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Mines of Mid Cornwall

MID CORNWALL: Perranzabuloe and the North Coast

Name of Mine

Principal Shafts

Chief Produce

Notable Minerals

Chiverton (Old Cornubian)

 

SILVER-LEAD

Galena

New Chiverton (Wheal Anna)

 

COPPER, LEAD & ZINC

Galena

Budnick Consols

 

LEAD, ZINC & TIN

Galena & Pyrites

Great West Chiverton

Marshall's & Batter's shafts

LEAD, SILVER-LEAD & ZINC

Galena

Wheal Duchy & Peru

 

IRON

Marcasite & Galena

Wheal Mexico

 

SILVER-LEAD

Galena & Silver

Perran Consols (Wheal Vlow)

Hallett's shaft

TIN

 

Great Retallack

 

LEAD & ZINC

Galena & Silver

East Wheal Rose

Mitchell's Engine, Penrose's, Parkinson's, Foster's, Robert's & Baynard's Shafts

LEAD & SILVER-LEAD

Galena & Pyrites

North Wheal Rose

Strong's, Underlay, Footway Engine, Phillpott's & Jubilee shafts

LEAD & SILVER-LEAD

Galena & Pyrites

Ruthers (Ruthvoes)

Footway and Engine Shafts

IRON & MANGANESE

Haematite

Parka Consols (Toldish Tin Mine)

Engine Shaft

TIN

 

Parka

Main and Garlands Shafts

TIN

 

Castle-an-Dinas Mine

South shaft, North Shaft

WOLFRAM

 

Belowda (Beacon Hill Mine)

 

TIN

 

Wheal Boys

 

ANTIMONY

Antimonite

Padstow Consols (Trevone Consols)

 

SILVER-LEAD

 

King Arthur Mine

 

SILVER-LEAD

Galena

Pengenna Mine

 

 

Lead & Silver


MID CORNWALL: St. Austell, Lanivet, Luxulyan & Par

Name of Mine

Principal Shafts

Chief Produce

Notable Minerals

South Terras

Jem, New Adit, Old Pump and Gossan shafts

Uranium

Tin, Iron Ore, Ochre & Umber

Wheal James, Retire, Colbriggan & Rosewarrick

 

IRON

Haematite & Bismuth

Mulberry Hill

 

 

Tin

Tretoil (Lanivet Consols)

Water, Edwards, Bakers, Elizabeths, Moor, Johns, Engine, Henwoods and Williams Shafts

COPPER & TIN

Tin

Restormel Royal

 

IRON

Haematite, Bismuth, Uranium, Barite, Psilomelane and Goethite

Carclaze

 

TIN

Galena

St. Austell Consolidated

Dowsons Engine, Flatrod, Strawberry Eastern, Corner, Youngs Boundary, Strawberry Western, Heaths, Blewitts and Hawkins Shafts

COPPER & TIN

Lead, Arsenic, Mixed Cobalt & Nickel & Uranium

Great Crinnis

 

COPPER

Galena & Silver

Great Hewas United

Wheal Elizabeth, Stanlies, Warns, Engine, Corner, East, Northies, Charles', Gerrys, Footway, Adit, Hewas and Underlay Shafts

TIN

Copper, Lead & Silver

Great Dowgas

Boundary, Engine, Trevanions, Western, Rhodes and Blinkens Shafts

TIN & COPPER

Bismuth & Cobalt

Great Polgooth

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

TIN & COPPER

Amethyst

South Polgooth

Engine (or Main) shaft and Baldue shafts

TIN

 

Fowey Consols

 

COPPER

Bismuth, Nickel & Silver

Maudlin Mines

 

COPPER & TIN

Garnet, Jasper, Opal & Wolfram

Par Consols

 

COPPER & TIN

Haematite

Polmear

Barratts, Jobs, Lukes, Engine, Counthouse, Derricks, Lobbs, Footway, Gewens, Gardiners, Gewens Eastern, Smithys and Moyles Shafts

COPPER & PYRITES

Zinc, Arsenic, Tin, Lead and Silver

Old Beam Mine

Williams, Rashleighs, Hoskins, Martyns, Phillips, Nancocks, Engine and Tremaynes Shafts

 

 

Treverbyn Tin Mines

Huppucks, Simmons, Lukes, Pellys, Hodges, Buckleys, Thomsons, Cunninghams, Grays, Kenworthys, Sunderlands, Eastern Whim, Western Whim, No.1, Carnsmerry Whim and Rawsons Shafts

TIN

 

St Blazey Consols

Hitchins Shaft

TIN

 

Blencowe

Old Engine, Joblings and Lamberts Shafts

TIN

 

Trevithick Society

Geevor Mine

Levant Mine

Walking the Tramways

Mineral Tramways Project

West Penwith Resources

Cornish Miners Association

www.cornish-mining.org.uk

Poldark Mine

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