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Wheal Friendship (Mary Tavy) Copper Mine (United Kingdom)


Description by ICLOK

Mined for Copper, pyrites and lead 1800 to 1909 and re-worked 1913 t0 1925. Output 155,000T Copper 14,700T Arsenic, 1,120T Lead, 5000T Pyrites, some tin. 1/4 mile from Mary Tavy. Wheelpits, dumps, arsenic processing site.

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Other location/mapping information:

Latitude: 50.5952
Longitude: -4.1122
Landranger grid reference: SX506794
Easting: 250600
Northing: 079400

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Wheal Friendship (Mary Tavy) Copper Mine was served by:

Tavistock Canal Tunnel

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