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The South-West England District — U.K.

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The south-western peninsula of England has had a long history of Mineral production; tin and copper were worked by the Ancients; it was one of the world’s leading copper districts in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, later becoming important for tin and tungsten, and today it is one of the most important kaolinite producers. These are typical hydrothermal deposits associated with granite and show all the characteristic features of zoning, alteration and polyphase Mineralization.

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Further Reading

  • Dines, H. G. (1956), The Metalliferous Mining Region of Southwest England (2nd edn., 1969), Memoirs of the Geol. Survl of G. Britain, London, H.M. Stationery Office, 2 vols. 795pp. [The standard work on the area, but a bit verbose for all but the specialist.]

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  • Hosking, K. F. G. and Shrimpton, G. J. (ed.) (1964), Present Views of some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon. 150th Anniversary Edition of the Royal Geological Soc. of Cornwall, Penzance. Royal Geol. Soc. Cornwall, 330pp. [A very good review volume which includes a good paper on the Mineralization by the first editor.]

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  • Bristow, C. M. (1968), Kaolinite Deposits of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and N. Ireland. XXIII Int. Geol. Cong. — Prague, Vol. 15, pp. 275–88. [Despite its title this paper is largely about the deposits of Cornwall and Devon and the best on the subject. The remaining papers in the same volume were all presented at a symposium on Kaolinite Deposits of the World.]

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    Colin J. Dixon (Senior Lecturer in Mining Geology)

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Dixon, C.J. (1979). The South-West England District — U.K.. In: Atlas of Economic Mineral Deposits. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6511-2_42

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