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Hemerdon mine

Hemerdon mine, United Kingdom. In development, open pit, mining tungsten, tin.

Why Hemerdon is famous

South Devon tungsten and tin deposit that Tungsten West plans to restart. Wikidata lists it as a tin mine in Devon.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Tin greisen and tin vein

Hemerdon today

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

Where next

Mines

An example ofSouth Crofty mineHemerdon in Devon is a tungsten and tin deposit that Tungsten West plans to restart.1An example ofPanasqueiraPanasqueira has run since a company formed in 1896. Hemerdon plans a restart.3

Deposit types

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

Sources

  1. Company home page Tungsten West plc
  2. Hemerdon Mine Wikidata
  3. Annual Information Form for 2025 Almonty Industries (SEC exhibit 99.1 to Form 40-F)
  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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Ore sorting by Tomra Sorting GmbH, CC BY-SA 4.0. 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).