From Dines:
With Wheal Widden these mines [Jane and West Jane] were latterly part of a group known as Falmouth Consolidated Mines, and more recently included in Mount Wellington sett.
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The workings at Wheal Widden on the west, 1,000 yds. E. of Twelve Heads, West Wheal Jane and Wheal Jane, extend over a distance of 2,300 yds. , along which large gunnisses at the footwall of the elvan stand open at intervals.
From Dines:
West Wheal Jane and Wheal Jane are said to have been in operation in 1740. The mines ceased about 1875 and work was continued above adit in a small way by tributers until 1893. In 1905 the mines were amalgamated with others under the name Falmouth Consolidated Mines, which was dissolved about 1915, but tributers continued working until 1919. The lode has not been described by contemporary observers, but from the records of output it is clear that it is highly pyritic and carries both copper and arsenic sulphides.
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[…] the mines were taken over by Mount Wellington Mine in 1939 […]
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Publications (3)
- (1920); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vols XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII - Fireclay; Arsenic & Antimony Ores; Refactory Materials, Lead & Zinc of Scotland, Rock-Salt and Brine (5 books); 777 pages
- Brooke, Justin (2000); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-4 Win - Mount Wellington Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall; 8 pages (23-30)
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
