The rise and fall of Wheal Vor – Cornish studies …

Breage is the first major mining parish on our list. Although its glory days had passed, 60 per cent of the 54 children in the Victorian Lives database living in the parish in 1861 had been born into mining families. In the 1850s …

Wheal Peevor

Wheal Peevor, with its three remaining engine houses, is a fine example of mine workings just off the A30 near Redruth.

Wheal Ellen Mine, Cornwall

South Wheal Ellen, Porthtowan Area, worked from 1856 to 1861, producing 2,600 tons of copper, some lead and some zinc. The widespread waste tips and shafts of this mine are scattered on …

Wheal Margery, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK

Wheal Margery, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK : This mine worked mainly on a narrow NE-trending lode, called Main Lode, which carried copper ores in higher levels and cassiterite …

Cornish Tin

Cornish Tin: The Great Wheal Vor Project Our first and flagship project is The Great Wheal Vor group of 26 former producing tin and copper mines in the Mining District of Breage, Cornwall, UK. Described in 1929 as …

Wheal Secrets from Cornwall

The mine closed due to rapidly falling copper and tin prices. It is featured in Poldark as 'Wheal Leisure'. If china clay is for you, then visit Wheal Martyn, Cornwall's only china clay mining museum for a fascinating family day out. …

Tin (commodity) from Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carnkie, …

Tin (commodity) from Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK

Wheal Maid Mine, Cornwall

1819 Wheal Maid was sunk 130 fathoms below the adit. Between 1820 and 1852 Wheal Maid and Carharrack yielded 23, 552 tons of ore containing 1,542 tons of copper. 1852 Wheal Maid was …

The story of Cornish tin mining