Description
Large dumps are found on the west side of the valley opposite South Caradon Mine, marking the area where Wheal Elliott operated. This mine worked the same lodes, separated by a crosscourse, with Elliott’s Shaft located at the provided coordinates.
History
old -1837 1839-1874 1880-1885
External Links
Publications (5)
(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 Vol2, The; 335 pages Joseph Yelloly Watson (1843); Compendium of British Mining, with Statistical Notices… & Glossary; 97 pages Thomson, T.L. (2002); West Carodon Mine Area Map; 1 pages Thomson, T.L.; West Caroden Mine; 1 pages
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Sites within 2km (45)
Footway Shaft - 82m Sump Shaft - 241m Crouch's Shaft - 251m Hallet's Shaft - 252m Gonamena Mine - 326m Pearce's Shaft - 347m Jope's Shaft - 446m South Caradon - 465m Rickard's Shaft - 487m New West Caradon - 493m Craddock Moor Mine - 502m Marina's Shaft - 507m Agar, Wheal - 575m Clyma's Shaft - 589m Rule's Shaft - 707m Holman's Shaft - 719m Caradon Consols - 728m South Caradon, Wheal - 772m Trethevy Copper Mine - 944m Jenkin, Wheal - 1,078m Bellingham's Shaft - 1,098m Kittow's Shaft - 1,100m Prosper, Wheal - 1,177m Hooper, Wheal - 1,186m Prosper Shaft - 1,186m St. Cleer Consols - 1,299m Houseman's Shaft - 1,319m North Engine Shaft - 1,324m New Engine Shaft - 1,336m Parson's Shaft - 1,407m South Phoenix - 1,459m Caradon, The - 1,462m Cheeswring Mine - 1,463m Silver Valley - 1,464m Williams's Shaft - 1,515m West Rosedown - 1,529m East Caradon - 1,566m New South Caradon A - 1,618m Norris, Wheal - 1,631m Penhale and Trecarne United - 1,740m Phoenix, Wheal - 1,776m Glasgow Caradon Consols - 1,870m Caradon Glasgow Cons - 1,876m New Shaft - 1,977m Hamilton's Shaft - 1,989m
