Wheal Luscombe Mine, Devon
Tavistock: grid reference SX436716
Wheal Luscombe lay on the east bank of the River Tamar in the Luscombe Down Plantation section of Hatch Wood just to the southeast of the quarry and about 500 metres south of the current road bridge linking Devon with Cornwall. The mine worked a number of lodes thought to be an eastern extension of the lodes worked acrooss the Tamar in the Gunnislake Mines. Other mines working this lode were Wheal Crowndale, Wheal Crebor and Wheal Tamar. Otherwise known as Wheal Liscombe and East Liscombe, the mine dates from 1808 to 1815 and is bounded to the south by the sett of the ancient Wheal Impham mine.
Records state that between 1821 and 1834, the mine raised 3,269 tons of copper ore.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
South Bedford and East Gunnislake (approx. 0.0 km; COPPER)
Wheal Impham (approx. 0.7 km; COPPER)
Ding Dong Mine (approx. 0.7 km)
North Impham (approx. 0.7 km; No Output)
Bedford United (approx. 1.0 km; COPPER, TIN & ARSENIC)
Watson's Mine (approx. 1.0 km; COPPER)
Wheal Crebor (approx. 1.0 km; COPPER & TIN)
Russell United Mine (approx. 1.0 km; COPPER, TIN & ARSENIC)
East Wheal Russell (approx. 1.4 km; COPPER & TIN)
Wheal Emma (approx. 1.8 km; COPPER & ARSENIC)
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