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St Just Mining District, Cornwall

Mineral locality Inferred from historyPermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: cassiterite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: coastal tin/copper mines

World Heritage tin district documented on mindat for cassiterite, arsenopyrite and copper minerals across many mines.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Shafts, unstable cliffs, tides

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