Haytor Mine
Ilsington, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK
Historic iron mine worked for magnetite from before 1828 until 1921.
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The site was worked before 1828 as an open cast mine, after that adits were driven into the ore body.
There is an excellent writeup of the site on the Scottish Geology Trust website linked below. I would recommend reading this – it’s far, far more in depth than anything I would write here.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-1520.html
- https://geoguide.scottishgeologytrust.org/p/gcr36/gcr36_haytorironmine
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