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DougCornwall Joined: 05/08/2009 Location: Helston View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 08/09/2010 11:19:57 Reply \| Quote Does anyone have any information on the location and history of Wheal Tremar please? Presumably this was a Caradon mine and the only thing I can find out about it was that in about 1853 it sold its 2 year old, little used beam engine, built by Thomas & Co at Charlestown Foundry to the Thames and Severn Canal where it continued working until at least the end of the century. Shipment of the engine was through Looe. Thats it! Can anyone put any meat on that bone at all?? -- Always have a backup plan. IP: 92.0.27.99
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 08/09/2010 14:59:34 Reply \| Quote St Cleer. There is a Wheal Tremar and a Tremar Copper Mine and a load of Mining Journal references 1851 to 1853. I cannot find any reference after 1853 but my index database only goes up to 1860. If you want images of any MJ reference just ask. -- ''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change IP: 84.13.96.36
spitfire Joined: 22/04/2008 Location: Camborne View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 08/09/2010 15:23:44 Reply \| Quote Wheal Tremar is in St Cleer parish -- spitfire IP: 86.175.192.58
stuey Joined: 15/08/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 09/09/2010 00:35:39 Reply \| Quote I have long suspected that an adit is probably a source of the stream in Tremar (west caradon? ). I have a mate who lives in Tremar and where he is building his shed has a load of what I would consider lode tip material....comby quartz, growan, speckled "****" and some chalcopyrite flakes in gossan. IP: 87.113.139.165
DougCornwall Joined: 05/08/2009 Location: Helston View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 09/09/2010 09:05:45 Reply \| Quote The engine was said to be only a couple of years old when sold in 1852/3 and purported to have done only a little work. Could it be a 'mine for show' job for the London money market? It perhaps has the hallmarks such as a 'Caradon' based name, a new engine installed even though there is no record apparently of any significant workings and the mine only appears from Roy's records to show up for a couple of years. Be nice to know where it stood though. Thanks for all info. -- Always have a backup plan. IP: 92.0.27.99
stuey Joined: 15/08/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 09/09/2010 10:51:41 Reply \| Quote The "minions" book will have it in. If not, it didn't happen. IP: 87.113.139.165
Scoggan Joined: 03/05/2009 Location: Liskeard Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 09/09/2010 20:52:24 Reply \| Quote Not in the Minions Book IP: 86.151.22.25 Edited: 09/09/2010 20:55:57 by Scoggan
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 11/09/2010 01:19:13 Reply \| Quote Nowt showing in the Cornwall and Devon Mining directory 1870 -- 'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear' IP: 109.154.140.40
Tin Miner Joined: 24/06/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 11/09/2010 11:17:19 Reply \| Quote Doug - If you would like to contact me off-line I can send you 3 pages of newspaper reports on Wheal Tremar Copper Mine that I have down-loaded from a Newspaper Site that I have access to. Or if anyone else would like a copy (word doc.) please contact me off-line. The articles (brief look by me) include a number of meetings with accounts, brief description of working (adit - Stuey), court case - regarding the bubble company, and a sale list of materials etc, including the 40-inch cylinder steam engine. All between 1851 to 1853. Kindest regards Tin Miner IP: 77.102.168.134
Tin Miner Joined: 24/06/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Wheal Tremar ?? Posted: 12/09/2010 21:22:01 Reply \| Quote Orphan - Have sent you a message through this site... but it seems stuck in my outbox. Please email me on tin.miner@blueyonder.co.uk so that I can reply with a 7 meg attachement of the newspaper cuttings. Kindest regards Tin Miner IP: 77.102.168.134

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