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A history of Tresavean Mine can be found in Schwartz and Parker 'Tin Mines and Miners of Lanner' (2001 ed. of 'Lanner: A Cornish Mining Parish', 1998), Halsgrove, Tiverton.
posted by Sharron Schwartz on 13/08/2007
