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Cassiterite from
Wheal Jewell, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Jewell, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:690032
Long-form Identifier:1:3:690032:8
GUID (UUID V4):83a5aa7c-7015-451e-bee0-a1d5dc7c9d24
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Tolvadden Mine, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Tregurtha Downs Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.5 miles) Wheal Rodney (East Wheal Rodney), Tregurtha Downs Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles) Owen Vean Mine, Tregurtha Downs Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) Wheal Prosper, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
1.2km (0.7 miles) Gwallon Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles) Wheal Verrant (Wheal Verran), Goldsithney, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall, England, UK
1.5km (0.9 miles) Trebarvah Mine, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall, England, UK
1.6km (1.0 miles) Wheal Virgin, Marazion, Cornwall, England, UK
2.0km (1.2 miles) St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England, UK
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
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
NICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EH Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 email:... 70x40x35mm. £30. 3) BAYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Quartz veinstone, the upper surface...5) BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Dark green crusts and coatings of bayldonite...and CHALCOPYRITE. Fowey Consols, Tywardreath, Cornwall. A thin white quartz veinlet divides the specimen...quartz xls to 2mm on top. 24x20x20mm. £4. 8) CASSITERITE. Northern Nigeria. A jet black lustrous part
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...16. CaSSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. h mass of light brown fine grained Cassiterite cementing...C",-SSITThITE variety "TOr..DS-EYE-TIN". West Wheal Kitty, st. "gnes, Corm131l. hich light brQl'1Il...Flats, st. Columb, Cornwall. A rounded pebble of coarse dark brown crystaline Cassiterite with minor Slate
Catalog/List
WICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EG Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 822530 *...3 xls 50x50x20mm. £40. 6. CASSITERITE. Polberro Mine, St Agnes, Cornwall. 7An intergrown ‘ ' group of...matrix. 30x20x15mm. £45. 7. CASSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Chlorite matrix showing several...50x40x50irrn. £48. 8. CASSITERITE AND TOURMALINE. Egloshellan Mine, St Austell, Cornwall. Rich veinstone showing...showing sharp sparkling black cassiterite xls to 3mm intergrown with similar coloured prismatic tourmaline
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL.~O.: St. Just 7B8880 (STD 0736) V.A...variety FRANCOLITE. Clitters Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich crusts of sparkling micro crystals covering...4tx4". £6.50. AXINITE. Botailack Head, St. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A -Lustrous sharp clove brown crystals...BAYLDoNITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, apple green, cellular masses and crusts...2-txlfxlt-". £8.00. BOURNONITE. Wheal Boys, st. Endellion, Cornwall. Lustrous silvery grey well formed
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...5Op •. 17. CALCITE. Botallack Mine, St. Just, Cornwall. Lustrous creamy-white sharp platy heaagonal crystal...75p 19. CASSITEeITE. Blue Hills Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall. Choice bright blackish sharp twinned crystals...veinstuff. 4tx~-x2~", £28.00 20. CASSITERITE. Killifreth Mine, Chacewater, Cornwall. Lustrous brownish crude
Catalog/List
BARSTOW 26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. ORDER ING INFOhMA.TION Mail orders are promptly... 10. BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mlne, Lanreath, Cornwall. Specimen A Bright, metallic grey, twinned crystals...CARMINITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, reddish crystaline masses intergroviU with...gOssan l matrix. Itx12'" £1.08. 15. CASSITEEITE. Wheal Maudlin, Lanlivery, ~ornwall. Sharp, lustrous, blackish...assoclatlon. 3x2~x12' £6.48. 16. CASSITERITE. East Pool Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Dark brown, lustrous crystals
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL. NO.: st. Just 880 (STD 073 677) 'V...4. 5. 6. APATITE. Longdowns, Carnmenellis, Cornwall. A well formed mostly transparent pale bluish...ltxltxlt"- £2.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne Cornwall. A pure, purply, tarnished metallic mass with...2xltxlt". £1.50. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Select, lustrous, light green, bladed crystals... ' . . BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. Metallic grey slightly tarnfshed tabular crystal
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS...SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section. SW.18 Botallackite...Botallackite with connellite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. Collected 1985 [SW 365 330]. Corpus Christi Lode...St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 368 346]. 130 fathom level, South Lode. Ex N.Carruth. SW.A8 Cassiterite - Pendarves
Report (volume)
notable quantity in Britain outside · Devon and Cornwall, and there they are produced chiefly as a by-product...a-re practica-lly confined to a. fev;, mine-, iu Cornwall and to two localities in Scotland at one of which...paid by 1\-Ir. Dewey .to every active mine in England ond Wa.les from which · arsenic or antimony ha...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
Catalog/List
riety FRANCOLITE . Clitters Mine , Gunnisl ake , Cornwall. Rich crusts of smoll clear sparkling crystals...qua rtz. 2-tx1-1x1 ", £4 . 751'1 10. OEUDANTITE. Wheal Ca rpent er , Gwinear , Cornwa ll. Crusts of sparkling...a littl e malachit e . ;8-xc¢" , £7 . 00 18. CASSITERITE. Whenl Kitty , St. Agnes , Cornwali. ~ right...little a r seno pyrite. 2x1t" , £8 . 00 19 . CASSITERITE. Shilton claywork , St . Austell ; C~rn~~ll....intergrown on musoovitG . 1xt " , £4 . 00 .. . 20 . CASSITERITE . Ros eme llyn claywork , Roche , Cqrnwall..
Report (issue)
Sheet 352 of the ne,v series one-inch 1nap of England and Wales. . The orig:inal geological st1rvey .... . . ... 27.-Eas t Wl1eal Lovell 28. -Gi--eat Wheal Fortt1ne . . . · ... 29.-vVhral-, Go1..1and 30 (�...i11e . . . :3 2.-\Vhenl Lt1sl1ington .. . . 3?. -Wheal \rincent (part ot· \Vl1eal ... :1 4.-Nangiles :-3...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
Catalog/List
New Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall,Bahianite,Bismutite, Celestite with Sulphur,Cubanite...OH Cl ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. Engl.and__ .. _ _ - •· Ix2ins Very. rich~ ;a~...hard white sphere shaped nodule. Newhaven Sussex, England 12 ALUJ\JINITE lxlins50p lx2£I 2x2£2.S0 Al SO/4...--- · - · · ··· _ 2x3 £I .SO 2x2£1 Staffordshire England lx2 S0p Rich white to faintly blue masses 23 Al'\HYDRITE...Variety FRANCOLITE rich white cellular Holmbush Mine Cornwall 503 APATITE .. PAO Ca P0/4 CO/3 F mass . _ - ·
Catalog/List
_1_0_0_ Byways, 20 Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey, England KTll 2NL EMAIL ·_-2_0_0_6__, -· Phone 01932...Lochinver, Scotland 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven Sussex, England / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE, dark green fibrous mass....ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety) Olive green... £4 lx2 £6 Ca SO/4 23 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Rich white to faintly blue masses lx2 80p 2x2 £1...- 502 ANTIGORITE County Bridge Quarry.Lizard ,Cornwall mixture with Chrysotilc, pale grey-green massive
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 (volume)
The Metalliferous MiningRegion of South-West England VOLUME I Assistant Director' s copy LIBRARY...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AN D WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume I By H...Second impression with amendme111s /969 PrinlCd in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...This account of the mining geology of south-west England summarizes the .iological information gained during...south-west of England was the first to be published, and his ' Report on the eology of Cornwall, Devon and
Book (volume)
IE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF UTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume II LONDON HER MAJESTY ' S STATIONERY OFFICE...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South -West England Volume II By H...iv CHAPTER V . — Details OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 8. St. Austell district...OF SOUTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume II CHAPTER V DETAILS OF THE MINES OF EAST CORNWALL , DEVON AND WEST...those of Volume I. As in that volume the terms Wheal, Huel and Mine have been omitted from mine headings
Book (volume)
The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 0 iz 0 1-rj VOLUME II Assistant Director's...GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume II By ...published 1956 Second impression 1969 Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers...PLATES V CHAPTER V.-DETAILS OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET 509 8. St. Austell...REGION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume II CHAPTER V DETAILS OF THE MINES OF EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET
Catalog/List
1cm £6 ✓ on a ship wreck in 1885 Ives, Comwall, England ABHURITE SnO OH DESCRIPTON Pyroxene Na Fe...Devon .England Madagascar Railway cutting nearCreston . Wyoming ,U S. A Newhavcn Sussex. England I x2...Rich white to faintly blue masses Staffordshire England 25 ANKERITE-KlJTNAHORITE Rich fawn massive. xrayed...rich mass of micro ✓ Holmbush Mine. Kelly Bray . Cornwall crystals over the main surface. Quite rich. blue-grey...Zawn, Port Issac, Cornwall Grey massive in matrix ✓ South Crofty Mine, Camborne,Cornwall Rich silvery masses
Book (volume)
COUNCIL The METALLIFEROUS MINING GION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Volume II 1956 2017 reprint BRITISH GEOLOGICALSURVEY...The metalliferous mining region of south-west England VOLUME II H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical...metalliferous mining region of the south-west England. Economic Environmental Science Centre Keyworth...London SW7 5BD Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 4090 www.bgs.ac. uk www. geologyshop. corn ... 111 CONTENTS PAGE...CHAPTER V-DETAILS iv V OF THE MINES IN EAST CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET ...................
Book
permission of the author. Printed and bound in the UK by: BookPrintingUK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive,...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 &...During this period, I was going back and forth to the UK and worldwide shows and projects, as well as keeping
Book (volume)
The metalliferous mining region of south-west England H G Dines, ARSM, AMICE with petrographical notes...The metal/iferous mining region of south-west England, H G Dines (1956). Economi,· Memoir of the Geological...staffs of Geevor Mine, South Crofty Mine, Wheal Pendarves, Wheal Jane and Mount Wellington Mine. The generous...notably his 16-volume series Mines and miners of Cornwall, and two volumes on the mines of Devon, one of...Somerset figures were published in 1984 and the Cornwall outputs are due to be published soon. K. E. Beer
Catalog/List
Chee rful , 18 miles NNW of St I cm £6 Ives. Cornwall. England No location details !cm £4 Colo urless to...2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,Eng land Madagascar ½ x½ £2...near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l £3 l x2 £5 While crystals well covering...grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2 £2 Loch Scridain Mull Scotland...Kelly Bray , Cornwall Francois Lake, Bri tish Columbi a Canada Holm bush Mine Cornwall £3 2x2 £5.00
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...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...refining of gold'.3 DISTRIBUTION OF THE ORES. Cornwall produces nearly all the tungsten-ores obtained
 
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