Harriets Pumping Engine house, part of Dolcoath Mine, built in 1860
Dolcoath mine (Cornish: Bal Dorkoth)[citation needed] was a copper and tin mine in Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Its name derives from the Cornish for 'Old Ground', and it was also affectionately known as The Queen of Cornish Mines. The site is north-west of Carn Brea. Dolcoath Road runs between the A3047 road and Chapel Hill. The site is south of this road.
Dolcoathmine (Cornish: Bal Dorkoth)[citation needed] was a copper and tin mine in Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Its name derives from the Cornish...
mechanism of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms installed in mines to assist the miners' journeys to and from the working levels. It was invented...
profitable, and mines were reopened, but today none remain. Dolcoathmine (Cornish for Old Ground),[citation needed] the 'Queen of Cornish Mines', was 3,500...
Wheal Agar in 1883 when a cage fell down a shaft and seven killed at Dolcoathmine in 1893 when a large stull collapsed. The worst mining accident in Scotland...
convicted. DolcoathMine, (English: Old Ground Mine), the 'Queen of Cornish Mines' was, at a depth of 3,500 feet (1,067 m), for many years the deepest mine in...
United Kingdom. Cornwall portal Levant Mine and Beam Engine Geevor Tin Mine Consolidated MinesDolcoathmine OS Explorer 102 Land's End (Map). Southampton:...
(1759–1842) was a British mechanical engineer, inventor, and mine captain of the Dolcoathmine in Cornwall, England. In partnership with his cousin Richard...
at intervals up to 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. The 1893 mining disaster at Dolcoathmine in Cornwall was caused by failure of the stulls holding up a huge weight...
kieves – a labour-intensive and inefficient process. DolcoathMine was probably the most progressive mine in the county and the first Californian stamps were...
the First World War in 1914 very few remained in employment. In 1921 Dolcoathmine, the last employer of bal maidens, ceased operations, bringing the tradition...
employed by Matthew Boulton as assay-master and storekeeper in the Dolcoathmine in Cornwall. At the same time, he also authored books in geology and...
2142°N 5.2837°W / 50.2142; -5.2837 (Dolcoath Halt)) (312 miles 62 chains or 503.36 kilometres) near Dolcoathmine on 28 August 1905 but it closed again...
development of the mine. These large open underground spaces were the inevitable cause of accidents too: in 1836 a miner was killed at Dolcoathmine when he fell...
from mining and land rents. During 1860–61 his income from Dolcoathmine and the Basset mines amounted to £20,000. The house was completed by 1863. By 1888...
experiments at the top and bottom of a deep mine. His first attempt, made in the same year, at the Dolcoathmine in Cornwall, failed in consequence of an...
As nearby mines closed, they were acquired by South Crofty to supplement its ore reserves at depth. The major purchase was of Dolcoathmine in 1936. Ore...
Levant Mine disaster. 31 men died. 1920: First Old Cornwall Society founded in St Ives. 1921: Cornwall's deepest mine, the 3,500 ft Dolcoathmine, closes;...
Richard Trevithick's "high-pressure" Cornish boiler, first installed at Dolcoathmine in 1812. This is a long horizontal cylinder with a single large flue...
Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom. Poldice mine Redruth and Chasewater Railway Wheal Jane Dolcoathmine Devon Great Consols; name inspired by Consolidated's...
Whewell was engaged with George Airy in conducting experiments in Dolcoathmine in Cornwall, in order to determine the density of the earth. Their united...
with Richard Trevithick, ten such engines were installed in mines, the first at Dolcoathmine. Boulton and Watt claimed that the engine infringed the company's...
local tin mining industry especially at Camborne's Dolcoathmine which at that time was the deepest mine in Britain, and many were employed at the local...
Andrew Vivian, Trevithick's cousin and collaborator, and captain of DolcoathMine Arthur Woolf, inventor of the high pressure compound steam engine Cornwall...
story by Gabriel García Márquez Souterrain - 2006 - 07 Performed in DolcoathMine Camborne Cornwall, Stanmer Park Brighton, The Beautiful Journey - 2009...
Albert. "The Great Dolcoath - Albert Bluett, 1898". Camborne Old Cornwall Society. Retrieved 28 June 2009. Greeves, Tom (2001). Tin Mines and Miners of Dartmoor...
one mine in Cornwall older than Dolcoath, and that's Ding Dong, which was worked before the time of Jesus Christ." A folk song called "Ding Dong Mine" was...
Vivian (1759–1842), Trevithick's cousin and collaborator, and captain of DolcoathMine William Wagstaff, ornithologist and naturalist Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)...
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