South Tolcarne
aka West Condurrow B
Copper and Tin Mine
Worked from 1872 to 1886
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
| Cornwall | |
| Camborne | |
| 50.199561, -5.285589 | |
| SW 6562 3845 | |
| Private Land | |
| 145m | |
| #9,035 |
South Tolcarne Mine operated from one shaft, known as Engine Shaft, located approximately 340 yards SSE of Field’s Shaft of Tolcarne Mine. The site is currently heavily covered in grass. Working on three intersecting lodes, South Tolcarne Mine, along with West Condurrow Mine, yielded a total of 320 tons of black tin and 1,300 tons of copper ore with an average grade of 11% between 1858 and 1873.
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
South Tolcarne - 10m- Engine Shaft - 10m
- Gossan Shaft - 257m
Tolcarne - 277m- Taylor's Shaft - 313m
- Tolcarne - 319m
- Marshall's Shaft - 423m
- Tryphena, Wheal - 479m
- Newton Shaft - 482m
- Champion's Shaft - 513m
- Freeman's Shaft - 574m
Plantation Shaft - 607m- New Shaft - 619m
- Old Engine Shaft - 716m
- North Shaft - 750m
- Junction Shaft - 753m
- Vivian's Shaft - 758m
- Engine Shaft - 759m
- Condurrow South - 765m
Bounty, Wheal - 831m- South Condurrow - 845m
- Condurrow Mines Ltd. - 849m
- King Edward Mine Museum - 861m
- Holt - 864m
- King's Shaft - 897m
- Sump Shaft - 897m
- King Edward VII Mine - 902m
- Western Shaft - 905m
- North Tolcarne - 908m
- Roaring Shaft - 918m
- Purser's Shaft - 919m
- Hope Shaft - 925m
- West Condurrow A - 940m
- Simm's Shaft - 940m
- An Owl, Wheal - 957m
- Heart's Ease - 957m
- Carn Camborne - 968m
- Grenville, Wheal - 972m
- Kearne's Shaft - 985m
- Old Tye - 986m
- Harriett, Wheal - 994m
- Engine Shaft - 996m
- William's Shaft - 1,002m
- Engine Shaft - 1,007m
- Grenville New Stamps - 1,025m
- Grenville United Mines - 1,030m
- Frazer's Shaft - 1,093m
- West Stray Park - 1,184m
- New Shaft - 1,200m
- Newton Moor - 1,202m
- Smith's Shaft - 1,228m
- East Grenville, Wheal - 1,236m
- Fortescue's Shaft - 1,237m
- Western Shaft - 1,319m
- Camborne Vean - 1,352m
- Francis, Wheal - 1,355m
- Gons, Wheal - 1,367m
- Bolenowe - 1,383m
- Eastern Shaft - 1,387m
- Copper Hill - 1,431m
- Town Lode Shaft - 1,451m
Stray Park - 1,466m- Knighton - 1,507m
- William's Shaft - 1,548m
- Camborne Veor - 1,549m
- Nelson, Wheal - 1,613m
- Smith's Shaft - 1,641m
- Killas, Wheal - 1,649m
Camborne Consols - 1,679m- West Frances, Wheal - 1,717m
- Bolenowe Carn Mine - 1,740m
- Holmans test mine - 1,740m
- West Tresavean - 1,744m
- West Dolcoath B - 1,750m
- Bryant, Wheal - 1,758m
- Engine Shaft - 1,786m
- Charmer - 1,808m
- Carnarthen Consols - 1,852m
- Carmarthen - 1,868m
- Dolcoath - 1,887m
- Old Sump Shaft - 1,917m
- New Sump Shaft - 1,952m
- Roskearbroas - 1,957m
- West Grenville C, Wheal - 1,970m
- Fortesque's Shaft - 1,994m