Landrake with St. Erney - a rural parish in south east Cornwall.
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Geology
The area of South East Cornwall is a complex region. It is made up mainly of slates of the Upper Devonian Period, but the lack of any decent zonal fossils makes dating difficult. There is much folding and faulting in the area as well as Igneous intrusions of volcanic tuffs and lavas between Saltash and Liskeard. Landrake seems to have been built on the top of a volcano - but have no fear, it was many millions of years ago when it last erupted!
There were a few small mines around Landrake although very little evidence remains of their workings.
Wheal Notter was on the east bank of the river, close to the present bridge, and produced copper.
A mine at Lantallack produced silver lead, antimony and copper.
At Tredinnick Mine, beside the River Tiddy, antimony and good specimens of Stibnite were found many years ago in some of the field hedges. There was a large mine dump on which engine house bolts were found, and nearby, an adit was found near a smaller mine dump.
Other mines in the immediate area were at Clapper Bridge, Botus Fleming and Saltash - The Saltash Tunnel is believed to have cut through an old mine adit (drainage tunnel), hence the water leaking through.
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