The Cornish Mineral Heritage website focuses on Cornwall and West Devon’s mineralogical and mining heritage. Specimens are from the collection of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (RIC) held at the…
Tennantite, Monazite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Metallic tennantite crystals with brown monazite. Ex William Jefferis Collection. Ex Carnegie Museum Collection. Ex L. Oswald Collection.
Clinoclase, Cornwallite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Blue clinoclase with green cornwallite. Ex Bernie Day Collection.
Clinoclase, Olivenite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Blue bladed clinoclase with green olivenite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Liroconite, Olivenite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Light blue liroconite with green prismatic olivenite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Liroconite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Deep blue liroconite from Wheal Gorland in the Albert Chapman Collection, Australian Museum, Sydney. Specimen is many cm wide.
Olivenite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Olive-green prismatic crystals of olivenite.
Olivenite, Chrysocolla, Clinoclase, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Olive-green olivenite with pale blue chrysocolla and clinoclase (not in picture).
Chalcophyllite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Transparent platy green crystals of chalcophyllite.
Pharmacosiderite, Chalcophyllite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Green cubes of pharmacosiderite with pale blue platy chalcophyllite.
Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall
Within the pantheon of legendary Cornish mining districts, few names resonate with the same historical and mineralogical significance as Wheal Gorland. Located in the heart of the St. Day area…
Clinoclase, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Blue Clinoclase crystals on matrix from St. Day, Cornwall, England. Ex Bob Rothenberg collection, previously from the John Frederick Calvert collection (died 1897).