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Mines of North Cornwall - Wadebridge and beyond



NORTH CORNWALL: Wadebridge and beyond

Name of Mine

Principal Shafts

Chief Produce

Notable Minerals

Trewethen & Pengenna Mine

No.1,No.2,No.3,No.4,No.5 and Cowling's Shafts

Antimony

Lead & Zinc

Treburgett Mine

Adit, Grinder's, Footway, Massey's, John, Engine and Old Engine Shafts

LEAD & SILVER

Zinc, Pyrite & Iron Ore

Trewetha (Wheal Boys)

 

ANTIMONY

Galena, Pyrite, Pyrite, Jamesonite & Bournonite

Great Onslow (Wheal Michell)

Engine and Sump Shafts

COPPER

Pyrite, Blende and Mispickel

Roughtor Mine (Wheal Alexandra)

Morris' Engine Shaft and Thomas' Shaft

COPPER

TIN & Mispickel

Buttern Hill Mine

 

TIN

Wolfram & Ilmenite

Wheal James, Retire, Colbiggan & Rosewarrick

 

IRON

Haematite, Magnetite & Bismuth

Magdalen (Maudlin) Mines

Engine Shaft, Bensons (or Whim) Shaft and South Shaft

COPPER & TIN

Garnet, Jasper, Opal & Wolfram


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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