An old and important copper mine, once one of the richest in Cornwall.
First mentioned by the name of Wh Sound, a mine at the western end of the set, that produced 9 tons of copper ore in 1756-57. By 1765 the group appears to have been known as Wh Towan. However, like a number of Cornish copper mines, Wh Towan suffered from the opening of the great Parys Mountain mines in Anglesey and remained idle between 1788-99.
From 1800 to June 1814, Wh Towan produced 37859 tons of copper ore selling for £470619.
References
- Dana 6:A2:27.
- Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, p. 479 (see also corrigenda in the 1994 reprint).
- Hamilton Jenkin, A.K. (1962): Mines and Miners of Cornwall, Vol. 2, St Agnes - Perranporth.
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