Amalgamation: Porkellis Tin Mine. Incorporating various lodes such as Wheal Cock, North Tymorgie, Horseflesh, South Tymorgie, Wheal Ash, Old Mens (Red Lode), Wheal Foster, Wilkins, Copes, Bennett’s, Dale’s (Moyle’s), Wheal Fat, Ferguson’s, and Pooleys, was a notable mining operation. Also known as Jantar (Cornwall) and Porkellis Tin Mines, it operated intermittently from 1845 until shortly before the outbreak of World War II.
1860-1880 1907-1926
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Publications (4)
- (1928); Jantar Company - Share Certificate; 1 pages
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
- Palmer, Marilyn and Neaverson, Peter (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-6 Win - Comparative Archaeology of Tin and Lead Dressing in Britain during the Nineteenth Century, The; 32 pages (316-347)
- Wilkin, J.B. (1864); Basset Grylls - Company Report; 3 pages
