 Hunt started work around 1860, and a cost-book company was set up around 1864 to finance a steam-engine for the deeper work, with a mining sett that included the nearby Wheal Penrose and Wheal Unity mines.Wheal Rose and Wheal Unity were failed projects of the late 1830s of the company promoter William Millett Thomas.Rogers died on 24 April 1880 and was the second person to be buried in the family vault in Sithney churchyard which was dug in 1856, following the death of his father.