Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 38626
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-38626.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, St Day, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
East Wheal Virgin
West Wheal Virgin
Wheal Fortune
Wheal Girl
Wheal Lovelace (Wheal Lovely)
Wheal Virgin

Latitude: 50°14'5"N
Longitude: 5°9'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.234722222222,-5.1597222222222

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.

Allophane	Amphibole	Andalusite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Chalcanthite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Diaspore	Feldspar
Fluorite	Gypsum	Malachite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite	Tourmaline

Actinolite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Cassiterite ()*
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*
Cuprite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Libethenite ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Olivenite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pseudomalachite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schorl ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tenorite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 B Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P S Si Sn U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Andalusite Arsenopyrite Baryte Chalcanthite Chalcopyrite Copper Diaspore Feldspar
Fluorite Gypsum Malachite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rutile Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite Tourmaline

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	0		3419
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	117618	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	117619,117623	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	2	117619,117623	5171
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcanthite	Cu(SO₄)·5H₂O	0		925
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	117619	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	117618,117620,117623	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	117619	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	117619,117623	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	117619,117623	2970
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	117619	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	117620	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Libethenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(PO₄)(OH)	1	117619	234
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	117619,117623	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Olivenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH)	1	117619	492
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	0		2349
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	1	117619	369
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	117618,117620,117623	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	117618,117619,117620,117623	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	117620	2705
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	117618	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	117623	1803
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	0		1101
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	117623	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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