis of garnets from skarns in south-west England has revealed that they are all grandites, containing at...Sciences, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK (E-mail: d.alderton@rhul.ac.uk) Keywords: skarn...occur in several geological settings in south-west England, yet detailed descriptions are typically brief
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
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...lodes, MA veins and breccias across the region. Magnetite-silicate skarns and quartz-tourmaline lodes, veins
Report (edition)
| Geologists’ Association Guide No. 19 West Cornwall by A. Hall BIRKBECK COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON...meetings in London and, via Local Groups, throughout England and Wales, conducts field meetings and publishes...Association. Front Cover: Old engine house, Botallack Mine (photograph: David Alderton). Geologists’... Geologists’ Association Guide No. 19 West Cornwall by A. Hall Second Edition Edited by J. T. Greensmith © THE...I Land’s End Peninsula II Mount’s Bay 15 III St. Agnes District 24 IV Falmouth Bay 29 V_ The
Report (edition)
meetings in London and, via Local Groups, throughout England and Wales. It conducts field meetings and publishes...trips to the coast of Cornwall. Front Cover: Old engine house, Botallack Mine (photograph David Alderton)...Alderton). Geologists Association Guide No. 31 WEST CORNWALL by A . Hall Third Edition Guide Series Editor;... Land's End Peninsula II Mount's Bay 1 4 III St. Agnes District IV Falmouth Bay V The Lizard Peninsula...i n e map of West Cornwall 2. Map of Land's End peninsula 5 3. Map of St. Just area 7 4. Distribution
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)
Summer Field Meeting in west Cornwall 15- 20 September 1974 Report by the Directors: A. HALL and N ....JA CKSON . 1975. Summer Field Meeting in west Cornwall, 15-20 September 1974. Proc. Geol. Ass .. 86 (I)...petrological and mineralogical interest in west Cornwall. In addition to visits to the granites and their...Geevor tin-mine and were shown the collection of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Department...INTRODUCTION The Summer Field Meeting was held in west Cornwall to see the igneous and metamorphic rock s of the
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PP. 387--390 Frohbergite from the Kobetsuzawa mine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan FROHBERGITE, FeTe2, a...in a polished section of ore from the Kobetsuzawa mine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Previously, Ishibashi...goldsilver-tellurium-bearing networks at the Kobetsuzawa mine. The quartz veinlets, in Miocene dacitic rocks,...agreement those of frohbergite from the RossMontbray mine, Quebec (Thompson, 1947), Although telluride minerals...KEVWO~DS: frohbergite, F e T e system, Kobetsuzawa mine, Hokkaido. 388 MINERALOGICAL M. NAKATAAND H
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Botallaek Mine.—The dark hornblendic slates of the sea-border of the parish of St. Just are known to...analysis of a typical Cornish killas (from Polgooth Mine, 100 fathoms from surface) : — I Silica Phosphoric...crystalline magnetite. Mr. Phillips says, " It is worthy of notice that while the slates of Botallack are highly...percolates through them into the workings of the mine has lost three-fourths of its magnesium. Similar...this case almost entirely disappeared." ' Terras, St. Stephens.—This is a band of dark and fine-grained
Report (edition)
West Cornwall by A. HALL ITINERARY Introduction I. Land's End Peninsula II. Mount's Bay II I. St. Agnes...incorporation in any furtl,er edition. West Cornwall by A. HALL INTRODUCTION has long been one of...distribution of the major rock units is shown in Fig. 1. CORNWALL I••+·j Granite 3 D Devonian sediments filffm...10 20 kilometres Fig. I. Outline map of West Cornwall, showing the areas covered by the five itineraries...sedimentary rocks occupy the largest part of west Cornwall. The Devonian rocks are shales and sandstones
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Society Wickmanite from Whealcock Zawn, Botallack, Cornwall THE rare mineral wickmanite, Mn2+Snn+(OH)6...yellow octahedra up to 2 mm in size in pockets in magnetite ore and in a brecciated jacobsite-richteritemanganophyllite...found at Whealcock Zawn, Botallack, Cornwall, the first recorded occurrence in the UK, having been confirmed...Mineral. 15, 437-45. KEYWORDS: Cornwall. wickmanite, stokesite, Botallack, NEIL HUBBARD 122 Cordery...Cordery Road, Evington, Leicester, LE5 6DF, UK [Manuscript received 12 August 1988] Copyright the Mineralogical
Catalog/List
W. BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFORMnTION Mail orders...2~xli-". £4.50. 1. N.~TIVE 2. :,P"TITE. Carrock Mine, Caldbeck, Cumberland. Large cloudy sea-green crystals...light. 3x2t". £2. 3. "POPHYLLITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. t" modifie; creamy grey crystals intergrown...crystaline mass. 3x2~". £4. 6. AZURITE. Titlg-Tang Mine, Glvennap, Cormmll. Specimen rlSmall sharp bright...2~xli". £3.50. 7. hZURITE. Carharrack Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Specimen h Bright blue platy crystal mass
Book
undifferentiated Head Raised Beach Solid formations Pliocene St Erth Beds Devonian M ylor Slates Gramscatho Beds...copper since the Bronze Age. Only the Geevor tin mine was still open in 1986, but the vigorous development...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...phonolite of Wolf Rock. Small outcrops of Pliocene St Erth Beds are described and there is a full account...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
Journal (issue)
situ on the 300 foot leve l, C1igga H ead Min e, Cornwall , in 1980. Roy Starkey photo and specimen . JOURNAL...variety, from the Britannia Mine , North Wales, and from the Botallack Mine, Cornwall A.M. Pollard, R.G. Thomas...Williams, R.E. Bevins and S. Turgoose 23 The Wesley Mine; a further occurrence of manganese oxide-hosted...Croft Mine , Cornwall- a second English occurrence 1. Betterton Native silver from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck...Fells, Cumbria M. Wirth Rosasite from West Pasture Mine, Weardale , Co. Durham B. Young and J.G. Francis
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Harvard's Mineralogical Tour of England June 23-July 4, 1984 WILLIAM C. METROPOLIS Harvard Mineralogical...sponsoring a mineralogist's tour of London and Cornwall. A group of eleven left Boston's Logan Airport... We visited the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square...world-famous and truly magnificent Crown Jewels of England. Unfortunately, photography is not permitted, so...rings consist of blue sap­ phires, with the Cross of St. George in rubies set on them, surrounded by diamonds
Book
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...rocktypeconsisting of repeated thinlayers of hematiteor magnetite, alternating withchertor shale.ManyBIFsareover1
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
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.NO.: st. Just 788880 (STD 0736) ...across the axis. £5.50. 3. APATITE. Botallack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous, creamy, well formed hexagonal...Limonitic matrix. 2x2xlt" .£2.75. ARGENTITE. Valenciana Mine, Guana,;uato, Me~ico,. Fine, bright, silvery grey... 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Select turquoise blue...places. etx 2lx2 w• £6.50. AXINITE. Botallack, 5t. Just, Cornwall~ 5harp, lustrous, clove brown crystals
Book
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...OXIDES. Genus 1. NATIVE GOLD. 116. Gold . 124. Magnetite. 123. Hematite (specular iron ). Genus 3. OXIDE...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...vein has Plumbago, of a fair quality, has also just been found by the Rev. W. Cumming, at Beary in the
Book
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE...124 130 APPENDIX 137 INDEX TO LOCALITIES IN CORNWALL 149 INDEX TO MINERAL SYNONYMS 153 1 THE
 
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