Lelant Consols Mixed Mine (mine)

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Lelantconsolswondered
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9 years ago

Any chance anyone has some further information on this mine? Maps of the underground lay out and so on. We have animals grazing next door. 3 shafts and an adit are there. Just like to find out a little more.

By 2 of the shafts and the adit. Allot of the ground has sunken down on our side of the fence. I'm assuming it's not safe to walk over as even the animals avoid most of the time. Would that be the mine structure underneath causing that? 🙂

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Ty Gwyn
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9 years ago

Fencing off this sunken ground would keep your stock off all the time,better safe than sorry later.

Lelantconsolswondered
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9 years ago

Yeah the land owner said it's like 1000 ft down. An ex miner went down and had a look. And sometimes a party of pot holers go down. So 1 has been explored. Where would I get the plans from? Wheal kitty is almost ad close. I could see both while looking over the wall from my pony. Allot of dogs get lost there.

Scary and we were galloping pretty much over lelant consols without even knowing it.

Lelantconsolswondered
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9 years ago

Yes we are as soon as possible. Scary stuff. Thing is.... there is a few. Not as bad as the adit or the collapse by the shafts. But big enough to think twice about walking over them x

Alasdair Neill
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9 years ago

The history of this area is complex, the best published account is Cyril Noall's St. Ives Mining District which does it no justice at all.
Originally Lelant Consols was probably not the site you mean, but was another name for Wheal Kitty.
There are a lot of leases (including quite detailed surface plans) in the Courtney Library at Truro Museum, also other stuff at the County Record Office in the various landowners' collections. There were considerable quantities of tin being taken to Angarrack Smelting House from Polpeor which could be from anywhere in the area at the start of the 18thC.
There is a record of a bullock wandering into the adit of Lelant Consols & not being able to turn round became stuck. It was eventualy led to a shaft where there was more room to turn round.
I have a redrawn copy of a plan & section of Lelant Consols which could probably be scanned.

Lelantconsolswondered
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9 years ago

Oh that is very complex. We think wheal kitty is very close . From the road I can see both a stack for wheal kitty and the mound where Lelant consols is meant to be.

If you could scan a copy that would be great. Pm me if you want anything in return for your help. From what we can gather. The house next door " the dry" was used as a part of Wheal sisters. And the land down the road, a horse fell down a shaft and had to be pulled out.

Alasdair Neill
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9 years ago

Just going through the plans I have copies of, & taking the opportunity to redraw them from my original tracings to a better standard.
The section showing Monster Shaft seems to cover the area of the later Trencrom Mine extending into Wheal Kitty.

Lelantconsolswondered
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9 years ago

Here ya go 🙂

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=50.1715&lon=-5.4935&layers=176

Alasdair Neill
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9 years ago

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=50.1788&lon=-5.4864&layers=176

The section showing Monster Shaft I think extends from near the stream near the NE corner to the SW towards where it says "Wheal Sisters". The hand drawn section I made was at 1:2500 scale so it should be easy to identify the shafts with those on the map, when I am at home.

Alasdair Neill
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9 years ago

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The south west end of the section is Fox(e)s Shaft, almost certainly the one of the same name on the map.

Alasdair Neill
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9 years ago

#11

pm sent some time ago - apart from the Monster shaft area I have copied the plans relevant to your area.

Roger the Cat
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9 years ago

#12

I don't seem to be able to open the links. Had no trouble with NLS maps before.

Lelantconsolswondered
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9 years ago

#13

Hi people. Sorry not been on for a while. ( trouble with the horses, kids blah blah)

Went for a ride past a few days ago. It seems the farmer has actually opened up the old sight.

Not wanting to get too close on a horse who hadn't been ridden in a while and thereven forth somewhat unpredictable. It looks like a pretty big hole .

Anyone got a drone they could fly over from the field next door ( my field)

Going into the field is a bit risky as rightly so the farmer is funny with people going in.

Xx