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⇱ Wheal Bungay, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK

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Wheal Bungay, St Agnes, Cornwall, England, UKi
Regional Level Types
Wheal BungayMine
St AgnesCivil Parish
CornwallCounty
EnglandConstituent Country
UKCountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
50° 18' 45'' North , 5° 13' 46'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
UK National Grid Reference:
SW701509
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Saint Agnes2,820 (2014)1.8km
Mount Hawke1,511 (2017)3.7km
Perranporth3,210 (2017)6.3km
North Country773 (2017)7.0km
Portreath963 (2017)7.2km
Mindat Locality ID:
191350
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:191350:0
GUID (UUID V4):
0


Dines (1956) notes little is known of this mine and nearby Wheal Devonshire and West Polberro located near St Agnes Head.
"At Wheal Bungay there were three shafts, Engine Shaft, a second 300 yds SE of this and another 400 yd SSW. An adit commencing on the cliffs 300 yds W by S of the Engine Shaft extends 17 fathoms E towards a line of old surface workings, trending SE about 130 yards S of Engine Shaft. The dumps contain colourless and green fluorite. Granite of the St Agnes Beacon was penetrated but the place and depth are not known."
More recently ploughed up shoad stones have been recovered here consisting of granite in which cassiterite has replaced blocky feldspar crystals.

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Commodity List

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Mineral List


3 valid minerals.

Rock Types Recorded

Note: data is currently VERY limited. Please bear with us while we work towards adding this information!

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Alphabetical List Tree Diagram

Entries shown in red are rocks recorded for this region.

Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Cassiterite
Formula: SnO2
ⓘ Fluorite
Formula: CaF2
ⓘ Quartz
Formula: SiO2
References:
ⓘ 'Tourmaline'
Formula: AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
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Gallery:

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 3 - Halides
ⓘFluorite3.AB.25CaF2
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
ⓘQuartz4.DA.05SiO2
ⓘCassiterite4.DB.05SnO2
Unclassified
ⓘ'Tourmaline'-AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z

List of minerals for each chemical element

BBoron
Bⓘ TourmalineAD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
OOxygen
Oⓘ CassiteriteSnO2
Oⓘ QuartzSiO2
Oⓘ TourmalineAD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
FFluorine
Fⓘ FluoriteCaF2
SiSilicon
Siⓘ QuartzSiO2
CaCalcium
Caⓘ FluoriteCaF2
SnTin
Snⓘ CassiteriteSnO2

Geochronology

Geologic TimeRocks, Minerals and Events
Phanerozoic
 Paleozoic
  Permian
   Guadalupian
ⓘ Major polymetallic mineralization~270 MaCornwall, England, UK
   Cisuralian
ⓘ Porphyry dikes intruded (latest age)~275 MaCornwall, England, UK
ⓘ Greisenization (latest age)~280 MaCornwall, England, UK
ⓘ Porphyry dikes intruded (earliest age)~280 MaCornwall, England, UK
ⓘ Formation of metallized pegmatites~285 MaCornwall, England, UK
ⓘ Greisenization (earliest age)~285 MaCornwall, England, UK
ⓘ Emplacement of major plutons~295 MaCornwall, England, UK

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