Fluorite from
Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

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Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite, etc.

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite, etc.

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite, etc.

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite

Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Classification
Locality type:	Mine
Species:	Fluorite
Formula:	CaF₂
Comments:	A little known fact is that fluorite was apparently mined as smelting flux, although there are no production figures (W. Phillips, ca. 1805).
Habit:	Cubes and cubo-octahedrons
Colour:	Green
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz	13
Chalcopyrite	1
Granite	1
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo Gallery	View Gallery (15 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	5361
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:5361:7
GUID (UUID V4):	0
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite

0.6km (0.4 miles)	ⓘ Wheal Unity, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles)	ⓘ Wheal Unity Wood (Tolgullow United Mine; West Poldice Mine), Chacewater, Cornwall, England, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles)	ⓘ St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles)	ⓘ Wheal Jewel, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles)	ⓘ Park-an-Chy Mine, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles)	ⓘ East Wheal Damsel, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
1.1km (0.7 miles)	ⓘ Wheal Damsel, Wheal Damsel United Mines, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles)	ⓘ Poldice Mine, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.3km (0.8 miles)	ⓘ West Wheal Virgin, Great Consolidated Mines, Clifford Amalgamated Mines, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
1.4km (0.9 miles)	ⓘ North Wheal Grambler, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Rocks & Minerals 17, 129. *Phillips, William (1823) An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy* (3rd ed.) Hogg, Thomas (1825) A Manual of Mineralogy - In which is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science. W. Polybank High Cross, Truro. Henwood, William Jory (1843) On the Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 5. 1-386 Hall, Townshend M. (1868) The Mineralogist's Directory: or, a guide to the Principal Mineral Localities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Edward Stanford. Hill, J. B., MacAlister, D. A. (1906) The Geology of Falmouth and Truro and of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth - Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Geological Survey of Great Britain. Russell, Arthur (1911) On the occurrence of Phenacite in Cornwall. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 16 (73) 55-62 doi:10.1180/minmag.1911.016.073.08**

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Fluorite from Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK

Fluorite from
Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England, UK