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Wheal Gorland

Copper mines in CornwallIndustrial archaeological sites in CornwallSites of Special Scientific Interest in CornwallSites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1988Tin mines in Cornwall
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Liroconite 76634
Liroconite 76634

Wheal Gorland was a metalliferous mine located just to the north-east of the village of St Day, Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom. It was one of the most important Cornish mines of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, both for the quantity of ore it produced and for the wide variety of uncommon secondary copper minerals found there as a result of supergene enrichment. It is the type locality for the minerals chenevixite, clinoclase, cornwallite, kernowite and liroconite.

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N 50.2417 ° E -5.1839 °
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