Wheal Edward

Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK

A former copper, tin, and uranium mine which produced a range of mineral specimens.

Mindat lists over 40 minerals from the site. Collectors might be especially interested in the cassiterite from the site, or the various radioactive minerals – including autunite, meta-autunite, torbernite, meta-torbernite, pitchblende, uranophane, and zeunerite.

Pitchblende from this site was even sent to Marie Curie.

The site was worked as early as 1775, and eventually closed around 1850-1860.

I would highly recommend reading the National Trust writeup on the property below; although it doesn’t have much (anything) in the way of paragraphs or spacing, it is a long and detailed history of the site.

 

Further reading

 

 

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