Tregullon is a hamlet in the parish of

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. In 1884 it was noted as containing three farms and a mine. Tregullon mine was worked for iron, copper and tin. It operated first as "Tregullan Mine" to 1822, then from 1836 as "Tregollan Mine". In 1839 it merged with Tretoil Mine and was known as Consolidated Tretoil mine. Tregullan Quarry contains greenstone,

axinite Axinite is a brown to violet-brown, or reddish-brown bladed group of minerals composed of calcium aluminium boro- silicate, . Axinite is pyroelectric and piezoelectric. The axinite group includes: *Axinite-(Fe) or ferroaxinite, Ca2Fe2+Al2BOSi4O ...

and

calcflinta Calcflinta, or calc-flinta, is a fine grained calc–silicate rock found amongst the metamorphic rocks of the eastern Highlands of Scotland. It is a hornfels developed from calcareous mudstone Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedim ...

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Hamlets in Cornwall {{Cornwall-geo-stub

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