Poldice mine is a former metalliferous mine located in Poldice Valley in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated near the hamlet of...
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Portreath Tramroad (redirect from Poldice Tramroad)
It was later extended to serve the Poldice mine near St Day and became known as the Poldice Tramroad, or Poldice Tramway. It was a horse-drawn plateway...
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Great County Adit (category Tin mines in England)
of Scorrier who was the manager of Poldice mine. Although work was started in 1748, it did not reach Poldice mine until the late 1760s. By 1778 the adit...
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constructed to drain mines in the area including several of the local once-famous mines such as Consolidated Mines, Poldice mine and Wheal Busy. Today...
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Mining in Cornwall and Devon (section Hemerdon Mine)
announced that a new mine was extracting battery-grade lithium carbonate, more than 20 years after the closure of the last South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall in...
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Bal – a mine (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language, related to palas, meaning 'to dig') Bal maiden – a woman working at a mine, at smashing...
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Wheal Maid (category Mines in Cornwall)
1852, the mine was amalgamated with Poldice Mine and Carharrack Mine and worked as St Day United mine. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the mine site was...
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plates on square granite blocks. The line was little-used after the Poldice mine closed in the 1860s, and the tramroad was closed in 1865. The Portreath...
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(1896). Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard. pp. 176, 272–73. "Poldice Mine, Cornwall". Cornwall Calling. Retrieved 2 July 2009. Cornwall portal...
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Todpool was an important site for tin mining due to its proximity to Poldice mine. Today, disused mineshafts and derelict engine houses are scattered throughout...
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Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom. Poldice mine Redruth and Chasewater Railway Wheal Jane Dolcoath mine Devon Great Consols; name inspired by Consolidated's...
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tramway was opened from Poldice mine to the harbour at Portreath in 1809 and many similar lines were then built linking mines with ports. The first steam-powered...
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org.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2015. "Wheal Gorland, St Day United Mines (Poldice Mines), Gwennap, Camborne – Redruth – St Day District, Cornwall, England...
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the mines had close contact at that time, and edge rails were used: a considerable technical advance, and the first such use in Cornwall (The Poldice and...
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to Coast cycle route and the former mine known as Wheal Busy. There is also the 'Twelveheads Gate' into the Poldice Valley - the path of the mineral tramway...
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villages of Threemilestone, Scorrier and St Day. Nearby is Wheal Busy, the Poldice Valley and the Coast to Coast cycle route. The village has a pub and a...
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Wheal Gorland (category Tin mines in Cornwall)
Kingdom. Cornwall portal Mining in Cornwall and Devon Consolidated Mines Poldice mine Wheal Jane Wikimedia Commons has media related to Minerals of Wheal...
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capsule producing Gymnostomum viridulum, again only at this site in Britain. Poldice Valley supports Cephaloziella nicholsonii, Cephaloziella stellulifera,...
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harbour at Portreath and linked it by the Portreath tramway to his mine at Poldice. Purchased land at Scorrier and built Scorrier House there. Married...
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