Great Weeke Consols Mine, Devon
Chagford: grid reference SX713875
Situated to the east of Chagford on Dartmoor, Great Weeke Consols lay just to the south of Great Weeke Farm. The mine worked four tin lodes via open cast mining and Lydias Shaft.
The only record of output is of 56 tons of black tin being sold between 1887 and 1892.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Bradford Pool Mine (approx. 3.7 km; COPPER & TIN)
Drewsteignton (approx. 4.0 km; COPPER, LEAD & GOLD)
Great Wheal Eleanor (approx. 4.9 km; TIN)
Gooseford West (Fortune) (approx. 6.5 km; COPPER, ARSENIC & TIN)
Bushdown (approx. 6.7 km)
Birch Tor and Vitifer (approx. 7.3 km; TIN & IRON ORE)
Wheal Caroline (approx. 8.0 km; TIN)
Golden Dagger (approx. 8.0 km; TIN)
Ramsley Mine (approx. 8.2 km; COPPER & ARSENOPYRITE)
Ford Mine (approx. 9.2 km; COPPER, ARSENIC, PYRITE & ZINC)
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