Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Callington, Cornwall, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 35089
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-35089.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Callington, Cornwall, England, UK": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Callington Consols
Colquite Mine (South Redmoor Mine; Colquite And Callington United Mine; South Wheal Callington; Wheal Gould)
Pencrebar Wood Mine (Pencrebar Mine; Creva Wood Mine)
Silver Hill Mine (Silverhill Mine)
Wheal Primrose

Latitude: 50°29'55"N
Longitude: 4°18'22"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.498611111111,-4.3061111111111

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Childrenite	Clay	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite
Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al As Cu Fe H K Mn Mo O P Pb S Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Childrenite Clay Mica Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite
Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Childrenite ()*	Galena ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	117242,117243	9052
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	2	117241,117242	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	6	117240,117241,117242,117243,117245,117246	27198
Childrenite ()*	Childrenite	Fe²⁺Al(PO₄)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	117240	93
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	117240,117242,117246	24243
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	117245	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	117242	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	117240,117242,117243	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	117245	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	117240,117242,117243,117245,117246	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	117245	969
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	117242,117243,117246	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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