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CASSITERITE' 'alluvial'
CASSITERITE' 'alluvial'
 
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Wheal Carnon 'Restrongeot Creek Mine; Deveron, Cornwall.

A very rare specimen from Wheal Carnon displaying water worn pebbles of black cassiterite from .5mm to 1cm with a few larger pebbles of slate, all are cemented together by iron oxide.

This mine was worked in the early 1800s from a shaft in the centre of Restrongeot Creek. The shaft was sunk through sixty feet of mud to get at the alluvial tin deposits on the valley floor, the mine water was pumped using flat rods driven by an engine on the shoreline very similar to the method used at the Wherry Mine, Penzance. One wall of the engine house can still be seen today on the shoreline just below Deveron Village.

From the collection's of Peter Golly and in turn David Kneebone.

Size 6.5 x 4 x 3 cm


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