Mines with Hydrothermal Deposits

113 linked mines · Geology: Hydrothermal Deposits

Listed only where MineArchive's own research gives a reasonable evidential basis for the connection — not every mine where this geology might plausibly apply.

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities	Connection
Alport Mines	Derbyshire	17th century–mid-1800s (mining)	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing veins within the Peak District orefield's Carboniferous limestone.
Alva Silver Mine (Silver Glen)	Clackmannanshire	1712–1716	Silver, Cobalt	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal vein system yielding native silver.
Arkendale Mine	North Yorkshire	From 1882–1905	Lead	(well documented example) The Arkengarthdale lead was deposited from mineralising fluids rising along faults and joints through the Carboniferous sequence of the dales.
Ballacorkish Mine	Isle of Man	Before 1819–1895	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Ochre	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead- and zinc-bearing veins of the Manx mineralised belt.
Barrow Mine	Cumbria	By the 1680s–1889	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) Argentiferous galena with blende, cerussite, pyromorphite and pyrite, in a vein believed to be part of the same structure as the Yewthwaite and Thornthwaite lodes.
Bedford United Mine	Devon	1841–1890	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper-bearing lodes of the Tamar Valley orefield.
Blakethwaite Mine	North Yorkshire	1819 (mine)–1878	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing veins of the northern Pennine orefield.
Bog Mine	Shropshire	1730s–1924	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing veins in the Shropshire lead-mining district.
Botallack Mine	Cornwall	1500s–1895	Tin, Lead, Cobalt, Copper, Arsenic, Silver	(well documented example) Botallack's tin, copper and arsenic lodes are hydrothermal, formed from fluids driven by the cooling Land's End granite.
Brandelhow Mine	Cumbria	By 1560s–early 1891	Lead, Copper, Silver, Graphite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-, copper-, silver- and graphite-bearing veins within a hydrothermal orefield.
Britannia Copper Mine	Gwynedd	Around 1800–1916	Copper	(well documented example) Copper worked from mineralised veins in the volcanic rocks of the Snowdon massif.
Brownley Hill Mine	Cumbria	worked from the early 1700s–1966	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the hydrothermal Brownley Hill Vein of the northern Pennine orefield.
CB Mine	North Yorkshire	1654–1883 (CB Mining Company)	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes hydrothermal lead veins of the northern Pennine orefield.
Cae Coch Sulphur Mine	Conwy	1607–1942	Pyrite	(historical documentary reference) One of the competing readings of the deposit is as a kuroko-type volcanogenic exhalative body, and hollow pyrite tubes in the top half-metre of the bed have been interpreted as fossilised black smokers. The link is to that contested interpretation, not a settled classification — the sulphur-isotope and cobalt-nickel evidence points away from a volcanogenic origin.
Cambokeels Mine	County Durham	1868–1989	Fluorspar, Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the hydrothermal Slitt Vein of the northern Pennine orefield.
Carn Galver Mine	Cornwall	Early 19th century–1875	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal tin lode within the Cornubian orefield.
Chewton Mineries	Somerset	1541–1883	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead veins within the Triassic Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Mendip orefield.
Coalcleugh	Northumberland	17th century–1878	Lead, Zinc, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead- and zinc-bearing veins of the Alston Block, part of the northern Pennine orefield.
Cobscar Mill	North Yorkshire	1762–c. 1830	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes hydrothermal lead veins of the northern Pennine orefield.
Cook's Kitchen Mine	Cornwall	By early 18th century–1913	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper and tin lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
Craig-y-Mwyn Mine	Powys	1692–19th century (exact final date unrecorded)	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a lead vein within the hydrothermal Central Wales orefield.
Cwm Elan Mine	Powys	1796 (discovery)–September 1877	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a lead- and zinc-bearing vein within the hydrothermal Central Wales orefield.
Diana Maria Mine	County Durham	2017 (opencast)–Still active	Fluorspar	(well documented example) The fluorite belongs to the Northern Pennine Orefield's mineralisation, emplaced in the Carboniferous limestone sequence by circulating hot fluids rather than by any magmatic body at the site.
Ding Dong Mine	Cornwall	documented from early 17th century–1928	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes tin- and copper-bearing lodes of the Land's End granite, part of the Cornubian orefield.
Dovegang Mine	Derbyshire	By 1652–19th century	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal lead vein system of the Derbyshire orefield.
Dowgang Mine	Cumbria	By 1773–by 1902	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) Dowgang worked the North Pennine orefield, whose lead and zinc were deposited from mineralising fluids rising along faults through the Carboniferous sequence.
Drws-y-Coed Copper Mine	Gwynedd	Medieval (recorded 1284)–1903	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal copper mineralised system hosted in Cambrian rocks.
East Wheal Rose	Cornwall	1812 (discovery)–1886	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
Ecton Copper Mines	Staffordshire	Bronze Age–1891	Copper, Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) Exploits near-vertical, pipe-like hydrothermal copper-lead-zinc mineralisation, a less common deposit shape than a simple vein.
Esgair Mwyn Mine	Ceredigion	1746–1994	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a lead-, silver-, zinc- and copper-bearing vein within the hydrothermal Central Wales orefield.
Excelsior Mine	Cornwall	early 1850s–1946 (mining)	Tin, Copper, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes tin- and copper-bearing lodes of the Cornubian granite-related orefield.
Foss Mine	Perth and Kinross	1984–2021	Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a syn-sedimentary, exhalative hydrothermal baryte deposit.
Frank Mills Mine	Devon	1847–1880	Lead, Silver, Barite, Fluorspar, Iron	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal, granite-related silver-lead vein system.
Garths Ness Mine	Shetland Islands	c. 1800–1920s	Copper, Iron	(well documented example) A massive sulphide body precipitated from hydrothermal vents — black smokers — on an ancient sea floor 580 million years ago, mostly pyrrhotite with some chalcopyrite.
Geevor Tin Mine	Cornwall	1911–1990	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) Geevor's cassiterite-bearing veins are hydrothermal, formed in and around granite intruded into Devonian killas.
Glasdir Mine	Gwynedd	From c. 1852 (surface)–1915	Copper, Silver, Gold	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper sulphide mineralisation of the Dolgellau gold belt.
Glengonnar	South Lanarkshire	1239–1940	Lead, Silver, Gold	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing veins of the Leadhills-Wanlockhead orefield.
Golden Dagger Mine	Devon	worked from 1879–November 1930	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes granite-related hydrothermal tin mineralisation of the Dartmoor batholith.
Goldscope Mine	Cumbria	1564–late 19th century	Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper- and lead-bearing hydrothermal veins.
Great Dowgas Mine	Cornwall	c. 1719–1913	Tin, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel	(well documented example) The lodes are described as filled mainly with quartz and pyrite, with cassiterite occurring sporadically — the mineral assemblage and irregular tin distribution characteristic of a hydrothermal vein deposit.
Great Orme Copper Mines	Conwy	c. 1700 BC–c. 600 BC	Copper, Lead	(well documented example) Hydrothermal fluids moving along faults and fractures deposited the copper veins worked here.
Great Work Mine	Cornwall	By 1538–1939	Tin, Copper, Lead	(well documented example) The mine's cassiterite-bearing lodes, worked within the Godolphin-Tregonning granite with copper and minor lead, are a documented example of granite-related hydrothermal tin-copper mineralisation of the type this record describes.
Greenburn Mine	Cumbria	From late 17th century–c. 1885	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal copper mineralised system associated with the Borrowdale Volcanic Group.
Greenside Mine	Cumbria	1825–1962	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) Worked a mineral vein deposited by hydrothermal fluids at 110-130°C during the Carboniferous period, filling a north-south fault.
Grogwynion Mine	Ceredigion	By 1744–1889	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a lead vein within the hydrothermal Central Wales orefield.
Groverake Mine	County Durham	From 1819–1999	Fluorspar, Lead, Iron	(well documented example) Groverake's lead and fluorspar came from Northern Pennine Orefield hydrothermal veins, zoned around the concealed Weardale Granite as a heat source.
Gunnislake Clitters Mine	Cornwall	c. 1820–1919	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten	(well documented example) The record turns on lodes that gave copper and tin first and arsenic and tungsten afterwards, the sequence of products following what the mineralisation yielded as the metal ores were exhausted.
Hafna Mine	Conwy	to about 1915	Lead, Zinc, Pyrite	(well documented example) The Gwydir lead-zinc mineralisation was deposited from hot fluids moving through fractures in the Ordovician sequence, with quartz and calcite gangue accompanying the ore minerals.
Hartsop Hall Mine	Cumbria	By 1684–1942	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) Argentiferous galena with baryte, quartz, blende, fluorspar and wulfenite.
Herland Mine	Cornwall	worked from at least 1726–1874	Copper, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes granite-related hydrothermal copper mineralisation of west Cornwall.
Herodsfoot Mine	Cornwall	Early 1700s–1884	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes silver-lead lodes within the hydrothermal, granite-related Cornubian orefield.
Hillocks Mine	Derbyshire	post-medieval–by 1900	Lead	(well documented example) The mine works a pipe — the Whalf Pipe, a mineralised cavern in the limestone — where it surfaces at Monyash, the shaft below reaching a series of pipe workings.
Hilton and Scordale Mines	Cumbria	By the 18th century–after 1919	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Witherite	(well documented example) The Scordale veins and flats belong to the northern Pennine orefield, deposited from mineralising fluids in Carboniferous limestone.
Hopping Pipe Mine	Derbyshire	By 1901–c. 1960	Lead, Fluorspar	(historical documentary reference) Recorded by the county HER as a pipe working -- a mineralised cavity in the limestone -- carrying both lead ore and fluorspar.
Huglith Mine	Shropshire	c. 1800–1945	Barite, Copper	(well documented example) The Geological Conservation Review reads the Huglith barite as a late phase of a hydrothermal event whose saline fluids rose through a connected fracture system and mixed with sulphate-rich water higher in the veins.
Killhope Lead Mine	County Durham	1818–1910	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes hydrothermal lead veins of the northern Pennine orefield.
King Edward Mine (South Condurrow)	Cornwall	1844–1896	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes granite-related hydrothermal tin and copper mineralisation of the Camborne-Redruth district.
Ladywash Mine	Derbyshire	1714–1979	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the hydrothermal Hucklow Edge vein system of the Derbyshire orefield.
Levant Mine	Cornwall	1787–1930	Tin, Arsenic, Copper	(well documented example) Levant's tin and copper lodes are hydrothermal, formed from fluids driven by the cooling Land's End granite.
Llywernog Mine	Ceredigion	1742 (vein discovered)–1891 (lead)	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a lead- and silver-bearing vein within the Cambrian Mountains orefield.
Loggerheads	Denbighshire	worked from at least the 18th century–19th century	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes hydrothermal lead and zinc mineralisation within karstic limestone.
Longstone Edge	Derbyshire	worked from at least the 18th century (lead veins)–2009	Fluorspar, Lead, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead, fluorspar and barytes mineralisation deposited by a hydrothermal system.
Middlecleugh Mine	Cumbria	After 1758–by 1920	Lead, Zinc	(historical documentary reference) Part of the North Pennine orefield, whose lead and zinc veins are hydrothermal fills in the Carboniferous succession of the Alston Block.
Middleton Tyas Copper Mine	North Yorkshire	From the 15th century–mid-18th century (exact date unrecorded)	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes richly but patchily mineralised copper veins.
Milldam Mine	Derbyshire	1885–October 2023	Lead, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The South Pennine orefield fluorspar and baryte were deposited from warm basinal brines moving through the limestone, not from any magmatic source.
Mount Wellington Mine	Cornwall	1976–1978 (initial closure)	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes granite-related hydrothermal tin mineralisation of the Gwennap district.
Mulreesh Lead Mines	Argyll and Bute	1360–1900	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing veins formed alongside basalt dykes cutting through limestone.
Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine	Powys	1877 (vein discovered)–1899	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a lead-bearing vein within the Cambrian Mountains orefield.
New Consols Mine	Cornwall	From the 19th century–1953	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper, tin, lead and silver lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
New Glencrieff Mine	Dumfries and Galloway	1718–1958	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the lead- and zinc-bearing New Glencrieff Vein of the Leadhills-Wanlockhead orefield.
Old Gang Mines	North Yorkshire	18th century–1899-1903	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing veins of the northern Pennine orefield, the same mineralising system described in this record.
Penberthy Croft Mine	Cornwall	1798–late 1840s	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead	(well documented example) The lode runs parallel to a quartz-feldspar porphyry elvan dyke, the granite-driven hydrothermal mineralisation typical of west Cornwall, and carries tin, copper and lead minerals together.
Pennerley Mine	Shropshire	By the 18th century–1884	Lead, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead veins within the hydrothermal Shelve orefield.
Poldice Mine	Cornwall	By 1512–1930	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper and tin lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
Priddy (St Cuthbert's) Lead Works	Somerset	AD 49 (Roman)–1908	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead veins within the Triassic Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Mendip orefield.
Rampgill Mine	Cumbria	1690 (Rampgill Vein discovered)–1949	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead- and zinc-bearing structures in the Northern Pennine orefield's Great Limestone.
Roughton Gill Mine	Cumbria	12th century (earliest possible)–17th century	Copper, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper- and lead-bearing veins of the Caldbeck Fells.
Sark's Hope Silver Mine	Sark	1833 (Le Pot)–1845 (mining ceased)	Silver, Copper, Lead	(well documented example) A hydrothermal sulphide vein: pyrite, galena, chalcopyrite and the tennantite-tetrahedrite series with silver sulphosalts, in a hematitic quartz and calcite gangue.
Scraithole Mine	Northumberland	By the 19th century–1981	Lead, Zinc, Witherite	(historical documentary reference) The sphalerite and witherite the mine's last working tried to separate are both hydrothermal vein minerals of the Alston Block.
Silver Gill Mine	Cumbria	1020-1200–late Elizabethan period	Lead, Copper, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-, copper- and silver-bearing veins within a hydrothermal orefield.
Sir Francis Level (Lownathwaite Mine)	North Yorkshire	1864–1882	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the Fairfold Vein as part of the hydrothermal, non-magmatic North Pennine orefield.
South Caradon Mine	Cornwall	1836–1885	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper lodes within the hydrothermal, granite-related Cornubian orefield.
South Crofty	Cornwall	1592–1998	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) South Crofty is a classic Cornish granite-driven hydrothermal vein system, the mechanism this geology record describes.
South Hooe Mine	Devon	13th century–1885	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes silver-bearing lead lodes of the Tamar Valley orefield.
Speedwell Cavern	Derbyshire	1771–1790	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal lead-bearing vein in the Castleton orefield.
Surrender Mine	North Yorkshire	before 1720–1880	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead-bearing veins of the northern Pennine orefield.
Talargoch Mine	Flintshire	From 1303–1884 (underground)	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's geology field explicitly describes non-magmatic, low-temperature hydrothermal lead-zinc mineralisation in Carboniferous limestone, the same style as the Pennine orefield.
Tankerville Mine	Shropshire	From early 19th century–1911-13	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes hydrothermal lead mineralisation of the Shelve orefield.
Threlkeld Quarry and Mine	Cumbria	1870–1982	Granite, Lead, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The British Geological Survey attributes the district’s lead–zinc mineralisation, Threlkeld included, to periods of hydrothermal activity generated by the Lake District batholith, and assigns the lead–zinc veins an Early Carboniferous age.
Tilberthwaite	Cumbria	worked from the late 16th/early 17th century (Elizabethan)–1942 (copper)	Copper, Lead, Slate	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead and copper mineralisation associated with the Coniston Fault.
Tincroft Mine	Cornwall	By the 1680s–1921 (South Tincroft)	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper and tin lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
Tresavean Mine	Cornwall	1737–1928	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper- and tin-bearing lodes of the Cornubian granite-related Camborne-Redruth orefield.
Tyndrum Mines	Stirling	1741 (vein discovered)–1926	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes lead- and zinc-bearing veins within the hydrothermal Grampian orefield.
Vigra Mine	Gwynedd	1833–c. 1910 (little work after 1879)	Gold, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes non-granite-related hydrothermal gold mineralisation of the Dolgellau gold belt.
Vitifer Mine (Birch Tor and Vitifer)	Devon	documented from 1750 (Vitifer)–1925	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes tin-bearing veins within the hydrothermal, granite-related Dartmoor orefield.
Wheal Agar	Cornwall	by 1883	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The record turns on the mine's returns following the classic Camborne-Redruth sequence, copper and tin together and arsenic added later, from lodes on the belt worked by East Pool, Tincroft and South Crofty.
Wheal Basset (Basset Mines)	Cornwall	From 1815–1918	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes tin- and copper-bearing lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
Wheal Buller	Cornwall	worked from 1819–1875	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes granite-related hydrothermal copper and tin mineralisation of the Camborne-Redruth district.
Wheal Edward	Cornwall	From 1821–1893	Copper, Tin, Uranium	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes hydrothermal copper and tin lodes within the Cornubian orefield.
Wheal Fortune	Cornwall	1855–1912	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own geology field explicitly describes a hydrothermal tin-vein mineralisation phase, sourced to the GCR account: hot fluids following structural weaknesses with the elvan dyke acting as a channel-way.
Wheal Friendship	Devon	late 18th century–1950s	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper, tin and arsenic-bearing lodes associated with the Dartmoor granite, part of the Cornubian orefield.
Wheal Grenville	Cornwall	1820s–1920	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes tin- and copper-bearing lodes on the western extremity of the Great Flat Lode.
Wheal Kitty	Cornwall	From 1758–1930	Tin, Copper, Iron	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes tin-, copper- and iron pyrite-bearing lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
Wheal Maid	Cornwall	1782–1870s	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes granite-related hydrothermal copper mineralisation of the Gwennap district.
Wheal Mary Ann	Cornwall	1845–c. 1875	Lead, Silver, Fluorspar	(well documented example) Le Neve Foster's 1874 account describes the lode as a fissure vein repeatedly reopened and refilled by successive hydrothermal mineral deposition (cab/chalcedony, quartz, galena, chalybite, fluorspar, calc spar), with a documented paragenetic sequence.
Wheal Peevor	Cornwall	c. 1701–1950s	Tin, Copper, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes granite-related hydrothermal copper and tin mineralisation of the Camborne-Redruth district.
Wheal Prosper	Cornwall	c. 1860–1866	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the Porthcew lode as part of the hydrothermal, granite-related Cornubian orefield.
Wheal Trewavas	Cornwall	by 1834–1846	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper lodes as part of the hydrothermal, granite-related Cornubian orefield.
Wheal Uny	Cornwall	worked from c. 1800–1893	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes copper and tin lodes within the hydrothermal Cornubian orefield.
Wheal Vor	Cornwall	From the 15th century–1911	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes exceptionally rich tin- and copper-bearing lodes associated with Cornwall's granite, part of the Cornubian orefield.
White Grit Mine	Shropshire	1678–c. 1870	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes hydrothermal lead veins within the Shelve orefield.
Woodhead Mine	Dumfries and Galloway	1838–1873	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a hydrothermal lead vein of the Southern Uplands orefield.
Yewthwaite Mine	Cumbria	1849–1893	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) Argentiferous galena, cerussite and blende in a quartz matrix, in a vein thought to be part of the same large structure as the Thornthwaite and Barrow lodes.

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