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.
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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.
Further reading
- Mindat lists 48 mineral specimens.
- Northern Mine Research Society write-up on Botallack Mine.
- Cornwall Calling write-up on the mine.
If you are interested in other classic British locales we may have stock from the following locales.
British locales
I have only included the pieces attributed to specific places; not simply 'Weardale' for example.
Click here for a full list of British minerals.
Ceredigion Conwy, Wales Cornwall
- Great South Tolgus, Tarewaste, Cornwall
- Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall
- Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Cornwall
- Melbur China Clay Pit, St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall
- Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall - formerly Trinity Mine
- South Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall
- Trevinnick Mine, St Kew, Cornwall
- West Wheal Jewel, St Day, Cornwall
- Wheal Cock, St Just, Cornwall
- Wheal Sparnon, Redruth, Cornwall
- Wheal Wrey, St Ive, Cornwall
- Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria
- Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Eskett Quarry, Copeland, Cumbria
- Florence-Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Cumbria
- Goose Green Mine, Frizington, Cumbria
- Kinniside Mine, Copeland, Cumbria
- Mowbray mine, Frizington, Cumbria
- Old Brandlehow Mine, Keswich, Cumbria
- Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria.
- Drakelands Mine, Sparkwell, Devon
- Hemerdon Mine, Sparkwell, Devon
- High Down Quarry, West Buckland, Devon
- New England Quarry, Yealmpton, Devon
- Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland, Devon
- Chipping Sodbury Quarry - formerly Hampstead Farm Quarry
- Hampstead Farm Quarry, now Chipping Sodbury Quarry
- Breedon Hill Quarry, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire
- Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire
- New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire
For the rest of our British stock, see below.
Great Britain
Fossils from Great Britain - Minerals from Great Britain