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North Hooe Mine (Hancock and North Tamar Mine), Tamar Consols (Tamar Mines), Bere Alston (Beeralstone; incl. Bere Alston Mines; Old Beer Mines; Tamar Silver-Lead Mines), Bere Ferrers (Beer Ferris), Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK
In 1842 North Hooe was reopened though it was not as productive as South Hooe, with a peak production of 1200 tons in 1846. Again reopened in the early 1900s there was insufficient capital to lower the water level sufficiently to make the venture successful.
Worked from engine shaft (600 yards west of Whitsom and 40 yards east of the Tamar) to a maximum depth of 110-fms, with levels at 10-fm intervals below the 30-fm level. The lode is vertical at the shaft but underlies to the east in the northern levels and ranges from 18inches to 4 feet in width.
Abandoned by 1867 with no specific record of output other than approximately 20 tons of concentrate per month. It was re-opened in 1901-2 but only partly unwatered and no output was made at that time.
Hancock mine lies on the west bank of the river. Sunk on a shaft with 2 levels it apparently failed to cut the lode.
The dumps contain large quantities of fluorite (estimated by Dines to be 1%) (clear, white, honey, green and blue colours) and some quartz, with quite good pieces of galena (which do not test positive for silver above 0.05% - 3 samples tested) and some sphalerite. There is a ruined engine house and shaft a little south of the dump with a newer building containing some machinery alongside.
May 2007
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References
Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 2, p. 682 (also see addenda in the 1994 reprint).
Hamilton Jenkin, A. K. (1974): Mines of Devon, Vol. 1: The Southern Area. David & Charles (Newton Abbot), 154 pp.
Hamilton Jenkin, A. K. (1974): Mines of Devon, Vol. 1: The Southern Area. David & Charles (Newton Abbot), 154 pp.
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