Illogan mining area is bounded on the north by the Sea, on the east by St Agnes and Redruth, on the south by Wendron and Camborne, and on the west by the sea. Illogan is named after an obscure Cornish saint, St Illogan parish runs from the north coast of Cornwall, between the towns of Camborne and Redruth. The parish contains Portreath, originally called Basset's Cove, which was developed in the 18th and 19th centuries into a port with a railway connecting to the Pool and Hayle Foundry, as well as to the Gwennap mines. Mainly copper ore was exported to Swansea for smelting and coal and iron were imported for the mines in Cornwall.
Richard Trevithick, the inventor of the Cornish Steam Engine, was born in Illogan on 13th April 1771 and, on 7th November 1797, he married Jane Harvey, the daughter of the owner of Harvey's Iron-Foundry at Hayle.
| Illogan Area | |||
| Name of Mine | Principal Shafts | Chief Produce | Notable Minerals |
| Cook's Kitchen | Chapple's shaft | TIN & COPPER | |
| Carn Brea Mines (includes Tregajorran, Wheal Fanny, Wheal Druid & Barncoose from 1832) | Western; Penny's; Pearce's; Teague's; Polkinghorne; Boundary; Tregajorran; Paul's; Monument; Druid's Engine Shaft; Druid's Whim; Sykes's, Engine; Miner's; MacDonald's & Old Sump shafts | COPPER & TIN | |
| East Pool and Agar Limited (EPAL) | Engine; Mitchell's; Taylor's; Bickford's; Polmer's; East Pool Engine; Agar; Pearce's; Killier's; Western; North; Middle & James's Shafts | COPPER, TIN, WOLFRAM & ARSENIC | Wolfram, Bismuth, Cobaltite &: Uranium |
| Polgear Mine (Lancarrow Mine), Four Lanes | |||
| North Tincroft | Downright's, Tyrie's, & Highburrow West shafts | ||
| South Tincroft (part of Carn Brea Mines from 1896) | Martin's East, Willoughby's, Fanny's, Roger's, Highburrow and Highburrow East shaft | TIN & COPPER | Haematite & Pyrites |
| Wheal Agar | COPPER & TIN | ||
| Wheal Basset | Carnkie, Samson's, Steven's, Richard's, Roberts's, Dennis's, Theager's, Old Sump, Doctor's, Williams's & Marriot's shafts | COPPER | Galena & Silver |
| West Wheal Basset | Thomas's, Percy's, Grenville, Richard's, Boundary & Michell's shaft | COPPER & TIN | |
| North Wheal Basset | Lyle's shaft, Miner's shaft | COPPER | |
| Wheal Beauchamp | |||
| South Wheal Frances | Pascoe's, Daubuz's, Marriott's, Broad's & Pryor's shaft | COPPER & TIN | |
| West Wheal Frances | Smith's shaft | ||
| Wheal Harris | |||
| Wheal Emily Henrietta | COPPER | ||
| Wheal Mary, Gilbert's Coombe | |||