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A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall
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PostPosted: Jul 25, 2013 02:57    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A much travelled cassiterite


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Cassiterite
Great Work Mine, Breage, Cornwall, England, UK.
largest crystal 6mm.
This Cornish cassiterite was once in the Freiberg mining Academy in Saxony, Germany (its label dates it there to between 1880-1905). From Freiberg it made its way to Chile's national Museum, the Museo de Santiago.

Rescued by Skip Szenics in the late 1900s, he brought it back to New York in the USA. In 2002, he brought it down to Tucson, from whence I repatriated it back to the UK.

This is a well-travelled tin!

Located only as Cornwall on the Freiberg label, this specimen has been compared to others in the Natural History Museum Collection in London. Its matrix and composition matches those in the Russell Collection from Great Work Mine in Breage.
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Freiberg Mining Academy label, its style dates it to between 1880-1905
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PostPosted: Jul 26, 2013 13:51    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

£1 10s in 1864 money seems like a healthy price for that chalcotrichite. Using one of the online calculators to convert to 2013 money I got:

£115.00 using the retail price index

£891.00 using average earnings
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PostPosted: Jul 26, 2013 14:39    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

An imposing old specimen from Wheal Jane.


Sphalerite twin Cornwall 2.jpg
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Sphalerite (Fe-rich) with pyrite and quartz.
600' level, Wheal Jane, Cornwall, England, UK.
23 cm.
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PostPosted: Jul 30, 2013 02:57    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A classic from Wh Hope


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Galena
Wheal Hope, Hendra Croft, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
Galena pseudomorphing pyromorphite, typical crystal size 5mm. Ex Arthur Scoble collection.
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PostPosted: Jul 30, 2013 04:33    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Very interesting and original specimen of pseudo galena.
Roger.
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PostPosted: Jul 31, 2013 02:53    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A Cornish silver, not a thing of beauty, but a rare mineral from Cornwall


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Wheal Ludcott, St. Ive, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK
Coarse wire silver, maximum wire length 10mm, with crude calcite crystals.
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PostPosted: Aug 20, 2013 12:21    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Bournonite from the original but much less well-known locality of Wheal Boys in the parish of St Endellion in Cornwall where it was associated with jamesonite, sphalerite and siderite.

First mentioned by Philip Rashleigh in 1797, it was more fully described by French crystallographer and mineralogist Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon in 1804, after whom it was subsequently named. However, the name given by Bournon himself in 1813 was endellionite, after St Endellion, the original location.



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Bournonite
Wheal Boys, Port Isaac, St. Endellion, Cornwall, England, UK
Intergrown bournonite crystals to 4mm, with small crystals of sphalerite. Sphalerite and jamesonite crystals on rear
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PostPosted: Sep 20, 2013 11:21    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Fluorite on Quartz from the East Pool Mine, Redruth. Specimen is ex American Museum of Natural History and ex Charles Bement collections.


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Fluorite on Quartz
East Pool Mine, Redruth, Cornwall
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PostPosted: Sep 28, 2013 18:21    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Fine old tetrahedrite.


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Tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite-coated with galena on quartz.
Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall, England, UK.
5 cm specimen, tetrahedrite crystals to 2 cm on edge.
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PostPosted: Sep 30, 2013 11:44    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Whilst Whs Gorland and Unity are best known for their superb and rare arsenates and phosphates, they also produced many other fine minerals. One, never common and much sought after by collectors of Cornish minerals, is mimetite.


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Mimetite
Wheal Unity, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
crystals to 20mm, on quartz
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PostPosted: Sep 30, 2013 12:43    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Cornwall, famous for its tin and copper. Here are a couple of copper specimens from (very probably) perhaps it's most well-known mine - Botallack - "the mine under the sea" - from about c1804.


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Copper
Botallack Mine, St Just, Cornwall,England, UK
3x2"
Ex Col Williams - Burncoose Assay Office Collection. Williams collection number 112. Although attributed to "probably Wh Basset" by Williams, the specimen came from the Bolitho collection (the Bolithos were a well known Penzance mining family and operated the largest tin smelting house in Cornwall during the 19th century and until 1912), so the specimen is much more likely to be from one of the St. Just mines.

Specifically, the specimen is like other wire coppers from Botallack Mine and thus possibly dates to c1804 when other specimens of this type were collected.
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Another, but much coarser, wire copper from Botallack 3x2".
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PostPosted: Sep 30, 2013 15:17    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A classic St Agnes fluorite - a "four-faced cube" - more correctly a tetrahexahedral crystal, but that doesn't sound as good! This habit was typical of Trevaunance and the neighbouring St Agnes mines. Ex University of Pennsylvania Collection.


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Fluorite
Trevaunance mine, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK
Crystals to 7mm
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PostPosted: Oct 03, 2013 11:21    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A couple of pieces from Herodsfoot, one of the great specimen-producing mines of Cornwall. Its certainly one of my favourites!


Tetrahedrite HF 1a.jpg
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Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall, England, UK
10mm tetrahedrite crystals coated with iridescent chalcopyrite, with associated galena and quartz.
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Bournonite cogwheel 30mm across, on quartz. This is part of a larger specimen, and is the largest crystal.
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PostPosted: Oct 03, 2013 21:23    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Fine examples, Ian.
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PostPosted: Oct 13, 2013 08:01    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A number of locations in Cornwall have produced nice apatites. This is one from the classic but long-abandoned and now heavily-overgrown location of Colcerrow Quarry.


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Apatite
Colcerrow Quarry, Lanlivey, Cornwall, England, UK
Crystal 13mm
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PostPosted: Oct 19, 2013 14:56    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A zoned "horse-tooth" siderite from Wh Maudlin. A Cornish classic - Peter Embery, the late curator at the Natural History Museum in London reckoned that these all came from a single vug about 1820.


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Siderite and quartz
Wheal Maudlin, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
siderite crystals to 12mm
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2013 09:29    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

My addition.


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Fluorite
Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England, UK.
Size 6.5 x 4 cm
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2013 09:30    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

A close up.


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Fluorite
Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England, UK.
Field of view 4 cm
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PostPosted: Oct 25, 2013 11:43    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Leon

Very nice piece

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PostPosted: Nov 04, 2013 14:58    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Cornwall  

Something of a Cornish rarity. Light green microcrystaline arthurite (type locality) and dark green olivenite. Collected from material around the collar of Hitchen's Shaft in the 1980s.

Arthurite was jointly named for British mineralogists Sir Arthur Russell and Arthur Kingsbury, the later now sadly rather discredited for having been found to have falsified many of the localities for his supposed field discoveries.



Arthurite HDC 1a.jpg
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Arthurite and olivenite
Hingston Down Consols, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England, UK
55x45mm.
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