Wheal Jenkin and Marke Valley
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Wheal Jenkin sett was probably already established
(as a tin mining site worked by shallow shafts and an adit) when
it was taken up in 1824, and worked by the Cornwall Great United
Mining Association (London) between 1836-7.
A steam engine was erected at Wheal Jenkin in
October 1836 to work 40 head of stamps, and 21 heads of new
water-stamps were also under construction to handle the ore from
the Cornwall Great United Mines. Flat rods powered by a steam
engine were already in place to Engine shaft at Wheal Prosper
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The mine may have continued to
be worked on a small scale until the 1870s, when it was acquired
by the Marke Valley adventurers. In 1881, the mine was re-opened
as part of Marke Valley Consols Mines Ltd. Working for tin, the
former Whim shaft was re-opened as Bellingham's shaft, and, in
1886, the Holman's shaft (South Caradon) 70" engine was re-erected
in a new engine house. Extensive dressing floors, and a stamping
engine were likely to have been built at about the same time.
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| Output figures for
tin for the period 1872-90 under the heading of Marke Valley show
that production was diminishing. The mine closed in 1890 and there
are no records of any attempt to re-prospect the lodes during the
early years of the C20th. |
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