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Cape Cornwall, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. 1904View of Cape Cornwall from the St Just United mine. Photographer: Unknown
Gold, Carnon Stream Works, Perranarworthal, Cornwall, EnglandGold is a native element and precious metal which has been prized by mankind for thousands of years for its beauty, malleability and resistance to corrosion
Wheal Vivian, Constantine, Cornwall. Early 1900sPhotograph of the disused minestack at Wheal Vivian. Mining ended there in 1864. It was due to the development of this mine that the Churchtown grew substantially from a mere hamlet in 1820
Cape Cornwall, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Date unknownA distant view of Cape Cornwall with Little Bounds on the right, two disused mine engine houses, domestic dwellings and gardens and seventeen boats on the beach. Part of the A.K
Copper, United Mines, Gwennap, Cornwall, EnglandThis specimen was drawn for Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh (1797, Volume 1, Plate 17)
Copper, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, EnglandA dendritic growth of copper crystals. Also known as native copper, the specimen is pure copper, uncombined with any other elements
Chalcocite, Cooks Kitchen Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, EnglandCoarse platy chalcocite
Cuprite with Minor Quartz, Gwennap, Cornwall, EnglandThis specimen was drawn for Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh (1797, Volume 1, Plate 16)
Scorodite, Tincroft Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, EnglandThis specimen was drawn for Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh (1797, Volume 1, Plate 9, Figure 3) which states Is copper ore of a dull olive-green colour
Chalcopyrite with Quartz and Minor Sphalerite, United KingdomThis specimen was drawn for Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh (1797, Volume 1, Plate 7, Figure 3) which states Is yellow copper ore
Chalcopyrite with Malachite, East Pool Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, EnglandCapillary chalcopyrite with malachite
Malachite, North Wheal Basset, Illogan, Cornwall, EnglandClusters of botryoidal malachite crystals. Malachite is a common hydrated copper carbonate secondary mineral, formed by the near surface weathering of primary sulphide minerals
Cassiterite, Ulu Johan, Ipoh, Kinta district, Southern Perak, MalaysiaThis large specimen of water worn cassiterite was brought to Cornwall from Malaysia by Redruth businessman James Wickett in 1910
Torbernite on Quartz, Wheal Basset, Illogan, Cornwall, EnglandAn earthy, orange coated, quartz mass bearing fine towers and clusters of books of emerald to bottle green square plates of torbernite
Abandoned Engine House at St Agnes, Cornwall. 1920sGlass lantern slide from a lecture, entitled Some Historic Cornish Beauty Spots, given by Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, in around 1925
