Chalcocite from Wheal Cock, Cornwall

Specimen pieces of the mineral Chalcocite from the Wheal Cock, an abandoned copper and tin mine in the collective ‘Botallack Mine’.

Chalcocite from Wheal Cock, St Just, Cornwall

Specimen pieces of the mineral Chalcocite from the Wheal Cock, an abandoned copper and tin mine in the collective 'Botallack Mine'.

This site and its spoilheaps and dumps are now an SSSI and National Trust properties and it is unlikely any permission to collect will be granted.

Chalcocite (Cu₂S) is one of the most profitable copper ores, as it can be very pure, and it is relatively simple to seperate Copper from sulfur.

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