Wheal Cock

Wheal Cock, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England

Wheal Cock is 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.

The mine produced a wide range of copper minerals and other interesting mineral specimens, but no further collecting is permitted from the site without permission.

As a result, older specimens are likely to be all that come to market.

The mine produced fine specimens of bornite, calcite, cassiterite, chalcocite, native copper, fluorapatite, goethite, specularite, malachite, pyrite, quartz, rhodochrosite and siderite. It is also the type locality for Botallackite.

 

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