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Hemerdon Consols Mine, Devon

Principal ores: TIN, ARSENIC & ARSENOPYRITE

Plympton: grid reference SX572586


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.

Other nearby mines and their main ores

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)

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