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Mines of Gwennap & the Carnon Valley
GWENNAP AREA: Gwennap, St Day and Chacewater
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Name of Mine
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Principal Shafts
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Chief Produce
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Notable Minerals
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Wheal Rose
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Adit shaft
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COPPER
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North Hallenbeagle & East Downs
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COPPER & TIN
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Wheal Unity Wood
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Magor, Trefusis shafts
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COPPER
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Pyrites
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Poldice
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Pits-an-Vollar, Blamey's shafts
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TIN
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Galena, Pyrites & Wolfram
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Creegbrawse & Penkevil United
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COPPER & TIN
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Pyrites
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Wheal Bush, Creegbrawse
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COPPER & TIN
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Pyrites
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Boscawen
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COPPER, TIN & ZINC
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Ale & Cakes
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COPPER
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New Clifford
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Engine shaft
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TIN & COPPER
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Wheal Damsel
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Chilcott's, Kit's, Pressure Engine, Old Wheal Damsel, Lockett's, Harvey's, Stephens, Buckingham's, Michael's, Skew's, Old Sump, Foxes', William's, Johns and Hodge's (Footway) Shafts
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COPPER & TIN
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Pyrites & Fluorspar
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West Damsel
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COPPER
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Pyrites
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Wheal Gorland
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COPPER
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Opal
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Wheal Jewell
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COPPER
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Pyrites
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Ting Tang
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Jeffrey's, Morcom's, Footway, Amelia's, Bawoon George, Lovelace, Wheal Moyle and Roache's Engine Shafts
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COPPER
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Pyrites & Malachite
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United Mines (Clifford Amalgamated)
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Eldon's, Taylor's and Garland's shafts
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COPPER
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Pyrites & Malachite
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Tresavean & Tretharrup
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Morcom's; Bell; Devonshire; North; Roger's; Highburrow; Mitchell's; Caddy's; William's; Teague's; Magor's & Harvey's Engine shaft
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TIN & COPPER
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Galena & Pyrites
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Pengenna Mine
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Lead & Silver
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THE CARNON VALLEY: Bissoe to the coast
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Name of Mine
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Principal Shafts
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Chief Produce
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Notable Minerals
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Great Wheal Busy
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Harvey's Engine shaft
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Copper & Tin;
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Arsenic
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North Wheal Busy
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Engine shaft
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TIN & COPPER
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Killifreth
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Hawkes & Black Dog shaft
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Lead & Silver
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Nangiles
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Engine shaft
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COPPER & TIN
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Pyrites
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Wheal Jane & West Wheal Jane
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Beechers, Clemow's & No.2 shafts
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TIN, ZINC, COPPER & SILVER
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Galena & Pyrites
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Carnon Consolidated Mines
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Sampson's shaft
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Mount Wellington (Wheal Magpie)
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Amy shaft
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North Jane
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TIN & SILVER-LEAD
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East Wheal Falmouth
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Chappel's shaft
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SILVER-LEAD & MANGANESE
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Galena, Silver & Pyrites
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Consolidated Mines (Consols)
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Bawden's, Old Sump, Skewes', Michell's, Pearce's, Davey's, Job's, Taylor's and Woolf's shafts
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COPPER
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Cassiterite & Pyrites
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West Garras
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Lead & Silver
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Constantine Mine
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IRON
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Wheal Trefusis
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LEAD
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Swanpool Mine
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LEAD
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Galena & Pyrites
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