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The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England. Vol. 1 & 2. London: HMSO. pp. 526 & 300. Earl, Bryan (1994). Cornish Mining: the techniques of metal mining in the West of England, past and present (2nd ed.). St Austell: Cornish Hillside Publications. ISBN 0-9519419-3-3. Hatcher, John English Tin Production and Trade before 1550. Oxford ...
South Crofty is located within the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape which had been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2006. [17] In June 2013 the South Crofty site was placed into administration. [18] In October 2015 a local newspaper again raised the idea that the mine could be reopened. [19]
Poldice mine is a former metalliferous mine located in Poldice Valley in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It is situated near the hamlet of Todpool, between the villages of Twelveheads and St Day, three miles (5 km) east of Redruth.
Pages in category "Mining in Cornwall" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Wheal Owles (Cornish: Hwel Als) was a tin mine in the parish of St Just in Cornwall, UK and the site of a disaster in 1893 when twenty miners lost their lives.Since 2006 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.
The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall. They are about two miles north east of the St Just to Penzance road and look over Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount to the south west. Since 2006 the site has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of Cornwall and West Devon Mining ...
Mulberry Downs Quarry is a disused opencast tin mine in Cornwall, England Today the site is described as a 'chasm' being a steep or sheer-sided pit 700 foot (210 m) long and up to 100 foot (30 m) deep, and the quarry and immediate surroundings are heavily wooded.
Killifreth Mine was a mine near Chacewater in Cornwall, England, producing at various periods copper, tin and arsenic. The engine house over Hawke's Shaft is a Grade II listed building ; it has the tallest surviving chimney in Cornwall.