Haytor Mine Mine, Devon
Ashburton: grid reference SX773772
Notable minerals: Agate, Calcedony, Garnet, Haytorite, Hornblende, Magnetite, Orthoclase & Opal.
Haytor Mine lies just over a mile nortwest of Ilsington, near Bovey Tracey. The mine was worked mainly as an opencast mine prior to 1828. Later adits wer driven into the ore bodies.
br/>Production between 1858 and 1910 amounted to 34,786 tons of magnetite and iron ore ranging between 57% and 67% in grade.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Smallacombe Mine (approx. 0.7 km; LIMONITE & MAGNETITE)
Atlas (approx. 1.0 km; TIN & HAEMATITE)
Yarner (approx. 1.4 km; COPPER, PYRITE & ARSENOPYRITE)
Crownley Parks (approx. 1.5 km; TIN)
Bagtor Mine (approx. 1.7 km; TIN)
Sigford Consols (approx. 2.0 km; TIN, COPPER & PYRITE)
Silverbrook (approx. 2.1 km; SILVER-LEAD)
Smiths Wood (approx. 2.3 km; TIN & COPPER)
Hemsworthy (approx. 3.0 km; TIN)
West Beam Mine (approx. 3.8 km; TIN & PYRITES)
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