Cornwall Tin & Mining Corporation. Gwennap, Cusgrane area, S...

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Cornwall Tin & Mining Corporation. Gwennap, Cusgrane area, St Day Composite map 1:2500 showing geological contact, adits, Gossan, shafts (vertical), shafts (inclined), underground adits, drifts, cross-cuts, stopping, surface diamond drill holes, property boundaries St Day to Mount Wellington; Continuation to Tolgullow and Wheal Jane; 1:2500 Tracing, plan of mines in Scorrier District by RCAH; OS 25’ 1880, Tracing, Wheal Pink, St Day; 1772 Photcopy, map of boundaries of St Day (three parts); OS 25’ 1908, Great Wheal Busy & Chasewater; OS 6’ 1908, Redruth, Chasewater, St Day; OS 25’ 1908, United Mines St Day; Plan of Great County Adit, S.Furge; OS 25’ 1908, Wheal Rose Scorrier; 1892, 1:12672, Photocopy, Camborne, Illogan, Redruth & Gwennep Mines; OS 25’ 1908, Mount Ambrose, Trefula, St Day; OS 25’ 1908, Poldice, Goongumpas, Hale Mills; Wheal Gorland, Wheal Quick, Wheal Cupid, maps, lodes & cross courses; Maps, lodes & cross courses, Scorrier, West Poldice, Wheal Busy, Treskerby, North Downs; Maps, lodes, Park-an-Chy, North Downs. 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).