Pennance
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
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Pennance is a hamlet near Lanner in west Cornwall, England.[1]
Pennance Mine[]
Pennance Mine lies in the Gwennap Mining District and is situated on the southern slopes of Carn Marth, south of the converted quarry that is now Carn Marth Open Air Theatre. Formerly known as Wheal Amelia, the area was worked by tinners as early as the 17th century. In his 1839 book Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Henry De la Beche describes it as producing copper. Robert Hunt, in his 1857 report the Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, described it in the same way.
The mine continued to extract copper until about 1873, producing 147 tons of medium grade copper ore in its final year. The fall in the price of copper in 1866 and the opening of new tin fields overseas, foreshadowed the closure of Pennance Consols in 1874. Between 1880 and 1881 it was reworked under the name of East Buller.[2]
References[]
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 978-0-319-23289-7.
- ^ "Mining in Cornwall Database - Pennance Mine, Cornwall". www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
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