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Okel Tor This colour indicates more information or an external link. Other Mines:- Danescombe Valley (Calstock Consols etc.) Prince of Wales Albaston Mines, including East Calstock & Wheals Arthur & Edward Typical living and working conditions for the miners and their families are described on the Cornish Mining website.
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Okel Tor A pictorial map and photograph of this mine can be found on this page of the Tamar Valley A.O.N.B. website (pdf file). (Website under reconstruction May 2008). Worked under lease from the estate of the Duchy of Cornwall, the site is elevated on a bend of the Tamar and has superb views of the valley and Devon beyond. Worked from: 1840s-1890 Producing: Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Pyrite & Tin from shafts. Plans & Documents: Plans available from the CRO,
references AD220/19, HB/A12, MRO/R68 (longitudinal section MRO/R68/1),
MRO/S13, HB/12 Ownership: 1849(?) - Okel Tor Silver, Lead & Copper
Mine Co. Other Associated Names: 1859-1860 - Tratton, ? Chief Agent 1859-1865 - Collom, William B. Manager 1860-1865 - Channing, W. Secretary Notes: 1861 - To view an advertisement from the Belfast News-letter, dated 30 September, giving statistics for the mine and inviting share applications, click here. 1873 - Initial exploitation became too costly and machinery sold. 1874 - Mine sold. 1876 - Work started again, with arsenic being the main product. 1878 - 63 people were employed, 33 underground and 30 on the surface. 1882 - At the height of its production, employed 192 people, including children as young as 9. 86 worked underground and 106 on the surface 1887 - The death was recorded of 14-year-old John Spear when "a quantity of ground fell upon him". In that year, the mine employed 62 people underground and 80 on the surface. 1881 At the time of the 1881 Census, William B. Collom (58 years) was living at North Park House, Calstock with his wife, Elizabeth, and 8 children. His occupation was given as a Mining Engineer and 2 of his sons were copper miners. John Rodda (a widower, aged 50, born in St. Austell) lived at 9 Hatches Green, Calstock with 4 sons and 2 daughters. The birth places of his children indicate that the family had moved between Tavistock (Devon), Calstock, Redruth (Cornwall) and Quebec (Canada). 2 of his sons were also miners. Living at Rose Cottage, Calstock were Henry
(Harry) Bulford (37), his wife, Mary Jane, and their 6 young children.
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