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Cligga Head, Perranporth

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Cassiterite, wolframite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Granite cupola with sheeted greisen veins

Classic tin-tungsten locality; tidal foreshore and old explosives-works site.

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