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1. Some remains of the plant are on the eastern outskirts of the village, while a mile to the north, off the A386, the National Trust preserves the former engine house of Wheal Betsy Mine, which produced lead, silver and zinc into the late 1870s, being known then as the Prince Arthur Consols mine.
2. The company has a stake in all four existing Cornish mines; it owns Wheal Jane, the biggest works, while it holds 40 per cent of the shares in the South Crofty and Pendarves mines and has an 18 per cent share in Geevor (see Map).
3. The homely nature of many of the old works is testified by their names - Wheal Ale and Cakes, Wheal Cupboard and Wheal Bread and Cheese.
4. (" Wheal" is Cornish for "mine".)
5. At one time, it looked as though Rio Tinto-Zinc, the giant metals company, would rescue Warrell by purchasing Wheal Concord.
6. Much of the 21 000 tonnes of ore that Wheal Concord's workers excavated was richer in tin than comparable deposits in Cornwall.
7. The Wheal Friendship Mine produced lead, iron, copper and arsenic from right under the main street, and the production of arsenic here went on until 1925.
8. At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works, now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century, when William Cookworthy, a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary, discovered kaolin, the chief ingredient of porcelain, which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years.
9. The Wheal Martyn works ceased commercial production in 1968 , but visitors can now see the whole history and process of producing china clay, as well as the machinery used, which included a huge breastshot waterwheel of 35 feet diameter, to drive pumps in the quarry pit.
10. - CHRIS WHEAL, London SE8.
11. All of which would produce rueful sighs among the backers of a small Cornish mine called Wheal Concord.