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GUNNISLAKE CLITTERS MINE

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Remains of a 19th to early 20th century copper, tin, arsenic and wolfram mine. The earliest remains comprise early post medieval workings, but intensive mining activity began circa 1820. These remains include an adit and associated dressing floors, spoil dumps and water wheels. Operations ceased in 1827 and the mine was re-opened in 1858. Remains from this period include a number of engine houses, boiler houses, dressing floors, chimneys, ore crushing houses and smithies. The main dressing floor was linked to the lower slope dressing floor and arsenic works by a tramway, part of which survives. The arsenic works were linked by a flue to a further chimney. Some of this area has been destroyed by later mining activity. In 1900, a new company amalgamated this mine with three others nearby and built a large ore reprocessing mill on the lower slope. A new dressing floor was constructed near the mill, with an ore drying plant to the east and the arsenic works to the south west. Inclined tramways carried materials to and from the mill. The reprocessing works ceased operation in 1909. The mine was reopened following the outbreak of war in 1914 though little work was carried out underground. Most of the ore processed came from existing spoil dumps or from reopened mines to the south west, brought to the site by aerial ropeway. The mine finally closed in the late 1920s. It is now contained within the World Heritage Site of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.

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(SX 424723) Gunnislake Clitters Mine (Tin Copper & Arsenic, Disused) (NAT) (1)

Gunnislake Clitters Mine, worked 1822-7 and re-opened in 1860s. It was amalgamated with Hingston Down Consols (SX 47 SW 9) and Old Gunnislake Mine (SX 47 SW 16) in 1900; abandoned in late 1920s.

Remains of two engine house, a treatment mill and some flues survive. (The track of the old tramway incline up to the railway line is shown on OS 6" 1954). (2-3)

SX 420720. Remains of a 19th/early 20th century copper, tin, arsenic and wolfram mine. The earliest remains comprise early post medieval workings, but intensive mining activity began circa 1820. These remains include an adit and associated dressing floors, spoil dumps and water wheels. Operations ceased in 1827 and the mine was re-opened in 1858. Remains from this period include a number of engine houses, boiler houses, dressing floors, chimneys, ore crushing houses and smithies. The main dressing floor was linked to the lower slope dressing floor and arsenic works by a tramway, part of which survives. The arsenic works were linked by a flue to a further chimney. Some of this area has been destroyed by later mining activity. In 1900, a new company amalgamated this mine with three others nearby and built a large ore reprocessing mill on the lower slope. A new dressing floor was constructed near the mill, with an ore drying plant to the east and the arsenic works to the south west. Inclined tramways carried materials to and from the mill. The reprocessing works ceased operation in 1909. The mine was reopened following the outbreak of war in 1914 though little work was carried out underground. Most of the ore processed came from existing spoil dumps or from reopened mines to the south west, brought to the site by aerial ropeway. The mine finally closed in the late 1920s. Scheduled. The riverside pumping engine house and chimney are Listed Grade II. (4)

Documented. (5-8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1954

( 2) Frank Booker 1967 The industrial archaeology of the Tamar Valley

The industrial archaeology of the British Isles [series] Page(s)195-6

( 3) A C Todd and Peter Laws 1972 The industrial archaeology of Cornwall

The industrial archaeology of the British Isles [series] Page(s)214

(4) Scheduled Monument Notification

08-SEP-2003

( 5) English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme Industrial Monuments Assessment, Step 3 Reports

The Copper Industry, Vol.2, Cornwall 23, 1995

( 6) English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme Industrial Monuments Assessment, Step 3 Reports

Cranstone D. and Hedley I. June 1995, The Tin Industry Step 3 Site Assessments: Cornwall 139

( 7) 2004 Nomination of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape for inclusion on the World Heritage List.

Page(s)116

( 8) World Wide Web page

http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/mines/callington/gunnislake-clitters.htm [Accessed 14-AUG-2008]

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