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Kings Wood Mine, Devon

Principal ores: COPPER & URANIUM

Buckfastleigh: grid reference SX711666


Kings Wood mine is situated just over a mile west of Buckfastleigh, near Bowerden Farm. The mine was little more than a prospect exploring chloritic copper lodes and a deposit of pitchblende (uranium).

Other nearby mines and their main ores

Brookwood (approx. 1.2 km; COPPER)

Wrey Consols (approx. 1.8 km; COPPER)

Runnaford Coombe (approx. 1.9 km; COPPER, TIN & PYRITE)

Queen of Dart (approx. 3.1 km; COPPER)

Huntingdon Mine (approx. 4.5 km; TIN)

Ringleshuttes (approx. 4.7 km; TIN)

Ausewell Wood (approx. 4.7 km; COPPER)

Holne Chase Mine (approx. 5.0 km; TIN & GOLD)

Druid Mine (approx. 6.0 km; COPPER & TIN)

Devon and Cornwall Umber Works (approx. 6.3 km; UMBER)

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