Mine plans and surveys. Notes 1908-1946 on shafts, lodes, un...

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Mine plans and surveys. Notes 1908-1946 on shafts, lodes, underground workings, history & statistics about the above mines, plus underground sections New Polbreen & West Polbreen; Printed aerial photographs of quarry; OS 25’ Photocopy, map of Perranporth Airfield, with shafts and underground workings superimposed; 1:25,000 Plan of Cligga Mine; OS 25’ Photcopy, South Wheal Towan, Tin Mine Ltd; OS 25’ Photocopy, Cligga Mine, Great St George Mine, underground workings superimposed by RCAH; OS 6’ 1908, superimposed with boundaries, Wheal Rose, North Treskerby, Wheal Briton, RCAH; OS 6’ 1908, Superimposed by RCAH with boundaries of South Towan, East Wheal Fancy, East Wheal Music, South Wheal Butson, East Tywarnhayle, Wheal Tallack, North Towan, Wheal Freedom & West Polbream Mines; OS 6’ 1908, Superimposed by RCAH with boundaries; OS 6’ 1908, Superimposed by RCAH with boundaries of Wheal Anna, North Engelly, Wheal Albert, West Wheal Hope, Ty Tyas (?), Treworthan; OS 6’ 1908, Superimposed with boundaries of Blue Hills, East Blue Hills, Princess Royal, Wheal Prudence, Treslaw Sett; Sections 1:200 East of Bissoe Bridge, drawn by RCAH; Surrey notes and plan 1:1000 drawn by RCAH of Wheal Bussy; OS 6’ Photocopy, Great Wheal Busy, location of sections surveyed in 459; ‘Hearle Family Partition – Map No 2’ Showing lands divided between F.F.Rodd Esq, J.C.L.Tremayne Esq, C.S.Richardson; Tracing of all the mining sett boundaries in Tuckingmill and Redruth Cardrew; Tracing showing all the adits (including the county adit) in Redruth, Wheal Tolgus to St Day, Carharrack, Wheal Jane; 1819 Photocopy, Map of the mining district of Cornwall, between Camborne and Chasewater, showing The Great Adit; Original tracing, Redruth and marked mines area, (Plan of Great County Adit); Prints from 465/466 original tracing, mines marked and named; Hand drawn plan of St Day and Carharrack with superimposed shafts, adits and lodes. From the estate of Ron Hooper, M.V.O., A.C.S.M., F.I.M.M. Born in St.Agnes, he graduated from Camborne School of Mines. After a short career mining in the Gold Coast of Ghana he joined the Camborne School of Mines, eventually becoming Senior Lecturer in Surveying. At the same time, he acted as an independent mining engineer and was appointed mineral agent for several Cornish estates including the Duchy of Cornwall, Tregothnan, and the Godolphin Estate (amongst others).