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Locality Name:
East Cornwall Silver Mines (St Vincent Great Consols; Incl. Wheal Emily; Wheal Georgiana; Wheal Mercer), Wheal Langford (New Wheal Langford; Baring And Langford Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


mindat Locality ID: 241379
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-241379.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "East Cornwall Silver Mines (St Vincent Great Consols; Incl. Wheal Emily; Wheal Georgiana; Wheal Mercer), Wheal Langford (New Wheal Langford; Baring And Langford Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Wheal Brothers (Wheal Duchy)
Wheal Mexico
Wheal St Vincent (East Cornwall St Vincent Mine; Wheal David)
Wheal Virgin

Latitude: 50°30'14"N
Longitude: 4°16'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.503888888889,-4.2702777777778
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 As C Cl Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Sn Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltRutile
Sphalerite

12 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Cassiterite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)
Galena  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Siderite  (*)
Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S2117289,1172912793
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS11172899052
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO211172895171
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22117289,11729127198
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl3117289,117290,1172911382
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2117289,11729124243
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS311172891425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2111728939462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23117289,117290,11729161156
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)3117289,117290,1172916417
Silver  (*)CopperAg2117289,1172915186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS111728921482


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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