Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Towednack, Cornwall, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 33795
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-33795.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Towednack, Cornwall, England, UK": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Amalebra (Amalebrea)
Cripplesease
Lady Downs Mine (Wheal Lady)
Rosewall Hill And Ransom United Mines
Trevega Bal (Trevegia Mine; West St Ives Consols; Brea Consols; Trevessa And Brea Mines)
Wheal Conquer (Wheal Conquer Consols; Lady Downs And Conquer Mine)
Wheal Montague (Great Wheal Cleveland)
Wheal Music
Wheal Sandwich
Wheal Sperris (Wheal Sperries; Wheal Carne)
Wheal Tyringham Consols (West Wheal Providence; Wheal Bussow; Wheal Buzza; Wheal Bussar)
Wheal Union (Wheal Wens; Wheal Winze)

Latitude: 50°11'18"N
Longitude: 5°31'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.188333333333,-5.5247222222222

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The 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.

Corundum	None	Rutile	Tourmaline

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 B Fe H Na O Si Sn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum None Rutile Tourmaline

3 IMA Minerals at location:

Cassiterite ()*	Hematite ()*	Schorl ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	10	119102,119105,119108,119110,119111,119112,119118,119119,119122,119123	5171
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	119123	14640
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	2	119105,119123	2705

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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