Trebellan Mine lay south-east of Cubert, with workings south of Trebellan farm. It followed a lead-bearing lode associated with silver and was known in the late eighteenth century as Wheal Mexico.
The Geological Survey records a connection between the lode’s southern continuation and the Great Retallack and Treamble mining ground. That is a geological relationship, not proof of an open passage between all the sites.
The mine belongs to the industrial landscape around Trebellan and the Smugglers’ Den. Its presence helps explain why underground workings appear in local stories, without establishing every claimed route beneath the valley.
Where it is
Trebellan Mine
50.362235, -5.111468 · Position source: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B01793.html
Historic mine locality from the Geological Survey grid [SW 788 560]; not a surveyed shaft or visitor entrance
Visiting and access
A location reference, not confirmation of public access or a visitor entrance.
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- Seven Bridges, the Smugglers’ Den and the Railway in the Valley
A pub with a tunnel story sits beside a landscape of old mineral routes. The interesting part is working out which connections belong together.