Holne Chase Mine Mine, Devon
Ashburton: grid reference SX723715
Holne Chase Mine is an ancient mine situated on the southern slope of a hill in Chase Wood about two and a half miles northwest of Ashburton. It worked a tin lode and its only record of production is 5 tons of black tin in 1875.
The old Holne Chase Mine was also recorded as assaying gold at 7.5 grams per tonne, this was found in the auriferous gossan or growan.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Ausewell Wood (approx. 0.7 km; COPPER)
Druid Mine (approx. 2.3 km; COPPER & TIN)
Queen of Dart (approx. 2.9 km; COPPER)
Wrey Consols (approx. 3.2 km; COPPER)
Whiddon (approx. 3.4 km; COPPER, TIN & MANGANESE)
Devon and Cornwall Umber Works (approx. 3.9 km; UMBER)
Brookwood (approx. 4.0 km; COPPER)
Runnaford Coombe (approx. 4.0 km; COPPER, TIN & PYRITE)
West Beam Mine (approx. 4.5 km; TIN & PYRITES)
Union Mine, Ashburton (approx. 4.8 km; TIN & PYRITES)
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