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Dolcoath Mine

Dolcoath Mine, United Kingdom. Closed, underground, mining tin, copper.

Why Dolcoath Mine is famous

Work began in the early 1700s. Williams Shaft reached the 412-fathom (2,472 ft) level, about 754 m, a figure I converted. Opening year is approximate (early 1700s). Closed 1921.1,2,3

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What kind of deposit

Tin greisen and tin vein

Dolcoath Mine today

Where tin is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayMining in United Kingdom

Where next

Mines

An example ofSouth Crofty mineDolcoath's Williams Shaft reached about 754 m. South Crofty was the last Cornish tin mine, closing in 1998.1

Places

Located inRedruthDolcoath Mine is about 4 km from Redruth.1Located inCornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeDolcoath Mine is about 12 km from Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.1

Deposit types

An example ofTin greisen and tin veinDolcoath Mine belongs to the tin greisen and tin vein family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Dolcoath Mine Grace's Guide
  2. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape UK National Commission for UNESCO
  3. Wikidata entity Q5288904
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

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: 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); Timna in de Negevwoestijn; rotspartij "de zuilen van Salomo", Poll, Willem van de / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Chiquicamata Mine, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).