Tavistock: grid reference SX471716

Notable minerals: Chalcopyrite, Copper & Galena.

Devon and Courtenay Consols lies within Birch Wood on the eastern slope of the River Tavy Valley near Shillamill some one and a half miles southwest of the village of Whitchurch, near Tavistock in West Devon. It included Birch Wood Mine. A copper and lead producer the mine worked one lode unsurprisingly known as Main Lode from Engine Shaft, Derrick Shaft, Carthew Shaft and Sprague's Shaft.

Production records report that 1852-1861: 1,510 tons of 6% copper ore and 3 tons of 67% lead ore was raised. As Courtenay Mine between 1869 and 1878 280 tons of 7.5% copper ore was produced.