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Locality Name:
Harrowbarrow Mine (Harrowbeer Mine; Wheal Goodluck; East Wheal Brothers), Harrowbarrow & Prince Of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin And Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


mindat Locality ID: 241355
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-241355.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Harrowbarrow Mine (Harrowbeer Mine; Wheal Goodluck; East Wheal Brothers), Harrowbarrow & Prince Of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin And Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
West Wheal Edward
Wheal Fortune (Wheal Newton And Queen; South Harrowbarrow Mine; Incl. Wheal Newton (Wheal Barnard); Wheal Queen)
Wheal George
Wheal Sisters (Wheal Fortune)

Latitude: 50°30'29"N
Longitude: 4°15'36"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.508055555556,-4.26
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: Ag C Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Sn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltRutile

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Cassiterite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Siderite  (*)Silver  (*)Stephanite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S11172712793
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO22117271,1172725171
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2111727227198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2117271,11727224243
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS311172711425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2111727139462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2111727161156
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)11172716417
Silver  (*)CopperAg11172715186
Stephanite  (*)NoneAg5SbS41117271586


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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