Description
Latterly as part Kit Hill. This mine, with limited historical information, was operational in the early 1850s until 1856, then reopened in 1870. It produced tin, arsenic, and tungsten. The ruins of an engine house and stack, believed to have utilized Cornish stamps for ore crushing, are well preserved and visible from a nearby footpath.
History
..1853.. 1898-1909 1914-1918
External Links
Publications (2)
(1923); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol I - Tungsten & Manganes Ores; 93 pages Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol2, The; 335 pages
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Sites within 2km (43)
Hingston South - 490m New Prince Of Wales - 553m Emily, Wheal - 1,019m Brothers, Wheal - 1,065m Sisters, Wheal - 1,086m Princess of Wales - 1,100m Silver Valley - 1,117m Ashburton - 1,174m Prince Of Wales Mine - 1,321m Pleasant, Wheal - 1,356m Calstock United - 1,386m Excelsior Tunnel - 1,410m Great Kit Hill Consols - 1,410m Goodluck Shaft - 1,412m South Engine Shaft - 1,425m Mexico, Wheal - 1,431m Harrowbarrow - 1,484m South Kit Hill Mine - 1,499m Viger's Shaft - 1,507m Brewer, Wheal - 1,523m St. Vincent, Wheal - 1,529m Engine Shaft - 1,548m East Cornwall Silver Mine - 1,552m Barnard, Wheal - 1,560m Moor Adit Shaft - 1,563m Kitt Hill Quarry - 1,578m North Engine Shaft - 1,584m Arsenic Chimney - 1,585m South Harrowbarrow - 1,591m George's Shaft - 1,618m Great St. Vincent Consols - 1,627m Excelsior - 1,713m Baring and Langford - 1,745m East Fortune, Wheal - 1,766m George and Mary, Wheal - 1,771m Langford, Wheal - 1,787m Coombe Works - 1,840m Deer Park Mine - 1,902m Silver Hill - 1,914m Hingston Down Consols - 1,926m Virgin, Wheal - 1,959m Bailey's Shaft - 1,975m Hingston Down Consols - 1,983m
