Jewell, Wheal
Copper Mine
Worked from <1795 to 1853
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
Dec 16th, 2024 by BertyBasset
| Cornwall | |
| St. Day | |
| 50.2350616, -5.1769481 | |
| SW 7354 4206 | |
| Private Land | |
| 83m | |
| #8,416 |
Wheal Jewell operated from 1815 to 1853, yielding a total of 58,150 tons of copper. Today, remnants of the mine, including numerous waste tips and exceptionally deep, cavernous open mine shafts, can be found along the St. Day-Carharrack road and in the vicinity of Crofthandy. This description encompasses Wheal Quick as part of the overall site.
- -1795
- 1800-1822
- 1832-1853
Publications (2)
- (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
Carharrack Mine - 171m- Squire, Wheal - 304m
- East Damsel, Wheal - 353m
- West Virgin, Wheal - 532m
Maid, Wheal - 700m- Maid Adit - 718m
- Tregonning's Shaft - 764m
- Damsel, Wheal - 767m
- Quick, Wheal - 775m
- Morcom's Shaft - 779m
Whiteworks - 802m- Elvan's Shaft - 827m
- Muttrall, Wheal - 836m
Gorland, Wheal - 860m- Poldice - 871m
- Terrill's Shaft - 908m
- Consols - 927m
- St Day United - 942m
- North Damsel, Wheal - 947m
- East Virgin, Wheal - 959m
- Footway Shaft - 973m
- Unity, Wheal - 974m
- Taylor's Shaft - 1,007m
- Old Poldice (Part) of - 1,032m
- Goougumpus - 1,033m
- West Jewell, Wheal - 1,064m
West Gorland - 1,091m- West Clifford United - 1,100m
- Panter - 1,145m
- Whitford's Shaft - 1,181m
- Poldory - 1,197m
- West Damsel, Wheal - 1,230m
- Hope, Wheal - 1,252m
Tolgullow United - 1,252m- Consolidated Mines - 1,256m
- Goodspeed Shaft - 1,265m
- United Mines - 1,286m
- Gwennap United - 1,302m
- Eldon's Shaft - 1,325m
- Cupboard Hill - 1,362m
- Clinton, Wheal - 1,364m
- Pink, Wheal - 1,391m
- Tippett's Footway Shaft - 1,408m
- Gwennap United Stamps - 1,410m
- Trefusis Shaft - 1,419m
- Bissoe Pool - 1,429m
- Pearce's Shaft - 1,455m
- Luke's Shaft - 1,468m
- Moyle, Wheal - 1,471m
- Ree, Wheal - 1,484m
- Taylor's Shaft - 1,490m
- Engine Shaft - 1,502m
- East Maid, Wheal - 1,520m
- Taylor's Shaft - 1,543m
- Unity Wood, Wheal - 1,571m
- Unity Wood, Wheal - 1,571m
- Lovelace, Wheal - 1,572m
- Vogue - 1,572m
- Gwennap - 1,574m
- Harper's Shaft - 1,615m
- Tonkin's Shaft - 1,616m
- Garland's Shaft - 1,623m
Killicor - 1,626m- East Ale and Cakes - 1,632m
- Girl, Wheal - 1,639m
- Todd, Wheal - 1,644m
- Freeman's Shaft - 1,645m
- Ale and Cakes - 1,652m
- Symons's Shaft - 1,686m
Park an Chy - 1,694m- Brittania, Wheal - 1,729m
- Flakey's Shaft - 1,738m
- Perkin's Shaft - 1,750m
- Union, Wheal - 1,778m
- South Ale and Cakes - 1,784m
- Mitchell's Shaft - 1,795m
- Engine Shaft - 1,797m
- North Grambler, Wheal - 1,799m
- Bud - 1,807m
- Creegbrawse - 1,829m
- Henry, Wheal - 1,835m
- Edgcumbe, Wheal - 1,840m
- Goodluck Shaft - 1,848m
- Trelawny, Wheal - 1,869m
- Flat Rod Shaft - 1,885m
- Skewe's Shaft - 1,914m
- Cathedral Mine - 1,917m
- South Shaft - 1,929m
- Woolf's Shaft - 1,929m
- Old Sump Shaft - 1,945m
- Old Engine Shaft - 1,956m
- Williams' Shaft - 1,985m