Try Justin Brooke's records at the Country Record office in Truro.
John
At 12:59 08/09/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Cornwall Great Consols.
>
>I came across a couple of references to this elusive little mine in the
>pages of Mining Journal (1882 pp752 & 878).
>
>Dines (1994 reprint, p. 632)records that this mine was actually South Kit
>Hill. All well and good; I then turned to Burt et al's volume of Cornish
>Mineral stats to confirm things. Burt confirms that CGC was a Callington
>mine (but gives no grid reference) owned between 1879 - 82 by CGC Mining
>Co., making small returns of black tin during 1880 - 82. However the same
>volume also records that South Kit Hill was also at work during this
>period - in other words CGC and South Kit Hill can't be the same mine.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Rick Stewart
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