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Mines in the Camborne & Crowan Area


Fortescue's Engine House, Grenville United Mines


KERRIER: 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

Western; Engine and Wheal Harriet Eastern Shaft

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 (Tolvaddon)

Blewett's; Pearce's; Doctor's; Pressure; Paul's; Footway and Daylight shafts

TIN & COPPER

Galena, Zinc, Jasper & Opal

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

 

East Wheal Seton

Cartwright's; Basset's; and Engine shafts

TIN & COPPER

 

South Tolcarne

Taylor's shaft & Gossan shaft

TIN & COPPER

Pyrites

Grenville United

Fortescue's, Goold's and Marshall's

COPPER

 

Wheal Crofty

Engine, Valley & Adit shafts

TIN

Wolfram

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

COPPER & TIN

Wolfram & Silver

Wheal Pendarves United

Simm's shaft

TIN

 


Marriott's Compressor House, South Wheal Frances


KERRIER: Crowan Parish

Name of Mine

Principal Shafts

Chief Produce

Notable Minerals

Trenoweth Mine

 

 

 

Crenver & Wheal Abraham

 

TIN & COPPER

 

Trevoole Mine

Engine, Stephen's & Harvey's shafts

COPPER

 

Wheal Sarah

 

 

 

South Crenver

 

COPPER

 

Wheal Vrawz

 

TIN

 

Clowance Wood

 

COPPER

 

Oatfield Mine

 

 

 

Pengelly Great Work Mine

 

TIN

 

Carbona Mine

 

 

 

Wheal Millet

 

COPPER

 

Wheal Treasury

 

COPPER

 

Binner Downs

 

COPPER

 

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