Mines in the Camborne & Crowan Area
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
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
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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