| Locality type: | Pit |
| Classification |
|---|
|
| Species: | Cassiterite |
| Formula: | SnO2 |
| Confirmation |
|---|
|
| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
|---|
|
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Cassiterite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Carclaze Old Tin Pit, Carclaze China Clay Pit (Baal China Clay Pit), Carluddon, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK |
| Data Identifiers |
|---|
|
| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 690604 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:690604:7 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 55065e41-3a7e-457b-bd05-19291f31355e |
| Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite |
|---|
|
|
| 1.1km (0.7 miles) | ⓘWheal Menear (Menear Pit; Buckeye Pit), Menear, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 1.4km (0.9 miles) | ⓘTrethurgy Moor, Trethurgy, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 1.8km (1.1 miles) | ⓘBoscoppa Mine, Carlyon, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.0km (1.3 miles) | ⓘWheal Vounder, Carlyon, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.2km (1.4 miles) | ⓘBucklers Mine, Charlestown United and Cuddra Consolidated Mines, St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.3km (1.4 miles) | ⓘTregrehan Mine, St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.4km (1.5 miles) | ⓘTregrehan Consols Mine (Tregrehan Higher Mine), Carlyon, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.4km (1.5 miles) | ⓘBodelva Pit (Carvear China Clay Works), Bodelva, St Blaise, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.5km (1.5 miles) | ⓘWest Wheal Eliza, Charlestown United and Cuddra Consolidated Mines, St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK |
| 2.5km (1.6 miles) | ⓘBluebarrow China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK |
| References |
|---|
|
|
| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
|---|
 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FRANCO-GERMAN PAPERS DESCRIBING CARCLAZE OLD TIN PIT, NEAR ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL C.M. BRISTOW Bristow, C.M...describing Carclaze Old Tin Pit, near St. Austell, Cornwall. Geoscience in South-West England, 12, 1-8...1-8. Carclaze Old Pit lies on the southern boundary of the St. Austell Granite about 3 km NNE of St. Austell...originated from tin stream workings in the Sandy Bottom valley following a rich source of tin to the crest...hill, where a massive stockwork consisting of a tin-bearing greisen-bordered quartz-tourmaline vein swarm |  | | Report (chapter) | | role of Carclaze tin mine in eighteenth and nineteenth century geotourism COLIN BRISTOW Cornwall Geoconservation...Geoconservation Group/China Clay Historical Society (e-mail: mail@colinbristow.com) Abstract: Carclaze tin mine was...was an open pit operation which exploited a massive cassiteritebearing greisen-bordered quartz-tourmaline...It became a ‘must-see’ location for visitors to Cornwall from all over Europe in the late eighteenth and...Intellectually, the early scientific interest in Carclaze can be seen as part of the Enlightenment, but |  | | 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 |
|
