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Updated: May 11, 2025
Occasionally the metallic ores are disseminated in detached masses among the vein-stones. The various changes here represented are not ideal, but are exhibited in a section obtained in working an old Cornish mine, long since abandoned, in the parish of Redruth, called Huel Peever, and described both by Mr. Williams and Mr. Carne.
Vertical section of the mine of Huel Peever, Redruth, Cornwall. Vertical section of the mine of Huel Peever, Redruth, Cornwall. As some intelligent miners, after an attentive study of metalliferous veins, have been unable to reconcile many of their characteristics with the hypothesis of fissures, I shall begin by stating the evidence in its favour.
Metalliferous veins referable to such agency are occasionally a few inches wide, but more commonly three or four feet. They hold their course continuously in a certain prevailing direction for miles or leagues, passing through rocks varying in mineral composition. Vertical sections of the mine of Huel Peever, Redruth, Cornwall. Vertical section of the mine of Huel Peever, Redruth, Cornwall.
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