A mine called "Little Fannie" became the most important source of employment for the town's populus.

There is also a big mine called Cadia and a big fun lake located outside of the town.

This mine, called La Dominga, was as about four hundred yards, slightly west of the south of the house and ninety from the Lake.

Glenister is one of several owners of a lucrative mine called The Midas.

The Confederate mines, then called torpedoes, proved defective, and the Union admiral sailed to victory.

A mine called St. Anne was opened there in 1545, but was abandoned in 1750 because the cost of exploitation was too high.

A new underground mine called Favona is in operation near the processing plant to the east of Waihi.

The first major vein of silver was found in 1548 in a mine called San Bernabe.

The area has many former mines: especially notable was a mine called Wheal Fortune which extended into the parish of Ludgvan.

In 1877 a new mine called New Hucknall Colliery was opened which employed 500 people.