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Wheal Jane mine

Wheal Jane mine, United Kingdom. Closed, mining tin.

Why Wheal Jane is famous

Wikidata calls it a disused tin mine in West Cornwall. Closure year, output and the 1992 water release are not verified from an opened page.1

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What kind of deposit

Tin greisen and tin vein

Wheal Jane today

Where tin is mined todayMining in United Kingdom

Where next

Mines

An example ofSouth Crofty mineTwo Cornish tin mines now closed: Wheal Jane and South Crofty, the last, shut in 1998.2

Places

Located inRedruthWheal Jane is about 7 km from Redruth.1Located inCornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeWheal Jane is about 22 km from Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.1

Deposit types

An example ofTin greisen and tin veinWheal Jane belongs to the tin greisen and tin vein family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q7991796 (Wheal Jane) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, evaluation No 1215 UNESCO World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS advisory body evaluation
  3. 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); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).