Loddiswell Mine Mine, Devon
Kingsbridge: grid reference SX721515
Loddiswell Mine opened in 1825 and is situated just southeast of Blackdown Camp, some six miles southeast of Ivybridge and three miles northwest of Kingsbridge in South Devon. The mine worked a group of silver-lead lodes from a number of shafts.
The only record of production is 16 tons of lead ore raised in 1847.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Ivybridge Consols (approx. 8.2 km; SILVER-LEAD)
Kings Wood (approx. 15.1 km; COPPER & URANIUM)
Huntingdon Mine (approx. 15.9 km; TIN)
Brookwood (approx. 16.1 km; COPPER)
Hemerdon Mine (approx. 16.3 km; TUNGSTEN & TIN)
Hemerdon Consols (approx. 16.4 km; TIN, ARSENIC & ARSENOPYRITE)
Wrey Consols (approx. 16.8 km; COPPER)
Runnaford Coombe (approx. 16.8 km; COPPER, TIN & PYRITE)
Wheal Mary Hutchings (approx. 16.9 km; TIN & ARSENIC)
Lobb Mine (approx. 16.9 km; TIN & ARSENIC)
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