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Results: 76676

Name Location County/State Country Sources ID
Devon Wheal Elizabeth Widecombe in the Moor Devon England 10781
Devon Wheal Emma Devon England List of Mines 1859. 10782
Devon Wheal Frances Bovey Tracey, Ilsington Devon England Beer, K.E., 1988 Addenda and Corrigenda to The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 1988. Economic Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. British Geological Survey. vol. II p.xxxiv. Dines, H.G., 1956. The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England vol II. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, HMSO, p.732. Hamilton Jenkin, A.K., 1981. Mines of Devon North and East of Dartmoor. Devon Library Services, Exeter, p.141-142. List of Mines 1866-1872. MJ 1867 p.22 Or: Devon Wheal Francis. See also: Yarner Mine. 10783
Devon and East Cornwall Mines Development Ltd Devon England Register of Defunct Companies 1990 p.154. Westlake & Laws, 1910. Devon & Cornwall Handbook of Mines. Plymouth, p.11-12. See also: Bere Alston mines. Devonshire Mines Ltd. Larkholes Mine. Penhale Mine. Penhale and Larkholes Mine. Trecarne Mine. 10784
Devon Friendship Mine Mary Tavy Devon England Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Record Services X636/18/5. Cornwall Records Office STA/695/15/18-19 Dines, H.G., 1956. The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England vol II. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, HMSO, p.704, 705. Hamilton Jenkin, A.K., 1974. Mines of Devon Volume I The Southern Area. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, p.13, 20. Hamilton Jenkin, A.K., 1981. Mines of Devon North and East of Dartmoor. Devon Library Services, Exeter, p.193-194. List of Mines 1880-1885. List of Mines 1883-1885. Mineral Statistics 1882-1884. MJ 1881 15.1.1881 supp, p.[ii]., p.3, 9, 31, 33, 36, 40-41, 89, 125, 148, 156, 180, 185 MJ 1882 p.6, 6, 8, 9, 37, 40, 41, 69, 72, 73, 97, 100, 129, 133, 162, 164, 169 MJ 1883 p.6, 8, 9, 38, 40, 70, 72, 73, 75, 98, 100, 130, 132, 133, 162, 164, 165, 190, 192, 198, 222, 224, 225, 229 MJ1883 p.189 MJ 1884 p.6, 38, 66, 68, 94, 96, 122, 124, 154, 156, 186, 188, 189, 214, 216, 246, 248, 278, 280, 310, 312, 313, 335, 338, 340, 366, 368, 398, 400, 454, 456, 482, 484, 510, 512 MJ 1886 p.21, 43, 111, 139 MJ 1895 p.771 MJ shares listed 1882-1886. Penzer, N.M., 1921. The Tin Resources of the British Empire, p.38. Register of Defunct Companies 1990 p.154. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1881, p.646, 652, 657, 667. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1882, p.555, 570. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1884, p.318. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the South-Western District for the Year 1898, p.57. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines List of Mines 1881-1882. Richardson, P.H.G., 1992. Mines of Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley after 1913. A Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society, British Mining No.44, p.38-39. Stock Exchange Register of Defunct Companies 1978-1979. Plymouth Records Office 2011/5-7 Western Daily Mercury 14.8.1885 Or: Devon Friendship Mining Company Ltd. See also: Wheal Friendship. 10785
Devon Gawton Mine Tavistock Devon England Dines, H.G., 1956. The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England vol II. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, HMSO, p.678. 10786
Devon Gawton Ltd Devon England MJ 1895 p.6 MJ shares listed 1895 Records of London and Westcountry Chamber of Mines Vol. 1 1901-1903 p.17, 85, 114, 137, 157. Records of London and Westcountry Chamber of Mines Vol. II 1904-1908 p.101, 119. Register of Defunct Companies 1990 p.154. Times 6.12.1897. 10787
Devon Great Consols Mine Tavistock Devon England Bawden, M., 1914. Mine and Mining in the Tavistock District. Transactions of the Devonshire Association 1914 p.256-264. Bird, R.H., 1988. Notes on Mining Leats. Northern Mine Research Society, Memoirs 1988, British Mining No.37 p.19-20, 25, 45. Briggs, C.S., 1998. Frenchmen Student Engineers in Industrial Britain: A Preliminary List of Tours from the MS Register of Deposited Journals at the École des Mines, Paris. Northern Mine Research Society, Memoirs 1998, British Mining No.61 p.144. Brooke, J., 1977. Who Discovered Devon Great Consols? Memoirs of the Northern Mine Research Society 1977, British Mining No.5 p.21-22. Brooke, J., 1982. The last years at Devon Great Consols. Journal of the Trevithick Society No.9 p.69-72. Cornwall Records Office CA/B30/10/D/10/c. Dewey, H., 1920. Arsenic and Antimony Ores. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain Vol. XV. HMSO, p.2, 3, 4, 6, 27, 31-32 Dickinson, M., 1985. The Duke's Men, The Wheal Maria People and others. The story of the Devon Great Consols (Ghost) railways. Tamar Journal No.7 p.31-40. Dines, H.G. The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England vol I p.8, 24, 53, 142. Dines, H.G., 1956. The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England vol II. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, HMSO, p.623, 636, 649, 655-661. Dines, H.G. The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England addenda and corrigenda, 1988 vol. II p.xxiv-xxv. Duchy of Cornwall. Account of income and expenditure, for the year 1851. Parliamentary Papers 1852 p.7. Duchy of Cornwall. Account of income and expenditure, for the year 1852. Parliamentary Papers 1853 p.7. Duchy of Cornwall. Account of income and expenditure, for the year 1853. Parliamentary Papers 1854 p.7. Duchy of Cornwall. Account of income and expenditure, for the year 1854. Parliamentary Papers 1855 p.7. Gill, M.C., 1993. The Grassington Mines. A Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society, British Mining No.46, p.137. Hamilton Jenkin, A.K., Mines & Miners of Cornwall vol. xv p.5-7. Hamilton Jenkin, A.K., 1974. Mines of Devon Volume I The Southern Area. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, p.13, 17-29, 63, 150. Harvey, W.S., 1995. Lamps and Candles. Northern Mine Research Society. British Mining No.55 Memoirs 1995 p.6. Report of Secretary of Mines 1924 p.165. 1925. 1930 p.31. Joint Stock Companies. Return of all Joint Stock Companies registered under the Act 7&8 Vict. c. 110. 1845. Parliamentary Papers p.90-9, 1001. Joint Stock Companies. A Return of all Joint Stock Companies which have been registered (provisionally or otherwise) under the provisions of the Act 7&8 Vict. c. 110. 1846. Parliamentary Papers p.86, 170. Joint-Stock Companies. Return of the names, objects, places where business is or was conducted, … of all Joint Stock Companies formed since the 1st day of June 1872 to the 31st December 1873. Parliamentary Papers 1874 p.90. The Joint Stock Companies' Directory 1867. Charles Baker & Sons, London, p.526. Joseph, P., 2012. The Arsenic Industry at Botallack Mine, Cornwall: A Story of Early 20th Century Adaptive Re-use. Northern Mine Research Society, Memoirs 2012, British Mining No.93, p.51, 53, 63. Kelly’s Directory 1856 Cornish & Devonshire Mines. Kelly’s Directory 1866 Mines now being worked. Kelly’s Directory 1873 Mines now being worked. Report of the Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies to the Committee of Privy Council for Trade Pursuant to the 7&8 Vict. c. 110, s.79 for the year 1845. Parliamentary Papers p.29. Le Marchant, R., 1989. The Man Engine & Devon Great Consols Mine. Tamar Journal No.11 p.7-12. List of Mines 1859-1861. List of Mines 1863-1874. List of Mines, Reports of the Inspectors of Mines for the year 1881 p.676. List of Mines, Reports of the Inspectors of Mines for the year 1882 p.578. List of Mines 1883-1898. List of Mines 1900-1901. List of Mines 1904. List of Mines 1906. List of Mines 1908. List of Mines 1922-1934. Metalliferous mines (Devon and Cornwall). Return showing the names of the various metalliferous mines within the stannaries of Devon and Cornwall now working. Parliamentary Papers 1890-1891, p.1, 3. Mineral Statistics 1848-1857. Mineral Statistics 1862. Mineral Statistics 1868-1874. Mineral Statistics 1882-1893. Mineral Statistics List of Arsenic Works 1872-1873. Mines (underground workings). Return of the length in miles and yards of underground workings and passages in some of the principal collieries and metalliferous mines in England and Wales. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers1881 (446), p.19. MJ 1845 p.620, 666, 678, 719. MJ 1846 p.46, 59, 100, 187, 196, 199, 210, 217, 219, 305, 316, 333, 333, 428, 493, 518. MJ 1847 p.18, 18, 37, 55, 72, 80, 93, 195, 208-210, 211, 223, 224, 251, 276, 276, 311, 312, 312, 336, 396, 502, 550, 563, 574, 604, 609, 610. MJ 1848 p.7, 9, 9, 9, 29, 30, 40, 50, 62, 74, 74, 74, 98, 108, 110, 111, 134, 157, 157, 159, 160, 194, 206, 208, 217 MJ 1849 p.42, 44, 54, 65, 90, 91 MJ 1850 p.9, 9, 31, 43, 53, 55, 67, 92, 98-100, 103, 104, 104, 116, 120, 126, 128, 135, 139, 147, 150, 151, 162, 208, 210, 212, 222, 223, 232, 232, 235, 235, 238, 247, 258, 271, 279, 283 MJ 1851 p.3, 3, 7, 22, 38, 42, 42, 55, 79, 88 MJ 1852 p.2, 4, 6, 28, 33, 42, 54 MJ 1853 p.25, 25, 35, 45, 48, 50, 50, 59, 64, 65 MJ 1854 p.4, 8 MJ 1860 p.3 MJ 1862 p.3, 5 MJ 1865 p.319 MJ 1867 p.5 MJ 1868 p.9, 10, 64, 64, 65, 80, 92, 116, 129, 228, 229, 229, 237, 249, 277, 279 MJ 1869 p.8, 64, 65, 81, 125 MJ 1870 p.8, 23, 45, 54, 60, 65, 105 MJ 1871 p.4, 23, 29, 48, 161, 188, 206, 215, 238, 282, 308, 309, 327, 356, 376, 380, 395-396, 400, 424, 426, 437, 437, 448, 449, 454, 460, 461, 463, 473, 486, 496, 496, 500, 517, 534, 540, 540, 552, 575, 576, 590 MJ 1872 p.28, 96, 103, 112, 112, 138, 151, 151, 172, 172 MJ 1873 p.11, 12, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 21, 24, 25, 47, 51, 155 MJ 1874 p.3, 11, 67, 76, 129, 129, 209, 245, 265, 344, 548, 552, 553, 579, 580, 594 MJ 1875 p.6, 11, 34, 48, 58, 71, 82, 87, 124-125, 136, 138, 151, 166, 194, 222 MJ 1876 p.6, 11, 31, 34, 36, 39, 58, 60, 86, 107, 155, 166, 168, 194, 196, 218, 246, 248, 307, 327, 330, 332, 345, 354, 358, 360, 374, 386, 388 MJ 1877 p.6, 8, 11, 19, 20, 34, 36, 64, 69, 76, 86, 88, 92, 103, 103, 114, 142 MJ 1877 p.198, 200, 213, 226, 228, 1311, 1345, 1413 MJ 1878 p.6, 34, 36, 36, 37, 47, 62, 62, 63, 64, 65, 86, 101, 138, 170, 198, 200, 214, 226, 254, 268, 268, 271, 410 MJ 1879 p.6, 11, 11, 21, 34, 48, 82, 84 MJ 1880 p.5, 6, 8, 11, 37, 61, 62, 64, 65, 68, 76, 90, 92, 96, 118, 120, 120, 135-136, 146, 149, 174, 176, 177, 177, 190, 204, 206, 208, 208, 208, 211, 221, 234, 239, 262, 264, 276, 277, 290 MJ 1881 p.6, 8, 8, 8, 34, 37, 48, 48, 49, 49, 59, 62, 64, 82, 90, 92, 93, 122, 150, 153, 182, 185, 201 MJ 1882 p.4, 6, 37, 41, 55, 69, 72, 72, 73, 88, 97, 100, 129-130, 132, 135, 162, 165, 168 MJ 1883 p.6, 8, 41, 44, 70, 73, 98, 130, 132, 137, 146, 162, 165, 190, 192, 222, 225, 225 MJ 1884 p.6, 9, 25, 38, 41, 54, 66, 68, 68, 69, 73, 94, 97, 122, 124, 124-125, 125, 154, 156, 186, 187, 188-189, 214, 216, 217, 246, 249, 278, 281, 295, 310, 312, 317, 338, 340, 340, 366, 398, 400, 426, 428, 454, 456, 456, 482, 484, 510, 512 MJ 1885 p.6, 9, 11, 11, 38, 41, 66, 68, 70, 94, 96, 96, 122, 124, 152, 182, 184, 209 MJ 1886 p.21, 21, 22, 38, 44, 76, 94, 100, 104, 127 MJ 1887 p.13, 25, 26, 45, 85 MJ 1888 p.12, 13, 39, 67, 152 MJ 1895 p.48, 76, 107, 136, 164, 192, 223, 436, 456, 492 MJ 1927 p.820, 883 MJ shares listed 1847-1853. MJ shares listed 1868-1886. MJ shares listed 1895 Mining & Smelting Magazine vol I January 1862 p.75. Murchison, J.H., 1855. British Mines Considered as a Means of Investment. 3rd Edition July 1855 p.14-15, 19, 43-45, appendix p.213, 216-217. National Archives: BT31/142/445. BT41/193/1096. National Archives: BT286/112, 296-298. ZSPC11/312/8. OS 6” map Devon 105NW,SW. Records of London and Westcountry Chamber of Mines Vol. 1 1901-1903 p.16-17, 45, 85, 85, 86, 113, 125, 136-137, 156, 164. Records of London and Westcountry Chamber of Mines Vol. II 1904-1908 p.34, 100, 119. Register of Defunct Companies 1990 p.154. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition of all mines in Great Britain to which the provision of the Act 23 & 24 Vict. cap. 151 do not apply. Parliamentary Papers 1864, HMSO p.xxvi. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition of all mines in Great Britain to which the provision of the Act 23 & 24 Vict. cap. 151 do not apply. Parliamentary Papers 1864, HMSO Epitome of evidence p.18, 24, 27, 63, 64, 69, 84, 106, 108, 122, 277 Minutes of evidence taken before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition of all mines in Great Britain to which the provision of the Act 23 & 24 Vict. cap. 151 do not apply. Parliamentary Papers 1864, HMSO, p.24, 138, 320, 355, 436-439, 441-443. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1873, p.309. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1874, p.327. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1875, p.354, 362. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1876, p.392. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1877, p.443. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1878, p.491, 497, 497, 514. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1879, p.411, 412, 415, 421, 435. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1880, p.532, 535, 544, 557. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1881, p.645, 648, 654, 657, 667. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines for the year 1881, p.645, 648, 654, 657, 667. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1882, p.541, 548, 550, 555, 555, 570. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1883, p.310-311. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1886, p.239. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1887, p.331, 335. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the Cornwall and Devon District for the Year 1888, p.14, 22. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the Cornwall and Devon District for the Year 1890, p.31. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the Cornwall and Devon District for the Year 1891, p.20. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the South-Western District for the Year 1892, p.61. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the South-Western District for the Year 1893, p.70, 73, 75, 77, 78, 78. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the South-Western District for the Year 1897, p.55. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the South-Western District for the Year 1898, p.50, 57. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the South-Western District for the Year 1900, p.61, 65. Report of H.M. Inspector of Mines for the Southern District for the Year 1901, p.51. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines List of Mines 1873-1882. Richardson, P.H.G., 1992. Mines of Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley after 1913. A Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society, British Mining No.44. cov., p.2, 4, 8, 11-12, 14, 36, 38, 41, 49, 94-108, 136. Rowe, G.A., 1984. The mines of Tamarside 4 - Devon Great Consols. Tamar Journal No.6 p.37-47. Shambrook, R., 1982. The Devon Great Consolidated Copper Mining Company. Journal of the Trevithick Society No.9 p.62-68. Skillen, B.S., 1992. Nobody Like The Captain: Men of the Mines. Northern Mine Research Society, Memoirs 1992, British Mining Vol. 45 p.49. Stannaries. Return of all mines within the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon registered as Joint Stock Companies in each year.. from the passing of the Joint Stock Companies Act (1844) to the 31st day of December 1868. Parliamentary Papers 1868-1869 p.1, 2. Stewart, R.J. 2003. Devon Great Consols. A collection of contemporary articles and reports. Tamar Mining Press, Calstock. Stewart, R.J. 2005. Ore Dressing at Devon Great Consols 1844-1978. Tamar Mining Monographs No.1, Tamar Mining Press, Calstock 28pp. Taylor, C., 1988. The story of Devon Great Consols. Tamar Journal No.10 p.34-42. Times 7.12.1872. 25.11.1880. 2.12.1892. 14.12.1894. 17.7.1902. West Devon Records Office 400/1. Woolcock, G., 1994. The strikes at Devon Great Consols. Tamar Journal of the Friends of Morwellham. No.16 p.5-16. Or: Colcharton and Devon Great Consols Mine. Devon Great Consols Ltd. Devon Great Consols Company Ltd. Devonshire Great Consolidated Copper Mining Company. See also: Colcharton Mine. Wheal Emma. Wheal Fanny. Frementor Mine. Wheal Josiah. Wheal Maria.North Wheal Bedford. South Wheal Fanny. 10788
Devon Great Elizabeth Mine Widecombe in the Moor Devon England Beer, K.E., 1988 Addenda and Corrigenda to The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 1988. Economic Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. British Geological Survey. vol. II p.xxxvi. Hamilton Jenkin, A.K., 1981. Mines of Devon North and East of Dartmoor. Devon Library Services, Exeter, p.109-110. List of Mines 1859-1861. List of Mines 1863-1865. 10789
Devon Great Wheal Ellen Ashburton Devon England Beer, K.E., 1988 Addenda and Corrigenda to The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England 1988. Economic Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. British Geological Survey. vol. II p.xxxv. Hamilton Jenkin, A.K., 1981. Mines of Devon North and East of Dartmoor. Devon Library Services, Exeter, p.117. Joint-Stock Companies (Limited). Return of the names, objects, places where business is or was conducted, and date of Registration of all Joint Stock Companies 'Limited' formed since the passing of the Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. 133. Parliamentary Papers 1862 p.37. Joint-Stock Companies. Return of the names, objects, places where business is or was conducted, date of Registration… of all Joint Stock Companies formed or registered since the passing of the Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. 133. 1864 Parliamentary Papers 1864 p.91. Joint-Stock Companies. Return of the Joint Stock Companies which have failed to make the Annual Return of their Members, and the Number of Shares held by each, in the last Seven Years 15th August 1876. Parliamentary Papers 1876 p.16. List of Mines 1860-1861. List of Mines 1863-1865. National Archives: BT31/1108/2163. Stannaries. Return of all mines within the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon registered as Joint Stock Companies in each year.. from the passing of the Joint Stock Companies Act (1844) to the 31st day of December 1868. Parliamentary Papers 1868-1869 p.2. Or: Devon Great Wheal Ellen Tin and Copper Mining Company Ltd. See also: Bowdley Consols Mine. 10790