Great North Downs
Copper, Arsenic, and Tin Mine
Worked from <1802 to 1897
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
Cornwall | |
Redruth | |
50.255393, -5.206364 | |
SW 7154 4441 | |
Private Land | |
111m | |
#8,288 |
This mine operated across the area between the County Crosscourse in the west and the Great Western Railway in the east, spanning parts of Chacewater, Redruth, and St Agnes parishes. It encompassed the Wheal Hawke and Wheal Rose sections, located to the west and east of a small stream flowing northwestward through the property, near the road leading to Mawla. While the Wheal Rose section is now covered by development, including a golf course, the westernmost part of the mine has disappeared under similar development. In the Great North Downs section to the west, seven lodes were identified, including Main lode, Vivian’s lode, Tenpenny lode, Pendarves North lode, Spelter lode, Pendarves South lode, and Peevor lode. The Main lode extended across the entire length of the sett, from County Crosscourse to Wheal Rose section. Shaft arrangements ran parallel to the present A30 road. From 1862 to 1897, the mine yielded 9,110 tons of 7% copper ore, 14 tons of black tin, and 373 tons of arsenopyrite. Additionally, Wheal Rose section produced 12,820 tons of 6.5% copper ore and 18 tons of black tin from 1826 to 1872. Minor amounts of tin and tungsten were extracted between 1912 and 1918, during collaborative operations with Wheal Peevor.
-1802 c1828 1861-1897
Publications (1)
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
Lemon's Shaft - 58m
Widden, Wheal - 85m
Pendarves - 108m
Butcher's North Shaft - 196m
Vreah, Wheal - 199m
Briggan, Wheal - 265m
Scorrier Wolfram - 272m
Hawke, Wheal - 321m
Messer, Wheal - 356m
Owla, Wheal - 370m
Great Briggan - 402m
Moor, Wheal - 486m
West Truan - 515m
Old Treskerby - 546m
Chance, Wheal - 553m
Trewan North - 595m
Treskerby and Wheal Chance - 622m
Old Sump Shaft - 659m
Truan Mine - 681m
Rose, Wheal - 685m
Pryor's Shaft - 685m
Boys, Wheal - 698m
Sir Frederick's Engine Shaft - 767m
Peevor, Wheal - 776m
Derrick, Wheal - 811m
East Truan - 828m
Harvey's Shaft - 861m
Stony Shaft - 918m
North Hallenbeagle - 957m
Prussia, Wheal - 957m
East Treleigh Wood - 990m
Western Shaft - 1,020m
East Chance, Wheal - 1,056m
Doctor's Shaft - 1,059m
North Treskerby - 1,066m
East Downs - 1,075m
Read's Shaft - 1,079m
Little North Downs - 1,104m
North Downs - 1,125m
Hallenbeagle - 1,140m
Plenty, Wheal - 1,148m
North and South Good Success - 1,155m
Pininger's Shaft - 1,189m
George's Shaft - 1,214m
John Michael's Shaft - 1,235m
Cardrew Downs - 1,306m
West Peevor, Wheal - 1,371m
Jack's Shaft - 1,377m
Highburrow Shaft - 1,389m
Shanger, Wheal - 1,455m
Scorrier Consols - 1,460m
Park an Chy - 1,470m
Flatrod Shaft - 1,474m
Maria, Wheal - 1,476m
West Briton, Wheal - 1,497m
Stencoose and Mawla - 1,592m
Lily, Wheal - 1,630m
Clinton, Wheal - 1,716m
Davey's Shaft - 1,750m
Black Dog Shaft - 1,754m
North Treleigh Wood - 1,757m
Buckingham's Shaft - 1,774m
Drainage Adit - 1,802m
Tregullow Consols - 1,803m
Trefula - 1,809m
Boscawen - 1,815m
Treleigh Consols - 1,837m
Treleigh Wood Mine - 1,857m
Richard's Shaft - 1,859m
Louisa, Wheal - 1,862m
Pink, Wheal - 1,869m
Union, Wheal - 1,904m
Briton, Wheal - 1,911m
Harmony, Wheal - 1,914m
Windmill Shaft - 1,962m