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'''Devon Great Consols''' was a copper mine in [[Devon]]. Working at the site begun in 1844, when it was known as North Bedford Mines or Wheal Maria. The lease on the site was taken from the [[Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford|Duke of Bedford]].<ref> |
'''Devon Great Consols''' was a copper mine near [[Tavistock, Devon|Tavistock]] in [[Devon]]. Working at the site begun in 1844, when it was known as North Bedford Mines or Wheal Maria. The lease on the site was taken from the [[Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford|Duke of Bedford]].<ref> |
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Revision as of 21:00, 3 September 2013
Devon Great Consols was a copper mine near Tavistock in Devon. Working at the site begun in 1844, when it was known as North Bedford Mines or Wheal Maria. The lease on the site was taken from the Duke of Bedford.[1] In 1846 the Devonshire Great Consolidated Copper Mining Company was formed to work the site. Copper extraction continued until the 1870s, after which arsenic extraction continued until 1903.[2]
References
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Thomas Spargo (1860). Statistics and observations on the mines of Cornwall and Devon.
In 1844 six gentlemen took from the Duke of Bedford the sett or lease of the mines now known as the Devon Great Consolidated Mines
- ^ "Devon Great Consols". Cornish Mining World Heritage Site.