Bagtor Mine Mine, Devon
Bovey Tracey: grid reference SX762759
A tin mine situated on the northern slopes of Bagtor, about 1.5 miles west of Ilsington, near Bovey Tracey on southeast Dartmoor. The mine worked three lodes from Quickbeam Shaft, Prosper Shaft and Western Shaft.
Bagtor mine was amalgamated along with Crownley Parks, Wheal Somerset, Ilsington and Teignmouth Mines into Hemsworthy Mine (otherwise known as Haytor Consols) between 1851 and 1856.
The only recorded output is of 15 tons of black tin between 1863 and 1865.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Crownley Parks (approx. 0.2 km; TIN)
Sigford Consols (approx. 1.3 km; TIN, COPPER & PYRITE)
Smiths Wood (approx. 1.4 km; TIN & COPPER)
Atlas (approx. 1.6 km; TIN & HAEMATITE)
Smallacombe Mine (approx. 1.7 km; LIMONITE & MAGNETITE)
Hemsworthy (approx. 1.7 km; TIN)
Haytor Mine (approx. 1.7 km; IRON ORE & MAGNETITE)
West Beam Mine (approx. 2.4 km; TIN & PYRITES)
Union Mine, Ashburton (approx. 2.6 km; TIN & PYRITES)
Silverbrook (approx. 2.7 km; SILVER-LEAD)
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