The most northerly shaft was Gourd’s, which reached 46ftm below adit, but the exact location of this and the other 5 shafts: Smith’s, Engine, Caroline’s, Chalotte’s and Church Lane, is unknown.
Dines H.G. 1956
A substantial shaft collar can be seen in the copse from the roadside. A track into the copse has been graded with dump material which has large quantities of blue fluorite, some green, some white. A piece of matrix containing pyrite, galena and sphalerite did not test positive for silver content greater than 0.05%.
Amagamated together with Whitsam and Lockridge mines under the name of East Tamar Consols in 1845.
East Tamar Mine
As with a lot of old mines there is a degree of confusion in the literature.
Hamilton Jenkin (1974) notes that this was one of four mines on the eastern crosscourse running southwards from Buttspill Mine (Lockridge, Furzehill, East Tamar and South Tamar), but does not provide a specific locality for it. Also, that in the 1840s East and South Tamar were worked in concert by the Berealston Mining Company, but that due to excessive extravagance, the company soon failed.
Dines (1956) considers that East Tamar was another name for Furzehill Mine. As a separate location has not been identified elsewhere for East Tamar Mine, for convenience, they are grouped together here.
Greg & Lettsom (1858) record [anglesite]"in fine glassy colourless crystals, at East Tamar Mine Beerferris, in geodes of decomposed galena, recently".
NB - Beerferris and Beeralston are villages about 3km apart; mines in this area were attributed to either in early literature! Bere Ferrers and Bere Alston are the current spellings.
References:
Mines of Devon, Volume 1: The Southern Area, A K Hamilton Jenkin 1974
The Metalliferous mining Region of South west England, H G Dines 1956.
British Mineralogy, Greg & Lettsom, 1858.
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UK OS Grid Reference: SX436654
Map Reference: 50°28'0"N , 4°12'14"W
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