Mines with Podiform Deposits

2 linked mines · Geology: Podiform Deposits

Listed only where MineArchive's own research gives a reasonable evidential basis for the connection — not every mine where this geology might plausibly apply.

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities	Connection
Poltesco Serpentine Works	Cornwall	From early 18th century–1893	Serpentine, Talc	(historical documentary reference) Poltesco worked the Lizard Complex serpentinite itself, as decorative stone and soapstone — the same serpentinised ultramafic host rock that carries podiform chromite elsewhere, though no chromite was worked here.
Unst Chromite Mines	Shetland Islands	1817 (discovery)–1944	Chromite	(well documented example) Unst's chromite occurs as isolated pods within serpentinised ultramafic rock, part of an ophiolite emplaced during the Caledonian orogeny — the defining example of this deposit type in Britain.

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