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Offering for sale quality antique and contemporary minerals specimens from Cornwall and Devon UK also mining related books.
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Wheal Hazard, Botallack, Cornwall. A good coverage of well...
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Cassiterite from the Blue Hills Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall....
- Mineral Specimens
Offering for sale quality antique and contemporary minerals specimens from Cornwall and Devon UK also mining related books.
The history of mining in Cornwall and west Devon stretches back into prehistory when the region was uniquely placed to supply the tin vital for the production of bronze and pewter in Britain. Explore how mining in Cornwall and West Devon began.
Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite. Tin, and later copper, were the most commonly extracted metals. Some tin mining continued long after the mining of other metals had become unprofitable, but ended in the late 20th century.
A rich specimen with massive liroconite covering an area approximately 40 mm x 28 mm, several sharp liroconite crystals and a 25 mm vug with chalcophyllite crystals and many other secondary minerals. The granite matrix is about 65 mm x 45 mm x 28 mm.
The Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. We’re the largest industrial World Heritage Site in the UK - 20,000 hectares across Cornwall and west Devon.
Cornwall & Devon. These counties are rich in a variety of metal ores, and are the UK’s only source of tin. It was found in veins associated with five major granite intrusions (Land’s End, Carnmenellis, St Austell, Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor) and eleven small ones (St Michael’s Mount, Tregonning-Godolphin, Carn Brea, Carn Marth, St Agnes ...
