According to Hamilton Jenkin, Tregune seems to have been worked for Tin & Copper in antiquity, yet is recorded by Dines as a mere trial. Yet there is a 20 year history of the mine known during which time it reached approx 100 Fathoms depth. The set had 5 lodes and was worked well before 1846. When the in 1846 the first company was formed to work it, it was known as East Alvenney (Halvanna). The sett was later aquired in 1852 by a new company and renamed Great Tregune Consols, a number of new lodes were found and by 1862 the mine was 80Fathoms deep from surface. At that time it was being worked via Hoblers and Carkees shafts employing some 20 people. Between 1857 and 1865 56T of copper ore were sold for £469, sadly no Tin returns seem to have existed for this mine.
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