Silverbrook Mine, Devon
Bovey Tracey: grid reference SX789758
Silver Brook Mine lies just to the southwest of Ilsington, near Bovey Tracey on eastern Dartmoor. The mine was at work in the mid 1850's and extracted ore via Engine Shaft from a pair of NE-SW lodes using a 20-inch pumping engine erected in November 1852, a 10-inch winding engine (whim) and a crusher.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Atlas (approx. 1.3 km; TIN & HAEMATITE)
Smallacombe Mine (approx. 1.4 km; LIMONITE & MAGNETITE)
Sigford Consols (approx. 1.7 km; TIN, COPPER & PYRITE)
Smiths Wood (approx. 2.0 km; TIN & COPPER)
Haytor Mine (approx. 2.1 km; IRON ORE & MAGNETITE)
Crownley Parks (approx. 2.6 km; TIN)
Yarner (approx. 2.6 km; COPPER, PYRITE & ARSENOPYRITE)
Bagtor Mine (approx. 2.7 km; TIN)
Owlacombe and Stormsdown (approx. 3.1 km; ARSENIC, ARSENOPYRITE, TIN & COPPER)
Union Mine, Ashburton (approx. 3.3 km; TIN & PYRITES)
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