Dolcoath
Copper, Silver, and Tin Mine
Worked from ancient to 1927
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
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Cornwall | |
Camborne | |
50.216322, -5.281413 | |
SW 6600 4030 | |
Private Land | |
114m | |
#8,000 |
See also: Roskear Shaft.
ancient 172 -1788 1811-1921 1923-1927
External Links
Publications (8)
- (1839); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and west Somerset; 729 pages
- (1920); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vols XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII - Fireclay; Arsenic & Antimony Ores; Refactory Materials, Lead & Zinc of Scotland, Rock-Salt and Brine (5 books); 777 pages
- (1923); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXVII - Copper Ores of Devon and Cornwall; 92 pages
- Bird, Richard H. (1970); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-4 Oct - Mineral Fields of Derbyshire and Cornwall - A Brief Comparison, The; 12 pages (312-323)
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
- Joseph Yelloly Watson (1843); Compendium of British Mining, with Statistical Notices… & Glossary; 97 pages
- Palmer, Marilyn and Neaverson, Peter (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-6 Win - Comparative Archaeology of Tin and Lead Dressing in Britain during the Nineteenth Century, The; 32 pages (316-347)
- Willies, Lynn (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-6 Win - Review - Angerstein's Travel Diary, by Torsten and Peter Berg; 2 pages (42-43)
Old Sump Shaft - 64m
New Sump Shaft - 73m
New East Shaft - 150m
Gossan Shaft - 198m
Bryant, Wheal - 223m
Bullen Garden Mine - 223m
Roskearbroas - 223m
South Entral - 223m
North Entral - 316m
Tuckingmill Decline - 389m
William's Shaft - 414m
Eastern Valley Shaft - 419m
Killas, Wheal - 446m
Middle Engine Shaft - 469m
Duncan's Shaft - 559m
Ollie's (Cooks) Shaft - 565m
Chapples Shaft - 576m
Cook's Kitchen - 582m
Roskear Shaft - 608m
New Cook's Kitchen - 639m
Copper Tankard - 670m
Lovely - 681m
Whim Round Shaft - 691m
Plosh, Wheal - 700m
Allen's Shaft - 701m
Roskear - 706m
Stray Park - 719m
Camborne Consols - 726m
Old Engine Shaft - 731m
Gons, Wheal - 779m
Pendarves Shaft - 782m
New Cook's Kitchen Shaft - 792m
Vivian's Shaft - 795m
Tyrie's Shaft - 796m
Vernon, Wheal - 799m
New Roskear Shaft - 807m
Susan, Wheal - 824m
Duncan's Shaft - 846m
South Roskear - 858m
Holly Park Shaft - 889m
Harriett, Wheal - 894m
Mayne's Shaft - 904m
Smith's Shaft - 928m
Sump Shaft - 934m
Hatchet, Wheal - 941m
Old Tincroft Shaft - 942m
Crofty B, Wheal - 948m
Eastern Shaft - 966m
Pressure Shaft - 977m
Gerry, Wheal - 982m
Cherry Garden Shaft - 990m
Engine Shaft - 994m
Knight, Wheal - 1,004m
Kearne's Shaft - 1,007m
Sump Shaft - 1,013m
Town Lode Shaft - 1,013m
Cherry Garden - 1,019m
Crofty A, Wheal - 1,019m
Doctors' Shaft (New) - 1,022m
Carn Camborne - 1,025m
An Owl, Wheal - 1,028m
Heart's Ease - 1,028m
Old South (Carn Brea) Tincroft - 1,028m
Holt - 1,031m
Hope Shaft - 1,031m
Sump Shaft - 1,050m
Trevenson Engine Shaft - 1,052m
Prince William Henry - 1,061m
Simcock's Shaft - 1,062m
Daylight Shaft - 1,066m
Chance, Wheal - 1,074m
Camborne Vean - 1,079m
Tincroft - 1,079m
Condurrow Mines Ltd. - 1,080m
Doctors' Shaft (Old) - 1,084m
Praed's Shaft - 1,095m
North Tolcarne - 1,096m
Western Shaft - 1,105m
Western Shaft - 1,110m
Kitty, Wheal - 1,114m
Dudnance - 1,117m
Blight's Shaft - 1,128m
Paul's Shaft - 1,134m
Illogan Mine - 1,139m
North Crofty, Wheal - 1,139m
Valley Adit - 1,149m
Martin's East Shaft - 1,156m
North Roskear - 1,169m
Trevenson - 1,169m
Willoughby's Shaft - 1,169m
Carnarthen Consols - 1,182m
Pearce's Shaft - 1,202m
Carmarthen - 1,213m
South Crofty, Wheal - 1,219m
Robinson's Shaft - 1,219m
East Crofty - 1,220m
Seton, Wheal - 1,264m
Harvey's Shaft - 1,264m
Hardy - 1,293m
Weeth Mine - 1,299m
Francis, Wheal - 1,301m
Hidderley Shaft - 1,316m
Tredinnick's Shaft - 1,340m
Charmer - 1,343m
Western Shaft - 1,347m
West Seton Burrows Ltd. - 1,365m
Dolcoath Deep Adit - 1,365m
Palmer's Shaft - 1,370m
Gustavus - 1,372m
King Edward VII Mine - 1,411m
William's Shaft - 1,412m
Penhellick Mine - 1,419m
Sump Shaft - 1,420m
Highburrow Shaft - 1,423m
Bowan, Wheal - 1,427m
Camborne Veor - 1,428m
Fanny Shaft - 1,432m
Pool Mine - 1,440m
Parc-an-Bowen - 1,443m
Cock, Wheal - 1,455m
Engine Shaft - 1,455m
South Condurrow - 1,461m
Dunstanville, Wheal - 1,472m
Junction Shaft - 1,472m
Fanny, Wheal - 1,473m
Old Tye - 1,485m
Frazer's Shaft - 1,485m
Condurrow South - 1,486m
King Edward Mine Museum - 1,488m
James's Shaft - 1,490m
New Shaft - 1,492m
Wellington, Wheal - 1,495m
King's Shaft - 1,499m
Mitchell's Shaft - 1,540m
Vivian's Shaft - 1,560m
Plantation Shaft - 1,577m
East Seton, Wheal - 1,602m
West Frances, Wheal - 1,602m
Fortescue's Shaft - 1,609m
Tolcarne - 1,624m
Newton Shaft - 1,630m
North Shaft - 1,632m
De Dunstanville - 1,635m
Taylor's Shaft - 1,637m
East Grenville, Wheal - 1,640m
Gossan Shaft - 1,658m
Smith's Shaft - 1,666m
Tolcarne - 1,675m
Engine Shaft - 1,689m
East Pool - 1,694m
Sampson Swain's Smelting House/Old Copper House - 1,695m
South Shaft - 1,697m
West Stray Park - 1,699m
New Shaft - 1,703m
Grenville United Mines - 1,705m
Carn Brea Engine Shaft - 1,705m
Engine Shaft - 1,707m
Highburrow East Shaft - 1,724m
Tryphena, Wheal - 1,747m
Mitchell's Whim Engine - 1,757m
Grenville, Wheal - 1,776m
Newton Moor - 1,787m
Marshall's Shaft - 1,789m
California Shaft - 1,790m
Caravan Shaft - 1,790m
New Seton - 1,798m
Mitchell's Shaft - 1,800m
Sump Shaft - 1,808m
Granville Shaft - 1,824m
Grenville New Stamps - 1,833m
Purser's Shaft - 1,842m
Emily Henrietta - 1,854m
Emily Henrietta, Wheal - 1,866m
Fortesque's Shaft - 1,871m
South Tolcarne - 1,878m
South Tolcarne - 1,887m
Engine Shaft - 1,889m
Dolcoath Deep Adit - 1,899m
Tregajorran Mine - 1,918m
North Shaft - 1,923m
Percy's Shaft - 1,926m
North Frances, Wheal - 1,956m
North Frances, Wheal - 1,956m
West Condurrow A - 1,963m
Gustavus Adit - 1,973m
Engine Shaft - 1,980m
Old Engine Shaft - 1,986m
New North Pool - 1,997m