Hope, Wheal
aka Damsel
Zinc, Copper, and Tin Mine
Worked from <1819 to 1837
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
| Cornwall | |
| Twelveheads | |
| 50.24503, -5.131178 | |
| SW 7685 4303 | |
| Private Land | |
| 100m | |
| #8,397 |
One time West Falmouth and Sperries. This mine worked two NNE-trending tin and copper lodes that are intersected by an EW-trending lode from which sphalerite was raised. From 1824 to 1837, Wheal Hope produced 5,584 tons of 8% copper ore.
<1819 1824-1837
Hope Shaft - 20m
Sperries, Wheal - 337m
Jane, Wheal - 478m
Clemmow's Shaft - 501m- Sherrles - 562m
Moor Shaft - 598m- Widden, Wheal - 654m
- Shop Shaft - 687m
- Falmouth, Wheal - 800m
- Beecher's Shaft - 816m
- Sparrow Shaft - 896m
- Baldhu - 909m
- Venables Shaft - 937m
East Fortune, Wheal - 974m- Footway Shaft - 981m
- Painter's Shaft - 1,030m
- Nangiles - 1,052m
- Dunstan's Shaft - 1,109m
- Boundary Shaft - 1,118m
- Tippett's East Shaft - 1,181m
- Tippett's Shaft - 1,213m
East Falmouth, Wheal - 1,246m- Footway Shaft - 1,249m
- Bread and Cheese Shaft - 1,253m
- Nangiles Manway - 1,254m
- Field Shaft - 1,267m
Twelve Heads - 1,267m- Falmouth Shaft - 1,335m
- County Adit - 1,345m
- Andrew, Wheal - 1,347m
- Green's Shaft - 1,356m
New Clifford, Wheal - 1,388m- Nancy Grows - 1,390m
Baddon, Wheal - 1,408m- Burgan's Shaft - 1,438m
- Bowden's Shaft - 1,453m
- Bloys - 1,455m
- Fortune, Wheal - 1,461m
- Old Jane, Wheal - 1,492m
- Magpie, Wheal - 1,493m
- Gweal Durrant Shaft - 1,506m
- Tippett's Stamps - 1,529m
- Cusvey Mine - 1,540m
- Friendship, Wheal - 1,549m
- Friendship Shafts - 1,566m
- Giles Shaft - 1,568m
- Gilbert's Shaft - 1,575m
- Mount Wellington - 1,576m
- Shear's Shaft - 1,577m
- Goodluck Shaft - 1,591m
- Woolf's Shaft - 1,601m
- Henry, Wheal - 1,605m
- Hawkins Shafts - 1,612m
- Basset and Graze United - 1,613m
- Old Sump Shaft - 1,627m
- Clemons's Shaft - 1,646m
- Skewe's Shaft - 1,668m
- Harvey's Shaft - 1,711m
Kea Tremayne - 1,752m- Mitchell's Shaft - 1,764m
- Tremayne's Shaft - 1,811m
- Clifford, Wheal - 1,822m
Killicor - 1,824m- Lovelace, Wheal - 1,887m
- East Maid, Wheal - 1,918m
- Bud - 1,923m
- Chygoose - 1,957m
- Powder House - 1,992m