Yelverton: grid reference SX473698

Notable minerals: Anatase, Brookite, Chalcopyrite, Chalybite, Chlorite, Fluor, Marcasite, Mispickel, Pyrites & Titanite.

Virtuous Lady Mine is situated just over a mile northwest of Buckland Monachorum near Yelverton. The mine is known to have been at work in the 16th Century - some say it was named after Queen Elizabeth the First - and worked on and off until the 1870's. Producing copper ore and some tin ore its main shaft was Wheal Bedford Shaft.

Production records report that for the periods 1825-33, 1856 and 1870-75 - 4,320 tons of 7.5% copper ore was raised as well as 6 tons of black tin between 1871-72.