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Drakelands Mine

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Drakelands Mine, formerly known as Hemerdon Mine or the Hemerdon Ball or Hemerdon Bal Mine, is a tungsten and tin mine. [1]

33 relations: Ammonium paratungstate, Arsenopyrite, Australian Securities Exchange, Cassiterite, Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major, Cupola (geology), Dartmoor tin-mining, Devon, Granite, Greisen, Imerys, Kaolinite, Killas, Korean War, Mactung mine, Metamorphism, Mineral resource classification, Mineral rights, Mining in Cornwall and Devon, Ministry of Supply, Ore, Pharmacosiderite, Plymouth, Plympton, Quartz, Scorodite, Stockwork, Tin, Tungsten, Tungsten trioxide, Winston Churchill, Wolf Minerals, Wolframite.

Ammonium paratungstate

Ammonium paratungstate (or APT) is a white crystalline salt of ammonium and tungsten, with the chemical formula (NH4)10(H2W12O42)·4H2O.

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Arsenopyrite

Arsenopyrite is an iron arsenic sulfide (FeAsS).

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Australian Securities Exchange

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX, sometimes referred to outside Australia as the Sydney Stock Exchange) is Australia's primary securities exchange.

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Cassiterite

Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2.

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Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major

Castle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort at the summit of Castle Downs near St Columb Major in Cornwall, UK and is considered one of the most important hillforts in the southwest of Britain.

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Cupola (geology)

In geology, a cupola is an upward protrusion from the roof of a large igneous intrusion, such as a batholith.

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Dartmoor tin-mining

The Dartmoor tin mining industry is thought to have originated in pre-Roman times, and continued right through to the 20th century, the last commercially worked mine (Golden Dagger Mine) closing in November 1930 (though it saw work during the Second World War).

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Greisen

Greisen is a highly altered granitic rock or pegmatite.

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Imerys

Imerys S.A. is a French multinational company which specialises in the production and processing of industrial minerals.

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Kaolinite

Kaolinite is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

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Killas

Killas is a Cornish mining term for metamorphic rock strata of sedimentary origin which were altered by heat from the intruded granites in the English counties of Devon and Cornwall.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Mactung mine

The Mactung Project is a planned open pit tungsten mine located in the Selwyn Mountains of eastern Yukon, Canada, on its border with the Northwest Territories.

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Metamorphism

Metamorphism is the change of minerals or geologic texture (distinct arrangement of minerals) in pre-existing rocks (protoliths), without the protolith melting into liquid magma (a solid-state change).

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Mineral resource classification

Mineral resource classification is the classification of mineral resources based on an increasing level of geological knowledge and confidence.

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Mineral rights

Mineral rights are property rights to exploit an area for the minerals it harbors.

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Mining in Cornwall and Devon

Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the south west of England, began in the early Bronze Age, around 2150 BC, and ended (at least temporarily) with the closure of South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall in 1998.

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Ministry of Supply

The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK Government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.

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Ore

An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.

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Pharmacosiderite

Pharmacosiderite is a hydrated basic ferric arsenate, with chemical formula KFe4(AsO4)3(OH)4·(6-7)H2O and a molecular weight of 873.38 g/mol.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.

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Plympton

Plympton, or Plympton Maurice or Plympton St Maurice or Plympton St Mary or Plympton Erle, in south-western Devon, is a populous, north-eastern suburb of the city of Plymouth of which it officially became part, along with Plymstock, in 1967.

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Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

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Scorodite

Scorodite is a common hydrated iron arsenate mineral, with the chemical formula FeAsO4·2H2O.

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Stockwork

In geology, a stockwork is a complex system of structurally controlled or randomly oriented veins.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Tungsten

Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.

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Tungsten trioxide

Tungsten(VI) oxide, also known as tungsten trioxide or tungstic anhydride, WO3, is a chemical compound containing oxygen and the transition metal tungsten.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Wolf Minerals

Wolf Minerals Limited is an ASX (WLF) and AIM (WLFE) listed specialty metals company focused on developing the Drakelands Mine tungsten and tin project, in Devon in the UK.

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Wolframite

Wolframite, (Fe,Mn)WO4, is an iron manganese tungstate mineral that is the intermediate between ferberite (Fe2+ rich) and hübnerite (Mn2+ rich).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakelands_Mine

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