Gooseford West (Fortune) Mine, Devon
Okehampton: grid reference SX672925
Gooseford Mine lay to the north of Dartmoor, just to the west of Whiddon Down. It is a small disused mine with two shafts and an adit working a copper-arsenic deposit with some tin.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Ramsley Mine (approx. 2.1 km; COPPER & ARSENOPYRITE)
Ford Mine (approx. 3.1 km; COPPER, ARSENIC, PYRITE & ZINC)
Bradford Pool Mine (approx. 3.2 km; COPPER & TIN)
Belstone Consols (approx. 4.4 km; COPPER & ARSENOPYRITE)
Ivy Tor Mine (approx. 4.5 km; COPPER, BISMUTH & ARSENOPYRITE)
Drewsteignton (approx. 5.9 km; COPPER, LEAD & GOLD)
Great Weeke Consols (approx. 6.5 km; TIN)
Steeperton Tor Mine (approx. 7.1 km; TIN)
Okehampton Consols (approx. 10.0 km; LEAD & SILVER-LEAD)
Meldon (approx. 10.2 km; COPPER, IRON & Arsenic)
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