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camurton
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17 years ago

Hi
I am new to the forum.(':)')

Can anyone tell me anything about Tallack Mine near Towan Cross?

camurton

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carnkie
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17 years ago

If you are talking about near St.Agnes there isn't much to tell. In 1878 it was owned by Richards, Power and Co. It employed two men underground and that's it.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

spitfire
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Attepts were made in 1809 to trace the Wheal Towan lodes eastward towards Towan Cross Wheal Tallack was then worked on a small scale.
In 1820 it was with other mines taken up by a London Company. Work on Wheal Tallack re-started when the Wheal Towan adit was driven through the property for a length of over a mile draining the water on many lodes to a depth of 50 fathoms. To prosecute the workings below that depth the company were preparing to erect an engine in 1826. At the same time Wheal Turton were also erecting a engine on a new shaft to intersect the Great Towan copper vein at a depth of 80 fathoms

spitfire

camurton
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17 years ago

Thank you for such quick replies. Besides being new to this forum I know very little about mining 😞

There is a field/garden at Towan Cross close to where this web site shows a google map pin for Tallack Mine. About 3 years ago a mine "shaft" was uncovered there which has a manmade stone collar to about 20 ft depth and then went down into the rock for about 300 ft. It is roughly a metre square. There was a small passage off to one side at about 50 ft I think, which had been backfilled. Around the outside of the area was a large amount of small rocks that had obviously come out of the shaft when it was dug. Can anyone tell me what this "shaft" would have been used for, who would have made it? The side of the shaft has drill marks on it which apparently suggest that powered tools of some sort may have been used.

thanks again
camurton

ICLOK
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17 years ago

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH give it time and I bet We can!
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regards ICLOK :thumbsup:

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ICLOK
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17 years ago

Can you give me a grid.... There were 4 shafts it appears....

I quote "Whim Shaft, 2o yards N of the road and 935 yds E of Victory Inn, Footway shaft 50 yards NW of whim, and a 3rd shaft 70 yards NNE of Whim"

And there was Wheal Tallack shaft at the edge of the Wheal Towan sett...

Your shaft is probably one of the first two given as they were connected by a cross-cut... hence the opening with little else done.

The mine worked the eastward extension of the Wheal Towan Lode.

I will dig a bit more but need your GR to really answer this.

Regards ICLOK

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

camurton
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17 years ago

50.17'30.41N
5.13'17.67W

camurton
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"carnkie" wrote:
If you are talking about near St.Agnes there isn't much to tell. In 1878 it was owned by Richards, Power and Co. It employed two men underground and that's it.

Where does this information come from please?

ICLOK
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17 years ago

Thanx for GR will advise .... Don't know where Carnkie got that from...

My info re the shafts was from Dines...

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spitfire
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17 years ago

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My info' came from mines & Miners AK hamilton Jenkin Vol' 2
page14

spitfire

ICLOK
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17 years ago

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Ha Ha..... the secret army!!!!
Hi Spitfire...

:smartass:

Must do this more often!!!!

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carnkie
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17 years ago

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"camurton" wrote:

"carnkie" wrote:
If you are talking about near St.Agnes there isn't much to tell. In 1878 it was owned by Richards, Power and Co. It employed two men underground and that's it.

Where does this information come from please?

Cornish Mines; R. Burt, P. Waite, R. Burnley.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

gus horsley
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17 years ago

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I've got a note (but I can't tell what the reference is, sorry) that Wheal Tallack also worked about 1806-08 and produced 728 tons of copper ore. Then it was reopened in 1820-26 and again in the 1870's. It also included a small mine called Wheal Gertrude.

Gus