UK Grid Reference: SX024548
Latitude: 50°21'33"N
Longitude: 4°46'42"W
Originally an opencast tin mine, the pit was later worked for china clay.
The grid reference marks the south wall of the old pit, which has been left standing in the southern part of the modern china clay pit.
References
- Henwood, W.J. (1843): On the Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 5, 1-386.
- Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 2, pp. 538-539.
- Bristow, C.M. (2008): Late 18th and early 19th century forays into economic geology – some little known Franco-German papers describing Carclaze Old Tin Pit, near St. Austell, Cornwall. Geoscience in South-West England 12, part 1.
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