St Day United Mines and Gwennap, A serious collection of sur...

Hammer

£120

St Day United Mines and Gwennap, A serious collection of surveys and plans. Collection titled 'Mining Records St. Day United' including good quality facsimile prints including 'United Mines. South Lode', 'Section on the United Mines Great Lode', 'Section of Pearce's South Lode or Wheal Fortune Lode, Consolidated Mines', 'United Mines North or Hot Lode', &c. &c.; 'Traverse Sections. St Day United' thirteen sections printed on thick tracing paper, with graphite additions by Hooper; 'Plan of the United Mines'; 'Section on the United Mines Great Lode,' scale 22 fathoms to an inch, printed on thick tracing paper; 'Section of United Mines-South Lode-Sheet No.1-Correct to Sept 1870-Pagan's Shaft-Wheal Oak Shaft,' printed on thick tracing paper; 'Traverse Section of Wheal Moyle Ting-Tang. Gwennap, Cornwall'; 'Mines in Gwennap District'; 'United Mines Northor Hot Lode'; 'White Works Mine, Carharrack Redruth Cornwall'; 'Carqueen Mine. Longitudinal Section on South Lode' by J. E. F. Marshall for Gwennap Minerals Ltd; 'Plan of Wheal Britannia in Gwennap, Cornwall'; 'Plan of Underground Poldory Mine'; 'Section of Pearce's South Lode or Wheal Fortune Lode, Consolidated Mines'; 'Wheal Clifford. Plan of the United Mines...Corrected to 1870'; With many more. (Q) 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).