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Showing posts with label Hemerdon Bal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hemerdon Bal. Show all posts

Saturday 28 April 2018

southwestern slope of Hemerdon Bal



Hemerdon Mine (approx. 0.2 km; TUNGSTEN & TIN)
Bottle Hill (approx. 0.8 km; COPPER, TIN & ARSENIC)
Wheal Mary Hutchings (approx. 0.9 km; TIN & ARSENIC)
Lobb Mine (approx. 0.9 km; TIN & ARSENIC)
Sidney Mine (approx. 2.4 km; TIN & ARSENIC)
Borringdon Consols (approx. 4.5 km; LEAD, SILVER, ZINC, ARSENOPYRITE & COPPER)
Cann Mine (approx. 4.9 km)
Shaugh Mine (approx. 6.0 km; IRON)
Ivybridge Consols (approx. 8.1 km; SILVER-LEAD)
Kit (approx. 9.0 km; TIN)

Including Mary Hutchings, the mines lie on the southwestern slope of Hemerdon Bal, about two miles northeast of Plympton. Mary Hutchings sett lay to the west working a single lode from Engine Shaft. Hemerdon Consols worked three lodes.

Production records report that for Mary Hutchings between 1866 and 1880 - 426 tons of black tin. Between 1873 and 1879 - 263 tons of arsenic. 188 tons of mispickel were raised between 1874-76. For Hemerdon Consols in 1855-56 23 tons of black tin were raised.