Pencrose Consols

aka Pencorse Consols or East Shepherds


Lead and Zinc Mine

Worked from 1848

Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot


Cornwall
Mitchell
50.363465, -4.996232
SW 8700 5580
Private Land
71m
#8,095

dumps located in fields northeast of Trevessa Farm, along with a collapsed crosscut adit to the northwest. This site represents a bedded lead-zinc deposit that was exploited between 1854 and 1860, yielding approximately 4,000 tons of zinc ore and 18 tons of lead ore.

Publications (3)

  • (1921); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXI - Lead, Silver and Zinc: Cornwall, Devon, Somerset; 88 pages
  • Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
  • Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol2, The; 335 pages

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