Great Onlsow Consols is on the west side of Bodmin Moor, north of the
village of St Breward. It opened about 1851 intending to be a copper
mine but its major output was mundic (pyrite). It despatched over the
Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway and that railway's records contain a good
deal of information on shipments. From 1856 they were sending
quantities of 'tin chips' and occasionally 'iron chips'. Shipments of
tin chips, iron chips and mundic occurred at times on the same days
so the descriptions are not alternatives for the same thing. Five or
ten tons a day were being sent. I have never come across these
'chips' and wonder if anyone on the list has any ideas.
Michael Messenger
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