Ford Mine Mine, Devon
Okehampton: grid reference SX643935
Ford Mine is a small mine situated just south of Ford Farm on the northern fringes of Dartmoor near the villages of South Zeal and Sticklepath. The mine is thought to date from about 1840 and to have worked copper, arsenic, pyrite and some zinc. It worked intermittently until its closure in the 1920s.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Ramsley Mine (approx. 1.1 km; COPPER & ARSENOPYRITE)
Belstone Consols (approx. 1.4 km; COPPER & ARSENOPYRITE)
Ivy Tor Mine (approx. 1.5 km; COPPER, BISMUTH & ARSENOPYRITE)
Gooseford West (Fortune) (approx. 3.1 km; COPPER, ARSENIC & TIN)
Steeperton Tor Mine (approx. 5.9 km; TIN)
Bradford Pool Mine (approx. 6.2 km; COPPER & TIN)
Okehampton Consols (approx. 7.1 km; LEAD & SILVER-LEAD)
Meldon (approx. 7.5 km; COPPER, IRON & Arsenic)
Forest Mine (Okement Consols) (approx. 8.4 km; COPPER, TIN & LEAD)
Drewsteignton (approx. 9.0 km; COPPER, LEAD & GOLD)
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