East Pool mine
The engine house and stack at Taylor's Shaft
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| Location | |
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| Location | Redruth |
| County | Cornwall |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 50°13′52″N 5°15′44″W / 50.2312°N 5.2622°WCoordinates: 50°13′52″N 5°15′44″W / 50.2312°N 5.2622°W |
| Production | |
| Products | Copper, tin, arsenic and wolframite |
| History | |
| Opened | early 18th century |
| Closed | 1945 |
East Pool mine (later known as East Pool and Agar mine), was a mine in the Camborne and Redruth mining area, just east of the village of Pool in Cornwall, England. Worked from the early 18th century until 1945, first for copper and later tin, it was very profitable for much of its life. Today the site has two preserved beam engines and is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.
The country rock at the mine is metamorphosed killas and greenstone overlying the Carn Brea granite. The many lodes on the sett are all crossed by several elvan dykes. The mine's main produce was copper and later tin, arsenic and wolframite, also small amounts of the ores of bismuth, cobalt and uranium.
East Pool mine started out in the early 18th century as a copper mine called "Pool Old Bal". The land under which it was allowed to mine (the "sett") was leased from the Basset family and it generated enough money for that family to build their country house at Tehidy. The mine's adit was 32 fathoms (192 ft; 59 m) below ground and mining had taken place 16 fathoms (96 ft; 29 m) below this, the workings being drained by a flatrod system powered by a water wheel south of Pool village. This phase of mining ceased in 1784.
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