West Seton Burrows Ltd.
aka West Seton, Wheal
Copper and Tin Mine
Worked from 1898
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
Cornwall | |
Camborne | |
50.226162, -5.292887 | |
SW 6523 4143 | |
Private Land | |
83m | |
#9,355 |
The mine operated two lodes: North lode, running ENE, situated in the hangingwall of an elvan dyke extending from Great South Wheal Seton and New Wheal Seton into the sett; South lode, trending NW and intersecting North lode, cropping out to the north. Engine Shaft, now replaced by a farmhouse, marks the given coordinates. Despite the A30 covering much of the workings, two overgrown dumps remain just south of the road, corresponding to Harvey’s and Hidderley shafts, where South lode was exploited. Additional shafts and dumps exist north of Engine Shaft and south of the bend on Treverno Road, with significant slag deposits discovered in the latter area. The section east of Rosewarne Terrace and north of the A30, identified as California Shaft by A.K. Hamilton Jenkin, is now completely built over. Production records indicate that from 1848 to 1890, the mine yielded 125,770 tons of 8.5% copper ore, 4,045 tons of black tin, 4,026 tons of arsenic, and 24 tons of pyrite. Most tin ore was extracted after 1875, with the dumps later reworked for fluorite during both world wars.
Dolcoath Deep Adit - 0m
Harvey's Shaft - 141m
Doctors' Shaft (Old) - 289m
Prince William Henry - 337m
Doctors' Shaft (New) - 346m
Daylight Shaft - 352m
Hidderley Shaft - 354m
Sampson Swain's Smelting House/Old Copper House - 357m
North Roskear - 370m
Seton, Wheal - 375m
Mitchell's Shaft - 392m
Paul's Shaft - 424m
Cock, Wheal - 457m
Dolcoath Deep Adit - 537m
New Roskear Shaft - 561m
Pressure Shaft - 567m
Vivian's Shaft - 570m
Crofty A, Wheal - 583m
Pearce's Shaft - 585m
Pendarves Shaft - 593m
Duncan's Shaft - 618m
Hatchet, Wheal - 630m
South Roskear - 633m
Holly Park Shaft - 680m
Dunstanville, Wheal - 681m
Roskear - 685m
Emily Henrietta, Wheal - 722m
New Seton - 739m
Gerry, Wheal - 741m
Emily Henrietta - 742m
Valley Adit - 748m
California Shaft - 755m
Roskear Shaft - 764m
Chance, Wheal - 765m
Cherry Garden Shaft - 819m
Vernon, Wheal - 835m
Knight, Wheal - 877m
Plosh, Wheal - 879m
Cherry Garden - 975m
Sump Shaft - 982m
East Seton, Wheal - 986m
Kitty, Wheal - 986m
Trevenson Engine Shaft - 992m
Susan, Wheal - 1,021m
Parc-an-Bowen - 1,023m
Bowan, Wheal - 1,040m
Whim Round Shaft - 1,043m
Lovely - 1,048m
Praed's Shaft - 1,049m
North Crofty, Wheal - 1,067m
Crofty B, Wheal - 1,091m
Mayne's Shaft - 1,112m
Mount Whistle - 1,117m
Weeth Mine - 1,157m
Tyrie's Shaft - 1,157m
Gustavus - 1,165m
Trevenson - 1,166m
Roskearbroas - 1,176m
Sump Shaft - 1,189m
Copper Tankard - 1,191m
North Entral - 1,200m
Gustavus Adit - 1,218m
South Entral - 1,271m
Dudnance - 1,272m
New Cook's Kitchen Shaft - 1,294m
East Crofty - 1,296m
New Sump Shaft - 1,296m
Old Sump Shaft - 1,304m
New East Shaft - 1,324m
New Cook's Kitchen - 1,325m
Gossan Shaft - 1,328m
Camborne Consols - 1,331m
Wellington, Wheal - 1,343m
Old Engine Shaft - 1,347m
Ollie's (Cooks) Shaft - 1,348m
Bryant, Wheal - 1,354m
Dolcoath - 1,365m
Tuckingmill Decline - 1,368m
Killas, Wheal - 1,379m
Eastern Valley Shaft - 1,399m
Bullen Garden Mine - 1,412m
Middle Engine Shaft - 1,412m
De Dunstanville - 1,440m
South Crofty, Wheal - 1,471m
Tredinnick's Shaft - 1,505m
Cook's Kitchen - 1,513m
Chapples Shaft - 1,519m
Stray Park - 1,538m
Robinson's Shaft - 1,556m
Pool Mine - 1,566m
Old Tincroft Shaft - 1,573m
Duncan's Shaft - 1,580m
Town Lode Shaft - 1,623m
Allen's Shaft - 1,637m
Gons, Wheal - 1,638m
Great South Seton - 1,655m
Eastern Shaft - 1,659m
Penhellick Mine - 1,665m
Old South (Carn Brea) Tincroft - 1,677m
Palmer's Shaft - 1,709m
Camborne Vean - 1,734m
Tincroft - 1,746m
Willoughby's Shaft - 1,757m
William's Shaft - 1,769m
Sump Shaft - 1,774m
Western Shaft - 1,774m
James's Shaft - 1,784m
Camborne Veor - 1,808m
New North Pool - 1,811m
Francis, Wheal - 1,858m
Simcock's Shaft - 1,866m
Martin's East Shaft - 1,876m
Blight's Shaft - 1,895m
East Pool - 1,965m
Lomax, Wheal - 1,976m