Wheal Gorland

St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

A mixed metals mine near St Day which was exploited for arsenic, copper, tin and tungsten.

Mindat lists over sixty minerals from the site including five for which it is the type locality – chenevixite, clinoclase, cornwallite, kernowite, and liroconite.

There are a range of interesting specimens from this site – fine cuprite, and a range of radioactive minerals including torbernite, meta-torbernite, uraninite, etc.

The mine was first worked in around 1792 and worked off and on until the mine was finally closed in 1906.

 

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