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Quartz from
Great Wheal Fortune, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cassiterite2 photos of Quartz associated with Cassiterite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Wheal Fortune, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:907589
Long-form Identifier:1:3:907589:4
GUID (UUID V4):f93d74b1-cceb-41f8-8084-07b52a03f44f
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.4km (0.9 miles) Wheal Vor (Great Wheal Vor), Carleen, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
2.9km (1.8 miles) Megiliggar Rocks (Tremearne pegmatite), Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Wheal Trewavas (Trewavas Cliff Mine), Rinsey, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
3.6km (2.2 miles) Great Work Mine (incl. Leeds Mine), Godolphin Cross, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
3.8km (2.3 miles) Lady Gwendolen Mine, Germoe, Cornwall, England, UK
3.8km (2.4 miles) Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall, England, UK
4.1km (2.5 miles) Wheal Reeth, Boscreege, Germoe, Cornwall, England, UK
4.2km (2.6 miles) Godolphin Mine (Godolphin Bal), Godolphin Cross, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
4.3km (2.7 miles) Rinsey Head, Rinsey, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK
4.4km (2.7 miles) Wheal Rose (Wheal Lomax), Porthleven, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run Press Ltd...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
On the Pinite of Breage in Cornwall. By J. H. COLLINS,F.G.S. [Read November 10th, 1891.] T has long...felspar-porphyry dykes (Elvans) of the West of Cornwall contain crystals of pinito--apparently pseudomorphous...the granite in several places. 1 In the parish of Breage there are several of these dykes running towards...passes from the village of Trew through Great Wheal Fortune. By a careful examination of the heaps of...fine-grained porphyry, having a basis of white quartz and greenish-gray and slightly kaolinised felspar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
On the Pinite of Breage in Cornwall. By J. H. COLLINS,F.G.S. [Read November 10th, 1891.] T has long...felspar-porphyry dykes (Elvans) of the West of Cornwall contain crystals of pinito--apparently pseudomorphous...the granite in several places. 1 In the parish of Breage there are several of these dykes running towards...passes from the village of Trew through Great Wheal Fortune. By a careful examination of the heaps of...fine-grained porphyry, having a basis of white quartz and greenish-gray and slightly kaolinised felspar
Book
Mining in Cornwall 1850-1960 (Moorland, 1980-1) 2 Volumes ISBN 0 85989 334 0 Printed in Great Britain...Districts II The Marazion District III The Wheal Vor or Breage District IV The St Erth, Gwinear and Crowan...Showing the Output of Metallic Tin and Copper from Cornwall, Estimated from the Public Sales of Ore 35 Fig...Situations of the Principal Mining Districts in Cornwall and South Devon 50 Fig.3. Sketch Map Showing...Situations of the Principal Mining Districts in Cornwall and South Devon 146 LIST OF TABLES Table 1
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, st. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. CRDERING INFORMJi.TION Mail orders are promptly...l~hLCIME. 3. bN~TaSE~ 4. hNGLESITE. Wheal Penrose, Porthleven, Cornwall. Small sharp transparent "spear shaped"...6. aPATITE. Stennagwyn Mine, Nr. St. ~ustell, Cornwall. Pale bluish hexagonal crystals aggregated and...Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardrea th, Cornwall. i,. 2xl" cavity in Quartz/slate matrix completely lined with...matrix. 3x2t". £8. 12. BaYLDONITE. Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall. Superb crust of well formed rhombic
Catalog/List
Gems Endsleigh, SO Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall TRI 2DA England Telephone +44 (0) 1872 223 227 Fax +44...vugh of small glistening bright purple xtls in quartz and light brown barite matrix. D. Ml £4 * [221]...Pacific Ocean. Stranoe black nodule dredged from great depths. Looks metallidy heavy but is relatively..., Arizona, USA. Druse of orange xtls to 5mm on quartz matrix. Good D. Large TN. £8 RUBY on matrix, Mysor...RF TN. £8 ARAGONITE Alston Moor, Cumberland, England. Radial spray of translucent long pure aragonite
Catalog/List
26, Tregeseal, St. Just, Near Penzance, Cornwall, England. TEL. NO.: st. Just 880 (STD 073 677) 'V...size, and several freestanding clear elongated QUARTZ crystals, the longest being 2" in length. Very...4. 5. 6. APATITE. Longdowns, Carnmenellis, Cornwall. A well formed mostly transparent pale bluish...Pyrites and Quartz on pinkish Granite. ltxltxlt"- £2.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne Cornwall. A pure...2xltxlt". £1.50. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Select, lustrous, light green, bladed crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TIN STOCKWORK MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND OREFIELD S.C. DOMINY, G.S. CAMM, M.A. BUSSELL ...tin stockwork mineralization in the south-west England orefield. Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8...of mineralization encountered in the south-west England orefield less typical than the characteristic composite...chalcopyrite, with gangue minerals of mica, tourmaline and quartz. The stockworks are characterised by zones of high...Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP. INTRODUCTION Cornwall was formerly one of the world's greatest tin and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
106. September, 1924. Vol. XX. Topaz from Cornwall, with an account of its localities. By Arthur...hitherto been looked upon as comparatively rare in Cornwall. When massive, or even in the form of small, well-developed...overlooked, or apt cursorily to be mistaken for quartz. The presence of topaz as a microscopic accessory...mass, thus affording evidence that topaz is in Cornwall, as in the case of other countries, a comparatively...crystals, the various localities do not show any great variation R ■ !■ J i1 £ 1 I or1 Jf . -
Book
STATISTICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL MINES IN CORNWALL ; TO WHICH IS ADDED , THE HISTORY AND USES OF...STATISTIGAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL MINES IN CORNWALL ; TO WHICH IS ADDED , THE HISTORY AND USES OF...Mine_Mode of commencingfrom the Surface Shafts, Adits, great Cornish Adit - Rates of Wages of Diners - Veins...Power employed in Great Britain for Mining Purposes - First Steam Engines in Cornwall - Manner of Calculatingtheir...savean, Penstrutbal, United Mines, Wheal Jewel, Unity Wood, Poldice and Wheal Unity , Trethellan, West Trethellan
Journal (issue)
report Field Trip reports Mud! & Hock (a poem) Cornwall field trip Maisemore Chairman's Report Treasurer's... Back in September ten of us travelled down to Cornwall for an extended field trip which, for some of...demonstrated were sediments of ash and mud penetrated by quartz minerals, where the the presence of chlorite indicated...rocks which are covered in snow, but he encountered great thicknesses of conglomerate (compare with the Mississipi...geological theme they like!) EXTENDED FIELD TRIP TO CORNWALL - SEPTEMBER 2013 (Editor: Ross Whittaker has provided
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
Book (edition)
THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. STATISTICS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, ILLUSTRATED...E.C. LONDON : PRINTED BY VINCENT & SKEEN, 19, GREAT ST. HELENS. 1864 . Price Five Shillings , S ...my Statistics and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall and Devon have been received, I am induced to... Bosorne and Bollowal United ... Boswedden and Wheal Castle ... Bosworthen Botallack ...... Brea Consols...Condurrow Cook's Kitchen 72 71 Cornubia 89 Cornwall, in a Mining and Geo logical point of view ..
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...entries. It includes valid mineral species (eg. quartz), series names (eg stilbite) and group names (eg...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Journal (volume)
TRANSACTIONS OF THE Royal Geological Society CORNWALL ; INSTITUTED FEBRUARY 11th , 1814. VOLUME THE...PRINTER, PENZANCE ROYAL Geological Society OF CORNWALL . PATRON . Her Most Gracious Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA... CONTENTS. I. On the Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon . By William Jory Henwood , F .R .S...p. 445 V . Statisticalnotices of the Mines in Cornwall and Devon . By William Jory Henwood, F .R .S...J. H . 1. - On the Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon . BY WILLIAM JORY HENWOOD , F .G .S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meeting in 1930 of the Geologists' Association. Cornwall has been little visite d in the past, by the Association...and others]. By reason, too, of the fact that Cornwall has been known from time immemorial as one of...writings on the general geology of south-west Cornwall are voluminous. Despite this fact, however, there...the margin near Germoe, and again on the east at Breage, these being the only villages of any size on the...in the Tolmennor Quarries just to the north of Breage, and some fresh material is obtainable here. Everywhere
Book (edition)
THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON : STATISTICS AND OBSERVATIONS. THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON : STATISTICS...counties in England with which are associated more varied objects of interest than Cornwall and Devon...beautiful, were of fashion able resort ; now the two great south -western counties are visited for purposes...variety of scenery , except those of mountains of great elevation, and lakes of large iy INTRODUCTION...pecu liar. Cornwall stands at the head in the moral statistics of the counties of England. There is much
Book
Beds Igneous rocks Cretaceous Phonolite Permian Quartz-porphyry, felsite and microgranite (Elvan) Carboniferous...district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...the granites, and dykes of lamprophyre, aplite, quartz-feldspar­ porphyry (elvan) and intrusive breccias...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE...British Geological Survey, Sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales). Authors A J J Goode, BSc and R T Taylor
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS· ·OF ·-1}RE-·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -: ,. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. - -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F PRACTICAL GEOLOGY• of...6d. A Compl1 �) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake ENGLAND .i Di��rct) Dewon;}; ' ....' .. -: Torquay NEW...LIJ3RARY OF THE Nos. t to 110 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.OF GREAT BRITAIN. 98' N'' '!'"i�. ., 1 SS. 6d. ; q D,1•ift-·exeept...by Joseph Ca1�·n e, a11d the geological map of Cornwall of 1 832 by D1'. H . S. Boase, are deserving of
Book (volume)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN THE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH -WEST ENGLAND Volume 1 LONDON... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .,pvii Description .)SG(England urv eol em M est -WSouth of Region Mining MINING...SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South - West England Volume...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 (edition)
STATISTICS OF , AND OBSERVATIONS UPON THE MINES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON . ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND GROUND PLANS...Statistics of, and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall, published by me in 1859, have emboldened me,...to sustain legitimate mining enterprises, in Cornwall and Devon, to make an appeal for the public support...the numerous Mines, not only in the county of Cornwall, but in the adjoining county of Devon. Satisfied...Mines can only be attained by ground plans of the great mining districts, I have had them carefully surveyed
Journal (issue)
chlorite. I found sparrable tins in a lump of quartz - some with minute chlorite crystals on the terminations...siderite on quartz and Roger a lump of mixed sphalerite arsenopyrite/chalcopyrite, encased in quartz, and a...a large undamaged crown of quartz. After lunch Chris provided everyone with a piece of native bismuth...secondaries. We moved on to Great Wheal Fortune to look for cassiterite on and in quartz and in the chlorite/arsenopyrite...arriving in Cornwall at Drakewalls at the top of Gunnislake hill, some members had visited Devon Great Consols
Report (volume)
SPECIAL REPORTS ON THl~ MINERAL ltESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. XV.-ARSENIO AND ANTIMONY ORES. BY... SPECIAL REPORTS ON THl~ MINERAL ltESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. XV.-ARSENIO AND ANTIMONY ORES. BY...the ' Special Reports on )ti.neral Resources of Great Brit&in ' the information concerning arsenic and...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
Book (volume)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN The Metalliferous MiningRegion of South-West England VOLUME I Assistant...Director' s copy LIBRARY OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN. (Scottish Office.) Press._ _ _ __,J helf_...SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AN D WALES The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England Volume...by the incorporation of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology with...Second impression with amendme111s /969 PrinlCd in England for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Unwin Brothers
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...Geevor, and Wheal Jane which was commissioned only in October, 1971. A fourth rnine, Wheal Pendarves,...pro­ duction was greatly augmented by output from Wheal Jane and amounted to 3,327 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate
 
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