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





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