Hallenbeagle Mine, Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UKi
Regional Level Types | |
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Hallenbeagle Mine | Mine (Abandoned) |
Chacewater | Civil Parish |
Cornwall | County |
England | Constituent Country |
UK | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
50° 15' 28'' North , 5° 11' 26'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
UK National Grid Reference:
SW726447
Type:
Mine (Abandoned) - last checked 2020
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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St. Day | 700 (2011) | 2.1km |
Chacewater | 1,226 (2017) | 2.4km |
Mount Hawke | 1,511 (2017) | 3.0km |
North Country | 773 (2017) | 3.4km |
Redruth | 42,690 (2017) | 3.6km |
Mindat Locality ID:
194374
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:194374:3
GUID (UUID V4):
b54fee26-64a0-4a5a-9844-8495e7e5288a
A copper mine, located east of the South Wheal Hawke and Wheal Rose sections of the Great North Downs Mine. The sett extends northwards along the eastern side of the Great Western railway. To the north, it is adjoined by the Eastdowns and Boscawen mines; to the south, it borders the workings of East Wheal Chance. Extensive spoil heaps are located on both sides of Sawmills lane. Coordinates given are those of Reed's shaft in the southern part of the sett, where a ruined engine house is located.
The mine worked four lodes; from north to south, these are North lode, South lode, Reed's lode and Oat's lode. The latter two are probably estward extensions of the lodes worked at South Wheal Hawke. In 1943, when the mines in the area were prospected for tungsten, a shaft was re-opened and cleared to a depth of 140 ft below surface, where a level following a copper lode was encountered. The lode, which was followed for a distance of 230 ft, consisted of a hard quartz leader with a vuggy centre carrying chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrite and sphalerite, but did not contain any wolframite. The source of the wolframite ore found in the dumps on the surface could not be located.
Hallenbeagle mine was included for some time with the Great Wheal Busy group. From 1835 to 1846, it produced 30,580 tons of 6% copper ore; it also raised some black tin and arsenopyrite.
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
6 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
ⓘ Arsenopyrite Formula: FeAsS |
ⓘ Cassiterite Formula: SnO2 |
ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS |
ⓘ 'Wolframite Group' |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
ⓘ | Arsenopyrite | 2.EB.20 | FeAsS |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
ⓘ | Cassiterite | 4.DB.05 | SnO2 |
ⓘ | 'Wolframite Group' | 4.DB.30 va |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Cassiterite | SnO2 |
O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
Cu | Copper | |
Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Zn | Zinc | |
Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
As | Arsenic | |
As | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
Sn | Tin | |
Sn | ⓘ Cassiterite | SnO2 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
British and Irish IslesGroup of Islands
Eurasian PlateTectonic Plate
EuropeContinent
UK
- England
- Cornwall
- Camborne-Redruth and St Day Mining DistrictMining District
- Devon and Cornwall metalliferous mining districtMining District
- Cornwall
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