Oxide Gallery
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Choose from 9 pictures in our Oxide collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. All professionally made for Quick Shipping.
Cassiterite, Wherry Mine, Wherrytown, Penzance, Cornwall, England
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Goethite with Calcite, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
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Cassiterite, Wheal Maudlin, Lostwithiel (formerly in Lanlivery Parish), Cornwall, England
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Cassiterite Partly Replacing Orthoclase, Wheal Coates, St Agnes, Cornwall, England
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Chalcocite with Quartz, Cooks Kitchen Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England
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Torbernite on Quartz, Wheal Basset, Illogan, Cornwall, England
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Cassiterite Partly Replacing Orthoclase, Wheal Coates, St Agnes, Cornwall, England
Twinned crystals of orthoclase feldspar partially replaced by cassiterite. This rare kind of replacement, or partial pseudomorph, is best seen in specimens from Wheal Coates, which are now world famous. The crystals were locally called "stannite" which should not be confused with the tin, copper, iron sulphide of the same name. In Cornwall, cassiterite is concentrated in hydrothermal veins and pegmatites associated with granite intrusions. Cassiterite is the primary ore of tin, the most significant metal mined in Cornwall
© RIC, photographer A.G. Tindle