Seton, Wheal
Copper and Tin Mine
Worked from 1834 to 1874
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
| Cornwall | |
| Camborne | |
| 50.226938, -5.287752 | |
| SW 6560 4150 | |
| Private Land | |
| 83m | |
| #8,972 |
Including Wheal Cock. Former sett of Wheal Seton was located just north of Camborne town in the Rosewarne district. Unfortunately, nothing of the mine remains today as its sett was destroyed during the construction of the A30 trunk road (Camborne bypass) in the 1980s. Wheal Seton was situated close to Wheal Emily Henrietta, approximately 400 yards northwest, and other neighboring mines like East Wheal Seton, West Wheal Seton, New Wheal Seton, and Wheal Gerry (South Roskear Mine) about half a mile southwest. The area was abundant in copper and tin lodes, with notable productions from mines like North Roskear, West Wheal Seton, and Wheal Seton, although their contributions to the local economy were overshadowed by the significant outputs of nearby Dolcoath mine.
1834-1838 1842-1874
Publications (4)
- (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
- (1923); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXVII - Copper Ores of Devon and Cornwall; 92 pages
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
- Joseph Yelloly Watson (1843); Compendium of British Mining, with Statistical Notices… & Glossary; 97 pages
North Roskear - 100m
Cock, Wheal - 200m- Crofty A, Wheal - 282m
- Pressure Shaft - 302m
- Doctors' Shaft (Old) - 313m
- Doctors' Shaft (New) - 358m
West Seton Burrows Ltd. - 375m- Dolcoath Deep Adit - 375m
Valley Adit - 382m
Harvey's Shaft - 442m- Cherry Garden Shaft - 486m
- Prince William Henry - 499m
New Roskear Shaft - 510m- Pendarves Shaft - 511m
- Daylight Shaft - 533m
- Knight, Wheal - 537m
- Vivian's Shaft - 553m
- Vernon, Wheal - 564m
- Emily Henrietta - 602m
Emily Henrietta, Wheal - 608m- Cherry Garden - 630m
- Sump Shaft - 631m
- East Seton, Wheal - 639m
- Plosh, Wheal - 639m
- Trevenson Engine Shaft - 641m
- Paul's Shaft - 678m
- Sampson Swain's Smelting House/Old Copper House - 686m
- Hidderley Shaft - 688m
- Praed's Shaft - 692m
- North Crofty, Wheal - 705m
Roskear - 707m- Susan, Wheal - 719m
- Duncan's Shaft - 731m
- Roskear Shaft - 740m
- Crofty B, Wheal - 759m
- South Roskear - 761m
- Mitchell's Shaft - 767m
- Whim Round Shaft - 777m
- Lovely - 783m
- Mayne's Shaft - 789m
- Dolcoath Deep Adit - 799m
- Trevenson - 804m
- Hatchet, Wheal - 805m
- Holly Park Shaft - 835m
- Tyrie's Shaft - 858m
- Sump Shaft - 861m
- Pearce's Shaft - 869m
- Dudnance - 919m
- Copper Tankard - 920m
- East Crofty - 932m
- Gerry, Wheal - 942m
- New Cook's Kitchen Shaft - 996m
- Chance, Wheal - 998m
- Dunstanville, Wheal - 1,027m
- North Entral - 1,028m
- New Cook's Kitchen - 1,061m
- Old Engine Shaft - 1,063m
- Ollie's (Cooks) Shaft - 1,101m
- New Seton - 1,114m
- South Crofty, Wheal - 1,114m
- Roskearbroas - 1,117m
- South Entral - 1,117m
- California Shaft - 1,130m
- Tredinnick's Shaft - 1,139m
- Tuckingmill Decline - 1,164m
- Gossan Shaft - 1,175m
- New East Shaft - 1,185m
- Eastern Valley Shaft - 1,188m
- Middle Engine Shaft - 1,190m
- New Sump Shaft - 1,191m
- Pool Mine - 1,196m
- Robinson's Shaft - 1,204m
- Old Sump Shaft - 1,211m
- Kitty, Wheal - 1,219m
- Bullen Garden Mine - 1,251m
- Old Tincroft Shaft - 1,262m
- Dolcoath - 1,264m
- Cook's Kitchen - 1,270m
- Chapples Shaft - 1,277m
- Mount Whistle - 1,277m
- Penhellick Mine - 1,299m
- Bryant, Wheal - 1,314m
- Parc-an-Bowen - 1,330m
Bowan, Wheal - 1,343m- Duncan's Shaft - 1,349m
- Palmer's Shaft - 1,350m
- Old South (Carn Brea) Tincroft - 1,360m
- Allen's Shaft - 1,379m
- Killas, Wheal - 1,399m
- Weeth Mine - 1,419m
- James's Shaft - 1,419m
- Willoughby's Shaft - 1,426m
- Tincroft - 1,427m
- Camborne Consols - 1,431m
- Gustavus - 1,442m
- New North Pool - 1,443m
- Sump Shaft - 1,468m
- Martin's East Shaft - 1,557m
- Simcock's Shaft - 1,562m
- Blight's Shaft - 1,583m
- Gustavus Adit - 1,585m
East Pool - 1,595m
Stray Park - 1,611m- Wellington, Wheal - 1,625m
- Mitchell's Whim Engine - 1,635m
- William's Shaft - 1,678m
- Highburrow Shaft - 1,679m
- Mitchell's Shaft - 1,685m
- Hardy - 1,690m
- Gons, Wheal - 1,711m
- Sump Shaft - 1,724m
- Western Shaft - 1,729m
- Ballaratt Shaft - 1,735m
- De Dunstanville - 1,736m
- Town Lode Shaft - 1,758m
- Fanny, Wheal - 1,766m
- Eastern Shaft - 1,777m
- Fanny Shaft - 1,778m
- South Shaft - 1,797m
- Caravan Shaft - 1,806m
- Agar, Wheal - 1,838m
- Illogan Mine - 1,840m
Taylor's Shaft - 1,851m- Camborne Vean - 1,867m
- Adit Shaft - 1,873m
- Agar Shaft - 1,880m
- East Pool Mine - National Trust - 1,881m
- Highburrow East Shaft - 1,886m
- Western Shaft - 1,908m
- North Pool - 1,963m