Great Fortune, Wheal
Copper, Tungsten, and Tin Mine
Worked from ancient to 1896
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
| Cornwall | |
| Breage | |
| 50.112286, -5.320736 | |
| SW 6268 2886 | |
| Open Access | |
| 67m | |
| #8,276 |
Large opencast and underground. Operational from 1855 to 1880, this mine yielded a combined output of 2,992 tons of tin, 322 tons of copper, alongside minor quantities of tungsten and arsenic. Located in the valley near Trelissick and Carnmeal Downs, it extensively worked lodes in the area, particularly focusing on a series of lodes referred to as Conquer Branches, which were subject to large-scale opencast operations.
ancient 1855-1868 1873-1896
External Links
Publications (2)
- (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
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
Whim Shaft - 36m- Flatrod Shaft - 94m
- Engine Shaft - 103m
- Blueborough Shaft - 144m
Engine Shaft - 630m- Rapson - 649m
Vor Adit - 653m- Carnmeal Mine - 657m
South Fortune, Wheal - 663m- Metal and Flow, Wheal - 690m
- Cock's Shaft - 765m
- Parry's Shaft - 769m
- West Metal, Wheal - 776m
- Adit Shaft - 776m
- Watson's Shaft - 787m
- West Metal Shaft - 810m
- Metal, Wheal - 840m
- Emma, Wheal - 866m
- Edward's Shaft - 900m
- Sithney, Wheal - 928m
- Teague's Shaft - 969m
- Ivey's Shaft - 1,049m
- Antron Consols - 1,082m
- Buller, Wheal - 1,087m
- John's Shaft - 1,097m
- Metal Pellor, Wheal - 1,103m
- Sithney and Carnmeal United - 1,136m
- Metal Shaft - 1,138m
- Roseladden Stamps - 1,150m
- Footway Shaft - 1,172m
- South Shaft - 1,175m
- North Engine Shaft - 1,242m
- Footway Shaft - 1,255m
- Hanson Mining Co. - 1,259m
- Richard's Shaft - 1,265m
- Mundic Shaft - 1,268m
- Pope's Shaft - 1,276m
- Strake Shaft - 1,288m
- Carter's Shaft - 1,349m
- Sparrow Shaft - 1,349m
- Highburrow Shaft - 1,374m
- Halfpenny Shaft - 1,386m
- Bounder Shaft - 1,401m
- Pearce's Shaft - 1,401m
- Martyn's Shaft - 1,403m
- Sozen - 1,409m
- Coalyeard Shaft - 1,416m
- East Shaft - 1,416m
- Woolf's Shaft - 1,431m
- Trelawney's Shaft - 1,432m
- Privy Shaft - 1,433m
- Old Engine Shaft - 1,435m
- Bank Shaft - 1,437m
- Vor, Wheal - 1,441m
- Flatrod Shaft - 1,449m
- Ivey's Shaft - 1,449m
- Rib, Wheal - 1,452m
- Tory - 1,453m
- Turf's Pit - 1,470m
- Grey Ore Shaft - 1,480m
- Jolly's Shaft - 1,487m
- Pond Shaft - 1,523m
- Western Flatrod Shaft - 1,532m
- Sandbank Shaft - 1,546m
- Vreah, Wheal - 1,549m
- Crease's Shaft - 1,552m
- Date's Shaft - 1,554m
- Jane, Wheal - 1,559m
- Powder House Shaft - 1,562m
- Mitchell's Shaft - 1,564m
- Carleen Mine - 1,569m
- Vor Smelting House - 1,570m
Anson - 1,574m- Culmn Shaft - 1,574m
- Cock's Shaft - 1,580m
- Bluebarrow Shaft - 1,604m
- Carleen Engine Shaft - 1,629m
- Treeza - 1,669m
- Mitchell's Shaft - 1,715m
- Cock's Shaft - 1,748m
- Whip Shaft - 1,768m
- Engine Shaft - 1,780m
- Machine Shaft - 1,783m
- North Metal A, Wheal - 1,793m
- Quintrell Shaft - 1,801m
- Horse Whim Shaft - 1,867m
- Gwin and Singer - 1,900m
- Trevena - 1,935m
- Polladras Downs Mine - 1,947m
- Ann's Engine Shaft - 1,949m
- Little Engine Shaft - 1,951m
- Turfy Shaft - 1,960m
- Gwin's Shaft - 1,962m
- Whim Shaft - 1,965m
- Daggye, Wheal - 1,974m
- Old Engine Shaft - 1,980m
- Leeds, Wheal - 1,990m