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Basset tin & copper mines

Other Business Names:

  • South Wheal Frances
  • West Wheal Basset
  • Wheal Basset
  • Basset Mines Ltd

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Treskillard, Cornwall, Cornwall, South West, England

Sectors:

  • Extraction Copper extraction
  • Extraction Tin extraction

Notes:

Tin and copper mining date to 18th century but were especially active in 19th. Major mines - South Wheal Frances, West Wheal Basset and Wheal Basset merged to form Basset Mines Ltd in 1896. Closed 1918

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