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Rock Crystal from
Balleswidden Mine, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Rock Crystal
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rock Crystal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Balleswidden Mine, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:786610
Long-form Identifier:1:3:786610:4
GUID (UUID V4):10ce32e9-d9d0-4273-830d-dc07852e6697
Nearest other occurrences of Rock Crystal
2.6km (1.6 miles) Wheal Diamond (Wheal Damsel), Nanquidno, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
3.7km (2.3 miles) Spearn Moor Mine, Spearn Consols (Wheal Spearn), Trewellard, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
4.3km (2.6 miles) Trewellard Cliff, Trewellard, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
8.8km (5.5 miles) Boscawen Cliff, St Buryan, Cornwall, England, UK
12.6km (7.8 miles) St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England, UK
20.0km (12.4 miles) Wheal Alfred, Great Wheal Alfred (Alfred Consols), Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK
21.1km (13.1 miles) Wheal Herland (Old Herland Mine; Manor Mine; North Wheal Herland), Rosewarne and Herland United Mines (Rosewarne and Herland Mine; incl. Wheal Fancy; Wheal Pleasure), Gwinear, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
23.4km (14.5 miles) Trevascus Mine (Trevaskus Mine; Trevaskis Mine), Carnhell Green, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
28.5km (17.7 miles) North Roskear Mine, North Roskear, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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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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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
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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
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published. One of these Catalogues, that of the Rock Specimens, as prepared by Professor Ramsay, ,vas..... -. - -• - - .. - .. - Case J. Rock Crystal Cairngorm Amethyst, Cats, Eye, A vantnrine,...TIVE rock. l. COPPER, associated Fro1n the Great St. George lJ,fine, · Perran Porth, Cornwall. Presented...2. NATIVE COPPER. From Penibrol,e Mine, St. A.1.istell, Cornwall. Presented by R. Taylor, F.G.S. 3...NATIVE COPPER a,nd RED-OXIDE of COPPER. St. Austell, Cornwall. 8 & 9. driform . NATIVE COPPER, den-
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published. One of these Catalogues, that of the Rock Specimens, as prepared by Professor Ramsay, was...CONTENTS. Page Case D. SALTs of Solicy ‘. . - Rock Salt s - º - - - ºf Cryolite, Thenardite, &e...• , ... - . 158 - Case J. . . • QUARTz * - Rock Crystal º s - º 161 . 158 to 158 *• * ºu- ~- *º-...the floor of the principal room is devoted to the mine rals, and to their application in the arts. In... The principal copper-producing districts are Cornwall, Devonshire (West of Dartmoor), Cumberland, Anglesey
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of Sale of Net Books and may not be resold in the UK below the net price given by the Publishers in their...take the collector or fossicker to the sites of crystal occurrences. Such detailed guidance is not possible...Alpine occurrences 50 West Germany 55 Elba 56 England 56 Scotland 59 France 62 6 Occurrence: The Americas...QUARTZ Varieties Habit Pleochroism Occurrence Rock crystal (colourless), amethyst (violet-purple), citrine...quartzite (a whitish rock, fine-grained, opaque). Single crystal specimens of rock crystal, amethyst, citrine
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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...analysis, the former providing information on crystal structure, and the latter chemical data on the
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Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society...CHLORIDES. ORDER II. Water. Gemus 1. WATER . 17. Rock -salt. 18. Sal- ammoniac. 3. Ice . ORDER VII....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
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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
Journal (volume)
LIBRARY OF IGAN CHTHE I RSITY OF M UNIVE TUEBOR ST-QUERISPENINS AMONAM ULAM CIRCUMSPICE TN 145 H53...TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. PART THE FIRST. BY WILLIAM JORY HENWOOD, F...FRANCE ; PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL ; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL...MAJESTY'S ASSAY-MASTER OF TIN IN THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. PENZANCE : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM...1-37 . PP A JS ROYAL Geological Society OF CORNWALL. PATRON. Her Most Gracious Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA
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discovered, a district producing tin. Indications of old mine workings such as holes pierced in the faces of the...present day, throughout the jength and breadth of Cornwall, which are ^mistakably of great antiquity. \V%...STORICAL AND MONUMENTAL, OF IDE COUNTY OF CORNWALL.’* Devon and Cornwall) were first discovered by tne Phornicians...among<^ which they prolmbly reckoned the west of Cornwall, carried on so considerable a trade here, that...that • called by the two names of Devonshire and Cornwall, and the small islands adjacent to Con^wall, now
Journal (volume)
KCC a C CC( Gj- M AM WHITNEY RC AD EM O ST IA HRI HARVARD LIBRARY , UNIVERSITY . HA RV...EAST, MELBOURNE. PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE , W.C. THE MINING AND SMELTING...resources of the country. Very little is known in England of these coal-fields, and some account of the most...geological origin. The latter, does not, as in England, belong to the older or palæozoic formations, but...two thick seams, separated by about 9 fathoms of rock , chiefly sandstone. These seams vary from 6 to
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of London ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; of...Furnace (supposed to be Phoenician) discovered near St Michael's Mount, the Itkin of Diodorus Siculus. By...time, that they who defend conclusions opposed to mine, have equal reason ; 3 President of the Geological...modern deposits into gneiss, as well as into quartz rock and mica schist-t To whatever geological period...imagination of the geologist strives in vain to form a just conception of the extent of these internal modifications
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much biased by science with too little sense of mine for beauty) will keep his memory and work, alive...composition; they contain as major constituents the three rock-forming minerals feldspar, quartz and mica, which...features that experienced geologists who work nose on rock can determine in the field or in their study with...among the top 10 with 4 vol.%. They are the major rock-forming constituents of the granite suite and the...mining Pb, Cu and Ag, the metals extracted from the mine helped the people of Goslar to accumulate wealth
 
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