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Mines in the Camborne & Crowan Area

Fortescue's Engine House, Grenville United Mines


Camborne Area

Name of Mine

Principal Shafts

Chief Produce

Notable Minerals

Camborne Vean (including Wheal Frances)

Western; Engine; New Engine; Town and Eastern shafts

COPPER 1845-85 & TIN 1857-84

 

Stray Park Mine

Wheal Gons; Footway; Old Engine; Old East; Old Dolcoath and Eastern shafts

TIN & COPPER

Until 1870

Carn Camborne

Engine, Western, Eastern, Masterman's & Rothschild's Shafts

TIN & COPPER

 

Great Condurrow

Woolf's (Neame's); Smith's; Hope's & Vivian's shaft

TIN & COPPER

 

South Condurrow (Old Tye) later renamed King Edward VII Mine

Plantation; King's; William's; Fraser's & New shaft

TIN & COPPER

 

Dolcoath

Williams', Valley, Old Sump, New Sump, New East, Wheal Killas, Roskear, New Roskear, Dunkins Footway Shaft and Wheal Harriet

COPPER, TIN & SILVER

Bismuth, Wolfram, Galena, Arsenic, Cobalt & Amethyst

South Roskear (including Wheal Chance, Gustavus Mine and Wheal Gerry)

Dunstanville; Wellington; Engine; Crosscourse; Hartley's; Lamb; Western Whim; Gregory; Hollyhock; Dunkins; Hodge; Vivian's; Pendarves' and Taylor's Shafts

COPPER, TIN & ZINC

Arsenic

North Roskear

Blewett's Shaft, Pearce's Shaft, Paul's Shaft, William Henry Shaft, Old Doctor's Shaft and New Doctor's Shaft

COPPER & TIN

Arsenic, zinc, cobalt and bismuth

Wheal Seton

Simmons'; Carlyon's; Tregonning's; Tilly's; Footway; Barwell's shafts

TIN & COPPER

 

West Wheal Seton

Mitchell's; Old; Hidderley & Harvey's shafts

TIN & COPPER

 

South Tolcarne

Taylor's shaft & Gossan shaft

COPPER & TIN

Pyrites

Grenville United

Fortescue's, Goold's and Marshall's

COPPER

 

South Crofty 1854-1998

Blight's; Sincock's; Sump; Robinson's; Rutter's and Palmer's shafts

TIN

 

North Crofty
(East Crofty)

New Cook's Kitchen; New Cook's Kitchen Engine shafts; Richard's; Petherick's and Tredinnick; John's; Burgess'; Praed's; Rule's and Cherry Garden shafts

COPPER & TIN

Wolfram & Arsenic

North Dolcoath

Silver Shaft; Engine Shaft; Whim Shaft and Vivian's Shaft

COPPER

Silver, Tin, Wolfram & Lead

Pendarves United

Simm's shaft

TIN

 


Marriott's Compressor House, South Wheal Frances


Crowan Parish

Name of Mine

Principal Shafts

Chief Produce

Notable Minerals

Crenver & Wheal Abraham

Pelly's, Gard's, Yate's, William's, Richard's, Blewitt's, Vivian's, Woolf's, St. George's, Oatfield, Hoskin's, Crenver and Pressure (or Trenoweth) Shafts

COPPER

Tin

Trevoole Mine

Engine, Stephen's & Harvey's shafts

COPPER

 

South Crenver

Varnishe's, Carne's Engine and Gore's Shafts

COPPER

Tin

Binner Downs

North Mine and South Mine

COPPER

Iron Ore, Galena, Limonite, Tin & Pyrite

Wheal Treasury

Wheal Maid, Emmon's, Edwards', Hasleton's, Harvey's, Bull's, Dunsford's, Bates, Stonegate, Middle West, Coulson's, Fields, Pressure, Carne, Penny, Whim, Blewett's, Paul's, Proctor's, Parry's, Swaine, Painter's, Mackay's, Vivian's and Williams' Shafts

COPPER

 

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