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Locality Name:
St Agnes Consols (Polberro Consols), St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK


mindat Locality ID: 26264
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-26264.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "St Agnes Consols (Polberro Consols), St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Balnoon Mine
Carnmeal Mine
New Polberro Mine
North Seal Hole Mine
Pell Mine (Great Pell Mine)
Polberro Mines
Seal Hole Mine
Trevaunance Mine (Wheal Trevaunance)
Turnavore Mine
West Polberro Mine
Wheal Coit (Wheal Quoit)
Wheal Kine (Wheal Kind)
Wheal Park (Park Mine)
Wheal Prosper
Wheal Pye (Wheal Pie)

Latitude: 50°18'57"N
Longitude: 5°12'48"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.315833333333,-5.2133333333333
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al As C Ca Cu F Fe H K O P S Sb Si Sn Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperCorundumCovelliteDiasporeFluoriteMicaNickeline
NonePyriteQuartzRutileSphaleriteTetrahedriteTopazVivianite

17 IMA Minerals at location:
Cassiterite  (*)Cervantite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Copper  (*)Covellite  (*)
Fluorite  (*)Goethite  (*)Hematite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)Siderite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)
Topaz  (*)Vivianite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO213118416,118418,118419,118420,118421,118422,118423,118424,118425,118426,118427,118429,1184305171
Cervantite  (*)NoneSb3+Sb5+O41118427352
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS26118419,118421,118422,118423,118425,11842727198
Copper  (*)CopperCu11184213846
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS11184274165
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF26118419,118420,118422,118423,118425,1184279617
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)2118419,1184237437
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3111842314640
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2111842417380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS24118419,118420,118421,11842339462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S811184279056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO27118419,118420,118421,118422,118423,118424,11842961156
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)2118423,1184276417
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS3118419,118422,11842321482
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1311184231803
Topaz  (*)TopazAl2SiO4F25118419,118421,118422,118423,1184271476
Vivianite  (*)VivianiteFe2+3(PO4)2·8H2O1118427636


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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