Fowey Consols mine is a group of mines in the St Blazey district of Cornwall. They were owned by wealthy Cornishman,

Joseph Treffry Joseph Austen Treffry (1782 – 29 January 1850) was an engineer, mining adventurer, and industrialist who became a significant landowner in Cornwall, England. Biography Born in Plymouth, Devon as Joseph Thomas Austen, to Joseph Austen (d 1786 ...

. The mines were worked by 6 steam engines and 17 waterwheels. The mines were linked to the port at Par by a canal. It was one of the deepest, richest and most important copper mines in Cornwall. Langite-75467

In 1813, these mines, then called Wheal Treasure, Wheal Fortune, and Wheal Chance, commenced working, and stopped in 1819. In 1822, they were purchased by Treffry, and consolidated under the above title. In 1836,

Lanescot Lanescot ( kw, Lysnestek) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in a former mining area, about four miles (6 km) east-northeast of St Austell and four miles (6 km) west-northwest of Fowey. The Saints' Way long-dista ...

mine was added to the Fowey Consols.''A Compendium of British Mining''; Joseph Yelloly Watson (1843); p. 51

Minerals

Fowey Consols is the type locality for two minerals - Langite and Rhabdophane-(Ce), and a total of 34 valid minerals have been reported from the Consols.

References

* ''Richly Yielding Piece of Ground: History of Fowey Consols Mine 1813 to 1867'' Jim Lewis * ''History of Copper Mining in Cornwall & Devon'', D. Bradford Barton

External links

Cornwall in Focus
page on Fowey Consols
Timeline on the history of the mine
Copper mines in Cornwall Industrial archaeological sites in Cornwall {{Cornwall-geo-stub