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Mines of Mid Cornwall
MID CORNWALL: Perranzabuloe and the North 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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Chiverton (Old Cornubian)
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SILVER-LEAD
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Galena
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New Chiverton (Wheal Anna)
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COPPER, LEAD & ZINC
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Galena
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Budnick Consols
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LEAD, ZINC & TIN
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Galena & Pyrites
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Great West Chiverton
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Marshall's & Batter's shafts
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LEAD, SILVER-LEAD & ZINC
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Galena
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Wheal Duchy & Peru
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IRON
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Marcasite & Galena
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Wheal Mexico
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SILVER-LEAD
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Galena & Silver
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Perran Consols (Wheal Vlow)
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Hallett's shaft
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TIN
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Great Retallack
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LEAD & ZINC
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Galena & Silver
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East Wheal Rose
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Mitchell's Engine, Penrose's, Parkinson's, Foster's, Robert's & Baynard's Shafts
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LEAD & SILVER-LEAD
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Galena & Pyrites
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North Wheal Rose
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Strong's, Underlay, Footway Engine, Phillpott's & Jubilee shafts
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LEAD & SILVER-LEAD
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Galena & Pyrites
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Ruthers (Ruthvoes)
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Footway and Engine Shafts
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IRON & MANGANESE
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Haematite
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Parka Consols (Toldish Tin Mine)
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Engine Shaft
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TIN
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Parka
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Main and Garlands Shafts
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TIN
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Castle-an-Dinas Mine
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South shaft, North Shaft
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WOLFRAM
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Belowda (Beacon Hill Mine)
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TIN
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Wheal Boys
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ANTIMONY
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Antimonite
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Padstow Consols (Trevone Consols)
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SILVER-LEAD
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King Arthur Mine
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SILVER-LEAD
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Galena
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Pengenna Mine
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Lead & Silver
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MID CORNWALL: St. Austell, Lanivet, Luxulyan & Par
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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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South Terras
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Jem, New Adit, Old Pump and Gossan shafts
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Uranium
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Tin, Iron Ore, Ochre & Umber
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Wheal James, Retire, Colbriggan & Rosewarrick
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IRON
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Haematite & Bismuth
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Mulberry Hill
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Tin
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Tretoil (Lanivet Consols)
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Water, Edwards, Bakers, Elizabeths, Moor, Johns, Engine, Henwoods and Williams Shafts
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COPPER & TIN
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Tin
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Restormel Royal
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IRON
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Haematite, Bismuth, Uranium, Barite, Psilomelane and Goethite
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Carclaze
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TIN
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Galena
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St. Austell Consolidated
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Dowsons Engine, Flatrod, Strawberry Eastern, Corner, Youngs Boundary, Strawberry Western, Heaths, Blewitts and Hawkins Shafts
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COPPER & TIN
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Lead, Arsenic, Mixed Cobalt & Nickel & Uranium
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Great Crinnis
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COPPER
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Galena & Silver
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Great Hewas United
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Wheal Elizabeth, Stanlies, Warns, Engine, Corner, East, Northies, Charles', Gerrys, Footway, Adit, Hewas and Underlay Shafts
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TIN
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Copper, Lead & Silver
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Great Dowgas
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Boundary, Engine, Trevanions, Western, Rhodes and Blinkens Shafts
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TIN & COPPER
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Bismuth & Cobalt
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Great Polgooth
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Davey's shaft, William's shaft, Reeds shaft, Little Mulvra shaft, Stitch shaft, George's shaft, Snailcreep shaft, Brazier's shaft, Old Glands shaft, New Glands shaft, Botterals shaft, Varcoes shaft, Morcoms shaft, Vanvean shaft, St Martins shaft, Clark's shaft, Eustace's shaft, Phillis' Old shaft and Burn's shafts
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TIN & COPPER
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Amethyst
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South Polgooth
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Engine (or Main) shaft and Baldue shafts
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TIN
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Fowey Consols
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COPPER
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Bismuth, Nickel & Silver
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Maudlin Mines
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COPPER & TIN
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Garnet, Jasper, Opal & Wolfram
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Par Consols
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COPPER & TIN
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Haematite
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Polmear
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Barratts, Jobs, Lukes, Engine, Counthouse, Derricks, Lobbs, Footway, Gewens, Gardiners, Gewens Eastern, Smithys and Moyles Shafts
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COPPER & PYRITES
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Zinc, Arsenic, Tin, Lead and Silver
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Old Beam Mine
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Williams, Rashleighs, Hoskins, Martyns, Phillips, Nancocks, Engine and Tremaynes Shafts
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Treverbyn Tin Mines
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Huppucks, Simmons, Lukes, Pellys, Hodges, Buckleys, Thomsons, Cunninghams, Grays, Kenworthys, Sunderlands, Eastern Whim, Western Whim, No.1, Carnsmerry Whim and Rawsons Shafts
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TIN
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St Blazey Consols
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Hitchins Shaft
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TIN
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Blencowe
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Old Engine, Joblings and Lamberts Shafts
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TIN
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