Description
Water influx.This copper mine, situated on the eastern slope of Caradon Hill, exploited the eastern extensions of certain lodes also mined at South Caradon Mine. From 1860 to 1885, it yielded 54,000 tons of copper ore averaging 7% copper content. Occasionally, the ore contained 3-4 ounces of silver per ton. The provided grid reference denotes the location of Williams’s shaft.
History
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Publications (2)
(1923); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXVII - Copper Ores of Devon and Cornwall; 92 pages Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol2, The; 335 pages
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Sites within 2km (47)
Williams's Shaft - 78m Caradon Glasgow Cons - 312m Glasgow Caradon Consols - 315m New Engine Shaft - 346m North Engine Shaft - 348m Elliott's Shaft - 439m Kittow's Shaft - 527m Hooper, Wheal - 779m Glasgow Caradon - 888m Yolland Consols - 903m South Caradon, Wheal - 947m Rule's Shaft - 959m Holman's Shaft - 969m Caradon, The - 1,072m Clyma's Shaft - 1,098m South Caradon - 1,202m Pearce's Shaft - 1,246m West Rosedown - 1,247m Sump Shaft - 1,354m New Shaft - 1,371m Jope's Shaft - 1,381m Gonamena Mine - 1,488m Child's Shaft - 1,488m Marke Valley Mines - 1,512m Salisbury Shaft - 1,515m Adit Shaft - 1,530m West Caradon - 1,566m Footway Shaft - 1,585m Engine Shaft - 1,587m Sedley, Wheal - 1,589m Crouch's Shaft - 1,613m Rosedown - 1,651m Jenkin, Wheal - 1,698m Bellingham's Shaft - 1,710m Cargibbit Mine - 1,754m Trethevy Copper Mine - 1,777m Fawcett Shaft - 1,780m Hallet's Shaft - 1,785m Fawcett, Wheal - 1,789m Slade Mine - 1,844m Agar, Wheal - 1,861m New West Caradon - 1,884m Marina's Shaft - 1,896m New South Caradon A - 1,914m Great Caradon - 1,918m Phoenix, Wheal - 1,929m Rickard's Shaft - 1,991m
