Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 39010
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39010.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Carnhot Mine
Creegbrawse
East Wheal Chance
Great Wheal Busy (Chacewater Mine)
Hallenbeagle Mine
Kellewarris Mine (?)
Killifreth Mine
Twelveheads
Wheal Daniell
Wheal Jane (Falmouth Consolidated Mines)
Wheal Seymour (Wheal Ann)
Wheal Truro
Wheal Unity Wood (Tolgullow United Mine; West Poldice Mine)

Latitude: 50°15'17"N
Longitude: 5°10'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.254722222222,-5.1697222222222

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.

Andalusite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Cobaltite	Diaspore	Fluorite	Marcasite	Mica
Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Perovskite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Skutterudite	Sphalerite
Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cobaltite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Olivenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Schorl ()*	Scorodite ()*	Siderite ()*	Skutterudite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tenorite ()*	Titanite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 C Ca Co Cu F Fe H K Mo Na O Pb S Si Sn Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Cobaltite Diaspore Fluorite Marcasite Mica
Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Perovskite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Skutterudite Sphalerite
Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2	117458,117461	2162
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	7	117452,117458,117459,117461,117469,117472,117474	9052
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	15	117450,117452,117455,117456,117458,117459,117461,117463,117464,117465,117466,117468,117469,117472,117474	5171
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	117474	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	12	117452,117458,117459,117460,117461,117466,117468,117469,117470,117472,117473,117474	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1	117461	966
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	117458,117474	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	117457,117458,117460,117473,117474	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	117474	7437
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	117468	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	117461,117474	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	117458	17380
Olivenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH)	1	117474	492
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	8	117452,117456,117458,117459,117461,117468,117469,117474	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	117458,117459,117461,117468,117469,117474	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	2	117461,117474	2705
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	117474	1153
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	117474	6417
Skutterudite ()*	Skutterudite Perovskite	CoAs₃	1	117461	531
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	7	117452,117458,117459,117461,117465,117468,117472	21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	117474	1101
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	117458	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	117458	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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