Description
Part of Letcha. The mining operation began in 1821 under the name Wheal St Just with the sinking of a single shaft on the Hermon lode, positioned deep in the valley just above the high water mark. Subsequently, in 1822, it commenced operations under the name Wheal Hermon.
History
1825-1837 1837-1841 1873-1878 also 1912-1919
External Links
Publications (6)
Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages Fellows, Roy; Cornwall Underground; 25 pages Fellows, Roy; Cot Valley Sketch Map; 1 pages Joseph, Peter; NMRS (2006); British Mining 79 - Cape Cornwall Mine; ISBN 0901450 60 X; pp.71. NMRS; British Mining 73 - Memoirs 2003; pp.143. NMRS; Newsletter May/2002; pp.3.
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Sites within 2km (54)
Vean, Wheal - 67m Bellan Mine - 162m St. Just A, Wheal - 180m Riblows - 191m Venton, Wheal - 206m Widden, Wheal - 250m Bellan, Wheal - 277m East St Just United - 348m Dower, Wheal - 358m Bernoal Bal - 360m Ballowal Bal - 382m Letcha, Wheal - 403m North Venton, Wheal - 434m St. Just Consols - 473m Bollowal - 475m Owl, Wheal - 492m Badger, Wheal - 531m Buck, Wheal - 548m Carn Escalls - 593m Vulcan, Wheal - 679m Little Bounds - 706m Bollowall & Nanpean - 845m Bozands, Wheal - 896m Bosavern - 898m Bounds, Wheal - 938m St. Just B, Wheal - 943m Cunning, Wheal - 1,054m East Bosorne - 1,123m Kelynack - 1,149m Ellen, Wheal - 1,163m Porthledden - 1,179m Damsel, Wheal - 1,260m Cape Cornwall Mine - 1,266m Boscregan - 1,270m South Levant - 1,280m Praze Shaft - 1,338m Call, Wheal - 1,371m Praze, Wheal - 1,429m Boswedden - 1,436m Bull, Wheal - 1,470m Castle, Wheal - 1,526m Boscean - 1,530m Goldings - 1,535m Lower Boscean - 1,640m East Boscean - 1,674m Grouse, Wheal - 1,690m Williams, Wheal - 1,729m Yankee Boy Mine - 1,765m Boys, Wheal - 1,777m Gendall - 1,797m Drea, Wheal - 1,872m Casebo Mine - 1,891m Owles, Wheal - 1,907m Truthwall - 1,979m
