Kings Wood Mine, Devon
Buckfastleigh: grid reference SX711666
Kings Wood mine is situated just over a mile west of Buckfastleigh, near Bowerden Farm. The mine was little more than a prospect exploring chloritic copper lodes and a deposit of pitchblende (uranium).
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Brookwood (approx. 1.2 km; COPPER)
Wrey Consols (approx. 1.8 km; COPPER)
Runnaford Coombe (approx. 1.9 km; COPPER, TIN & PYRITE)
Queen of Dart (approx. 3.1 km; COPPER)
Huntingdon Mine (approx. 4.5 km; TIN)
Ringleshuttes (approx. 4.7 km; TIN)
Ausewell Wood (approx. 4.7 km; COPPER)
Holne Chase Mine (approx. 5.0 km; TIN & GOLD)
Druid Mine (approx. 6.0 km; COPPER & TIN)
Devon and Cornwall Umber Works (approx. 6.3 km; UMBER)
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