West Wheal Eliza, Charlestown United and Cuddra Consolidated Mines, St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK
Elongate cassiterite crystals embedded in quartz veins in lode material. Self collected several years ago from the dumps of Remfreys Shaft, West Wheal Eliza.
© Dale Foster Collection
Polished section of cassiterite bearing veinstone. Specimen collected from surviving dumps in the vicinity of Remfreys Shaft.
A narrow veinlet of cassiterite (second veinlet from the right side of specimen) traversing an iron hard quartz/tourmaline veinstone matrix. Self collected 8th January 2017 at the dumps of Remfreys Shaft, West Wheal Eliza.
Siderite crystals with goethite on a large block of killas breccia cemented by quartz and considerable fine grained cassiterite. Self collected from dumps at Remfry's Shaft in early 2015.
Elongated crystals of cassiterite, some approximating the form known as 'sparable tin' embedded in quartz / tourmaline lode material. Self collected several years ago from dump of Remfreys Shaft, West Wheal Eliza.
A breccia matrix of quartz-tourmaline clasts cemented by quartz and tourmaline and rich in fine grained brown cassiterite. Part of a large block of lode material found on the dumps of Remfrey's Shaft of West Wheal Eliza mine in February 2015. Specimen cut and polished by Peter Trebilcock.
© Dale Foster collection
Very fine grained cassiterite intergrown with quartz cementing a brecciated matrix. Self collected from dumps close to Remfreys Shaft in 2015.
Heavily overgrown dump of Remfreys Shaft of West Wheal Eliza. The choked collar of the shaft lies beyond the crest of the dump behind the clump of trees visible here.
Whilst the site of the old West Wheal Eliza Mine has largely been obliterated by modern development, both industrial and residential, the mining past has been recognised in the name of a small residential cul-de-sac - Cassiterite Close.
Other dumps at the Remfreys Shaft location.