Copper pyrites from Wheal Buller Mine, Cornwall

Made:: before 1889

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Category:: Metallurgy

Object Number:: 1889-164/491

type:: specimen

credit:: John Percy Collection

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Copper pyrites from Wheal Buller Mine, Cornwall

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