Hi Alasdair,
Thanks! The fact that the plans call the shaft on East lode Old Engine shaft confirms my suspicion that the engine house beside it is the older of the two pumping engine houses. You may be right about EWJ starting there and then moving to New Engine shaft, but I think it more likely that the house was erected during the previous working of East lode as Cardinham Mine (~1857-59), when a shaft was sunk on East lode to meet an adit driven in earlier from the north side of the river. By 1859, this shaft (EWJ's Old Engine shaft) had reached a depth of 13 fathoms below this adit (at 20 fathoms). It is also possible that the engine was still there in 1862, when EWJ got going on West lode, and was simply moved to New Engine shaft. The sales notice would tell me, but no luck with that yet.
Damian Nance.
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Subject: Re: East Jane Mine, Cornwall
Brenton Symons's plan (draft in a collection of his plans, surface drawings of various mines etc at CRO) shows the eastern shaft as Old Engine Shaft and the western as New Engine Shaft. In the 1850's the mine appears to have been worked by water power (a sale notice was reproduced in a Plymouth Mineral & Mining Club newsletter). A few notes taken from the Mining Journal show that in 1863 work was proceeding to sink a Western Shaft. I suspect the answer is in the 1860's working commenced at the eastern (old) engine shaft, the western lode then showed more promise and the western shaft became the New Engine Shaft. Whether a separate engine was erected there, or the engine was moved from the one to the other I don't know, but no doubt going through the MJ will give the answer. Other sources on the mine include Lanhydrock Estate papers at CRO & RIC (Clifden, ?Tehidy Minerals, & Jenkin collections). Alasdair Neill.
On Friday, 11 March 2016, 18:55, "Nance, R. Damian" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Help!
Can anyone tell me anything about the second pumping engine house at East (Wheal) Jane Mine in the Glynn Valley on the banks of the Fowey River east of Bodmin? The mine sales list of 1866 lists a 40-inch pumping engine and a 24-inch whim, the houses of which can both be identified beside the shaft (sunk on West lode) at SX136655. But there is a second pumping engine house beside a shaft sunk on East lode about 200 metres to the ESE at SX138654. The only production records for the mine are for 1862-65 and, according to Dines, the mine plans (date not given) show no indication of surface working at the shaft on East lode. So what was this engine? I can find no record of it, nor any record of a subsequent reworking.
Any help would be appreciated.
Damian Nance.
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