St. Ives Consols
Copper and Tin Mine
Worked from old to 1892
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
Cornwall | |
St. Ives | |
50.205499, -5.497938 | |
SW 5050 3980 | |
Private Land | |
104m | |
#9,061 |
Part of St. Ives Consolidated. St Ives Consols was a significant copper and tin mine situated on the southwestern outskirts of St. Ives, near the A3074 road at Higher Stennack. It encompassed other mines like Wellesley Mine and Wheal Mary within its boundaries. Notable neighboring mines included Goole Pellas Mine to the west and Rosewall Hill and Ransom United to the southwest. The mine operated several key lodes, including North, Virgin, Caunter, Daniell’s, William’s, Lowry’s, and Kemps Lodes, with major shafts like Wheal Mary, West and East Virgin, Old Sump Cornish, and Millet Shafts.
old 1818-1873 1873-1892
Publications (2)
- (1839); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and west Somerset; 729 pages
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
Sump Shaft - 54m
East Virgin Shaft - 70m
West Virgin Shaft - 110m
Stamps Plot Shaft - 210m
Applin, Wheal - 223m
Ransom Shaft - 266m
Cornish Shaft - 335m
Mary, Wheal - 420m
Allen, Wheal - 672m
Ransom, Wheal - 692m
North Fortune, Wheal - 803m
Trenwith Mine - 807m
Goole Pellas - 895m
Bahavella Mine - 1,002m
Rosewall Hill and Ransom - 1,011m
Ayr, Wheal - 1,096m
Dorothy, Wheal - 1,164m
Carrack Dews Mine - 1,251m
Trowan Consols - 1,342m
Union, Wheal - 1,350m
Queen, Wheal - 1,411m
King, Wheal - 1,438m
Hor Point - 1,487m
North Providence, Wheal - 1,577m
Trelyon Downs - 1,578m
Bossow - 1,613m
Tyringham Consols - 1,625m
Gain, Wheal - 1,653m
Racer Ltd., Wheal - 1,678m
Venture, Wheal - 1,695m
Nicholas, Wheal - 1,764m
Balnoon Consols - 1,823m
Snuff, Wheal - 1,907m
Gift, Wheal - 1,909m
Hawk's Shaft - 1,912m
Little Speed - 1,960m
North Battery Tin Mine - 1,969m
Margery, Wheal - 1,986m