THE OLDEST TIN MINE

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 7, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 26.

THE OLDEST TIN MINE.

Dolcoath is the name by which the oldest and deepest tin mine in the world is known. It is situated at Camborne, in the west of Cornwall. In the early part of the present century it was noted for its enormous production of copper ore, the sales of this mineral having amounted to about £5,000,000. It now produces tin only. In the interval between copper and tin, about the years 1853–55, a period in the sinking when the two minerals were so blended that they could not be separated so as to make them marketable, the whole mine could have been purchased for £3,000. The market value of the same to-day is £470,000 (4,700 shares at £100 each); so that each sum of £50 invested in it thirty years ago is now worth £7,000 and receives dividends every twelve weeks amounting to about £500 a year.—Sel.