Western Footway Shaft


Gold, Silver, Iron, Arsenic, and Tin Mine

Aug 1st, 2025 from Dines by aricooperdavis



Cornwall
Threemilestone
50.2537041, -5.1062799
SW 7867 4392
Private Land
#28,270


Shaft of North Wheal Jane.

From Western Footway and Gossan shafts two parallel crosscut adits extend 120 fms. S.E. to portals beside the river at 400 yds. N.W. of Ventongoose.

- Dines



Main Lode, coursing E. 20° N. and underlying steeply south, was worked from Western Footway Shaft, 300 yds. S.W. of Besore farm, vertical to the 12-fm. Level below deep adit (13 fms.)

- Dines



Publications (1)

  • Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages





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