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Devon Great Consols mine

Devon Great Consols mine, United Kingdom. Heritage site, underground, mining copper, arsenic.

Why Devon Great Consols is famous

Began in 1844 and operated until 1903. An arsenic refinery was built in 1922 and works stopped in 1930. The 7th Duke of Bedford was landowner, and a 7 million pound Heritage Lottery Fund project ran 2005 to 2011.1,2,3

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Devon Great Consols today

Where copper is mined todayMining in United Kingdom

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ExamplesBotallack MineBotallack kept an arsenic labyrinth. Devon Great Consols built an arsenic refinery in 1922.4

Sources

  1. Devon Great Consols Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
  2. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape UK National Commission for UNESCO
  3. Wikidata entity Q15213812
  4. St Just mining district Cornish Mining World Heritage Site

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Timna in de Negevwoestijn; rotspartij "de zuilen van Salomo", Poll, Willem van de / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Earth Observations taken by the Expedition 15 Crew, NASA JSC (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: miners in a mine shaft, standing on wooden platforms connected by ladders. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910., Burrow, J. C., 1852-1914 (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Mijnramp Bois du Caizier, Marcinelle, België. Schacht, Rossem, Wim van / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).